as trump s lawyers are arguing? or is that claim not just constitutionally wrong, but also say license for future presidents to commit crimes while in office, as the justice department argues? and on the eve of a hearing on the question of whether trump can be prosecuted for his actions while in office, we are learning incredible new details about what donald trump said on january 6 and what h did and did not do. thanks t testimony, to the special l closest aides, the deputy chief of staff dan scavino. from that reporting, quote, sources say scavino told smith s investigators as the violence began to escalate that day, trump was just not interested in doing more to stop it sources also say that the former trump aidk luna told federal investigators that when trump wa informed that then-vice president mike pence had to be ush rushed to a secure location, trump responded so what. luna saw an unexpected willingness by trump to let potential harm come to a long time loyalist. and
act in their self-interest. abraham lincoln knew this. when you go back and look at all of lincoln s arguments that he made in the great moral cause of the union, he made many of those arguments in voter self-interest. and i think what you have to do is why does democracy matter to the average person in their living room, not just theoretical and not just as a moral cause but as a practical cause? what does that mean for their ability to get a minimum wage? what does that mean to get hired in a job? what does democracy mean in order to protect women s health freedoms? what does democracy mean in order to do something about climate change? all of those issues are completely dependent on the existence of democracy and on the existence of the will of the people. that s one hand. the other part of this conversation, i think it s so important, is this is for us to say that this shouldn t be part of america today ignores the fact that many times it has been part of america as eddie said. l