special edition of politicsnation. i m in new york, we will have the reverend al sharpton joining us momentarily from selma, alabama. you are looking at now live at the bridge. we are taking in this feed, straight msnbc at rockefeller center. in a moment, president, biden is you see there, we ll march alongside dignitaries. including reverend al sharpton, who is not too far away from this picture you see here. they will be marking the 58th anniversary of bloody sunday. moments ago, the president laying out the threats as he sees them, threatening a voting rights. it looks like they are just beginning their walk. this fundamental right remains under assault, conservative supreme court has gutted the voting rights act over the years. since the 2020 election, a wave of states and dozens of anti voting laws fueled by the big lie, and the election deniers, now elected to office. and that annual walk, as you see on the left-hand side of the screen, just beginning. it s about 25
commemorate john louis. and i think about all of them as we marched across that bridge today. and there is a sense of, we can t let them down. and i think about your daughter, yolanda and i think about my only grandchild. and we can t let them down. we are right in the middle of those that are looking down, saying, what are y all going to do? and those looking at by saying, are you going to hand us worse than what you were given? there is no question. it is a challenging set of circumstances. but certainly not circumstances that we are not prepared and capable of addressing. dad and mom showed us it takes a few good men and women to bring about change. and they did that. and it has now been bestowed upon us. and yolanda, embarrassingly, has said you can get it done,
pardoned a lot more than that in the last few months of his presidency. he has a record of doing this. of pardoning people who stick up for him and who don t tell on him. so republicans should believe him when he s saying this. mark, i mean, we know they want to speak with mike pence, as well. i mean, do you think he ll do it? well, don, i think what s been shocking to all of america but a especially americans like ana and i is the extent the entire party rolled over under donald trump s autocrat thumb, it takes a few good men and women. like mark short. he s a straight shooter. he s compelled to tell the truth. and people like liz cheney, only
john, you take the new developments on top of something else we learned the other day, trump hold his acting attorney general rosen to just quote say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. john, it is, you know, it s not hiding in plain sight. it s in plain sight. there is an extremely clear pattern of behavior here. absolutely. and as every day we learn new details that we just lived as a country through the most dangerous moment of our democracy since the civil war. and donald trump makes people like richard nixon look like a choir boy. he was using the power of the presidency to try to overturn an election, to destroy our democracy and a few good men and women stopped that effort to their great credit but it shows how badly the guard rails have been damaged and to ellie s point, there needs to be accountability otherwise we ll encourage more of this in the future.
that trump s aides drafted an insurrection act order to deploy the u.s. military on american soil in response to protests. president denied it at the time. no surprise there. but the idea was in wide circulation. because right wing vigilante group members were caught online hoping trump would invoke the insurrection act around january 6. but even this bombshell news about a potential presidential coup for which there is no precedent in mrn history might sound to some folks like a trump scandal. most republicans will react with a shrug and defer to what aboutism. it s because they can t handle the truth. that s why the vast majority refuse to support a bipartisan commission to investigate the tack. that s why we know the threat to our republic is not over, not by a long shot. the guardrails held in the end thanks to a few good men and women in the government. but far more were afraid to speak out which means they remain complicit.