a disgusting attack. the question is whether democratths will attempt to use the actions of a lone lunatic to chill political speech. now, iliticaf sol , this is beca their grip on power is beginning to give way on tw o major fronts tonight in politics and across social media. l now for them. elon musk s successful purchase of twitter is a total invasion of their inner sanctums. like an intruder waltzing into their living rooms, turning on fox news, maybe makingandwic a sandwich and then using the bathroomh . om how dare he? meanwhile, most regular people see ilan s desire to kind ofat housecleaner at twitter as just plain common sense. s after all, we ve discovered there is a lot of fat to cut their welcome to day in my life as a twitter employee, then m made my way down to this logt cabin area. i don t know what this w is , bt is really cool and please, my friends, to kind of unwind the bit who also found thiso th really cool meditation room that i thought was super neat.
the now, this is a story that unfolds in three parts. first, the fraud.st yes just yesterday, wete learned tht nearly four hundred department of homeland security employees took pandemiarly 400c unemploymt even though they were working. but my friends, this is justinyc a teeny tiny fraction of the massive in brazen coviden theft that has occurred since d the government started doling out billions in so-called relief. the official who s in chargeh of overseeing the distribution of the relieributionf has calleh the biggest fraud inbigges a generation. t frau it was the theft of asc as 80 billion dollars, or about 10% of the eight hundred billion dollars that was handed out in that paycheck protection program. now,in tha remember, that s on l the 90 billion to four hundredio billion believed to have been stolen from the nine hundred billion covid unemploy payment relief program. that s a lot of money. the second part of this story surrounds the tidal wave of inflatiotle n tha
not so much. here was the botched afghanistan pullout caving toe china on every whim. and now, of course, war i the dangerous never ending war in ukraine. biden has turned our country into a doormat for china and into ukraine s bottomless piggy bank. and now it s all escalating. biden warning that under his watch we re heading towardsheadn a nuclear armageddon, saying at a fundraiser, we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cubanon se missile crisis. and that s what we ve got.nedy a guy i know fairly well, he said of putin. he s not joking when he talksnua about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons. orso what breaking new intel dd the administration receive thatl would lead us to believe armageddon was imminent? you have new intel that caused the president to ratchet up the level of concern? no, the president was speaking n about concerns about putin ss of threats to use nuclear weapons, just as he did at the u
the best team toet get the job b done? done? now, if the answer t now, if the answer to thoseimagn isestions is no, and i imagine it is fo fr most of you, then neither man is really capableatr of serving as a us senator or the u.s. president . at least not without a lot of people making decisions for him. r protecting him from scrutiny and hiding the truth from the voters. from thand of course, this is t what s happening in both cases. now, nbc news reporter dasha burns dared to provide facts that actually help pennsylvania voters answe r the questionmelyi on their mind. namely, is fetterman realls y well enough to takeb on the demands of the job of us senator because of his stroke? becdrans campaign require closed captioning technology for this interview to essentially read our questions l as we ask them t. and lester, in small talk before the interview, without captioning, it wasn t clear heda was understanding our conversationnd. s wa now, mind you, this wassit-do the
expect as we head into midterm season during a private fundraiser in maryland yesterday, biden likened the maga movement to, quote, biden semi fascism and bn continued his attack cs at the podium. i respect conservative republicans. i don t respect these major republicans. they re a threat to our very democracy. they refuse to accepth refused l of the people. trump in the extreme measure republicans have madmae our choice to go backwards fulld of anger, violence, hate and division. but we ve chosen a differentifft path forward. d. so what the is semi fascism anyways?s fasc even the white houseism anyways? is struggling to define it. what mago republicans haveu k done and you look at the definition of fascism and you think about what they re doing in attacking our democracy, what they re doing and taking away, taki our freedoms, taking away wanting to taknge away tak our s ,our voting rights.s wh i mean, thatat is what that is . it is very clear . what do you mean by som