spin not. is this something that you are making your vote depended upon? it s the third thing you get in analysis in polling. and when you re beginning to see, i think that more and more voters are being driven by this issue and i think that s overwhelmingly gonna favor democrats in this election. john, earlier in the show jeremy peters was talking about how powerful trump is how the party has blinders on. and they re afraid of him. and they continue to follow him. do you think that is still the case? because look at this race. another trump endorsed candidate gone down. his legal problems are only getting worse and we re watching republican candidates in the number of state start scrubbing these abortion policies off with their platform as though it never happened. what does that tell you about where the party is? there s a really catch 22 stephanie for republican candidates. if they go against trump there is a reasonable likelihood that they would be defeated in primary. and they
lodged against the former president trump. doj hasn t really pulled through as it were or at least the reporting is unclear in terms of where they are moving forward with potential criminal charges. bonnie willis is not messing around. she s been very vocal, her head is to the ground, she has blinders on. lindsey graham may take time, however, he can t really argue it s legislative duties that he s doing. the information they are seeking is information pertaining to what he did really as a surrogate for president trump in those waning days at the administration with respect to inserting this alternate slate of electors. i kind of liken it to the crime fraud exception. you can t hide behind these
let me say one more time, we will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously. we re going to get reaction to that from the justice department in just a moment. our new reporting. but in the meantime, let s get right to rachel scott tonight. we were on the air together this afternoons that that remarkable moment played out after the hearing. stephen ayear, the ohio man, who described himself as a family man who worked for a cabinet maker who wound up storming the capitol, he said, for trump. he said looking back, it s like he had blinders on. look at that moment here, he approached the officers, apologizing for what he had done? reporter: yes, david. and tonight, sergeant gone nel tells me that he does accept that apology from stephen ayres, but he believes he does need to be held accountable for his actions, david. and rachel, i want to go back to another key moment, lawmakers obtaining text messages from former president trump s former campaign manager brad pa
began looking into allegations that o connell was tampering with evidence and coercing witnesses. you re sort of accused here of misleading, concealing, slanting, all to sort of fit your theory, that you had blinders on. yes. did you? absolutely not, no. what i was doing, josh, was following the leads on where they were taking me. to heather s family, the announcement that detective o connell was under investigation came as welcome news. anything that didn t fit into what he thought was going on, he just kinda dismissed and didn t even look back at. he just wanted to be able to pin it on somebody and somebody go to jail for it. facing possible criminal charges, o connell resigned from the sheriff s office and began managing a mcdonald s. it s not the way i wanted to
formative years. the child is in their formative years and how they form it, how how are they being formed and john, when i asked all those questions, i mean, i m kind of asking i i myself t, because we all get caught up. we re so busy screens the stupid phone and we removeov ourselves from life as it s l happening right now around and we re missing life. we re missing in action.so and there s a lot of there s a a there is a lot heard around us and it s easier to put a blinders on . and again, i m not i m not pointing fingers. allay of us .rs. all of final final words, all of us and life has become kind of desensitized. we ve become desensitized as a culture. i believe, to blood and guts and gore. i really believe that ilo it saddens me, you know, it s justt