donald trump is still puppeteer in the republican party. he is handpicking candidates that he wants to win in primaries. the litmus test is the 2020 election still for him. do you believe it was rigged and stolen from donald trump? if you believe that, then you're in his good graces and maybe he'll support you. and that support will bring you money, and that support will bring you voters. and so he's still running things a year later. it looked in the immediate aftermath, when lindsey graham went on the floor and said enough is enough, it looked like, well, maybe things would shift. but they haven't shismfted. in fact, donald trump has consolidated his support among fervent republicans, and he runs the party a year later, and that is another reason that i think joe biden felt that he had to come out and give this direct speech, challenging the belief that the election was stolen. >> gloria, david, susan, tim, thank you all very much. >>> join jake tapper, anderson cooper for an unprecedented gathering of police, lawmakers, and leaders on th

trump, ivanka trump and donald trump jr. about what she says she has evidence of fraud by the trump organization, overinflalting and then deflating the valve its assets. the january 6th committee getting access to 700 pages and white house records including handwritten records from the chief of staff about january 6th and the days before it and now the fulton county prosecutor saying i need special powers to investigate potential criminal behavior in donald trump's effort to pressure georgia republicans to somehow help him steal the election. wow. >> it's a lot and things are adding up and compiling every day. almost every hour there's a new development but keep in mind these are very separate investigations as elliott was saying. and this georgia probe is specifically interesting because, a, there's the audio tape that we've heard again and again from the phone call by the former president and looking into georgia, but the question i have, john, is how much is this going to bleed into present day politics because georgia is

, and now he will never criticize donald trump. he -- the words that he said about donald trump bearing responsibility for the violent mob that attacked the capitol, that very concept that he himself said, kevin mccarthy, were i to say it now, could see kevin mccarthy criticizing me for being partisan. even though i'm just repeating his own words against him. we need republican patriots, not just adam kinzinger and liz cheney, we need republican patriots to stand up for democracy. and we need the conservative pundits who know better to stop belittling what happened on january 6th. i think it was conservative writer kevin williamson who said, of course, the riots that we saw in the cities throughout 2020, of course they were horrific, of course they were criminal, but there is a difference between a coup d'etat and coup dtarget, there is a difference. >> if you read the op-ed out in "the new york timetimes" by jim carter, he says it takes democrats and republicans coming together, but that's not happening. finish this sentence as yo

donald trump lost, donald trump is a former president. now president biden never used his name. 16 times he referenced the former president and he made clear that in his view the former president put a dagger to the throat of american democracy with his big lie and watched for hours as the mob paraded through the halls of the capitol building behind me. cnn's dana bash, and melanie, you were among those inside that building when it was breached? >> i was. 21 of the moments that stands out to me when we were thrown into the house chamber, the doctors were locked. the chaplain handed out gas masks and in that moment i realized this is real, we are in serious danger. so often you get a bomb threat. throughout the day we were if denial this was happening. i told my family members this is the safest building in america right now. i'm okay. that wasn't true. it's also pretty remarkable that in those moments i had so many members of congress who were on the floor. they were going at each other. that's something i also remember the tension fillin

he doesn't know what donald trump would do. he's not spoken to donald trump in more than a year. they're on the same page just by hampenstance in some ways. in pennsylvania, one candidate dropped out there who had donald trump's endorsement there. and in georgia. mcconnell was concerned about him initially. donald trump got behind him. now mcconnell is behind him. uncertain how this will play out but his comment to republican candidates to embrace the election results, that was by no mistake. he wanted to make that very clear that that is an issue that republicans should get behind and trust the elections. >> we'll watch to see if the former president decides to raise his hand on that point. fascinating interview and months ahead of us as we go through primary season and beyond. the panel will be back. manu, thanks for the interview. >>> a big win for the january 6th committee and new grand jury in georgia that only adds to donald trump's legal woes. when you switch to t-mobile and bring your own device, we'll pay off your phone up to $800. you can keep your phone. keep your numb

chirp, ivanka and donald trump jr. the speech arksz part of the new york investigation into former president donald trump's business practices. what's your understanding of what information prosecutors hope to get here? >> well, this investigation is focusing on the trump organization and the trump executives and how they valued certain property. that includes golf courses and condo buildings so what james office is seeking through the subpoena are documents and testimony from donald trump jr., one of the top executives, one person involved in a number of properties and ivanka trump who was also a senior executive at the company before she joined the white house when trump was president. this comes days after james' office had subpoenaed trump for his testimony and trump use lawyers said they were going to move to quash that pope isa and they are going to move to try to quash those speech arksz as well. eric trump, who is a top official at the company, had already provided testimony for james' civil investigation, but

trump, so they have bought into this, and there can be no donald trump, there can be no loss of democracy. there can be no authoritarian government without people like that. it doesn't happen just with one person. it happens because mitch mcconnell goes along with it. it happens because lindsey graham goes along with it. that's how it happens. >> david, you know, she mentioned liz cheney, and she's part of this "new york times" excellent piece, ten republicans who voted to impeach trump after january 6th and the consequences of that vote, representatives gonzalez and kinzinger, they're retiring, liz cheney was stripped of her leadership position. reps hererra butler, peter mayor, and fred upton have trump endorse primary challengers, and the others are just trying to stay under the radar. the people who had the courage to stand up to the insurrection have been isolated. is there no one left for the next time? >> well, i think one of the great story lines to watch this year are these ten pro impeachment republicans. you noted two have announced that they're not running for election, so the

donald trump jr. is still one of the top executives. now james' office had previously deposed eric trump. he is also one of the top executives at this company, but that came before james joined a criminal investigation by the manhattan district attorney's office. that is something that trump's lawyers are likely to focus on in their arguments of why these depositions should not take place. they have already sued james' office saying she is biased and trying to get a judge to stop her investigation. erika. >> interesting to see what happens with these subpoenas. elyrics as you're look at this, learning about these speech arksz now, does this tell you about anything where you are about this version anything that you should read into that. >> it tells me that james, the attorney general, is intensifying the focus and broad anything the scope of her civil investigation. separately there's a criminal investigation being run by the district attorney with james as we will looking at potential criminal violations and there's important differenc

which is, donald trump lost the election. it's amazing how something so simplistic can be such a dagger so donald trump. rounds did it twice. >> not only he lost the election, but mike pence did the right thing. sort of twisting the knife a little more. look, unfortunately, mike rounds or what one senator or what one congressman says is really not going to have a huge impact. you wish that this would be a groundswell of courage against the president. really, the rnc is holding all of the cards and all of trump's power. they're still paying his legal bills. they're still allowing trump to siphon money away from them into his pack. i mean, it's insane, how the rnc has laid down for donald trump. as long as he has the party apparatus, that's where the power is. so what mike rounds says should be applauded and amplified, but, unfortunately, trump has the party behind him still. >> yeah. for the folks who have to answer in 2022 and 2024. south dakota did go for trump by 26 points, more than 26 points, so that's not nothing here. i

new york's attorney general latitia james has subpoenaed donald trump jr. and ivanka trump in the fraud inquiry into the family business that is ongoing. let's get some more. what are you learning? >> reporter: so we just learned from a new court filing that the new york's office has subpoenaed them as part of the civil investigation into whether the trump organization and any of its executives manipulated the filing. this is because the a.g.'s office has formerly subpoenaed donald trump himself for his testimony and his attorneys are planning to fight that subpoena. and so they will also fight the subpoena for don jr. and ivanka trump's subpoena. ivanka until she went into the administration was with the company. and do don jr. is still one of top executives at the company. and so they will be fighting that. just as a reminder, eric trump, one of the other top executives, was previously deposed as part of the investigation. but what has changed since is that the new york agttorney general's office has joined in the criminal investigation and that adds anot

this is a bad day for donald trump and a bad week for donald trump. he canceled that press conference. republicans may not have wanted him to do it, but he doesn't usually listen to republicans. he canceled that an hour after sean hannity's text to mark meadows were made public. his base may dismiss this speech, but this was a very powerful attack on trump by biden. >> yeah. what president biden said is we have to now determine, and i'm anxious to get your thoughts, what kind of nation are we going to be. the big lie was formed by the former president and it's still out there. jim sciutto is watching all of this together with all of us as well. we're seeing the motorcade getting ready to leave capitol hill and head back to the white house with the president. i'm anxious, jim, for your thoughts. as i keep saying, people in the united states are watching president biden, but people all around the world are watching what the president of the united states had to say about the peril to american democracy right now, and they're probably scratching their he

this is very bad news for donald trump. when he looks at these texts, jim jordan, there is a text exchange in one of them. this is betrayal. these are the people around him talking about him behind his back and talking about they're worried about his state of mind and what's happening. that you knows sean hannity is afraid and the white house council is going to walk away and quit. i think that you have to think about why donald trump cancelled his press conference for thursday. it seems to come right after this news came out. >> not to mention the sheer hypocrisy of oh, nothing is happening here on testimony vision and they are behind the scene -- what the hell is happening here? it seems to be the tone here. in one text, hannity says he does not think january 6th is going to happen the way trump is being told. hannity appears to know about conversations trump is having with his advisers of the certification of the election, how significant could that be to the committee? >> all of this is significant and we should also me

. >>> also ahead, donald trump dangling pardons for the mob that ransacked the capitol, one of the january 6 investigators on capitol hill joins me live a and legendary guitarist putting spotify on the spot for misinformation. saying it has no business sensoring its content. here, on the cnn news room. tonight a new measure of the escalating fears that russia could soon invade ukraine, tells cnn officials to brief all senators on the crisis on thursday and tomorrow, the united nations security counsel will take up the matter, all of this unfolding as two senior american defense officials tell cnn there are indications russia has moved supplies to the border area as part of its military ramp-up. today, ukraine's foreign minister delivered a blunt message -- if russia wants to avoid war, it must pull back its forces and continue diplomat, talks. and its british counterpart echoed that growing sense of urgency today. last hour i spoke to a retired u.s. army brigadier general, he says the stakes are getting higher by the day. >> they have a chance now to back off, the world would breathe a sig

what was donald trump doing? and that is all extremely important because it goes to donald trump's state of mind. i mean, his defense is going to be i didn't incite these rioters and these insurrectionists. i told them to go up there peacefully, although i did tell them to go up there. well, if that was really -- he used a lot of inflammatory language at the same time. if his intent was really innocent, well, why didn't he immediately go out on the front lawn in front of the cameras at 2:30 or 3:00 and say, everybody stop it, go home. family members, chief of staff had to keep bringing down ivanka trump to say, please, say something, is say something. people rp calling the white house left and right. why was he just sitting there? and stephanie grisham said he was watching gleefully. people were fighting for him. that goes into his state of mind and what he intended. and it goes to his state of mind generally, which is critically important when it comes to potential charges on the question of whether he and other

donald trump remains incredibly popular amongst republican-based voters. i'm helping my good friend and west point colleague dave mccormick in pennsylvania run for senate. in the state of pennsylvania amongst republican-based voters donald trump is incredibly, incredibly popular. here in florida, in the state of florida, donald trump is incredibly popular. anywhere you go around the country with republican voters, donald trump is incredibly popular. listen, until he becomes not popular amongst republican voters, there won't be an opening for anybody else. >> well, but the challenge is he didn't win in 2020, even in pennsylvania, you know, he lost your home state. so i just have to wonder -- i've got this -- i have a theory and we will see it play out, republicans are going to keep him around through 2022 because he will be helpful in winning back house seats, getting back the house majority. he is monster fundraiser, he does have a death grip on the party, but i'm going to be curious to see if there starts to be a break after 2022 because if i'm reading th

hice has been all in on trump's election lie and endorsed by donald trump. in arizona, a state representative named mark finchum wants the job. >> arizona state representative mark finchum is with us tonight, and what a job he's done. mark? >> he's already received the endorsement of donald trump. he has said over and over again that this was a fraudulent election. he's called for decertification. he's got a descent chance to win this primary. if we have people like that in these key positions moving forward, i think we are in danger. >> eight of the ten house republicans who voted for impeachment are now facing primary challenges from republicans endorsed by trump or energized by him, including liz cheney. >> donald trump is very vocally supporting your defeat. are you worried? >> no. i intend to win. >> you could lose. you're saying you won't but anything is possible. if you lose your career because of this position you're taking, will it have been worth it? >> well, i will no matter what happens never stop fighting for the constitution, never stop fightin

son eric and donald trump jr.'s fiancee, kimberly guilfoyle. the committee issuing new subpoenas for rudy giuliani and other trump associates who helped push his massive lie about the election. >>> we're also watching the white house this morning as president biden is gearing up to hold a news conference to mark one year of his presidency. let's begin our coverage with cnn's kara scannell who is in new york with breaking news on the investigation into the trump organization. >> this came in a filing overnight where the new york attorney general leticia james is trying to compel the testimony of the former president, his son and daughter. they found over the course of this multiyear investigation -- significant evidence of fraud and misleading statements in these financial statements. these were financial statements given to lenders and insurers and helped inform filings that went to the irs. through these statements james' office is pointing to a number of different areas, a number of properties including 40 wall s

. >> reporter: for weeks, president donald trump hyped the rally on january 6th. be there, he tweeted. it will be wild. that day his family and allies whipped up the crowd. >> have some back bone. show some fight. let's have trial by combat. >> then trump proceeded to call out his own vice president. >> mike pence is going to have to come through for us. and if he doesn't, that will be a sad day for our country. >> reporter: he lied about the election and urged his followers to march on the capitol. >> and we fight. we fight like hell. and if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore. >> reporter: a year on from the january insurrection, we've learned much more about how the day unfolded, who the players were, how they organized, communicated, and attacked the capitol. more video has come out revealing how dangerous it truly was. >> u.s.a.! [ chanting ] >> at trump spoke on the ellipse the first clashes between protesters and police, while vice president mike pence made clear he would follow the law. and congress started to certify the e

trump today even by donald trump's standards, he endorsed the far right prime minister of hungary, victor orban. he's someone who has considered -- he's considered a threat to democracy. consolidated power over the years. blocked independent media. wanted to block asylum seekers and refugees. a lot of people might not know this but of the many positions you hold, you are also co-chair of the congressional hungarian caucus. what do you make of this endorsement by trump? is it too much to say that donald trump might want to turn the u.s. into what victor orban has done to hungary? >> well, you know, the hungarian caucus doesn't endorse candidates, but we work on issues of mutual concern. but i have, with my colleagues, communicated with the state department my real concern about what's happening in hungary to the democracy that we all supported so strongly. he is limiting freedom of press. he is attacking human rights. it is very scary about what he is doing to basic democratic principles that people fought so long for. and it's a danger to democracy in the world. the actions that he is tak

just how much people hate donald trump. i've been saying -- look, i've been saying that people sort of like the trump-ism, the things that go along with it. maybe the judges and all that but they don't like him so this talk about he's a shoe in for 2024, i'm not so sure about that. go on. >> his people like him, i think. i don't think that outside of that, that core group of people. but i also think that these numbers with joe biden of course were many, many years out from when he would run for office so they're not meaningful but also, they're not putting up against another person and it's not just donald trump. it's also ron desantis. it's when it's in a head-to-head matchup, that's when it matters. how am i feeling now, it's what people are talking about is i'm exhausted from covid. if i'm a parent, i'm ripping my hair out. i want to go back to normal. i just -- that is really what those numbers are about. so it doesn't -- it tells us nothing about where people will be in three years. >> don't you think, though, that, yo

>> well, you know, donald trump loves nothing as much as donald trump. so you actually have this curious moment where donald trump's ego has for once come together with the greater good. he wants to say this works. >> it's like the dog who caught the car? >> exactly. you know, this is the trump vaccine, so of course the trump vaccine works. how could it not work? now, it just so happens that's the right public policy position. so i mean i think it would be great if donald trump was out there calling on every republican to endorse vaccines and boosters. but let's don't forget it was the trump white house that politicized vaccines. they're the ones that went out there and made it a democrat or republican issue. this didn't happen in other countries. >> yeah. >> i mean in israel, the ultra orthodox embraced the vaccine. in canada, it didn't become a conservative/liberal issue. it's one of the great catastrophes in public health history, and that lies solely at the feet of donald trump and his administration. >> he wouldn't even say that he got the vaccine,

listen, donald trump pick add fight with mitch mcconnell. really doesn't want mitch mcconnell to be the republican leader anymore. and last night it seemed that lindsey graham, he picked sides in this. listen. >> if you want to be a republican leader in the house or the senate, you have to have a working relationship with president donald trump. i like senator mcconnell. he worked well with president trump to get a bunch of judges including three supreme court justices on the bench that got the tax cuts passed working together, but here's the question -- can senator mcconnell effectively work with a leader of the republican party donald trump? i'm not going to vote for anybody that can't have a working relationship with president trump. >> he's picking sides there, senator. >> is he saying not going to vote for mitch for lealeader? what it sounds like. that's kind of ridiculous insofar as donald trump's a horrible person, and -- i think -- pretty much everyone in the republican senate caucus kind of knows it, and he's been selling this huge

of things i went through, the setbacks and questions about donald trump, donald trump, innocent until proven guilty applies to everybody including the former president of the united sates, would you think that people would want to take a little bit of distance but even those who we do know do not like trump, do not like to talk about him, listen. >> do you think that former president donald trump will be a help to you in the mid-term elections? >> i think the mid-term election almost certainly is going to be a referendum on the party in power and all republicans believe me, of all stripes, will be together voting to send this administration a strong message this november. >> leader mcconnell has remarkably good ability to not have heard the word trump was even mentioned. >> he's great. a master. does the same thing asking questions about trump. nice try. just shows he sees no political upside to barbing the president. hasn't walked back his comments about trump. he hasn't talked to the former president since january 6th and you see y.look what happened to liz cheney over in the house

donald trump is no longer president. we no longer have a person with the power of the executive branch trying to actively undo an election and incite an insurrection so we're in a better place but the danger is not yet done and that's what we need to stay focused on and that's what the real meaning of the speech was today. >> gloria, one of the remarkable things has been to see the speed with which some of the republicans who on that day, exactly a year ago, had crystal clarity about what had happened and what they had just been subjected to versus where they are today. so, as an example, let me play for you senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, what he said then and the statement he put out today. >> i've served 36 years in the senate. this will be the most important vote i've ever cast. if nothing before us proves -- >> they're competing for the american people to see. >> break in right now. this is nancy pelosi speaking right now. about what happened a year ago. >> i want to thank congressman jason crow. we all know

if he is going to be able to work with donald trump. obviously kevin mccarthy knows if he has donald trump as an adversary he is not going to be speaker and he wants to be the speaker. >> i'm glad you clarified. you know mccarthy wants to be the speaker as well so he needs to, you know, get his ducks in a row. in the committee letter to mccarthy they asked about his meeting at mar-a-lago and how mccarthy's public statements changed and they write, i quote here, at that meeting or any other time did president trump or his representatives discuss or suggest what you should say publicly during the impeachment trial if called as a witness or in any later investigation about your conversations with him on january 6th? so the question is, are they trying to get to witness tampering here? what is going on? >> well, there is an abundance of relevant information that kevin mccarthy has for the january 6th committee involving a slew of materials before january 6th, on january 6th when he was in touch with donald trump, and after january 6th regar

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and i think the republican party is good for donald trump. i don't think the two can function well apart from one another. that right there really captures the thinking inside the republican party right now. you have republican lawmakers like kevin kramer who pushed back on the big lie who still remain loyal to donald trump, and that's because he's still the most powerful force in the republican party even one year after january 6th, victor, alisyn. >> melanie zanona, thank you for that reporting. >> so the january 6th committee wants to speak with fox host sean hannity, the committee says there are dozens of these texts to hannity to show that there was something different happening from what he was saying on the edge to what he was saying privately. let's bring in chris, our friend, who is now senior fellow of american enterprises, chris? >> that's true. that is true. >> okay. good. let's start with that. former fox channel politics editor, chris, great to see you. before we ask you any questions, victor, and i are going to do a dramatic re

donald trump is not adolf hitler. but weimar's death highlights a death for all democracies, specifically the way conservative elites, determined to keep the left out of power, align themselves with an anti-democratic demagogue. the story in germany began with a big lie. after the nation was defeated in world war i, a baseless right wing conspiracy theory was born, that the military had not lost in battle. >> states men assembled to draw up the peace treaty. >> but was forced to surrender by treacherous right wing politicians. >> it was called the stab in the back. >> a young adolf hitler eagerly embraced this conspiracy theory. >> he blamed the men who had signed the peace. >> and used it to come to national attention. >> adolf hitler calls for action. >> he tried to seize power by force in a coup. >> in this munich beer hall, he proclaims a national revolution. >> but his beer hall putsch was a spectacular failure. hitler went to prison, wrote "mein kampf," and learned ann a valuable lesson. >> it is far less likely

the only one below him was donald trump at 39%. he is well below even where barack obama was at this point, 50%. and certainly well below where george w. bush and george h.w. bush. >> so, harry, when you talk about his numbers going down, one of the things that has to concern the white house is with whom specifically? >> yeah. he's losing voters both in the middle and those traditionally part of the democratic base. people of color are a big part of the democratic base. favorable rating was 72% on election day. age 18 to 34, approval rating just 37% on average of polls. he had a favorable rating of 60% on election day 2020. and independents voted for donald trump in 2016, and then switched allegiances to joe biden in 2020. his favorable rating on election day 2020, was 52%. now, just 33%. no bueno, john. >> what's happening now? >> if there was one issue that helped joe biden win the presidency back in 2020, it was because people disapproved of the job that donald trump did on the coronavirus. joe biden came in with a head of steam

you've been very critical of donald trump. you've been critical about the big high, about the election. assuming republicans do take power in the fall, do you like kevin mccarthy? >> i'm not a big kevin mccarthy fan i also really haven't liked what steve scalise has bmd the election. but i've known him as a very fine person, going all the way back to 1989. i would love to see him get a shot. then again, right now i'm a huge fan of liz cheney. i think she's shown incredible courage and principle. i would love to see her but that won't happen. >> bacarri, what do you think? of who you would like in the republicans in the house to be speaker. who is the least objectionable to you in. >> i really don't care. i think the house is gone. jim jordan, schealise, mccarthy. >> coming up, a newly released study looks at the impact of covid vaccines on ivf. ttle misse never stood a chance. until, energizer ultimate lithium. who wants a cupcake? the number one longest-lasting aa battery. yay! case closed. liz, you nerd, cough if you're in h

and donald trump is going to be out there stoking it. >> and, david, donald trump continues to toy with a 2024 run. and today liz cheney actually sounded the alarm about what would happen if he was actually to win. >> any man who would provoke a violent assault on the capitol to stop the counting of electoral votes, any man who would watch television as police officers were being beaten, as his supporters were invading the capitol of the united states, is clearly unfit for future office, clearly can never be anywhere near the oval office ever again. >> hillary clinton said a couple weeks ago that if he runs and wins that could be the end of our democracy. do you share that fear? >> i do. i think it is critically important given the lines that he was willing to crossed. he crossed lines no american president has ever crossed before. >> david, what is your reaction to that? >> i think it's scary, but i do believe it also puts a finger on the right point. and that is we are not making progress on trying to resolve these issues. we are going backwards now. the dangers to the country, i thin

this is a bad day for donald trump and a bad week for donald trump. he canceled that press conference. republicans may not have wanted him to do it, but he doesn't

the heart of this is she wants to get at the former president donald trump, donald trump jr. and ivanka trump to testify about what they know about her findings. she said, the office of the attorney general has collected significant additional evidence indicating that the trump organization used fraudulent or misleading asset valuations to obtain a host of economic benefits, including loans, insurance coverage and tax deductions. according to james, this covers a number of trump properties, office buildings as well as golf courses. she lays out a number of these alleged misstatements here. ticking through them, she says they overstated the size of trump's trump tower penthouse, they mischaracterized the assets in the trump organization's control on his cash financial statements when they didn't actually have control of that money. they also alleged they misstated the process with which trump or his associates came up with these valuations that were on these financial statements, and that they failed to use fundamental techniques valuations, breaking from the norm to come up w

>> first of all, let's put it out there, this is bad news for donald trump. so in addition to what congresswoman cheney said, a person with knowledge of the investigation has told me the january 6th committee has information from multiple sources with firsthand knowledge. so not just one source, and that these sources describe what the president was saying, doing and not doing during the riot. the source said "there's a collection of people with relevant information." translation? firsthand indicates someone with direct contact or knowledge. it could be someone who is in the room, someone on the phone, someone with direct firsthand information. bottom line, the committee has broken through trump's wall. >> right, and jamie, do you have any indication as to who some of these people might be? >> so we don't know about a lot of people, more than 300 people have testified, but there's one witness who has publicly given a deposition to the committee, that's keith kellogg, former vice president mike pence's national security adviser, who was actually with trump in

you said this isn't about donald trump. what donald trump did, this is more about the republican party. donald trump gave them cover to be what they wanted to be, right? to make this pivot. they wanted this. it wasn't -- explain what you meant by that and how you said it. >> i think their republican party was revealed by donald trump, not changed. just as i think fox didn't create the republican party, the republican party created fox. if there wasn't a market for fox, it wouldn't exist. it would be a restaurant, you open an italian restaurant, they come and eat it. the republican party has had these two strands. you know, i go back and talk to eisenhower and mccarthy's strand and the mccarthy strand emerged dominant and we have a party that iscrat party in america. >> don, if i could ask to what stewart is saying -- >> wait, just complete your last -- i'll let you jump in john but complete your last words. i couldn't hear what you said. >> i said we have to stop thinking they're going to change on their own. they're not. >

and this trump reporter almost nailed it with almost a cult following. >> why does donald trump have such a strong following, it's almost like a cult following like no other president ever had? >> the truth about cult's following is it's a very narrow place in america. most arizonans were not rushing to the rally. the vast majority of americans don't care enough about politics to spend their saturday night listening to a former president rant and rave. most did not care or give one hoot. but for maga die-hard who want to watch, there are die-hards standing and fighting for a chance. and they fill half the screen in a speech. trump is free content for these channels and he promotes them in turn. one of the channels, one america news, is in trouble this morning. the biggest source of revenue, directv, is dropping the conspiracy channel in a couple of months. directv said this is a routine decision but on the far rietz it's being cast as a conspiracy to banish dissenting voices. the reality is one america news is there's very little news. they don't have newsrooms around the world. it's

that would be ivanka trump, donald trump jr. and donald trump. >> this filing she made last night was her best push about why she needs this testimony. she said they have come through this investigation across specific detailed allegations and fraud misstatements, vovrvovrl i -- involving a number of his properties, including his golf courses, there is a building in manhattan that they own as well as the trump tower penthouse itself where trump lives. on his financial statements he said it was 30,000 square feet and worth over $300 million. two years later saying, actually, it's 10,000 square feet worth $116 million. they acknowledged it was a misstatement by $10 million. donald trump signed these financial statements while he was running the company. she said she also needs to talk to donald trump jr. because he took over while he was president. she also wants to talk to ivanka trump because she was a keighlie a son to deutsche bank who loaned the company more than $300 million. the trump organization coming out saying they hav

. >>> growing legal peril for donald trump. the district attorney in fulton county, georgia, has requested a special grand jury to investigate the former president's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. this phone call that we have all heard now could be exhibit a. >> i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. >> the d.a. fanny willis has been investigating for yearly a year now. her request to seat a special grand jury might suggest she's seriously pursuing criminal charges against trump or his allies. >> it began when new york's attorney general announced she had uncovered significant evidence of fraud inside the trump organization. she wants to question the ex-president, daughter ivanka and son don jr. on wednesday, the supreme court cleared the way for records that should auto shed light on the events leading up to and of course during the insurrection. we also learned january 6th panel subpoenaed and obtained the phone records of eric trump and kimberly guilfoyle. kimberly of cou

and donald trump jr. would get immunity. so instead she's using the sort of back door and trying to get them to testify in the civil process. the other argument they make is this a political investigation, and candidly it is because look at letitia james' own words. she ran for office in 2018 on the number one campaign promise of vote for me, and i'll nail the trumps. i don't think that's a good idea, primarily because it's counterproductive, because it gives trump a way to say this is political. now he's arguing it to try to defeat these subpoenas. >> i've actually been surprised by some of the interviews that she has done and how she speaks about this investigation. how much trouble could ivanka or donald trump jr. be in, in this civil case? >> well, look, obviously the civil case, there's a lower standard than a criminal case. a criminal case, you have to prove your kaz beyond a reasonable doubt. that can involve prison time. a civil case, you only have to prove it by a preponderance of the evidence. t

donald trump laughed and took him in. we remember this whole -- watching him backtrack, the only thing i think is appropriate for us to say is we see ted cruz. he does not necessarily have the testicular fortitude it takes to stand up for people who are bullying him, which is not going to put him in a good position going forward. >> wow. >> what? >> there's always something about ted cruz. i remember cancun and i remember -- >> ted cruz -- for those people watching who want to go into politics, and i think me and alice may disagree on where we land on ted cruz. but what we can agree on is the fact that you have to be principled in politics because if you don't have principles, then you can get beat and bullied into positions and look somewhat like a fence sitter and you don't stand for anything. no one knows what ted cruz stands for when it comes to january 6th now because he's not consistently on message and he goes where the wind goes. >> he has been consistent with regard to attacks on police officers being terrorists

of course, there are still some people who are holed out to the closer you get to donald trump. but, in general, the picture's becoming clear to us. >> and it's clear to you and the rest of the committee right now than it is to the public. fair to say? >> yeah. well, i mean, remember january 6th at 1:00 p.m. was not som this was the moment when the constitution calls for congress to meet in jointlle votes. and the whole plot at this point, donald trump having failed to coerce republican legislatures to overturn election results and having failed to convince election officials like brad raffensperger in georgia to fabricate election results, now was focused on mike pence. and what they wanted to do was to get pence to declare unilaterally powers that he doesn't enjoy to simply reject and repudiate electoral college votes. but they thought if they could just get him to take joe biden to below 270, at that point it would kick the entire congress for a so-called contingent election. then we would be voting not one member one vote but one state one vote. i don't think that that rep f

that means they are all beholden to donald trump. and -- and the base of the party, which is beholden to trump. and as a cult, you can't speak the truth. look at mike pence. look at all the -- the -- the supplicating he did to donald trump for four or five years. and then, on january 6th, anderson, he does his constitutional duty and as far as the republican party base is concerned, he's done. >> yeah. >> jordan knows that. >> congresswoman love, i mean the fact done guessman jordan could become chairman of the judiciary committee if republicans take the house this year. you know, it is so fascinating when you look back at his performance during the benghazi hearings. you know, he was -- he was prosecuting that very strongly. asking, you know, he was relentless on -- on that. it's just so different, when the table is turned. i mean, it -- it's -- i mean, the hypocrisy here. >> yeah. and i think that's what's really, um, difficult for representative jim jordan because if he does, i do agree that if he does take the stand, it will -- i

donald trump incited this. >> he didn't -- >> is that for me? >> that's for stewart. >> sorry, guys. one of the problems is that we've been hesitant to call this out nor what it is. we have such a tradition trying to reach to the middle that intuitively we think we can negotiate with people. we can compromise. i don't think we're at that point. i don't think you can compromise with these people who don't believe we live in a democracy. we're right and they're wrong. and it is time to stand up and say that. if you don't believe joe biden is an legally elected president, you don't believe we live in a democracy. we have to get out there and talk the truth and quit trying on dance around and wish it was another era. this is a dangerous, dangerous moment in american history. it becomes more dangerous if we don't call it out for what it is. >> thank you both. i appreciate it. you're right on about that. we're right and they are wrong. >>> my next guest called the fbi on his own father. the insurrection getting in the middle of a family. stay with us

donald trump didn't endorse her. donald trump didn't enforce. he endorsed his opponent. so donald trump does not have an unblemished record in republican primaries. he is enormously influential and places like ohio, there is an effort to pull in his voters. you don't want to be on the wrong side of trump necessarily. but there are plenty of examples of folks who said, look, maybe i'm not the one who donald trump endorsed. i support his agenda and i'm a fighter and that may be enough for republican voters who are not necessarily just about one man. they're about ideas, fighting style, whatever it may be. it means that donald trump's endorsement does not mean you're guaranteed to win a primary. >> we've heard a lot of conspiracy theories and anti-vax nonsense from people on the right. this weekend, robert kennedy jr. participated in an anti-vaccine rally in washington, d.c. and he actually likened vaccine mandates to nazi germany. he actually said they're worse than nazi germany. the auschwitz tweeted his remarks are a sad symptom of moral and intellectual decay. he said s

donald trump is marshaling another force to take over the u.s. capitol, his army of republican supporters, many running in this year's midterms and intent on helping him return to power. so you want to risk a return to this? >> i explained the reporting, isaac, in the sense that many democrats said we should talk less about trump. why do you think no? >> for a number of reasons, you see there are a lot of things that democrats talk about that maybe resonate with voters, but so far they have not found anything that connects with the base and revs up the base quite so much as donald trump did in 2019 or 2020. that goes along with a legitimate deep fear that the people involved with this superpac feel that the consequence of republicans winning elections, whether it's state level races or the house or the senate is going to be not only encouraging donald trump to run again but maybe paving the way to subvert the election should he be running in 2024. >> it's the high-level group, also close advisors to president trump. you spent a lot of time coveri