Of the election and about the result of the election. He is making claims that are dangerous, completely false, and doing so with an interviewer who is not an interviewer at all. This was not hardball, not even softball. This was tee ball. Maria bartiromo once a feared and acclaimed journalist known for working the floor of the new york stock exchange, forcing ceos to tell the truth, now sits behind a desk and invites the president to lie and lie and lie. To do it for more than half an hour, to do it 26 days after the election. 22 days after fox and all of the other Major Networks called the election for President Elect joe biden. You might have thought after a week or after two weeks the president would start to accept the reality that he lost. You know, he hadnt given any interviews for three weeks. He had not even called into fox friends or newsmax. It was a good deal that he gave had interview. His very First Television interview since the election. I would tell you he was defiant
he was he was something, jamie raskin: he was, he was something, my son. my son. did you think about taking some time off? you know, tommy left us a note. and the note said, please forgive me. my illness won today. look after each other, the animals, and the global poor, for me. all my love, tommy. so, he didn t have anything in there about taking some time off. and [noise] why is america such an extraordinary country? we are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity, or one ideology, or one religion. we are unified by one constitution, and one rule of law, and the values under our constitution. it is an aspiration. it s a challenge to us. the constitution shouldn t be some kind of fetish documentary. this should be the living commitment that we all have, to make democracy work in service of the common good. that is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. that is the constitution that we ve been fighting for since then. and
wrongdoing and condensed it to no collusion, no obstruction. there was no evidence of the trump campaign collusion with the russian government hacking. there was no collusion, no obstruction, there was no nothing. neither of those things was within there. that was the mantra. you could hear it 500 times a day. it s just a classic propaganda tactic of authoritarian regimes. i feel like i could pull an all nighter. i did not pull one, i think it s just that feeling like, being back in college. cramming for three hours straight. would you think that impeachment is more unattainable now? i don t think it s any more or any less than it ever was. you know, my attitude from the
no collusion, no obstruction. there was no evidence of the trump campaign collusion with the russian government hacking. there was no collusion, no obstruction, there was no nothing. neither of those things was within there. that was the mantra. you could hear it 500 times a day. it s just a classic propaganda tactic of authoritarian regimes. i feel like i could pull in a all nighter. i did not pull one, i think it s just that feeling like, being back in college. cramming for three hours straight. would you think that impeachment is more unattainable now? i don t think it s any more or any less than it ever was. you know, my attitude from the beginning, has been the impeachment should not be a fetish for anybody. but it should not be a taboo for anybody either.
one, and it s worse than the one before. asha, looking at this new video, it s just all the more outrageous that some republican lawmakers are lying about the capitol insurrection. they re trying to whitewash what happened. look, it s not over. there s this twisted conspiracy theory that the fbi orchestrated the riot. as a former fbi agent, right, set the record straight. is that crazy? what is that? well, don, of all the conspiracy theories i ve heard so far, the theory that the government tried to overthrow itself, is certainly creative. but, look, we know this is not true. if it were, these republicans would be onboard with a commission to get to the bottom of it. but here s the thing. they know it s not true. we know it s not true. they know we know it s not true. so what we need to do is analyze this not for its falsity or veracity but really how it s being used as a propaganda