hoping to hear from biden for some time. what we saw here was president biden clearly believing that his predecessor, donald trump the threat of american democracy and using that moment the anniversary and the attention that it has around the country to try to galvanize americans to understand that threat and to fight to protect what he perceived as democracy and peril. peter, why haven t we heard this speech before? i think president biden didn t want to have his presidency subsumed by living in the past, by simply making it about trump. you know, he wanted to make it about his own agenda, about his own policy goals and so forth. i think what he s seen in the last year is that you can t simply pretend that president trump has gone away because he hasn t gone away, he is still not only a force in american politics, he is the leading, you know, figure in the republican party and if he wants the nomination in 2024 to run for the presidency again i think most people believe he will
0 it s impossible to deny that. as president biden will discuss this morning january 6th represents an ongoing threat to our democracy. in the year since nearly 20 states have passed laws to restrict voting and in many republican circles trump s big lie about the 2020 election still goes unchallenged. bottom line, january 6 has become a stark testament to the fractured nation we ve become and warning sign for what is coming next. with us throughout the hour, nbc s monica alba, she covers the white house, garrett haake on capitol hill, ellison barber outside the capitol, katie benner covers the justice department for the new york times , phil rucker senior washington correspondent for the washington post, eugene daniels co-author of the politico playbook and peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times. monica, let s start with the president. how is he going to approach this one? he s going to mark, of course, the solemn anniversary, steph, but instead
strength overseas. new trade policies. all of those things have added to american a very positive way. i think it s still a center-right country in a country that is lurching back against the crazy liberalism going on in this country right now by joe biden and kamala harris. it can be separated and it should be separated. it s made harder if we have this discussion about 2020 in stolen elections which make the american people feel like were living in the past and not worried about the future. i think if donald trump wants to be a part of that, that is fine and is his choice. but it s his choice if he wants to talk about the past or if we want to talk about the future. bret: according to the wall street journal president biden told his allies in the past few days that he is running for reelection in 2024 because there is a lot of fears that republicans gaining strength heading into the midterms.
new trade policies. all of those things have added to american a very positive way. i think it s still a center-right country in a country that is lurching back against the crazy liberalism going on in this country right now by joe biden and kamala harris. it can be separated and it should be separated. it s made harder if we have this discussion about 2020 in stolen elections which make the american people feel like were living in the past and not worried about the future. i think if donald trump wants to be a part of that, that is fine and is his choice. but it s his choice if he wants to talk about the past or if we want to talk about the future. bret: according to the wall street journal president biden told his allies in the past few days that he is running for reelection in 2024 because there is a lot of fears that republicans gaining strength heading into the midterms. do you buy that? what do you think about.
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