forces in america. from the voting rights crackdowns and assorted government plots, to the big lie attacks on election results that can stoke actual insurrections. we know the u.s. has faced many different types of crises before, but this era has been a perfect storm of right wing demagogues, weaponized propaganda from the internet to the fox news defamation we covered, and this is key, the perfect storm includes a high powered, elite driven effort to main streak attacks on democracy and try to write them into our rules. and that part of the effort is not, let s be clear, criminal activity like january 6th. it s not something people are going to go to jail for. it is what at least lawyers and others call arguably legal attacks that are still designed to hijack democracy from within. this is our top story tonight, because this brings us to efforts to bend or break current laws and rules, to try to foster more anti-democratic outcomes that would be technically legal if these pe
before, that ended up being our most watched interview of all time. i mentioned this to one of our other guests who had the second most watched video, 50 cent. briefly here s what he said about that. i grew up listening to 50. i don t make the numbers. these are the real numbers, all time, the most watched interview of all time is a former kremlin official coming out of the putin story. our second most watched interview of all time was 50. what was the one person that was in front of me? andrei. he asked about you. you got in on this posting online, when he said who are you, yo wrote who is 50 cent, and then this took on a life of its own with headlines about you guys sparring, 50 spars with a kremlin official, 50 trades shots all in good fun over the interviews. this is your first time back since then. is there anything you have to say to your pen pal 50 cent? of course i knew who 50 cent