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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