elected officials taking power. while also recognizing that you re in year two-plus of a pandemic. people are trying to still figure out what to do about booster shots and kids and job and housing and everything else that trying to dive into the nuances of what s happening in the secretary of state s race in some other place across the country, they can t handle all of it. this is a challenge but doesn t mean we have the choice of running away from it. you might not campaign on it but you have to inform. you can t just pretend it s not happening. we also have to recognize that for many people across the country, that decision isn t going to be the part that motivates somebody to vote or what their vote is. but you can t ignore it. you can t do that. congresswoman love, i want to play some sound from an event this weekend. it s former president trump speaking to a crowd hosted by former fox host bill o reilly. he talks about vice president pence and before we run the sound i want to n
than the conagainst steve bannon. as meadows has engaged with the committee, he s provided extensive evidence and former president trump is still litigating over any potential executive privilege protections in this investigation. but no matter what happens at the justice department, by revealing these extraordinary texts yesterday and today, the committee clearly building its case for contempt against meadows in the court of public opinion. paula reid, thank you. let s discuss this with former republican congresswoman nia love, joe kennedy of massachusetts, congresswoman love, the texts to mark meadows reveal so much about who privately was trying to change the president s mind during the insurrection while publicly and since then, downplaying the significance of it. let s review. please get him on tv. destroying everything you ve accomplished. mark, the president needs to tell people in the capitol to go home. this is hurting all of us. he s destroying his legacy. sean hannity, c
conversations. absolutely. it was incredibly smart. congressman kennedy, another text. the president s son donald junior writes to meadows, he s got to condemn this shit asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough? meadows writes back. i m pushing it hard. i agree. we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it s gone too far and gotten out of hand. how does this fit in with the investigation, do you think? well, look, jake, the idea that you have, as congresswoman love has said, you have a public cover-up at the highest degree here while private acknowledgment of how dangerous this was, including from president trump s own son. there is no way to get around the fact that people at the highest levels of the white house knew had some inkling how severe and how dangerous this moment was. so then to say nothing to see here? or what happened was just a
yes, what you indicated were allegations, who is to say exactly what happened here, but the bottom line is when you have a former president of the united states engaging in a series of endorsements for multiple candidates that have credible allegations of abuse from one of the most heinous crimes we have that has to say not just something about the character of those that were endorsed but obviously the character of the endorser. that being said, i don t think anybody is surprised about what this says about the former president trump, of his character or the credibility that he is willing to lend to women who claim abuse. congresswoman love, moving on to other trump endorsements, not grouped in with these three. democrats have been trying to link republicans to trump in all sorts of races. virginia governor s race, for example, democratic candidate terry mcauliffe calling his opponent glen youngking donald
cited his campaign and concerns for his children. his wife s lawyer celebrated the ruling saying the powerful and influential are not entitled to special treatment and should not be permitted to silence others. the parnell campaign declined to comment. they put out a memo today that suggests the smear campaign is failing and they believe parnell will be the nominee. donald trump is not backing away from any of these endorsements. his spokesperson said he s proud to endorse patriots who love our country and he ll not be disswayed from supporting great candidates despite smear campaigns. mia love and democratic congressman joe kennedy. congresswoman love, we should emphasize, allegations are not facts. it does not mean that they are guilty, but in general, this is the kind of thing that has caused individuals to shy away from supporting other candidates. republicans are telling cnn now they are worried the party is too willing to accept