i know you ve probably heard the phrase, history repeats itself. well, it s happening right now, i m talking about recent history, and it s happening in broad daylight. we will talk about that throughout the show tonight with many of the people who would know best, former trump aid sarah matthews was at the white house on january 6th 2021, she s all political violence and the lead up to it, she saw how trump incited it and we are seeing that again. voting rights attorney marc elias is familiar with republicans efforts to delegitimize elections. i want to start out of the story from arizona, last month, a meeting of the maricopa county board of supervisors erupted into total chaos. people swarmed the meeting, the cofounder of a pro trump even commandeered a podium to announce, this is an act of insurrection. one county official described the events as a coordinated attack and this stunk with me, a dress rehearsal for the election so yes when a bunch of election denies loss bac
so i know you ve probably heard the phrase history repeats itself. well, it s happening right now. i m talking about recent history and it s happening in broad daylight. we re going to talk about that throughout the show tonight with many of the people who would know best. former trump aide sarah matthews was at the white house january 6th, 2021. she saw political violence and the lead up to it up close. she saw how donald trump incited it, and we re seeing that again. very fully with efforts to do delegitimize elections which, you guessed it, is happening again also. on that note, i want to start tonight by diving into a story out of arizona. where last month, a meeting of the maricopa county board of supervisors erupted into total chaos. a group of people swarmed the meeting, shouting of the members of the board were illegitimate because of voter fraud. the cofounder of a pro trump group even commandeered a podium to announce, this is an act of insurrection. one county of
erin incredible details talking about firing rifles and, worse, the harsh reality in stark contrast to what we saw from putin today. breaking news. a top trump ally appearing before the grand jury investigating the mar-a-lago classified documents as we learn tonight that trump s former white house counsel testifies. another major investigation involving the former president. a couple trying to vote in arizona allegedly filmed and photographed by a group accusing them off being a, quote, mule. this is beginning of a terrible and ugly election? let s go outfront. tonight, i wouldn t let any of us out there. those are the brutally honest words from a russian soldier sent to the front lines in ukraine. in a phone call with his sister, the soldier revealing the pathetic state of vladimir putin s army. it s important to hear his voice. translator: whatever we wear here, we bought ourselves. they re forcing us to go on camera to encourage the mobilized not to be afraid t
so maybe 14. anyway, all move on. the midterms are coming in 13 days, we ve got mayors and lot enforcement officials who are getting a new warning, sadly, about election intimidation. we have extremists who are looking to disrupt the midterms, at the local level, targeting voters, targeting candidates, targeting election workers, all according to axios. let s bring in our panel, we have cnn chief law enforcement intelligence analyst john miller. new york democratic senator mondale jones, and political analyst ron brownstein. so this is so disturbing, guys, obviously when we think of extremism, i think we think in terms of january 6th, the insurrection, something on a national scale. locally, there are all sorts of examples of people be unintimidated, and just awful things happening. here are a few examples, this comes from axios. in 50 out of 67 pennsylvania counties, election chiefs have left because of threats, harassment, and intimidation. in idaho, protesters and hung i
people, till midterm elections, really two weeks from today we ll know a lot more. anyway i ll move on. the midterms are coming in 13 days and you ve got mayors and law enforcement officials who are getting a new warning sadly about election intimidation. you ve got extremists looking to disrupt midterms at the local level targeting voters, candidates, election workers according to axios. let s bring in our panel. cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller, new york democratic congressman jones and senior political analyst ron brownstein. when we think of extremism, i think we think in terms of january 6th , the insurrection, something on a national scale. locally there are all sorts of examples of people being intimidated and just awful things happening. here are a few examples coming from axios. in 50 out of 67 pennsylvania counties election chiefs have left because of threats, harassment and intimidation. in idaho protesters hung an effigy at a republ