Thats a Scenario Questioning if theres real accountability, if donald trump the nominee of the Republican Party, if he can effectively delay or punt so many of his trials, then is there accountability . Well, it depends how you answer and the simple or simplified narrative dont actually capture whats happening in these strange and extraordinary times. That brings us to our top story. Here is convicted trespassers were about to explain for the january 6th attack. You can see him pushing forward. This is passing police lins to break into the capitol that day. Witnesses said he fashioned weapons, hiding them in his pants pockets. His name is charles hand, hes a january 6th convict from georgia. Hes someone the Republican Party claims should not be able to vote. The party has stripped Voting Rights from millions of people based on these criminal records. Trump opposes Voting Rights for felon. Now as trump is embracing january 6th felons and other criminals and those convicted of sedition, Donald TrumpsRepublican Party now welcomes january 6th convicts voting, which is a reversal and hypocritical, but welcomes them as leaders of their movement able to make policy, to be on ballots, to be in government. Some republicans are backing these lawmakers quests to become lawmakers. Two, i say this literally, to reenter the capitol they once illegally stormed and reenter it as republican legislators. That convict just made it to the final step for a primary runoff for a u. S. House seat in the state of georgia. Hell face off with another candidate next month. This is the political process that other failed democracies have seen. Were no better than worse that what other countries and societies go through. Weve seen this happen in other places. It does not end well where the criminals and autocrats who oppose democracy infiltrate the government. Sometimes it happens before the entire democracy fails. Heres another january 6th defendant facing allegations of bringing a gun to the insurrection and shooting it. [ gunshots ] that is no joke. That right there is a crime in the district of columbia. That person is one of over 1,400 defendants facing crimes related to january 6th. Many have been convicted. Many have taken plea deals. Many have said they were wrong to believe trumps lies. Its part of why the picture is complicated and why that makes for a better or more exciting story is not our concern in journalism. One told the court, turns out the election was not stolen. That was an oath keeper facing responsibility and accountability in january 6th sentencing. Even if you dont believe that person, if you believe they were saying whats true to get a lighter sentence, its part of how the Criminal Justice works. We dont bust out Lie Detectors and do searches on everyones mind. The system rewards people who say the right thing and the truth thing to take responsibility. Thats one reaction. As the Republican Party rallies to trumps more brazen embrace of january 6th were seeing things go the other way. Take this defendant openly announcing hes Above The Law because he expects a pardon from trump in about six months. This is real, if you havent heard about this yet. Quote, trumps going to be in office in six months, so i have nothing to worry about, said by a defendant to a judge during arraignment. Thats an antilaw and order view fomented by trump. Trump is now running more blatantly against the rule of law than even in his past campaigns. We know on January 6th Trump welcomed the crowd. He didnt try to stop the violence that day. You remember that. By the end of the day he was pushed into telling people after they ransacked the place and called for assassinations of pence and pelosi, he did say go home. At that point after the deed was done he talked of peace. At the time that seemed like a low point. I want to be clear with you. In measurable ways hes gone far lower. The nonpartisan Associated Press reporting trump makes defending the january 6th attack a corner stone of his white house bid. Its closing the circle on his own involvement. Youre old enough to remember when one of the Conspiracy Theory defenses was, it was somebody else. It was antifa. It was a bad thing, but it was liberals. That was a lie. They gave that up. Now theyre saying not only did they do it, the january 6th people are okay and theyre persecuted. They did it and now theyre arguing it was okay or a good thing. Trump honors these defendants at rallies. He refers to them as hostages. Thats not what they are. And often plays their singing rendition of the National Anniversary them. Please rise for the horribly and unfairly treated january 6th hostages. Oh say can you see that is eerie. Its the disembodied voice of people in prison singing. Thats all people who stormed the capitol. This group the Associated Press reported Election Deniers are closer to getting into congress. Some justices who take an oath to be impartial flew a Flag Cheering on the insurrectionists. The conservative right has grown more extreme. Justice alito was flying the upside down american flag, a symbol of the stop to steal effort. Alito realizes how guilty he looks. Hes not defending that. He now claims his wife flew the flag without his involvement or knowledge. Since he lives there that explanation sounds misleading at best and raises questions about whether he should recuse from related cases as some call for him to be off the court entirely. Then the new speaker who warning about trump being in office to now speaker johnson saying he wanted to this is a claim he later walked back. I made a commitment that we would start releasing that. We were trying to blur the faces to protect the innocent of people who were just there. False. People arrested were not people just walking through the building that day which johnson knows. He was there. This went on for hours. This was while the police were Still Holding some of the line. This other footage is at some of the doorways. This went on for hours. The footage is disturbing. The police were brutally attacked by those trump fans. These are the people trump is talking about pardoning. The broader timeline we showed you before, the gop went from what you see back in 2021 calling this an unamerican insurrection to having the rnc claim it was legitimate speech to speaker johnson going further to the rnc only wanting to hire Election Deniers. Above it you have what i told you the mixed picture. Others convicted, other accountability in the judicial branch. The takeaway is that the republican political arm is different than our Justice System. The political arm is on record opposing the rule of law, democracy and law and order. Thats the politic part. As for the other lens, theres justice, accountability, especially in the federal prosecution courts and some of the state probes took longer to get started. Im showing you some of the many trump aides punished and some convicted. Trump white house Peter Navarro is in jail. Arizona prosecutors held arraignments for giuliani and others for trying to steal the 2020 race. That includes trump attorney christina bobb. She holds a spot on the National Election integrity team. The hypocritical double speak of the party, you have bobbb just leaving the courthouse. These are big stories overshadowed by trumps trial. This i can guarantee you would be a multiday National News story. Heres the mugshot of the person that the rnc claims should be in charge of redeeming election integrity. She is facing justice and accountability. She doesnt have trumps ability to use president ial references to slow things down if the Supreme Court buys you an extra six months. Her legal predicament is a contrast to her past claims. We need everyone to vote. I certainly hope both sides want election integrity. Donald trump won the election and democrats have made a play to steal the presidency. If youre concerned about is our election safe, get involved. Become an election worker, a poll observer. Thats the contrast. In that sense its gotten worse. Can it get even worse . Trumps under fire for a new campaign ad that touts a Unified Reich which has many people trying to figure out whether they should feel outrage or fatigue and ignore it or mock it. What happens after donald trump wins . Whats next for america . If you zoom in you can see they slipped in the words Unified Reich. A fourth reich if you will. The good news is trump wants to bring the country together. The bad news is that country is germany in 1933. When they saw the ad, even confederate statues said, you should take that down. Its got to come down. Those are the National Punch lines. Laugh or cry, as the song goes, sometimes we laugh and sometimes we cry. Its a bit of both when you think about what were up against. The gops nominee faces a criminal trial and opening vows pardons while trading on nazi rhetoric. Lets put him to the side. Ill give you the two stories i mentioned at the top of this report. It is a fact that he has through his lawyering and his privilege and his friends on the Supreme Court managed to duck the majority of the cases, the trial he currently faces is the only one on deck by the election. To be clear, its not the strongest case. It refers to conduct before he became president. Thats over here. Over here is a political party, the gop, that is now openly embracing and doubling down to say that theyre with the january 6th defendants. Over here is something else. All the places in this country that nonpartisan prosecutors and independent Justice System and judges are going through the evidence and punishing these people, some of whom say theyre sorry and dont believe the lies anymore and some who say theyre waiting on their party. Its a mixed picture. Its not the extremes of those who say cynically weve already lost and nothing works. Its also not obviously, hey, look at our perfect legal system and our perfect Supreme Court, everythings going to be okay. With that mixed reality in mind, what are citizens going to do as were in this before a jury does judge donald trump . I have an expert who thought through these challenges when were back in 90 seconds. Ck in s with e trade from Morgan Stanley, were ready for whatever gets served up. Dude, you gotta work on your trash talk. Id rather work on saving for retirement. Or college, since you like to get schooled. Thats a pretty good burn, right . Do you want to close out . Should i . 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Hes telling him what hes going to do before he does it. Its important to talk about why donald trump believes this. He believes this because he has to project strength. He has to be the strong man. He has to be in charge. His entire campaign is i am strong. Joe biden is weak. The bigger question is why did republicans fall in line with this . You have to look at in three ways. The donor class fell in line with it. As steven moore said, capitalism is more important than democracy. The reality is capitalism doesnt require democracy and the donors know that. Theyre set up for that. In addition, if you look at the religious right, patriarchy is the goal of the religious right and its a goal of donald trump. If you look at the maga base, you look at the distrust for democracy thats developed because of american life. They look at the country. They no longer recognize it. They distrust the democracy. They no longer trust their fellow citizens not to screw with them at the ballot box. I think particularly that racial component which trump played on in 2016 animates what otherwise would be a completely unacceptable position. A similar attack by Foreign Terrorists or any group, as you say, that would their outgroup, it was you have rfk running for whatever vote he thinks is being left on both sides of the parties and he shockingly given his history his familys history with political violence, left The Door Open also to january 6th pardons. Take a look. I would never say in advance im running for Political Office who im going to pardon. Thats what hes doing. Im asking you as a journalist im not going to do that. That will sound to people like youre leaving The Door Open. You dont need to. Do you want to leave that door open . Im surprised im not answering it until i look at peoples cases. Where do you see the political gasoline for other figures beyond trump and the far right maga to coddle or flirt with the idea that some of these january 6th defendants not only shouldnt be prosecuted or are hostages, but should be pardoned if convicted by a jury of their peers for what they did at the capitol . If youre thinking about rfk, hes going after the crack pot vote. Hes going after people who dont like our constitution. January 6th was an attack on our constitution. Theres a con constituency in this country that does not like our constitution. A lot of those people rfk is trying to attract, donald trump is trying to attract. Those are the places you see those cracks emerging. Thats where you see that segment of society come out and theyre turned on by the language of january 6th. We appreciate you. Thank you. I want to tell people coming up, when you think about jon stewarts legacy, we have the new jon stewart, his disciple Jordan Klepper from the daily show. 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