candidates simply act like trump and refuse to admit defeat? the warning lights are blinking red this could happen. it s been dubbed the precinct strategy, and guess who s the senegaly driving this hostile take over? we re taking action, and that action we re taking over school boards, we re taking over the republican party precinct, we re taking over all the elections. we re going to take over the election apparatus. american citizens that are volunteering, they are going to volunteer to become a precinct committeeman, volunteer to become an election official, take over the secretaries of state. we re going to take this back village by village, precinct by precinct. we re going to take over the election apparatus, take over all the elections. the battle cry from insurrection brave heart steve bannon. bannon who appears to have as many political lives as he does shirts he wears at the same time served at the trump white house until he was fired and then he was charged in
give i ve been a miner for a heart of gold wow, what a great song. rock n roll icon legend neil young laying down an ultimatum telling spotify they ve got to choose between his music or vaccine denying podcast host joe rogan. and out of control crime in los angeles. what the hell is going on? looks like a third world country. the l.a. district attorney under fire for a criminal justice reforms that critics call an absolute disaster. let s talk about the news of the day now and bring in cnn s white house correspondent mr. john harwood and cnn s senior legal analyst laura coates the author of the new book just pursuit, a black prosecutor s fight for fairness. good evening to both of you. john, this new video is astounding. it s stunning. we shouldn t be surprised. we ve seen so much of it. every time i see another video coming out, it is even worse than the last. it shows a rioter slamming a police officer to the ground. difficult to watch. trump can claim rioter
approached butler with a pitch. imagine, half a million veterans marching on washington a move financed by some of the most powerful corporations in america. the purpose to stop president franklin d. roosevelt s new deal opposed by wealthy business leaders as a socialist doctrine. this army of veterans would pressure the president to hand over executive powers of government and if the president refused, he would be forced to resign. the bond salesman after, you know, casually pitching the violent over throw of the u.s. government asked butler if he would be interested in heading this march to which general butler replied my one hobby is maintaining a democracy. if you get these 5,000 soldiers smelling of anything of fascism, i will get 5,000 more and lick the hell out of you and have a real war. the general reported this exchange to the government and here he is revealing the so-called business plot before a panel of the special house committee on unamerican activities. bef
they were not the real electors. they sent those forged documents. they signed them. sent them into congress to be counted in the electoral college. sent the documents to the national archives as well last night on the show. we talked about new reporting from politico, which indicates that investigators. open a federal investigation, into one set of these forged fake republican electors. from arizona. from that reporting investigation. also reported on attorneys general in at least two states referring this matter formally to federal prosecutors. to the u.s. attorneys in their states as a matter for potential federal, criminal prosecution. now tonight, the story moves forward. thanks to a very rare interview that cnn s court with deputy attorney general lisa monaco. cnn has the u.s. justice department commenting on the record for the first time on the requests that they have received from state officials and others to investigate these forgeries, to investigate the republican
trump candidates peddling the big lie. remember what trump tried to do to georgia s secretary of state who refused to overturn the will of the people. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. there s breaking news on that front today. the request by a georgia district attorney to seat a special grand jury to look into that infamous call and other potential election interference by trump has just been granted. the fulton county georgia d.a. will be allowed to seat a special grand jury this spring. and that is ominous news for the ex-president. this is a criminal investigation and some of the key evidence is on tape. much more on that in a moment. speaking of tape, team trump isn t trying to hide its attempts to overthrow president biden s victory. just confessed on live television a few days ago to taking part in a scheme to replace real electors from seven states with fraudulent ones. yes, i was part of the process to make sure there were alte