environment. that s fine, yeah, they are both important in their own way. in different ways, some important for tomorrow, less than yesterday. i don t even know what i mean by that. have a great weekend, chris. you too, alex. thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. this january 6th rioter, the one in the queue shirt at the front of the pack here, his name is douglas austin johnson. he has now famous for having chased capitol police officer, eugene goodman, up the stairs in the capital. he actually did not even know what building he was invading on january 6th. this is me touching the white house. bring the white house! that s what we do! touching the white house, very close but still a few blocks down pennsylvania avenue, mr. johnson. anyway, despite not knowing where he was, johnson didn t know why he was there, wherever there was. this is from his interview with fbi agents two days after the attack on the capitol, quote, i went in there, i wanted, you k
this is from his interview with fbi agents two days after the attack on the capitol, quote, i went in there, i wanted, you know, i wanted to stop this depends on all that. pence was supposed to be the hero to save the day, and he didn t. and when this writer was asked what got him there in the first place, he said quite clearly, trump s posts. trump posted make sure your their, january 6th. douglas austin johnson cited donald trump specifically has a reason that he went to the capitol that day, and he is not alone in that. more than 1000 people, 1000 people have been arrested for their roles in the january 6th riot so far. the nonprofit group, citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington, also known as crew, that group comb through all of the public google filings related to january 6th defendants. they found at least 174 of those defendants said that, in one way or another, that they were answering donald trump s calls when they travel to washington and joined the
in tonight with its opposition to gop calls for stronger work requirements to be included in o anpposity budget agreement thatd be paired with a debt ceilingde increasebt cei. the issu now, the issue of a work requirement has actually emerged as one of the biggest remaining hurdles for reaching an agreement between negotiators for the white house and houseite ho republicans. rhere is a top gop negotiatous who s weighing in on thisighi tonight. that s louisiana congressman garret graveng in on thi s loui he said tonight his party will not drop their demand for tougher work requirements as part of a final agreement. now, democrats have converselypi argued that, listen, social benefit programs already have s as work requirements in place,n plc adding that to them. this is ale.l an necessary. meanwhile, as you pointed out, the president and his top advisers were over at camp david this weekend working perhap s as is june 5th. deadline quickly approaches. jason , we re all going t
trying to change the democratic party s primary calendar. so in an arrow when people no longer have the luxury of writing off kooky errors with famous last names how exactly should democrats deal with this rfk junior problem? joining us now is simone sanders the former staffer for vice president harris, and a former campaign staffer for the biden and sanders campaign, and the host of simone on msnbc. simone, thank you for joining us tonight. let me just first get your thoughts on the traction that rfk junior has gotten from democrats, potentially independents, and pretty powerful, presumably well educated business minds like jack dorsey, and i know that there is a big ax tricks next to his name, but elon musk, and others. what does that say to you about the candidate and the strategy? we ll, if it were not rfk junior, i mean, who is a
your earlier segment,d as y the apology tour. it s enough.ouur and you re right , the democratapology s ,you know, they have an rfq junior problem and he is not going anywhere . and don t forget, joe biden s not even on the ballot in the first in the nation primary state, which is new hampshire. i and so our junior is goingirst to be coming out of the gatewite with a victory. so when you have 82% of the people in this country saying it s going in the wrong direction, the republicans need to figure it out, you know, talk about the facts, talk about the issues in this have 82 drive on, doug .people i and look, you re a democratts and you ve been a democrat analyst, but you look as closelydrive on at the repubs as anybody. what s your take? what do you make of the desantis trump head bashing right now? starteddemo earlycrat a. the it started well before today. and it s going to get even welle more fiery. oday. well, you know, i do agree with scott brown . i think for ron desantis to t