democracy, at personal cost both pre personally and within their personal lives. you have a different experience you were up close and personal with these guys, you were assaulted on january 6th what would you like to see come from this? this is basically a statement from congress, the justice department doesn t have to act on this, what would you like to see happen, michael? what i would like to see is i would like to see the department of justice indict the former president and with whom their investigation determined that criminal statutes were violated. i would like to see those individuals put on trial and then again, as i ve said many times as americans we should accept the results of those trials, even if it includes a guilty verdict for former president donald trump and jail time. speaking of that, you know, and the significance of what
video now. some of this footage never before seen, really graphic and violent. and put together as a time line, into the events of that day. and the role trump played. you mentioned some of the law enforcement officers who were there on the 6th. and for your latest piece, you spoke to former dc metropolitan police officer michael finone who suffered a heart attack during the insurrection. what did he have to say now, a year and a half later, as he relives that traumatic event? i spoke to him in the middle of the hearing, and this was after you heard witness testimony from jared kushner, from ivanka trump, from a judge who gave his deposition on what he thought the outcome of the events were, and what he told me this is a really big wakeup call, and that americans really need to wake up on how serious this threat was, and how the insurrection really posed a threat to our democracy. and he said that the biggest challenge is really trying to
of democracy around january 6th. talk about his role in that. look, and that term, right, that he used, legacy americans, comes from a crackpot website. it didn t exist in mainstream media until last fall when he picked it up. it s a great example of him importing. he has done the same thing on the story of january 6th that he has done about the debate about race and power more broadly. he has said that the people that are obviously more in power or have more power in american society, who are broadly speaking white people, the underclass, the ones being oppressed. by whom? by the elite. by michael finone and officer gonell? he s inverted the narrative. those people weren t aggressors, they were victims, they were entrapped by law enforcement, they had reasonable grievances and fears about the election results which tucker carlson did his best to fan for weeks and weeks by airing conspiracy theories, unproven allegation,
A gop Talking Point and a frequent topic of conversation on conservative media. The rightwing scare tactic flies in face of President Bidens actual record, though. In fact his supportive 90s era tough on violence, his ability to even win the nomination for president. That, in fact, that joe biden may be the democrats best hope against the incoming attacks preying on voters fears, especially those of suburban men and women who remain a vote. Democrats in private and public are warning that rising crime represent the single biggest threat to their electoral chances in 2022. The ap adds this reporting, quote, white house aides believe that biden with his long legislative record on crime as a former senator is not easy to paint as soft on the issue and the president has been clear that he is opposed to the defund the Police Movement which has been effectively used against other democrats to paint them as antiLaw Enforcement. Biden is also trying to boost progressive efforts to reform polic
A gop Talking Point and a frequent topic of conversation on conservative media. The rightwing scare tactic flies in face of President Bidens actual record, though. In fact his supportive 90s era tough on violence, his ability to even win the nomination for president. That, in fact, that joe biden may be the democrats best hope against the incoming attacks preying on voters fears, especially those of suburban men and women who remain a vote. Democrats in private and public are warning that rising crime represent the single biggest threat to their electoral chances in 2022. The ap adds this reporting, quote, white house aides believe that biden with his long legislative record on crime as a former senator is not easy to paint as soft on the issue and the president has been clear that he is opposed to the defund the Police Movement which has been effectively used against other democrats to paint them as antiLaw Enforcement. Biden is also trying to boost progressive efforts to reform polic