welcome to prime time weekend. i am nicolle wallace. let's get right to the weekends top stories. in the study of criminal minds -- it is actually not uncommon for an arsonist to knowingly return to the scorched earth he or she so brazenly torched. what is uncommon though is the arsonist not just being applauded by the victims upon its return to the scene of the crime, but being celebrated. today, donald trump played the arsonist in the trump run republican party and showed -- with senate republicans this afternoon three blocks from where trump was arraigned last year in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election he lost, comes to washington, d.c. today abounding to equal parts chest thumping, america bashing, and more bizarre incoherent ramblings about dating nancy pelosi today. press spin for today was a trump engaged in forward- looking discussions of policy, hannibal lector kept coming up, including donald trump successive animosity toward the department of justice. maybe the aftermath of his 34 felony count in new york, and in that period trump sought to harness the powers of congress to fight on his behalf. this first call was, too, you guessed it, mike johnson. speaker of the house, now trump's henchmen. they appeared in their matching red ties in court last month, mobilizing. not to pass any laws to help the american people, and in an all-out effort to protect trump, to help him evade accountability. republican lawmakers are trying everything. they are being really creative, drying up bills on jurisdiction, weapon is in appropriations, and expanding blockades. republicans do everything except govern, everything in their power to help trump evade accountability, avoid the rule of law. remember, they didn't always how quite this low at donald trump's feet. >> we are on the verge of having someone take over the conservative movement in the republican party who is a con artist. >> i am a never trumper guy. i never liked him. >> all i can say is count me out. enough is enough. i have tried to be helpful. >> we were really trying to figure out, how can we hold a president accountable to put all our lives at risk? >> there's no question that president trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. no question about it. >> all those people are engaged in a project to make you think we are crazy. they said those things. they said those things, and then they fell into line. democrats, for their part, today welcomed trump to capitol hill in a very different way. this mobile billboard, for instance, sent out by the democratic national committee, had video from the deadly insurrection playing on a loop to remind the gop what exactly happened on january 6th, what exactly they have endorsed for president in 2024. 3 1/2 years later, the blood has been cleaned up, the broken glass has been swept away. the physical damage repaired. but the disgrace and the trauma for the women and men of law enforcement who protected the democrats that they indoors. in fact, donald trump was protected this afternoon i some of the very same police officers and law enforcement officials who bravely stood between his violent supporters and those republican lawmakers who rolled out the red carpet for him today. this is well and truly the trump republican party. let's talk to our most favorite reporter, von hillier is back. also joining us, former lead investigator tim hay fever and the executive director of republican voters against trump . sarah, i start with you, because your pain matches or exceeds mine. at what all these men and women have become. because i was never on board, right? i never thought trump was a good idea. it is divided, circles of former friends, divided family and friends and neighbors. i've always thought it was a bet with the devil. but i guess the point is, so did they. so did ted cruz. so did marco rubio. so did mitch mcconnell. but they did something very different today. do you understand why? >> i understand why they're doing it? no. i'm like you. i both thought trump was unfit from the beginning, and took people like marco rubio and so many other candidates in 2016. it doesn't matter. everyone was on rsa back then. jd vance, they all fought the same way we did. and then we watched them for political expediency, for their own professional growth. not only make, sort of tolerate trump, but make common cause of him. become his biggest toadies. there is something particularly painful, i think, about them cheering him as he returns to the capital where, as nancy mays said, he threatened their lives. one of the things that strikes me -- i run republican voters against trump, and one of the many reasons people voted for trump twice say they will not vote for him again because he lied about the results of the election claiming it was stolen, and then he fomented it insurrection. for a lot of these republicans, that was their redline. the fact that these people are now willing -- they were willing to make videos, put their faces on billboard saying absolutely not, trump is unfit and i won't vote for him. they have the push to deal with that. they have that case. the people who purport to be devout christians, who purport to back the blue or stand the rule of law, they are there to cheer donald trump, that i was morally and temperamentally responsible for the insurrection. it is stomach churning and the kind of emperor has no close kind of phenomenon where it is just important on days like this that we remind people, we are not the crazy ones. they are the craven ones. >> lick spittle isn't it enough circulation. thank you for invoking it here at the top of the hour. i want to show you and add that the biden/harris campaign put out and just get your reaction to some of it. this is on january 6th. >> donald trump lit a fire in this country. >> the siege lasted for 7 hours. >> stoking the flames of division and hate, now he is pouring gasoline. >> we will give them parts. >> there is nothing more sacred than our democracy. but donald trump is ready to burn it all down. >> i am joe biden and i approve this message. >> the term is actually gone farther, he has called them warriors around the anniversary of d-day. this seems to speak to that got rejection of some of the voters that you talked about a lot. what you think about that? >> i think it's good. i think you need to keep the salience of january 6th very high for voters. because people have short attention spans. i talked to voters all the time. and i've done focus groups now. every year now for several years, it has been stunning to watch people change how they talk about january 6th, because of course, when it happened, people were disgusted. they were sad. you know, republicans are so appalled that they had to say was actually antifa and black lives matter. they weren't even willing at the time to say these were actually trump supporters because it was such an important thing to happen. they have moved to a place where time has healed sort of those wounds for them, and they have sort of been by the right-wing infotainment media, by republican politicians. they moved to this place, not just of acceptance, but a celebration that this is an act of patriotism. but that is for core voters. for the swing voters that are still held up by what happened that day, for the people who baby aren't big fans of joe biden need to be reminded that donald trump is unfit and too dangerous to be allowed back in the white house, it is essential that they remind him about january 6, because it's just one of those things -- as the salience falls, people forget about it. >> i think our best example of how that work of what sarah is talking about was, the public hearings were this summer before the midterms. democracy was much higher than a lot of sort of pundits asked acted it to be. one of the factors, along with the odds that the audacious traditions of a red wave, which is more like a quick trip. trump's voracious desire for the violence. trump's enthusiasm for the removal of the mats, which are there for one reason, to make secret service aware of anyone carrying a weapon. >> they are not here to hurt me. they can march the capital from here and take those away. >> this was always to be the smoking gun, if you will, of trump's enthusiasm for his supporters, to both be armed, to be among them, and they proceed on to the capital to do his bidding. >> exactly right. in the hearings, we also developed this really powerful and yet the evening before the attack on the capital, the president was in the oval office. he gathered a group of young staff and the door was open and he could hear the january 5th crowd, you know, allie alexander, mike flynn speeches. and he said to the room, people are very angry. they are extremely upset about this election. mindful of the energy in the crowd and the potential for it to turn violent. there were repeated instances of his specific knowledge of danger and his desire to go. what struck me about these images from today is he's doing today what he wanted to do that day. his intention was to go to the capital and buttonhole republican members of congress somehow that he thought would be subject to the political pressure that he was exerting on the vice president and others in some desperate attempt to prevent the certification and the transfer of power. it is shockingly ironic that 3 1/2 years later, he is making a trip and getting a much more favorable audience from these republican members. that is precisely what he intended to do, had he been successful in that crazy plan to travel to the capital on january 6th. >> vaughn, iron he doesn't live under the sort of mushroom cloud of trump-ism, but there was an ime to mike johnson being the speaker who created donald trump. >> i mean, having him be the one welcoming him, but also, somebody like nancy inside of that meeting room today, donald trump explicitly giving her a shout out after helping her win her primary. just this week in south carolina, nancy mays was going to be the future of the republican party in the days after the january 6th attack. she was voted and rightfully for the first time in november of 2020, and then she made the tv rounds saying she and others could be the voice of the new republican party. they need to turn the page, look away from donald trump. out there in summer 2022, donald trump is on stage calling her a rhino. she narrowly won her re- election. she even told me of the time, look. they are going to find if anybody did a crime related to january 6, we will bring appropriate charges. nancy is speaking a different tune. the message that was sent from donald trump to every other house republican in that room was that you may have turned your back on me at one point, or you may cross me at some point, and ultimately, you are safe in this republican party if you come back and you stand beside me. nancy is the representative of that. if you take those words of or after january 6th, she was hiding her kids during that attack, to where we are now. >> there are a lot of accounts from contemporaneous sort of social media posts about the incoherence that you highlighted sunday night. some of the non sequiturs, which i think is a generous way to describe them. this is from jake sherman on trump's meeting with house republicans. quote from trump to house republicans, close to exact quote, quote, nancy pelosi's daughter is a wacko. there is an age difference, though. jake went on -- i don't know what this means, but this is what he told a group of house members. he talked about silence of the lambs famous villain, hannibal lector. there was a lot of, i think, his supporters call it riffing, but a lot of non-policy topics raised. >> i've been covering trump for a while, and that's kind of a regular trump rally, if i may. >> they got the vip experience, kind of. >> right. a little more 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republican politics and republican campaigns where the supreme court was an issue that animated republicans. the supreme court is now out of step with the majority of republican women in about half of republican men on issues like abortion and guns deep. how do you make sure that it's is motivating an issue for the democratic coalition as it was for 40 years for republicans? >> first of all, thank you for having me. this decision today is just another kick in the gut. it's not a surprise. it shouldn't be for anybody with seizing power in state legislatures, and yes, the supreme court. this is what a supreme court who wants to take america back again into the dark ages looks like, and it should cause people in america to shutter when you take it not only for what was said today, but taken in context. the decision today, to basically make peaceful streets in america with a machine gun in everybody's hand, it is hard to fathom. the number of americans that have been killed on american soil from gun violence since 1980 is over 1 million people. that's more americans denizens and were killed in all the wars americans fought in in the 19th and 20th century. clarence thomas thinks the best way to deal with that is to just give everybody a machine gun. you saw what the vice president said, but here's the most important message -- this election is going to be a choice between a guy named joe biden who gets up every day to fight for the american people and who passed the largest gun safety measure in history, and appoint supreme court justices that reflect the ideals of america and hold true to the constitution in a way that awful judges should. this court has demonstrated in the last couple of months how they are so willing to eviscerate the rights from dobbs to the redistricting decision they made the other day, and now to this incredible legislation. and if you want more of clarence thomas and alito, then you vote for trump. if you want the kind of court the joe biden has presided over through the years and has been both the senate and vice president and now the president, it really is a very, sad decision that is tortured in its language and its reasoning from justice thomas. >> it is so interesting. the polls support everything you just said. 85% of americans support gun safety measures. i think it's even higher than that on bump stocks specifically. i think 83 is the number that supports background checks. i think the decision they have before them about domestic abusers -- most women who are murdered are murdered by someone they know. the victims of the extreme right policies are -- everyone knows someone who either hasn't had access to healthcare they need -- the women who are aligned with the campaign who have been on my show talking about their variances in texas after abortion bands are walking, talking examples of how devastating republican policies are. do you think the race is close because people haven't focused in on the people in our own communities who are hurting because of the extreme republican policies? or do you think it's where we are in the calendar? what is your theory of the state of the race. >> first of all, it's a close race and it's going to be a close race all the way through election day. we have seen that in the past. but you could not have a more stark contrast between two visions of america. joe biden, everyone who knows him, people who work for him want to continue to work for him. he has demonstrated an ability to get massive pieces of legislation done. he is very respectful, by the way, people who don't think like he does. he told me, you go everywhere and make sure everyone gets this, because i'm a president for all america. donald trump is told you many times that i am in this for myself. i would to seek retribution on people that oppose me. he went to the hill yesterday, which was disheartening and disgusting, to watch him walk into capitol hill, a place where, as president, he sat and watched ticket desecrated by an insurrection that he promoted, and what did the republicans in congress do? did they do what they said they would do after mitch mcconnell and a couple other said? they embraced him. they gave him the game ball for that congressional race. if that doesn't mean the donald trump now owns the republican party lock stock and barrel, and now he has the cord that represents him, people will continue to do what he says, which is what he will do that's worse than the first time he was president. it's a very stark choice. it's going to be a very close election. we have to continue to tell them what the stakes are, but evidently, the supreme court and congress are going to help them figure out very quickly what it looks like when you take america back again. i don't think women want to go back. i don't think minority communities want to go back. i don't think reasonable and thoughtful americans want to go back to the way it was a long time ago when we did not share democracy in the united states of america. democracy is on the line, freedom is on the line, our rights are on the line. and the ability to actually live at a reasonable, thoughtful pace with neighbors who are different from us. donald trump is going to destroy it. when we come back, with the conservative majority on the supreme court already ushered in, the all-out assault on reproductive rights in red states all across the country. one mom from texas forced to flee her home in her home state for medical care. we share her harrowing testimony after the break. the . and just lived with the damage that was left behind. but even after all this time your thyroid eye disease could still change. restoration is still possible. learn how you could give your eyes a fresh start at tedhelp.com. if advanced lung cancer has you searching for possibilities, discover a different first treatment. immunotherapies work with your immune system to attack cancer. but opdivo plus yervoy is the first 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