This afternoon President Joe Biden is taking his brand on energy on the road after a fiery state of the Union Address in which he laid out the choice facing voters in november. He made a stunning indictment of the gops decision to turn its back on democracy and freedom both here and abroad, all in service of the disgraced wannabe autocrat who is The Republicans presumptive president ial nominee. President joe biden will be soon making remarks in pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is central to his hopes of prevailing in november. If todays speech is like anything we saw last night from the president he will take a blow torch to his opponent and the Republican Party. Standing before congress in front of some of the very same people who aided and abetted donald trump, trying to overturn the 2020 election, and the very seen of the crime that is the january 6th insurrection, President Biden on thursday night painted a picture of a Republican Party that has fallen so far it no longer respects or ad
Welcome to prime time weekend, lets get right to the weeks top stories. With less than two weeks to go before he makes history by becoming the first expresident of these United States to ever stand trial on criminal charges, donald trump is turning to a tactic straight out of a mobsters playbook. The expresident , going after the daughter of the new york judge, judge merchan, who is overseeing the criminal hush money case. In typical trump fashion, his attacks have been filled with foaming at the mouth rage and bluster, and conspiracy theories with a dash of disinformation for good measure. The expresident accusing the judges daughter of sharing a photo of donald trump behind bars on social media. Court officials quickly knocked that down, but trump hasnt stopped going after the judges daughter. He has posted about her at least four times since tuesday morning. Trumps attacks began one day after judge merchan imposed a gag order on donald trump, prohibiting him from lashing out against
Heilemann. co-host and executive producer, msnbc national affairs analyst. and john, you have 100 new text to read today. what is your read of the new meadows texts? well, hey lawrence. my first thing is, mark meadows, man, he got a lot of texas this year from a lot of loopy people, over the course of the election, through january 20th. i mean, ginni thomas, others coming in and the other. i agree with you that there has got to be when grading republicans in this period, one unfortunately has to use a sliding scale. both of these two gentlemen we re talking about chip roy and mike lee they end up in the right place, i believe we should give them credit for that. they ultimately end up seeing the version of january 6th, that the crazy had taken over. they ended up voting that way. i still think, though, it s a bit rich for them to be
Donald trump and his white house chief of staff did nothing to turn back the attack on the capitol. senator lee and congressman roy then voted to uphold joe biden s electoral college victory in the vote on january 6th. joining us now is john heilemann, co-host of the circus, msnbc national affairs analyst. and john, you have 100 new texts to read today. what is your read of the new meadows texts? well, hey lawrence. my first thing is, mark meadows, man, he got a lot of texts this year from a lot of loopy people, over the course of the election, through january 20th. i mean, ginni thomas and others coming in. i agree with you that there has got to be when grading republicans in
House counsel fame, remains at the top of the democrats witness list. mcgahn sat with mueller, you ll remember, 30-plus hours. his name is mentioned 500-plus times in the report. most notably in this detail, volume 2, june of 2017. the president called mcgahn, directed him to have the special counsel removed. so there s that. democrats say that s proof of attempt obstruction of justice. white house instructed mccann mcgahn, rather. i sound like that member of congress today who could not get his name right. mcgahn to defy a judiciary committee subpoena, an issue the courts will ultimately decide, perhaps months from now. with us for our conversation tonight, two returning veterans. phillip rucker, pulitzer prize-winning white house bureau chief for the washington post, and john heilemann, veteran journalist, msnbc national affairs analyst, co-author of game change, co-host of the circus on showtime. phil, you ll excuse me.