they were his people and it was all on him. we saw him go to the house floor the next day and do it you have these republicans that want to have it both ways. listen, i m very glad mike pence said what mike pence said at the gridiron it is there. it now is in the history books and we know about it, but i just at a comedy dinner, really? i don t understand why they can t just tell the american people the truth talk to the camera, and tell them the truth i know that s not in vogue right now at a lot of networks it s not in vogue for a lot of politicians. i should say for a lot of cable news hosts at other networks but when you want to hear the truth about donald trump from top republicans these days, you just can t expect to hear it in the light of day instead, maybe some will say it in whispered, off-the-record
trump said this past weekend, you d have the entire republican party coming out and condemning him. instead, these people are all along for the ride. here s and thing, they ll say horrible things about the fbi publicly, and privately, they ll say horrible things about donald trump. which tells you, again, every institution is under attack. they ll actually say, they ll lie about government employees, saying they re coming to iowa with ar- 15s and are going to knock down doors and kill iowans. no backing down from chuck grassley. no backing down from the cable news hosts that said that government officials were coming to kill middle class americans, when they know it s a lie. it s radical. how do you deal? i don t even know. i don t even know how you d deal
so think of the effects of that. we re undermining the election officials and making them too scares to do their jobs and when it takes time to count votes the conspiracy theories start coming in because that is when you have the vacuum of information and that is when people start saying the election was stolen. so we re perpetuating a people that don t trust the democratic process. oh, my god, there is somebody on the internet who is saying these things and there is nothing that could be done by the crackpots, no this is being said by one of the top republicans in the house, one of the most senior democrats and senior republicans in the senate. this is being said by some of the most top some of the most watched cable news hosts. and they are deliberately, again, just just republicans. chuck grassley, i mean you need
you know, it s interesting, mika, this conversation is fascinating in many ways. one thing, as we look at mar-a-lago from overhead, what is so incredible is that you have all of these news organizations and politicians who understand that, right now, america is pouring over things that were said before january 6th. irresponsible, reckless statements that were made by political leaders, that were made by podcasters, that were made by cable news hosts, that were made by administration officials, that led to a fascist riot and an attempt to take over the united states of america. here you have, in the middle of all this, knowing how the story
ends, you once again have political leaders, cable news hosts, and people online who are fomenting violence. who are talking about civil war. who are talking about the possibility of an armed insurrection starting. it s from the usual suspects. they re at it again, despite the fact that one after another after another fascist, who tried to lead an insurrection or run an insurrection on january 6th, are spending time in jail. when will they ever learn? i guess never. i m just curious, are you going to have, i don t know, media outlets who are already facing exposure, billion dollar exposure for spreading lies about the election and allowing