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also with us is scott jennings, a cnn political commentator and a former special assistance to president george w. bush. good to see you both. thanks so much for your time on this saturday. harry, let me start with you. look, when you see these videos that have been released, you know, one by one, it's more than chilling. and to hear the vitriol, the depravity, you know, people chanting cutoff the head. we're going to force you to do what's right, i just want to get your reaction to what you saw and heard. >> look, it's a total mob of terrorists. there is no doubt about it. but what really is the chilling contrast is that that is what an official party, the party, the rnc would say yesterday is legitimate political discourse. it is the very picture of illegitimate and if you could call political discourse let's kill the vice president. so, yes, we -- it's even uglier than we have seen before, but the contrast between that and the official line of an american political party is what really is head spinning to me. it is a party that i think has 100% lost its way. >> scott jennings, has you

. >>> joining me now is scott jennings and bakari sellers, cnn commentator and author of "who are your people?". we heard american conservatives who are egging on these canadian protesters, said you can't incite people to break the law. and she condemned them for helping throw americans out of work. to that you say, bakari? >> reporter: yeah. i mean, this is a very interesting line that governor whitmer is walking. you have to understand the ability for individuals to protest freely and to protest without spwrinterference. when it flows over to everyday working americans, it has to be put to a stop. i am someone who understands what the value of protests actually means. when you have things in the united states and particularly throughout the south, that necessitates you making people uncomfortable, i find that to be extremely necessary. i'm not going to speak out of both sides of my neck and condemn individuals who want to protest and make things uncomfortable on one side and say it's bad on the other, although i disagree with it. that's a thin line and the line individuals are going

scott jennings is a former special assistant to george w. bush. scott, let me start with you.an, it is -- it's unbelievable that the video we watched can in any way be described as a legitimate political discourse, and you've got some people defending that now. what does this mean for your party as you try to convince people in this country to give your majorities in the house and senate? >> yeah, i mean, it's a huge mistake. it's an unforced error. it's wrong. as a political, tactical matter, it's a massive distraction from what the, you know, correct political strategy would be for the republicans right now, which should be to talk about the future, talk about the state of the country, talk about, you know, anything other than trying to justify, going back in time and trying to justify something that we all saw with our own eyes on television. where you get in trouble in politics is when you try to convince somebody they didn't really see what just happened or they're not really feeling what they're actually feeling. and that statement, and i recognize they've tried to clean

juliette kayyem and scott jennings. i gave you the juliette kayyem.. i don't want to leave any of that off for you. now you are both here. let me begin with you, juliette, because it's so important to lean on your expertise in particular on this issue and with homeland security related. what is your thought about the idea of equating people who are unruly based on the mask mandates, et cetera, with perceived terrorists? what is your thoughts? >> so unruly is a really nice way of putting disruptive and dangerous. unruly makes them sound like they're playing their music too loud. what we're seeing in a lot of these instances is essentially criminal behavior in a dangerous instrument that if things go wrong on an airplane, they actually can go terribly, terribly wrong. the no-fly list is about disruptive or dangerous airport behavior. it started off or was triggered by, of course, the terrorist attacks of 9/11. but that's acting like nothing has changed in terms of our threat environment for the last 20 years. anyone in homeland security knows homeland s

and you hear mcconnell, like scott jennings, who is our colleague here at cnn, they know this is a political be aligned with something that is so out of bounds. so from a political perspective, they are talking to two different constituencies here, kate. >> this is what i've been searching for. if mitch mcconnell is trying to -- tell me if he's not -- trying to right the ship here. it's pushing against the majority in congress at large, right? i'm wondering is he seeing something that shows it is possible, that mitch mcconnell can right the ship on truth and fact and we have eyes? >> i think the case for many republicans right now is they win on bread and butter issues. they win on the economy, they win on crime, they win on, you know, getting back to normal. they don't win on this. they don't win on trump. it's different, though, when you're talking about a house of representatives that is extremely polarized. the right wing of the house is so much further right than the right wing of the senate, because these are individuals running in tiny districts that are deep, deep red, and they are o

now you have some pretty loud voices in the gop, scott jennings from fox news to capitol hill, questioningbout this, whether there's even an interest there. >> as a political matter, i think there's a fatigue in the united states about foreign intervention. it's the political impulse that led joe biden to pull out of afghanistan last year and put us in that debacle. i'd point you to january when the republican party led by ted cruz and the senate tried to put sanctions on vladimir putin and joe biden and the democrats led a filibuster, a jim crow filibuster, their words, not mine, against the sanctions. there's 55 votes in the senate. i'm kind of with zelensky, sanctions after they take over doesn't help me. sanctions in january might have helped. for all the voices you talk about, it was the republican party that tried to put putin in his place in january and biden stopped it. >> i think we have to acknowledge that we've had four years of a president who did everything he could to cozy up to -- >> but why didn't -- >> and also allowed nord stream 2 to be constructed during the course of h

listen to scott jennings, who is a former aide to mitch mcconnell and speaks for a certain kind of republican. they're frustrated about what's going on right now. >> it sounds ridiculous because it is ridiculous! you cannot crash the capitol, defile the house and the senate, and do -- back the police. that's not legitimate. this phrase, legitimate political discourse will be hung around every candidate's neck for the next two cycles. >> this is about 2022. and do you believe that? do you buy that? will this damage republicans electorally, will this actually hang over their nexts? >> i spoke to a few senior republican officials who were at the event there in utah this week and they were very disappointed that the headlines that came out of this past week were all focused on trump and the censorship of cheney and kinzinger at a time where they personally feel that they are at a political advantage when it comes to talking about the biden mi administration, the economy, their handling of covid. and instead of focusing on things that they really do feel like they have a winning message on. instea

jen psaki giving the white house perspective. earlier, i spoke to scottrofit organisation focusing on providing safe space for lgbtq young people. and i asked him what life would be like if the bill was passed. well, it's going to have a chilling effect on all school lgbtq activities, it explicitly prohibits any discussions on the primary grade levels, but it also has an additional line that can easily be interpreted to expand banning such discussion at the middle and high school levels as well. so we are going to see a lot of things we are used to in the classroom go away. we heard the governor of florida, ron desantis, say he has seen instances of students being told by different folks in school don't worry, don't pick your gender yet. he's concerned about talking to young children in primary schools about these kind of issues a little bit too early. what do you say to that? i've never — we work a lot, safe schools south florida is in school classrooms across dayton and broward counties, never have i heard an incidence or complaint about somebody tellin

jen dodds and bruce mouat lost 6—5, ending their hopes of a gold or silver medal. with more on this and the rest of the day's 0lympic action, here's laura scottven their strong start. has she done it? i think she has! but late on, norway struck. pressure on the british pair. listen to their yells getting more distressed. curl! got to curl a lot. look at the stone refusing to curl, and feel the despair of dodds. a semifinal lost, while norway's husband and wife team celebrated. it's very tough to get over but we have to come out tomorrow because, you know, jen said it, there's a medal up for grabs and we both are hungry for it. now it is the turn of kirsty muir... earlier, there had been teenage tricks from team gb's youngest star, kirsty muir. soaring above an abandoned steel mill, the 17—year—old from aberdeen showed her mettle. securing seventh place and a spot in the ski big air finals. the weather here meant a day's delay to the man's downhill blue ribboned event of the winter olympics. but as the wind speeds dropped, the world's fastest skiers could finally get underway. beat feuz had won pretty much everything in skiing, except olympic

jen dodds and bruce mouat lost 6—5, ending their hopes of a gold or silver medal. with more on this and the rest of the day's olympic action here's laura scottce mouat and jen dodds, given their strong start. has she done it? i think she has. but late on norway struck, pressure on the british pair. listen to their yells getting more distressed. curl! it's got to curl a lot. look at the stone refusing to curl and feel the despair of dodds, a semifinal loss, while norway's husband and wife team celebrated. it's going to be tough to get over it but we have to get right tomorrow because, asjen said, there is still a medal up for grabs and we are hungry for it. now it is the turn of kirsty muir. earlier there had been teenage tricks from team gb�*s youngest star kirsty muir. soaring above an abandoned steel mill, the 17—year—old from aberdeen showed her mettle, securing seventh place and a spot in the ski big air final. the weather here injan ching meant a day's delay to the men's downhill, the blue ribbon event of the winter olympics. but as the wind speeds dropped, the world's fastest skiers could finally get under way. beat feuz had won pretty

scott, bbc news, beijing. the semi final match in the mixed double curling is going on in the ice cube are behind me, playing a husband and wife team norway. jen most important and they lost to norway only last night. superstitious viewers will be pleased to know bruce is leaving nothing to chance, he has once again won his lucky had which has become quite famous in the olympic games so far but i can tell you at the moment it is delicately poised, great britain trailing in the seventh out of eight ends. if they lost denied they would still be in the bronze medal match tomorrow and if they were to win, they would be going to try to win the first olympic curling gold for great britain in 20 years. laura, thank you and good luck to them. the queen's platinum jubilee celebrations have begun with a bang, as gun salutes were fired across the country to mark her 70—year reign. at noon the king's troop royal horse artillery, named by the queen's father king george vi, fired a 41—gun salute from london's green park. events will be held over the coming year in honour of the queen. gun salutes were also fired in edinburgh and outside the tower of london.

jen dodds and bruce mouat lost 9—3 to sweden. 0ur senior sports news reporter laura scott reports. mer blow. sweden in father's form. halfway, britain seven points adrift, urgent team talk required. believe, not even that helped. nine having three down with no way back the british pair called it a day, conceding defeat. it is kind of hard to fight back when people from your opposition is playing that well, so congratulations to them, wearing the bronze, they played amazing today. this could not have been much worse in reality and it will be particularly disappointing for team gb given this was one of their best chances of a medal. but four years ago, it took until day seven for great britain to get on the podium and both will be back on this eye is hoping for better. but and both will be back on this eye is hoping for better.— hoping for better. but can she do now? earlier, _ hoping for better. but can she do now? earlier, 17-year-old - hoping for better. but can she do now? earlier, 17-year-old kirstyl now? earlier, 17-year-old kirsty muir from _ now? earlier, 17-year-old kirsty mu