romney? well, because mitt romney is a person of deep faith who has a life beyond politics, who has shown a willingness not to be cou cowed by the short term political pressures or fear-driven sort of cohorts that follow donald trump. he s impervious to that kind of political pressure. that said, i think there s something important about what he s saying. the wwf metaphor, folks have made before. this is all performance, it s bombast. implicit in that, romney hears from a lot of his colleagues in the senate and the house, they know this is a lie but they know that the people eat it up. and so if you re someone at home who happens to believe the big lie still, understand that your representatives think you re a fool, they think you re easily fooled, they think you re a dupe. that s the disgrace beneath this
conspiracy theory, one after another, and a huge hoax on the american people. they smeared members of the president s family, they pushed the phony russian disinformation dossier that hillary clinton paid for. they used that to attack donald trump. in 2018 it was ben smith, my buddy himself published a new york times op-ed dealing how proud he was of himself for publishing hillary clinton s and bought and for, dirty russian disinformation dossier. a year later he stated the broad outline of what christopher steele was writing is unquestionably true. no, ben, it was unquestionably false. it was full of russian and misinformation and russian lies and you were a willing dupe in all of this. and the new york times and it didn t stop there. here are a few more examples. take a look. first of all, i think we need to start asking ourselves into particular republican leaders in congress need to start asking
long years spewing lies conspiracy theory, one after another, and a huge hoax on the american people. they smeared members of the president s family, they pushed the phony russian disinformation dossier that hillary clinton paid for. they used that to attack donald trump. in 2018 it was ben smith, my buddy himself published a new york times op-ed dealing how proud he was of himself forr publishing hillary clinton s and bought and for, dirty russian disinformation dossier. a year later he stated the broad outline of what christopher steele was writing is unquestionably true. no, ben, it was unquestionably false. it was full of russian and misinformation and russian lies and you were a willing dupe in all of this. and the new york times and it didn t stop there. here are a few more examples. take a look. first of all, i think we need to start asking ourselves into particular republican leaders in congress need to start asking themselves at what point do we
who had worked for the ukrainian president while this was going on and said that durkosh was absolutely funneling information and that rudy was well aware of that and making demands and requests of them as part of the exchange. so let s bring in elie honig who knows the turf from his time as a federal prosecutor in new york. elie, why would it be that rudy s not in trouble but the ukrainian guy is? yeah, it s a great question, chris, and it comes down to what did rudy know, because if rudy knew that the ukrainians were trying to funnel false information to influence our election, he is part of the crime. if he did not know, then he s a dupe. there s good news and bad news. the good news is he s reportedly not a subject of the eastern districts of new york s investigation. they don t believe he s somebody likely to have criminal liability.
which does this mean? it s another investigation involving rudy giuliani who is already being investigated right across the river in the southern district, of new york. i don t think it means anything bad for giuliani, compared to the other bad news he has much as he s the subject of a state investigation. hearing that story means he is not the target of this investigation. maybe the eu crimeans are trying to use him as a dupe to get certain information and manipulate the election. i think it s all it means for giuliani. doesn t mean something bad for our election system. there are foreign actors who are bent on trying to undermine our democracy, and i think that s why we need to have strict rules around this, and true investigation into russian and ukrainian interference in the election. one other point i wanted to say, back on the other story about judge jackson, because you can look at this like mr. meredith