decisions mute, you won't physicians, mutual. >> i'm going to sub-l in paris and this stand in this morning. nothing but love republicans rallying around. their leader has donald trump and mitch mcconnell patch things up? the supreme court, allowing the abortion pill, mifepristone to stay on the market for now downpours and flooding leading to life-threatening conditions in south florida and the reins still hasn't stopped plus donald trump calling milwaukee a horrible city as it prepares to host the republican national convention all right. >> 6:00 a.m. here in washington, live. look at capitol hills some from up here in washington, dc. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. wonderful to have you with us on this friday. we made it it is also today, donald trump's 78th birthday he's already received though the gift that he demanded, which has been complete relations from the republican party. take a look. here's the former president making his first appearance on capitol hill since january 6, surrounded by fawning republican supporters. >> there's great unity. this is an outstanding group of people. i'm with them 1,000%. there was me, 1,000%. we agreed just about on everything. and if there isn't, we work it out. and we've had i've had a really great relationship with just about everybody here. >> perhaps though over the years, not with mitch mcconnell, but look at this. the two men hadn't spoken until the capitol riot, but the senate minority leader showed up and there it is. that picture doug mills, the new york times i think we should probably clip and save this one, guys, because i think we're going gonna we're gonna come back to it probably again and again it says a lot watch this did you talk to them directly? >> yeah question carly all right. >> our panelists here former federal prosecutor elliot williams, republican strategist, sarah longwell, and former white house senior policy adviser, ashley allison welcome to all of you. >> clearly, this was designed to show that these guys are all on the same page altogether, that this is trump's republican party. >> now but sarah longwell, this was liz cheney, right? >> so liz cheney who spearheaded the january 6 committee the investigation into what happened that day, who has been a crusader in the wake of that against i'll trump getting back into the oval office, someone who found in mitch mcconnell's something of an ally during this period, they were in many ways on the same page mcconnell, of course, not as vocal but we know i reported at the time just how close mcconnell came to doing something different in the second each month trial of donald trump because of how much he cared about this. >> if you know how mcconnell's speaks about donald trump it private, you know, the level of disdain that he has for him. >> and yet, we saw we saw yesterday, this is what cheney said yesterday. mitch mcconnell knows trump provoked the violent attack on our capitol and then watched television happened flee as his mom brutally beat police officers and hunted the vice president. he knows trump refused for hours to tell his mob to leave. and even then with police officers bleeding, he kept repeating his election lies and praising the criminals. he knows trump committed a disgraceful dereliction of duty and is a danger to our republic trump and his collaborators will be defeated and history will remember the shame of people like leader mcconnell, who enabled them. when you see this image of mcconnell, its, let's keep that up there what do you see i see the ritual humiliation of republicans who said during january 6 are right? after january 6. and mitch mcconnell's case that trump was morally responsible for the events of the day he said there was no question. and what what i see two in that humiliation is a ton of regret for the decision he made not to impeach donald trump because if mitch mcconnell had made the decision right after january 6 to go ahead and rally republican senators around impeachment. they could have gotten enough to ensure that this moment didn't come to pass. mitch mcconnell is more responsible than anybody else because he was too cowardly to take on trump after january 6, despite knowing and saying clearly the trump was the person who caused the insurrection. he didn't do anything think about it. and now we find some back here having to kiss the ring. and it's like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime and being celebrated by the people. he did the crime against. and watching nancy mace. i mean, there was a montage of all of these people and what they said after january 6, they condemned trump clearly at the time and now they're, they're celebrating him and it is deeply shameful and embarrassing for them. it's fascinating watching this all play out because it makes me wonder what happens after donald trump, right? he will not, whether he's elected president or whatever else he will not have. he personally cannot have this. hold on the party forever. and will someone else anyone else? in gender that kind of like, i remember what the word you used at the beginning was, but sort of bending the knee to this individual that's often asking them to vote against their interests and take these positions on january 6 and so on and some i don't know if it's if it's him, if he taps into something or if some other standard bearer could could take over. but but it's wild for all the reasons you've laid out, sarah that people are still continuing republicans to line up behind him given all that happened on january 6. >> so let's put up on the screen another picture and this is part of why i've reacted. yeah, there you go. >> right. >> so on the left, you have doug mills, new york times photo yesterday, mitch mcconnell shaking hands with donald trump. this is the first time the two men had been in the same room, spoken since january 6 on the right, we don't have a date on that photo, but it is just weeks after january 6, kevin mccarthy goes down to mar-a-lago, meets with donald trump just again, weeks after he had gone down the down to the floor of the house of representatives and said that kept that donald trump bore responsibility for what happened on january 6. now that mccarthy photo a lot of people credit with resuscitating donald trump at the time, mccarthy kind of trying to read the room. this is something that mccarthy really does in his in the course of his political career, he tries to sense where the winds were blowing and he said, he's he decided that this is where he needed to be for his political career down there. and it made a huge difference in terms of donald trump then becoming the republican nominee of the party this time around. and then there you have mcconnell on the left. now today, as we are heading in to the november election ashley allison, what do you see here big picture and in terms of trump's electoral prospects in 2024, i mean, that was kind of the big picture point of what was what happened yesterday was to try to show republicans are united. it is definitely easier to win elections united then divide perhaps, yes, that's true. i think what's important in a reminder after yesterday's pitcher and continues to be a reminder when you think about and we'll talk, we'll probably talk later on and show some of the not great things trump said when he was in the meeting and at his press conference after about certain cities and people. >> but i want to stay epa way and just say like, i'm not going to be i know that joe biden and donald trump are running against each other. >> and when you have opponent, you often compare them. >> they're not in the same class. >> donald trump is an exception to all politicians and elliott to your question what does it mean after donald trump? it means the people in this moment gets to decide if they're going to fall in line and try and replicate. this is the moment to make a decision. and these folks are making their point it's hard to swing back the pendulum after these moments when you fall, you fallen, kiss the ring so i know people have take issue with joe biden, but i am stepping away from that picture in this moment from stopping to do this comparison of the two, i'm going to start talking about them in very distinct ways because they are not the lessor. what does not the lesser of two evils? one is someone who forces people to lose what their principles to not even have principles of their own meaning. donald trump, and then other is meaning joe biden in this instance, it's someone who has a party that even in this moment they have issues where they might not all agree with one another they allow for that to happen because that's what happens in democracy. and you can unite and bring people along with you, even in moments of disagreement. but right now you don't have this agreement in the republic party. you have just people falling in line sara, this was a congresswoman, maria salazar on capitol hill yesterday. >> i want to show this just because you can kind of see in the way she's animated, kind of what this, what this portends watch he is the leader of the party and he happens to be the guy who was chosen by the overwhelming majority of republicans to be the nominee. >> who are we to say no? just like the overwhelming majority of the dams decided for biden to be the nominee. that's the reality. >> welcome to the united states welcome to the united states well, she's not wrong about the fact that republican voters picked donald trump. i mean, it is his party. the reason that you see everybody sort of falling all over him is that this is what republican voters have chosen. i mean, i talked to republican voters all the time and the focus groups. and there was is and remains sort of a 30% group of people who really want to move on from trump. but the other 60% are either hardcore trump irs are like very fine with trump and i think that to elliott's question about the future of the party and what it means, what's interesting is that when you develop this cult of personality and everybody abdicates the things that they believe in service to one person. you don't have a political party, right? you just have a cult of personality. and that makes it very difficult when that person leaves to figure out who are we, what do we stand for? because i don't see your republican party that goes back to a place where there are really focused on limited government free markets in america good leadership in the world. it's not what the party is anymore. that's not what the voters want and so i think that republicans right now, which you were watching in this moment, is them gambling away a future of being a viable forward-looking political party and finding themselves sort of collapsed at the time of donald trump's ultimate departure, which i hope isn't november to is exactly why i asked the question are raised the point because in for however long it is whether it's j.d. vance or matt gaetz or tim scott or anybody else does not have that individual will not i think have that kind of charismatic pull on the party. >> and thank goodness like watching watching them fall pull over him is embarrassing for them and you know, i i hope that i want the republican party to be relegated to a rump party because of sustained electoral defeats. >> that is then incentivized to reform itself into something that is not this dangerous version of what we're seeing today. you know, it's interesting because a lot of times democrats, we particularly progressive democrats like myself, get accused of being derogatory, are condescending or dismissive of people in the republican party. >> now there are supporting donald trump and the thing you just said is they don't want the old form of the republican party. >> so what is it that they do want? and i think that's the important question that we have to continue to expose, is that if they don't want again, i didn't agree with the old version of the republican party either, but definitely disagreement with this version. so the question is, what is it they want? and then what's the subtext underneath the thing they want? and that is the conversation that we continue have to have as americans in order i think to move past this moment, i just want to give a short answer to that, which is that donald trump in this version of the republican party, does not like america. the old version, the republican party did like america. they thought america was great. they wanted to help other places the world become functional democracies like america was. but donald trump doesn't like america and these voters want to burn things down. and trump is their chaos agent to do it. >> yeah, i flashing back to what the better pennsylvania had to say to donald trump's say, stop talking america, right so just as we go to break here this morning, thing, let's put that doug mills picture backup as well because this is what has been driving our conversation. >> it's just a very kind of stark image here. there's this today on what de today, friday, june 14, 2024, donald trump's birthday looking at this this morning, just want to leave you with mitch mcconnell back around january and february of 2021. and what he had to say about that man, he shaken hands with the mob, was fed lodge. there were provoked by the president and other powerful people there's no question none there. president trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of. the day no question about it cnn this morning. >> brought to you by first sandra for more information. visit for sen. rad.com missing out on the things you love because of asthma, get back to better breathing with for sandra, an add-on treatment for eosinophilic asthma that is taken once every eight weeks for sandra is not present in breathing problems our other eosinophilic conditions, allergic reactions may occur, don't stop your asthma treatments without talking with your doctor, tell your doctor if your asthma worsens, headache and sore throat may appear to tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection step back out there with his sandra. ask your doctor if it's right for you you know, what's brilliant think about it. >> boring is the unsung catalyst for bowl what straps mold to a rocket and hurdles and into space. >> or boring makes vacations happen, early retirements possible, and startups start off because it's smart, dependable, and steady all words you want from your bank for nearly 160 years, pnc bank has been brilliantly boring. >> so you can be happy to fill, which is pretty and boring if you think about it wow what the biggest companies the liver is an exceptional customer experience. >> what makes it possible is unmatched connectivity and biji solution from t-mobile for business, t-mobile connects 100,000 delta airlines employees, powers tractor supply i stores nationwide with reliable by chief business internet, and partners with pga of america on game-changing innovation. this is how business goes further with t-mobile for business can the riva support your brain health? 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>> he had previously said i won't pardon? he did not say anything about sentencing now, to be clear even if president biden did not pardon his son and commuted the sentence, he would still have the felony weight hanging over him. probably couldn't vote, couldn't hold off it or run for office, couldn't get an insurance license, whatever else. and so it's still a burden on somebody to be commuted, but not pardon. but he the president would have faced allegations that are concerns that he had given favoritism to his son and so on. so he sort of had to make that same as hard as it is on trump. >> how could anyone say anything else other than this is a tragic situation for someone in their family and i mean, donald trump has signed something. i know, but i do take your fact that he was advised and i don't know i mean, i think i think it does speak to this is this is something that's become a lot of people have this in their families. all right, coming up next year, three critical issues on the table as president biden sits down with g7 liters, those hour plus the reason for more rain and flooded out south florida will bring you that next juneteenth celebrating freedom and legacy wednesday at 100 and cnn. >> can the riva support your brain health? 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