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Voters believe the big lie. many of them now are swayed by qanon, which is a national threat by the fbi. what theyre doing with the fraudit is to degrade our democracy and degrade a third of this countrys belief in democracy and telling them that this country is being stolen from you, its been taken from you. so what do you have to do? you have to fight back, literally fight back. five people died in the january 6th violent insurrection, and people said, oh, once biden wins, theyll moderate. the...

Insurgencies, i have trapped terrorists all over the world. what were looking at here, first, is a political reform in which disagreements will be moved from out of the halls of power and into the streets to an armed people power movement. it will be paramilitary, the bully political, but it will be headed by donald trump and youre seeing the first steps of this. >> what does it mean that you have chuck grassley who spoke against trumps actions on january 6th now wanting trump to stump for him i...

Whether they are even talking to one another. and there was finally an agreement on the debt ceiling. there was the votes yesterday to push forward. there was a moment after the vote that a majority leader chuck schumer delivered a speech, was criticized by senator joe manchin and to even see him behind the senator holding his face. i want to you listen to leader schumer and then senator manchin and your thoughts after that. >> leader mcconnell and senate republicans insisted they wanted a solut...

>> well, i think they are working their way to converting self-reporting to the irs by the american people to the government deciding how much taxes you obeyed on the information that they access about you. this model for the irs would be disastrous. i was here during the lois learner years. we saw the irs weaponized by people who politicized their roles at the irs. and then covered it up by bleaching the computers that held the information that showed they did that. so, this is an agency that h...

Weaponized for profits. thats what the documents are shown. i want facebook to commit making all the documents public. >> thats what documents show and thats what parents know. thats what middle schools and high school teachers know and college deans know. its a universal problem. thank you so much for all your work on it, senator blumenthal. we greatly appreciate it. lets bring in one of the attorneys representing the facebooks whistleblower. thank you for being with us. katty kay has the first...

The establishment is democratic rule. the establishment is science. anything and everything that could be weaponized for a culture war, whether its cancel culture or dr. seuss or masks or vaccines is being employed right now. lets look at loudoun county close by to me in virginia. it started off as against crt and transgender rights and now masks and vaccines. you have a radicalized, an army for trump that can be and will be unleashed by the conservative movement to what they say is tyrannical r...

Through social media. and that is significantly and very harmful way that social media is weaponized. but then further, once these two lone wolves come together, they become so much more potent and thats something that we saw leading up to january 6th where these people who prior to social media may have never had any interaction were able to get together and to galvanize in furtherance of this stolen election lie and then eventually commit this atrocity that happened on january 6th. but heres f...

>> i sure hope so. i sure hope that we are finally starting to get to the truth. we know they didnt just lie to the fbi. they also lied to a fisa court. the fbi took this information with which we know now is faked, manufactured. went to the court to get it wiretapped and lied to that court. and they lied over and over and over to that court to the point of even fabricating evidence. oso we have got a big problem here and the idea that democrat leaders in the clinton campaign could pay a lawyer ...

And, yes, the other sides going to weaponize everything. but you cant let that dictate your obligations to tell the public the truth and i think the administration does that, for the most part. and i think in this particular case, this is not -- thats just not that big of a concern. >> well, look, i will tell you. its not that big of a concern but see. thats the thing. when you dont talk about it, now i get to talk about it the way i want to. and there is a little bit of truth. it is something. ...

Truth. it is something. it is a possibility. and thats what keeps happening in this, is that gaps or messaging inconsistency now gets weaponized. and you turn what i keep using, you know, just because its catchy. they keep talking about vaccine protection in terms of political projection. every time something like this happens, they get to weaponize it. by the way, andy slavitt, thats why i love having you on the show. thats why i thought it was so great for the administration that they asked yo...