by, trump was reportedly just not interested in doing more to stop it. and trump learned that his own vice president had to be rushed to a secure location, trump reportedly responded, so what? so what? trump accepted the violence that they. he liked the threat to democracy than, they re whipping of violence on his behalf, the anger. and he still does. and that s quickly emerging as the core argument in president biden s reelection campaign. in a speech on friday, biden called democracy the most urgent question of our time, saying trump is willing to sacrifice it. and just this afternoon, speaking at mother emanuel church, he compared the perpetuation of the big lie to those who denied the outcome of the civil war. biden isn t imploring americans to save democracy from the man who by his own account wants to destroy it. but as president biden leans into this contrast with trump, this particular line of attack, something to think is just kind of old dunes, it s in the past. rep
ide with jen psaki starts no w. well, if the first week of the new year has shown us anything, it s that joe biden and donald trump are basically living on different planets when it comes to their approach to american democracy. tonight, i m gonna talk to house speaker emeritus nancy pelosi about all of that. plus, president obama has appointed david plouffe as a senior strategist who might be useful to the biden campaign. of course he would be. david is gonna join me tonight as well. but we do want to start tonight with some new reporting from abc news that is shedding greater light on what trump was doing, and more importantly not doing on january 6th. as a mob pushed its way into the capital, becoming more and more violent as the minutes tic by, trump was reportedly just not interested in doing more to stop it. and trump learned that his own vice president had to be rushed to a secure location, trump reportedly responded, so what? so what? trump accepted t
morning oig s hit donald trump harder at cnn town halls, but are their closing arguments enough to close a massive the polling gap? president biden opens his 2024 campaign with a speech from historic valley forge. his message about protect ing democracy ahead of the third anniversary of of the at capitol attack. a second tranche of jeffrey epstein documents are released. cnn this morning starts right now. good friday morning. poppy is off today. we are focused on politics with a very good reason. nikki haley and ron desantis sharpening their attacks in iowa. in back to back town halls, ron desantis andhill hale made the case to voters that trump becoming the presidential nominee would spell defeat for republicans in november. the democrats want trump to be the candidate. they are going to talk about all the legal stuff, january 6th, that will be what the election will be about. chaos follows him. we can t have a country in disarray and a world on fire and go throu
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