system that we insist on go all in on a lie. so half of your political system is invested in a lie. that s happening. it s not just trump. the whole party practically backs actively or passively selling that the election was not legitimate. and i don t think enough people get that this may be just beginning. why do you keep talking about trump? because he s the head of the movement, yeah, but the election is over. he can run again. and they are all preparing to undermine anyone s confidence who isn t voting for them. the key moment that i think shows where we are and where we could be headed is not january 6th. it s a moment that came after, a moment it was clear that trumpers decided the best play was to do democracy dirty. i put it on this moment of may 12th. i don t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. i think that is all over with. now, mccarthy knew questioning the anchor of our democracy, our elections, was a bad thing to do, but
we ll cover it in a moment and get your take here quickly before i get to the breaking news but it appears that before i tell the audience what p happened, i d like to break it. this is bad behavior if true jon gruden. the coach of the las vegas raiders. he was a very popular tv analyst. he was with the tampa bay buccaneers. he s a very well-known commodity with the nfl. he got called out for saying ugly and racist things emails. about the head of the players union. an email he said i m not a raisest. he apologized. he said it was a long time ago. but now there is more. he said there is not a stick i m paraphrasing here of racism in him but apparently, the new emails, there is a trove, another trove of emails, chris, that have been uncovered and revealed and reportedly in these emails, it doesn t show what he said in that apology that he made on just the other evening. so that is our breaking news. i know people will be talking about this. they are talking abo
and my greatest fear is that historically it will be seen as a bad moment for democracy. why? because we ve never seen one party in this damnable two-party system that we insist on go all in on a lie. so half of your political system is invested in a lie. that s happening. it s not just trump. the whole party practically backs actively or passively selling that the election was not legitimate. and i don t think enough people get that this may be just beginning. why do you keep talking about trump? because he s the head of the movement, yeah, but the election is over. he can run again. and they are all preparing to undermine anyone s confidence who isn t voting for them. the key moment that i think shows where we are and where we could be headed is not january 6th. it s a moment that came after, a moment it was clear that trumpers decided the best play was to do democracy dirty. i put it on this moment of may 12th. i don t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the p
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In. i don t see how he could finesse out of this. maybe one comment, two comments but there were many other emails. yeah, let me go through some of them and get your response. he denounced the emerge again of women as referees and drafting of gay players and the protesting of the playing of the national anthem according to emails reviewed by the new york times. his messages were sent to bruce allen. bruce allen was the former president of the washington football team and others working for espn as a color analyst for monday night football. he also said that roger goodell, he said roger goodell a faggat and clueless anti football pussy and said goodell should not have pressured fisher to draft queers, a reference to michael sam chosen by the team in 2014. again, that doesn t sound like someone who is not racist or homophobic.