frank, what did you see in the 45 pages? i see a chilling tale of how close we came, all of us, the store said, to literally being the fraudit of our civil rights, our right to a fear and fair election. if you re listening to the show, watching the show, you re an american citizen, you are almost defrauded by the president of the united states, who is hard to steal an election from us, i think on this topic of violence, and my first quick read at the indictment, where is the january six security? where is the right? where is the breach at the capitol? but it s in there. it s in there and a very masterful way because the violence according to smith was leveraged, was used to get pence, pressure pence, pressured the public, pressure congress to doing what trump wanted. you see all the people that i got outside, see how violent they are, and he stayed, smith mass freely stayed away from
as santos. he s also the author of a new piece in the atlantic, how perfectly normal new york suburb elected a conman. and he currently directs the cornell institute of politics in global affairs. also with us tonight, cnn s legal analyst, elie honig, a former s u.s. attorney. elie, i m told tonight that federal prosecutors in new york, they are investigating congressman-elect santos and his finances. what do you think they ll be looking for? and how does this work with the dea also investigating? pam, in my experience as a prosecutor, fraudit tends to come in batches. it s rare that you see someone just sort of commit a one-off fraud. when you have someone who s been so willing to tell such outrageous lies, there s a reasonable basis that they he might have lied elsewhere. it is not a federal crime or a state crime to lie to the public when you re running for office. i don t recommend it, but it s not a crime. however, it could be a crime if he obtained any of his fraud money by fra
it really didn t work out for the kids of those marriages. i ve talked to those people who were the child of a rape victim, and the bond that those two people made and the fact that out of that tragedy, there was healing through that baby, it s something that we don t think about. when we consider both the criminality and the incompetence, the margin of error exceeds the margin of victory. ladies and gentlemen, we know it, and they know it. donald trump won. just a quick message to the characters from arizona. there was no fraud. your guys did a fraudit and they couldn t even find any, and again, i m reluctant to amplify those messages, but we played them for a really important reason. that s the gop. those candidates are also part of a list curated by our friend, matt dowd, a ranking of the top ten candidates who threaten our
overwhelming proof to the contrary. in arizona this week cyberin in jas, the company that conducted the so-called fraudit of the 2020 election announced it was shutting down after maricopa county conducted their partisan review of the election and a judge imposed a $50,000 a day fine on the company until it handed over documents as part of a public records request by the arizona republic. even though the cyberninjas were a partisan sham and lucrative griff. they have demonstrated that they have done their part in perpetuating this big lie. last thursday, representative liz cheney accompanied by her father dick cheney were the only republicans present on the house floor to mark the first anniversary of the insurrection. it s a stark reminder of the pathetic state of the republican party today. republicans largely remained silent and absent this january 6th including the former vice