by, trump was reportedly just not interested in doing more to stop it. and trump learned that his own vice president had to be rushed to a secure location, trump reportedly responded, so what? so what? trump accepted the violence that they. he liked the threat to democracy than, they re whipping of violence on his behalf, the anger. and he still does. and that s quickly emerging as the core argument in president biden s reelection campaign. in a speech on friday, biden called democracy the most urgent question of our time, saying trump is willing to sacrifice it. and just this afternoon, speaking at mother emanuel church, he compared the perpetuation of the big lie to those who denied the outcome of the civil war. biden isn t imploring americans to save democracy from the man who by his own account wants to destroy it. but as president biden leans into this contrast with trump, this particular line of attack, something to think is just kind of old dunes, it s in the past. rep
ide with jen psaki starts no w. well, if the first week of the new year has shown us anything, it s that joe biden and donald trump are basically living on different planets when it comes to their approach to american democracy. tonight, i m gonna talk to house speaker emeritus nancy pelosi about all of that. plus, president obama has appointed david plouffe as a senior strategist who might be useful to the biden campaign. of course he would be. david is gonna join me tonight as well. but we do want to start tonight with some new reporting from abc news that is shedding greater light on what trump was doing, and more importantly not doing on january 6th. as a mob pushed its way into the capital, becoming more and more violent as the minutes tic by, trump was reportedly just not interested in doing more to stop it. and trump learned that his own vice president had to be rushed to a secure location, trump reportedly responded, so what? so what? trump accepted t
prosecutions into thousand 15. if we are to make sure that escande like this can never happen again, we need to look at the way in which private prosecutions like these have been undertaken. any company can bring private prosecutions in this way. this is not a special power of the post office, i know my right honourable friend the lord chancellor wants to give this issue proper and thoughtful consideration and i am sure he will report to the house about this issue in due course. getting justice for the victims of this candle and ensuring that such a tragedy can never happen again is my highest priority as a minister and has been throughout my 15 months in office. when we talk about compensation, we have to remember that the lives of postmasters and their families caught up in this scandal have been changed forever. they face financial ruin, untold personal distress and a loss of reputation that no amount of financial compensation can fully restore. the government recognises h
arguments in about 80 of those casings touching on every aspect of american life, big or small. and at this very moment, they are waiting to hear if they will pick up one of those big cases, the kind of case that winds up in the had history books. the outcome could determine who is on the ballot for milons of voters as they head to the polls this year. we are talking about a challenge to donald trump s spot on the ballot based on the 14th amendment, which bars insurrectionists from running for office. as we reported on this program yesterday, the ex-president is now asked the supreme cou to keep him on the ballot appealing a ruling from the supreme court that found trump was ineligible because of his role on january 6th. the republican party has also asked the court to take the case. so of the voters who filed the challenge in the first place, everyone agrees the supreme cot has to take action. the washington post reports that attorneys for the colorado voters who challenge
begin with this story because that could put her in the spotlight next year. now to our special report, for all the prosecutions that have come out of the january 6th insurrection from trespassers to those who blatantly attacked police, no trump aide has been put on trial for actions to steal the election either that day or in the weeks leading up to that day. d.a. fani willis has brought to rico case against trump and 18 others, people just starting to learn about this prosecutor. i think it s a choice between integrity and corruption, good and bad. that was willis but not talking about this case. there she was discussing what she called the choice during her campaign for this post and we will get to that in a few moments. it s pretty interesting. on this case she previewed upcoming arguments by outlining the legal theory that trump and the co-defendants formed a legal gang or racketeering enterprise, which existed to overthrow biden s lawful win in georgia. rather tha