new cnn reporting, president donald trump being more obsessed than ever pushing the big lie. a former adviser tells cnn trump is listening to, quote, the bottom of the bottom of the crazies in the barrel. the bottom of the bottom of the crazies in the barrel. meaning, those who ignore the facts, and the math, and keep insisting, trump won. retired general and trump confidant michael flynn just this week repeated the lie trump won, but he said a myanmar style coup to return trump to power could happen here. general flynn later tried to walk back the coup comments. one of the officers assaulted january 6th said the talk could incite more violence. absolutely, i mean, again, this is the exact type of rhetoric, which ultimately resulted in, you know, the attempted insurrection, at the u.s. capitol on january 6th. officer fanone gets to the stakes of all this.
bring our way, i don t know why you would want to repeat what s going on in arizona, anyplace across the country. no one should have any faith in the outcome of whatever findings they have in arizona. with me now to discuss cnn s in phoenix, jeremy wallace, a political writer for the houston chronicle, and tee ma mitchell. kyung, starting with you, you heard al schmidt in philadelphia saying please don t do this but your reporting on this quote/unquote audit i m going to call it. talking to pennsylvania state officials out there taking a look at this to see if they might want to copy it. this is doug a pennsylvania state senator to a pool reporter out there, i m not about overturning anything, i m just trying to find out what went right, what went wrong, and how do we have better elections in the future? let s pick a few counties and put people s minds at rest if there s nothing to hide, great. that s how they spin the idea
depends on who you re watching, listening to, and to your reading the blogs of. certainly the relationship between president biden and former president trump and vladimir putin are very different. donald trump looked at pollutant more in a friendly manner as a strong ally, potential ally, wanted to build that relationship. joe biden has called the guy a murderer. we have to have some diplomacy with countries like russia. he also knows, i ll tell you what he s getting for it, he s a friend of mine and former ambassador to germany. he actually says it benefits germany more than it benefits russia. at the united states is not in a position it does not want to get into an international transatlantic tiff with germany, which is what would happen if the president didn t do what he did at that very moment in time. i think that s why he s not getting criticized as much, he s preserving one of our great relationships with germany, and this is not just a win-win for
committee would then begin listening to, from what they heard, draft articles of impeachment, which may be abuse of power, obstruction, or something otherwise. and we don t know whether or not any more witnesses could be called as congressman gaetz pointed out he would like to hear from fact witnesses. steve: no kidding. griff, thank you very much. let s bring in brett tollman former federal prosecutor and u.s. attorney for utah. he has been weighing in on the impeachment so far. bret, good morning to you. good morning. steve: you know, as it left the intel committee down the hall for the judiciary committee. got very personal. because as we learned yesterday, adam schiff actually investigated the ranking member nunes and his staff, so ah-ha no wonder these guys are on the president s side. you can t believe what s going on. except for the fact that it s congress, right? and they are reiterating what we have always felt. this is a bit of a circus. and i would be mortified, having w
articulating his message to the base. now, is this going to be a wave election? we don t know. the democratic party what it does is overshadows their electoral process which i think will get rough and tumble, kendis. right now they ve been nice to each other. that s what is al overshadowing. at this time, certainly we d rather talk about what republicans are doing successfully in the country. i think voters would like to see washington doing something besides all of this so-called gridlock. meantime, though, there is somebody outside of washington now who s weighing in. this headline i saw moments ago from the washington examiner. john kelly the former white house chief of staff cold the washington examiner today he told the president i said, whatever you do don t hire a yes man. someone who won t tell you the truth, because if you do i believe you will be impeached. boyd, who in the house is telling the president anything at this point and who he s listening to, for that matte