A very revealing split screen today with President Biden standing up for democracy, while

Republicans held a three-ring circus of a hearing, struggling to find a rationale, any

rationale to impeach Joe Biden with their own witnesses saying there's no

there there. I am not here today to even suggest that there was corruption

fraud or any wrongdoing. In my opinion, more information needs to be gathered and

assessed before I would make such an assessment. In fact, I do not believe that

the current evidence would support articles of impeachment. And we begin

tonight with President Biden addressing the nation today on one of the greatest

threats our country faces ahead of next year's election, the threat to democracy,

the blunt warning from the president couldn't come at a more fitting moment. As

today is also the last day on the job for the man who in 2020, so directly

between Donald Trump and a coup, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark

Milley. You'll remember that it was Milley who talked Trump out of using the

Insurrection Act on civilians during the 2020 protests following the killing of

George Floyd, pushing back against Trump when he reportedly told officials to

crack the skulls or just shoot those protesters. Trump then used Milley as a prop

for the autocrat that his entourage walked to his photo op in front of St. John's

Episcopal Church in Washington, where Trump held a Bible upside down after

protesters were forcibly cleared from Lafayette Square. Milley, to his credit,

peeled off before the before the group that also included a Attorney General Bill

Barr, Trump's hatchet man, got to the church. And he later apologized to members

of the military, infuriating Trump. But perhaps General Milley's most notable

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