that the panel having accumulated a veritable treasure trove of juicy details on the trump coup plot, that trove growing by the day, as more and more witnesses testify before the committee. tomorrow investigators will hear from a prominent stop the steal conspiracy theorist with deep pockets and that would be the overstock guy in the words of former white house counsel pat cipollone and his name is patrick byrne and the former ceo of overstock.com. the former furniture industry executive joined lawyer sydney powell and rudy giuliani as well as former national security adviser in the oval on december 18, 2020, days after the electoral college certified that joe biden had won the presidential election. while many of trump s legal advisors had accepted that he had lost the election, byrne and others were pushing an idea that the president could use the national guard to seize voting machines. byrne s oval office access appeared to agitate those staffers hoping to redirect trump
probably not. you know, we have seen this calendar go through this kind of churn every cycle there is a bit of a dance between the early states, but, you know, i think if you zoom back on what harry is talking about in the last few cycles, and the lack of a predictive power, particularly for iowa, really on both sides, we have see and a diminishment of the early states overall as it becomes more and more nationalized. so many voters these days, especially the types of highly engaged voters who vote in presidential primaries are tuned into the national news. they re watching cnn, national cable news, getting their news from national sources. so there aren t necessarily paying as much attention to which candidate went to the pizza ranch in my town or which candidate, you know, appeals to voters like me on local issues specifically. we re seeing a declining influence in all the early states. it is interesting. i want to talk about one of the candidates on the trail, ron
general, ohio s most senior law enforcement official. instead of spending his time trying to get to the bottom of this trying to protect a 10-year-old constituent of his, he went on fox news, national cable news to attack her, call her rape a hoax. just hours after that appearance, though, law enforcement officials in ohio arraigned a 27-year-old man for raping the 10-year-old girl. late last night indiana s republican attorney general said he ll investigate the doctor who treated the 10-year-old pregnant rape victim. fox news blasting her photo and information all over national television. wow. joining us now, president of nairou, and the media correspondent, and i ve been following. i really i really try hard not to take in too much of the right, but it is so central to
the sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. more alarming some have published reports which aren t true without checking facts first. this is extremely dangerous to our democracy. this is extremely dangerous to our democracy. this is extremely dangerous to our democracy. this is extremely dangerous to our democracy. that was one of the latest must-run segments sinclair media group requires all of the local news services it owns or operates to air. to the 39% of americans who live within sinclair ace broadcasting reach, some feel sinclair crossed the line by requiring them to trumpet antimedia.
sort of the you know, most people who go into particularly in local news and who stay in it, the folks that i know, the anchors that i worked with in miami, they really do have a mission in their mind to cover the news without fear or favor and to really make sure that the local issues that are important to that market are heard. that s not what we do here in national cable news. are you worried about the medium at this point if people, very wealthy people even cee lo call tv news as just another vehicle for ideological sort of salesmanship? well, joy, you ve got a situation here where every newsroom meeting every time you get together in that conference room to discuss what s going to be on the show that evening, that s a form of advocacy journalism. what is the story that s going to make your newscast that night? this is one way that subtly, you may not even notice it watching a show, these stories can be turned to a right leaning commentary. one gentleman who put out a comment