again, there is a win to be had here but you hurt yourself if you don t stick to the real stuff. i got to go, anna, i give you the last word. they should listen to scott jennings. the reason they have to bend themselves into pretzel shapes to back up what the pathological lying president is saying is because it s a requirement of the job. working for donald trump requires lying for donald trump. yeah. wow. no republican on republican crime tonight. thank you both. appreciate it. thanks, don. we ll be right back.
he s like, you know, all of these people are writing books about me. trump? yeah, trump. i think that s just, you know, poor yeah, right. so that force field i was talking about, cliff sims talks about it in this. watch this. you know, when you re around donald trump, there s something about him the best way i could describe it is similar to how people talk about steve jobs, when people say there was like a reality distortion field around steve jobs, and when you re around the president, everything seems bigger, everything seems grander. and there could be good things about that, but there s also kind of this atmosphere that gets created, it s extremely cutthroat. i think every white house is probably tough, but i think especially the atmosphere that has been created there that encourages a lot of the infighting. what i realized was that the closer that you get to the poles of absolute power, the more distorted your moral compass becomes. hmm.
tying up women, putting tape in their mouths. they tie up women, taping them up. women are tied up, they re bound. they have women in the backseat of the cars with duct taped all over the place. reporter: the president claims that women are duct taped, driven across the border and sold. those who work to protect those immigrants say duct tape isn t a thing. we have a database of 1,435 indictments and went through all of the indictments and found 26 cases that involved kidnapping. we did a search on duct tape and we found one case of 1,435 cases that mentioned duct tape. reporter: and that case was an american, not a migrant. in looking at all federal trafficking cases, most victims are u.s. citizens. only about a third of trafficking cases are foreign nationals, and the vast majority of them enter the u.s. with legal visas. no duct tape. what donald trump is missing with this sort of fictional
but you hurt your credibility when you throw things in that may not be, you know, part of the reality of what s actually going on. so, again, there s a win to be had here, but you hurt yourself if you don t stick to the real stuff. ana, i got to go. i ll give you the last word. they should listen to scott jennings. the reason they have to bend themselves into all sorts of pretzel shapes to back up what this pathological lying president is saying is because it is a requirement of the job. working for donald trump requires lying for donald trump. yeah. wow. no republican-on-republican crime tonight. thank you both. i appreciate it. thanks, don. we ll be right back. [cell phone rings]
she seems to be competent and a very smart lady. so we shall see. and a very different offering than joe biden. oh, yes. who is presumed to be, you know if he enters the race, that s it, it s over. we ll see. we don t know. thank you, my friend. stay warm out there. i need that hat. come get it if you need it. this is cnn tonight. i m don lemon. and tonight, i want to talk about president trump versus the world. or maybe it s the other way around. democrats lining up to run against him, but even some in his own party are not ruling out a run. and that may be for a very simple reason. the numbers, the facts. okay, so the numbers tell the story. one in three republican and republican-leaning voters in a new washington post /abc news poll say they d like the gop to nominate someone other than president trump in 2020. and if that news isn t bad enough for the president, there is more. the vast majority of recent