privacy, simplified. across the country today on what is being called a national day of protest. we are gonna bring you a live report on the protest itself in just a moment. but it comes just one day after the president signed an executive order attempting to protect access to abortion medication and emergency contraception. meanwhile, the january six committee is gearing up for its next public hearing on tuesday it comes after the panel heard after eight hours of testimony from formal white house counsel pat cipollone on friday. earlier today, on msnbc, mary trump discuss just how damaging this could be for the former president. to say that donald is terrified is accurate, and also an understatement. i think that this might be the first time in his entire life that, even he can t deny the walls may indeed be closing. and the witness is not coming forward, are increasingly important in terms of access, and in terms of their positions and his administration. and they are an
mitch mcconnell was reelected as the republican senate leader after the party failed to pick up seats in the midterm elections. there s a lot of finger pointing over what went wrong, from senator rick scott saying his party didn t stand for ideas. actually, rick, your plan was to slash medicare and social security. you have a lot of republicans, once zealous trump allies blaming the dear leader while others are rushing to his defense. i think senator mcconnell s view is trump is largely to blame and republicans have an image problem because of trump. i have to say i don t agree with that. some of the senators point the finger at donald trump and i think that is convenient for senate republicans to place the blame somewhere else. my view is there s plenty of blame to go around. meanwhile, mitch mcconnell who trump blamed for the party s election losses says voters were too spooked by the party s messaging and overall bad vibes.
let me ask you about another call me wrote this week in this one about british prime minister boris johnson, his resignation, it is titled why britain s pressure democratic collapse isn t comparable to ours. in johnson, he has always been compared to donald trump, but when you look at how donald trump dealt various scandals in which the election laws, what do you make of how differently these two head of the situations. so, johnson absolutely tried to stay in power beyond when people wanted him to be there. i think that is pretty clear. but there are a couple of differences. one was that his party didn t stand behind him. i think that is in part because of how the process works. it s not that he just ran for prime minister, just because of how the british system works. it s not as if he built a huge bases of support himself personally that he was unable to leverage in politics with donald trump did. i think to that the institutions of england are healthier than ours. it had been the