serves. watchful. do you think the 2020 election was stolen from donald trump? chris, i ve been very clear from the beginning. if you look at the number of states, they didn t follow the state past laws that govern the election. so you think it was stolen? what i said is there are states that didn t follow their legislatively set rules. last time, i promise. do you think the election was stolen or not? it s not just, states that didn t follow laws set which the constitution says they re supposed to follow. you see states like georgia cleaning up the mess and people calling that jim crow law. that s a flat-out lie. speaking of lies, congressman liz cheney, once the number three republican in the house until she was ousted by him and others in her own party for having the audacity to tell the truth about the results of the 2020 election responded to steve with a crystal clear fact check and a roaring condemnation of that. she tweeted this. millions of americans ha
the campaign trial. in south korea, police are taking the blame for that deadly halloween crowd stampede that killed more than 150 people. mostly young adults including two americans. and the conservative supreme court majority takes up affirmative action today in college admissions. singling a possible reversal on another issue that had been law. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington on halloween. the attack on paul pelosi spurring a flood of conspiracy theories and disinformation including from twitter s new owner, elon musk, who tweeted an opinion, an opinion article from a low credibility source to his 100 million followers about the attack. and although many republicans have condemned the violent attack on the speaker s husband, republican governor glenn youngkin made light of the assault just hours after it happened. speaker pelosi s husband had a break-in last night and he was assaulted. there s no room for violence, but we re going to send her back to ca
Is violence against people in both parties? we ve seen for instance what happened of course to steve sclees, susan collins. liz cheney was under so many death threats she couldn t campaign in wyoming for her own re-election. she couldn t go out in public on election night. had to have a private event. so there s no question that it s against people in both parties. justice kavanaugh. let me pause it with the fact that it is coming primarily, primarily, from these right wing conspiracy theories and antisemitic tropes. so as someone who has both experience as a prosecutor and teaches in the area of democratic institutions and what keeps them strong, it seems
Here s how you know steve sclees knows. he could call on them to resign. because if those states were messed up, then they re not real congressmen, are they? why don t the republicans have the courage of their convictions to go all the way? it is such a terrifying time when donald trump continues to be the leader, not just the republican party but of plurality of folks across the country. polls show the folks who consider themselves to be republicans, who want to keep supporting not just the donald trumps of the world but the steve scalises and the chuck grassleys and the others who want to continue in that mold and the trumpian politics. to ben s point, it is infiltrating at the legislative level, something that republicans have been doing a long time.
It s possible he does get that part of it. now but words with easy to say. the real proof will be does he line up? does he lean in and push to make this happen? and thaets what we re all waiting to see now. en a pushing back on some of the republican members who were there. absolutely. some of the issues they wanted, right. he was. steve sclees, the majority whip, who shot in the last year repeatedly asked for having the concealed carry elements included. and the president looked him in the face twice and said, no, that shouldn t be in the bill. you don t have the votes. yes. he said if you want to do it separately then do it. i have a lot to get to here. let s run through some of this. at one point the president said he is banning bump stocks basically saying executive order. do you think he will follow through on that. i ll wait and see. i d love to see him try. i have to say president obama