Trump dealt brutal blow by his OWN party

today we're going to talk about the

implications of most of Donald Trump's

own former cabinet members refusing to

endorse him and I interview

congresswoman Jasmine Crockett about the

disastrous Robert her testimony that

proved he lied about Joe Biden whether

the Biden impeachment effort is

officially dead and her thoughts on

Katie Brit's humiliating State of the

Union response I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and

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lie now just days ago Mike Pence was

asked whether he would endorse Donald

Trump and this is what he said let me

ask you this we have not spoken since

former president Trump uh sewed up the

nomination which he did earlier this

week and he has received endorsements

from some of the people who were running

against him but we have not heard from

you will you be endorsing your former

president uh you were on the ticket with

him last time

around well Martha I appreciate the

question and it should come as no

surprise that I will not be endorsing

Donald Trump this year look I I'm

incredibly proud of the record of our

Administration it was a conservative

record that made America more prosperous

more

secure uh and and saw conservatives

appointed to our course in a more

peaceful world U but uhu that being said

during my presidential campaign I made

it clear that there were profound

differences between me and and president

Trump on a range of issues and and and

not just uh our difference on my

constitutional duties that I exercised

on January the 6th I mean as as I have

watched his candidacy on fold I've seen

him walking away uh from our commitment

to uh confronting the national debt I've

seen him uh starting to to shy away from

a a commitment to the sanctity of human

life and this last week is his

reversal uh on on getting tough on China

uh and and supporting our

administration's effort uh to force uh a

sale uh of uh of bite dance Tick Tock

why think why do you think he had that

reversal on that before we go sir well I

I I can't I can't speculate on it what I

can tell you is is that in each of these

cases uh Donald Trump is pursuing and

articulating an agenda that is at odds

with the conservative agenda that that

we governed on during our four years and

that's why I cannot in good conscience

uh endorse Donald Trump in this campaign

and I know it might not seem shocking

that the guy who Trump tried to have

hanged would ultimately choose not to

endure him but I'd argue that it is

quite significant for two reasons first

virtually all of Donald Trump's former

cabinet members and AIDS and officials

have come out against him I'm talking

Mike Pence John Kelly John Bolton Bill

bar Mark Millie Rex Tillerson Mick moany

Chris Christie HR McMaster Anthony

scaramucci Stephanie Grisham Richard

Spencer Tom boser Michael Cohen ta Cobb

Alysa far Griffin Sarah Matthews cassid

Hutchinson James Mattis and Mark esper

esper just came out this past week and

said that when Donald Trump was

president he wanted the US military to

kill Americans and so if these people

the people who knew Donald Trump best

who worked most closely with him if

they've come out against Trump then

maybe that's something worth listening

to and something that a number of

Republican voters will listen to which

is not to say by the way that Mike Pence

is some electoral jug or not but the

fact that Trump's own vice president

won't endorse him will still have an

impact on the margins in the same way

that Nikki Haley's refusal to endorse

him thus far have an impact on the

margins and uh not for nothing but the

margins is where these elections are won

this is not a game of miles it's a game

of inches remember Biden beat Trump in

Georgia by only 12,000 votes in

Wisconsin by only 20,000 votes these are

razor thin margins and so for Trump to

lose these influential figures that's

not going to help him retain even those

Republicans much less expand his base

out to Independence and Democrats like

he would need so that's the first reason

second and more broadly Trump deres his

strength from the Optics that he's got

total control over his party that's how

any autocrat derives power but when the

dam starts to break and suddenly it

becomes clear that not only does Trump

not have total control he doesn't even

have control of the people who work the

closest with him or his own Republican

base then the appeal of Donald Trump as

this like invisible force begins to wear

off not only does the reality begin to

Dawn on the GOP that Trump isn't

unbeatable when it comes to Joe Biden

which by the way should already be

debunked considering Biden beat him in

2020 but it gets that much worse for him

when you realize that he's not even able

to get his own party he's losing his own

officials and AIDS he lost his own vice

president talk about piercing the bubble

now with that said the usual caveats

apply it really doesn't matter if Trump

loses the endorsement of every

Republican official in the entire

country our job doesn't change we still

organize we still stay engaged we still

work on our Circles of people do not

look at the polls or the primary results

or endorsements or the rallies none of

it matters it's all noise and it's

mostly Cher picked by the media to sell

whatever narrative they want to sell

which is generally the one that will

show the most drama because for them

politics is a big game it's just sports

like they don't seem to realize that we

all fail if democracy fails we're all on

This Plane together and if the plane

goes down we all die so ignore the horse

race coverage and just do the work

because we know what Donald Trump's own

officials have already made clear that

he shouldn't be anywhere near the Oval

Office again here's a preview of my

interview with congresswoman Jasmine

Crockett Robert her was the US attorney

appointed to investigate Joe Biden over

his retention of classified documents

which by the way for those watching and

listening right now is not the

equivalent of Trump's because Joe Biden

cooperated with the National Archives

whereas Donald Trump ignored a request

and ignored a subpoena and ultimately

forced a Magistrate Judge to approve a

search warrant that was executed by the

FBI at Mar Lago uh what was your

reaction to the Revelation that he lied

about Biden's memory even suggesting

that he didn't remember the date that

his own son died which the transcript

now shows that he remembered

perfectly I mean I wasn't surprised you

know um I think the American people had

a great opportunity to assess whether or

not we have a CA old feeble man in the

White House when he gave his State of

the Union Address I think that the

president reminded the American people

that he is the strong guy that made sure

that he course corrected As Trump was

basically leading us um into a death

trap as it relates to covid-19 for

whatever reason people forget how many

people were dying before Joe Biden came

into office and made sure that we could

get shots in arms and save lives um

instead that party continues to push

disinformation around things such as the

vaccine we were able to finally get our

economy back on track in fact we have

reeled back in a way that no other

country has been able to recover um

since covid-19 is there still more work

to do absolutely but are we leading the

world we are and that's who we're

supposed to be um you know watching her

testify was quite skin crawling to me

personally um I did not care for his

report on the day that his report came

out we were actually at our dim issues

conference and I got an alert that the

report came out and then the president

came on stage and gave some remarks to

us and then he laid out that this report

came out and it was made clear that he

disagreed with some of the things in the

report um and so you know we went out as

Democrats and I felt like we were on the

defense trying to say he's not cile and

old and feeble yeah um and so ultimately

I think the people saw for them for

themselves though yeah I think that's a

great great point I mean even you know

this is the second state of the union

now where uh that that has been put on

full display and I think Republicans

really Revel in Americans not seeing him

as frequently because every day that

we're not seeing him make some you know

make some big speech like the State of

the Union was that vacuum is then filled

with the same narrative that he doesn't

know what day it is he doesn't know how

to tie his shoes but then it's it's

completely undermined the second that we

see this guy come out and and do what he

did at the State of the Union uh which

was you know to not only deliver deliver

you know a home run of a speech but then

even challenge Republicans in numerous

occasions and at least you know to their

to their mild credit learned their

lesson from last year uh in terms of not

trying to not trying to Heckle him too

hard because they got everyone except

for Marjorie Taylor green course she

will never she will never learn and I I

just want to say you know to the point

about the vacuum um this isn't a

president who will be known for his

speaking ability this is not President

Obama people forget that the president

actually has a stutter you know I think

it was so beautiful that this week it

was kind of a reminder as he was talking

to another kiddo that stutters and there

is no magic pill that you take for

stuttering so as he makes gavs as

they're frequently called I don't look

at him as gaffs I look at it as this man

has a speaking impediment that he has

worked his entire life to overcome and

people forget that and So speaking isn't

necessarily what he will be known for

but getting things done for the American

people now that is what he'll go down in

the history books for being able to do

yeah well said also I would rather have

a president who has a stutter than one

who thinks that World War II hasn't

happened yet or that the current

president is Barack Obama or that you

need

to buy bread or or you don't remember

who your ex-wife is your exwife is go or

that you can stop a hurricane with a

sharpie or that like the list goes on

and on yes or just inject yourself with

bleach and you won't have Co anymore you

won't have a lot of stuff such as a life

but nevertheless nevertheless uh do you

think it was a mistake uh for merri

Garland to allow a a partisan Republican

us attorney to oversee an investigation

into Joe Biden that would ultimately

give him a platform to land a really

damaging attack against him you know I

think that there are those of us of my

political generation and then there are

those of us say of Meritt Garland's and

President Biden's political generation

the people that believe that uh certain

things are black and white and those of

us in my generation understand that it's

just a bunch of games that are being

played nowadays and so I think that

Merck Garland um leans into the old

school frame of thought like hey this is

this is clear like he can do this he'll

be fair and ultimately he was fair now

did he add a little extra absolutely but

did he go so far as to charge the

president no and ultimately while he

landed the Jabs that he landed I think

that it is going to be very helpful not

that it really matters to the Maga crowd

that this was another Republican this

wasn't a Democrat so you can't say the

fix was in this was one of your guys

right but they always say the fix is in

even when you look at the prosecution in

Georgia they say the fix is in in

Georgia forgetting that the people that

have played guilty thus far are Trump's

people they're Republicans these aren't

Democrats making up stuff so I mean you

know trying to do something that will

make sense to a a a cult-like mind is is

problematic to me like just forget it

just make sure you get someone who's

going to do right and I think a

democratic appointee probably would have

been better under the circumstances yeah

I I feel like we do have to get better

at recognizing like the D the dangerous

situations we put ourselves in by

constantly offering up Goodwill to

partisan Republicans who will then you

know use that as a cudgle to wield

against Democrats and we don't learn our

we don't learn our lesson and we do this

a lot and so I think that like

recognizing what the dangers could be

beforehand by oh I don't know appointing

a partisan Republican us attorney to be

able uh to release a report unvetted

about Joe Biden um might not be such a

great idea especially in an election

year especially knowing the

disinformation media machine that

operates on the right and how anything

in that report uh could be could be kind

of Twisted on its face and used against

Democrats and we've seen them uh

manipulate these reports in the past the

the the billb bar summary of the Muller

report was the exact same thing where in

certain instances it said the polar

opposite of what the M report actually

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