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Jack smith has secured his most valuable witness yet, mark meadows. Prosecutors dont hand out agreements like candy. Mark meadows was at the center of so much of this. He could speak to trumps mindset in a very specific way. Welcome, everyone. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. We begin with the federal election interference case against donald trump. The former president s Chief Of Staff mark meadows we learned was granted immunity by special counsel jack smith and met with his te...

His own primary criticising very often. they are talking about the weaponisation of the justice department. they are saying the justice department should focus on real crime and not this election stuff. it makes it very hard for these candidates to also get any attention in the media and oxygen to raise their name id, because the story is trump, new charges, 90 plus felony charges he is facing now. for the next year we are going to see these trials, it will be hard for these trials, it will be h...

Rapids last week saying the issue comes up. he has to explain his vote. he is not backing away from it in any way and facing a candidate in john begin who is told me that he agrees with the trump false claim that the election was stolen. >> i think one analogy is the mafia. all you can get them for is tax evading. theres no framework in place to cut him. that doesnt mean they werent doing stuff so theres similarities with the election stuff we are seeing. >> i asked him what -- theres no evidenc...

That. >> raffensperger talked about it. its part of the hatred that women has seeded. hes done it to other women. ive been the target of his harassment online. women get a particular kind of attention from trump and his supporters. and i think it needs calling out because women have been going through this not just for election stuff, but through the whole course of his administration. >> but this certainly ramps it up and takes it to a completely different level. my next question is for you, al...

Supporters are voting on the trump issue and not necessarily voting on either the past or the process about election stuff, not that that stuff is not important, its vitally important but they are voting on the things that brought people to trump on the first place in 2016, those issues. whats so interesting about south carolina race is you have two people who have run afoul of trump, one who is the first person, first republican to have voted for impeachment to face a primary assault. >> john: ...

Their office to discredit or try to overturn the results of the 2020 election. perdue is probably not going to win tomorrow. how deeply embedded is this culture of election security on one end or full on election result denialism on the other in the republican party in the state? >> i think thats going to be an issue. the state legislation whether its the election stuff or abortion. im curious of those how many legislators in the country they are. i just for perspective. they are part of the par...

Help anyone but himself currently, and formally trump. >> that is the bill barr m o. i am glad to see him cooperating, unlike most of the members of the trump administration who scurry like rats when they hear the words testimony under oath. so you know, this is the guy who evidently said that he called it bs when the election stuff that trump was trying to push back in december after he lost the election. this is also a guy who is known for disassembling, its clinton asking his ability to say w...

Before january, and he gets a call from short and says, please, jared, can you -- can you talk to your father-in-law? this is getting dangerous. somebody needs to tell him who he will listen to that mike pence cannot single-handedly overturn the election. please talk to him, he listens to you. jareds answer was, you know, ever since rudy giuliani came in, i dont have any part of this election stuff. im focused on middle east peace. i got things to do over here. and he refused to go and have an i...

>> its easy to say that now though, isnt it? you were inside facebook january 5th. you must have seen what was brewing. >> it is absolutely to say now, and i cant go back and change what was happening, the decisions that were made inside the company. i wasnt really working on election stuff. that stopped for me in late 2019. im not here to say i shouldnt be held responsible for the decisions and actions i made inside the company. but what im trying to do now is trying to actually rethink and try...

"rescuing the republican party." >> chris christie is calling on the gop to get its act together. >> i love the title of your book. chris christie, "republican rescue." >> its a great book. you can tell that you actually wrote it. >> its plain language. its not lawyer language. and hopefully people who read it will understand it. >> all im saying in this book is we have to stop looking backwards. >> thats the point of the book. >> thats the message of the book. >> the whole center part of the bo...