streaming on peacock. alex wagner tonight starts right now with my friend, mehdi hassan, in four. alex good evening, and thank you, chris. and thanks to you at home for being with us. alex has the night off. here is a question for you, do you recognize this man. do you know who this guy is? the president bears responsibility from wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters, he should have immediately denounced the mob, when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action, on president trump. now, i know that visibly it s very clearly republican speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. but can you imagine which world which kevin mccarthy we need today, speaker mccarthy would openly blame donald trump for january the 6th? as hard as it is to believe, kevin mccarthy really did say those things about donald trump. exactly two years ago today. and he said on the occasion of donald trump s impeachment, his second impeachment for trying to overturn the election in
do you recognize this man. do you know who this guy is? the president bears responsibility from wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters, he should have immediately denounced the mob, when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action, on president trump. now, i know that visibly it s very clearly republican speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. but can you imagine which world which kevin mccarthy we need today, speaker mccarthy would openly blame donald trump for january the 6th? as hard as it is to believe, kevin mccarthy really did say those things about donald trump. exactly two years ago today. and he said on the occasion of donald trump s impeachment, his second impeachment for trying to overturn the election in 2020. he said it exactly to it s an odd mile stone to hit for our country, it s especially odd when the same kevin mccarthy who once blamed iran for january the six is now saying a speaker he d be willing to look into ways to expunge d
Disney, interesting, when he was back in congress he was more of a paul ryan chamber of congress republican guy. this is evolution addictive of the republican party change more broadly? does he see this as a way to get to the top, to get the presidential bed? absolutely. the other thing as it was a complete anonymous backbencher in congress. who ran on one thing, which was complete another nauseating to donald trump. i got on the nomination. in an upset in florida and it got on the governorship. any propel themselves from the. her yes, rhonda santas is and now the strategy can be successful. again, he exists in a very friendly skate in a very friendly in very sort of box dominated echo chamber places like the village. of exploiting that to a great. and not anybody can do that. it s not necessarily a winning message and any kind of swing
Recommend nothing in the biden case. that could be wrong, because there s independent counsels. have a way of kind of go, becoming their own sort of story, branching out to others, et cetera. he s gonna take a long time i think to get a staff together. this could hover over the white house for a while. nevertheless, i think that garland anticipates will be in a position down the line to say i, did what her recommended, i did with smith recommended. and that will equate to trump charges and no biden charges. it s fascinating what you re seeing there about the likelihood. to be clear, you believe that appointing her to investigate biden increases not decreases the chance of jack smith recommending criminal charges against donald trump? i d say it doesn t have any effect. when hopes it doesn t have any effect, but smith is already
Issues. it makes their base angry, outraged, and worked up. it s always been a part of the conservative movement going back to reagan, nixon. when did become the only part? the life cycle of this seems to have become much tighter in recent years. trump turbocharge, this trump was, the staff windmills killing beers. when power is going to ruin our electric grids. hamburgers, dr. seuss, all these alleged huge threats to america, and this actually can be quite effective. donald trump s wall, which was a pipe dream from the beginning. he tried to build mexico wasn t gonna pay for. at what this was symbolically something that was gonna keep immigrants from coming into the country. this is essentially a game that republicans have gone the while on. maybe a few too many times. it becomes an object of radical, anna, i had a hamburger just