In Florida, an unhappy Trump watches it all play out
Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post
Feb. 9, 2021
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As he faces his second impeachment trial, Donald Trump has been unusually quiet.
Ensconced in his private Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., the former president has spent his days golfing. He has rolled through his phone, calling old friends and allies simply to check in. He has dined on the patio of his lush retreat, often accompanied by a coterie of political aides still on his payroll.
And, as Congress on Tuesday took up a second Senate trial for Trump almost exactly a year after his first, Trump has remained sanguine that an evenly divided Senate will acquit him of charges of inciting an insurrection - despite his egging on of an angry crowd that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6.
perceives as unfair treatment. our justice department and our fbi have to start doing their job and doing it right and doing it now! because people are angry. people are angry. reporter: once again, he suggested he could intervene in an investigation, which would be highly unorthodoxed and politically explosive for a sitting president. i wanted to stay out, but at some point if it doesn t straighten out properly, i want them to do their job. i m get involved and i ll get in there, if i have to. reporter: it s unclear whether he s blowing off steam. disgraceful. reporter: or seriously threatening to stop the russia probe hanging over the white house. he told bloomberg, i viet as an illegal investigation. yet, that s not how a majority of americans see it. a new washington post-abc poll shows 63% support and 29% oppose
alignment of the world. and that realignment is moving america out of the atlantic alliance and away from the united states or washington to great european capitals poll as it s exited since world war ii to a moscow driven poll where moscow will be the leader and donald trump will be his subordinate. scary times. sorry. wish we had more time. we will have to bridge you both back. coming back in next hour. turns supreme court into another reality show. dire implications for many americans. progressi iive female joins me after the break. (vo) what if this didn t have to happen? i didn t see it. (vo) what if we could go back? what if our car. could stop itself? in iihs front-end crash prevention testing,
pro-life justices on the court. well, that s the promise that he made. we now have some dualing headline the washington examiner goes all in, overturn roe, just do it. get a justice on there. the wall street journal calls that sphere a scare campaign. the wall street journal saying, no, it will not happen. people are being his terrical about it. dan? i, you have a piece up on msnbc.com. you say the magic words, stare dede seiss is. . . stare decisis why it won t happen in. first, the idea whether or not roe is not overturned is a show of hands of current justices and a poll whether they like abortion or are anti-abortion, that s where stare decisis comes in.
vot vote. it s easy to say democrats must heed that message as well. they need to net two to take over the senate. the party is at a krocrossroads get there. the another camp believes it s the group hostile to trump in style and agenda. joining me now, a former african outreach director is running for office himself in arizona. former znc chair howard dean and jimmy williams. a power panel. so let s start with the numbers. washington post-abc poll. who would you vote for?