nation, presumably about some of what you just heard. we ll talk about it all tonight. cnn s kaitlan collins starts us off from the white house. the president went to pennsylvania clearly to talk about law enforcement. clearly to talk about the fbi. what can you tell us? reporter: he went there when it came to these attacks on the fbi. we have not seen him, john, be this forceful yet since we have seen those attacks and the threats against the fbi has spiked since that mar-a-lago search several weeks ago. the threats had jumped up so much, even the fbi director, chris wray, who doesn t speak out often, put out a statement calling these threats dangerous and deplorable to the rank and file members of the fbi, who were just doing their job that day by execute thing search warrant and retrieving those sensitive materials. so joe biden tonight calling it sickening, going after that small but vocal group of republicans who have said they should defund the fbi, saying obviously he does not
attacks on the fbi by congress members and the former president, just two days before what the white house says will be a primetime presidential address on the soul of the nation. if that weren t enough, his new tough talk comes just as the documents case is about to take another turn, with the justice department about to file new court papers tonight, aiming to block attempts by the former president to slow it down or stymie it. that is the backdrop to what joe biden said today in northeastern pennsylvania. let me say this to my maga republican friends in congress, don t tell me you support law enforcement if you won t condemn what happened on the 6th. don t tell me. can t do it. for god s sake, whose side are you on? whose side are you on?
path forward for the party for years to come. bakari, what do you think in general of joe biden s law and order speech, giving a speech where he talks about democratic support of the police and the fbi, is that something you expect we ll hear more in the next ten weeks? yeah, i mean, i m torn, because i believe that it s the right politics of the moment. not twitter politics, but the right politics of voters throughout the country, because crime is affecting all of our communities. we know that people want the streets to be cleaned and we want a wholistic approach to the way that we reform our criminal justice system in the country. where i differ from the president, i believe his view is a bit antiquated and outdated. we re not putting 100,000 more cops on the street. what we want to see are after-school programs. what we want to see are free and reduced lunch programs expanded and early childhood education. what we want to see is people
including ben shapiro, ann colter are starting to split from trump and say we have to do this without him. i think bakari made a fair point. we talk too much about donald trump and not enough about trumpism and what does that mean? i happen to be in a school that trumpism is a long-term problem for the republican party, the isolationism, the nihilism. the unilateralism. all sorts of things that are problematic with the embrace of aut autocrats, the trade policies. i can go on and on about those policies. i think republicans need to come to grips with this, that some of the things they say they like about trump, they would have gotten from any republican president. it s these other things that will limit the growth of the republican party going forward. so yeah, you can get rid of trump, but we have to have this debate about trumpism and see if that s a viable, sustainable
that happened. senator graham s spokesman said he was making a prediction and graham said he wasn ted a ed a advocating for violence. it s notable, again, that he s doing this really for the first time in this way tonight in that we learned that on thursday, he s giving a primetime address to the nation on the subject of the soul of the nation. so what do we expect there? reporter: he s making three trips to pennsylvania. that one today. he has a second on thursday and another one next week and it comes as former tr er president is going to pennsylvania on saturday. back in 2020, joe biden talked about running for the soul of america, basically saying there is this threat to democracy. that is why he wanted to take office and felt like he needed to run for office to help in