coming. this election commission is one of the weirdest and potentially most sinister initiatives of this crazy administration. i totally agree with charlie that the whole genesis of this thing, the whole reason is the president s tender ego that he just can t abide the fact that he lost the popular vote by almost 3 million votes to hillary clinton and so he wants to change that history somehow because he doesn t want to believe it. but the impact can be not only a general sort of mistrust of democracy, of the process of democracy which is totally dangerous in a democracy but also potentially the disenfranchisement of who knows how many voters if this commission decides on whatever basis that a bunch of people registered who shouldn t be or
to binge watch and it s not entertainment. it s our government. this is for real. so it s not normal for the president of the united states to sign off on a story that his son is going to tell to make up for a meeting he probably shouldn t have taken. it s not normal for the president to hold a cabinet meeting that consists of, as the viewers saw here, the staff taking turns to gush over him. it s not normal for the president to undermine the west wing staff by asking people who wander in, what s their opinion of various people who might replace his chief of staff? it s not normal for the president of the united states to make a deal with the russian president for cyber security. the treasury secretary is out on the sunday shows, talking how great this is going to be. by that night on twitter, the president pulls the plug. not normal. it s not normal for the
as to whether or not vote fraud occurs and how prevalent it is. we in the state of missouri regularly see every type of vote fraud you can imagine from documented cases of voter impersonation to people trying to slip multiple ballots in the box, multiple times, voting where they re not registered. we have a state ledge ster elected, it was proven, two members of his family pled guilty in a court of law to putting him over the top won by one vote and he serves in the legislature. vote fraud occurs. you want the integrity of the system to be as good as possible. this is usually controlled by the states. i think we all do. there s very little that the federal government could do and as you know, when you ve gone around the state making the case for your efforts, you really only have one case that you can cite and that doesn t mean you shouldn t try to do better, but it does mean you shouldn t blow the problem out of proportion. the president said there were 3 million illegal votes.
howie: here is the argument. alex jones is a conspiracy theorist who called 9/11 an inside job and called the sandy hook elementary shootings a hoax. why should nbc and megyn kelly give him a platform? dan: because he already has a platform and the president of the united states gave him a platform. you may dislike him and a lot of people do and rightly so. but that doesn t mean you shouldn t as a journalist want to question him and ask tough questions. the thing i m amazed about is everybody is judging the megyn kelly interview before they have seen the interview. we haven t seen what they are putting on the air, yet everyone is going bananas on both sides. howie: alex jones with a bizarre twist friday kind of taking
suspended that program. in 2011. in 2011. valid visas are great, but it doesn t mean you shouldn t be subjected to further questioning. just to clarify, tashfeed malik move d moved. steve bannon has seen his role elevated on the principal s committee while the director of national intelligence and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff have seen their roles diminished, only attending where issues pertaining to their responsibilities and expertise are to be discussed. some national security stalwarts were disappointed by that event. susan rice wrote, this is stone cold crazy. after a week of crazy.