another official who prosecutors in the special counsel s election probe have spoken to, details and what it could suggest. republican lawmakers grill the republican appointed registered republican fbi director, is there evidence for their allegations? i will ask the republican former us attorney who recommended them for the job, chris christie joins us. later, ray epis, january 6th protester in hiding after right wing media painted him as a plant. the lawsuit they just filed against fox news. good evening, the breaking news, new word another top state election official has spoken with prosecutors in connection with the former president s efforts to overturn the eleck. she is joselyn benson, michigan secretary of state, she joins her georgia counterpart, brad raffensperger, former arizona republican lawmakerer rusty bowers and two republican officials in talking to jack smith s team. what have you learned about secretary of state benson s interview with jack smith? well
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they haven t said anything negative about him they are hoping to then inherit some portion of those voters that otherwise would have voted for donald trump. i don t think that is the way politics works. i think if a dominant front run like donald trump were to drop out, a flawed thesis but that reshuffles the deck. if you or one of the other challengers manages to defeat the former president to get the nomination, how what is the chance of him coming saying the primary was rigged? given his history it is probably pretty good. but i think he will be a discredited figure if defeated again. that will mean he lost in 2018, when he lost the house, and 2020 lost the white house, and lost the united states senate for the republican part y. in 2022 lost two more governorships, and another seat in the united states senate. and led a horribly under performing house majority of five seats and now will have lost the primary 2024.
are with the american people, being reasonable at a time when extremists dominate the democratic party. and offering the american people hope that there is a better future. i ve just recently been in a series of meetings with people who were sophisticated and were genuinely frightened. they look at what s happening in saudi arabia, aligning with china and brazil, cutting deals with china, and what the iranians are doing, what the russians are doing, and they re really genuinely scared. these are very sophisticated people who look at how utterly incompetent joe biden is. he s not commander in chief. he s sort of cognitive problems in chief and i think that we have to recognize that the key is not to focus on biden. we don t want to be the anti-biden party. we want to be the pro-mare part y. that right. give voters a choice, an