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Say the truth on the other side. very careful to be clear on what the truth is. we all know hes a liar, but you cant ignore him, you ignore him at your own peril. you have to be incredibly careful about how you write about him. the problem with the mainstream media, i think, there are certainly are problems, but largely mainstream reporters have gotten a little bit smarter about how to kind of put it into truth sandwich. the worry i think, you know, there is all of these very far right streaming...

Press is diminished and that darkness begins to fall? just look at whats happening in serbia. gone are the days of jailing or killing journalists who are critical of the ruling party. instead, serbias ruling party is deploying a more subtle form of censorship. joining me is the founder and chairman of the united group, a telecom and media company in eastern europe, it runs the only cable news channels in serbia that give air time to opposition voices. thank you so much for being with us. i read ...

And subpoenas are being issued so they send out gingrich as the attack dog and, you know, what does he do? he talks about silencing and jailing people because the only way that authoritarians who are criminals feel safe is to put people in jail, to lock them up, right? >> yeah. we remember, ruth, mitch, lock her up. right? where does the appetite -- that appetite come from? >> so, when you have a democracy and a democratic political culture with a small d, you have these ethos of mutual toleranc...

States with fraudulent ones. >> yes, i was part of the process to make sure there were alternate electors under the leadership of rudy giuliani. >> signed fake certificates were sent to the national archives declaring donald trump won states he lost. that was boris epshteyn, long time trump loyalist. i would bet the panel would like to hear a lot more about him, about that from him. whats also deeply concerning is this draft executive order the exit tee is looking into from december 2020 that in...

Decertification of the 20 2020 election. ive got to direct peoples memories back a couple of months ago. if it were not one defector from the republican state senate here, they would have called for the jailing of the maricopa county board of supervisors for certifying the 2020 election. >> a couple of those trump endorsed candidates spoke at the rally. what did you hear from them and whats central to their lies about the campaign? >> reporter: just about everything. from that four plus hour eve...

Organizations that came up and i want to show you ivermectin or hydrochloric, or people that white -- thats what they were talking. the rfk talking a book. his group brought in six point $8 million in 2020, it doubled during the pandemic, they double the money that they brought in. i can, thats -- it is every year it doubles as profit. and every year he gets paid more. i mean, its just so obvious that this is a show, right? dell gets up there and he had to get up there before he take at the end ...

>> we are concern ed our militay was part of this big lie. >> as the january 6th panel investigates the deadly attack on our capitol, a republican speaker of the house, former republican speaker of the house is now floating the idea of jailing members for doing their constitutional duty. >> i think when you have a republican congress, this is all going to come crashing down. theyre the oned who are in fact going to face a real risk of jail for the kind of laws theyre breaking. >> committee vice ...

Weve heard both the former republican speaker of the house and a current -- making whats sure sound like vicious stick threats about investigating and jailing members of the house committee investigating the january 6th insurrection when republicans get back in power. >> i think when you have a republican congress, this is all going to come crashing down. and the wolves are gonna find out that theyre now sheep, and there are the ones who are in fact going to face a real risk of jail for the kind...

The population. and what we do is we highlight that. we dont -- we dont run from it. the traditional way of dealing with this stuff has been to ignore it. dont give it oxygen. dont give it a platform. we take the opposite approach. we want the whole country to see how crazy these people really are. so were not highlighting their anti-vaccine message. were highlighting all the other crazy stuff theyre saying and doing to discredit them. >> yeah. it takes me back to the days when people would say,...

>> it is big brother. i mean, thats almost the lost story in this. and im glad you brought it up. because while its censorship and its terrible and its ignorant, its also big government. its empowering the government and bureaucracy, which is two very bad words if youre a small c conservative. to monitor you and watch you and tell you what you can read. i mean, its literally out of the 50s and mccarthyism. but like i said, republicans are resurrecting the worst chapters, the worst ideas rejected...