Hi everyone, Clark in New York. In the study of criminal minds, it's actually not uncommon for an arsonist to knowingly return to the scorched earth if he or she so brazenly torched to admire his or her work.

What is uncommon though is the arsonist not just being applauded

by the victims upon his return to the scene of the crime,

but being celebrated.

Today Donald Trump played the arsonist and the Trump-run

Republican Party showcased a version of this phenomenon. Feeding separately with

House and then Senate Republicans this afternoon, three blocks from where Trump was arraigned last year in

connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election he lost.

Trump's trip to Washington DC today amounted to equal parts chest thumping, America bashing, and more bizarre

incoherent ramblings about dating Nancy Pelosi and the GOP Convention host

city. The press spin for today was that Trump would engage in forward-looking discussions of policy, but an

whole lecture kept coming up, as well as Trump's obsessive animosity toward the Department of

Justice.

Political reports this, that the immediate aftermath of his 34 felony count in New York,

in that period Trump sought to harness the powers of Congress to fight on his behalf.

This first call was to, you guessed it, Mike Johnson,

Speaker of the House.

Now, Trump's henchman, many of whom

is a show of appearing in their matching red ties in court last month

they're mobilizing not to pass any laws to help the American people but in an

all-out effort to protect Trump to help him evade accountability.

Republican lawmakers are trying everything.

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