frequently and delivering a very stark and unadorned message about the danger trump presents to the country. i think there s been a lot of criticism of the media for spending too much time focusing on donald trump in his presidential after life, and there s a lot we can ignore about trump. he is like a baby with a rattle in a play pen and you have to decide when when it is appropriate to pay attention to him and when it isn t. but the fact of the matter is he is going the most influential person in the republican party right now. the party is not going to be able to get the presidency back with donald trump, but they could win they could, i think, get the house and the senate back. that means they get more control over legislation. they get more control over the federal government, and they are coming from a place that is not about policy. it is about authoritarian assault on american values, and i think if people don t take trump seriously now in the same
continues to provoke with his language. hi again, everyone. it is 5:00 in the east. so the danger, the rhetoric that democrats and liz cheney spoke of there, the rhetoric they ve been warning about for months now, was on full display this weekend as the disgraced ex-president took the stage at cpac. that s the conservative political action conference in dallas. in a speech that lasted one-and-a-half hours, trump repeatedly claimed he won the 2020 election. fact check, he did not win. he cited evidence there was voter fraud in states he lost like georgia. fact check, there was not. trump s disinformation about the election has become so egregious that his own favorite network, fox news, had to put a disclaimer on the screen while he talked about how many votes he received. fox s chiron, their woords underneath, stayed up 35 seconds and read, quote, voting system companies have denied the various allegations made by trump and his counsel regarding the 2020 election.
more data, facts, numbers, science for you. these are by county the vaccination rates as of july 6th. 46% of counties that voted for joe biden have been vaccinated, 35% of folks living in counties that voted for trump have been vaccinated, almost 12% difference. yeah. i think very much to both dr. fauci and claire s point, the reality of it is we re playing politics with the lives of our citizens. it starts with the leadership. if the leadership of our country at the beginning of covid had been serious, informed in a way that they accepted the information that was shared with them about this virus and pass that on honestly to the american people, we probably would be in a very different place right now. we look here in my state of
waiting and trying to get republicans to get on board. he is going to have to deal with a lot of the domestic thinks, and he s been what s seven days overseas dealing with all the foreign policy aspects. and like you said in might be a little bit easier, because when you get back here, the types of votes that are going to be taken, the amount of time they have to get a deal done and get him something that he can sign, they are really running out of time. susan, let s talk about putin. he really laid it on about trump, calling him an extraordinary individual, talented and colorful, no one has any doubt that it isn t trump s phone ring tone. think about it, putin the return on investment from this guy and the kgb should take a bow for training him well, he spent what s $7 to meddle in our 2016 election and now for no cost at all, a few words
prosecuting donald trump before she even knew anything about me end quote. this isn t trump s first foray into it with the office s year long investigation into the charitable organization, in 2018, led to its dissolution. and it s just one of many list of growing investigations the trump organization is now named in. he is facing two investigations in georgia, related to the election. another investigation in washington, d.c. related to the insurrection. and donald trump is also named in no less than 29 lawsuits according to a count from the washington post. it is important to note that donald trump has not been charged, the trump organization as a whole has not been charged with a specific crime, but his political action committee post-presidential political action committee has raised more than $31 billion part of what he could use for any legal defense he needs. keeping lawyers employed.