house lawyer eric herschmann as his lead counsel. brett favre is suspected of pressuring mississippi government officials to send millions of dollars and welfare funds on a volleyball center at the school where his daughter played the sport. and our next guest reports newly-uncovered text messages show that the university of southern mississippi had concerns about the grant funded, volleyball facility, favre personally received in addition to that, over 1 million dollars and welfare funds to give speeches that never actually made. he did repay that money, we should note, he has denied any wrongdoing through his lawyer, and has maintained that he did not know that the distributed funds were welfare funds at all, and at this point he has not been charged with a crime. joining, us ana wolf, a reporter for the mississippi today. anna, you ve done extraordinary reporting since the very beginning, on the, story the scandal. if it wasn t for journalists
like i broke some type of taboo and i did break a taboo and it is a cultic thing, that you have to be in with the cult. that was arizona house speaker rusty bowers who testified before the january 6 committee just before losing his race to a candidate backed bay donald trump. the former president s candidates went on to sweep the primary races for arizona state wide offices. that is governor, secretary of state and attorney general and the united states senate. they all have questioned legitimacy of the 2020 election including the nominee who could oversee the next presidential election. our next guest reports on that grassroots movement that has pushed the state s republican party to the conspiracy far right. he s a contributing writer at new york magazine, it is robert draper. want to read from your piece. in it robert writes there is more at stake than the health of the republican party when it is
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president, teaching him that, no, a continuous wall across the border is not quite practical. convincing him that maybe mexico paying for the wall is not a realistic possibility here. and it s just really interesting. as you re trying the whole point here is that everyone s confused about what the president s position is here. and then when you ve got trump s chief ally, chief of staff on the hill, further muddling that message and creating more contention, it s just a very awkward situation to be in. and ladies and gentlemen, when these two journalists are mystified by what s going on, it s time to worry. two of the very best on the beat with us again tonight, our great thanks to jill colvin and eli stokels, thank you both. coming up, the book fire and fury has consumed the white house and a good many of our headlines for two weeks now. our next guest reports on how it came to be including the fact that flattery might have helped greatly. he s a nascar champion who s faced tho
we appreciate the update. thank you. the other important news story we re following tonight, the u.s.-led negotiations with iran, a deal was not reached today. so secretary of state john kerry he s going to spend yet another night in switzerland. my next guest reports that the french think the united states is looking for an ally in iran. is that true? joining me now with reaction foreign policy columnist from the hudson institute benjamin hadad is with us. sir, why do you say that? well look, the french like many u.s. allies in the region, turkey, saudi arabia or israel, have the sense that the u.s. is rushing to a deal and is giving in on key demands on this nuclear deal like enrichment, uranium enrichment, the number of sentrycentrifuges and sanctions because it wants to realign with iran in the region. if you look at what the administration is doing in the region rather than what it s saying, it s subcontracting the fight against isis to