on a singular message that this election will decide whether american democracies survives. will those words move voters? plus, the u.s. scrambling today to find partners for peace in the middle east, even as the israel-hamas war threatens to spin out of control. will secretary of state antony blinken s fourth trip overseas break new ground. and a new front in the war of transgender rights. the stakes are high whether trans americans can run for office using the names they choose. i ll talk to vanessa joy who says she was kis disqualified from her race in ohio because of a law she believes could put other trans candidates at risk. we start with the president s massive political gamble, betting that voters will rally around him as the defender of democracy and reject donald trump s dystopian vision of america. that message is at the heart of a big speech he ll give near valley forge this afternoon and is expected to be the framework for his campaign going forward. they d
reduction act or other legislative priorities that haven t changed those poll numbers but to try to make that contrast so stark that they feel they have no choice but to return to biden no matter how unenthusiastic they may be about him. this speech was supposed to be delivered tomorrow, january 6th, a date one senior adviser told msnbc has been underplayed. i want to show you a poll from the washington post and the university of maryland. while 55% of u.s. adults say january 6th must be remembered, 43% say it s time to move on and that includes 46% of independents. and then i mean, once we get to election day, it s going to be almost four years in the past. is january 6th, do you think, the motivator the biden campaign thinks it might be? it is not the greatest motivator today, and so i think there s a question for the biden campaign. is the leaning in on protecting democracy, giving speeches like we will see today, is that the