trip ahead for you just one lawmaker who joined protesters demanding meaningful gun legislation at the state capital kept her seat yesterday. representative gloria johnson, a white woman, slammed the expulsion of her colleagues justin jones and justin pearson, two of the state s youngest black lawmakers, saying she was the only one to be spared was quote, pretty clear. outrage over the pair s removal is being felt across the country, coupled with the concern of the dangerous precedent this is sending. and a short time ago, tennessee s black caucus whose chairman called the decision an assault on democracy that quote, smacks of overt racism spoke out. it looked like a jim crow era trial, where we saw two black men fighting for their careers, fighting for their reputations. the world is watching tennessee, and yet again, they re watching it for the wrong reasons. quite frankly, i m kpexhausted. what are we going to do now is it going to be business as usual, it happened t
the biden campaign won the election, you know, the incumbent, donald trump at the time, got the predominance of attention, and that s sort of what donald trump does it s obviously not always good attention, and often very bad attention, and i think if you ask any democrat strategist or anyone at the white house, they would correctly say that this energizes the trump base, but certainly doesn t persuade any voters, either to his side or back to his side. let me back up something, and use something you wrote to show what you mean here this was in the atlantic and you write how the gop s ongoing willingness to fuse itself to trump s deranged and slippery character has been its most defining feature for years, the question is why it continues after all of these embarras
he s hoping for would probably bank on based on history is that a year from now, we ll be sort of looking back, and look, i mean, he just sort of won the nomination in large part because no one wanted to run no one wants to stand in the way. and here s maybe why, peter, i want to say to you the new york times reported on the focus group, voters who cast ballots in 2016 and 2020 every single one of them saying they re going to vote for trump again in 2024. if they have the opportunity to what extent does the indictment play into trump s long standing theme that the democrats are out to get him at any cost i think that s exactly right. i mean, trump has played this victim card very successfully. he claims that he s the subject of political persecution, and there is that resonates for the big part of the republican base so i think this explains why partly the reason joe biden has been quiet about this. because to the extent that he piles on or appears to be piling
former president trump is expected back in new york city as soon as next week he is due to give a deposition in his other new york investigation. this one pertaining to attorney general letitia james $250 million civil probe into his real estate business practices. sources say that it is possible this deposition along with the previous one that he gave last summer could be used instead of an actual in-person appearance at the trial which is set for october. meanwhile, the new reality of an indicted and arraigned donald trump is giving democrats some political pause with the party now facing a choice. cha capitalize on the front run s legal problems or stand back and watch it play out. nowhere is that more evidence than in the white house where president biden has not a single mention of his predecessor all week long. let s bring in digital white house reporter peter nicholas, and staff writer at the atlantic, mark leibovitz, an
on, it could look like he s trying to exploit this for a political advantage. so he can t really do that because it would give trump an argument and it might further solidify trump s support among the base we are watching very closely with both of you guys in the future peter and mark, thank you so much. coming up, classified documents laying out ukraine war plans leaked what the pentagon is doing about it. first, island hopping on a yacht, flying on a private jet, staying at a luxurious private resort, that s what clarence thomas is saying about the fancy trips he took, reportedly paid for by a wealthy republican donor. we ll listen to what he has to say about it if you have this. consider adding this. an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan from unitedhealthcare. medicare supplement plans help by paying some of what medicare doesn t. and let you see any doctor. any specialist.