hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. whatever the results of next tuesday s midterm elections, there is no denying that these midterm elections are taking place with the very real specter of political violence and the prevalence of disinformation as a political weapon, unmatched in modern political times. large swaths of the gop have been swallowed up completely by the disinformation about the integrity of our very election systems, and many on the right have normalized conversations around political violence to the point in which polls show it is accepted by many as a useful tool to achieving the right s political aims. now, this says all sorts of things about the weakness of our democracy right now. more importantly, it says a whole lot of things about the weakness of the gop as a governing party. now, a party interested in governing would be desperate to debate policy and have those debates and win those debates ridded in data and a shared set of facts. there s none
similar to what happened on january 6th. we now know that this sprawling investigation that s looking at january 6th is looking at this. they re calling it brooks brothers 2.0, along the line of the brooks brothers riot that happened during the 2000 election. and they are looking and asking questions about roger stone s role in this and the role of a stone associate named jacob ingalls. they re looking at another individual who wrote a memo that was passed on to the head of the proud boys just right before the january 6th insurrection that laid out a plan for taking control of the capitol. so sort of it gives you a sense that the january 6th investigation has cast a very large net. so large that it goes back to 2018. and when we looked at the 2018 event, it just it had not
won by a comfortable margin. bad things have gone on in broward county, really bad things. although i hear, i don t know, you tell me, it s always the democrats, it s always gps fusion. it s always crooked stuff. in fact it was the proud boys. talk about the reappearance of the very same extremist group from 2018 and january 6th. the proud boys were openly there. they were obviously openly there on january 6th, obviously, and openly there on the 2018 protests. jacob ingalls, this stone associate, was one of the ringleaders of this saying that he was heading down to broward county to participate in these protests. at one opponent we went back and we learned that during the 2018 protest things got so tense that the crowd was pushing people up against the doors of this building where the votes were being counted. the 2018 incident did not lead
net in the january 6th investigation. we know that they re asking about brooks brothers 2.0 as it has been described, that they re asking about someone like jacob ingalls and trying to figure out whether these are building blocks that built on top of each other towards that, like a dry run like you were saying. there s a lot that we can t see into this investigation, but certainly a clue. and it would be the type of fact that even if it was beyond the statute of limitations, that if you were to be making a case against someone to show a pattern of behavior, my guess would be something that prosecutors would certainly want to have and certainly would want to know. it seems some of these proud boys have been charged with some of the the most serious charges, seditious conspiracy. so looking back is it a new group of people, is it new charges. thank you for joining us for talk about it. up next for us, senator lindsey graham went to the highest court in the land so