good to be with you, i m katy tur. anything you can do, i can do better. that is the message ron desantis, not so subtly sent to donald trump at the reagan library this weekend. it s been four years, you didn t see our administration leaking like a sieve. you didn t see a lot of drama or palace intrigue. what you saw was surgical precision, execution. day after day after day. and because we did that, we beat the left day after day after day. it is also the message he will be sending to republican voters in iowa and nevada this week, and new hampshire in the coming weeks. if you like the trump policies but got tired of the trump drama, i am your man. that is, of course, if he decides to run, which, by the way by the look of that calendar, iowa, new hampshire, seems like a sure thing. the message is also intended to antagonize liberals. when the world went mad, when common sense suddenly became an uncommon virtue. florida stood as a refuge of sanity, a citadel of freedo
in the wake of the 2020 election, fox news found itself trapped in a confine entirely of its own making. they could tell the truth to the viewers, as all new networks, even fox, inspired to do and are prepared to do. with election decision debts and models, to call races accurately. or, kurt number two, fox news could came to the life and conspiracies being told by the man had almost completely synced up with so closely aligned with by that point. the disgraced ex-president for taking that path would mean that fox news would shield its millions of viewers from the sophisticated and expensive data-driven results produced by its own, competent election desk. importantly, fox news realizes at the highest level of that company, that it cannot do both. according to brandon reporting in the new york times, fox news decision to promote joe biden on election night, it was a call they were able to make ahead of other networks. it is a call that they got right ahead of other networks.
broke that story and expert guidance on what that means. first, let s remember how we got here. today in washington for only the second time a federal judge sentenced a january 6th rioter to more than five years in prison. at 63 months, it is tied for the longest sentence ever imposed on a participant in the capitol attack. and it s not hard to see why. in screen shots taken from officer body cams on january 6th, this guy is seen swinging t pole at a police officer so hard it snaps in two on the officer s riot shield. so then the guy goes and finds another pole and starts swinging that one at officers. the officer he hit with the first pole the one he hit so hard, the pole snapped in two, that was capitol police sergeant, ganel. he gave emotional testimony about the horror of that day to the januarye 6th investigation last year. and today he testified at that rioter s sentencing hearing saying he suffered physical and mental injuries from the attack that forced him to leave t
prosecutors. and just today, on top of that block buster reporting from the post, we have this new reporting from the new york times which obtained some trulyew damning emails among trump campaign officials relating to that fake elector scheme.al you ll recall the way the scheme was supposed to work. various states that biden won signed fake and in some cases forged elector certificates for trump, purporting to be the real and true electors from that state. in other words,d claiming that trump won their state when he did not. then they sent these fake elector certificates to washington with the hope that on january 6th, 2021, mike pence would use them to overturn biden s win and hand the election to trump. when we talk about this plot, we shorthand it as thee fake elecr scheme. now, republicans involved in the plan have maintained there was nothing problematic or illegal about it.le it was all above board and the electoral certificates were totally legit, but the emails obtained by t