and potential 2024 rival was there as well peter alexander now with details reporter: tonight, the return 552 days since leaving the white house after the deadly assault on the capitol in his name, former president trump is back in washington with a dark view of the country. our country is now a cesspool of crime. we have blood, death and suffering on a scale once unthinkable. again falsely claiming he won the 2020 election. we got millions and millions more votes. what a disgrace it was, but we may just have to do it again. reporter: still even in the republican party mr. trump has been damaged by the unrelenting revelations of the january 6th committee. president trump summoned the mob assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack. reporter: today s visit also shining a light on divisions within the gop with his running mate turned potential 2024 primary rival, former vice president mike pence in washington as well, offering a stark contrast. some people may
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say. ted cruz a former primary rival to the president. the nazi and repulsive and evil and all of us have an obligation to speak out against the hatred that they propagate. i urge the department of justice to immediately investigate and prosecute this domestic terrorism. senator orrin hatch, we should call evil by its name. my brother didn t give his name fighting hitler for nazi challenges to go unchallenged here at home. if you won t say it, we will. by the way, you should say it. i mean, two things going on. one are the political ramifications of what is happening. this a moment of national tragedy. a moment of national discussion. it is august, it was a saturday. i think a lot of people were doing other things when it happened. this is a terrible thing that happened and a moment of crisis and requires presidential
be able to come together to help. while this seems a bit of an odd couple on the surface, when you think of what you have to do to get the united states s place in the world downright, it does make sense. do you think mitt romney could be comfortable in a trump administration when you watch how it was run? several managers recycled through and leaks coming out of the campaign about this one is now in good favor with donald trump and this is on the outs. to be in the position he would be in as secretary of state representing this administration on the world stage, do you think he could really have confidence and faith that trump would have his back? look, there is a mating dance on both sides that the meetings will have. that s important to do. certainly barack obama picked his top primary rival to be his secretary of state. not as much vitriol in that
hillary clinton, former primary rival. you had robert gates at the defense department. he was a holdover from the bush administration and leon panetta and general petraeus, hardly obama insiders but now all of a sudden you have people who seem to be much more on the obama team bandwagon, much more loyal to him. john kerry at the state department, he backed president obama early in the 2008 nomination fight. you now have chuck hagel, someone that obama worked closely with in the u.s. senate and he s been an adviser to him now in the white house and then john brennan at cia, someone who s been by his side for four years. what is the strategy? first read mentions jack reid and the statement praising chuck hagel. what s the strategy? you have people wondering why not take up the fight for susan rice and how are the dynamics different? as chuck todd pointed out,