have been organized a little better. reporter: yeah, so, that s basically what we re hearing from folks here. even the biggest proponents, some people who really want to believe in lindell s claims have not seen the evidence here. and, of course, this is a spectacle. it s easy in some ways to laugh at it, but this is very serious stuff. i mean, the guy does have a big platform. a lot of people we speak to around the country listen to him and he s making these claims that are seriously undermining american democracy. a lie is a lie. turns out the lies are lies and always have been. you re right, it s easy to laugh. brianna and i were laughing at the guy on the stage. don t bring facts into this. we don t want the facts here. and also to say we are reporting it and fact checking it, both. yeah. it s clear the facts are a problem for them. and not just on the big lie with the election, too, donie. you ve been talking to people about vaccinations.
reporter: he did not, brianna. mike lindell, the pile owe guy, has become really one of the loudest proponents of the big lie. and for months he has been making very specific, but very serious claims that china hacked america s voting systems and flipped the election, stole it from trump. and he, for weeks, has been inviting the media, cyber experts here to south dakota where he said he would show data that would prove these false claims, but we haven t seen any such proof, any such data. and i want to show you, just to give you an example of the sort of carry-on that s going on here. take a look at this clip from yesterday of one of the speakers on the main stage. ladies and gentlemen, i m not a computer guy. i don t know what most of this stuff means, but i ve been researching this election since november 3rd.
good morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m brianna keel alongside john berman. and katie ledecky. she can t walk off the set because she ll clink. she ll wait a moment. it is thursday, august 12, and we are following serious news today. unvaccinated americans are filling up i.c.u.s this morning. they are actually leaving hospitals on the brink in some parts of the country. mississippi, there is a dire warning that hospitals are potentially days away from failure. the number of new positives that we re seeing, the weight of the testing positives, and the rate of hospitalizations based on what we are seeing, if we continue that trajectory, within the next five to seven to ten days, i think we re going to see failure of the hospital system
to do better at how he speaks? brianna, the vice president got into this race you kn know today is a very important day in america. we remember charlottesville this weekend and especially all this week. charlottesville was an inflection point for many people across the country, the vice president included. from day one he said he got into this race because we are in a battle for the soul of this nation and that has never been more eft than last week. if anyone uniquely understands how high the stakes are. if any of the democratic candidates, it s joe biden. and so, look, i think if you put a camera in somebody s face and a microphone on them and follow them around 100 days, any one of us, i m pretty sure we would be caught with a slip of the tongue. we would be caught making a mistake. the difference is vice president biden every single time has immediately corrected himself. meanwhile, you have donald trump in the white house who the washington post says he lies and we cov
three, four days. that wasn t my question. that s not what he meant. that wasn t my question. vice president biden friis f scranton, pennsylvania. anything that says he doesn t understand working class people in this country is absurd and is not something the american people will buy. i want to talk about his gun proposal. he put out an op-ed and part of that is here s what he said. we ll only see more and deadlier shootings if we continue to dodge the core issue of unregulated assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in our communities. he s talking about a buy-back program, he s talking about universal background checks. i want to talk about the political feasibility of this. i was covering the obama administration during sandy hook. biden was tasked with the efforts to try to make sure something like that didn t happen again. it really went nowhere. i mean he saw that firsthand. why does the vice president think that right now is different? well, first, brianna, vic