seems like every investigation they're doing, it's fuelling the other side to call it a lie or whitewash it even more. >> as we mentioned, trump is out on the campaign trail today. he's saying that it's president biden who is the threat to democracy. he's also repeating this claim that the january 6th defendants, people who have been arrested, charged, put in jail, he keeps calling them, quote, hostages. >> hostages of him. they're in jail because they believe the lies he was spewing. now obviously they're grown individuals who made decisions to go down there and commit crimes, but it kind of was a good nudge being emboldened by the arguably most powerful person on the planet. so they're hostages of his lies i guess if anything. >> and i have to ask you about this. i'm sure you saw this. there's a poll out in "the washington post" that shows more than a third of republicans falsely believe this conspiracy theory that fbi operatives organized and encouraged the