arizona house speaker rusty bowers. bowers didn t just refuse to participate in trump s campaign to, i don t know, end democracy. he testified about it publicly before the january 6th select committee laying out exactly how team trump pressured him to throw out the legitimate arizona election results even if they admitted they didn t have a scrap of evidence to back up their vote fraud claims. after saying back in june after that dramatic public testimony that he would support trump in a rematch against biden, bowers had a change of heart and is now saying that he will never, ever vote for trump again. here s what he told abc news jon karl after being the subject of attacks from donald trump. i have thought at times someone born how he was and raised how he was and he has no idea what a hard life is, and what people have to go through in the real world. he has no idea what courage is. how do you explain the hold that he has, though, on republicans including a lot of repub
the disinformation democrats. that s the focus of tonight s angle. it was only a few weeks ago that we told you that the democrats were very worried. the new york times published a piece quoting various democrat officials who were concerned but had hoped that a conviction of trump would improve biden s chances of winning. well, trump was convicted and this is what happened. it did not move the needle. really not at all. and now, top party leaders are again sounding the alarm, this from axios today. senior democrats including some of president biden s aides are increasingly dubious about his theory for victory in november which relies on voter concerns about january 6th, political violence, democracy and donald trump s character. well, of course they re right to be concerned. this is all failing. the top concerns of voters remain the economy, border, inflation, the cost of everything. and biden has made it all worse. everything they try for their strategy to turn it all around
in a speech before the protest, before there was any issue, he said we prioritized the people and their lives above all else, tenaciously pursuing dynamic zero covid policy. in may he warned anybody who questions zero covid vowing to unswervingly adhere to the policy of zero covid, adding our policies can stand the test of history. how do they deal with the black and white hypocrisy here? i mean, that s all in print. it s all there. on state media, they re ignoring the outbreak in many ways and mostly just talking about it in terms of how the government is responding, not focusing on the dramatic scale and rapid spread with focusing on announcements about how the government is increasing fever clinics, icu capacity. but health experts, they re worried that this positive messaging is really detached from reality. there is a new study by researchers in hong kong predicting that nearly one million people in china could die from covid if the country fully reopens without a mass
putting this stuff out there. the tweet and fauci and prosecuting fauci. it s one thing to say pronouns prosecute fauci. when you are one of the world s leading innovators, you also have some responsibility and i just don t think it s becoming. it s not a good look for him and i d tell thim that in person. ro khanna, thank you very much. next, chinese state media piling on the praise tonight for the leader, xi, in what they call his insight into combatting covid, but that insight now has china buckling under an explosion of new cases. and harry and meghan tearing the bandage off. hearing who they re blaming for the couple s miscarriage. trz sell or even trade your car from anywhere it s getting as soon as next day deliveryry
including a particular commentary from the people s daily that has gone viral. let me read a few key lines. so it says, quote, the virus has weakened, but we have become stronger. chairman xi s insightful judgment, scientific, and firm decisions show his reliability as a people s leader. it pointed out the way and provided crucial guidance for us to win this people s battle, total battle and precise battle against covid. now erin, health experts would not call this a precise reopening, and a lot of people are furious over this article. some people are call it a total lie that completely ignores the devastation of the last three years of covid, the trauma and pain that people faced during draconian lockdowns. but erin, of course, no apology. no admitting from the government there was ever a mistake. well, it s amazing now that the whole thing, after zero covid imposed by the government, now it s everyone on their own. and they say wit a straight face. just looking back at president xi