avalanche of news an spectacle. this sort of dizzying cloyin for your attention the last 24 hours have reall been something else. so i want to begin tonight b just taking a second here to try to collectively just wra our heads around the meaning and significance of what w have seen in the last 24 hours so of course, we have to begin with the biggest story former president of the united states pleading not guilty t 34 felony charges. stemming from hush money payments he made to adult film star but in addition to the materia effects we saw yesterday, ther was, of course, as i am sure you noted, also the shee spectacle of it all. the trumpian circus if you will a live 24-hour coverage of his drive to the airport his plane landing. his drive from the airport t trump tower. all of which, i, think has a deep and profound reaction in lot of folks because of what happened in 2016 there are lots of people who watch politics closely who hav got a lot of anxiety stemmin from that 2016 e
so why should anyone think he s telling the truth now? well, they shouldn t. to your point, he s the lead conspirator on the big lie and was cleared that he did everything in his power, simply, to just throw anything against the wall that they hoped would stick. and what s remarkable is how much they threw against the wall and how little stuck, literally nothing stuck after countless court cases, countless audits, we now know after two years, there is zero evidence supporting the notion there was any wide spread votertrarycontr more votes for joe biden. to your point, this is a guy who is in the middle, the tip of the spear, leading the charge on the january 6th. it s a very important development and i m glad you have ellie on to parse the legal implications for it because he is the guy with the real legal crystal ball. yeah, you said not much stock. the only place that it did stick was in the court of maga conspiracy or court of maga delusion. very effectively, actuall
would compel fox cor executives, rupert murdoch loughlin murdaugh to testify live plus, fox s attorneys agreed t let host tucker, maria bartiromo, lou dobbs, janine fierro and sean hannity testif live in the case there s a lot they have to answer, for one of the thing i m most fascinated by, thei commitment over at fox, to booking one specific guest mike lindell, the pillow guy is a major advertiser on fox news, especially tucker s show which has hemorrhaged more respectable advertisers due to the hosts habit of promoting white nationalists talking points we counted one night alone las week, lindell ran three ad during tucker s one hour program. it was always kind of clea now, we have proofg tucker s you see, in addition to bein at the pillow guy, lindell i also a maga conspiracy enthusiast who regularly promotes the mos outlandish and possibl defamatory version of trump big lie the stolen election. that creates a problematic incentive structure for a show that needs his advertising
implications for it because he is the guy with the real legal crystal ball. yeah, you said not much stock. the only place that it did stick was in the court of maga conspiracy or court of maga delusion. very effectively, actually, yeah. right. ron, the subpoena says giuliani was in contact with trump and members of congress about strategies to delay the overturn of the 2020 election. what do you think? is he naming names here? well, i don t know. i don t think we know what he s doing but i think the big revelation that so far in the overall ark of the january 6th committee is that we re learning it wasn t just throwing stuff against the wall and hair die dripping down your face and a show. that there was a serious coordinated effort with the vision of how to overturn this election by encouraging state legislatures to intervene and local officials to intervene in a way that would allow