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Speaking out for the first time. Why . This is not a normal election in any way. Certainly not one defined by policy debate. In one fell swoop, Donald Trump laid the groundwork to dispute the 2024 election just as did he in 2020. He threatened mass arrests of election officials, political opponents and critics and it landed like a Thunder Clap in the Saturday Night truth social post. It read in part, quote, when i win, those people that cheated will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law...

The 2016 presidential, a lot of people were feeling theres been lots of polling on the credibility of media, so i think that its really just feeding into fears that people already had. this is disturbing because this continues to feed the media is not trustworthy and they are not credible and is this going too far. >> is he trying to create a balance between conservative media outlets and others or is this something more sinister? >> its definitely more sinister. whether its sinister or not the ...

Rampant speculation tonight theres an eminent departure of mcmaster. here to shed more light on it, kellyanne conway is with us. i talked to a number of people at the white house, nothing is eminent. no decisions have been made. nobody ist, leaving. the president said it. i saw earlier today, i believe it was from the oval office, no one is scheduled to leave at all in spite of rampant, wild speculation. what can you tell us? >> the president makes the personnel decisions and announcements in th...

They had in the past and equally no surprise that republicans are increasingly skeptical. now, republicans have always been skeptical of the media writ large, the mainstream media as they like to say and for good reason. the mainstream media has been largely liberal for a long time. now, of course, you and i know the rise of fox news has sort of put a dent in that argument because conservatives certainly have a huge platform and position and a big microphone through fox news and -- and conservat...

Called out. and his followers, many of his followers, dont care when hes called out. its hard to adjust to anything new. >> and we were too slow to adjust. every sign was there. i know media books will be written and a lot of introspection, deservedly so, but media writ large was slow to pick up on a lot of this. >> at least social media is transparent, when something that is false gets out on twitter, you can watch it happen. you can watch it happen on facebook. where you cant see, whethre it s...

I think there is a backlash building here on that. a lot of people feel that the establishment, however you want to describe this, the establishment, the political class, the media writ large, are out to bring him down. and whoever leaked this in the first place was of a mind to do just that, and all the rest follows in place. and i know that there are a lot of people that believe that. furthermore, they also believe that if he were not the nominee and were any of the other 16 candidates, some v...