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Cooper. thank you so much for joining us tonight on "the beat." david, ill start with you. theres a large number of republican lawmakers many of whom have publicly backed the insurrectionists, voted against impeachment, but theyre not showing up to this event that could be happening tomorrow. what has changed? >> whats changed about so many republican officials not wanting to show up at this rooly tomorrow? >> thats a really good question. the trump cultive personality is a bit of a weird cult. ...

Will come down in short order fooli foll following this rally. back to you. >> they are not criticizing the event, hoping to avoid being associated with the rally supporting the capitol insurrectionist. >> melanie zanona joining us with more on that. and the question is, is this working? >> reporter: well that is to be determined. there are no republican members who are scheduled to speak at the event. they havent been promoting the event and on the some on the far right have warned it is a fals...

Country, im quoting you, passed laws and imposed criminal penalties for, as you say, simply doing their jobs. three of these states, texas, georgia, florida, texas yesterday have empowered partisan poll watchers. thats an explicit part of the legislation. what effect is that going to have? >> in the polling place, which is designed to let people cast their ballots peacefully, weaponized poll watchers can cause, number one, disruption and intimidators to voters and number two distract election of...

Downright hostile and has the potential of becoming a republican talking point thats weaponized. those are the media and mid short-term concerns for the white house right now. >> lets talk for just a minute about the politics of this, and i want to play what congressional republicans are saying tonight about the president. >> we are less safe as a result of this self-inflicted wound. this was an unforced error, a foreign policy blunder of gargantuan proportion. >> i would say this is the biggest...

Expect to do better as the least crazy republican as former mayor of san diego. larry elders at 23%, the next guy down is at 13. so if there is a recall, larry elder is the governor and thats thanks to a democratic strategy to make sure that there was no recognizable democratic name on the ballot in case the recall went. >> its a great question. perhaps it a risky strategy. its a strategy i agree with and perhaps im in the minority of people you talked to. you want to simplify this. im not a fan...

And he was kind of pushed on that earlier today, anderson. and he said, well, you know, this was different. there were specifications and that sort of thing, kind of went back and forth on it. but the bottom line is we dont know the specifics of what this day of reckoning might be. it is worth noting that he did not call for bidens resignation or for his impeachment. and its also worth noting how we saw so many house republicans and even some senate republicans bandying about impeachment, kind o...

America. should the people still in afghanistan right now that helped us, should they still have faith that well keep our word to get folks out? >> well, they certainly have hope. the question is do we have faith in america ourselves? are we willing to live up to what we represent to srosh and to the many thousands and millions of people around the world. earlier in your program you asked what will be the impact, what are people thinking about the united states at this point? well, theyre dismay...

Either poor intelligence or poor execution or poor planning. and theyre dismayed this poor planning being politicized and weaponized by those on the right who want to prevent people like your truck driver, srosh, from staying in america, from bringing his family because theyre brown people, theyre muslims, theyre not real americans in the potential to come to this country and make it better than it is. so theyre also dismayed. think about this, eight months ago we had a mob, a violent mob storm ...

Statement denied all the allegations. he said he never groped anyone saying accusers unfairly characterized and weaponized of the interactions he had every day interactions like kissing people on the forehead and hugging. and he says the independent review was politically bias, listen. >> with those who are using the moment to score political points or seek publicity or personal gain, i say they actually discredit the legitimate sexual harassment victims that the law was designed to protect. >> ...

State of michigan turn over all data of public nursing homes. we only have one public nursing homes. one. so the governor turned over information for one. what we really need is an investigation and we all know they are dumps, pig slops, people die in them, 400,000 died from communal disease they got from somebody else. why dont we do that? in the meantime in michigan, we have been on enough. our auditor general will go through every death that happened in michigan in the pandemic and look to se...