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Be careful. go ahead. your overconfidence, republicans, could hurt you because there are very, very tight races in the senate. howard: just briefly, you said all the republicans are lauding polls again and suggesting the polls seem to be favoring democratic momentum, that they were questioning the polls? >> well, i just havelied through multiple years where the polls were irrelevant and didnt make any sense, and they were undersampling trump voters, all of which had kernels of truth in it, but t...

That is sort of, that would be sort of amazing to watch here, for me anyway, is the next thing. if it does go forward, and he does buy it, and he does go to a skeleton crew, with all this foreign money, and everything else, what is twitter going to look like, right? we have seen the company trying to get a handle on world events until now. who knows what this thing will look like after friday? >> we will soon find out. jake ward, always great to see. oh thank you for joining us. when we come bac...

Last election. >> and what about that election inspired you? >> to see all the anomalies during the election. theres no way that biden could ever have won an election. he didnt campaign. the most unpopular person. if you believe that that was a safe and fair election, i mean, i just cant help you. >> the truth is it was a safe, fair and legitimate election. >> stop the steal! stop the steal! >> yet, tens of millions of trump fans dont believe it. >> steve bannon has had a great influence on wher...

Hospitals to congress, the senate, supreme court. not just political. its all institutions and if that trust then is -- lack of trust is passed down to our electoral system, god help us. what will get us together and get us to work together side by side? how will we find the ability to go govern? >> thats the big question and as you mentioned, im glad you expanded beyond obviously the presidential races that will come up in two years and thinking more about who would have an immediate impact to ...

Expanded beyond obviously the presidential races that will come up in two years and thinking more about who would have an immediate impact to act on that distrust? secretaries of state in particular, a lot of focus on the senate race. i understand why and the balance of power in the house and senate but if you think what congresswoman liz cheney said during the january 6th hearings, the last one, she articulated the idea maybe the blueprint and im paraphrasing but maybe the blueprint is to ensur...

On the left and the right. so >> thats true. >> but theres only one party that focuses on election denial. >> hold on. >> wait, i want to hear a lot of people. david, what was your point? >> i think your point is fair, but i think you have to put the lions share on president trump for stoking so much distrust in the 2020 results. its one thing to question them, its one thing to pursue your legal case, its another thing two years later to say this whole thing was -- >> ask me if i thought donald ...

[inaudible] >> you have one party that focuses on -- >> i want to hear all of you. >> no, i was just gonna say, i think your point is fair. i think you have to put the lions share of that onus on former president trump, for stoking so much distrust in the 2020 results. its one thing to question them, its a another thing to pursue your legal case, its another thing two years later to, say this whole thing was -- >> listen, ask me if i thought donald from trump won in 2020. >> he lost. my point is...

The request from the committee. >> yeah, good point. phil, were also learning trumps legal team is weighing whether to allow federal agents to search mar-a-lago down in florida once again. are they essentially hoping, what, for a do-over? >> i think they are. i mean, this is like a student going in fought teacher saying i never handed in homework this semester, do i get a passing grade if i hand something in tomorrow? and the answer, wolf, is no. i mean, theres some humor here after the lack of ...

Sowing all of the seeds of discourse that led to 2020 and to january 6th, they are sewn early, and you can see that with kari lake, before the election has happened, will you accept the result. im going to win, thats the result i will accept. will you accept the result if you lose. im going to win. thats the result i will accept. and you sow distrust in the system, and thats where we have gone to, americans of both sides distrust the system and i find it hard to see how we get out of it. >> and ...

Tapped into it, and others are tapping into, and now were getting candidates like kari lake, which is a real echo of sarah palin. >> let me say something else, too, and i guess im not going to be careful when i say this, shes also reacting to the fact, mika and i went to an event in was it minneapolis the night after she gave her speech, we were absolutely shocked about the rumors and the garbage that people from some of the most established media organizations were spreading around about sarah ...