said, a lot of people have come around to that point of view, whether they believe it or not. some people believe it, and i think have been radicalized by t and a lot of important officials including members of the senate and other powerful officials in the republican party don t believe it. they know what happened was wrong, but they go along with it because they think it s electorally helpful to them. and they are using those people in a way, they have coopted them, right, and they have acted upon whatever it is, i don t want to say that it s their ignorance or them not being them being unaware that they are being used by their own elected officials. in his speech today, the attorney general merrick garland pushed back against the criticism that this is taking too long to get accountability for the attack on the capitol, and our jeffrey toobin summed it up, garland s speech this way, just be patient. i d say the response is, okay, but what are we going to do about it?
since january 6th, 2021. all downhill from there. election lies, vaccine misinformation making it harder to vote, excusing january 6th thug ri, conspiracy theories galore, i m tired. i tried, excuse me, i encouraged a reason. i urged a pivot from trump. i failed. i m out. #unaffiliated. that was cole wis, a former colorado house assistant minority leader and he joins me now. cole, good evening to you. very brave of you. . evening, don. that s very brave of you, where did you get the guts to do that? well, you know, i think i was raised in a family where we rise up and do the right thing, tell the truth. the republican party used to stand for telling the truth, and unfortunately we ve seen that it no longer does that. i m not sure how the party of ronald reagan, the man who became the party of matt gaetz,
on schools for nutrition and food. we see impacts on working women in particular in drop outs of the labor force the closing schools have ramifications that will last for years if not decades for these kids. i think we re minimizing this damage and making a gross mistake we made last year and we have the data that shows we should have learned our lesson. i ll put this up, and he is speaking completely from the medical part of this. he said, anderson, i don t know why we are trying to sail into the omicron storm and run school. why don t we just say take off two weeks, take off three weeks, let this peak. it looks like that it may burn out and give some help to the people in need. so he is basically saying, it s a reasonable time period. and in a couple weeks when this, when the peak is reached and it is going down. so listen. he is speaking from the medical point of view. as far as what s happening with kids i get your point. what do you say to people who
think have been radicalized by t and a lot of important officials including members of the senate and other powerful officials in the republican party don t believe it. they know what happened was wrong, but they go along with it because they think it s electorally helpful to them. and they are using those people in a way, they have coopted them, right, and they have acted upon whatever it is, i don t want to say that it s their ignorance or them not being them being unaware that they are being used by their own elected officials. in his speech today, the attorney general merrick garland pushed back against the criticism that this is taking too long to get accountability for the attack on the capitol, and our jeffrey toobin summed it up, garland s speech this way, just be patient. i d say the response is, okay, but what are we going to do
and i think i guess the breaking point, don, with charlottesville, a very sad day in american history. just like january 6th when this man failed to lead our country, it failed to unite us, and that s when i began my journey, trying to figure out if there was a home for me in the republican party and it resulted in me leaving yesterday. yeah. listen, as you just said, you voted for trump in 2016, but then you supported biden in november of 2020. i did. one month later you cowrote an op-ed in the denver post, this is part of it, part of donald trump s departure will lay bear the deep divisions in the grand old party that have been simmering over the last four years. will trump loyalists split off and form their nationalist party or will trump s influence over the party continue forcing more traditional republicans to fall in line for fear of facing their own primary nightmare scenarios or will they become independent. so what do you think when you