witness testimony depending on the line of questioning could yield new evidence like this. it sort of reveals the holes in the lack of a white house war room or a lack of a white house strategy that when there is a new witness, they are still flat-footed. reporter: we saw that yesterday how scattershot the republican efforts at defense were. the minority ranking minority member nunes yesterday delving into conspiracy theories born from the fever swamps of the extreme right. the reporting that we ve done here in the last day or so, the president is frustrated. he thought that yesterday he wished his republican allies on the hill had defended his actions not just trying to push back on the process of the matter. you know, he of course the white house has been spinning this, the trump campaign as well, suggesting that, you know, there really was nothing new yesterday. of course that s not true
keep in minds these comments from fox in the last ten days, this is the arc of how the word is being used on air. this leak and coup campaign. every time you heared word impeachment, is you hear coup. this is not an impeachment. this is nothing less than an attempted coup d etat and end run around the ballot box. where is the violent overthrow? anyway that s another word that s being misused. it gotten from the right-wing fever swamps, and then to the president s twitter feed. there are other words being manipulated. masha gessen points this out as well. there is lots of headlines about trump wanting investigations, wanting ukraine and china to investigate joe biden. trump is not looking for an investigation, not a systemic
by saying he s saying it without evidence. they need to drill this into so, this coms from the internet fever swamps, the president tweets it. it means it s just a distorted it s really poison, is the best way to describe it. you know what s interesting, the white house declined all these interview requests today. no white house aides are out on television defending trump. unfortunately, in a good way, that means there s less disinformation,less misinformation being spread today, because the white house declined to give interviews. what a sad state of affairs, the white house giving interviews means mods misinformation in the world. a lot of what we saw last week is a lot of talking points fall apart. whereas they still are allowed to thrive on fox. you just played that clip where people were talking about coups, civil wars, it s really disturbing stuff. i actually wonder, luachland
i also would argue that perhaps the most important sunday surrogate appearance from a republican yesterday was actually tom bosser, the president s former homeland security adviser who was on i believe abc who addressed the ukraine theory, that ukraine was involved in election meddling and server and he said it wasn t true and he and others told the white house it wasn t true, but it was something he hung on to because he could not face the idea that he received russian interference that may have helped him win the election. we know he thinks that makes him an illegitimate president. that s the fear that he has. it shows again the president willing to dance in the fever swamps of conservative fringes and these conspiracies led to he s led by among others rudy giuliani who has continued to push those going forward. that is where the president and this white house is right now. there isn t a robust defense. there isn t a suggestion of fighting on the facts. they re still trying to mudd
nations ravaged by civil war. this is beyond repugnant. in a civil war, americans are killing one another. i mean, that is how reckless and irresponsible this is. the president is not only peddling debunked conspiracy theories, he s engaging in the kind of rhetoric that only would have been found in the pafarthe reaches of the most extreme fever swamps on the right and it s got to be very concerning. thanks so much to all of you. coming up, family ties. how the president s son helped in propelling congress to start impeachment proceedings. and live from new york saturday night live back for its 45th season on nbc. true to form, already taking on the race for the white house. i m also america s cool aunt. a fun aunt.