listening to mr. law instruct his followers, and most of them didn t know who i was so standing on the side and heard him instruct people say, hey, just take this form, fill it out and you re automatically a member and that s not how the process works, and he said don t let them stop can you and just storm the doors. and that s what they did. they had about 300 people out there and they stormed the doors and stole our bracelets for voting and forced their way into the meeting and just created extreme chaos. so much so i think it was 13 s.w.a.t. officers had to be called in. yeah. it sounds like a little mini insurrection there in vegas. absolutely was. and it was bullying and intimidation at the best, and it was in the direction of the state chairman because mr. law is his personally appointed guy. and they were the ones orchestrating it. and these are volunteer positions. did you ever think you were going to need police protection
but first let s turn to one of the lead reporters on this massive propublica piece. isaac, thanks so much for joining us. this all sounds like a sneak preview of coming attractions, insurrection 2, the sequel. at its core what s the plan? the plan is exactly like you said, jim, take over the republican party from the bottom up at the local level. but the reason this is important is because that local level, we have locally run elections in this country. that s really where the rubber meet the road. and people usually don t realize this or don t think about this, but in every state it s a little different so it s a little hard to keep track of. but the people who run the polling precinct, the people who sit on the board that sets the rules for the election in the county and certify the results in the county, usually they get there through the county party. when something weird happens on election day, someone makes a complaint, it s the county party
today we found out senate republican leader mitch mcconnell told cnn s manu raju he s encouraging gop candidates for congress to honor the election results in this country saying, quote, it s important for candidates to remember we need to respect the results of our democratic process unless the court system demonstrates that some significant fraud occurred that would change the outcome. i guess it s nice for mcconnell to say that, and it echoes some of the cautions to the party that we ve heard from him in the past like when he blamed trump for the insurrection but voted to acquit the former president during the impeachment trial. now i can hear all of you guys saying right now mitch, please. mcconnell husband had a year to cleanup this party, and frankly, he s blown it. we need to get rid of this january 6th commission and replace it with a november 3rd commission. this january 6th commission is a total sham and waste of time.
calculation. still more churchillian than what we ve seen from texas senator ted cruz, who recently grovelled for forgiveness on fox news for stating accurately that the insurrection was a terrorist attack. you called this a terror attack when by no definition was it a terror attack. that s a lie. you told that lie on purpose. the way i phrased things yesterday, it was sloppy, and it was frankly dumb. i don t buy that. whoa, whoa, whoa. i don t buy that. i ve known you a long time since before you went to the senate. you were a supreme court contender. you take words as seriously as any man who s served in the senate. i do not believe you used that accidentally. it still hurts to watch that. since then, senator, tail between his legs, has been spreading this tucker carlson branded manure that there was some kind of fbi plot to instigate the attack on the capitol and blame trump supporters. they pointed to a man named ray
calls about people wanting to become precinct chairs and really had no idea why all of a sudden this, you know, little-known position was suddenly in such hot demand. but it was because of bannon s show. that s where people got this idea. and the fact is that bannon s podcast, even though he s been kicked off youtube, remains one of the most popular podcasts on apple s platform in the country. and it has hundreds more than a hundred million downloads on one of the services that tracks this. it s amazing. i was checking this out the other day because i was curious. can you still find bannon s podcast on your iphone and the apple podcast section, and you can, amazingly, despite the fact that bannon was instigating an insurrection before january 6th. what is the real-world danger that we re talking about here, isaac? i think one way to think about this is if people remember the images of people