his trial and what republicans are going to do to try to poison the well here just take a step back the guy is trying to delay a trial that he says is rigged you have a speedy trial right in america and no innocent person would say that the trial against them is rate and it s a dirty prosecution and then go out of their way to delay justice for as long as possible. an innocent person would walk through glass and crawl through fryer to get the day in court and show their innocence. he s not acting like an innocent guy. i want to ask you something substantively about this gop field. we focus a lot on 2024 and 2024 is critically important. they re also making decisions right now about what the future of the party is going to look like what they re constituencies going to look like and the messaging signals they are sending to critical voters of now and the future. i want you to take a listen to something that ron desantis said last week that i don t think has gotten quite enough air tim
what are the implications for a country already so fractured, to poison the well in the education system. we re talking about children in elementary and middle, high school. to be brought up with this. the issue is the protection of hard rights. the fact that people were excluded from the social compass, the fact that people had to lose their lives in order to obtain rights that were granted in other communities at birth. that is the fundamental narrative, the crucial narrative in terms of understanding how this nation came to be what it is. if you will eliminate that narrative, but you do is make it possible to marginalize those people again, to strip away their rights again, and not only to be able to do that but for the public to not even understand the travesty as it s happening. when you say, basically, they tried to censor the face structural racism, now they re trying to tear down the
in terms of how to revise american history, how to shift the country into reverse, as you say. and what could a merge is literally the fragmentation of american education. where you have blue states that are not under the same sort of duress as red states. where history is taught in a fulsome way. sure. and then red states where we have revised our history, where there s a different understanding that children are brought up with as they come to mark s bloody and violent history on race. what are the implications for a country already so fractured, to poison the well in the education system. we re talking about children in elementary and middle, high school. to be brought up with this. the issue is the protection of hard rights. the fact that people were excluded from the social compact, excluded from the civic compact, the fact that people had to lose their lives in order to obtain rights that were granted in other communities at birth.
nobody i can guarantee you nobody taught ron desantis the foolishness we re seen being passed off as history in florida right now. i think i believe you when you say that. i think what s equally disturbing about all this is that other states are looking to florida as a guiding light in terms of how to revise american history, how to shift the country into reverse as to say, and what could emerge is literally just the fragmentation of american education, right? where you have plustates that are not under the same sort of duress as red states where history is taught in a fulsome way and red states where we have revised our history, where there s a different understanding children are brought up when it comes to america s bloody history on race. what are the implications of a country already so fractured to poison the well in the education system, we re talking about
e-mail saying go do this or that. heis s not writing a text messa saying to do this so to prove that strikes me that the justice department has a high bar to reach in terms of evidence, understanding also the incredible amount of skcrutiny that they will be under, not just for this case, but other the others that trump faces. for so many reasons. he s a former president. the second, among equal reasons, he s a candidate for president. we know that the legal strategy and the political strategy, we have said this so many times, they are one in the same. and donald trump leads with the political strategy. why disclose this today on a day ron desantis is having a big interview on this network. on a day there s a big hearing on florida in the classified documents case. donald trump tries to poison the well and keep his people. we don t know a lot about this yet. we know what donald trump is telling us. let s rely on recent history