good evening, i m mehdi hasan, tomorrow morning the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on our capitol. will hold its second public hearing, if it s anything at all at the first hearing, it s set to be explosive. tomorrow the panel will zero in on trump s lies, his efforts to spread debunked claims about the 2020 election, witnesses include b.j. pak, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of georgia fire him for not backing his election lies. i ll schmidt, the republican city commissioner of philadelphia, that there wasn t fraud in his city. and bill stepien, and trump s 2020 campaign manager, in thursday s hearing and everybody seen video interviews, we learned the former president s inner circle as well where the big lie was just that. alive. attorney general bill barr revealed that he told his boss, allegations of election fraud were quote, bs. trump s own daughter of rank agreed with that assessment. putting the committee that she respect
he breaks down the messaging failures that playing the democratic party, jen also think some of the chief incumbents isn t just the party, it s the media. he writes quote, the bulk of the media on the right is an adjunct of the party apparatus, the doj party apparatus, during the trump presidency was state adjacent propaganda, profitable, with plausible deniability. much of the media on the left is focused on holding democrats apparel in the party s agenda but it doesn t do much to help democratic candidates of course. against republicans come election time. and dan pfeiffer joins me now. dan, thanks so much for coming on the show, congratulations on the new book, let s start with fox the, i was talking about fox and what they ve been up to, democrats, elected democrats understand the sheer powder and influence, which is not a news organization in my opinion, it s propaganda after the doj. is there any plan to push back, a strategy to push back as