constitution says or not? over the weekend, republican senator chuck grassley appeared alongside trump at a rally in iowa. so if i didn t accept the endorsement of a person that s got 91% of the republican voters in iowa, i wouldn t be too smart. i m smart enough to accept that endorsement. back in february, grassley rejected the big lie in a statement saying the reality is he lost. he brought over 60 lawsuits and lost all but one of them. but this weekend, grassley looked on ads the former president continued to lie about the 2020 election. first of all, he didn t get elected. forget that. liz cheney shot back at her fellow republicans, tweeting they have a duty to tell the american people that this is not true. perpetuating the big lie is an attack on the core of our constitutional republic. as trump continues to undermine democracy, the house select
capitol attack on january 6th, senator grassley said this. i m quoting. everyone must take responsibility for the destructive actions yesterday including the president. did you ever think, david, you d see republicans as experienced as senator grassly, for example, standing by trump as he spouts these new election lies? no. i never dreamed that we would have a trump, much less a republican party who held the whole country hostage and ran a republican ticket that could bring us keeply into a constitutional crisis. the real crisis that s coming now, wolf, is this nightmare. that donald trump does indeed run as seems likely. he wins the nomination and the general election, he falls three or four points percentage points behind the democratic nominee and 17 red states, they ll be put into place mechanisms to strip those states of those votes and to substitute
would have dramatically changed the paradigm on january 6th. we re joined by andrew mccabe. cnn s senior law enforcement analyst and author of the book, the threat. how the fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump. andrew, how differently do you think january 6th would have gone if all available intelligence was properly disseminated in advance, which this whistleblower claims simply did not happen? well, wolf, i think that understanding the intelligence from every angle, right, what intelligence did the agencies collect? how did they share it with each other and what decisions did they make? what assessments did they make as a result of that, that is the key to not only understanding january 6th, but making sure this sort of failure doesn t happen again. if the agencies like dhs and the fbi and the capitol police hope to get better at what they do, and that should be the goal here, right, to be better at
republican votes. that will bring us into a constitutional crisis and could split the country in two. a lot of people are fearing now. and jamie, you heard liz cheney condemn fellow republicans for selling americans what she called the fraud, the big lie. how worried are republicans behind the scenes and i know, jamie, you re doing a lot of reporting about a possible trump 2024 run. on a scale of one to ten, a 12 plus. as david just said, they think this is a nightmare scenario. i spoke to one very senior republican strategist who said to me that this is a slow motion tsunami. that democracy as we know it is over. the question obviously is is there a way to stop it. when i talk to my republicans, some think that absolutely trump is running and that you know, he could win. some say the republican party
absolutely. republicans who once again rejected the big lie are now falling in line with trump. even the most senior republican says it s smart politics not to push back on trump s un-american attack on our democracy. just another sign that the party is no longer defined by policy, but by loyalty for one man. tonight, growing signs of democracy in peril. nearly a year into the biden administration, top republicans doubling down on the big lie. as they turn to the 2022 midterms. on surrenday, the number two ho republican refused to acknowledge that president biden was legitimately elected. if you look at a number of states, they didn t follow their state-passed laws that govern the election for president. that is what the united states constitution says. they don t say that the states determine what the rules are. they say the state legislatetures determine. are we going to follow what the