picture that increasingly links donald trump to the actions on january 6th. yeah, and certainly here there s a truism for those of us who have covered donald trump for a long time. there s very rarely a thought he has in private or says to aides in the office that he doesn t eventually blurt out in front of a huge crowd at a rally, and that s what we ve had here. where he mused about, he mused about, joe, the idea of a pardon while in office and of course just started talking about it in front of a huge crowd in front of texas today. after this report came out last night one aide texted me it is an effort to keep people quiet but an effort of trump using the idea of rewarding his supporters because they were fighting for him. that is what was important to him, they were fighting for him on television, which is the animating principle when he thinks about people loyal to him. here s the thing. donald trump knew he lost the election from the very beginning, but he also knew if he acc
i mean mike tomlin is one of the best coaches in the nfl over the past 20 years. tony dungee. there have been a number of african american coaches and certainly now african american quarterbacks. it is not just about sidling up to someone in the locker room. it is actually competitively smart. mark, crack business reporter. absolutely. david, thank you for bringing him into the field of journalism. i hired mark to cover business at the washington post and as soon as he got there he began hanging out in the style section with the writers. i was tanking. no one was paying me $100,000 either. charles coleman, as always, thank you for being on the show. another top doctor says it is time to give up mask mandates in schools. having been called a rhino by donald trump, senator graham
he does need to sort of appease the trump base. he can t look like he s sort of crossing the former president too much, but also, you know, insurrections were chanting for him to be hung. i think he still stands by his decision to go through with the electoral certification. so he is in an interesting position here. yeah, he is in an interesting position. david, you were just saying republicans may not like donald trump as their candidate in 2024, but they don t want others saying bad things about him, especially the vice president. the point is well-taken. mike pence doesn t want to be seen testifying against donald trump even though all of his people may be cooperating in part because, as you said, i think he is looking into a time share in south carolina, maybe in myrtle beach. he is down there a lot. he has been spending a lot of time in south carolina. look, a lot of 2024 candidates are all over the primary states. pence has paid a lot of attention to south carolina
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republicans when they re still ultimately feeding this lie. well, definitely when you are looking at primaries in red districts where the incentive structure is still the same, you are not going to see some break. i always say republicans aren t afraid of trump. they re afraid of their own voters. exactly. yeah, there s a reason, willie. i mean we had the guy who was in the texas primary a couple of months ago. i forget his name because he didn t win, and he would have been the i deal republican candidate five, six, seven years ago. a marine. said all of the right things on deficits, said all of the right things on foreign policy. he just said, we need to move past donald trump. his voters weren t ready to move past donald trump. yeah, they re not. we ve heard that, even though lindsey graham recently in the last couple of days criticized donald trump saying he would offer pardons. he said on tv, i couldn t even support mitch mcconnell as