cnn tonight with don lemon starts right now. sarah sidner, thank you so much. i appreciate it. this is don lemon tonight. i can t tell you how important this is. so pay attention to me, please. this is something we can both side. the truth is what we as a country moving forward, will we continue to operate the truth? do we continue to be the place where the truth matters or will we fall to the lies where we succumb to the biggest lie of them all? you know the big lie i am talking about, that s the lie of the stolen election of the big fraud. it is not hyperbole to say the january 6th hearing that s hours away of what comes out of them will be an indication of whether we can keep our fragile democracy right now. it is hanging by a thread whether we can keep it or not. are you paying attention? you should. tomorrow we ll listen to testimonies, live, from three republicans who know exactly how far the former president was willing to go to overturn our free and fair elect
much to discuss with our scott jennings, gentlemen, good to see both of you. max, give me your reaction of what you heard from jason vaughan. you may say the state of texas is like america but more so is like the republican party in texas, only more so. the outcome of the 2020 election which is a widespread republicans positions this day and rejecting the 1965 voting rights act and they re rejecting homosexuality lifestyle. this is just one insanity after another. this is what the republican is headed and this is a snapshot in time of the party that s becoming extremist and racist and it is very different from the party that i once belong to. scott, this is not coming from a few extreme voices, the lie about the election, the big lie is about to become the official platform of the texas