>>> AS YOU LOOK TO WHAT THE
MAJORITY LEADER HAS IN MIND FOR
JUNE IT IS CLEAR THE ERA OF
BIPARTISANSHIP IS OVER.
>> AS WE SAID BEFORE THE BREAK
WHOS GOING TO TELL MANCHIN?
SOME MIGHT ARGUE TRUE
BIPARTISANSHIP WAS OVER WHEN
SENATE REPUBLICANS BLOCKED THE
CREATION OF THE COMMISSION TO
LOOK INTO JANUARY 6.
OUR GUEST IS CHRIS MATTHEWS.
LESS WELL ANT NOW IS YOU WERE A
CAPITOL POLICE OFFICER.
WHAT MUST IT HAVE BEEN LIKE,
WHAT MUST IT STILL BE LIKE TO
VIEW 1/6 THROUGH THAT PRISM?
>> YOU KNOW, I WANT TO ANSWER IT
ALSO WHAT MATT DOWD SAID IN THE
OPENING EP GRAPH TONIGHT AND THE
SEGMENT TALKING ABOUT WHERE WE
ARE HEADED.
AT THE TOP AT THE NATIONAL
ARCHIVES THERES A SLOGAN.
THE PAST IS PROLOGUE.
WHAT ARE WE LIVING THROUGH A
PROLOGUE TO?
A FEW MONTHS AGO THE 5th OF
NOVEMBER I BELIEVE THE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES STILL SAID
HIS ELECTED SUCCESSOR WOULD BE
AN ILLEGITIMATE PRESIDENT.
THEN OF COURSE CAME THE RALLY
THAT CAME TO THE INSURRECTION IN
THE CAPITOL.
THE CAPITOL THAT I AS A COP
WOULD SHOW THE BULL LET HOLES
WHERE THE BRITISH TRIED TO FIGHT
UP THE STAIRS.
I KNOW YOU KNOW THAT PLACE AND
THEN WE JANUARY 6.
SEE THE PROGRESSION?
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
DECLARES THE SUCCESSOR TO BE
ILLEGITIMATE AND THEN HIS MOB
COMING FROM HIS RALLY WENT TO
THE CAPITOL AND DEFILED IT.
THEY DEFILED THAT PLACE.
IT WAS -- IT WAS SACRED PLACE.
THEY WERE SACRILEGIOUS AND THEN
TWO THIRDS OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY SAID THEIR LEADER WHOS
STILL THEY SHOULD LEADER DONALD
TRUMP SAID THAT THE BIDEN
PRESIDENT WAS ILLEGITIMATE AND
THEN THIS CLOWN OF A GENERAL, AN
OATH TO THE KOBS TUITION SAYS WE
SHOWER A MILITARY COUP.
FOLLOW THAT PROGRESSION.
TRUMP DID AFTER THE ELECTION
CLAIMING HE HAD WON IT, TO THE
INRECOLLECTION TO THE POLL THAT
REPUBLICAN IDENTIFIED -- SELF
IDENTIFIED REPUBLICANS BELIEVE
THIS CRAP.
AND THEN WE HAVE A GENERAL
SAYING SINCE HES AN
ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT
OVERTHROW WITH MILITARY POWER.
WHAT IS A PROLOGUE TO?
IF YOU FOLLOW THAT PROGRESSION
IT IS SCARY AS MATT DOWD SAYS IT
WAS.
WHATS NEXT IN THIS TERRIBLE
TREND TOWARDS GOD KNOWS WHAT
KIND OF INSURRECTION TO COME
NEXT BECAUSE TRUMP LEGITIMIZED
OPPOSITION TO A GOVERNMENT.
DOES ANYBODY THINK THAT
McCONNELL IS A LEADER?
HE WAS A FOLLOWER OF TRUMP.
KEVIN McCARTHY IS SCARED TO
DEATH THAT 50% OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY THAT MIGHT BE UP TO 80% IN
SOME DISTRICTS ON STATES.
SCARED TO DEATH THAT TRUMP WILL
LEAD AN OPPOSITION OPPONENT IN
THE NEXT PRIMARY AGAINST THEM
AND TAKE AWAY THE LIFESTYLE ON
WHICH THEY SET THE HEART.
THEYRE PRETRI IF IED TO BE
DUMPED BY THE TRUMP CROWD AT
HOME.
MITCH HAS THAT WEIRD NERVOUS
SMILE.
A PHONY SCARED GUY.
HE KNOWS TRUMPS THE BOSS AND HE
IS GOING TO BE THE BOSS AS LONG
AS HE SCARES HIS PEOPLE AND
DRESS UP WITH THE TIES AND GO TO
WORK AND ACT LIKE THEYRE
LEADERS.
SAME DEAL.
THUNE.
LOOK AT THEM.
THEYRE FOLLOWERS OF DONALD
TRUMP AND HE IS A DEMAGOGUE AND
THE GREAT THING ABOUT THIS
COUNTRY IS IT WAS NEVER A GREAT
CAREER MOVE.
TRUMP IS TRYING TO MAKE IT INTO
A CAREER AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE
THE REPUBLICANS STAND UP AND SAY
THIS IS THE END OF THE TRUMP
ERA.
WE WONT TAKE HIS ORDERS
ANYMORE.
YOU CAN BLAME JOE MANCHIN VOTING
THE DISTRICT, THE STATE.
YOU CANT GET REPUBLICAN HELP ON
THE THINGS THAT THIS COUNTRY
WANTS.
THEY WANT THE COUNTRY FIXED UP,
THE VOTING TO BE STRAIGHT, THEY
WANT THE POLICE OFFICERS TO BE
DISCIPLINED.
THEY WANT A DECENT IMMIGRATION
PLAN FOR THE COUNTRY.
THEY WANT THE COUNTRY TO FEEL
LIKE WE CAN DO GOOD THINGS LIKE
FIX THE ROADS AND THE HIGHWAYS
AND THE BRIDGES, THE TUNNELS.
MAKE THE COUNTRY LOOK LIKE A
FIRST WORLD COUNTRY.
THATS NOT A DEMOCRATIC PARTISAN
LEFT WING IDEA.
TO PAINT SOME PLACES AND FIX
THEM UP.
THATS NOT LEFT.
HOW DID WE GET TO THE SHAPE TO
TAKE THE CHEAP SHOTS AT THE
DEMOCRATS THAT NOBODY BELIEVES
REALLY?
THATS WHAT I THINK.
>> CHRIS MATTHEWS, HAS BEEN OUR
GUEST TONIGHT.
GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN.