principles. tod today, well today s democratic party is about compliance. it s abouts democrarty is alongt groupthink. stepping out of line, about coud be unacceptable for many, especially for a quote kennedy a . and tonight, for some reason, many democrats, they have circled the wagonsnedy. around n 88-year-old cognitively impaired , frankly, morallyy im bankrupt career politician who has been credibly accused of plagiarism, bribery, public corruption from an perspective, a perspective i think even the democratic myrty can do a lot better. and my next guest agrees. that s why he is challenginggueg joe biden for the democratic nomination. new york city. let s chals give a warm welcome democratic candidate for president f kennedy jr.
with classic liberal principles. today s democratic party is about compliance, about groupthink. stepping out of line can be unacceptable for many, especially for a kennedy. many democrats have circled the wagons around an 80-year-old cognitively impaired morally bankrupt career politician who has been credibly accused of plagiarism, bribery, public corruption from an outsider perspective, even the democratic party can do better. my next guest agrees and that is why he is challenging joe biden for the nomination. let s give a warm welcome, robert f. kennedy jr. [cheers and applause]
as a huge surprise given the well-established history inside trump world of pressuring potential witnesses in key investigations. washington post lays it out like this, quote. evidence across multiple state, federal and congressional investigations points to a similar pattern. trump and his close allies privately shower potential witnesses with flattery and attention extending vague assurances that staying loyal to trump would be better than crossing him. meanwhile, trump publicly blasts those who offer testimony against him in bluntly personal terms offering a clear example to others of the consequences of stepping out of line. the new york times offers another view of this type of carrot and stick witness pressure campaign reporting this, quote, former president trump s political organization and his allies have paid for or promised to finance the legal fees of more than a dozen witnesses called in the congressional investigation into the january 6th attack, raising
show to say, i am so sorry that i called terrorists terrorists. exactly. and that speaks to the level of denialism within the gop. when you cross this apparent line of talking about the terror of that day. by the way, we know hundreds of people inside the capitol experienced terror. whether you label people terrorists, that s complicated, absolutely. but it was an act of terror that was forced upon these capitol hill staffers, lawmakers, et cetera. this is really about the level of denialism that we re seeing. fox news, newsmax, other right wing news outlets tried to cover yesterday as little as possible. they did the bare minimum to cover the anniversary. and then carlson in primetime absolutely punishes cruz for stepping out of line on this issue. it is unfortunately a statement about where the party is when it comes to the attack. brian stelter, good to see you. cnn political analyst natasha alford is here, vp of digital