donald trump released a statement saying we know who the officer is, now he s gone a step further and fully taken up the perceived murder them of political cause. here he is in a recorded video for her family who are understandably still in mourning, over life tragically lost. we must all demand justice for ashley and her family. on this solemn occasion as we celebrate her life, we renew our call for a fair, and nonpartisan investigation into the death of ashley babbitt. white babbitt s family, mourns their losses really their business. but the ideological purpose of trump s involvement here is ultimately about the perceived nobility of why insurrectionists actually babbitt was doing. and support of a larger movement of dueling it s a project on a ship remains
among republicans, and senator chuck grassley is a republican. so he s going to stand up there and smile, and except champs endorsement. because iowa is not senator grassley state anymore, no matter how many terms this 88-year-old served. iowa in the republican party belong to trump. it doesn t matter how close he came to murdering american democracy, or how eager he is to do it again. and more likely if probability. a national politician doesn t normally hold a rally in iowa the first nation caucus state. without at least considering a run from the white house. chuck grassley knows that and so does donald trump. but the fact of the matter is, even 88 year old seven terms senators who are in the pantheon of republican politicians in this country, need trump support. or at least the lack of opposition to stay in power. or maybe they just feel like
committed to. he calls the election rigged and the insurrection was a day of protesting the fake election results. yet he is endorsing. over and over he endorsed it briefly on indoor suffers that can t, endorsing it again. even in the light of all that, we are seeing the chuck grassley s of the world, and everyone else in the party probably taking his endorsement and defending him on tv. the larger point here, one made by john from magazine last week s a point you cited before on the show. as long as donald trump remains the figurehead and key maker and the nominee of the republican party, as long as he is the profit something of guy on the ballot in 2024, there is no way to separate the republican party has an entity from the authoritarian aspirations of trump himself. they are a conduit for his aspirations, they are one in the same, they are the vehicle he is driving. assisting the republican our party as a party, as institution, in any capacity,
yeah you know chris that s a really good question, no one has never asked me that question. the answer is pretty clear, there are very few republicans off that can be persuaded, the battle lines have been drawn. there s no question that the maga side, and the gop as the. white kristie tom whitman and i are discussing, what s significant is that they re actually, even those a smaller group, millions of rational republicans who i call the rational remnants of the gop. who are already a relatively silent coworker, but did through the last election in large part for joe biden, and who still can be mobilized in this key race. so those republicans who couldn t support donald trump, couldn t stomach it, we are now calling on him to get involved in the congressional races, in the senate races, to do the same, they keep the trump gop out of power in this next cycle. we think we can do that. in fact next week we will release some of those candidates unifying republicans we want to protect
before we cast it off, something to consider that it has allon worked for donald tru. it worked in the past when every tweet was breaking news now. now it has become ground noise and he has been reduced to attacking children withes s e a withaspbergers. they will be marking up the articles of impeachment. and donald trump willt. only be the third president in 240 years likely to be impeached by members of the people s house, and you know, as mika already said, we have the confessions on