Hi, everyone, it is 4 o'clock in New York. I'm Aimen Mohedin in for Nicole Wallace, a call

to quote, make history on what Joe Biden refers to as the central cause of his presidency,

defending our democracy just moments ago. Speaking in Arizona, at the announcement of a library

dedicated to his friend and the late Senator John McCain, the president described the

bat for the future of our country against a movement led by the former president facing

criminal charges for trying to overturn an election while also running for the White House

for a third time.

And there's something dangerous happening in America now. There's an extremist movement

that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. The MAGA movement, not every

public and not even a majority of Republicans are here to the MAGA's extremist ideology.

I know it because I've been able to work with Republicans my whole career. But there's

no question that the Daisy Republican Party has driven and intimidated by MAGA Republican

extremists. Their extremist agenda, if carried out, fundamentally all of the institutions

of American democracy as we know it. My friends, they're not hiding their attacks. They're

openly promoting them, attacking the free press as the enemy of the people, attacking the

rule of law as an impediment. Formating voter suppression and election subversion. Did

you ever think we'd be having to base in your stage of your careers where banning books,

banning books and burying history? Trump says the Constitution gave him, quote, the right

to do what everyone wants as president of court. I'm never going to hear a president say

that in jest.

The president also warning that Donald Trump would take a wrecking ball to the functioning

of our government and to the Constitution if reelected.

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