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Saying, president trump sent me here, he s our president, he sent us here, and we won t listen to anything that you say. the big lie exploded into a violent insurrection on january 6, a big lie of bogus election interference, the big lie that s still alive and well today. 78% of republicans in our latest cnn poll don t think joe biden actually won the election. you know who else didn t believe that? the rioters on january 6th. and their defenders today. that is another attempt by the previous administration and right-wing media to dig for nonexistent dirt, blows up right in their faces. after more than two years, special counsel john durham s investigation of the investigators digging into the origins, or as the former president said, oranges of the trump russia investigation, is apparently ending not with a bang but with a whimper. more than two long years, longer
Do you have a sense that officials are much more prepared than they were on january 6th? they absolutely are. but that s not necessarily saying a whole lot, given how unprepared they were on january 6th. that said, it s clear that everyone involved, as phil was saying, has learned their lesson and is going to start taking these threats very seriously going forward. i think one of the challenges from january 6th to now is that we haven t seen the justice department, the u.s. government, the fbi, take actions that seem like they would be discouraging the incitement of morallies, more riots like this going forward. but i don t think any of the people, you know we ve seen obviously hundreds of indictments and charges against what i would consider sort of low-level participants in the insurrection on january 6th. but we haven t seen, i think,