okay, here we go. i m jen psaki in washington, along with my friend and colleague jonathan capehart. this is hello, good to be here with you. this is msnbc s special coverage of the south carolina republican primary. right now voters are gathering and schools and churches across the palm meadows state to cast their ballots for who they would like to see as the 2024 republican presidential nominee. we are just three hours away from polls closing in south carolina. and one hour away from our first round of exit polls, which will give us a window into who showed up to vote and why. all interesting stuff. south carolina, important to note, an open primary. as long as a voter didn t participate in that democratic primary earlier this month, they can vote today. one thing i m going to have my eye on here is what the anti trump vote might look like. as we saw in iowa and new hampshire, trump didn t win 100% of the vote. a lot of people turned out that may have been people prot
i m alycia menendez in for nicolle wallace. from the president, a reminder of the stakes in the next election and an existential question, the president asking all americans, who are we? cited valley forge and on the each of the third anniversary of the january 6th attack, the president describing democracy as a sacred cause and the central issue of the 2024 election. this is not rhetorical, ak dem academic, or hypothetical, but the democracy s question is the most urgent question of our time. the choice is clear. donald trump s campaign is about him, not america, not you. donald trump s campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. he s willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power. our campaign is different. for me and kamala, our campaign is about america. it s about you. it s about every age and background that occupy this country. the speech today another episode in what has become one of the biggest themes in the biden presidency. president biden ha
family? no he s not. has he been good for your family? he s not been good for me and my family, no. no. no. things going well or bad? down i don t think he s doing great i think he could be better. yeah. personally i don t know that s a tough question. but i think asking us any one political person has been god or not good is tough because there s a lot of factors. part of my family is republican so they say no. i think he could be doing more for us. what can he do better? first inflation prices of everything is just gone through the roof so that would be one thing. gas prices for one and overall economy. stock market i kind of have to work few extra years instead of retiring now. rather have better prices. that stuff is really gas is expensive. yeah. inflation when you go to grocery store. that is not initially no that s corporate america those are people who own gas companies. inflation it is competition and yeah. influence yeah. abso
Likely to backfire. i want to endorse all of the always wise things that andrew said, but i want to make sure we don t lose the forest for the trees here, which is that whatever the court does in the details or on the merits, take stock of the fact we are having a national debate of whether one of the likely nominees for a major party for the president engaged in insurrection against the united states. regardless of the law, shouldn t that be just politically disqualifying for either party? don t both parties want someone without a question as to whether or not they engaged in insurrection? a rhetorical question we could spend 15 minutes answin to the point of not losing the akes or the context, i want to read you something from the new york times. what unites trump with the former secessionists under the disqualification clause is, like
Speech. well, it was a remarkable speech which spoke directly to the moment and was delivered with amazing passion and conviction and integrity. and it was the kind of speech i think that will galvanize and mobilize millions and millions of people across the country to get in this fight. this is not an election where people can sit on the sofa and look back and watch the polls. this is an election where people need to be involved in the process. so, you know, don t be in the prognostication business. be in the mobilization business. that s what joe biden was saying. you know, everything is on the line right here, and the question is what kind of century is this going to be for america and for the rest of the world? and are we going to be in the forefront of defending democracy and human rights and freedom around the world, or are we somehow going to get into the quicksand of autocracy and dictatorship with vladimir putin