first guest tonight on the day that donald trump returned to the scene of the crime, as it were. we will see what speaker pelosi might have to say about that. >> yes, i am eager to hear her assessment, and what she felt when donald trump was on capitol hill. have a good show. >> thank you, alex, thank you. on january 6, 2021, after the trump mob attacked the capital, tim cook, the conscientious ceo of apple, reached into his conscience and presumably the conscience of the company he runs, and said this. today marks a sad and shameful chapter in our nation's history . those responsible for this insurrection should be held to account, and we must complete the transition to president- elect biden's administration. it is especially when they are challenged that our ideals matter most. those responsible for this insurrection should be held to account. today tom --, tim cook met with the person responsible, donald trump in donald trump's first return to capitol hill since he incited the attack on the capital on january 6. tim cook's meeting with trump today was arranged by a business lobbying group in washington that calls itself the business roundtable. companies pay big money to be members of the business roundtable, which in turn lobbies for those companies in addition to all the individual lobbying work done by the law firms and lobbyists that companies like apple higher by the dozens in washington. and this guy met with donald trump today, in donald trump's return to capitol hill. >> there is no question, none. president trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. no question about it. the people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president. >> donald trump did not set foot in the capital today or on government property because his meetings were presidential campaign meetings. they were held off campus from the capital, first with republican members from the houston business roundtable then republican members of the senate. republican members who voted to impact donald trump on his last impeachment trial did not attend the republican senators meeting with donald trump, but mitt romney and bill cassidy, who also voted to convict trump in his last impeachment trial, did attend the meeting with donald trump today. nbc news caught up with senator romney on his way to the trump meeting. >> reporter: do you plan on confronting him or bringing up any kind of january 6 related issue? >> no, this is not the place for that. >> no, no, this is not the place for that. that is the very polite version of the ultra polite utah senator, mitt romney. maybe too polite this time. what is the place for that? one place for that is the federal courthouse a short walk from where they were meeting with donald trump was scheduled to stand trial for crimes federal prosecutor jack smith has accused him of but the supreme court blocked that prosecution by accepting a delay they never should have accepted. donald trump is claiming something no one has ever claimed before, that the president of the united states has lifetime immunity for any and all crimes committed while he was president. andrew weissmann will join us tonight to consider the unconscionable delay the supreme court has imposed on the criminal case of the united states of america versus donald j. trump. this is not the place for that. this is not the place for republicans or anyone else to stand up to donald trump. that is what they thought today. even a senator like mitt romney who knows that donald trump hates him because mitt romney voted guilty in both of donald trump's senate impeachment trials. >> now, we gather due to a selfish man's injured pride, and the outrage of supporters who had deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. what happened here today was an insurrection incited by the president of the united states. those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy. >> this is not the place for that. it is also not the place for any exhibition of male ego by anyone other than donald trump, and it is impossible to overstate just how peculiar that is as our first guest tonight, the first female speaker of the house, nancy pelosi can attest. there are many forces that make the wheels of power turn in washington. political convenience, policy goals sometimes, ambition. throughout the history of the republic, there has been no force more consistent than male ego, and so one of the most fascinating things to reserve in the republican senators public adoration of donald trump is the complete and utter collapse of male ego in a place that used to be run on the fuel of male ego. 90-year-old chuck grassley was in the meeting with donald trump today. when i was working in the senate, chuck grassley had a rough edged ego that was often activated as a cover for his chronic ignorance. the ignorance has expanded, and the ego of chuck grassley has evaporated. and then, there is senator rafael cruz. trump attacked his father, lied about his father being involved in the assassination of president kennedy. donald trump attacked senator cruz's wife, heidi. he ridiculed the way she looks and here is what the outraged candidate for president, senator cruz, said about that then. >> donald, you're a sniveling coward. leave heidi the hell alone. donald trump alleges that my dad was involved in assassinating jfk. now, let's be clear. this is nuts. >> there was real suspense then going into the 2016 republican convention of whether or not the deeply offended senator cruz would even endorse donald trump, the republican nominee for president, but senator cruz looked into his heart and found nothing. nothing that would prevent him from endorsing the presidential candidate who attacked and lied about his father and attacked and lied about his wife and there was senator cruz today and that lineup of utterly ego list republican men, craving their moment with donald trump, craving a possible handshake or a possible pat on the back or a wink or a smile. a glance, anything from donald trump. watch. watch now. senator cruz craved that moment after donald trump passes by, senator cruz pays more attention to other more obscure people in the room. he kept clapping after donald trump left the room. after the door was closed, did he think donald trump could see through the door? today, the president of the united states is doing the nation's business in italy at a meeting of the g7 countries including a meeting with ukrainian president zelenskyy in which president biden signed a ten-year security agreement with ukraine. they both took questions from reporters. >> today the discussion is focused on developing ukraine's air defense system based on the most advanced western complexes and enhancing long-range capabilities so my question is, can you provide any details on the initiative and about the readiness of our allies to take part in it? thank you. >> i would be happy to respond to that. we have acquired commitment from five countries so far for patriot batteries and other air defense systems as well as we have let it be known to those countries that are expecting from us, air defense systems in the future, that they are going to have to wait. everything we have is going to go to ukraine until their needs are met, and then we will make good on the commitments we made. to other countries. >> donald trump could not understand that question or that answer. the president who was only three years older than his republican challenger, but is accused of being too old for his job has now flown across the atlantic three times in the last week, and will fly back across the atlantic from this european meeting all the way to los angeles, where he will be joined in a campaign fundraiser by president barack obama, george clooney, and julia roberts. today, the biden-harris campaign released this ad. >> on january 6, donald trump lit a fire in this country. 140 officers were injured. the siege lasted for seven hours. >> stoking the flames of division and hate. now, he's pouring gasoline, pledging to pardon the extremists to try to overthrow our government and inciting them to try again. there is nothing more sacred than our democracy, but donald trump is ready to burn it all down. >> i am joe biden and i approve this message. >> leading off our discussion tonight, speaker emerita nancy pelosi of california. speaker pelosi, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i have been wondering all day what your thoughts and feelings have been today. with donald trump returning not precisely to the scene of the crime, but certainly the neighborhood of the crime. >> well, he would want to give the impression that he had come to the capital, but what did they go to a bar on capitol hill or something like that? but, whatever it was, what the republicans and trump are trying to do is pull the wool over the eyes of the american people. what happened that day was as it was described by mitch mcconnell, by tim cook, though they may have amnesia about what happened that day. but, the fact is, it was an assault. it was the scene of a crime, a crime of an assault on the capital with confederate flags flying under the dome that lincoln built. lincoln built that dome, confederate flags. a crime against the constitution, and its peaceful transfer of power. a crime against injuring people, a crime against people, whether it was members or whether it was police officers, law enforcement, the staff, all, the trauma continues. it was a terrible thing when it happened, and it is a terrible thing that they are trying to deny it. this is revisionist history. this is whitewashing, as you say, but it is pulling the wool over the eyes of the american people. as far as those people going to business rounds, almost i care about is not paying taxes. they will put up with anything so they don't have to have taxes. as i would recall to your attention, i know that you know, that the only major piece of legislation that was passed by the republicans and donald trump when they and he were in power was one bill, a tax bill that gave 83% of the benefits to the top 1%. 83%, adding 2 trillion dollars to the national debt, and then they come when we are trying to negotiate a budget deal and say we really can't afford to do what you want to do for women, infants and children in terms of food and the rest because you know that's going to add to the national debt. it is just appalling. have they no shame? the classic question of the 20th century. it applies to them now. >> speaker pelosi, you are uniquely positioned to comment on this phenomenon that i've been wondering about during the trump years. watching the collapse of the male ego in that institution for you started as a freshman member of the house, you were surrounded all day in a culture controlled by the male ego, these very powerful committee chairman who, for legal reasons and other reasons but definitely for ego reasons, would fight any slight incursion into their jurisdiction. there were all sorts of jealousies involved that you know about, that i know about in the house, in the senate, and we could see that male ego energy running wild around the place, most of the time, in an unproductive, negative way that got in the way of progress and so it has astonished me. it has astonished me that among -- and i mean this as a male ego issue, that among republican men in the senate and in the house, male ego somehow disappeared, and i don't think social psychology has ever seen a phenomenon like this before in the history of the study of male ego. >> well, as i said, we don't agonize. we organize. i don't agonize over there mostly insecurities, as you describe it but understand this. this guy who was a former president is a master of projection. everything he says about somebody else, whether it's a judge in the courtroom, a witness, a juror, a member of congress, a woman, and opponent in an election -- everything he says is a projection of his own shortcomings. crooked this person -- he is crooked. lazy, this person. he is lazy. name any subject, any subject that you can name. wacky this person. he knows he is wacky. he knows he is an imposter so if we're going to do cycle analysis -- psychoanalysis, i think we have to have him in person in front of some healthcare professionals but i do wish there would be an intervention from his family, assuming that they love him beyond his resources, that they would intervene, that the republican party would have an intervention. they have become a cult to a thug and that is really a tragedy for the grand old party, what they were, so really then going into insecurities, really, you know, the insecurities i am concerned about are of some of the voters out there who fall for his line, but i am here tonight to say to you on this day when he tried to return to the scene of the crime, he didn't dare come to the capital, as he didn't dare come to the capital on january 6. but, we cannot let this be whitewashed. this is a disservice to the vision of our founders for democracy, the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform that fought for our freedom that he wants to dismantle, and the aspirations of our children to live in this great country with respect for the institutions, and concerned about their future. he just doesn't care. but, let us forget about him. let's just talk about unifying the country. putting forth what joe biden did with the democrats in the congress, house and senate. he had the first bill that we had, right away, the rescue package. shots in arms, money and pockets, people back to work, children safely in schools. a child tax credit taking half the children and poverty out of part of the. the bipartisan infrastructure bill. we had 13 republicans, but that is bipartisan, in the house. more in the senate, i think, but a bipartisan bill creating jobs. the i.r.a., saving the planet, lowering the cost of prescription drugs, the p.a.c.t. act to protect our veterans who may have been exposed to burn pits, the chips and science act to make us preeminent in the world and independent for the production we need to be preeminent in the world and that is not any reason to vote for us. we are not saying we deserve it. we are saying we have proven we can get the job done. instead of one bill for the richest people in the country, joe biden, under his presidency, our infusion of resources into the economy, 15 million jobs. what's his name, the worst job record since hoover hoover. the worst job record since herbert hoover. lowest unemployment for 40 straight months. low. inflation coming down. when people talk about cost of living, that is a legitimate concern, but we are preeminent in the world and taking down inflation, and what we have also done, while in concerned about the cost of groceries, as anybody would be for families, but think about how we have reduced the cost of medicine, of healthcare, reduced the cost of prescription drugs. in our bill, if you are a senior on medicare, and you need insulin, before us, it was five to $600 a month for seniors. under joe biden and the i.r.a. legislation, it is $35 a month. so when we talk about the cost of living, we have to talk about the cost of healthcare as part of that, so again, it is about the kitchen table, the cost of living, a woman's right to choose, which is an economic issue as well as a democracy issue. so, let's just talk about what is at stake for people in the election, because they don't care. they do not care. they care about the 1%. they don't care about your kitchen table issues. and again, always projecting his own shortcomings onto other people. >> speaker emerita nancy pelosi, thank you very much for sharing your perspective on what is at stake in this election and in the way we govern. thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you for your attention to january 6. we cannot let them pull the wool over the american people's eyes. our democracy is at stake. coming up, what the supreme court took 16 days to decide in 1974 regarding presidential immunity, the current supreme court is not taken 50 days and still has not issued a decision on the simplest question the court has ever faced, about the american presidency. that is next with andrew weissmann. ew weissmann. how are you?! fred... fuel up to 7 brain health indicators, including your memory. join the neuriva brain health challenge. 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