trump s inner circle seemed to understand was completely illegal. also tonight, it s right out in the open now. new evidence of the violence and menace at theeart of today s maga driven republican party. but first i want to show you a bizarre moment from the 2020 news worm hole you probably don t remember. here? here. the electors are here. they ve been checked in. they re also electors, not all all 16 electors are going to be vote in the electoral college but these are the rest of the electors. the official sealed document and certificate of the electors are here trying to do their constitutional duty. i understand. the constitutional duty requires them to be at the senate chamber today at 2:00 p.m. now, what you just watched was a group of people claiming to be official electors from the swingy swing state of michigan on december 14, 2020 demanding to be allowed in to participate in the electoral college process despite the fact that joe biden won mi
security, of national security, to stand up and do their jobs. you know, jeremy, i don t want to put you on the spot, but i m going to do it anyway. at the cia and at the pentagon you obviously were in contact with democrats and republicans. those are agencies with a whole lot of bipartisan support for their missions and their funds. what do you think chairman burr thinks when he sees not just i mean, what s remarkable here is we ve passed pro trump propaganda. we are now trafficking in this country pro-putin propaganda. do you think the chairman feels any responsibility to stand up for this country? i got to believe that every member of congress on both sides of the aisle who cares about protecting our country, who cares about strengthening our intelligence is horrified by the idea that we would be advancing a russian active measures campaign by members of our own government. i think that is no incongruous with what the mission of the intelligence community is, what the mission
entertainment assets to disney, what they are left with, fox news is a much bigger piece of that pie. fox business is a much bigger piece of that pie. you think of all the sort of controversy that surrounds that network, there are some competitors to fox news who have gone out publicly and called it state-run media for donald trump or, you know, pro-trump propaganda. so she ll be running defense for that, and she ll also be doing the more mundane tasks of sort of corporate communications. i should mention, by the way, fox is also bringing on danny o brien, who s actually a veteran of democratic politics, who worked for senators biden, senators menendez, so they re pulling for both sides of the political spectrum. what are they bringing him on for? i saw that in the moumt announc as well. that s government relations and effectively amounts to basically running defense and offense in washington. basically, the ties to not just the trump administration but all the business that any me
political campaign, some giving has been to democrats for local and state races, but a lot to republican causes, mitt romney fund-raising committee in 2012. these are republican activist donors that now own teeny stations that cover 70% of the country. this is complete capitulation from journalism to propaganda. what s dangerous is you re seeing this structure for propaganda in the future. we re obsessed with the imploding trump white house, but down the line we have permanent propaganda infrastructure no matter who is going to be the next president, no matter who is going to control congress and things like that. so this is very dangerous. polling data suggests people trust local news in an odd way more than national news because a large segment of the population is trained to be skeptical.
and if you re a viewer, never watch a sinclair station again because it is propaganda. do you see any effort out there to push back against what they re doing? yeah. i interviewed sinclair employees a decade ago when they were doing the john kerry stuff, they were humiliated, couldn t believe what was happening. embarrassed to work for sinclair. my guess is they re all gone. they re notorious for cost cutting. here s an example why this is important. when greg gianforte body slammed a reporter on the eve of election, every organization ran audio of the confrontation that was chilling. the sinclair affiliate in montana would not air the audio, claim it couldn t be verified. the next day they were telling viewers in montana it was kind of nobody really knew what happened, it was very confusing. he was arrested for assault. there was nothing confusing about this. this was a specific, frightening