vice president mike pence was speaking today and wanted to turn the page. he had an interesting statement on how he and trump are not so different on the policy front, just on the focus. i don t know that the president and i differ on issues. but we may differ on focus. i truly do believe that elections are about the future and it is absolutely essential a the a time when so many americans are hurting, so many families are struggling that we don t give way to the temptation to look back. what a very nice way of saying please stop talking about what happened in the past. that s what he s going at, right? not saying as many words but am i just giving him too much credit? alex is like no. they do disagree on the hanging mike pence issue. that s a place where they do not have the same agenda. they are not in agreement that should happen, you are correct.
reliably organized, and i think that it is going to take a significant effort on the part of those groups, and the president, and the democrats to try to translate that anger, that frustration, into mobilization. i think, at this point, it is still up to the air as to how big of a factor it will be. it will be a factor, but how big is the question wait how big, the president will face pressure there politically and on the policy front. next, more on the global shock of the brazen political assassination of former japanese tri-minister, shinzo abe, gunned down in the streets at a p political rally.
congressman, david jolly, national chairman of the serve america movement. both msnbc contributors. i want to start with you, david, the inability of republicans in america to stand with nato in an hour of war. it s a very dangerous moment and i use that word specifically. listen, this was not a small gesture by 60 plus republicans in the congress to refuse to affirm the value of nato. this was the representation of freedom and of democracy in the western world and why it is dangerous and this goes to a little bit of what john kirby said would have to be decided on the policy front. you can affirm the threat to nato to the broader question that the united states is going to face. do we reposition larger, more permanent forces of united states service members in a
allegedly against coronavirus rules in downing street and across the government estates in 2020. so i think we need to see the outcome of that investigation in the early part of this year, and there are lots of questions over covid restrictions. borisjohnson questions over covid restrictions. boris johnson obviously suffered the worst revolt of his career from backbenchers in the week before the parliament broke for christmas. again, ithink parliament broke for christmas. again, i think he faces a tricky time ahead if he wants to push ahead with tougher measures and has to rely on the opposition, potentially, to get those through. on the policy front there is another tricky area up front there is another tricky area up ahead. lots of interest in particular in seeing what is made of the levelling up a paper that was delayed before christmas. it is key to what borisjohnson has tried to shake shape as what borisjohnson is. i think critics have said it is an empty slogan, he needs to pr
document, every conversation, every tweet, every e-mail because i think it s clear that these are people who are literally just running over the law, pursuing innocent people, causing them to spend thousands and thousands of dollars in legal fees for no justification and it s basically a lynch mob and unfortunately the attorney general of the united states has joined the lynch mob and is misusing the fbi. i think when you have a republican congress, this is all going to come crashing down and the wolves will find out that they are now sheep and they are the ones who are in fact, i think, face a risk of jail for the kind of laws they are breaking. maria: this is a great analysis and meanwhile you see more americans leaning to the right in the face of these policies. look, the democrats are losing on two fronts they are losing on a reality front, i mean, every time you buy gasoline you are reminded they are incompetent and they are losing on a policy front. people don t want a socialis