1968. All the cool kids are saying it. Liz cheney has decided her lifes mission is now to defend democracy. Jim acostas new cnn show in which he uses there were democracy in the way some people use prepositions. In every sentence. At 2 00 p. M. Eastern tomorrow there is a zoom webinar on democracy, which are welcome to attend in case you havent heard enough about it already. Every left of Center Nitwit on twitter will be there. All of them will be fretting about the future of democracy. Pretty amazing. Its easy to make fun of an event like that. And of course we have a moral obligation to. Bloviates about democracy, insert jokes here but if we are being honest about it you should be a little worried about the state of our democracy. How is our democracy doing . Well, lets see. Another way to describe Demoss Democracy is popular representation. When the government does what citizens want it to do you have a democracy, and when it doesnt, you dont. You know longer have a free country tha
campaign is going to be unlike any other. yes, the new hampshire primary was a decisive win for donald trump. the kind of win that squashes any momentum for his one remaining challenger nikki haley. but buried in the results are also some very hard truths about americans views of donald trump, trumpism and the state of our democracy. as the bull work put it today, nikki haley has beaten donald trump in iowa. two groups of voters would be deciding the presidential nomination. the first group is a republican primary and caucus voters who acknowledge that tmp legitimately lost the 2020 presidential election. the second group, which overlaps with the first, is republican primary and caucus voters who accept that if trump were to be convicted of a crime, it would be unfit to serve as president. exit polling from nbc news shows that while the republican base may have stuck with trump, just 13% of hah lee voters said they would be satisfied with trump s winning the gop nomination.
between trump and aj tish james. anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding and that could include a civil enforcement proceeding or a criminal action. do you understand that? i think. is that a yes? i don t know what i did wrong, but the answer is, yes, i do understand it. i don t know what i did wrong. donald trump then goes on to read a prepared statement in which he repeats some of the same many paranoid conspiracies and delusions we ve heard from him for years now, that he s the actual victim of a witch hunt by an out of control prosecutor, blah, blah, blah. here s a snippet. this is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. the there has never been another president or perhaps even another politician who has been persecuted, harassed, and in every other way unfairly treated like president donald j. trump. not anything we haven t heard before from the ex-president but what happens next is. here s trump repeatedl
familiar with his testimony. on tuesday, cassidy luchinson testified he told and lunged add at secret service member when he have told he couldn t go to the capitol himself. what more committee vice chair liz cheney announced they were asking their reasons regularly if anyone was trying to influence testimony and cheney laid out two witnesses said yes. they received calls from someone they knew trying to impact their testimony. one of these people on the receiving end was cassidy hutchinson. we are able to report this is confirming a punch bowl news story yesterday. she s now the star witness who revealed shocking details of complacency on january 6th despite the violence today. the legal risk for trump related to january 6th. more about the calls. the committee has not said who the calls came from with one going to hutchinson. here is one of the quotes, the witness said the caller talked about being a team player. they knew i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing.
house now. mj, let s start with this meeting happening right now. it s notable that only allies are joining this call. yeah. that s right. we are about to see president biden turn his attention to this news that absolutely rocked the country last week. of course, the supreme court s decision to overrule roe v. wade. this is a decision that the president himself had referred to as outrageous. what we are about to see moments from now is the president holding a virtual meeting with nine governors across the country. these are governors hailing from states that span the country all the way from the west coast to the east coast. i think we have a list of those governors. if you look there, governors from the states of new york, colorado, illinois. the state of washington. what we expect to see in this meeting is basically a discussion between the president and these governors on what the federal government can do to try to help these individual states as they try to work out wh