hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. whatever the results of next tuesday s midterm elections, there is no denying that these midterm elections are taking place with the very real specter of political violence and the prevalence of disinformation as a political weapon, unmatched in modern political times. large swaths of the gop have been swallowed up completely by the disinformation about the integrity of our very election systems, and many on the right have normalized conversations around political violence to the point in which polls show it is accepted by many as a useful tool to achieving the right s political aims. now, this says all sorts of things about the weakness of our democracy right now. more importantly, it says a whole lot of things about the weakness of the gop as a governing party. now, a party interested in governing would be desperate to debate policy and have those debates and win those debates ridded in data and a shared set of facts. there s none
similar to what happened on january 6th. we now know that this sprawling investigation that s looking at january 6th is looking at this. they re calling it brooks brothers 2.0, along the line of the brooks brothers riot that happened during the 2000 election. and they are looking and asking questions about roger stone s role in this and the role of a stone associate named jacob ingalls. they re looking at another individual who wrote a memo that was passed on to the head of the proud boys just right before the january 6th insurrection that laid out a plan for taking control of the capitol. so sort of it gives you a sense that the january 6th investigation has cast a very large net. so large that it goes back to 2018. and when we looked at the 2018 event, it just it had not