welcome to the cnn special report, the cult of qanon. i m anderson cooper. that s because qanon is based on this idea that donald trump andujar vest their blood in order to extract, ingest a chemical called adrenochrome. i know it sounds crazy but there are hundreds of thousands of people, maybe millions who believe this. some say they ve lost faith and no longer believe in q. others come up with other explanations for trump s loss and what he says is his return to power. we talk to a man who says a great storm is coming. his name is brian okstat. he said he pieces together clues on a massive good versus evil. he sent me a message. you re done, he wrote. you re on the list. execution. bang. you re dead. you sick evil [ bleep ]. i didn t know who brian was when he told me i was going to be executed. turns out his instagram is filled with postings about the satanic kabal he believes him part of. something big s about to go down. i really believe it. god has given me a lot of
people, perhaps millions who actually believe this. tonight, you will hear from them. some say they have lost faith and no longer believe in q, and the return to power. we begin with a man who is more convinced than ever a storm is coming. his name is brian oxstat. he spends a lot of time online piecing together clues. he sent me a message a couple weeks ago on instagram, you re on the list, you re done. you sick evil [ bleep ]. i didn t know who brian was when he told me i was going to be executed. turns out his instagram is killed with poetsing of the satanic thing he believes i m a part of. something big is going to go down. i believe that god has given me a lot of faith, and i want to share that faith with you, and hope with you that all is not lost. all is not lost. the bad guys are about to go down. he says he doesn t trust any main stream news organizations and gets his information from q followers and others who are pushing the alternative reality and truth. no
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[applause] welcome, michael. how many people here have been here all day? [applause] very impressive. how many people came just to hear michael? okay. my wife is here. i m sure she did. [laughter] one of the country s most distinguished most respected and most admired presidential historians and let me tell you a little bit about the background before we talk about presidency and latest book presidents of war, highly recommend and we will go through that, michael is native of chicago area, he went to williams where he came under the influence of a famous historian and subsequently went to harvard business school, after harvard business school he did not go to private equity which he should have done, higher calling. david it did it the right way, he was inclined to history, 30-year he s historian for nbc and you ve probably seen him many times on television. why did you decide to go and become historian if you went to harvard business school? i wanted to be
accused him of changing his name to sound more hispanic even crazier, he said the same thing about el paso. [ laughter ] when i was a kid, it was called the pass. [ laughter ] according to reports, the owner of soulcycle is planning to host a fundraiser for president trump, and there is no way trump knows what soulcycle is [ laughter ] soulcycle, wow, is that show still on? [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause according according to financial disclosures, more billionaires have donated to mayor pete buttigieg than any other democratic candidate well, he does have all the qualities they re looking for in a candidate. he s white [ laughter ] according to a new report [ applause ] nearly 10% of the unverified accounts president trump has retweeted since he took office have been suspended from twitter. while the other 90% have been offered a cabinet position [ laughter and applause producers have announced that the next season of the fx series american crime story will ch