with anderson cooper sunday at eight every sunday one whole story one whole hour. on cnn. hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you. share your day with us explosions in the sky. spacex is largest, most powerful rocket ever gets off the launch pad, then blows up just minutes into its mission. plus mike lindell learns the hard way. don t offer to write checks. your conspiracies can t cash mediators order the election denier to give an expert $5 million they did for debunking lindell s election live and an i. r s agent says he can blow the whistle on the heart to biden investigation. the allegations are both unproven and stunning that the president s team is mishandling the investigation into his son that the attorney general eric garland, lied to congress. first, though. spacex s starship rocket exploding in midair 33 engines. you see them there. 33 engines fired at full force to get that unmanned 400 ft tall behemoth off the ground. basics c
probability of even greater success next time. you got to remember the wright brothers, you know the first people to ever fly a powered vehicle. they crashed a lot, too in 19. oh, 85 years after they first flew, they crashed really badly and orville. it was almost killed in the accident. so early test flying. you know, it may be fun to watch, but it serves a really important purpose. and today we got a long ways down the road towards learning how to make this spaceship. as successful as we all wanted to be. hatfield critical perspective really appreciate your time today, sir. thank you. we shift onto politics now and a new twist in holding elections deniers accountable for their corrosive lies. cnn has details on the my pillow ceo mike lindell and in order that he made good on a bet and pay $5 million to an expert who debunked lindell s false 2020 election data with me in studio to share the reporting and their insights. cnn s phil mattingly jackie kucinich of the
back to just how close mike lindell was to the oval office is particularly in the days after the january 6th insurrection. he was showing president trump all of these theories, and he was very much hook line and sinker into it and has never admitted any fault, so it it just it continues. and it s just very clear right there . nothing has changed for him, except perhaps he s going to be $5 million later. will he be $500 later? you had a very brief conversation with him. he didn t want to talk to me for very long, but he did vow that he was gonna take this to court. i also spoke to the attorneys for robert zeidman today, and they said, you know, we think there s only a small chances gets overturned. and essentially, our client is looking forward to that. five million bucks that $5 million and again, there s the theater if you will, or the substance of mike lindell making a bet and losing the bet, and he s very prominent in the election denying movement, uh, that but you add in the foxy.
boston globe, camilla charles of the washington post and cnn. sara murray. sara you ve been part of the reporting on this story. walk us through this, michael and l to this day continues to say he is right and math is wrong. he is right and the experts are wrong. he is right. all the audits and recounts are wrong now he has to pay for it. i mean, he was so convinced of this. he held this cyber symposium in 2021. he invited a bunch of cyber experts and said, if you can prove that my data is not related to the 2020 presidential election, i will pay you $5 million and this man, robert zeidman, a cyber security expert who actually voted for trump took mike landell up on it because he thought there would be something legitimate there. well he goes through the data. he realizes this is bogus, and then he goes to arbitration as the contract requires. mike lindell, and so now we are learning that this arbitration panel said you re right. there s this data is nonsense. it s not related to the 2
with anderson cooper sunday at eight every sunday one whole story one whole hour. on cnn. hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you. share your day with us explosions in the sky. spacex is largest, most powerful rocket ever gets off the launch pad, then blows up just minutes into its mission. plus mike lindell learns the hard way. don t offer to write checks. your conspiracies can t cash mediators order the election denier to give an expert $5 million they did for debunking lindell s election live and an i. r s agent says he can blow the whistle on the heart to biden investigation. the allegations are both unproven and stunning that the president s team is mishandling the investigation into his son that the attorney general eric garland, lied to congress. first, though. spacex s starship rocket exploding in midair 33