nation once again. we re not a free nation right now. we don t have free press. we don t have free anything. just a small sample of donald trump s dark speech at cpac. we ll have more of the former president s maga messaging in just a moment. meanwhile it sure sounds like his former secretary of state is also running for president. mike pompeo is making the rounds, criticizing trump s fiscal record while in the white house. and also ahead, we ll have a look at president joe biden s visit to selma, alabama, to mark the anniversary of bloody sunday. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, march 6th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this week just outside washington, dc, where former president donald trump returned to the stage at cpac over the weekend. for nearly two hours saturday evening trump addressed a smaller than usual crowd at the conservative conference in national harbor, maryland. there the 2024 pre
american mainstream. i m talking about main street americans in their millions. they come in all sizes, shapes and colors. blue collar workers, blacks, hispanics, shoe keepers, scholars, service people, housewives and professional men and women, they re the backbone of america. we can t move america without moving their hearts and minds, as well. they want all electric stoves all over the country. but we don t have the electric power for that. we want electric stoves, but we also want gas stoves. it s april fools . why do they want that? cpac then and now. the conservative conference has shifted in recent years to grievance politics. those two speeches 41 years apart. now, led by former president donald trump who delivered a dark speech, telling a sparse crowd at cpac, quote, i am your retribution. we ll have more of his remarks and what they mean for the 2024 presidential race just ahead. plus, we ll get a live report from springfield, ohio, where another norfolk south
nikki haley, the only candidate who did show up at cpac, the only other candidate aside from donald trump, she took a veiled shot at trump, saying we need a new generation of leadership. are you tired of losing? she was chased into an elevator by trump supporters chanting, trump 2024. winning the vice presidential cpac poll, kari lake, who is still claiming she won an election that she lost. donald trump also talked about ukraine and vladimir putin. here s what he had to say. nato wouldn t even exist if i didn t get them to pay up. they paid up $449 billion or something. it s the money they use. they re rich as hell right now. they spent it on an office building that cost $3 billion. russia wouldn t even need an airplane attack. one tank, one shot through that beautiful glass building, and it s gone. same architect i used in chicago. great architect. i got along with vladimir putin
for russian president vladimir putin, who he called a friend. nato wouldn t even exist if i didn t get them to pay up. they paid up $449 billion or something, and that s the money they used. they re rich as hell right now. they built an office building that cost $3 billion. russia wouldn t need an airplane attack. one tank, one blast through that building, it s gone. same architects i used in chicago. i got along very well with vladimir putin. i said, don t do it. you and i are friends. don t take over any countries. i ll have the war between russia and ukraine settled. it will be settled quickly. i will get the problem solved, and i will get it solved in rapid order, and it will take me no longer than one day. i know exactly what to say to each of them. i got along very well with them. i got along very well with putin. i m the only candidate who can make this promise.
nine we are supposed to do it but those articles supposed you are paid up to let s say i said the opposite. we will always protect you, i took a lot of heat because they said i m not a good member. actually they wouldn t exist if i didn t get them to pay up but they paid up for $49 billion or something and it s the money they used. they spent an office building that cost $3 billion, like the skyscraper in and had, one of the longest buildings ever seen and i said you should have instead of spending $3 billion, he should have spent $500 million will the greatest bunker you ve ever seen because russia wouldn t even need an airplane attack. one tank, one shot for the beautiful glass building, same market used in chicago, great architects that they didn t have war in mind. when things happen, the building