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Congresss oversight power over the executive branch. >> let me push back a little bit. the disinformation has already permeated and rotted to its base from its roots -- the grassroots, literally, of the party, all way to its highest leaders, kevin mccarthy. i think, if i think -- you talk about decent republicans, i count two. only two. we started with adam kinzinger. that was from "morning joe" today. the right has already predetermined what they are going to do about this. you are not suggesti...

Attempt? >> well, the confederacy lost the war but won the narrative, and that was the justification for jim crow and segregation and the white supremacy we see today. if they are allowed to create the narrative that this was, you know, a tourist event, that these were martyrs, that they were the ones standings for the country and the constitution, you know whats going to happen is that will become a dress rehearsal for the real thing. theyre going to come back and do it, but theyre going to do ...

However, they are elected members of congress in the middle of a pandemic. am i wrong? isnt it our business? if they want to lead on taxes and spending, if they want to lead on health care, dont they have to lead on a pandemic? >> they do, and there has been a notable shift in the republican party in recent days and weeks. you saw steve scalise who has been talking on fox news, the house gop doctors office urged people to get vaccines. at the same time, they are still not willing to confront whi...

How much blame do you put on the misinformation being spread online, on facebook, on twitter, and frankly on right wing media? >> frank, right wing and left wing. everybody has to do their own work. no one is going to be able to do it for you, you have to do your own research, talk to the people you trust to get your medical care, talk to your doctor, talk to your pharmacist. thats what weve been trying to do at the doctors caucus generally, is try to make information available from a trusted so...

Says not only he wasnt but its un-american to question him. >> and that part too that its un-american to question him. hypocrisy abounds with the white house because then you have the president tweeting about senator john mccain saying that you know, well, i like it when my war heroes arent captured or not respecting that mccain served in any way, shape, or form. so to see the back and forth, you see it with sanders. one minutes she discredits "the washington post" and next minute uses the stori...

Director of social media and you want to make sure the president isnt scammed by a bot again, what do you do? is there something you can do to protect yourself from it short of never retweeting anybody? >> not really. if youre going to sit and consume that information, youre going to be exposed to it. and theres going to be bots, political, people hike this that are trying to sell products using automated bots and foreign influence, as well. the best answer for the president is to close that acc...

E-mails. heres what he wrote. there is a ton of wrong information getting out into the public domain from congress and people who are not particularly informed. in so far as we have firmed up assessments that dont compromise intel and the investigation and need to have the capability to correct the record -- misimpression. we can take this up tomorrow at deputies, a meeting of deputies. the story on friday was that the white house was nefariously figuring out how to dupe the public. this e-mail ...