his first speech now feels like a lifetime ago but it will always be remembered for this moment. i have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people who cannot defend themselves. nobody knows the system better than me. which is why i alone can fix it. i alone can fix it. that instantly became the thing everyone took away from that speech. it really nailed exactly how trump managed to turn the republican party into a cult of personality focused on just one man. donald trump himself. but in the eight years since then, the cult of maga has become something of an established religion in american politics. trump spent that time fashioning himself as a quasi messianic figure to his followers. then a bullet narrowly missed his head in pennsylvania. that gave his followers all the confirmation they needed to deify him. to thrust upon him the mandate of heaven itself and trump used his speech last night to take his martyrdom to the next level.
where there is a sense of mounting pressure for president joe biden to bow out of the race ahead of next month s democratic convention. the washington post reports former president barack obama believes biden needs to reconsider a second term and the new york times now reports that biden may be considering the possibility that he needs to leave the race. chris, last night if you are following along with the scripted remarks that were advanced to us of j.d. vance, there was an ad lib. he made about kamala harris. i saw that. that was not just happenstance. that was clearly, i think, trying to account for a potential future where joe biden is not actually the nominee and i sort of wonder whether you think we will hear similar ad lib. s or plain scripting from donald trump tonight. i am very curious. it is not that hard to talk about the biden-harris ticket. this is the most uncertain and volatile political situation that i have modern american politics. probably sin
address concerns that have been raised. what i want to hear is how they are going to win back the election. if anybody this afternoon comes with a we need to take gramps keys away kind of thing i will push back in the strongest of terms because he is our guide. the longer we spend all of our time talking concerns, concerns, concerns the more we are doing donald trump s words for him. john: a special closed-door meeting with todd biden advisors as lawmakers for his candidacy could sink the party s chances on the ballot this november. now the new york times is reporting that the biden campaign is running tests on a hypothetical matchup between vice president harris and former president trump. biden s advisors also reportedly tried to come up with ways to persuade him to step aside. so begins wednesday afternoon hello i am john roberts in washington hey, sandra. sandra: the amount of sound and updates are like a fire hose we will have a big two hours coming up good t
they shared their experience defending the u.s. capitol on that day against the mob of trump rioters who stormed the capitol to prevent the certification of joe biden as the democratically elected president. on january 6th for the first time i was more afraid to work at the capitol than in my entire deployment to iraq. the rioters called me traitor. a disgrace. and shouted that i, i, an army veteran and police officer should be executed. the rioters attempted to breach the capitol were shouting trump sent us. pick the right side. we want trump. i heard officers screaming in agony, in pain, just an arm left from me. i didn t know at that time but that was officer hodges, and here s today to testify. i too was being crushed by the rioters. i could feel myself losing oxygen, and recall thinking to myself this is how i m going to die, defending this entrance. i ended up on my hands and knees, and blind. the medical mask i was wearing at the time to protect myself from coronav
among nats fans they they don t pay the way they should. but we ll take it, charles schwabber. he is on the injured list and probably will be for a couple more weeks. that s as seen by the sox as an effort to match what the yankees have done, picking up gal low and rizzo. but the big trade not official yet, but rumors the nats are close to sending max scherzer and tray turner both of them to an already loaded dodgers team. that s going to be tough. going to be very tough. we ll see what happens. hopefully the red sox will do better than last night. but the red sox, it was the red sox and the yankees last night, lost by a combined like 27-1, something like that. so better days ahead. let s hope. yeah, let s hope. let s get to the headlines this morning. faced with a surging number of coronavirus cases, president biden has announced sweeping new requirements for millions of federal workers. under the new policy, federal government employees and members of the military wil