table issues that sounds familiar. reporter: you know, what the voting turnout, the turnout rate is not even close to 100%. so you have all these people who are just not engaged, not paying attention. and why would be not, if i were president biden, i would try i d be trying to make the argument that a multi cultural democracy does not mean that you re losing your country, it means more of us have a role in this country. that s a good thing, i think that s a message of that resonates with a lot of people. at the same time, he is making that point where, we re hearing the right destroyed e e initiatives and reporter: we re gonna get into dei later. i want to stay on, this and i want to stay on this weekend. right? because january 6th is upon us, okay? think about this. we all saw it, i think it s one of the worst days in american history. yet here we, our three years later, donald trump is the clear front runner, a huge portion of americans now think that the january 6
to be unique. you mentioned earlier on the show how donald trump can t stop this investigation if he s elected president again. he can t order fani willis to abandon the case like he could potentially do with the justice department. he can t pardon himself in this case, and the georgia pardons process is different as well because the governor doesn t have unilateral power to pardon donald trump even if he wanted to, and we re not suspecting governor brian kemp has a soft spot in his heart for donald trump. peter, how damning will that be to the misinformation machine if this is televised? even tonight what did fox news have on? paul manafort, donald trump s former campaign chair who was jailed for tax evasion talking about the two tiered system of justice. right, ted cruz, a u.s. senator, was standing outside the courtroom as though he was a reporter talking about joe biden vilinizing the justice system
he could potentially do with the justice department, he cannot pardon himself and the r georgia pardons process is different as well because the governor doesn t have unilateral power to part pardon donald trump, even if he wanted to, we don t expect governor brian kemp has a soft spot for donald trump. peter how deming will that be to the misinformation machine if this is televised, even tonight, what did fox news have on, paul manafort, donald trump s former campaign chair, who was jailed for tax evasion, talking about the two-tiered system of justice, right, ted cruz, a u.s. senator was standing outside of the courtroom as though he was a reporter talking about joe biden , villainization the justice system for his own political game. how much will that make it difficult to push this information or deflect if this thing ends up on tv? that is a great question, what we have seen so far is
handles these things as they move forward. what could go wrong? mike schmidt, thank you for spending some time with us. claire and andrew, stick around with us a little bit longer. coming up, the fallout continues for the right-wing misinformation machine. why tucker carlson remains a very, very big and potentially very, very expensive headache for fox news. we ll explain that new reporting just ahead. don t go anywhere. don t go anywhere. in-wash scents keep your laundry smelling fresh waaaay longer than detergent alone. if you want laundry to smell fresh for weeks, make sure you have downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters. tourists tourists that turn into scientists. tourists photographing thousands of miles of remote coral reefs. that can be analyzed by ai in real time. so researchers can identify which areas are at risk.
that we ll fox news face som sort of existential crisis and the answer is always know. the institution is bigger than the on air - but there wasn t a newsmax, or an away threat back then? there also wasn t the event of november, 2020, and the fea that took over instead of fo news this sense that they wer potentially losing viewers b reporting the truth, rathe than embracing the voter fraud conspiracy i think the political landscap is different, but at the sam time, an institution like fo news is extremely powerful and the question i think now i have they, in giving tucke carlson the real estate that they gave him, have they created something potentiall more powerful, and that is wha will be tested, depending on what took a carlson does what do you think because the influenc right-wing media has, or pushing conspiracy theories, i massive. we don t care about personal decisions in a new organization but given the power of the misinformation machine, it matters. yeah it does matte