character. i admire the speech and agreed to the speechlt i think it s going to fall on death ears if you are appealing to character and principle and truth and healing in this context. i think you need stronger medical analogy and we need to talk about crime and prosecution and we need to talk about defense of the republic. i think biden displays all the qualities that we know him for and what he said every word is true. i am skeptical whether it s enough. we are talking about cynical people, severely hit that are manipulating the truth in order to advance their careers when there would be no sequences to them other than maybe being primary but no serious
welcome back to morning joe. it s friday, january 7. as washington commemorated the one-year anniversary of the capitol insurrection, president biden spent much of his speech yesterday calling out former president trump for his actions that led to the riot. here s nbc s chief white house correspondent peter alexander. reporter: more than a year removed from the violent insurrection at the capitol president biden warns the threat to america from within is deepening. i will defend this nation and allow no one to put a dagger to the throat of democracy. reporter: an indictment of his predecessor donald trump without even mentioning his name. he s a defeated former president. reporter: blaming mr. trump
speech yesterday which was laying out the evidence hoping to reach those trump voters who still believe the election was stolen and carefully laying out the case that series of myths. there was an abbreviated version of the speech. but, these are not the same thing. there are ancestors conceiving a new nation, we are here testing whether any nation so conceived can long endured so you can see biden addressed it that way. the battle had never happened and there was no such thing as a civil war. the degree that it s difficult.
how squarely president biden take on even if you don t mention his name. we know people who s been covering for donald trump for a long time being perceived as weak and losers. these are words that biden used a lot yet hitting trump where it really hurts. have you ever encounter a speech from the current president that was so critical of a previous president. the biden team feels like it was needed. sure it was. at the amazing thing that took joe biden a year to say it and i think that s testimony to the fact that president biden tried to be a unifier and is still trying. when it comes down to a situation just as joe was saying where a huge chunk of the republican party is not for
capitol and he talked about daggers and kings and what he was trying to warn us that democracy existed from a certain moment in time and it could be quite an essence and not just in other parts of the world but here as well. i think also joe what he was doing in this speech is he was keeping it and a smart strategy when you are dealing with republicans who are confused with their identity right now. he kept it simple. he was just focused on the truth. s and the difference between the truth and lies. someone who tells the truth and someone who lies and how we have to focus on the truth if we want to keep this country together. i did see him and he had a negative reaction to some other