attacks on the fbi by congress members and the former president, just two days before what the white house says will be a primetime presidential address on the soul of the nation. if that weren t enough, his new tough talk comes just as the documents case is about to take another turn, with the justice department about to file new court papers tonight, aiming to block attempts by the former president to slow it down or stymie it. that is the backdrop to what joe biden said today in northeastern pennsylvania. let me say this to my maga republican friends in congress, don t tell me you support law enforcement if you won t condemn what happened on the 6th. don t tell me. can t do it. for god s sake, whose side are you on? whose side are you on? meantime, on his social media outlet, the former president today launched one post after another about the 2020 election, which he now says should be rerun, and the fbi. now, without specifically leveling blame, joe biden today spoke
good day to all of you from msnbc headquarters here in new york. we begin with decision 2024. president biden will return to washington tonight to begin extensive debate prep with this white house chief of staff. he is leaving california with a record-breaking $30 million in campaign cash. at last night s fundraiser, he also took the supporters about the supreme court. the next president is likely to have two new supreme court nominees. two more. two more. he has already appointed two that have been very negative in terms of the rights of individuals. the idea that if he is re- elected he is going to appoint two more flying flags upside down is really the supreme court has never been as out of kilter as it is today. i mean, never. this is never been a court this far out of step. the biden 2024 chris murphy defended the president s remarks. i think it s a crisis on the court, in particular with justice alito and justice thomas. what justice thomas is engaged in is just
Versus what joe biden will give you the next two years or the next four years. this is a relitigation of donald trump versus joe biden. democrats feel extremely confident that we win that battle every chance we get. the problem that republicans have, and i want to be clear in the way we articulate it, each senators like lindsey graham, just completely trip and fall over themselves, they want maga without donald trump. and that s fundamentally impossible. they want all of those individuals who embrace election denying, who embrace bigotry, to come out to the polls, without donald trump. and they have not figured out how to slice that yet. so many times they tie themselves into pretzels, trying to get voters and end up looking stupid. what about that, charlie, can republicans have maga, can they have the political benefits of donald trump without him? and i ask that, because conservative commentators,
This likely, you want it to be a referendum on the democrats, not a choice between the democrats and donald trump, who is probably more unpopular than joe biden at this point. this is an enormous problem. and there s no controlling donald trump. he will not go into hiding. he will continue to do what he does. he just simply seems to be, you know, unhinged and obsessed with 2020. so bakari, what about the democrats, what do they do about this? is this why we heard joe biden give the speech he did today where he talks about the attacks on the fbi, he seemed to refer to lindsey graham. is this why he s giving the speech thursday night about the soul of the nation in i think that democrats have to show a contrast and that we re fighting, which he has been doing very well coming off some legislative victories, including the inflation reduction act. and donald trump is making it quite easy. this suspect a message about the future of a republican vision
And charlie dent, a former pennsylvania republican congressman. congressman dent, this trump tirade on truth social, going after the fbi, talking about rerunning the election. this is not what we re hearing a lot of republicans would like to be focused on. is he draining the energy? how much of a problem is this for republicans heading into the midterms? well, john, this is an enormous problem for republicans. they want donald trump to simply shut up and go into hiding between now and the midterm. they want the midterm to be about joe biden and the democrats. they want it to be about inflation and crime and border security. so to the extent that donald trump is making noise about the 2020 election, calling for a redo of the 2020 election, intervening in primaries and helping to nominate candidates who are unfit or too extreme, he s doing enormous damage, that