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your podcasts. the news continues with jake tapper and "cnn tonight." welcome to "cnn tonight." i'm jake tapper. tonight with exactly three weeks until the critical midterm elections here in the united states, candidates across the country in key races are increasingly taking extremism to the extreme. but what exactly is the definition of extremism? obviously that depends on who you ask. in a new ad airing in pennsylvania, republican u.s. senate candidate dr. mehmet oz paints himself as a middle-of the-road type of guy. his opponent fetterman is extreme for supporting criminal justice reform and supporting traditional democratic economic plans. >> guys like john fetterman take everything to the extreme. extremism on both sides makes things worse. we need balance, less extremism in washington. >> i'm sure fetterman would respond that most of the extremism in contemporary

american politics is coming from inside dr. oz's own party, but extremism, extremist, that's an insult we're hearing on a lot of debate stages and no doubt you're hearing it on your tvs. >> masters is so extreme and so wrong for arizona. >> greg abbott signed the most extreme abortion ban in the united states. >> he is too extreme on abortion. >> this guy is so extreme. >> way too extreme for me. >> he's just too extreme. >> stop extreme liberal ryan. >> for republicans, the focus has been on extreme democratic policy positions. at the top of their list, defunding the police, which of course became a rallying cry for the progressive left after a minnesota police officer murdered george floyd in 2020. the proposal being that cities should reduce police funding or close police departments entirely and use that money for other programs in the community

such as education or health care or ending homelessness. defund the police was a slogan embraced by many democrat lawmakers, perhaps none more than those in the squad. >> defund the police. we need to defund the police .

claims the defund the policeman tra for democratic losses in 2020. >> i really believe that's what caused him his seat. jim harrison started to plateau with defund the police. showed up with the caption on tv right across his head, these headlines can kill a political asset. >> and now defund the police is being used against democrats in battleground states such as wisconsin where polling has the senate race neck and neck. >> he stands with defund the police and no cash bail that releases dangerous criminals back into our communities.

>> with violent crime on the rise in cities throughout the united states, democratic candidates are having the defund the police movement hung around their necks like an albatross. but there is a difference between extremists who are exiled to the out there fringes of their party, and extremists who are embraced by their party, which brings me to georgia republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. >> many in our government are actively worshiping satan. >> name a deranged conspiracy theory, and this woman believes it. qanon? check. >> q is anonymous, but he seems to be completely for the good. >> 9/11 truthism? you bet. >> the so-called plane that crashed into the pentagon, it's odd there's never evidence shown for a plane in the pentagon. >> mass shootings staged by the

u.s. government, of course. >> how do you get avid gun owners and people that support the second amendment to give up their guns and go along with anti-gun legislation? how do you do that? maybe you accomplish that by performing a mass shooting into a crowd that is very likely to be conservative. is that what happened in las vegas? >> no, it's not. in the long-ago political past of last year, it looked as though all of this crazy talk was too much for republican party leaders to stock. after a bunch of past statements were unearthed in which greene supported executing democrats among other hideous comments, the house voted to strip her of her committee assignments and 11 members of her own party backed the move. it was supposed to be a political death sentence. but, as greene's extremism

became more mainstream in her party and her fundraising prowess and maga celebrity grew, so did her standing in the republican party. she sat front row as house republican leader kevin mccarthy rolled out his plans for the republican takeover in november. and in recent days, she told "the new york times," quote, i think that to be the best speaker of the house and to please the base, he, kevin mccarthy, is going to give me a lot of power and a lot of leeway. if he doesn't, they're going to be very unhappy in it and that's not in any way a threat at all, unquote. nice political party you got here, kevin. would be a shame if anything happened to it. it's weird to think it was only three years ago when the house republican party itself took steps to ostracize proud white nationalist congressman steve king of iowa. king never failed to come up with new and inventive ways to

be racist. he once rid of poetically about the cantaloupe-sized calf muscles of pot-hauling mexicans. king eventually made just too many comments like this one. >> if you go down the road a few generations or maybe centuries with the intermarriage, i'd like to see an america that's just s so homogenous that we look the same. it's turning it into something entirely different. i'm a champion for western civilization. >> republican leaders of late have developed quite a tolerance for intolerance. listen to these insightful, pi pithy observations for reparations for the descendants

of african slaves. >> they woant to control what yu have. they want reparations because they think the people that do the crime are owed that. bullshit. >> openly, hideously, shamelessly racist, and the response from republican leaders has been -- [ crickets ] -- why? how did this happen? how invited all these extremists into the grand old party? will you unequivocally condemn david duke and say you don't want his vote or that of other white supremacists in this election? >> just so you understand, i don't know anything about david duke, okay? i don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. >> in her few u.n. book, maggie haber man writes after that exchange happened here on cnn in 2016, chris christie warned trump he needed to distance himself from white supremacists.

trump basically said, sure, but not right now. why? because, trump said, quote, a lot of these people vote. a lot of these people vote. these extremist views are making the american experiment difficult to achieve. how can you work on legislation with someone who pushes messaging and seems so subscribe to qanon, a group that accuses democrats of being part of a satanic, pedophilic cult that eats babies? they cast their political opponents not just as wrong, but as evil. and that's how you get this. january 6th, 2021. forget defunding the police. this is physically assaulting the police. and trump is promising the

insurrectionists full pardons if he gets re-elected. he's embracing that extremism and that extremist violence. so is there an antidote for this polarizing poison that has already seeped into our everyday lives? one study i read today says yes, but it won't be easy. it will require politicians, quote, to stop using divisive, demonizing us versus them language. it's key to say i'm going to govern on behalf of everyone and to try to unify around universal values, unquote. and there was a time when that type of behavior by a political candidate was not impossible to imagine. >> i can't trust obama. i have read about him and he's not -- he's not -- he's a -- he's an arab. he is not -- no? >>, no, ma'am, no, ma'am.

he's a dent man, citizen, that i just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. >> republican senator and presidential nominee john mccain took that woman's microphone. political leaders today in the republican party seem more inclined to turn up the volume. i want to bring in a public servant whose career was kwagiulth in the middle of his own party, the republican party's extremism, and the other party, the democratic party's extreme measures to try and win. can we least find a path to making politics normal again? the outgoing republican congressman peter meyer of michigan joins me live, next.

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the impact of today's extremist politics than peter meijer who narrowly lost his republican primary battle for re-election in august after being 1 of 10 republican members of congress who voted to impeach then-president trump after the january 6th capitol attack. meijer lost to election lawyer john gibbs whom democrats worked to boost in the primary hoping that gibbs will be easier for them to beat in november. gibbs insists that it's, quote, mathematically impossible that joe biden won in 2020. gibbs has accused democrats of taking part in se tannic rituals and says america has suffered as a result of the women's suffrage movement. congressman peter meijer joins me now. good to see you again. democrats spent more than $400,000 on ads promoting gibbs. if he wins in november, is the

democratic party at least partly responsible? >> you know, i think it's impossible to look at that type of cynical action and not see a degree of responsibility for having, frankly, achieved the outcome that they may not have desired. obviously they did that and they are hoping that they can flip this seat. but as i said before, you know, less electable is not unelectable. in the moment we're in right now, i saw the segment you were playing earlier, the assumption on the democrats' behalf is these republicans have a personality problem, so we will surely overperforma. but the democrats have a policy problem and they have tried to avoid any semblance by fixing anything in their house by pointing out the faults and issues on the republican side of the aisle. but frankly, this is going to be a hard time when the economy is in the direction that it is right now and gas prices

continue to rise, when inflation is crippling americans' wallets. if the choice is between someone who is, quote, unquote, extreme versus the party that has led us to where we are today, that's the choice they're leaving the american public with. >> democrats say all they did was highlight gibbs' views and the republican base embraced him. at the end of the day, are republican voters the ones embracing extremism here? >> let me be very clear. i lost and i take responsibility for that. the reality of that situation, though, is if the democrats try to pawn that off as, well, we were just highlighting who this guy really is, they're running very different ads today, and the reason why is because they are talking to two different audiences. so i think for a party that

thinks a couple thousand dollars of facebook ads in 2016 swung an election to then turn around and say half a million dollars of expendtures have zero impact, it's hard to square that circle but i agree democrats have been playing with fire. democrats boosted republican kari lake over her primary opponent, karen robson. they sent this email thanking robson for donating to democratic candidates over the years. listen to what kari lake, the nominee, told dana bash when asked if she's going to accept the election results whether she wins or not. >> my question is will you accept the results of your election in november? >> i'm going to win the election and i will accept that result. >> if you lose, will you accept that? >> i'm going to win the election and i will accept that result.

>> do you think the democrats' plan is going to backfire in some of these places? >> i think it's unquestionable that it will backfire in a few of these seats. i mean, it's one thing to look at what they did in the governors race in illinois or massachusetts, and see that as a way of potentially sidelining a more electable official who could flip what would otherwise be a safe democratic seat in normal times. it's a whole different thing to look at that and take that role in swing seats just for a marginal advantage. it gets back to the fundamental cynicism in politics right now, that there's nothing that won't go before strict partisan advantage, that everything is a cynical game of inches. and frankly, that rebounds back. i think there's a lot of -- you can look at the senate race in pennsylvania, you can look at

the senate rates down in georgia. you have flawed candidates on both sides of the aisle. you have, you know, sort of these calls to ascend to something higher and to plead for somebody to call out, you know, sort of the bs they see and those pleas are coming from both sides of the aisle. but the easy response back is, well, it's another reliable vote for our agenda. when everything defaults back to that, when everything is just a strict partisan contest, what else do we have? >> so i have to say, you know, i admire your service in the military and i think you've taken some really brave votes, and i just wonder -- this was such a crappy experience for you. are you done with politics? has this just soured you on it forever? or might you run again sometime? >> well, jake, i mean, it may

have seen crappy from the outside and obviously running for office, i mean, i think the old joke is that congress is 435 people who hate their jobs and yet will do anything to keep it. i frankly, you know, do not walk away from this disillusioned. i don't walk away from this feeling sour. i walk away seeing a lot of sort of worst expectations of the most depraved behavior having been confirmed, but, if anything, i'm just okay with my analytical judgment there. what i really took away from my experience in congress so far is how many of our problems and our politics are downstream of maladministration, downstream of governmental incompetence, when everything is in a place where we feel like we don't know where to start with fixing the issues and the problems that we see. and part of this is because of our expectation that the for a moment will come in and do

everything, that can be everything to all people, and the republican party used to be the party that looked at that and said whoa, whoa, whoa, we want to push some of this power down, we think local administration will be more effective, that we can answer some of these questions. the democratic party used to be the one that started with their goal in mind and then worked backwards on the means. but you have a repped ublican p that has seized institutions, meanwhile, the democrats are taking that approach where they start with the rhetoric and then they work backwards to back fill legislation. we have two aimless parties. some of that needs to be investing in what's tangible in our communities and focusing there. that's my focus going forward is on west michigan, is on ensuring that we are fixing some of those administration and governmental and policy problems that create the space for political dysfunction to arise.

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more police officers are being shot on the job. just last wednesday officers were shot during a traffic stop in decater, illinois, and what a domestic disturbance turned into an ambush in bristol, connecticut. that's eight cops shot in one day in the united states. the fraternal order of police says 500 officers have been shot in the first nine months of this year. 50 did not survivor. those numbers differ from an fbi tally, but the attacks don't get the same attention as incidents where officers pull the trigger likely because those event happen more often. to put it into context, "the washington post" says 802 people have been shot by police this year. john miller joins us now to discuss. john, the fbi says last year saw more cops killed intentionally

in the line of due to since 9/11. what's going on? >> well, that has been the subject of a lot of debate and questioning within law enforcement and even the fbi. i mean, if you look at 293 in 2019, 312 cops shot and/or killed in 2020, 346 in '21, that you see number climbing each year. i mean, this year would be up a high percentage if the numbers stay on track as we pass 252. the fbi did a study on this in 2017 and the conditions then after the ferguson shooting of michael brown and other incidents, eric garner in new york city created atmospherics that really made them look at who is behind the police shootings and what are the motivates. w 86% of people who have shot at police have prior criminal

records. 56% of them were known to the police department. now, that is more interesting than it sounds because it means that agency arrested them before and largely their experience was they hadn't resisted. 60% of them have long histories of drug uses. but it boiled down to two really interesting factors. one of them is a game changer. one is the obvious which is 48% -- i'm sorry. i'm mixing up my numbers here. 28% of them -- this is the game changer -- had said to friends or family that they intended to shoot a cop or wanted to kill a cop. they were projecting that ahead of time. and then the larger percentage, 40% said they only did it to get away and in most cases they had started to flee before they shot. >> the 28%, that seems to me like that could be the difference. that's more than a quarter of

people -- that's their goal. they want to kill a cop. so that's, you know, that's scary, but it's also interesting and important. where would that come from, that i want to kill a cop mind-set? >> so not an abstract figure to me. when i was deputy police commissioner of new york city, i was at the scene where officer ramos and lu were assassinated as they were eating in their car by an individual who drove up from boston after tweeting they took two of ours, that would be michael brown and eric garner, we're going to take two of theirs. that was an intentional assassination where he felt he was bringing some kind of justice. if you fast forward to january of last year, we had officer jason riverawillburt mora, he planned to kill them before

he got there. the fbi report, which was anec anecdotal, came two fairly controversial conclusions. based on their interviews with police departments across the country, they said almost to a person they blamed, one, relaxing of the drug laws and decriminalization of different drugs because they felt that offenders they had arrested before who hadn't resisted under the influence of drugs would be more violent. two, the anti-police sentiment was driving the 28%, and these were factors that came out of social media and mainstream media after a police shooting where people were hearing a one-sided narrative and they felt they needed to do something for revenge. >> john miller, thank you so much. appreciate your time, sir. good to see you again. >> you too, jake. classified documents that has nothing to do with a certain ex-president and his palm beach mansion.

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army intelligence analyst and whistle-blower. she leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to wikileaks. now, to some, manning is a hero. to others, she's a traitor. but after serving seven years in a military prison, including time in solitary, she was granted freedom when then-president obama commuted her sentence in 2017. chelsea manning is now trying to reclaim the narrative about why she did and what she did. in a new memoir titled "read me .text." chelsea manning joins us now. thank you so much for joining me. >> thank you. >> so the book is about offering your side of the story about why you leaked 750,000 documents, classified and sensitive, to wikileaks. what ultimately pushed you to take that extreme step. ? >> right. what i think it boiled down to was this incredible discrepancy, this, like, cognitive dissonance i had between what the public

was -- i consider myself a very educated and informed member of the public prior to enlisting in the military and deploying to iraq in 2010. but there was a discrepancy between what we had access to in the public versus what i actually finally saw on the ground and what we as a collective were really sort of seeing on the ground and experiencing every single day. >> one of the things that seemed to motivate your action, you write, quote, we the occupying military force didn't actually give a eff about the iraqi people. i have to say that's a pretty sweeping thing to say >> yeah. >> about thousands of service members. i know men and women who served in iraq who absolutely cared about the iraqi people. >> yeah. you know, that is a general statement, a general sentiment, but what i encountered was the majority of people, we seem to care less about the civilian population and put ourselves first, which makes sense to an

extent, but i also got the sense that even when we were saying that trying to protect or have some kind of, you know, involvement of the host nation, you know, if you will, seemed to fall to the wayside or be seen more of a nuisance than as something we should be concerned about. >> the wikileaks happened in 2010. in an interview that last year, a taliban spokesman said they would punish afghan nationals that were named in the wikileaks logs. >> right. >> i don't know of any that have actually been harmed. >> right. >> but did that no worry you at all? there were individual afghans and iraqis who were working with the u.s. trying to help their country, and they were being named and it might put their lives in jeopardy. >> this got flushed out through the court-martial process.

we were obviously given discovery and those statements were made in 2015. but as we came to find out later, there were no informants' names in anything. this was an accident or at least an assumption made on the part of the information review task force that was put together where they made a statement that it could put people in harm's way. but i was very careful in, you know, not identifying what is called source identifying information, which is covered under a very different classification and protocol system. >> there were a lot of traumatizing experiences you write about from your childhood, from the military from, your prison time. one that i had not heard you speak about before is that you are a survivor of sexual assault while in the military. last month in a confidential survey, 36,000 service members said they had been victims of sexual assault, reports are up 13% last year.

there are victims who feel like you they can't report it because no one will believe them or no one will care. >> while i was in the military, ems under don't ask don't tell, because this was -- i was presenting as male and the other person was a male, so this would have been -- even any kind of relation whatsoever that happened in that time frame would have been impermissible. it became a nonconsensual encounters. my instinct was to pretend it didn't happen and the ate at me. >> i'm sorry that happened. you dedicate this memoir to trans kids. over the past year, we've seen a lot of legislation about trans kids. i'm wondering what you would say to any of the lawmakers introducing these bills keeping trans kids from the bathrooms

they want to use or being who they are, what you would say to these lawmakers. >> i mean, i have less of a message for the lawmakers and more of a message to the kids, which the lawmakers can hear if they so choose, which is we've faced reactionary waves, reactionary attacks against the queer and trans community throughout history, whether it be the hiv and aids pandemic, whether it be under the reagan administration with anita bryant and moral majority. we faced this before and i faced my own, you know, like, sort of reactionary rollbacks before in my own life. even regardless of what the law says, you are valued as a human being, you are valued as a person, and we have survived these kinds of things and progress past these things even whenever things do get rolled back. even though i do expect that rollbacks will continue, i hope to bring at least some, you know, light into thinking about

the future and the optimism that i have towards, you know, getting past this because we've survived this community. >> chelsea manning, thank you so much. >> thank you, jake. still ahead, a deep dive with the man writing the music for the new "little mermaid" movie we'll go deeper with lin-manuel miranda and his father. how the man who created "hamilton" is trying to get downgrade latinos excited about democracy once more. the mirandas, next. completely on its head. bringing legendary design... and state-of-the-art technology... to a fully-electric suv. the all-new, all-electric eqb from mercedes-benz. (driver 1) it's all you.

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talking at the university houston. what do young people think in this election. >> it's hard not to feel hopeful after talking to these incredible young students at the university of houston, and really, they see it as the most important election of their lifetimes. their bodies are on the ballot, gun violence is on the ballot, immigration is on the ballot. they are facing the most restrictive voter laws in the country and they're really taking it in their own hands to make sure they turn out the vote among their generation. so i felt very hopeful talking to them today. >> luis, you and lin-manuel have been focused on helping to get out the vote, especially in latino communities. polls show that since 2016 democrats have been steadily losing support with hispanic voters, although views differ by religion, age and reason. why do you think that is? why do you think democrats are struggling to maintain support

with this critical group? >> i think that as long as democrats stay true to the beliefs of the party of working for the working class latino, we'll regain whatever we have lost. the fact is that at least two-thirds of latinos historically have voted for the democratic party and our candidate, and we'll see how this election will continue to be a place where latinos come home and vote for our candidates. we have to have a seat at the table. so it is nice to vote for others, but we've worked very hard also so the latinos have a seat at the table. and you see, when we're there, when like us and speak like us are

represented and are running for office, we come out and vote and support them. >> lin-manuel, the current cast of hamilton on broadway released a lyric video last week raised the importance of voting, let's take a listen for that. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ register to vote, elections on its way! the ♪ ♪ ♪ >> do you think artist getting involved helps with a get out the vote effort? you see it firsthand on the ground level. >> yeah, well i think what is, i think what is a valuable is shining a spotlight where that would not ordinarily be the case. i'm here in houston because we have incredible elections that are happening that i think the country is paying attention to, in addition to beto or, q have the incredible rochelle garza, who'd be the first latina attorney general in texas. and, you know, i think what is, what we can do is speak to what

matters to us. and i think it's important that texas knows the country is watching them, that we are watching to see how, how we vote on the most important issues of the day. >> lin-manuel, at its core hamilton underscores the often under told importance of immigration in american history. and in texas, governor abbott has sent off something of a firestorm by busing migrants to democratic-controlled cities, such as your own city of new york. mayor adams recently declared a state of emergency there because of the migrants surge. abbott says cities in texas cannot handle the influx. what is the solution? >> yeah, well, i think first of all, to use humans as a political prop is -- happiness is not the word, horrifying is not the word, i think we do need to be talking about immigration at a national level, at a state level, and,

and, findings humane solutions to this. and, to earlier, in new york we are a sanctuary city. i have been at the port authority terminal welcoming venezuelans who are leaving their country to come to the united states. but texas and the governor, governor abbott, is just using them as props. if we can work at the national level, and republicans have even stop simple bills like dhaka, where there is an entire country can favor of legalizing these kids who were born or raised here, republicans have been stopping the immigration debate, the immigration movement, so they can continue to weaponize immigration as a way to get their base to the votes, to the voting polls. >> lin-manuel, your currently

writing the music for the live action little mermaid movie, set to be released next year. you said the original was the movie that made you fall in love with musicals. could you explain that? and also, what's your response to the backlash we've seen over aerial being played by a black actress? >> yeah, i saw little mermaid when i was nine years old. i went on a play date with a friend . i could not believe when under the sea began that i was watching a musical number underwater. it's probably responsible for me writing musicals as anything else. i remember feeling a weakness when i watched that film for the first time, and going back and drag my parents, and going back and dragging my sister. and then calling in sick from school so i could be the first kid to have it on vhs. i could not wait till the end of the school day. it has been the great honor of my life to get right for new songs, lyrics for four new songs with alan macon, for this new version. and frankly, halle barry is a

perfect aerial and rob marshall i thought showed incredible foresight to cast her. i've seen the dailies, so i know how good she is, to give auction to a very small minority of people who, you know, hate any kind of change is to me counterproductive. because the overwhelming majority of what i saw is, my goodness, she looks and sounds incredible in that trailer. >> louise, you spent years as a political consultant. your son certainly knows the in choose, have encouraged him to run for office? >> no, i learned a long, long time ago that music and art was his lane. what i hope and continue to encourage him to do is to use his his might, his talent, his intelligence to push people to think hard for the things that impact our lives at the end of

the day, they do not happen in a vacuum. it happens in our society, and speaking about the issues that impact us all, it's important for artists, for people who are in politics like me. i >> know there are people watching this who are going oh, stick to your writing, stay out of politics. i could not agree with you more. i would love to be home writing a song right now. but at a time when i never thought i'd see roe v. wade overturned in my lifetime, that was set into law before i was born in 1980, there's just too much at stake for any of us. whether we are in the arts or anyone in this country to stay silent and not go to the polls in november. >> lin-manuel, louise, thank you so much. it's great to see you both. >> thank you for having us. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. ...and recalibrate your safety system. >> customer: and they recycled my old glass. >> t tech: don't wait. schedule today.

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