Country we are in the abyss trying to claw our way out. We want to have this special our to talk with you about what we can do about it and where we are and how we got here. So rather than me doing a onehour monologue, i thought who best to discuss this with me, that is American Marxism than pete thank you for coming. I am beyond humbled to be here and when American Marxism was in my mailbox i got the embargoed copy. It was like cHristmas. Mark thank you. Phenomenal read and it could not be a more important moment for all the reason you stated i had that same feeling that we are not looking at this were in the middle of itet and you use the Word Marxism for the first time in a title in your book and if i may i will dive in for a second for fox and friends i talked about how i like to ask you 100 questions i only have an hour but on page 251 talking about washington reading pains words so you say our Challenge Today speaking of 1776 is just as crucial and urgent and then more many ways
We know he had tried to pressure the Justice Department in the days prior toic the election asking them to investigate fake claims of Voter Fraud, but until Tonight We B did not know how extensive trumps efforts were. Trump called his acting Attorney General nearly every day over claims of Voter Fraud in the 2020 election. In those calls The Post reports Donald Trump raised various allegations of Voter Fraud he had asked about and asked the Justice Department what they were doing about it. Heres the kicker. These Phone Calls did not stay Phone Calls. There is a paper trail. Quote, attorney Rose Entold few people about the Phone Calls, but there arene notes of some o the calls that were written by a top aide to rosen named Richard Donahue who was present during some of the conversations. Those notes could soon be turned over to the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of its probe why Bill Barr so suddenly left the Justice Department after the election. Those notes could head to congress
Its interesting, that has been unfolding over the course of the last 24 hours, even as there was big news about the other one of these Nonsense Trump Election a Fraud Fantasy quests that the Trump Loyalist republicans have been pursuing across the country. This includes that same super serious firm called the Cyber Ninjas that arizona republicans hired to run their Recount Clown Show in arizona. The Cyber Ninjas and this same cast of characters indulging this voter Fraud Fantasy thing. In addition to them messing with the ballots and what theyre doing with the Election Results in arizona, they have been th pursuing a Court Case in michigan a County Call Antra county, michigan. And in the michigan instance they have also been alleging al these same bizarre conspiracies and fantasies about how trump secretly won reelection even though it looks like he lost because something, something, bamboo something, something communism, venezuela, mike flynn, buy my pillow, something, something. They
actually lead to increased mortality. and the jury is still out how these vaccines are going to work against these variants. reporter: this is new day, with alisyn camerota and john berman. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. it s thursday, february 4 tth, 6:00 here in new york. a moment of revelation for the republican party overnight. days ago, it was mitt romney who said, our big tent is not large enough to accommodate conservatives and kooks. days ago, it was mitch mcconnell who said, loony lies and conspiracy theories are a cancer for the republican party. but last night, it was kevin mccarthy, the house republican leader who said, essentially, hold my beer. no action against marjorie taylor greene, the qanon-supporting house republican who endorsed the execution of democratic leaders, harassed school shooting victims, called mass shootings a hoax, reportedly trafficked in anti-semitic propaganda about jewish spa
mass graves. mass graves. the mayor there saying they show evidence of war crimes as he pleads for a full evacuation of his city. translator: we need one clear day of cease-fire to evacuate those people. according to our estimates, we have around 20,000 dead, civilian deaths in mariupol. i feel as if my heart has been torn out. and in the east, heavy fighting reported overnight in the donetsk and luhansk regions. efforts to evacuate those areas interrupted by russian shelling. this morning, the u.n. says officers have documented unlawful killings in bucha, including summary execution of some civilians. and in the kyiv region, local investigators say more than 1,000 civilians have been killed, most of them by machine guns or sniper rifles. we re covering every angle of the gruesome war from across ukraine. let s begin this morning with cnn correspondent matt rivers, he s reporting from a train station in lviv, in western ukraine, where some evacuees out of mariupol have al