>> Laura: THE TRANSFORMER THAT'S THE FOCUS OF TONIGHT'S ANGLE. ♪ >> Laura: NOW KNOW NOTHINGS IN THE GET TRUMP ERA THEY ARE NOT REPORTERS THEY ARE REPEATERS BECAUSE THERE IS NOT AN ORIGINAL THINKER IN THE BUNCH. THEY CAN'T GET PAST THE LAST "NEW YORK TIMES" HEADLINE THEY READ. >> DONALD TRUMP IMPEACHED IN AND OF ITSELF HISTORIC ONLY PRESIDENT TO BE IMPEACHED TWICE. >> PRESIDENT TRUMP'S HISTORIC IMPEACHMENT TRIAL SET KICK OFF. HISTORIC SITUATION FIRST TIME FORMER PRESIDENT EVER BEEN INDICTED ON FEDERAL CHARGES. >> SCOPE AND SCALE IS HISTORIC. IT IS QUITE UNPARALLELED. >> Laura: UNPARALLELED, TOO. THESE PEOPLE ARE SO BENT IN THE HEAD OVER TRUMP THEY BECOME WHAT THEY CLAIM HE IS, UNHINGED AND UNABLE TO SEE THE DAMAGE THEY ARE DOING TO NORMS AND DEMOCRATIC VALUES. AND IN THEIR RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF BIDEN'S CHIEF ANTAGONIST A.G. GARLAND AND JACK SMITH ARE DOING MORE DAMAGE TO AMERICA THAN ANY GROUP OF CAPITOL RIOTERS EVER COULD. THIS ANTI-TRUMP CONTAGION HAS SPREAD FAR BEYOND THE DOJ AND THE MEDIA. EFFECTED GROUP OF HISTORIANS SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO DISTILL THE FULL SWEEP OF NATIONAL EVENTS WITHOUT A BLINDING POLITICAL BIAS. BEHOLD MICHAEL MASQUERADING AS A LEARNED HISTORIAN. >> DONALD TRUMP IS WHO OUR FOUNDERS DREADED. 9/11, 2001, USAMA BIN LADEN, AND OTHER TERRORISTS HATED OUR DEMOCRACY, TRIED TO DESTROY IT. DONALD TRUMP JUST LIKE THOSE OTHER THREATS TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY TRIED TO DESTROY OUR SYSTEM. TO TAKE AWAY OUR RULE OF LAW. >> Laura: AND WHEN HE IS NOT BUSY ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD WELL, THERE IS ALWAYS DORIS KERNS GOODWIN BOAST KNOWN PLAGIARIZING FROM OTHER MULTIPLE AUTHORS. LISTEN TO THIS AND TELL ME HOW YOU DISTINGUISH HER AND HER COMMENTS FROM THOSE OF A BIDEN CAMPAIGN ORGANIZER JUST FRUSTRATED BY TRUMP'S CONTINUING APPEAL. >> WE GOT TO FIGURE OUT WHEN IS THAT GOING TO HAPPEN? WHEN IS IT GOING TO BREAK? IT'S GOING TO TAKE THE OVERWHELMING ORGANIZATION ORGANIZING THE COUNTRY AT ALL THE LEVELS SO THAT HE CANNOT WIN THAT ELECTION. IF THE PARTY WILL NOT DEPART FROM HIM, THEN HE HAS TO BE DEFEATED. AND THE PARTY HAS TO BE DEFEATED. >> Laura: HUH. IT MUST BE MY MISUNDERSTANDING. I ALWAYS THOUGHT HISTORIANS WERE INDIVIDUALS WHO WROTE ABOUT DIFFERENT ARCS OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES AND LEADERS. NOT FOR PEOPLE TO CALL FOR POLITICAL ACTION IN THE FUTURE. OF COURSE, THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN TODAY'S ACTUAL HISTORIANS ARE THOSE WHO PRETEND TO KNOW HISTORY. >> WE HAD THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION THAT STARTED THE COUNTRY. WE HAD THE CIVIL WAR. YOU ARE ON THE SIDE OF AMERICA AND WHAT IT CONCEPTUALLY STANDS FOR OR ON THE SIDE OF KING GEORGE OR THE CONFEDERATES? THAT'S WHERE I WOULD CAST DONALD TRUMP AND LET HIM DEFEND THAT. ARE YOU FOR DEMOCRACY OR ARE YOU FOR AUTOCRACY? >> Laura: POOR REVEREND AL. LIKE SO MANY PUTTING HEADS ON TV HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THE TERM AUTOCRACY EVEN MEANS. TRUE AUTOCRATS DO THINGS LIKE ENRICH THEIR FAMILIES, CENSOR SPEECH, PUT THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS ON TRIAL AND, OF COURSE, COLLUDE WITH CORPORATIONS AGAINST INNOCENT CITIZENS. BUT BEYOND THESE PUNDIT HISTORIANS THERE ACTUALLY IS GOOD NEWS OUT THERE. EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, EVEN AMONG DIE HARD NEVER TRUMPERS COMES AN INSIGHT WORTH SHARING JUST AS A PIECE PUBLISHED IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES BY GIDEON ROCKMAN WITH AN ACTUAL EYE TO WHAT MATTERS LONG TERM. ROCKMAN ARGUES THAT LOVE HIM OR HATE HIM, TRUMP WILL GO DOWN IN AMERICAN HISTORY AS TRANSFORMATIONAL FIGURE BECAUSE OF HIS POLICIES. POLICIES THAT MARKED A SHARP BREAK FROM THE CLINTON, BUSH, OBAMA ERA IN ISSUES LIKE TRADE, GLOBALIZATION, AND CHINA. WRITING THAT TRUMP REPUDIATED THE CONSENSUS OF THE PREVIOUS 40 YEARS ON HIS FIRST DAY IN OFFICE TRUMP PULLED AMERICA OUT OF THE TTP. IN 2017 THE U.S. MADE A DELIBERATE EFFORT TO HOBBLE THE WTO. ROBERT LIGHTHIZER TRUMP'S TRADE REP IMPOSED A WRATH OF TARIFFS ON CHINA. NOW MANY OF THOSE TARIFFS REMAIN IN PLACE TWO AND A HALF YEARS AFTER BIDEN'S INAUGURATION. LORD KNOWS HOW MUCH LOWER OUR G.D.P. WOULD BE IF HE HAD REMOVED THEM. RACKMAN CONTINUED SAYING THIS. TRUMP'S VICTORY IN 2016 FORCED DEMOCRATS TO TAKE THE PLIGHT AND ANGER OF U.S. WORKERS MUCH MORE SERIOUSLY AND IMPORTANT RESPECTS, THEREFORE, TRUMP BROUGHT ABOUT A LASTING REVOLUTION IN U.S. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC POLICY; AGAIN, THAT'S WHAT'S CALLED HONEST ANALYSIS FROM SOMEONE WHO INTENSELY DISAGREES WITH DONALD TRUMP LOOK VOTERS ARE NOT STUPID. THEY KNOW HOW MUCH BETTER THINGS WERE FIVE YEARS AGO. CHECK OUT SURVEY BY IPSOS. 70% OF THOSE SURVEYED SAID THE ECONOMY IS WORSE OFF NOW THAN IT WAS IN 2018 UNDER TRUMP. MEANWHILE BIDEN'S JOB APPROVAL IS STUCK AT 38% WITH A STAGGERING 68% OF INDEPENDENCE DISAPPROVING. >> DANGER WILL ROBINSON. DANGER. >> Laura: WELL, SURE IS DANGER. DANGER FOR BIDEN IN 2024. OR IT SHOULD BE. IF REPUBLICANS KEEP THE FOCUS ON THE ECONOMY. AND LET'S NOT FORGET ANOTHER ISSUE WHERE TRUMP WAS TRANSFORMATIVE. THE BORDER. BY EVERY MEASURE, AMERICANS ARE OUTRAGED AT THE HUMAN, THE ECONOMIC AND THE CRIME PROBLEMS BIDEN'S OPEN BORDER ZEALOTS HAVE CREATED. NEARLY THREE QUARTERS ARE SAYING THAT THEY ARE DOING A BAD JOB AT THE BORDER. BUT, BEFORE TRUMP, LET'S REMEMBER THE G.O.P. WAS GENERALLY PRETTY UNRELIABLE ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, PUSHES THINGS LIFE-THREATENING LIKE AMNESTY THEY CALL IT COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM INSTEAD OF COMPREHENSIVE ENFORCEMENT. THE TRANSFORMATION THAT TRUMP USHERED IN LEFT THE BUSHES AND THE CHENEYS IN THE DUST. IN THIS DRAMATIC SHIFT TOWARD POPULISM WAS ON DISPLAY FOR EVERYONE TO SEE AND EVERYONE TO HEAR AND A RECENT McCONNELL EVENT IN KENTUCKY. [CROWD BOOING? >> BOOING] [CHANTING RETIRE] >> Laura: I LOVE THAT THEY KEPT CLAPPING. AND THE MESSAGE EVEN COMES THROUGH WHEN OLD GUARD GLOBALISTS SPEAK AT TRUMP RALLIES. >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE WELCOME UNITED STATES SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM. [CROWD BOOING] >> THANK YOU, ALL FOR COMING. THANK YOU, VERY, VERY MUCH. >> Laura: THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR BOOING ME. THE ESTABLISHMENT IN BOTH PARTIES, THEY ARE GRUDGINGLY FINDING OUT THAT YOU CAN ONLY DEFY YOUR VOTERS FOR SO LONG. FOLLOWING THE DEMANDS OF BIG DONORS OR FRINGE ACTIVISTS MEANS TODAY YOU ARE PRETTY CONVENTIONAL. YOU'RE NOT TRANSFORMATIONAL WHEN YOU DO THAT. BUT, DEFINE THE STATUS QUO TO STAND WITH THE PEOPLE, EVEN UNDER THE THREAT OF IMPRISONMENT, THAT MEANS YOU'RE NOT JUST
