hello there, everyone. it is 4:00 in new york when you pull back delayers and really try to understand how any one of the most damaging conspiracy theories that have over the last few years now seeped into the mainstream political conversation and corroded the body politic, from election denialism to its violent manifestation in the january 6th insurrection to putin s war in ukraine, to conspiracies about covid-19 and the vaccine and mask wearing, to the discuss around replacement theory, which has actually been cited in the manifestos of mass shooters it is fair to say it is not hyperbolic to argue that tucker carlson is the through line through all of them. he is the champion of conspiracy theories and until today he had one of the largest audiences in cable news for diss sem natting them not anymore. news broke today tucker carlson is out at the network that handed him the biggest microphone of his career that stunning announcement by fox news made this morning in a short
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translation: first of all, i want to thank god - for having given me this second chance and for being back home. i want to thank all the people of barangays, the families and colombia for the great support they have given my family. thank you all. i love you all very much. very soon i will have the opportunity to hug you all. thank you so much, my people. thank you. it was almost two weeks ago that his parents were kidnapped at gunpoint at a petrol station in barranca in northeast colombia. his mother, celina, was rescued that night, but his father was abducted. police in the military had focused their search on a difficult to reach area on the border between colombia and venezuela. the group holding diaz, the national liberation army, known as the eln, had called his kidnap a mistake and had agreed to release him. but it wasn t until today when a team, including un officials and those from the catholic church, met with rebels to bring diaz senior home. much to the delight of
and colombia for the great support they have given my family. thank you all. i love you all very much. very soon, i will have the opportunity to hug you all. thank you so much, my people, thank you. it was almost two weeks ago that his parents were kidnapped at gunpoint at a petrol station in barrancas in north east colombia. his mother, cilenis, was rescued that night, but his father was abducted. police and the military had focused their search on a difficult to reach area on the border between colombia and venezuela. the group holding diaz, the national liberation army, known as the eln, had called his kidnap a mistake and had agreed to release him. but it wasn t until today, when a team including un officials and those from the catholic church met with rebels to bring diaz senior home. much to the delight of his family, who had been glued to the news channels. translation: it is| immensely exciting. we are very excited. we ve spent many days with uncertainty, sleepless
joining me now, mark murray back with us and former obama white house press secretary robert gibbs and former communication advisor to ryan and boehner, brendan buck. let s talk about the three issues that they care about most and the methodology used in this the framing of the questions, was it an important factor in deciding what they chose as an issue? yeah. we selected seven issues. because of space reasons. things that are resonating on the republican campaign trail. the three most popular ones that people say, yes, i would support you if you took this position, it s sending u.s. troops to the border, it is cracking down on the left s woke agenda and banning gender affirming care for minors. that s not all that surprising given the rhetoric that we have seen from most of the republicans on the campaign trail that hit these issues time and time again.