war on american democracy. joe biden is not the defender of american democracy. joe biden is the destroyer of american democracy. this is the latest trump defense against accusations he is being anti-democratic. yesterday, the trump campaign handed out signs to supporters during a rally in iowa. the i know you are but what am i playground retort is a familiar response from the former president. from everything i see has no respect for this person. that s because he would rather have a puppet as president. no puppet. it s pretty clear you are the puppet. you won t admit you are the puppet. with eyes on his next shot at the oval office, trump is previewing aboding message, telling supporters to guard the vote. guard the vote. you should go into detroit and go into philadelphia and you should go into some of these places, atlanta, and you should go into some of these places and we gotta watch those votes when they come in. the anti-democratic comments a
from texas? he was the white house doctor. a swing and a miss. at the very moment that he was questioning president biden s mental acuity, donald trump forgets his own former doctor s name. it s jackson. not johnson, donald. just the latest example of the proverbial cheese sliding off trump s cognitive cracker. plus, president biden s stark warning about trump s ability to alter the courts for decades. if he s allowed back into the white house. but we begin tonight with manufacturing consent. a concept introduced by edward s. herman and nome chomsky in their 1988 book on the political economy of the mass media. here s a clip from the 1992 documentary of the same name. but when the state loses the bludgeon, when you can t control people by force, and when the voice of the people can be heard, you have this problem. it may make people so curious and so arrogant that they don t have the humility to submit to a civil rule, and therefore, you have to control what people th
reaction yet, and i don t expect there will be an awful lot. it doesn t sound, catherine, like this additional action was very significant. it sounds from the language and the statement that this was some sort of correction, a follow up from those much larger scale attacks the night before. hours before these fresh strikes took place, president biden sent a warning to the houthis saying that the us would respond if they continued what he called their outrageous behaviour. now, these fresh strikes are clearly nowhere near on the same scale as those thursday night strikes, joint us, uk, supported by other nations, and we ve been hearing in the last 12 hours or so some additional details about those strikes. the us military said that around 30 different targets were struck, targets on houthi