Hi there, everyone. It is 4:00 in new york with 55 days to go ahead of election day. The first and potentially only debate between kamala harris and the disgraced twice impeopled four timed indicts expresident has injected a jolt into the race thanks to a masterful performance by kamala harris. We turn that 90minute debate watched by a whopping 57. 75 million people into what the new york times called a quote referendum on donald trump. A speech with words and with her body language and facial expressions and even a simple handshake. That image there of vice president kamala harris from the moment she took the stage, walking straight up to donald trump and introducing herself. And insisting on shaking his hand set the tone for her control of the room for the next 90 minutes and what would prove to be a powerful reminder that donald trump, who had seven prior presidential debates was immediately outmatched by vice president harris s talent and prosecutorial skills. And i m going to actu
investigations into january 6th and based on the evidence we saw last night, he might not be the last given that blockbuster hearing from the january 6th select committee in prime time last night. the committee put in place critical building blocks in its case against donald trump having criminal exposure as the leader of the plot against the government he led. in a hearing focused on what was unfolding inside the west wing of the white house on january 6th and in the days immediately following. the committee laid out in extraordinary detail everything that was happening as donald trump holed up in the white house dining room in front of the tv and barred photographers from the room as the mob he riled up attacked the united states capitol. the committee delivered evidence proving trump repeatedly and consistently resisted pleas from just about everybody on the white house staff for a forceful statement of condemnation. that would have the effect of calling off and stopping t
night is a perfecten capsulation of of it as you just laid out that the facts aren t breaking through, and makes it incredibly hard to have the types of conversations and the informed electorate that we count on in our democracy and that s leaving aside the larger issue which is the mainstream republican party echoed by fox news, advancing theories like these debunk ukraine 2016 conspiracies that have been put forward and advanced by the kremlin as russian disinformation. so the fact that you have u.s. broadcasters embracing kremlin disinformation campaigns is an immense problem for the u.s. but as you mentioned, it s not just fox news. republican lawmakers are consistently denying basic facts and they have access to all of the public information and then some. just look at what happened