distraction, it s financially draining, people are giving money, as you pointed out, 75 million to the president s account. and then you have a lot of these fraud candidates who are going out there saying, hey, i m going to go to arizona, wasted money again. while republicans actually want to win back the majority, but they have these sort of fools and sore losers and sort of grifters out there that are really a huge distraction to that mission. and this very much is part of the republican strategy going into the midterms, and it s not all republicans certainly, but a faction of these trump loyalists especially who have made integral to their messaging this notion that the election was stolen to the point where now you have polls showing that a majority of republican voters do believe that the election was stolen even though of course we know that is simply not true, and it s to the point where they re fundraising off of it at rallies, they re handing out trump one merchandise. and s
wrote a piece in your newspaper, the washington post, an op-ed, brad smith is the president of microsoft, the secret gag orders must stop. that was part of the issue. people are finding out about this now because not only did the justice department under the trump administration get the subpoenas they told apple, microsoft, whatever technology company, you cannot talk about this, now that the gag orders have expired in the new administration, it comes to light. and what how many other gag orders were there, who else was muzzled for being able to disclose these details to the public. why i don t think we ll see the end of inquiries in congress and other independent inquiries anytime soon and there s going to be in the senate, we talked about how difficult it s going to be to get any actual subpoenas but democrats i ve talked to privately see this as another pressure point to use against republicans to drive a wedge between what democrats say is the right thing to do and also their
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say, no, they don t want to find the facts. and the 6th, initially some establishment republicans including mccarthy assumed was so bad, it would not be palatable. now, today, it looks like they re going more towards trump and gaetz, openly fanning the flames of violence, not just benefitting from it. there s no question they re embracing extremism, and fealty to trump, and they want trump loyalists. stefanik over cheney. and today, we have a couple of democratic holdouts, sinema and manchin over ending the filibuster. they believe it s a fool for forcing bipartisan compromise. today was a perfect example of how we re not talking about a
democracy. you sound encouraged. think schumer is going to bring to vote and sound like it s not dead in the senate as far as you can tell. no. i don t think so. i mean it s tough and shouldn t have to be this tough. we ve talked about this. literally encourage members to read it. cut and paste job from the 9/11 commission. if you re against commissions, you must have had opinions against the 9/11 commission, it s cut and paste job. it should past. lovely evening light in great state of michigan coming through the windows, i appreciate it. have a good one. will the guardrails that stopped trump from stealing the election be in place next election? push to put trump loyalists into crucial election roles after this. l election roles after this