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was made. but here's what we do know. it is not linked to a potential israeli ground invasion of rafah in southern gaza strip were more than 1 million palestinians have been displaced. and are sheltering. and that has been a top concern for the white house. so this not linked to that. second thing. >> it is not affecting other shipments. >> this is one shipment that was paused. we don't know exactly why that's unclear, but others shipments and military security assistance continues to israel to that end, the national security council spokesperson told me the following quote the united states has searched billions of dollars and security assistance to israel since the october 7 attacks pass the largest ever supplemental appropriation for emergency assistance to israel led an unprecedented coalition to defend israel against iranian attacks and will continue to do what is necessary to ensure israel can defend itself from the threats it faces. so just from that statement alone, you can tell us is maintaining its policy here us officials have done so. this does not signal any type of change in policy toward
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israel. we should also note because it has mentioned here in the statement that supplemental appropriation that was $26 billion for the israel-hamas conflict was part of that supplemental package that congress passed, and that the president sign. but the takeaway here is we're still learning, are trying to learn why this shipman was paused, but us officials maintaining that there is no change in policy here toward israel, even though it's the first time since the october 7 attacks, we have to hold all of that together and see what develops from that. i also want to ask you about but these talks that are going on in cairo, the vitamin restoration of course, working very hard to try to land this plane to get a deal that would have a temporary ceasefire and hostage deal where we're do things stand and they're dispatching one of their key officials to do just that. cia director bill burns was in the region over the weekend. he has been key in these multiparty talks and include israel mosque egypt, and qatar. and so these conversations are ongoing at when he has been dispatched in the past, usually during your quite intensive phase of the negotiations, we know that it has been intense over the last
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few days. in fact, president biden speaking with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu last weekend over this exact topic fact, the majority of their call was on the hostage deal, so all of this is fluid and to your point, this has been ongoing and it's unclear when the deal will be reached, if it's reached, all us officials have kept this friend of mine. it is a priority to them, especially when you talk to those in the white house. but they don't don't know when it will when the plane will land until it does. so all of that still very much ongoing in the cia director staying in the region that tomorrow. >> worth noting there as well. all right. priscilla present the latest reporting on that. thank you very much. and joining us now is democratic congressman from new jersey, josh gottheimer, a congressman. thanks so much for making time today. we have pretty speciate it. >> i want to just first yeah. >> i just first wanted to get your reaction from the reporting that priscilla was just walking us through about this paused ammunition shipment. >> what's your reaction to
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that? >> live i've called them, reached out and asked for a classified briefing tomorrow but i'm hearing what you're hearing which is no one's confirming this report. it said so as for now, as far as i'm concerned, there there is nothing tied to any pause in delivery of any weapons of any kind right now. and the position of this white house, of course, toward our key ally has not changed. >> and if it turns out we had listened general mark hertling on last hour and he suggested that this could be a message that it was maybe even more than a slow walk. >> of course, we're still learning information, but that was just his assessment based on his experience if that did indeed turn out to be true, would you support any sort of pause and ammunition shipments well, listen, i not going to comment on something that i don't believe it's true and if i get more information, i'm back. >> i think what we know to be
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true today is that hamas fired rockets at israeli soldiers at the crossings delivering humanitarian aid. >> we know that 40 rockets were shipped, that were fired from hezbollah and the north at israel. we know that israeli soldiers were killed today and we know that hamas has walked away once again from talks. and so hamas continues to have americans and others hostages as hostage, including one of my constituents or don alexander we know that has blood continues to fire rockets from hamas, from gaza into israel and we know that other rating proxies continue to fire rockets and attack americans, as well as are out hello eyes. so none of those facts have changed and that's what i'm focused on. how do we make sure we get the hostages freed? how do we continue to surge humanitarian aid and actually get it delivered into the region without hamas blocking. that humanitarian aid, getting to people who need it. and making sure that we do everything we can to crush hamas. or of course, until
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hamas surrender there's let's talk a little bit about these pro-palestinian protests that we've seen at college campuses all across the country. and we continue to see them unfolding in different iterations day after day. >> i'm curious where you see the line when it comes to protected free speech and peaceful protests. and then gatherings that required hi or law enforcement where is the line for you it's a great and important question. >> i mean, i think as i have said, this last week, as my bipartisan bill helping define anti-semitism. so we can understand where exact discriminate help, help colleges understand where the line find is for themselves on antisemitism and discrimination. my line is about the safety of students. all students. for any religion or background, and making sure that everyone is safe, that they can go to graduation, then go to class that they can study and of course, not be threatened by people screaming. kill zionists or other pro
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moss, rallying cries. and i think we have to make sure we're very clear that we all want that safety speaking out is a key right in our country and one that i support and so if protesting, but protesting at a safeway is the president talked about last week, and making sure that when you if you're going to call out to support hamas hamas, which is a foreign terrorist organization, which which continues to threaten americans and has americans hostage that you understand what you're, what you're shouting about. and i and who you're supporting. >> and that's part of what concerns me. >> i don't think people will understand that students understand that there are actually supporting how as a scream out, rallying cries for hamas that they're actually supported a terrorist organization that is using innocent palestinians as human shields. and i think we want to do everything we can to help innocent palestinians in gaza. and hamas is seeking continues to use these innocent palestinians literally as human shields. and as they continue to try to do everything they can to hurt america but to
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weaken our position in the world. i mean, hamas hates america as we often remember more than they hate israel, they hate the west and let's not lose sight of that. >> you know, it's interesting you bring that up because we had van jones on in the last hour and he said that he believed it fell to president biden that he should be explaining to these young people what hamas is about what the who ties are, about what the islamic republic of iran is about, and helping them understand what all of this is and what they stand for. do you think that falls to president biden? and if so, do you think he's done a good enough job? >> the president is going to give a very important speech. this coming week and i think he will talk about that. and of course, he made very important statements last week. can you said there's no place in america and no place on any campus for antisemitism or threats of violence against jewish students friday's had violent protest, is not protected, peaceful protest is, i think talking about those messages as the president did,
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is very important. but i also think we need to make sure we explain. i think the president will do that, that hamas and other rainy and back proxies like it has below palestinian islamic jihad the houthis in the red sea, they're all contained get to attack america, the tech, our service members, our ships, and again, they've made it pretty clear that they hate us more than they hate israel. they hate the west and that's what i'm continuing to be very concerned about. >> and i want americans to understand this is not just about the fact that hamas has americans hostage and killed 40 americans on october 7 and continues to of course, attack are key ally, but that they equally or more hate the united states of america and before we let you go, i'm just curious if you've talked to the president in the lead up to the speed you mentioned he's giving the speeches giving a speech on antisemitism for national holocaust remembrance day. >> that's coming up in a couple of days have you spoken with him about things you want to hear? have you given him any of your thoughts? i know you've been very outspoken on this
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issue i've been in regular touch with the white house and talk to the white house about my thoughts. >> and what i think is really important to address. >> and we want to do everything we can not to embolden hamas in these moments what we see that they've made it pretty clear that they're not actually interested in being serious at these negotiations, and they can, as they continue to try to change the deal on walk away from the table as the israelis have made it clear, they're willing to sit at the table working very closely with director burns from the cia and others on our side, we've got to figure out a way to get this pause getting the hostages freed. >> and especially the americans what time is not on our side on that, and we've got to do everything we can to get that accomplished as quickly as possible. and of course to stop all of these threats in the region all right congressman josh gottheimer. thanks again for seven by we appreciate it thanks for having me days of record-breaking rain in texas and the urgent threat of dangerous flooding remains is
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aides, hope hicks, broke down in tears during an emotional de of testimony friday trump is accused of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment made to adult film star stormy daniels before the 2016 presidential election daniel's herself could still be called as a witness in this case. >> cnn's zachary cohen joining us now in the studio friday was pretty dramatic. >> walk us through these most prominent moments, the takeaways from that testimony, you just good hope hicks didn't have direct knowledge of any payment or repaying men's related to this hush money? >> that's really at the center of this trial, but she did set the scene for future witnesses who can provide those details to the jury and really, prosecutors wanted hicks to emphasize this point that these payments and the repayment of michael cohen was part of a broader election-related conspiracy and a criminal one that trump and his allies tried to suppress the story from stormy daniels, from getting out before the 2016 election because they thought it would hurt his chances of getting elected. specifically, they tried to do that by linking it to the access hollywood tape,
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right? we all remember when that leaked and hope it is described what the chaos and she called it a crisis in the aftermath of that leak. she said, she was concerned that that could in trump's presidential bid at the time. and so that sort of set the scene for future witnesses who will then talk about how this effort to suppress stormy daniels historian, the concern at the time in trump's camp about the stormy daniels story coming out. now hope hicks also was asked about this 2018 interaction that you had with donald trump. it was in 20 18 when these stories about the payment to stormy daniels first started to come out and she says that she didn't believe michael cohen and trump at the time when they said that cohen essentially paid stormy daniels on his own volition and that trump didn't have anything to do with it. >> she also talked about how that trump emphasized or heard that he was glad that the story came out in 2018 when he was already in the white house and not before the 2016 election, there was a part of her testimony where she said, i think mr. trump's opinion was it was better to be dealing with it now and that it would have been bad to have that
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story come out before the elections. >> speaking to trump's potential motivation. now, we'll see who they call next when court resumes on monday, but hope hicks really setting the scene here for prosecutors and move into the alleged crimes part of this trial. >> and who else could we potentially here from its list that people will know. >> there's a lot of boldfaced names, including stormy daniels, who obviously as the adult actress at the center of this hush money the payment allegation, and then michael cohen, who's maybe the most explosive potentially witness that we haven't heard from yet. and prosecutors have been trying to set the narrative in the minds of the jurors since the very beginning that michael cohen is a problematic witness. he is somebody who is lied. he sent me that the defense attorneys are going to try to dirty up as much as they possibly can. but at the end of the de, they want the jury to be able to hear michael cohen and separate what he's saying under oath from what maybe defense attorneys have brought up in the time since he was announced to be a key witness. all right. we shall see because they are not releasing who they're calling because they're afraid of what the former president will do to those say about those people? >> zachary cohen, we know you'll be watching and thanks so much and joining me now,
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former deputy assistant attorney general, tom dupree and seen in legal analyst and former white house ethics czar norm eisen. >> norm investigated trump as counsel for the house judiciary committee in the first impeachment trial of donald trump and litigated caveat cases involving him previously, he's also the editor of the book, trying trump, a guide to his first election interference, criminal trial. great to have you both norm, let's start first with you. you have been in the courtroom for this trial, which has been probably quite interesting. you described it as they're being electricity surging through the courtroom when hope hicks was testifying on friday, do you consider her the most compelling witness so far she was perhaps the most dramatic jessica, but in some ways, the most compelling witness so far was david pecker, the former publisher of the national enquirer, because pecker took us inside the most important
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issue for this case. trump's intent did he have the intent to commit another crime and then to cover it up with these 30 for allegedly false documents and pecker said he and michael cohen and trump agreed at a 2015 meeting at trump tower that that was what they would do. >> they would benefit the campaign through these secret payments. if that's true, that's a campaign and election conspiracy, which is half of the prosecutor's case. so pecker and hicks both extremes greene really important. >> and tom, part of hicks testimony focus on how trump was more worried about how his wife, melania, would perceive this wall street journal story about his alleged affair with stormy daniels. and she testified, quote he wanted me to make sure that the newspapers weren't delivered to his residence that morning? >> do you think that she throws the defense a lifeline here that they're going to argue and have been arguing what he was just trying to defend
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himself personally at home with his wife absolutely. i think there's no doubt that when it comes time for closing arguments, the defense team is going to circle back to her testimony on exactly that point. to be fair. she did talk a lot about this mixed motive that obviously president trump candidate trump was concerned what would happen politically if the stormy daniels story broke before the election. but to your point, she also testified that trump was worried about what his wife would think and when so far i'm kind of own stuff acquaint effort to conceal the knowledge from her by preventing the newspapers from being delivered to their apartment in trump tower i suspect the defense was writing freest as she was testifying, and that we are going to see that theme recur throughout this it's trial, including in the closing when they say that trump was acting not so much to protect his election interests, but rather to keep all of this sort of business from his wife. >> what do you think more am i saw you nodding your head while tom was talking. >> as a matter of law if the prosecution can show that trump
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had a mixed motive, but he would not have made these payments. but for the campaign, legally, the judge is going to instruct the jury that's enough to establish the intent to commit a crime, then you have the phony documents, you have the cover up guilty. if you find beyond a reasonable doubt now, the other evidence that the prosecution wants also came in through hicks because she also testified that trump she did not believe some of what donald trump told her. and that he made some admissions like isn't it better that this came in now, after the campaign, then during the campaign. so there was ammunition for both sides, but that's the controlling legal issue and trump's defense attorney tried to get hicks to show that michael cohen acting on his own, that he wasn't part of the campaign. >> do you think that was affected that worked for trump's team if they want to
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press that argument for the jury, i think they're going to need a little bit more. >> they clearly were angling for that road. i don't think hope hicks quite gave them what they were hoping to get in fact, at one point, she said she found it very doubtful that michael cohen would act for purely charitable motives, that that just wasn't his nature. so i think the defense team will continue pounding on that theme, but if they want the jury to agree with that line of argument, i think they're going to have to get more look, hope hicks testimony on balance, i think had something for both sides from the defense perspective, they're going to try to find these little things to plant seeds of reasonable doubt with the jury. but on that that particular point about well she was only doing this or he was only doing this for different purposes. i think they're going to need a little more than what hope hicks gave him. >> norm, we heard zach kind of walking us through what the prosecution has been doing in preparing the jury from michael cohen, who really sits at the center of this case in so many ways. how do you think they're going to continue to do that? and do you think it'll it'll
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work if you keep saying to the jury listen, we know he has a lot of knocks against him, but, we still feel like you need to hear from him. >> well, i lived through that because when i was hired by the house of representatives to do the impeachment, the first impeachment of donald trump, michael cohen when was the first witness i talked to? i took the train to new york. i expected one thing, but i'll tell you, jessica what i got from cohen was something very different. yes. he's had a very checkered history when he was associated with donald trump i found him to be very persuasive that he brought okay. with trump, that he's attempting to do the right thing. he's colorful to be sure. but this is a very new york jury we were talking on the brink, one of the great things about being in court, of course, i've been going to court for over three decades. usually trying the case is not watching them is watching that jury. it's a real group of new yorkers i think, like before and political debate where they
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tried to lower expectations prosecutions lowering expectations michael cohen is very likely going to exceed them and i think he will present well to this jury, but boy, it's going be a tough cross-examination for the ages for sure for short, and it's always about right. expectations of people. >> tom, i want to ask you about one of trump's other cases tonight. nathan wade, the former special prosecutor in georgia's election interference case against trump and others just talked about how he resigned from that case. so after the scrutiny over his romantic relationship with the district attorney, fani honey willis, i want to play a clip of what he said workplace romances are as american as apple pie. >> it happens to everyone but it happened to the two of us. i regret that that private matter became the focal point of this
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very important prosecution. >> tom, should he be surprised that something like that became the focal point when they're going after the former president who's known for trying to delay and get at any anything he can pull it any string he can to get out of prosecution. what do you make of nathan wade's comments? right there absolutely. >> he should have realized something like this. would happen. look, this was in egregious self-inflicted error by mr. wade, by fani willis to me, it is absolutely incomprehensible. they thought that somehow this would be perceived by the american public is, as he said, american as apple pie. absolutely not prosecutors have a high responsibility to avoid the appearance of impropriety and what happened here was just an egregious error of judgment on behalf of the georgia prosecutors. and i don't think mr. wade or ms willis have anyone to blame in this whole story episode other than themselves? >> all right, norm quickly reaction to that, i agree with
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tom. it was not smart. wade had to that was clear from the start. there's nothing all american about having these kinds of workplace relationships now, all right, norm eisen and tom dupree, i appreciate both of you thanks so much thank you hundreds of people are being rescued from texas neighborhoods is days of rain drenched as parts of the state putting millions under flood watches will take you there the newsroom so playoffs, great teammates, trust each other. >> we're gonna do a trust falls, stand up, trust what you sent me up doc told you, here's a dummy how far would you go to set the ambiance of your space try the air wick way with air wake essential, missed, infused with
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texas is flood ravaged communities tried to recover from days of relentless rain rescuers are out on air boats and other vehicles attempting to reach not only people are unwilling or afraid to leave their homes, but also pets who might be stuck inside dangerous floodwaters. cnn's rosa flores is on the ground in harris county, texas rosa there now reports these floods have claimed a life what are you learning about that? well. this is just devastating news jessica, or assignment editor melissa alonso has been working the phones to confirm the death of a five-year-old in johnson county that is just south west of dallas. and indeed, officials they're telling our national desk that a five-year-old indeed has died and they say that a 911 call came in at about 2:00 a.m. this morning local time about two adults and boy that were in a car stuck and that the water
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was rising and that they needed help. and this official telling our national desk, quote, the color witness, the occupancy get out of the vehicle and attempt to get too dry ground on foot when all were swept into the floodwaters. now the adults were rescued at 5:00 a.m. the boy's body was recovered after 7:00 a.m. this morning again devastating news. and if you look behind me, you can see that people are taking these it's risks. they're going through these rising waters. either to get to their homes or to get to areas and taking a giant risk this couple that and you're looking at right now the woman told us yesterday, i believe we were on your show, jessica, she she wanted to go get medication and yesterday the water was so hi. she walked along this street and then walked back. >> and today, she says that she
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was actually able to get to her house and get her medication. >> i know that because i talked to her by phone after she walked through the flooded waters, i was calling her to check in on her to make sure that she was fine. she answered the phone and she's waving down her name is sinclair. she told me that she was able to get to her medication and now she's walking back. but there are just so many dangers associated with the rising waters. and we've talked to first responders who just tell people do not take the risk. we actually hopped on a boat with the harris county sheriff's office today hey as they were going in assessing the situation in the area that you see behind me and we just saw a tremendous amount of water, a lot of risks just don't know what is in that water. and the first responders told us that they rescued multiple people from that area including alive rescue when we have video of this alive rescue, that we aired here on cnn on this show
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yesterday, there was a woman who was visibly shaken and the first responders told us that it was difficult to rescue her and that she wanted to be rescued and left on this street because their family was waiting for her. and i actually talked to her afterwards and she told me that indeed her family was waiting for her. we saw her drive away, but here the challenge as the first responders describe to take a listen puts the water was hired yesterday. you look at the at the bottom of the r, these and what it was actually above the tire yesterday. so primarily people are walking with water to their waists so in trying to encourage people to come out, was i did was i most difficult tasks and jessica, again, just about the risks of five-year-old boy has died swept away by the rising waters closer to dallas, not exactly here. >> we're in, but this is a multicast one weather event that now has turned deadly. >> does it connect to you? >> so sorry to hear that news. just devastating. rosa flores four as in harris county, texas. thanks so much for that.
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staff to the department of homeland security under president trump, miles taylor, who's also the author of blowback, a warning to save democracy from trump's revenge. it just came out in paperback. >> and ruth been yacht professor of history in new york university, who wrote the book straw hung met mussolini to the present. >> worth, let's just start with you. >> what do you think of trump's recent comments that are calling the biden administration the gestapo so, this is straight out of the authoritarian playbook because one of the oldest talking points to the third tier in issam from mussolini onward is that democracies, the real tyranny. and when trump to cause the biden administration is something similar to the nazis and talks about the gestapo persecuting him he's activating that talking point. it also plays into the strong man cult victim hood, which were and others had this well.
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and so it makes him and all those who prefer example, participate they didn't january 6, who are now he calls them political prisoners marjorie taylor greene often talks about the biden regime. so this is part of this attempt to depict democracy as tyranny and of trump's trumpism as freedom and miles, we're now six months out from election day. in an interview this week, as we mentioned, trump would not commit to accepting the 2024 election results. >> and i want us to listen how a potential vice presidential candidate senator tim scott, respondent when he was pressed on the same issue today. >> here's what he said you voted to certified the election results of 2020? >> it's the exact opposite of what you said. and did after 2020, why would you want to be able to ticket with someone? are there such a fundamental difference? >> this is an issue that is not an issue. so i'm not going to make it an issue. well said, will you commit to accepting
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the election results of 2024? >> bottom line at the end of the day the 47th president united states, will be first it, donald's shop. >> and i'm excited to give back to low inflation, low unemployment. senator, yes or no? yes or no will you accept the election results of 2024, no matter who wins? >> that is my statement miles, these these people have a hard time answering what should not be a difficult question, which is, will you accept legitimate election results if you win or you don't? >> when will you accept them? but apparently it's become a litmus test for the republican party and anyone that wants to be trump's vp well, that the hesitation the faltering in his voice, it's an audition. >> he's ease auditioning and he was thrown a question by the casting directors that he didn't expect and i think this
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is something that that is sending a very chilling signal because i'm going to compare it to the last time this happened four years ago and six months before the election, donald trump was doing the same thing. he was signaling that he might not accept the election results of 2020 but what you didn't here in that time period is public and members of congress lining up behind him largely you heard reassurance from republican members of congress about how it would be a free and fair election. and there would be a transfer of power regardless. and they mostly dismissed these claims that donald trump would try to hold on the power and they did that right up until the last minute. this time is very different because they know what donald trump is capable of, and they don't want to get on the wrong side of him because they want to be on his sayyed. they want to be next to him on that ticket. so i've just got to say i'm very personally disappointed in some of these members of congress who i've known, like tim scott and he stefanik and others who are hewing to this line to get
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close to trump. it's taken something that we thought was a threat to democracy from one man. and it's extrapolated it through the upper ranks of the entire party what does it say to you? >> is there a chilling effect that happens throughout democracy, throughout our democracy, the faith and democracy, it is when i was traveling around for the 2024 primary, you talk to people and they absolutely believe that the election was stolen even though there is no evidence of that happening, even though that absolutely did not happen, joe biden was rightfully elected president. that is just the fact. but what do these types of things due to a democracy? >> well, it's absolutely devastating and actually you know, trump has pulled off something that i as a scholar of authoritarianism, i've never seen. he has gotten tens of millions of people to believe that he won the election. it's easily verifiable that he didn't and
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he did it working in a pluralistic media environment, in a democracy. and one of the reasons is the gop and everything is about loyalty performances. and that's what miles was describing. it. it has a chilling effect and so all of the people who want to be vice president for example, they have to come constantly compete against each other to be the most loyal dictator world. this is called divide and rule. you pit people against each other, make them compete to be the most loyal and right now, the talking point is, will you accept the results of the election and they cannot answer? they cannot say they will, because that will boot them out. so this kind of loyalty is actually very devastating to our, all of our institutions of democracy, including the idea of free and fair elections. >> miles? i just before you go, we got another example of how
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trump is sowing distrust in american elections when he was out on the campaign trail this week he said if everything's honest, i'll gladly accept the results. i don't change on that if it's not, you have to fight for the right of the country. so again, very is just underscoring this. he's telegraphing where he is. he gave that time magazine interview as well, saying that he might eat, that he might actually deport millions of undocumented migrants by using the military people say add, don't listen to me is just blustering. what do you say people have been making that excuse for years since i was in the administration. >> i mean, remember when donald trump said stand back and standby to the proud boys and people were up in arms and everyone said outcome on your misreading it. well, we later found out that the proud boys literally thought they might be able to stage an armed invasion into the capitol and start a civil war. that was their language, not mine, that they were planning for a civil war. and now it seems like the theme
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of his campaign is stand back and standby. he's trying to tell these potentially violent elements to be ready should he does sayyed to oppose the results of the election if they are not in his favor, we are playing with fire here. this is worse than what we saw with the rhetoric in 2016, worse than 2020, we need to be ready for it and again, i always go back to this, isn't a political issue. i'm still a conservative. this is a national security issue. the way he's handling this and the potential powder keg that's being created in our political system right now by donald trump and his allies, miles taylor and ruth vignette. we appreciate both of you. thanks so much. i'll be right back so this to play ohms, what brings you to here today are you looking at do you really have to ask i'm missile says, look, i know it can be stressful this time a year, but great teammates build each other up.
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