people who would step into the gap among republicans to do the right thing, to save this country on a critical day, a critical juncture. donny, now that we made fun about you, we can tell the truth about you. tap into your expertise. you re a legend when it comes to branding, advertising legend. i knew it. i learned early in politics. i was told early in politics, if you re going after the big guy or the big woman, if you re trying to win, it s all about contrast. you ve got to contrast yourself with em. if you re just a warmed over version of the person who is at the head of the pack, you re going to lose. it s one of the things i never understood about the republicans being cowards in the face of donald trump. you know, this mike pence move may not work. it may not work, but we know the other way is not going to work, right? mike pence actually speaking
bizarre play where they want to gain more votes. they want to get more ratings points. they don t believe any of it. you don t have to listen to me. just look at their own words. their own texts. what they say when nobody is watching. there ya go. nbc news legal analyst glenn kirscher, thank you. thank you, glenn. greatly appreciate your insight on cameras in the courtroom. yup. i think, again, i ve never been a massive fan of cameras in the courtroom, but here, when you have the most important criminal case in american history, and you have an ex-president that depends on conspiracy theories, isn t transparency what we must demand of our federal court system? yeah, joe. i think cameras in the courtroom are a must. because if we don t have them, what are we going to get? a one-sided account coming from trump s lawyers.
deteriorating political conditions, including the debt ceiling stand-off earlier in the year and the january 6th riot was reasons for the decision. when we said a ceo responded, i said, i hope it s jamie. it s jamie. he has no b.s. no, he doesn t. never did. here it is, yes, jpmorgan ceo jamie dimon correctly called the move ridiculous, saying the u.s. remains, quote, the most prosperous nation on the planet. the white house pushed back on the downgrade. let s bring in this is important, we have a president emeritus on the council of foreign relations, richard haass. he looks so eerudite. and a golf correspondent. well i have a complex mind, as fitzgerald said, richard, i can hold two competing thoughts in
in earlier and to do everything he can starting now, starting yesterday to shore up and gain the support for joe biden, i think it s very, very good news for democrats. it is even better news if he brings michelle obama into the fray, along with him. also very popular among democrats. and, you know, look, they are extremely powerful as conveners of not just democrats but independents and others who remember the obama years as, you know, very fondly. so it s very important. it is very good news for joe biden. i think joe biden, frankly, understands the threat that donald trump poses to our democracy, certainly as well as president obama does. nonetheless, great that obama is in the game. susan, it s fairly
acquittals on certain charges for several counts, not the charges overall. there have been other acquittals in january 6th cases all together. they have some evidence that the voir dire process can work here, that jurors can swear their oath, can take the evidence on its face. despite, you know, maybe not being particularly fond of donald trump, can look at the facts and decide them fairly. you know, when chuck was talking about the first amendment grounds, it struck me that potentially one thing you d expect if that s going to be the defense of trump here, they d be calling for the charges against hunter biden in the gun case to be dropped. then hunter biden has a first amendment right to lie about being a drug addict on a gun form. that s just, you know i think chuck is right, that that is not something that is going to have much merit in this courtroom behind me, and especially, you know, given the judges who know a lot of the facts about these cases. yesterday, we saw another def