that he was a threat to our constitution. right, but you, if i may say so, you ve now become a voice in an extraordinarily polarised debate in the united states, which often plays itself out on social media platforms and often seems to blur the lines between fact based, evidence based truths and rumours and speculation, and, therefore, it is important to perhaps look at your record, too and if i look at your record, i do see that on twitter, from time to time, you have retweeted allegations involving trump and others close to him which have then been disproved, and you ve had to delete your tweets, and just one particular example when you tweeted insinuations that a plane that had gone down in russia might have been downed by putin because it carried a passenger who had important information about the trump russia investigation turned out that was complete nonsense, and i believe you had to retract. you know, you ve become a player, and sometimes you ve been peddling fake news. wel
constitution to prevent a sitting president from accepting benefits of a private sort from foreign leaders, and we know that donald trump, throughout his administration, enriched himself at the hands of people like the saudi prince and others, people who rented whole floors of his hotels. it s not a personal thing with me. i don t know the man, i ve never met him but i have believed from the beginning that he was a threat to our constitution. right, but you, if i may say so, you ve now become a voice in an extraordinarily polarised debate in the united states, which often plays itself out on social media platforms and often seems to blur the lines between fact based, evidence based truths and rumours and speculation, and, therefore, it is important to perhaps look at your record, too and if i look at your record, i do see that on twitter, from time to time, you have retweeted allegations involving trump and others close to him which have then been disproved, and you ve had
i have said we try not to spend too much time discussing the failed former president and his election lies. he is widely expected to run as a republican presidential candidate in 2024. so it s important to keep an eye on the messages that he is sending to the political party that he has taken over. the clip we are about to play was obtained from a cbs affiliate in ohio. in it, trump appears in a video message played for the attendees of the pennsylvania republican debate held in new castle last wednesday. he is spreading baseless lies, disproved about the 2020 election results. western pennsylvania, as you know, we did very well there. we did very well in the state. we won the state. it s something that i contest and i will continue to contest. we were up by a massive amount at 10:00 in the evening. all of a sudden, things closed
perfectly willing to throw anyone under the bus who even deviates slightly from supporting him. and so that is that s obviously of concern, but eventually, as i said, you take all the pieces of the puzzle and you put them together, and you will see, not only that it happened way before january 6th, but that it s continuing today. there is an ongoing threat to democracy, there are ongoing lies. the statements about a stolen election, which has been disproved in every venue that it has been presented, every court that s looked at it has thrown it out. and yet, millions of donald trump followers believe it. and that goes to the future risk, if they really believe it and want to act on it again. jill and michael, thanks to both of you. i m going to fit in a break. let me tell you what s coming up. ukrainian forces are attacking targets within russian for the first time. also, a huge victory for the left, for labor, and against
into the big lie. he says he and former president trump both actually won the races they lost. you remember donald trump lost georgia by about 12,000 votes to joe biden. david perdue lost his senate seat by an even bigger margin to jon ossoff. they re pulling out suitcases of ballots and they counted them multiple times and that s why georgia went blue. there s no evidence of widespread fraud in georgia. multiple independent investigations proved that the ballots were even counted three times there and that suitcase thing is a conspiracy theory that s been disproved. there s that today, and then some separate news about this notorious phone call now that happened right after the 2020 election. not the phone call between then-president trump and georgia s secretary of state that you have heard about, but another one that reuters is reporting today. including the person who reps this guy, rapper kanye west, usually responsible for dealing with paparazzi, or keeping a divorce out of the t