welcome to ayman. tonight, the former trump official who just quit the gop to help save it from ruin. is it too little too late? plus, republicans want to regulate you. i mean, everything about you. what you read, when you watch. what you do with your own body. so much for small government values. then, new details on ginni thomas s or efforts to overturn the 2020 election as her husband ruled on cases about that very election. , i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. the country is in danger of imploding. democracy is in danger of disintegrating. those are not my words. that is the ominous warning from house majority james clyburn who told the washington post quote, i don t know why people feel that this country is insulated from the historical trends. maybe autocracy is the future of the country. before you at home say congressman clyburn s language is hyperbolic, just take a look at what is happening in pennsylvania and michigan. just this week, a self proclaimed 202
reminiscent of the way the authorities governments are in the society developing orders, business around and orders and people around, tell us what they can and cannot do. so, this is a real authoritarian turn, within the extremist republican party. melissa, on terms of what jonathan was saying, but they can and cannot do i want to go back to the story i was just discussing, with secretary king virginia betokened pushing barnes and noble, to stop selling certain books can they do that legally speak? i think it s unlikely here that they have a legal leg to stand, and certainly take the pressure on them if they were to be legislation that be launched against the private entity like this, there could be questions about whether or not this sort of runs afoul existing protections for private citizens, not necessarily a first amendment