a threat to democracy. they are trying to end the electoral college and trying to pack the court. most importantly they have weaponize the justice department to go after political opposition. that s a huge threat to democracy and a huge threat to the first amendment. never forget two years ago this month the fbi was involved in suppressing the number one story that would have made a difference in the presidential election. our most important election when they went and talked to facebook and the mainstream press that no one trusts suppress the hunter biden story days before the presidential contest. the american people always get it right. they know that s the real threat to democracy. not republicans fighting for the bill of rights, the constitution and the first amendment. we played something from this weird cat on msnbc yesterday. we actually missed something else. he said this. the scary thing right now is that the people who want to and
don. it s it s more insidious than that. mm-hmm. ron, i want to talk about the coronavirus pandemic. a senior biden administration official is telling cnn they believe that there are governors who are putting their political interests ahead of the public health and getting people vaccinated. do you see it that way? sure. in fact, the biden administration has been relatively hands-off on this question so far. i mean we re looking at a number of states, republican-controlled states, where two things are happening at once, where the virus is spreading most rapidly and virulently, and the governors are moving most aggressively to dismantle any of the possible public health responses to that. and i think, don, where this is really going to come to a head is on the issue of reopening schools because the education department today issued its roadmap, its guidance, the federal education department, for how communities should reopen schools. and they said, one, every kid should be back in
if the doj was being run by people who didn t push back? there was a prospect of that. some of these notes also indicate that donald trump was trying to replace barr s replacement. so replacement for replacement with someone who is more pliable. i shudder to think what would have happened if the place was run by people who were just prepared to do anything that trump asked them to do and also the white house counsel s office. some of what we ve seen is that don mcgahn, who i think was no hero in lots and lots of ways, the former white house counsel to president trump at the end of the day when asked to do the unthinkable, fire bob mueller, didn t do it. in this case these career professionals didn t do it. i m not saying they should be lauded as heroes necessarily because i think the bare minimum of what s required of someone either at the line level of the doj or at the pinnacle of that department is not to accede to a political candidate s mandate to
by the way, i mean, you know, i agree, it happened, and it s not acceptable obviously. and our chief within hours of this happening, within hours, not days later when somebody else discovered the camera, but within hours our chief relieved the officers of duty and referred them to the state attorney, within hours, the same day. so, you know, i i believe we ve got a very good department by the way, and i ve seen officers de-escalate almost all the time in instances often where they re at peril. but you would expect a department to do what our department did when this happened, which is to immediately and quickly and decisively say this is unacceptable, and they didn t suspend the officers. they relieved them of duty, and they immediately sent it to the state attorney, who i think within a week or two filed these battery charges. so of course it s unacceptable,
with him at the beginning because i think at the beginning of this, he was just trying to do what anyone in office, what instinct they would have, which is what do i need to do to protect people? and at some point and i think it s when trump sort of saw how this was a political opportunity, he made it a political opportunity. and since then, we ve been trying to help residents not with his help but in spite of his efforts. and that s really it s sort of a sorry statement. yeah. listen, i ve got to ask you about something that happened there while i have you. yeah. ask you about the five miami beach police officers who were charged with battery over a july 26th arrest. we have some of the surveillance video, and i just want to warn people that it is a bit violent. here it is. cnn is attempting to make contact with the officers for comment. but i ve got to ask you, is it ever acceptable to see officers treating someone this way? what s the department doing to make sure that thi