end up winding up doing to our fellow on one side of the scale is the current situation in venezuela which is quite dire as it is in cuba, right? what would we do to even the scales to get to the point of what we were doing produced an equal amount of desperation, as would be really. a quarter of venezuela is gone. staggering, thank you my friend as always. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. on november 4th of 2008 america elected its first black president. senator john mccain had called senator barack obama to concede the race, and as he began to deliver his concession speech before a crowd in phoenix, arizona, this happened. a little while ago i had the honor of calling senator barack obama to congratulate him please. to congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country we both love. john mccain gently but firmly admonishing the crowd of republicans for booing the election of our nation s first black president. at the time th
root out the communists, marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. the threat from outside forces is far less sinister and grave than the threat from within. calling your political opponents vermin and the threat from within, we ve heard that before. adolph hitler referred today to jews as vermin worthy of eradication. donald trump is following some appalling and notorious footsteps of the most violent dangerous men of the 20th century or at least some of them. and trump didn t end there. here he was in the very same stump speech talking about the home invasion and the brutal attack on speaker nancy pelosi s husband, an attack that was carried out by a rightwing extremist. nancy pelosi was a crazed lunatic. she s a lunatic. she is a crazed lunatic. what the hell was going on with her husband? let s not ask. let s not ask. i withdraw that statement. by the way, she s got a wall around her house. obviously in th
president again, and it s very clear there are no adults in the room. joining us now is jemele buoy, cohost of the unclear and present danger podcast, and tim miller, writer at large at the bulwark. thank you both for being here. tim, can you help me understand what was going on in that room last night, what almost sounded like a laugh track at points for some of the most disingenuous, hateful, malicious commentary i ve heard in a while. well, there s two things that were happening. one is the room was stacked with republicans. it was obviously there were local new hampshire republicans, but i saw in the audience a guy i know as a professional republican fund-raiser. he doesn t live in new hampshire. woody johnson, the new york jets owner in the crowd who s there. so a lot of trump people were stacked in the audience, so that s part of it. i think that was a really poor
and to that point, tim, jemele, i d ask you i think tim makes a point people need to be reminded how bad things were. and there seems to be this collective i m not calling it amnesia but a sort of down-playing of january 6th, which we certainly saw on stage last night. but trump was asked about 2024, and let s just play the sound first. this is trump reacting to a question about the 2024 election. if you are the republican nominee and you were in that 2024 race, will you commit tonight to accepting the results of the 2024 election? yes, i think it s an honest election, absolutely i would. i m old enough to remember if that s the thing trump said about 2020. if you have forgotten what he said on january 6th in 2020, here s another data point. this guy is going to try to do it again in 2024. i think people forget, too, he said this in 2016 as well.
do you agree with that concede this is effectively party wide failure on display? this is the fact no one is the adult in the room. no one is saying shh all of you have more importantly be quiet, mr. president? is it an indictment of the gop? i do most of the way. here s one piece of evidence i think jemele is arguing is if you look after the election there was a moment where maybe not a huge majority but a slight majority of the party was ready to move on from trump after the 2022 election. and the focus groups of many voters we knew that was coming out. the problem was that feeling dissipates. that feeling was there for a week. you have to keep banging it into the heads of your own supporters and over time they started to remember the things they liked