off ramp away from donald and they never have. from 2016 on down there have been dozens of times they could have just been done with him, but, instead, they keep enabling him because they still think he can be of use to them. i think when the election was finally called for president biden, the first danger sign was the fact that most republicans were refusing either to declare biden the winner as well or were backing donald s first big lie about the election, and now we see them doing exactly the same thing with the insurrection which, in fact, is even more dangerous. how does the country heal from a trauma like january 6th with whatever, 30%, 40% of the country saying it wasn t a trauma, it wasn t an insurrection at all? i think the most important thing that needs to happen is there needs to be accountability. the fact that there hasn t been
john kelly and jim mattis about my generals. can you explain the addiction of someone that is that abusive of our country, of the office of the presidency? i think it is really important to remember that it isn t that people who like donald or follow donald see something in him to admire that the rest of us just are blind to. it is that they admire things in him that we revile. they admire his willingness to lie so brazenly. they admire the fact that he s entirely out for himself, and they actually admire the fact that he s an incredibly weak person who has never legitimately won anything in his life but keeps succeeding. so, you know, when we look at it that way it does become a little bit more understanding, if not less scary. you where about something that i think some journalists have inched toward but you have clarity about his own sickness from covid. is it your sense that he was far
officials, not just elected republicans, but elected democrats, many of whom you ve had on your air and we ve seen on television who have had a different conversation that have said, yes, we agree that leaving afghanistan was right, and, yes, we agree this was the time to leave afghanistan, but that this was a botched withdrawal and that there was unnecessary humanitarian and potentially security implications to the fact that this was not handled as well as it could be handled. now, some people will say that that is all, you know, fine, but ultimately it s irrelevant compared to the larger question, was it right to leave or not. but there s no doubt over the last week with the images we ve seen on television, that discussion has been the dominant discussion in the media and what you re seeing joe biden do, i thought it was a little brittle with joe, i think that was the word joe scarborough used, it was a little brittle with george stephanopoulos yesterday, but he s trying to keep the
successful at it. the fact that we still have so many unvaccinated people in america, goes to not failures of the administration, but goes to the poisoned political atmosphere that the former guy left on the question of covid. and so the fact that even in the face of all of that poison politics and the fact that masking somehow became a political issue and part of the culture wars, none of it had anything to do with joe biden, the fact that the administration has done as well as it has done in the face of all of that is to its lasting credit, and i absolutely think you re right. however, and this is not a critique, just a fact, the reality is that people are scared right now and people are scared about this variant and they re scared about what it means for their families and they re scared about what the long-term solution to that problem is, which is the mass of unvaccinated people who continue to be a threat to all of us so long as they continue to not do what common sense and scien
the ability to x-ray, the ability to use what s known as a disrupter, think of it as a laser beam but made out of water where they can tear through the cylinder he was holding or anything else and destroy it in a way that would not set off any potential explosive device, rendering it safe while maintaining the evidentiary value. it seems quite clear at this point that we know who is responsible if there is in fact a bomb in the vehicle, but it s still important. that s what s going on from a law enforcement perspective. he made a number of rambling statements and i think we ll be cautious not to amplify his message in a way that would not encourage copycats here, but talked about a coming revolution and several other political-type statements, but did not have a very coherent message, nicolle. we don t want to amplify his message, but i think we want to give dhs credit for this warning. i ll read the warning first and