Michael Steele

There`s no surprise there. The question becomes, I think, more narratively how the president goes out and convinces the country of that.

The big lie was, in fact that and that anyone out here still pushing it is lying to you and needs to be shut down.

The political calculation very much that was made in the 1960s was made again, that that’s the salvation, that’s the salvation.

We should be tired of this crap. We have seen this movie. We have heard the dialogue over and over and over.

You spend a million dollars to tell America, we want the Hispanic vote, and then you let this guy come down a staircase and tell you, well, all Mexicans are rapists and murderers.

There’s a reason why, in 2009 -- I believe was in 2009 -- I gave a speech at the National Press Club declaring that the Southern Strategy, the Nixonian Southern Strategy, was over.

It’s incumbent on the rest of us to work past that. I just -- I cannot -- I cannot stress enough how profoundly important it is to understand what this November’s election means.

January 6 is not about the politics. January 6 is about the attention overthrow of our government.

When it comes to voting rights, when it comes to civil rights, when it comes to all the things that are important to white folks, they’re also important to black folks.

The committee has got to come with the hammer.

You have got these folks coming up to the Hill, breaking through glass, destroying property, trying to kill the vice president, attacking police officers, and the judges are going, well, we know you really didn’t mean any harm.

There is no precedence here. There’s no precedence because we have never had members of Congress engaged in this type of action against the government.

What the hell do you think happens in 2022, 2023, 2024 for Americans don`t understand and internalize what they saw.

The Democrats in Congress have to act with the same urgency that the Republicans are acting with out in the states.

It`s not Build Back Better, it`s not infrastructure, is the damn vote.

Thank God for Sonia Sotomayor, who is the conscience of that body, but they have failed us.

They have failed utterly their job as this -- delineated by the Constitution to protect the most vulnerable. They only want to protect the rich, the powerful, the corporations, the religious extremists.

There's mounting criminal evidence that looks really bad and needs to be dealt with.

There was some level of activity that the most important figure outside of the president was involved in, and that is the chief of staff.

This is what a pincer move looks like, to put it in political and military terms, if you were, if you will, between the state of New York and the court of appeals. You have this pressure now, this legal pressure at the state and federal…

Well, I think it`s -- some of it has to do with how much they bought into Trump world and Trump lies for their own self-preservation, aggrandizement or just wanting to have Trump like them.

I agree with that, Ari. And I think that’s the challenge that the Biden administration is facing right now.

Leadership sets the behavior, good or bad, in the general population.

He was a skateboarder. That’s where he always skateboarded. All these people came into his backyard that night.

As a nation, we need to repudiate it.