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disgraced ex congressman george santos is suing jimmy kimmel. good evening. thanks for joining us. alexey navalny's widow, yulia, spoke out today about her husband's death and possible murder. and vladimir putin school lot i mean, yeah, you know, i should not have been in this place union i should not have recorded this video there should have been another person in my place, but this person was killed by vladimir putin three days ago. vladimir putin killed my husband, alexey navalny putin killed the father of my children. i didn't putin took away the most precious thing i had >> yulia navalnaya today talking about the 47 year-old man who a day before his sudden death, seemed in good spirits, looking thin but energetic and animated in a video court appearance navalny was no stranger to hardship. he returned to russia, knowing he would likely be arrested, put on trial, and imprisoned. this after he'd been poisoned even a death, he is inspiring others, some russians have risked arrest and beatings to simply leave flowers. at makeshift memorials and leaders
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around the world are hailing him for his stance on human rights. but to some, he's no martyr any more than his widow and children are worth even perfunctory condolences, let alone normal expressions of human decency. here's what donald trump posted online today. the sudden death of alexey navalny has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our country. it is a slow, steady progression been with crooked radical left politicians, prosecutors, and judges leading us down a path to destruction. open borders, rigged elections, and grossly unfair courtroom decisions are destroying america. we are a nation in decline, a failing nation. there's no mention of navalny's wife, no mention of vladimir putin he did not compare himself to navalny the way he wants to until the late nelson mandela instead, his followers did most notably new york republican congressman lee zeldin, who tweeted as the world reflects on the murder of alexey navalny at the hands of putin is worth remembering. the democrats are actively doing biden's bidding as they also tried to imprison his chief political opponent owning
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donald trump, remove him from the ballot and ensure he dies in prison. now, for the record, as mr. zeldin should know, grand juries made up of ordinary americans, democrats and republicans alike handed up indictments using evidence obtained by lawful subpoenas and search warrants authorized by judges and upheld by other judges, including republican appointees, even including trump appointees. any due process alexey navalny got with ceremonial, if not purely incidental but donald trump's message today did not merely reflect his indifference to the death and possible murder of russia's leading dissident or even his obsession with himself and his own legal troubles in not criticizing vladimir putin or even mentioning his name. donald trump sent a message to the russian dictator, something he also did a few weeks ago when he said this if we don't pay and were attacked by russia, will you protect us? i said you didn't pay. you're delinquent. he said, yes, let's say that happened.
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>> no, i would >> not protect you. in fact, i would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want i was the former president united states, openly treating nato is some kind of protection racket, sending a clear message to our allies as well as vladimir putin, which >> should come as no surprise. even with ukrainian forces literally running out of shells and bullets and russia over the weekend capturing new territory. he's been telling congressional republicans to block new aid to ukraine. republican who's part republicans whose party used to consider russia a threat, even when it wasn't rolling tanks into a neighbor which has made for some strange gymnastics in this strange new world case in point, house speaker mike johnson, who put out this statement shortly after navalny's death, and i'm quoting now, bladder rebooting is a vicious dictator and the world knows he is likely directly responsible for the sudden death of his most prominent political opponent, alexey navalny he went on to say, this is the latest attempt to send a message to those working to confront moscow's aggression certainly sounds
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tough, which might lead you believe that he and his members are among those hard confront terms of russian aggression. but in fact he in the rest of the house or on a two-week recess. and he doesn't want to bring ukraine legislation to the floor because it would weaken his speakership. and no doubt anger donald trump or for that matter, a substantial number of his members is former republican congresswoman liz cheney pointed out on cnn this weekend we have to take seriously the extent to which you've now got the putin wing of the republican party i believe the issue this election cycle is making sure that putin wing of the republican party does not take over the west wing of the white house republican challenger nikki haley expressed similar sentiments on the campaign trail in south carolina >> i don't know why he keeps getting weaken the knees when it comes to russia. but i'll tell you what russia is not getting weaken the knees because what we're seeing is now they're starting to put soldiers around the baltic countries russia said, once
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they take ukraine poland, and the baltics are next. those are nato countries. and that immediately puts america at war. >> she went on to say that preventing such a war is her number one goal as for the former president, though, his number one goal this weekend apparently was selling sneakers this is something i've been talking about for 12 years, 13 years. and i think it's got to be a big success >> he's been talking about her for 12 years. he's talking about these at $399 a pop. he's also selling cheaper sneakers, not cheaper looking, of course, that would not be possible. less expensive, i should say the announcement coming just a day after new york judge ordered him to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties for business fraud. a bill he presumably cannot lease up his golden sneakers and run away from allies, countries under attack by dictators and the fallen heroes who stand against them or easier that way, more now and alexey navalny's death and his family search for answers from cnn's melissa bell
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>> who was there is delete some yards. >> words of defiance by alexei navalny's wife as his mother searches for answers traveling to the arctic town nearest to his last prison, but leaving with very little the location of her son's body still unknown navalny's spokesperson confirming on monday that his body will not now be released to the family for at least another 14 days. the cause of his the sudden death, according to russian investigators still not determined what is known as that his final moments came in russia's arctic after taking a walk in, what's known as the polar wolf colony, where he was moved just weeks earlier he said to have collapsed outdoors less than a day after he was seen on video during a court appearance, looking skinnier, but still with a lively glimmer in his eye and less than 48
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hours after he wished his wife, yulia a happy valentine's day on social media. i love you more and more, becoming his final words to the world. yulia, now a widow, says that russian authorities are hiding navalny's body as they wait for boot traces of another of putin's novichok to disappear. the very same poison that nearly killed him in 2020 traces of novichok were confirmed by a german lab while navalny was convalescing in berlin his returned to moscow. another example of the car bridge that has continued to shine through his many letters written from prison as he stood defiantly against vladimir putin like the series of exchanges with the soviet dissident not on sharansky obtained by the free press in which navalny rights i understand that. i'm not the first, but i really want to become the last or at least one
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of the last of those who are forced to endure this in another lecture, he writes, one day in russia, there will be what was not and will not be what it was. >> his >> hope in so many of the letters, contagious as in the one he wrote to an american journalist, which was obtained by the russian media outlet. >> whole lot i'm doing well, and i don't regret anything he writes and don't regret it and don't be upset. everything will be fine. and even if it isn't, we will be consoled by the fact that we were honest people the inke his pen, one of his final acts of staining putin's power not you need to be remembered in history books, but even now, being amplified by his wife to carry his most subversive message. yet that his courage and anger should live on >> most of bell joins us now from paris, we've seen protests, people being detained
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inside russia since navalny's death june protests continue, or are there fears that this is the beginning of a larger crackdown >> well, there had been the thinking had been understand that any further tightening over the repression and remember that it's been fairly considerable ever since the invasion of ukraine began. >> what >> only happen in amongst time after the election. that is likely to see him get this fifth term that he seeks that the semblance of a democratic operation process would be allowed to go on. but of course that hasn't happened and that tightening of the repression further still has happened pretty dramatically over the course. the weekend still there people head out, try and put flowers down no sooner they laid than they're taken away by masked men. but people have done their best to try and pay tribute to that courage to try and share some of their grief. and that's also been reflected i'm outside of russia at some, with some of the outrage that's been expressed, anderson here in europe, countries from germany to
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united kingdom, sweden, spain, have been summoning the russian ambassadors in the wake of this killing. and there are suggestions that the european union made seek to impose further sanctions on russia this time targeting the internal repression. i think what we've seen both inside russia and outside is an important reminder of exactly what alexey navalny was, what his huge power was, anderson, he had an ability to speak to russians about corruption inside and to the west about democracy the outside, that it appears is going to go much further than bell. >> thank you so much. you saw, on is p, some of the letters that alexey navalny exchange in prison, there were more including with kerry kennedy, the daughter robert f. kennedy. this isn't in one of those letters to carry kennedy talking about a biography of her dad that he had read. it was a personal revelation for me, navalny road reading this
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book and understanding the story of rfk in the country text of epoch in the tragical events of his life. honestly, i've been crying two or three times while reading. but please don't tell anyone. kerry kennedy joins me now, carey, thanks for being with us. >> can >> you just share a little bit about when you first heard about alexey navalny's death what went through your mind >> well, you know, this is a terrible tragedy. he was the men tele of russia he would, not only a brush, but it will call world in a way because he can't read or the vision of accountability for crimes stopping corruption. and most of all, free expression bolstering civic space. you know, it rfk, human rights. we work on civic space. the ability of people to criticize their government without pure repression all over the world. and he really was the leader of
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that. >> i read the full letter that he had had sent to you after he read the book about your dad? i know you recommended us arthur slashings your book as well. you sent navalny a poster with an image of your dad with a quote from one of his speech speeches, and a drawing also that we're showing navalny wrote back to you in part. i hope one day i'll be able to hang it on the wall of my office. what was it likes to know that he was so moved by your father's life and bite by his experience, and to have that exchange with him, to have that contact with him well, like, you know, i think he was known as somebody you who is constantly reading. he he was reading ten books at a time. he was your read over 40 books last year alone, hit this incredibly insatiable appetite for information three, us city and determination to share his views and you wanted to
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everyone to be able to share their views. and that is, that's going to be really the outstanding legacy of his life, his fight for democracies by appropriate expression and i think we owe it to him to take action, not to just let this moment go, but to take action so we can, as a government for me, as human rights organization and individuals to create change. >> how i mean, how the idea of letting vladimir putin get away with is not holding him accountable. i mean, he has poisoned other people as well. do you think if the world had stood up to him sooner? we wouldn't be as position right now. absolutely. if the world had hold putin accountable for the poisoning of president viktor yushchenko, of ukraine
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were navalny the first time or when he killed maggie netscape, or when he committed atrocities in chechnya in georgia in syria in crimea navalny would be alive right now. and in fact, he might be alive if we had sent ukraine the funds that it beads right now so desperately to stop the russians. so that's the main thing. rfk human rights, it's going to work on in light less is accountability. but i think the united states government in addition to working on accountability, the crime of aggression in ukraine, and the killing of navalny i think that us government should hold that
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group of 400 all at gardens accountable right now they in their families are free to walk all over europe and they are, you can find them skiing and gustav are summing and central pay my god. >> yeah. why are we allowing that to happen? and then i think we really have to be concerned about navalny's lawyers and about the opposition political figures who are thrown in jail simply because they're supporting ukraine, and then finally, i think something that all of us can do in any little way that we can is support the navalny foundation and you can find that online >> kerry kennedy i appreciate your time tonight. thank you >> thank you. >> there's breaking news on the war in ukraine where russian troops now control a control a long contested town in new shelling is being heard in kherson were seen as nick paton walsh is tonight nick,
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what's happening on the battlefield as ukrainian officials wait to see whether the us congress is going to approve more aid yeah. >> being no doubt that freeze that slowdown in aid is having a clear impact on the battlefield now is no longer theoretical. morale is already suffered. the fall of africa over the weekend, taley, and hearing some the shelling here in the town were in kherson, a reminder of the reality people are going through. abdivka really officials saying fell because of a lack of ammunition and the feeling that ukrainians are suffering now acutely on the front lines and the fall of abdivka maybe the first of a number become a site, not seen for awhile. a russian flag going up over ukraine but ukraine's withdrawal announced on saturday from abdivka means more than the loss of a town still he fought over since russia first invaded a decade ago it is perhaps the first
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sign a delay in usaid spells death and loss here well you want to go but sunday oh, these images released there last offenses, rushing into support under fire from a resurgent russia, who print until lenski says sent seven russian troops to die for every dead ukrainian this is what it was like in the basement defending down to the last treating the injured in the darkness, yet aware their options, their ammo, their chances were ebbing was shelling endless it's spoiled my drink. this soldier complaints the remaining a command to clear monday, why this happened when there's a haldol, there's a whole lip. we choose a whole the level point. >> we didn't have enough people who says, we didn't have enough shells. we didn't have enough possibilities. the throw them are back a little bit. three russia's ministry of defense released images of their final onslaught on that coke plant. and what they claimed with a casualties inflicted on ukrainians as they
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tried to flee in the dark other images and reports emerged monday in ukraine of the fate of their wounded, one of whom called home in his life last moments, allegations that in horrifying rubble here, both the wounded were left behind by ukraine, but also shot dead in cold blood by russian forces. russian drone images of their spoils released again, displaying their odd pride over the rubble zelenskyy may have to get used to more of this putting on a brave face as he visited troops in the next russian target, kupiansk, just outside kharkiv, your horrible wildly, although there are different political sentiments in the world, he said different flashes of problems that distract attention. we still together to our utmost, to have the world with us, with ukraine words no longer enough, not an avdiivka and certainly not in the west where $60 billion in missing aid now means putin can
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slowly edge further and further west i mean, it's incredible to see the lack of ammunition and what that means for the troops on the ground where we saw the shelling happening just behind you. i mean, i remember you in kherson last year, when it was being fought over the beginning of the invasion, i guess it was what's going on where you are now >> yeah. to be honest, in the dark night here, we aren't entirely clear what the shelling we've been hearing. pretty much constantly over the last two or three hours actually means we know that there are ukrainian forces on the other side of the river behind me and that the russians have for months now been trying to make this town liberated from their grasp bar for it fell in the early days of the invasion. two years ago, now, make life here pretty much on livable drones fly overhead and so people live in the night in darkness to try and be sure they don't become a target. and this, the daily life, frankly of ukrainians is worsening across the front
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line. we talked about deeper in that piece, anderson, you've got to remember that's just one place that has already fallen. kupiansk and lenski visited today. that's potentially next in the crosshairs robatina down that parrhesia, a tiny village, a key gain though in the summer counter offensive that looks vulnerable areas around bakhmut remember that from may last year, the russians took that off for a similarly bloody campaign for that, which they inflict on that defka areas around bakhmut look vulnerable as do other couple of points along the eastern front lines. so a very nervous plus ukraine, the lack of western aid, his hit morale. it's hit ammo supplies and now it seems to be allowing a resurgent russia to get its foot forward on the front line here. but the noises you may be hearing around me here, just emblematic of what ukrainians are living with daily. this is not as vice president kamala harris hinted in munich at the weekend a time i'm for political gainmanship. it's a really serious life and death thing every hour here. >> we're seeing the results of that, nic. thank you. be careful >> coming up next tonight,
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scott refused to say whether he would have certified the 2020 >> election results if he had been vice president and >> sign perhaps, and he's auditioning to be the former president's running mate this time, by report this weekend on cbs news is 60 minutes. traces back to that process which mike pence refused to take part in at the and specifically to the month after the election when democratic and republican electors representing the candidate who won the popular vote in their states, gathered across the country to formally cast electoral votes for president. but in seven states that joe biden and one republican electors got together anyway, and they cast phony votes for donald trump they become known as fake electors. and according to federal prosecutors, they were part of a plan to overturn the election. there was orchestrated by a pro-trump attorneys with trump's support state criminal charges, as you may know, have been filed against fake electors in georgia, michigan, and nevada wisconsin's fake electors haven't been charged and several weeks ago, one of them, andrew hit an attorney and former chairman of the state republican party agreed to talk to me for peace. i did for 60
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minutes to explain how he says he and wisconsin's other gop electors were tripped by the trump campaign here's the piece that aired on 60 minutes last night >> you were >> head of the republican party, wisconsin. were you a big trump supporter? >> i worked tirelessly for him. i day and night. >> let's put it together for the president of the united states, one more time. >> oftentimes phone calls would start by 06:00 in the morning and wouldn't end until 1030 at night. i did everything i possibly could >> the wisconsin republican party chairman andrew hit it was often singled out by president trump at rallies and wisconsin, andrew, andrew hitt, how are we doing andrew? going to win this. they've got to win it but, trump didn't win in wisconsin, he lost to joe biden by some 20,700 votes. the trump campaign appealed, challenging more than 200 thousand absentee ballots on technical grounds in
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two democratic counties that count the lawful votes. >> trump won wisconsin by a good margin. >> that was false. what he said was false. >> the trump campaign, one of the votes in dane county and milwaukee county, tossed did you support that? i do. >> it wasn't something that i was comfortable with dane county and milwaukee county, in wisconsin are the most liberal counties. the majority of the black population, wisconsin live in those two counties, correct? correct. personally, you >> did not believe all those absentee ballots should be thrown out? >> well, i voted that way. you know, i voted that way. >> you didn't think your own vote should be thrown out? no >> on november 30, wisconsin's democratic governor, tony evers, certified joe biden's victory, authorizing the state's democratic electors to gather at the state capitol on december 14 to cast their electoral votes for biden but days earlier, andrew hitt says he received a call from the republican national committee. what was the reach out to you? >> can we get a list of the
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wisconsin republican electors that made you suspicious? >> it did. i was already concerned that they were going to try to say that the democratic electors were not proper and wisconsin, because a fraud, you didn't believe there was anyone know when i was very involved, obviously in the election it was one of ten republicans nominated to be an elector. if trump won in wisconsin. on december 4th, he says, he was advised by the state gop's outside legal counsel to gather the other republican electors on december 14 at the capitol. and as a contingency, signed a document claiming trump won this state in case a court overturn the election in wisconsin in case the legal arguments that the trump team is making actually win in court, right? >> and i remember asking how can they be that a court overturns the election? and just because we don't meet and fill out this paperwork on the
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14th, that trump would forfeit wisconsin and the legal analysis back was the statutes very clear. the electors have to meet at noon at the capitol in wisconsin under number 14th. >> that morning, the state supreme court, 4-3 ruling rejected the trump campaigns attempt to throw out more than 200,000 votes. but andrew hitt says he and the other republican electors met any way to cast fake votes because he'd been told the trump campaign would appeal to the us supreme court kenneth cheseboro, a pro trump attorney, who was an alleged architect of the fake electors plan, showed up to watch. >> we got specific advice from our lawyers that these documents were meaningless unless a court said they had meeting, you were deciding to sign this document as an elector and getting the other electors to sign this document. men based on a court challenge that you yourself don't believe has legitimacy? >> i wouldn't say it doesn't have legitimacy. that's
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different than not personally agreeing with it. >> you personally don't believe that legitimate votes by wisconsin residents should be tossed out and yet, you are signing a document in support of a lawsuit which is alleging just that >> and if i didn't do that and the court did throw out those votes, it would have been solely my fault. that trump wouldn't have won wisconsin >> beautiful kids. good, good. i'm going to blame you, andrew, if they don't do it >> can imagine the repercussions on myself, my family if it was me andrew hitt, who prevented donald trump from winning wisconsin, you're saying you were scared. absolutely >> scared of trump supporters in your state >> it was not a safe time if my lawyers right and the whole
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reason trump loses wisconsin, that's because of me. i'd be scared to death >> signing legal documents of such consequence that you don't believe in any, don't believe the underlying reason for the documents. it's i mean, it's not exactly a profile encourage know >> how do you feel about that now? >> i mean, terrible if i knew what i knew. now i wouldn't have done it. >> it >> was kept from us that there was this alternate scheme, alternate motive that alleged alternate scheme is a prominent part of special counsel jack smith's indictment of the former president, charging donald j. >> trump with conspiring to defraud the united states, according to smith, what began as a legal strategy and wisconsin evolved into a corrupt plan involving six other states as well. >> donald j. trump of his state of florida, number of votes, 11 arizona, georgia, nevada, new
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mexico pennsylvania, and michigan. >> he started, >> we can't answer for some of the fake electors couldn't convince police to let them into the capitol >> from the electors already here, the adventure jack smith cites this december 6 memo written by ken cheseboro detailing ways the trump campaign can prevent biden from >> amassing 270 electoral votes on january 6, smith alleges the multi-state scheme was designed to create a fake controversy a position the vice president to supplant legitimate electors with trump's fake electors and certify him as president by january 4, according to internal emails, some and the trump campaign were panicking they believe the fake electors documents from michigan, wisconsin hadn't arrived and vice president mike pence's senate the your colleague texted you frequent trump idiots want someone to fly original electric papers to the senate president. you wrote
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this is just nuts what was nuts about it? >> i mean we have the certification coming on the sixth how do you not have the paperwork? >> i mean, you've said that you only went along with his plan to preserve trump's candidacy in the event of a court ruling, january 4th, just two days before january 6, did you really think that was still possible? >> remember the wisconsin supreme court had been appealed and so january 4th, it seemed like yeah, it's possible that a much more conservative united states supreme court could overturn a for three decision to get the paperwork to washington? they picked alicia gunther than a 23-year-old law school student, working part-time for wisconsin's republican party. >> i was on break from law school and wanted to make some extra money to pay for books and works for the party for my month off a school. so on january 4th, i got a call from the executive director of the republican party, wisconsin.
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since i was helping out at the time, what did you think when you got the texts? at first, i didn't know what it was and then he followed up and asked, you know, that the trump campaign wanted these papers flown out to dc because they had gotten lost in the mail gunther says she picked up the papers here at the state party headquarters. and on january 5th, flew to washington. >> so this is >> the email showed us her email chain and with ken cheseboro and the trump campaign senior adviser, mike roman, explaining that i should only give the documents to ken cheseboro. so and then they asked me to meet up with him outside the trump hotel i mean, it sounds very secretive. >> yeah. i thought that that email is pretty odd and dramatic. and you knew what was >> happening on january 6 in terms of the certification of the vote? >> i don't know if i was very tuned into that truly because i thought that a court of law would it need to need it to overturn the election for those documents to use? >> did you know what cheseboro looked like? >> he had actually sent me a selfie, so i send yourself for
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yet so that you would know it was him? yeah. >> because she's still has the photo saved on her phone let's ken cheseboro. >> what did he said? >> he took a dramatic step back and looked at me and said, you might have just made history. >> ken cheseboro told investigators he delivered the wisconsin documents to capitol hill the next day on january 6. he can be seen in videos outside the capital near conspiracy theorist alex jones. >> and i want to look even more deeply at the fake elector scheme. >> according to the january 6 select committee, an aide to wisconsin senator ron johnson tried to arrange to get the fake electors slate it's to vice president pence. >> and i hope mike is going to do the right thing. i hope so. i hope so because if mike pence does the right thing we win the election, but pence's aide refused texting. do not give that to him according to the committee and the senate
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chamber had to be evacuated the real electoral votes in these boxes were taken to safety. when congress resumed, they were returned into the house chamber pursuant to senate concurrent risk vice president pence announced the election results includes the session at 03:44 a.m. january 7 >> the supreme >> court ultimately declined to hear the trump campaign's lawsuit, in which it's kind on said, what do you think about donald trump continuing to claim that the 2020 election was stolen >> it wasn't stolen, it wasn't stolen, and wisconsin this past december andrew hitt and wisconsin's other republican electors settled a civil lawsuit against them by some of the state's democratic electors. they admitted they signed a document that was used as part of an attempt to improperly overturn the 2020 presidential election results. hit resigned as chairman of the
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wisconsin republican party in august 2021. he's cooperated with the january 6 committee using our electors in ways that we weren't told about and we want to support it >> and he says he's also cooperated with federal prosecutors. >> he maintains he the and the other fake electors and wisconsin were tricked whenever anybody sees our text messages are emails, are documents they understand, they know, they can, their conclusion as we were tricked, the january 6 committee sought jack smith's specifically in his indictment, refers to some of the electors were tricked. that was us, the former president is known to watch 60 minutes if he's watching, what would you want to say to him? >> i would say that this country needs to move forward, that we need a leader who is tackled serious problems and serious issues that this country faces and we need faith
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in our institutions again the next president of the united states needs to do that. >> in your opinion, that's not him >> it does not him, >> correct. >> coming up calls from president biden to step aside for a younger campaign are now coming from a popular new york times columnist, david axelrod just a few months ago, raised similar concerns. join me next we'll discuss that and the latest polling showing nearly half of registered voters think president biden will be replaced as the democratic nominee. >> everybody wants super straight, super white teeth. they want that hollywood white smile. new censored in clinical white provides two sheets, whiter teeth and 24/7 sensitive your production. i think it's a great product. it's going to help a lot of patients
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captioning brought to you by meso book mesothelial mom. it's all >> we do with local offices throughout the country on his help, you get the compensation, you deserve. 800 to eight to 44, 44 the question of how president biden's campaign should handle concerns about his age became more pressing over the weekend after a prominent progressive new york >> times columnist made his case for why biden should not run again. this is as recline i'm convinced he's able to do the job of the presidency. the he is sharpen meetings, so he has sound in his judgments. >> i >> cannot point you even now to a moment. we're biden faltered in the presidency because his age had slowed him but here's the thing. i can point you to moments where his faltering in his campaign for the presidency, because it's age is slowing him. this distinction between the job of the presidency and the job of running for the presidency keeps getting muddied, including by biden himself so yes, i think biden as painful as this is, should find his way
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to stepping down as a hero that the party should help him find his way to that, to being the thing that he said he would be in 2020 the bridge to the next generation of democrats or clients assessment comes shortly after poll from monmouth university asked how likely it was that biden would be replaced as the democratic nominee for president 48% said very likely or somewhat likely 50% said not too likely are not at all likely. so now, david axelrod, chief strategist for the obama campaign, biden campaign. so david does the white house care what ezra klein or any other op-ed columnist things should they care? >> well, i think the president probably cares. i think he reads it. i'm sure irritates him. i know i've irritated him when i've raised this issue in the past, but i'll tell you what that monmouth poll didn't pull me because if they pulled me, i would've said no. i think joe biden is going to be the nominee of the democratic party. i said last november we're a few things i said, if you gave me biden's record and took ten years off of them. i
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would have no concerns about this election, but that i thought age was an issue and that screams through every poll but the last thing i said was if joe biden wants to be the nominee of the democratic party, he will be the nominee of the democratic party because there is tremendous loyalty among a laila party to the president. i think there's a lot of respect for the president and so i think that's where we are right now. i think only there's the idea that some delegation of party elders are going to come and visit him at all white house and, and persuade him to step down is a fantasy. first of all, that's not the way politics works anymore. we're not in another century secondly, that belies the fact of who joe biden is. joe biden is a guy who spent his whole life coming up from nowhere to proving to people that he can
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that he's going to hack it, that he has a chip on the shoulder and he deserves to he's accomplished a great deal. and his attitude has always people underestimate me and i'm sure his attitude is there for underestimating me. now >> so i just read as well as pc said, a lot of things that i had said previously, but i don't think that's where we're going to end up its ensuring the argument as our clients making that he can't point that in meetings. joe biden is sharp and making sound decisions and his judgment is sound, but just in the running for the presidency, he's had stumbles which i guess is meaning in public speaking or things like that. do you think that's a i mean, do you think that's a valid argument >> well, i think it's true. i mean, i listened anderson the body of work that he's done, the things that he's accomplished, the bills that
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he's passed on a bipartisan basis against all odds, the coalitions he's forged globally and so on. those things don't happen by accident. he's clearly doing the job and you speak to people around them and they say that they say he's sharpen meetings and so on. he is not good in front of the camera anymore. i mean, that's pretty clear and he has trouble with that and that's how most americans see him. and worse than that, that's how social media season. he can he can give a brilliant speech and have nine bad seconds and that becomes, it's part of the mean. and that gets circulated a millions of people on tiktok particularly younger people. and that's that has been a real problem for him, so yeah, no, i do accept that he is that he has governed very, very competently and anderson people you spend some time with them for your podcasts i'm sure he was very cogent when he spoke with you, but but but but how
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people how people see him on the tube and how they see him in their social media feeds is fueling this. and that is sadly a reality of american politics now. and one that he and his campaign are going to have to cope with and david axelrod. >> thanks so much. appreciate it. coming up could see why is george santos now suing jimmy kimmel, details on that ahead >> candidate john >> edwards cheated on his cancer-stricken wife, had a baby with his girlfriend, and then tried to pass it off as a campaign staffers can we're here to get your side of the story? >> united states of scans with jake tapper, new episodes sunday at nine on cnn. >> mr.. magic eraser powers through tough message. >> so it makes it look like spent hours cleaning. >> no, i didn't mix my running shoe looked like no. >> it's amazing >> wow it makes it look like i
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howard should offer went through a lot of dogs in the trial runs, but they finally got it to stick teller to give aid off a big belly rub for me, we'll set those said he, brenda wanted to congratulate you on successfully cloning your beloved schnauzer, eat all. i know it was a lot of trials and tribulations but he finally did it now, you get to enjoy eat all. then be happy. so give him a belly rub for me >> so now by our senior chief reporter, harry enten, wow, how many of these cameo videos and santos actually done? apparently he seems to do them anywhere that seemed to be like in a wind tunnel were on this. i don't know. it looks almost look like where you expect like a hostage video to be taken or something in rubor? i don't know. maybe late night, hoover maybe prefers lift. i don't know. look, he's he sold about a 1,200 of them and he's there, sell them for about $350 a pop. that's up from where it was originally at 75. and the good
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news about all of this anderson is, look, here's some other people >> so santos is $350 kevin o'leary? yes. mr. wonderful who's he? shark tank. >> oh, okay. yeah. yeah. yeah $1,500. you got ice tea at 600. you've got don johnson not dwayne johnson from miami vice. okay. he's at 500. my uncle, neil sedaka. i just learned that your uncles nail sidak. i went to school with neil sedaka, son, mark. mark? yeah because he was a lovely kid. he was a lovely kid. i remember nielsen, i remember going to neil sedaka is house i think the one on park avenue. >> yeah. yeah >> per cavity. i think it was like i'm west 85th. he's now i think i might have gone to march barmitzvah. that seems like a possibility. maybe i don't i don't know. great. bar mitzvahs back in the de you know, it was neil sack was huge he was huge laughter in the range or love will keep us together, told breaking up as hard to do, bad blood? yes, a slew of these things may be what we can do is we can get uncle neil to do a cameo for the two of us and wish us well,
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on ac360, what do you think about that? >> sure. that could be a big pass over gift for you, right? and pay for that or am i going to pay for that? i think maybe we could ask charlie maybe charlie morning, the epa can pay for that. he sent me to buffalo, so maybe we can do one of these. santos has also mocked republican over failing initially to impeach the homeland security secretary. he even posted this picture of the fell resolution results saying, quote, ms me, yet, how much does the gop actually, ms his vote i mean, given how small the majority is right now, i think they ms him a lot, you know, if santos was still in congress, they could mike johnson couldn't afford to lose three republican welcome votes and hold onto his majority. now, it's down to just two. so we're talking a congress that has passed very few pieces of legislation. in fact, it's historically past few pieces of legislation. i think they've only passed 39 laws and bills that were actually became an law. so if santos was there, maybe it could be helpful to mike johnson and i would expect them to continue to talk republican cans, if they continue to have trouble passing bills and resolutions, i think he should move along
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and not move. very nice. i just think you should harry enten thank you. thank you. yeah. and your uncle uncle neil, maybe how call and afterwards, i would love that. there we go. still ahead on this he's so talented >> yeah, >> we still will get the cames still ahead on this presidency for and president jimmy carter make marks a year in hospice care, defying expectations again, what his family is saying about his spirit we're building a better postal service all parts working in sync to move your business board with a streamlined shipping network and new high-speed processing and delivery centers for more value more of a liability, and more on time the united states postal service is built for how you business and how you business is with simple, affordable, and reliable shipment. usps grounded van niche
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