mob who believed the lies from the defeatest president. the police were heros that day. donald trump lacked the courage to act. jasmine wright is in washington for us. nice to see you this morning. president biden has largely avoided criticizing his predecessor, focusing on moving forward instead of looking back. does this signal a shift in strategy? reporter: president biden is looking to draw a stronger contrast with republicans as midterms draw near. and so i think that we re seeing that play out in real time here as president biden addresses a conference of black law enforcement officials in florida virtually with pre-recorded remarks. and are you right, he seldomly calls former president trump out by name, seldom criticizes him by name, but here we re seeing him do just that. president biden made the case that you can t be pro insurrection and also be pro cop. take a listen. brave law enforcement
representative jordan and mccarthy, they had been in the trump camp since the insurrection of january 6th. don t forget that minority leader kevin mccarthy who was pretty angry on january 6th and so that he called trump out, on a pretty terse on call, went down to mar-a-lago just a few weeks later and kissed the trump ring. so if you will out there in america keep expecting the republicans who are in congress right now to the right thing, you re going to be waiting for a really long time. they have made their bed, they re going to lie and it, they know that the cards in the winds of politics look really good for them going into the midterms in the fall. so they re not going to rock that boat. they know this is wrong. they know it was wrong back then, jonathan. evidently speck them to call it out because it behooves them to keep going down the road are going down. i m not expecting it, anything. matt, talk about how dangerous it is for american democracy that a far-right election
him triegttighter. we re at a cross-roads for the republican party, but i still think the party, by and large, goes with trump. you re not being a skunk at the party. realities. we re just talking about the reality that the republican party, most members of the republican party couldn t even speak the most simple truths about one of the most despicable acts in recent american history. so the fact that mike pence, finally, a guy that actually took his lead from donald trump on where donald trump placed his water during conferences, and the guy that would lead those grotesque, like, loyalty sort of roundtables inside of cabinet rooms, the fact that he called trump out, the fact that he did it in front of the federalist society, the fact he got applause from the federalist society, the fact that susan said he hasn t backed down is
alicia mendez in for ari melber. we start with donald trump siding with january 6th rioters. d.c. law enforcement taking no chances, new fencing is up outside the capitol. workers installing it over night and preparations for this saturday s so-called justice for j-6 rally. today former president trump out with a statement expressing sympathies for them. our hearts and minds are with the people being prosecuted so unfairly related to the january 6th insurrection. january 6th was not a protest, it was an insurrection and an attack on our democracy. these rioters have been charged from felony and ranging from assault and conspiracy.
york city over bill de blasio terminating the contract the trump organization had with the city over a golf course. where do things stand at this point? that s right, after january 6th, de blasio terminated trump s contract to own a city-owned golf course in the bronx and trump yesterday sued him saying there s nothing in the contract that lets you fire me for basically being a bad person or tarnishing my own brand name. the only reason you can get rid of me is if i screw up the course and i didn t. i see this in the context of a negotiation. de blasio and the city wants trump out. trump wants some sort of payout to leave. this lawsuit is a step in that direction. trump is asking i ll leave if you give me $30 million which is the money i put in, probably an opening offer and they ll reach some settlement in the middle. city wants trump out, trump wants a payout, groundhog day all over again.