Next weekend. Have a great night story. I'm anderson cooper, the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories is fleurus, the rise of online social platforms that cater to extremist views with little to no regard for what's true and what's not cnn's donie o'sullivan has spent years talking to people who've fallen for these conspiracy theories. But tonight he's focusing on a group of people you probably haven't heard from young men who were once liberal democrats, but have changed their views and some pretty surprising ways they say after becoming disillusioned with politics time at conferences and there's a subtle arche to a successful like making sure there's plenty of refreshing creating room for stimulating conversation at a good conference, you can feel like you're at home but sometimes conferences mixed bag remember the year she had a got it, sometimes you get a warm welcome. Sometimes you get harassed. It's funny sometimes you even get caught. You arrived in vegas and got hacked within an hour. Sometimes you have to make your own fund memorial day weekend and i'm not at a barbecue. Are watching a parade. I'm in michigan for one of the biggest gatherings of propalestinian activists in the country. Not welcome here, because a 24yearold named jackson henkel, you're not prepared to admit that israel is a terrorist organization. You wrong. Kim jong moon is a peace seeking leader despite what the talking heads safe, we're going to denazify you okay. And then we're going to denazify. You. Just sound completely bonkers. Jackson is holding another much smaller event for gaza across town that's your name. Vivek merrick to reach our yeah. He and his followers called themselves maga communists. And that isn't supposed to be a joke i said, you guys always jackson and your journalism i am math does not look like on the first journalist what you've come all this way to be here. Yeah, i feel like jackson, he always speaks what he thinks. He doesn't have a filter all, right it's about 30 minutes to go, but yeah, let's see if they sell it out i don't know. I don't know what to do, not know what to expect of kids in suits among, the suit's a democrat turned maga communists in a hawaiian tanked up and flipflops who calls himself charm trombone follow me on everything that's your online name? yeah, my online. Not actual name is adam service okay i'm incredibly american, born and raised in then hioe so you're a streamer yeah. Yeah. I've been on truist, but i've been banned off to a few times. They don't like me because i'm very political like these guys. My god, my heroes, which is weird to say since they are younger than me these guys are here? yeah, absolutely. Serious yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't be here if they weren't are you are you a maga communists? absolutely meg communist. I used to hate trump. I would call him not sure if i'm cost her, say bad things well, yeah. Know i used to call him a pedophile, a litter retards, stuff like that because i was a big bernie bro i was like, do anything for burning anything. Right. And that's why i love these guys because they just assume you're smart. They're going to tell you all this morning is stuff and if you don't get it, then you're just going to miss out on the next big thing, which hopefully his maga, communism or at least america's form of communism maga, communism, maga communist, you know, people watching cnn are going to say, you're crazy absolutely. I would hope so everybody great. It's good to be here. We actually have cnn in the building with us tonight there filming some propaganda documentary the crowd here was mostly male and mostly twice. Today's event is called free america to free palestine, shadow to the ai, gods for giving him this beautiful shot of the american cowboys with the palestine flag. We need to stop supporting these genocidal maniacs. Didn't we need to, of course, arrest everyone who is committing these crimes at this very moment, which is almost all of congress and the white house but jackson had barely started gaza. I've been a rush. I've been to china. Their major cities are much nicer before he launched into pro russia and prochina talking points. Now roches better and stronger than ever before, and their leader has a very high approval rating the more america supports real terrorists entities like israel, real terrorists, countries like ukraine, the more that we strengthen our actual enemies. And i will just say once and for all. So piers morgan never asked asked me again. No. I do not condemn hamas jackson, social media following skyrocketed after the october 7 attack on israel, joe biden is plunging us into a fascist state william scott told me. He's a big fan of vladimir most of what is said about vladimir putin in the main street impresses just factually not true. We as communists want to you night with maga voters and finish the job of donald trump as the event came to a close super fans lined up to me jackson inspiring thing i've ever seen in are entirely i've seen a barack obama speak. That was something to. Behold for sure, you'd see all the people there and you think, wow, i'm really a part of something i really don't, i really cannot tell if you're doing a but not everyone who came here was a fan of jackson's i want to you think? i think he's an insane person in zain? yeah, i think he's insane, rightfully criticize america where they should be critical besides within glorifies the chinese communist party, north korea terrorists that have kidnapped and murdered people. I think it's weird how he ties himself to maga. Maga communism when donald trump is the most pro proisraeli president, that's ever lived maga, communism or complete polar office are you going to try to speak to him? yeah. Machar to speak to him. Okay. I'm going to do so as a gentleman candela provocateur in his own rise propped up hamas. Why do we think hamas had the ability to do what they did? that's called propaganda has a history of appearing on online conservative media think. When you talk about, i just want to i want to make sure i understand. When you go into the things about china or russia, i ran especially china, you omit know much about them from texas. And the things that try now have lived in try and i went to a university. You don't say that 100,600 million people in the country still logged on less than $1. 40 today. Well, you don't you say those things, okay. Ok. You're very, very emotional jackson quickly he realize that he wasn't talking just in a cnn propaganda cnn propaganda disguises cnn agent. I'm seeing it as the worst outlet you get out danny but the men that we met here weren't always this way. My name is jackson henkel, a few years ago jackson was campaigning for progressive causes i was blm originally. Blm has been coopted by nato, by the government. And adam aka a charm whole that changed as well. So you money a big you use a big liberal, democrat you are a bernie bro burned go through and through i wanted to find out what had change. Why do you think the russians like he's i speak truth it's good to see you that american politics is schizophrenic but you got one side saying you're crazy, you get the outside saying you're crazy. Like we were loading are suv when crack cep like came right to us and we could see exactly when they had arrived with a replacement. We could trust schedule free mobile service at safe flight. Com. We pay your safe place diabetes, progress is having your coffee like you like it without an audience freestyle libre three plus censor tractor glucose in real time. So everyone else doesn't have to earn overtime. We can help lower your a1c confident choices for more control of your life. 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Me bad job for a minute look at this what i do for my that's worth man let me back up for a minute charm whole adam service adam campaigned for bernie sanders. Now he's a big fan of jackson pinko. And in his own words, he is terminally online hi how are you doing? good, good to see you van i've gotten taller since i've seen you know, i've gotten shorter i think my dad's hiding. He doesn't want to be on cnn. That was your talk all about how this is a funeral parlor was a funeral 100 years ago. This is actually my mom's hometown. Okay. Her dad, world war ii vet, theater. So he passed away i believe for years ago. My mom passed away two years ago. Okay. Her dad always had a saying that was his chair. If you go up to the bathroom or cook something, right, you jump in his chair and then he'd. Come out and say, would you job, but my grave is fast two years later, she jumped right in here. All right. I need to see where you are terminally cleaned up a little bit for you. Thank you. So what i've got is 2k monitor right here, curved samsung odyssey g7, love the sucker, 240 frames a second. Could i like pulling a chair maybe to sit what you're actually yeah. Look like millions of other video gamers. Adam watched his live streams on platforms like twitch, where fellow gamers often talk politics, how many? harris day would you say you play up here play, excuse me. This is this is work right now. This is research. I'm listening today and bond jenna, while also talking to you and playing chess, broglie leg i'm god gamer, right? remember that salivary. How many hours a day are you god gaming and his fulltime job. So anywhere from six to ten hours wow. How disgusting politics politics is this stuff? normally wouldn't have is, you know, i got a discord or being blown up rumble. So i got been gino x secret service telling me all about how jill biden and coco cam can almost allowed trump to get jfk aid and i'll do that while playing for your hands there? i've never had a takeaway whatever had toggled there's nothing more american and taco bell yeah. Could i get for cheesy street to lupus i'm sorry, though. We don't serve what do is worth just never have leftover tonga adam had moved back to his small hometown in rural ohio after years of living in bloomington, indiana city, about four hours away. Tell me though jackson henkel? yeah. Maga communism. Oh, yeah. Maga communism, maga. Songs like so dumbest thing ever. So. It's fine. Yes, boomer, you cannot define it to boomers, right? because i'm a millennial i think, right? yeah. Okay. So it's like i said, you have to remember this communism is the russian word for conservatism no, it's not the next intersection you want to take a left or else we're just going to see a whole bunch of beans and corn he ever miss the bright lights of bloomington no. No, no. You view your time and indiana in the city as kind of like a period of your life that's over an hour right? yeah. Oh, yeah. Campaign for bernie and you're calling all my facebook friends racist because they didn't want when i've over obama in biden was still in the race. So a year i'm guessing you're just not harris fine. She's as'ad bought because there's is. All right. Zionist operated government. We are adam casually bantered in the kind of hateful speech he regularly sees and memes and online slang. Well, what happens in november? what happened with harris wins if are you don't make it to bend and cheat again like they did four years ago because the dnc definitely cheats which bernie just admitted liar. You're saying the only way harris could win is if they cheat? yeah, 1,000%. This is a thing and that's probably what you're going to cut this all up into, is me being like really bad, evil white man races that, oh man, i just take democrats or hate liberals like, riot, much economy is you know, and it's like, okay, one, i was just just a part of them. Look, four years ago i was i was in it right. I've been betrayed by them multiple times. So now i'm trying my hand being betrayed by their products already adams departure from the left has taken them down a dark past to people like white supremacist, nick fuentes, conspiracy theorist alex jones, and maga communist jackson henkel adam is among the eight 8% of bernie sanders supporters in the 2020 democratic primary, who are now pro trump and you actually fight in jackson henkel. Impressive. You actually fundamentally, i have to because one is really good looking. He's fundamentally a handsome man, right? when we first met, you said that being american man, being masculine, it's been kind of equated with toxicity, but it's that's because it is by nature, we are naturally acidic, but we can also bus nuts and create more humans or the one woman has a role in that era. We make the men that's what my mom would always say. There's two things she ever wanted to do in her life, be a nurse and have boys. She did both. That's why she died happy no, no. Died fulfilled. This is why it was such a liberal growing up, because my dad would always listened to rush limbaugh you know, and he's always, yelling. He's really mad about everything and everything is going to share it. And i was like cornyn, a mom, this is toxic. This is bad. Then i just naturally and an aversion to conservatism and men and masculinity. And that's why i got called gay for so much. I mean that in the blonde hair, you've got called gay. Yeah. All the time in this park, constantly. So one thing you brought up, you gotta spell in in a mental health hospital do you take any meds for to give me zyprexa? it was like $280 a month. I laughed at right if you could afford it, would you know? no, i just smoked weed instead. I've been on antidepressants and self her bausch 12 years now. Oh, my jesus well, no wonder you're so good at being true neutral got no emotions. Mess with you. Donie, what's up today, how you're feeling? yes family like yours. Yeah the player on kids call, you know, they called me fat though you're always this fat yes you can change. You've got off those mood stabilizers, start throwing the ball adams use of homophobic bake racist and antisemitic slurs is something that he sees as quote unquote, edgy. You keep saying zogba i'm only uses because i've been listening to a lot of nick fuentes. You're not a nick fuentes fan? not necessarily. I think that he's a white supremacist. Well, think about it. He's okay he's a white proponent. He's an antisemite. He's right, he's really isn't why he loves kanye and alex jones who they've been trying to nail for god knows how long now you are an now. Absolutely i am now absolutely. But you don't believe the stuff he said about sandy hook kids difficult question for you to answer. Well, look at the evidence let's say that he started to look into it and it turns out obama had those kids murdered on purpose, but he did ease. But if they died, that's still a possibility because he was president. But by purpose, i still mean negligence. What about the parents of the children? who were what i hope it isn't good. Jones doing is making these tragedies. So much worse know, how do you get worse than child death? i'll tell you how by having idiots who watch alex jones show up and start harassing the parents of the children who died in the sandy hook shooting that's how you make it worse. Adam and i, we're going around in circles on this nonsense when my photographer andrew weighed in from behind the camera, i just want to say something. I see a lot of view in may yeah. It might told you i grew up five minutes from sandy hook, just i was there, i was there right away. You know, somebody i knew that the nurse her mother was killed that day and i grew up with her daughter and everyone in town knows that dad. Okay yeah, small town when something like that happens, that's why i said earlier that maybe it was obama who killed those children photographer had briefly brought a dose of reality to the fantasy world that adam lives in online travel to the democratic national convention in chicago, where we were about to meet one of his former twitch heroes, hassan piker. What is going on with this roe? chicago put some crazy on their dei and some other familiar face he mike mike lindell's in here, dude yellow guys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Michael, no massage. 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Yes, it is tents here sorry about that organizers are right to be worried because these guys scumbags in america, not everyone here is on their side loads of propalestine demonstrators gathering over here. Small group of proisraeli demonstrators, and among them we found some maga influencers cnn 00 we watched as farright troll and pizzagate conspiracy theorist jack posobiec tried to disguise himself as a pro palestine protester. Know the mainstream media isn't going to be out here. I haven't seen anyone in the mainstream media that's hanging out here. But his disguise didn't work out fascist ejak patrol got trolled today. Dnc, i'm getting paid by george soros. I have an abortion on the stage and i'll be broadcasting live for what it is, not just outside the event this years dnc was the first where creators or influencers were treated the same as the mainstream press. One of the biggest stars in the new world of news consumption is hassan piker. I'll put this in the trunk to how are you letting this guy dr how do you explain what it is you do i've a pretty easy explanation for people that are older i basically do what rush limbaugh used to do right but online instead of on radio and also, i don't have brain worms. His game is loved. Hassan has almost 3 million followers on the video game streaming platform twitch i'm talking for eight to ten hours every day and an hour today. Yeah. Yeah. Where he streams live almost all day watching the news. The former president was found guilty of all 34 felony counts, team and playing video games. How do we fight again, i told you about sometimes plan a character named after me. He even tries to do an irish texans more name is donie o o'sullivan, sara, i'm fascinated with republicans and i obviously always loved the hits that you would do when you go to these rallies and you talked to them or get out people may you know, people might confuse us yeah. You're 64 built myself. Are you harris, the border? what does have a harris supporter you'll vote for maybe we'll see i get a lot of criticism from the democratic party loyalist, regardless yeah. Hassan was about to try and live stream all day from the dnc, pray to god that the internet is stable this is my permanent space. This is fire. I mean, i, this is cool and it's a much cooler than i anticipated. I can say cnn from here. Underside order. So this is in your writer that would not be in my writer protein. We need more protein in here. It would feature core power, elite 42 grams of protein, 230 calories slick on the face of this the sun is a bro, one of these socalled masculine men, the jackson and charm hold revere on, aspire to be. Do you know about this maga communist? yes. Jackson hegel being one of them. He was like a bernie bro i think back in the day i'm like, i don't know anything about the guy you were bernie guy you're bernie. Bernie, bro. Yeah. I like bernie yeah. But hassan says his brand of masculinity is very, very different to jackson's hitler at the end of the war, he killed himself. He's a like, how does this happen? were you are to the right of adolf hitler what is it about some of these guys that has made them go from farleft too fire rice, like every young man and a serb point of their lives are like had some kind of insecurity, whether it'd be about their sexuality or whether it'd be about their future prospects or whatever. And i think that like a lot of a lot of these guys take advantage of that and present this false narrative that like in order to be a man, you got to be like homophobic. It's like know a real man and he's going to want to protect people who are marginalized. It really is getting intertwined more and more with politics where a lot of young men who are disillusioned for whatever reason, they don't have governed, they don't have a job and they have people telling them this is not your fault. To some extent so societal issue, of course. But here specifically as who to blame in a way that can have profound impacts for our society in our politics. Yeah, i mean, you're absolutely correct, which is why i always advocate the fix the underlying material inequalities that creates a perfect opportunity for these guys to be radicalized in this way. The dnc had given her son a nice setup whoa, i just i just dropped zero. What is happening? but didn't give the twitch streamer the thing he needed most a working internet connection. It's completely gone. The internet is completely gone they shut it off with the grace patti labelle rehearsing behind him or we left her sand to figure out his technical difficulties as we move around the dnc, we saw more and more creators and influencers each one trying to upstage the other because i was here at the democratic dnc day one what is a skibbereen? let's such vs you got a ban an area here or what he got to go right wing guy versus really big is suborder for howard is here. I got to give it to him. They are arguing statistics and policies what do you go? hasn't devolved into a culture war yet, but that didn't last long well, i did are use the gender neutral bathroom and out of your yard, there is something wrong with that? ben had soon moved on to the convention's gender neutral restrooms. How was that experience? i'll tell you why he has joined at the restrooms by mike lindell, the pillow salesman, and alive election denier, who was all too in disguise, should he be gauff why mustache were going inside the democratic convention in disguised. Are you from ireland? i did not recognize it. Mike isn't exactly discrete i'm in the democratic convention then del beta to what a 12yearold content creator, to i don't have any drawn it and 57,000 votes is happened last week. A judge ruled in june wasn't buying us your sources. Trust me, that's your source. He provided no facts, no sources. Mike lindell just got rolled by a 12yearold jackson henkel didn't make it to chicago for the convention this summer, but he had made multiple trips to russia. Now i'm in vladivostok. I'm safe for the time being. I wanted to find out two jackson really is. So we finally got to speak to him. You are an absolute yes into the propaganda in russia and china. I'm a gift to the free people the world, and to some of the people who knew her best, are you worried for him? i'm more worried for myself doing this right now, i'm sorry, but i don't want his army coming after me first. Speaking out against the maga communism movement well enough, amelia, ana navarro takes a very personal journey across the nation to explore the latino vote. Nobody should pay the latino vote one wide brush. The whole story with anderson cooper next sunday at 8:00 on cnn bookstores i read that one. I read that one. I read that. I didn't read that one. Didn't read that. Can you get this? because i left by what way in my back pocket my pleasure because i earned unlimited 2% cashback this is fascinating. 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I, rina maurice voted democrat for decades, but since rfk dropped out of the race and endorse trump, she says she'll now i'll leave full maga i'm voting against the appointee from the swamp factory jackson pinko has had a similar, albeit more dramatic journey from the political left to the political rights before he was a social media firebrand and before he was a darling of the kremlin and russian state tv mubarak jackson grew up here and just a few short years ago, he was a softspoken kid who picked up trash on the beach an organized the club down on plastics in his school. We really want it because we're in the same environmental science class. Josh green was friends with jackson, all true out their teens. We were some of the few liberal students and our entire school, we had a very conservative student body, josh and jackson campaign for liberal causes does together. And so we would often be ridiculed for standing up for progressive issues like the environment or gun safety or gay rights. People thought that we were soft leftist snowflakes after jackson graduated high school, he was the youngest person here to run for city council. I think that again, city council candidate has to be well versed on the issues or in china is very conservative. What are you, razkaoui kids up to in this run for office were up to ally right now? he had a remarkable little career considering it was just out of high school. He's putting himself through junior college and he was responsible for the all the solar panels that you see around san clemente high school and that was his idea. And he just had done drive a drive that you see and some young people, but not a lot of them. Natural communicator, pretty much, yeah. Jackson lost his election bid and sometime thereafter mr. Lost his youthful politics as well. And a lot of what i had been forcefed through my education as a young individual was all propaganda something had turned him into this you're going to kind of go down the path of it gets like that. They're all transgenders and gays but now this yes i had been searching for answers about jackson. And he agreed to sit down and talk to me directly. You're promoting something called maga communism? yes. Which to a lot of people is going to sound moronic. Well i think it causes a lot of people to reassess. Their cancellation of the maga working class and they've been written off. They've been called racist or any any sorts of names they've been, they've just been canceled. You are in some ways the quintessential american man, right? you're surfer guy california. So for the russians or the chinese to have somebody like you to go over there and basically schitt's all over america? no, no, no oh, no shooting on america. I loved this country will of the people. I just wanted to be better. Is there not a way to do that? what else? having to fly back andforth to moscow and and seemed to be embracing authoritarian regimes. Well, they're far less authoritarian, didn't the united states. Come on man ultimately, you'd come know, ultimately, i live in the generation where for the first time there's going to be a lower standard of living than the previous generation that's not good. And i mean, i get i hear all that. But when you say russia and china i've got a better, well, they're major cities are much nicer if you go and take highspeed rail hours into china, you can genuinely say that people in russia and people in china have more liberties than people in the united states. There's no free speech you have, you have a lot of free freespeech, really. You take in free speech you don't think give free speech though. I mean, what's the public square today? it's obviously social media. You have 3 million followers on x. You can post whatever you want your hosting events here. How do you not have free speech? while kind of various speeches being curtailed? very simple. It's very simple yes, i've 3 million followers on x. But what about instagram? i've been banned. Youtube, i've been banned. I was banned from riaa, a dating site, jackson's bans might have something to do with his repeated sharings of hateful posts and his celebrations of violence you look like you're in pain i'd been left frustrated and confused by jackson. Did he really believe all the stuff he was saying or is he just doing it all for social media? klaus or for money i just don't know if i believe you're whatever his motivations, his message and his propaganda is ready. There's an aide like donald trump. Jackson is definitely found a way to build an audience of people who feel disenfranchised or field pushed away by our society in our system. Was there ever a moment for you where you were like what the hell is going on. My friend, one of the first was when he did the interview with tucker carlson, know biden is plunging us into a fascist state because tucker carlson is an somebody who like jackson, either believes what they're saying or because they get paid a lot to do it, jackson describes himself as a communist, right why? because he smoked a lot of weed and read karl marx. He's the biggest capitalist i've ever seen i'm so disappointed in what's happened to jackson he had this opportunity to be something really positive. But he has become the king of conspiracy theories. The king of conspiracy theories. You heard of somebody called jackson henkel? yes. Hunt, you think about him, not my politics at all. Jackson had been condemned and disavowed by establish pro propalestinian activists. People see our cause and our issue as their playground. A lot of the times, but he isn't alone in resetting his political compass. 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A dude, i have a better location and jaketapper or you should tell it you, jake that a hassan had finally got some working internationally you are the news now, i think most people who are like not exactly fans of my perspective are still like, well, that's a famous guy know and every i hassan streams live on twitch pretty much everywhere he goes, even when he's grabbing lunch, he's not a jackson pinko fan and actively calls out the kind of hate jackson's freites boss i will say this of people that are on the payroll of the american government or at least working at the behest of the american military industrial complex that's a metric ton of propaganda that has never considered propaganda in that same vein. As what jackson henkel's doing. Now, i don't even know what his background is in terms of if he's getting funded by foreign governments or whatnot for all his chauvinism and misinformation. Jackson is speaking to a different understanding of america, covid, changed the world. There was a radicalization on the rice when it came to lock downs and it came to mask. Yeah, what about on the other side, the american project hinges on being able to afford your treats the moment that you're access to your treats that are affordable, or restricted everything will evolve. Our society collapses because then you're like, well, what am i doing this for you know, i have a as job no future prospects barely can make payments. But at least i go to applebee's and get fivedollar jalopy, no popper's, frank and hanging out with the boys islamic couple broos, was some football covid broke down a little bit all of a sudden. Everyone was like, well, okay, what's the whole purpose of this then if i can treat i think that that was like the breaking point for a lot of people checks and henkel eight years ago was like a bernie kids. Now he's hanging out at the kremlin basic how does that happen? i don't think it's political compass is very well aligned. Joshua frank is the editor of counterpunch, one of the bestknown leftwing magazines in the world. I certainly don't think he's on the left. I don't know what omega communist actually is, and i don't think he does. One thing that jackson and i can agree on. Were both american pages tree its in the sense that we're willing to criticize our own country. I don't disagree with everything that he says. I think there's way too much russiaphobia in this country. Obviously the war with russia and ukraine is horrible. But i think this country needs to eventually work with countries like russia and china i think a lot of the younger generation, they have a different perspective of us history of colonialization. They're further away from world war ii in that narrative. They're skeptical of what the government is telling them to believe, especially when they're seeing an alternative in their social media feeds. But that's also working get kind of dangerous because you do have to have some sense of media literacy. Yeah. Because it's one thing having a healthy skepticism of, of any media outlets really raised any narrative that's being pushed. But on the other hand, what you have is people totally abandoning journalism. Getting their news from somebody like jackson ankle, if you or a loved one has ever been fooled by western propaganda about ukraine. I don't blame you. Post stuff that is so infuriatingly illinformed so many people in his comments, and his community just take what he's saying as the truth jackson is a russian propaganda dream, right? yeah. Yeah, whether he's doing it and he's on the payroll or not, they're getting a great bargain, right? i mean, if they got was actually on the left, he would talk about the press in russia and the crackdown on the free press. They would talk about these things, but they don't write. And why is that? it raises some flags for me a jackson i was going you're breaking up a little bit, but that's ok. Good. Here in moscow, russia. Yes. I see that it is trying to reconnect. The internet now you totally frozen when i spoke to jackson, he was back in russia. The kremlin had organized to bring him to parts of ukraine. It had illegally invaded, or they brain mushing it people who are being brainwashed or the people paid by the military industrial complex to about certain views. Do you haven't gone full, tucker carlson yet though you haven't gone to a supermarket and started sniffing bread come on. And coming to a russian grocery store. The heart of evil it will radicalize you against our leaders. That's how i feel anyway, radicalized jackson denies taking money from the russian government you're a guest basically of the russian foreign ministry rice. There's multiple private and public individuals that i think are supporting my efforts to see the country and in showing me the truth about russia, i paid for my travels. I paid for my hotel expenses every time i think maybe this guy is mature, you tweet something stupid you did a poll hold you are facing a death sentence before a judge, but the judge's on her period. Are you okay with are you just a straightup sexist? i, just don't understand what's the deal with this sort of stuff? well, of course, you have to introduce comedy into the dark times, but jackson and his followers have a warped view of women. End of the world. So i was dating all these women who are alarming as men who want power for themselves, who want money, who want to be like men, unlike a traditional woman and they all failed game theory suggests that the problem is not me, john vause in an election year like this, a lot of things get worn in springfield. They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats they're eating they're eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what's happening in our country. My mom actually seen a post on facebook. There was haitians in a white van driving around the neighborhoods, collecting cat for what? scanning them and eating them. We've heard from a number of constituents on the ground, caitlin hu, both firsthand and secondhand reports saying this stuff is happening. If someone calls your office and says they saw bigfoot, that doesn't mean they saw bigfoot jd vance has also been the target of ridiculous conspiracy theories. Let me break it down yesterday multiple social media accounts spread fake claims that in his book, hillbilly elegy, vance describes having sex with a couch. City on hard cao chair not my thing, but maybe you know, it's funny. My mom was asked me about it and she asked if it was true a lewd conspiracy theory about j. D. Vance and a couch doesn't quite undermine american democracy the same way as for years falsely claiming an election was stolen, but it does show how a conspiracy theory that might seem crazy or clearly a joke to some of us might not to someone else. Especially if it plays and put their political biases. It's about your mom who said democrats antitrump, i would call her. Okay. But she was genuinely wondering, did that happen yeah. Yeah. Yeah and that was after when walz made the comment in his speech, i can't wait to debate the guy that is, if he's willing to get off the couch and show up think that that's our danish with politics, right? you have someone like trump and vance out there saying 1 million things every day? so the democrats pushing back in a funny way it's kind of like they asked for it. Right? i spent a lot of my time talking to trump's voters, trying to understand the rabbit holes people go down on your stream. You have a bit of fun with it. Sometimes, i think you also refer sometimes to trump's orders as hogs. So you're not going to take the vaccine. Well, absolutely not. What have trump came out and said, please please take this vaccine. No, i don't believe he'll take it well, he did it funny. You do you must feel some entity, at time, some simple so people are genuinely believe this stuff. Or do ultimately still want to change the minds of people. I don't necessarily fault individuals for going down this rabbit hole because i understand that we're all in some ways victim to propaganda. We cannot escape probably end up. Rachel maddow, she's broke my heart, rachel, i thought you'd tell me the story. More and more of us have people we love our family, our friends falling down rabbit holes rabbit holes that stoke fear and promo taste, rabbit holes can transform people from who they used to be and rabbit holes that can even take them into war zones at the other side of the world's do you are you being followed by the russian security services or for that matter, the cia, i mean, surely the american government knows that you're there while i think if the cia or the russian intelligence is doing their job properly, i wouldn't know. And i don't know. Okay. We'll bring me back at fridge magnet or something well, yeah. I've got to i've actually got a special gift for you