that tweet, be there, we will be wild. it was a tweet that set up a violent chain reaction that resulted in a deadly attack on our government. cnn is not reporting the special counsel is asking witnesses about a contentious oval office meeting on december 18th, 2020. more than a month after the election, and mere days after the electoral college made official the decision of the american people. in short, that trump had lost the election. in that moment, the disgraced ex-president had two paths. he had door number one, admit head on that his campaign met the end of the line, keep in pace simple peaceful transfer of power. behind door number two, not just fall, but vaults into the abyss, commit to antidemocratic measures. of course, we all know the rest of the story. on this night in december, this crucial juncture, the six-hour cage match essentially unfolded deep inside the white house. on one side, it would summon trump s own white house team, quote, crazy. as you know, peo
department as a personal police force to pursue his critics and political enemies. here s what he said about it in an interview with uni vision last night. i could certainly happen in reverse. it could certainly happen in reverse. what they ve done is they ve released the genie out of the box, you understand that, they ve done something that nobody thought would happen. if i happen to be president and i see somebody who s doing well and beating me very badly i say, go down and indict them, mostly that would be, you know, they would be out of business, they d be out. they d be out of the election. it s all out loud now. so out loud that in a statement, a spokesperson for the trump campaign sought to walk it back and clarify trump s remarks saying the ex-president was simply highlighting the dangerous example president joe biden is setting which only makes sense if you say his conspiracy theory that the work of joe biden and not the end result of years of investigation
and lives of federal prosecutors investigating donald trump, and those same people know the names and identities of those prosecutors tasked with simply doing their job, upholding the rule of law in america, is a powder keg, potentially lethal threats that need to be dealt with. also another despicable part of what donald trump has ushered in. as we await potentially more indictments against donald trump from georgia, smith, the ongoing january 6th case, is an open question where these threats go from here today. we start the hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. mary mccord is here. democratic congressman eric swallow of california, no stranger to threats from trump and his supporters. also joining us at the table, paul reichhoff, host of the
take a listen. there are mixed opinions throughout the organization, but i believe there is a need for visual confirmation and a practical reality, too, because there are parts of the middle east that don t have are the internet or cnn and they need a visual confirmation to tell people on the ground throughout the middle east he is dead. we believe that for the president, and it is a good day and week for america, and the veteran and intelligence community who have been working so hard for this moment. and paul reichhoff fights for the veterans and he said that they need jobs. we are hearing about the unemployment rate in the country going up to 9%, but some 11% of veterans are unemployed, and his organization is working to turning those numbers around. a lot more to come, including that you will be hearing from the president. we told you not too long ago that the president was going to speak, and we will bring that to you. but, here, one man is bringing truckloads of
but in the wake of the general mcchrystal firing, the relationship between our country s civilian and military leadership is a white, hot issue for a reason. on the specifics, today as this massive privately funded medical health excuse me, mental health treatment center opened, the pentagon s top general resigned amid continuing reports that pentagon efforts to get better at treating tbi, treating post traumatic stress, just aren t succeeding well enough or fast enough. on the political side, as the white house revels in the compliments on how strong the president looks for taking command and firing a rogue general, the fact remains that general stanley mcchrystal was very popular among rank and file troops. even as liberals like me, he will lament the escalation of the war that seems to call for a never-ending escalation. the leaders of the nation s largest group of iraq and afghanistan vets, paul reichhoff