sorry, sparky. i m jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. this sunday, president biden on offense. in a fiery speech outside independence hall on thursday, he warns that americans democracy is at risk from trump loyalist who he calls maga republicans. in that same, speech the president has talked about the progress that biden has made on key issues intended to move the nation forward. all around, thursday the cdc recommended new booster to fight the highly contagious omicron subvariant. the next day the economy got a boost with another solid month of job creation. but as the residents of jackson mississippi will attached, not everything is going well. they are now in their seventh straight day without clean water. here to discuss all of this and more, karine jean-pierre, white house press secretary. karine, welcome back to the sunday show. thank you so much, jonathan, thanks for having me. let s start with, jackson mississippi. president biden signed an emergency dec
republicans gathered as well, including in the state of georgia. democratic party electors met right up there in the senate chambers. they are official, they are certified and they voted for joe biden. but georgia republicans, they met as exactly the same time, right behind those closed doors. they are not official, not certified, they still met and chose donald trump. even as democratic party electors were meeting in the georgia state senate for the first time in 28 years to select a democratic vice president and vice president, one floor below, at the state capital, georgia republicans were meeting for their own meeting to select republican electors for donald trump. those fake republican electors signed forged certificates, purporting to be the real electoral college votes and, in other words, asserting that in fact donald trump had won georgia. those fake certificates were actually mailed to the national archives as though they were official. and it s not like they
jersey shore. and i am wishing all of you a very good and very safe night and a great weekend. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, i want to thank you for staying up late with us. i will see all of you next week. i will see all of you xtne week welcome to the special second hour on all in. it s made it clear that the march on the capitol on 2021 was arranged by donald trump and his allies with in fact a specific goal. it wasn t just an expression of anger at the supposedly stolen election, nor was it the idea that the mob would somehow disrupt the certification of joe biden s win and then magically donald trump would stay on as president. no. the plan was to put pressure on republican lawmakers and the vice president, mike pence, to carry out a very specific plan. and that plan was set in motion actually weeks earlier, back on december 14th. that was the day that presidential electors gathered in all 50 states to cast their official electoral college v
wallace. ever since charged were handed down against donald trump, the ex president has seen returning to the white house as his best defense. no one is more aware of this than jack smith. jack smith asked the supreme court to rule on donald trump s bid to have the charges ruled out because the alleged crimes took place while he was president. this is not new. judge tanya chutkan rejected that claim and trump appealed. jack smith is asking the supreme court to leap frog the appeals court and settle the matter once and for all. the special counsel s move setting up the first, but maybe not the last time, the supreme courtla a role in the united states versus donald trump. prosecutors say, quote, this caserents a fundamental question at the heart ofur democracy. whether a fmer president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed ile in office or is constitutionally protect from federal prosecution when he s been impeached by the house, but not convicte
joining me now congressman david cicilline former author of the new book house on fire. history professor at and value and author of strongmen mussolini to the president. miles taylor former former chief of staff at homeland security and cofounder and executive director of the new america movement. thank you all very much for coming back to the sunday show. i want you all to listen to this clip from last night s trump rally. joe biden came to philadelphia pennsylvania, to give the most vicious, hate bill and divisive speech ever delivered by an american president. vilifying 75 million citizens, plus another probably 75 250. if we want to be accurate about it. has threats to democracy and as