case against congressman george santos. he has been charged with 13 felonies. a growing number of fellow republicans are calling on him to resign after he pleaded not guilty to federal charges. it's all ahead this hour of "cnn this morning" starts right now. >> and here is where we begin in hour. kaitlan collins challenging, fact-checking in real time former president donald trump on everything from abortion to ukraine as he runs again for president under the cloud of criminal investigations and felony charges. here is some of those key exchanges. >> it was not a rigged election, it was not a stolen election. you and your supporters lost more than 60 court cases on the election. it's been nearly two and a half years. can you publicly acknowledge that you lost the 2020 election? >> let me just go on. if you look at through the vote,

they found millions of votes on camera where they were stuffing ballot boxes. >> republican officials debunked those claims about fraudulent ballots. >> >> who? >> republican officials in georgia and every single state. your own election officials, mr. president. can you say if you want ukraine or russia to win this war? >> i want everybody to stop dying. they are dying. russians and ukrainians. [ applause ] >> i want them to stop dying. and i will have that done in 24 hours. i will have it done. you need the power of the presidency to do it. >> what codo you mean negotiati ability? the question republicans have they want to introduce legislation when it comes to banning abortion. if they send it to your desk will you sign it? >> some people are at six weeks, two weeks. president trump is going to make a determination what he thinks is great for the country and what's fair for the country.

i have never spoken to a crowd as large as this and that was because they thought the election was rigd and they were there proud, they were there with love in their heart. that was an unbelievable and it was a beautiful day. >> will you pardon the january 6th rioters who were convicted of federal offenses? >> i am inclined to pardon many of them. i can say for -- can't say every single one. a couple of them probably got out of control. >> let's talk about all of this, what happened last night. cnn political analyst herndon, senior political commentator david axlerod and new york law school professor and former prosecutor for the new york district attorney's office, rebecca. thank you for being here. david, let me begin with you. so? i mean, phil got texas gold for biden. maybe, what does it mean for our country? >> these are separate questions

and we should deal with them separately. donald trump is exactly who he always was. i mean, and that's part of his strength and part of what's appalling, he is who he always was. he lied, you know. he was, you know, crude in many ways. he keeps perpetuating this hateful lie about the elections that rile people up and drive them to insurrection. he defends the insurrectionists. set that aside for a second. as a matter of pure politics, he did exactly what he wanted to do last night. he rallied his base and his base is all he cares about. he is trying to be the nominee of the party. probably advanced that project last night. for biden, that's okay because he wants trump as an opponent. he thinks trump is imminently beatable. trump said many things last night that reminded us why he is imminently beatable in a general election. the one thing i would be concerned about in making this draw if i were biden, and i

think this is his draw, is that the thing that trump was last night was very energetic and that's the contrast he wants to set between, you know, this energetic guy who can pull us out of what he describes as a m morass and a president who may not be. >> can i ask you, david makes a good point. there is the two parts of this. it's the politics and also the country. i want to play something that kaitlan asked him, would he accept the results of the 2024 election. take a listen. >> will you commit tonight to accepting the results of the 2024 election? >> yeah, if i think it's an honest election. >> will you commit to accept the results. election regardless of the election? >> you wme to answer again? if it's honest, i would be honored to. we are so far ahead of democrat and republican. if i don't win, this country is

going to be in big trouble. >> again, separating the politics and the message which, obviously, plays to his base and everything he said about 2020 with the cav yets if it's fair, i will accept, all that type of stuff. there is a tangible effect of saying that. and we saw it live and in color on january 6th and then the vehicles after november 20th of 2020. what do you make ever that in terms of what we should be looking towards? >> it's not surprising. it's his message since january 6th. i don't think we should lose sight of what it means kind of countrywide. this is someone who has continued to stoke this lie about the election and the problem i think when they think from a national perspective is he is not alone unfortunately. this is a republican party htha has the base has embraced this conspiratorial view of the last election as another build-up of a grievance of a country they think donald trump is the only person who can stop the kind of cultural change that really has motivated a lot of those folks. and so even in reporting since

the january 6th, i have been to virginia where republicans did pledge of allegiance to the flag at the 6th. i talked to ronda mcdaniel, the rnc chair, to denounce the lies on to a republican party and really used his money to grow that message. this is a top to bottom issue. i was at cpac where marjorie taylor greene met with the january 6th folks and talked about the need to pardon them. this it is a through line through the party he is reflecting. that is a general election problem. but a country problem is that it's not an issue in the short term because enough republicans are with him on that message, at least for the primary. >> to the lawyer at the table, he said a lot that i am sure his lawyers wouldn't be thrilled about hearing. but i want your take on the classified document exchange that they had last night at

mar-a-lago. let's listen. >> did you ever show those classified documents to anyone? >> not really. i would have the right to. by the way, they were declassified -- >> what do you mean not really? >> not that i can think of. i have the absolute right to do what i want to do with them. i had the right. >> first of all, not really. that was everything that he said, not really. what did you think we heard? >> you know, he claimed to be sort of -- he was playing negotiator and chief. i am going to negotiate the abortion problem, negotiate ukraine, and he also did that with regard to the documents. he said it's all a negotiation. the fact is when somebody gets a subpoena, that is not a negotiation. so his lawyers are much less happy with his performance than his political advisors because he put himself in jeopardy by making it clear that he handled these documents himself. he did this on purpose and he thought he had every right to when at least in certain ways no matter what he didn't.

>> that's the danger of donald trump is that he doesn't believe in rules or laws or norms, and he flouts them. you know, he is setting up, you know, we may have other indictments coming down the lane here and he set the whole construct up as saying this is part of a corrupt system that is trying to stifle me and stifle you. so the question comes, well, what if he is indicted again? will that stop him with his base? no, it may strengthen him with the base because it's more evidence that there is this conspiracy to muzzle him rather than being held accountable to the law. >> right. in some ways his message conflates and political and legal argument. his defense has been in presidential run. he is using the legal challenges to fuel his political assent and i think that is really where you see donald trump trying to conflate those lanes and i think he continued that last night. >> i think it's the reason he announced so early.

it's his shield and his sword. >> the construct doesn't end well. thank you very much. we will be digging into this a lot over the course. next long 15 months or so. >> i was going to say, are you counting? >> yeah, trying to do it in my head. former vice president mike pence's relationship with donald trump is complicated. however, there was nothing unclear about how some of the capitol rioters felt about pence on january 6th. >> hang mike pence! hang mike pence! hang mike pence! >> that mob forced the vice president to flee having to be ushered out. senate chamber by secret service. here is pence certifying the election after the riots at around #:30 in the morning. pence didn't have the authority to stop that certification despite what trump claimed and what he said last night. >> one person at the capitol that day as you know was your vice president, mike pence, who says that you endangered his

life on that day. >> i don't think he was in any danger. >> mr. president, do you feel that you owe him an apology? >> no, because he did something wrong. he should have put the votes back to the slate legislators and i think we would have had a different outcome. i really do. [ applause ] >> we want to bring in the senior advisor former chief of staff to former vice president mike pence marc short. thanks for joining us. look, i understand you as i think many of us weren't surprised by anything that you saw last night, but still when you hear that what goes through your head? >> well, thanks for having me, phil. it's not really a matter as to what the president thought whether he was in danger. i was by the vice president's side when the united states secret service three times asked him to evacuate the capitol and as you know the vice president refused to leave because he said that that's not the image he wanted the world to see, the hallmark of democracy, where a vice president would ahave to

flee that setting. what the president thinks probably not consistent with what the united states secret service thought, which was by the vice president's side at that time. and after conversations i had with the secret service they commented that, look, we were inches away from actually having to open fire on that crowd, which would have led to a massacre in the capitol. and so whether or not the vice president certainly was protected but there could have been a lot of more carnage that day and i think we were very close to that. regarding, you know, what the president and vice president's dispute of the vice president's role on day, i think it's important to remember that really the president and his team's request was the vice president simply reject the electors. when it came crystal clear he was not doing that, i think in the aftermath of january 6th his advisors told him, look, say you wanted him to return it to the states. and of course there is no authority in the constitution to do that. there is no vice president 250 years who has exercised a

mythical authority such as that. even though we have had contested elections in our history before. and i think for anyone to indicates that theory, they are not accepting a negotiation that kamala harris would reject votes from texas or alabama in 2024. so i think we know on the face the absurdity, there is nothing in the constitution that suggests a vice president can do that. i think in fact we fought a revolutionary war to ensure that no one person can determine the outcome of an electoral process. and so i think there is a lot of absurdity on the face of it and i think there is also a lot of revision because really the request was to reject states elect result votes to get under the 270 threshold and force a vote in the house of representatives. so a lot there to sort of answer your question, phil. >> kaitlan tried to in real time explain that to the president, that in fact congress just

strengthened that law to ensure that that is extremely clear. he seemed to not understand that or see it the other way around. we haven't heard from former vice president mike pence this morning publicly. i wonder if you have? >> well, poppy, i think that on the first part you mentioned on the electoral count, it's important to note they don't change the vice president's role. what that legislation did was change congress' role. >> that's right, so it's clear. >> yeah, because i think what happened is our founders wanted the elections to be certified by the states and the federal government to have a fairly limited role in certifying the states' results. and i think what happeis the la three times the republicans won the presidency democrats rejected the certification on false grounds when there was no evidence of fraud and i think, sadly, republicans saw that play and took it a step further in 2020. it was important for congress to clarify the role of congress but they don't change the role of the vice presidency in that act.

>> it's important to note because the former president tried to use that as some ktype of basis for the fact that the vice president could have had that power. i want to make something abundantly clear. this is not a difference of opinion. this is not an argument between the former vice president and the former president. the vice president is in the right place on this and it is not an argument despite what the president says. >> could we get to the second part of my question, marc? have you heard from vice president pence? >> we chatted last night. but i have not heard from him yet this morning. i don't think there was anything that was discussed in the town hall that i think he hasn't heard before or is new. >> we want to hear from you on ukraine and russia because i think this was striking. we are going to play for you a part of the exchange that kaitlan had with president trump on the war. >> can you say if you want

ukraine or russia to win this war? >> i want everybody to stop dying. they are dying. russians and ukrainians. i want them to stop dying. [ applause ] >> and i'll have that done in 24 hours i'll have it done. you need the power of the presidency to do it. >> i'm interested because the former president vice president has been traveling around the country trying to figure out if he wants to run. does that message resonate in the republicans that the vice president has spoken to that you have spoken to right now inside the party? >> yeah, phil, the reality is that a lot of people in the republican primary voters are tired of talking about the 2020 election. as much as we look back in the rearview mirror it costs us elections in the midterms in 2022. th i think they are anxious to talk about the future. the concern is where trump has gone since he left the white house. the trump that was president took a hard stance against ukraine, nord stream 2,

eliminating 100 russian soldiers in syria. since he left the administration he adopted a position of further praising putin and more or less saying it was a brilliant move to go into ukraine. and if you say negotiate an end in 24 hours, i think what that means is just let russia keep the territory that it occupied. we have concerns on issues like life, where the president took a strong stand in 2016 against hillary clinton but now said that basically it allows me to negotiate. what are we going to negotiate? how many unborn children are -- don't get to see life? is that what we are negotiating? i think it's clear that it's important for republican primary voters that the leader of our party stands for life at con sengs. exception /* conception. >> thank you. >> thank you. former president donald trump making the case for his 2024 white house bid. his likely opponent in that race, the primary, was top of mind. listen. >> biden, on the other hand, joe

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election, clear from the clips you saw from last night's cnn town hall he has an eye trained on 2024 and his likely opponent, president biden. let's talk about all of that. a close friend of the president, democratic senator from delaware chris coons, who is also the national co-chair for president biden's 2024 re-election campaign. good morning, senator. thank you for joining us. >> good morning, poppy. great to be on with you. the clips i just saw about president trump, former president trump, shows his eye is firmly trained on 2020. he spent a huge amount of time last flight relit quiigating th 2020 election and insisting he would pardon many of the folks who stormed the capitol on january 6th and assaulted police officers. >> >> we saw from president biden his twitter account posted a fundraising message after the town hall quoted simple folks, do you want four more years of that? did you find last night helpful for the president in his re-election campaign? >> look, for me, someone who was

at the cleveland presidential debate where president trump ran right over chris wallace, didn't observe any norms or rules, lied about an incredible range of things, i had a little bit of ptsd watching that last night. i can't imagine why anyone is surprised that they thought president trump, former president trump, would be any more normal, would follow any guardrails. i do think this helps define what an election, a general election season between president biden, who will continue to be a rational, normal, orderly president, and former president trump, who treats the presidency as entertainment and as a wrestling cage match. this will be a challenge for us to have the rest of the world have more confidence in our leadership and for folks domestically to come together. president biden, poppy, has an incredible record of actually delivering on the things that former president trump talked about. >> senator -- >> former president trump talked about infrastructure.

president biden got it done. former president trump talked about reducing prescription drug prices. president biden got it done. he strengthened our leadership at home and aboard and he has grout congress together to deliver real solutions to a wide range of the issues actually facing average americans. >> one of the most critical issues facing america now is title 42, expiring tonight, immigration. we will get to that in a moment. sticking on this some democrats are worried about the energy they saw president trump bring last night, including david axlerod, an advisor, obviously, to former president obama. listen to what he said minutes ago. the one thing i would be concerned about in making this draw if i were biden is that the thing trump showed us last night was he was very energetic and he talked about the contrast. will president biden bring that same energy? >> absolutely. president biden will show the kind of energy, focus and mature leadership that the american people want and deserve.

president biden is respected on the world stage. he has made the critical choices needed to come to ukraine's aid and defense, push back on china, and to show that he has decades of leadership and seasoning. he has also shown domestically the ability to actually lead, not to bluster and tweet and threaten and, frankly, the combination of those two things, actual record of leadership solving problems and energetic forceful leadership on the world stage is what i think the american people are looking for and why i think president biden will be re-elected in 2024. >> but on the issue of leading on key domestic issues, let's talk about two very pressing ones. this month, title 42 expiring tonight, immigration, and the debt ceiling and the potential of default in a few weeks. start with immigration. obviously, something is going to change tonight. we don't know what we will see in the morning when this pandemic-era policy ends. even democrats, some of your

fellow democratic senators have been critical how the biden administration has handled this. critical of the asylum restrictions and critical of what hasn't been done and this influx that we're seeing. do you believe this white house has truly done everything it can and enough to stop and address this crisis? >> yes. poppy, the white house has done what they can without congressional action, and with some republican leaders actively working to make it worse. i joined a bipartisan delegation that went to el paso, yuma, visited the border from our side and then to mexico city is to meet with mexico president lopez obrador. there is a group of democrats and republicans trying to find a legislative path forward. in the meantime, the last couple of months, president biden and dhs secretary mayorkas have done a number of the things that republicans were proposing a year or two ago. establishing regional processing centers. establishing a new pathway for asylum so that folks who are

sitting in nicaragua or colombia or venezuela orouba, instead of making a long and dangerous journey to our southern border have a legal pathway to apply for asylum from their home countries and if they, nonetheless, make that trip and present themselves at the border, in most cases they will be turned away. that was a republican proposal of several years ago. our president has shown a willingness to take bold and difficult steps and to eninvest in enforcement, deterrence and diplomacy. i think president biden has asked for robust financial support from congress and deserves to get the resources we need to have a humane and orderly border. >> democratic senator mendez, for example, who put together a comprehensive proposal says that has not been paid attention to or prioritized by this white house. i want to end on the debt ceiling. listen to exchange between kaitlan collins and the president. >> and i don't believe they are

going to do a default because i think the democrats will absolutely cave. >> just to be clear, mr. president, you think the u.s. should default if the white house does not agree to the spending cuts republicans -- >> we may as well do it now because you will do it later, because we have to save this country. our country is dying. our country is being destroyed by stupid people, by very stupid people. >> you once said that using the debt ceiling as a negotiating wedge just could not happen. you said that when you were in the oval office -- >> when i was president. >> why is it different now that you are out of office? >> because now i am not president. [ laughter ] >> people laugh but this is such a consequential things and could be weeks away from a default that would hurt each american. >> it would impact every american. the stock market would tank. everybody who pays interest on their mortgage, on their car loans, student loans would see interest rates skyrocket. janet yellen, the secretary of treasury, has been trying to get congress to focus on the millions of jobs that will be

lost, on the global rwreckage t our economy and the recession that will almost certainly follow. we should not be casually joking about default. it is a deadly serious matter that will impact every american and i think president biden has been clear. we should do under his presidency what we did in congress under president trump's presidency. pass a clean debt ceiling, avoid default, and negotiate responsibly about our annual budget and appropriations process. there is a path towards coming to a common positive reservation will reducing spending and the deficit. look at the record. president biden reduced the deficit by $1.7 trillion from a record high-def sit under president trump and democrats worked responsibly to avoid default under president trump that he casually said last night, oh, we should go ahead and default. makes it clearer than ever, he is not serious about governing. >> i have to leave it there. a lot of that deficit reduction

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there are laws in place to ensure that americans are not discriminated on against things like render or race. what about your height or weight? a major city is looking to change that with a key piece of legislation being voted on today. >> i teach around 17 classes in a typical week. and it's what i love doing. >> reporter: jennifer is a veteran fitness instructor, but she still remembers the time she applied for her first job at jazzercize in san francisco. >> i was invited to go to tryouts where the regional manager is kind of behind you

watching you dance, and after sc class she said you are going to be fantastic. there is just one thing. i want to get a picture of you with your arms out and she sent that picture to the corporate offices. >> reporter: she did not get the job. instead, she got this letter. she had, quote, all the qualifications for a potential trainee except for the fitness level required. >> this doesn't make any sense, number one. and it's wrong. >> reporter: she wanted to take action and a san francisco law, one that bans height and weight discrimination, allowed her to do just that. >> they were going to change the rule that said you have to look leaner than the public in order to be a jazzercize instructor. if it hadn't been for the law, i'm sure that i wouldn't have had the outcome that i did. >> reporter: that was 22 years ago. since then, just five cities and one state have similar laws. >> there is no legal path if you are being discriminated based

off your weight or height. >> reporter: and that's why councilman bregu introduced a bill making illegal to discriminate against height and weight in snork city. he says people treated him differently after he gained 40 pounds during the pandemic. >> not only protecting people in the workplace from this or getting apartments, but it's also about changing the culture and how we think about weight. >> reporter: studies have found that weight discrimination is widespread and is comparable to the levels of racial discrimination in the u.s. >> this is a city that i love so dearly, it's built without my body in mind. >> reporter: victoria abraham testified in support of the new york city bill last month. she is a self-proclaimed fat activist and content creator. >> i know i'm fat. that's not a bad thing though. and i think the more that we use it as a neutral, as a descriptor, the less power it has. >> reporter: do you think that

some of the discrimination for fat people happens through unconscious bias? >> i think a lot of the biases are unconscious because they are never called out because our society functions that way. >> reporter: weight discrimination has real financial inimpacts. the average american woman is reportedly a size 16. a study showed that women considered obese earned $5.25 less per hour than women considered normal weight. >> walking into a job interview as a fat person i am already as a disadvantage. my weight is a con, right? and regardless of it's intentional or not. >> reporter: but there is one thing that will be different, if you do decide to pursue the job market. this new law? >> exactly. >> reporter: does that make you feel a little bit better? >> for sure. this bill is so important because we are having this conversation. because we are talking about what it means to be a fat person existing in the world, that we

are being reminded that our bodies should never be a barrier to anything. >> now, later today when the city council votes on this new bill, it is expected to pass. there has been some resistance to it from the partnership in new york city, this is a group that represents small businesses. they say that this new bill is a little bit broad and could open up various businesses to a lot of litigation and that will be costly for those small businesses. that's the opposition voice. but a lot of the fact activists, that's what they call themselves, said that new york city, if they pass this bill, is going to be huge for the rest of the country. it's going to protect millions of people here in new york city and could get other cities and states onboard. that is what they are looking for here. >> opens the door. fascinating. great reporting. thank you. president trump refusing to say whether he wants ukraine or russia to win the war. coming up, we will be joined by

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if i'm president i will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. >> can you say if you want ukraine or russia to win this war? >> i want everybody to stop dying. they're dying. russians and ukrainians, i want them to stop dying. [ applause ] >> and i'll have that done in 24 hours. i'll have it done. >> former president trump in a cnn town hall last night refusing to say whether he wants ukraine to prevail against russia. he refused to call vladimir putin a war criminal. we should note the icc, the

international criminal court, has an arrest out for putin for war crimes, including against children, by the way. joining us former defense sec father mark esper, was fired days after the 2020 election by president trump. secretary, thank you very much. i wonder what it must have been like to be you watching that -- those exchanges over ukraine and russia last night. >> well, for the entire evening in some ways it's always shocking but not surprising. on the specific issue though of ukraine, i was, obviously, disappointed. i think, you know, a clear majority of the american people support the ukrainians. i think the republican party a clear majority also support the ukrainians, at least congressional leadership do. it's the wrong message to send. it doesn't help the ukrainian cause. it emboldens putin in many ways and will affect disunity within the alliance. i am sure many of our nato partners are asking the question

about trump's comments and what does it mean for the future and what's the possibility that he could become president again. >> that's actually what i want to get into a little bit if we could dig in on the tangible effect, right. people think these are just words or of course this is where he is going to land. what in your opinion inside nato, brussels and the eu, what are they saying? does it change how they operate or position themselves as to the western alliance and ukraine? >> i fully expect this is the chatter throughout the european capitals and other capitals around the word because it's not just about russia invading ukraine. it's about the possibility that china could invade taiwan in the future as well. the question is, will america stand up? will america support democracies like ukraine and taiwan and defend them like we have done in the past for decades. that's the question. lithuania a few weeks ago, this was the too talk when governor

desantis made his comments about ukraine. i am sure this is the chatter in capitals around the world. >> so much of the exchange about ukraine and russia was notable, but also the fact that the former president claimed that if he were -- if it happened on his watch or if he is president again and the war is going on he will end it in 24 hours. what does that mean? >> i have no idea. look, it's an assertion he makes on this and other topics. it's ridiculous. you can't solve a conflict like this. this conflict has a lot of historical ties and has a lot of strategic issues that exist today. obviously, putin has committed a lot of resources, young men to conflict. there is to no way this thing is going to end in a day. it's going to take years to end. that's why you we need to fully support the ukrainian people in their cause. and president zelenskyy and his government will decide what winning looks like and how to conclude the conflict. >> you know, i'm interested when

you watch last night, you wrote in the book you were concerned that trump would attempt a coup to stay in power. felt like that at the time as well. i think you get asked this a lot. as you watch this moment with the former president up 25, 30 points in the republican primary, seems to be headed that dleks towards a general election, what goes through your mind? what are you thinking about recognizing that this is about to happen or may happen? >> of course, i am very concerned for our country. i don't believe he is fit to be president and i see the poll numbers today and it concerns me. i also know that we have over a year until, you know, the nomination process really kicks in and votes are conducted. so i'm hopeful that a republican candidate, another candidate will rise up. somebody who will do the things that president trump can't do like unify the country, inspire people to do positive things like broaden the base and win elections. that's what i'm hopeful for. >> yeah. you make a good point. there is a lot of time left.

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>> i want to be clear, this committee is investigating president biden and his family's shady business deals that capitalize on joe biden's public office and risked our country's national security. >> reporter: republicans cited new bank records obtained via subpoena. >> many of the wire payments occurred while joe biden was vice president. and leading the united states efforts in these countries. >> reporter: republicans also allege hunter biden and his associate used family ties to facilitate a 2016 meeting between a top biden adviser and a serbian national running for a united nation's role. >> these people didn't come to hunter biden because he understood world politics or was experienced in it or he understood chinese businesses, they wanted him for the access his last name gave them. >> but so far republicans have been unable to show any payments

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this is -- >> who is that? snoop? >> that's snoop dogg and pharrell. i know where there is going. >> goes by many names, white house correspondent, best husband who takes his wife to beyonce, dad, but today he earned himself a new title. spill mattingly. normally coffee is supposed to wake us up in our early morning. this time, in our 6:00 a.m. hour, coffee was the enemy. that's kaitlan collins fact checking false claims about the 2020 election in real time -- did you just spill your coffee? >> i just spilled my coffee. >> i'm always thinking that's going to happen to me. >> somebody not usually at a desk i was like how do i play this? i decided to ignore it, you called me out on it. i'm going to sit here and wear it for a minute. >> same pose. >> it's worse than i thought it was.

>> can we do it again? instant replay. let's go. >> claims about the 2020 election last night in real time. as we mentioned earlier -- did you just spill your coffee? >> i did. >> instant replay. >> as somebody who's not usually at a desk, i was like how do i play this? >> i mean, the -- impressive work. i'll give you that. don't spill me, you know my replacement coffee i was given. also towels here as well. >> your pants? >> they have dried to a level. we didn't have any standing segments so doing great. thriving on a thursday. >> it's been a great week. we have one show left but before we go, one more look at our morning moment. >> as we mentioned earlier, did you just spill your coffee? >> i spilled my coffee. >> what are