The election is being rigged by corrupt media, pushing completely false allegations and outright lies in an effort to elect her president. Reporter donald trump trailing in the polls and plagued by allegations of Sexual Misconduct is falling back on his favorite safety net. The election is rigged. Its rigged like youve never seen before. The investigation of Hillary Clinton was rigged. Its all rigged. Its all rigged. The gop nominee now insisting theres a monumental conspiracy to rig the entire election against him. Trump tweeting today, of course there is largescale voter fraud happening on and before election day. Why do Republican Leaders deny what is going on . So naive. But trumps claims arent true. Theres no evidence of widespread voter fraud. And the candidates claims are putting Election Officials, even those in his own party, on edge. Today, ohios Secretary Of State, a republican, who plans to vote for trump, blasted the candidates claims as reckless. Its irresponsible. He sho
bad policy from four presidents, from both parties. joining me now craig whitlock, investigative reporter for the washington post and author of the forthcoming book the afghanistan papers: a secret history of the war. and an investigative reporter and contributing writer, back in 2019, reporting from battlefield provinces. thank you both for joining me this evening. craig, let me start with you. is it fair to say based on all of your reporting, especially the leaked documents you got hold of in 2019, the afghan papers, we were lied to by presidents of both parties, by generals, by diplomats for 20 years? they knew everything about the afghan army and the government. none of this could have come as a surprise to them surely. no, it didn t. one minor correction. those documents weren t leaked. we had to sue the federal government for three years under the freedom of information act to obtain them. so it wasn t a leak. this is old fashioned reporting. but you are absolutely right. yo
matter. but this is probably more than that, as described by ron fischetti. dan, what would you expect us to see next week, based on what we think we know tonight? i m basing it not just on mr. fischetti s statement, which wasn t a leak, it was an on the record statement. also reporting from the new york times and nbc news. it sounds like they have it from multiple sources that they are going to go forward with things surrounding the fringe benefits. and you re right, lawrence, it is a not insignificant amount of money. i will not say it s the case of the century, even if you have over a million dollars in undeclared income, that s still under new york law going to be $100,000 plus in taxes that weren t paid. so it s not an enormous tax laws. that said, it s a taxpayer-financed fringe benefit. so it is serious enough to prosecute. and there is, as dan goldman
blower. it s just another political hack job. it doesn t matter what i discuss but it i will say this. somebody ought to look into joe biden s statement because it was disgraceful. have you had a very bad week and this will be better than all of them. this is another one. so keep playing it up because you are going to look really bad when it falls i guess i m about 22-0 and i will keep it that way. juan: joe biden just responding he said president trump s claim have no credibility. jesse, let me go to you. the president said this is a political hack job. what you can see is that in fact the inspector general of the director of national intelligence felt that he was obligated to pass this information to congress then of course they went to a lawyer who went to the justice department. the justice department said we are not sure this is urgent it wasn t a leak. it wasn t done irresponsibly. it went through appropriate channels. now people are raising real concerns that there was a quid
blower. it s just another political hack job. it doesn t matter what i discuss but it i will say this. somebody ought to look into joe biden s statement because it was disgraceful. have you had a very bad week and this will be better than all of them. this is another one. so keep playing it up because you are going to look really bad when it falls i guess i m about 22-0 and i will keep it that way. juan: joe biden just responding he said president trump s claim have no credibility. jesse, let me go to you. the president said this is a political hack job. what you can see is that in fact the inspector general of the director of national intelligence felt that he was obligated to pass this information to congress then of course they went to a lawyer who went to the justice department. the justice department said we are not sure this is urgent it wasn t a leak. it wasn t done irresponsibly. it went through appropriate channels. now people are raising real concerns that there was a