i'll see you back here next saturday and sunday six to 8 pm for more american voices. but for now, i handed over to many hudson. maybe? >> hello, alicia. have a great rest of your night. i'll see you next weekend. hello to all of you. tonight, on the myth he has some show, ron desantis runs the more. florida's governor out of control blocking what you could say and silencing those who stand against him. andrew warren who was support -- suspended by desantis joins me live. threats of political violence on the rise in the wake of the trump fbi search. i'll speak to democratic congressman and former impeachment manager eric swalwell who has been subjected to some pretty vicious threats himself. 87,000 coming to kill you? at least that's what fox and the gop want you to believe. i will debunk their latest paranoia. dangerous conspiracy theory, this time about the irs.

good evening, i'm mehdi hasan. we begin tonight in florida. land of endless sunshine, citrus fruit and senior living. welcome to the villages. the florida retirement community is so big it's the same size as the city of gainesville, florida, just off the interstate. also its biggest waco texas and the village is a big deal politically as well. it's a regular stop on the campaign trail for right-wing republicans. donald trump spoke to supporters there in the final stretch before election day. he signed an executive order on medicare there in 2019. while matt gates and marjorie taylor greene took their traveling gave a gifts act there in 2021. when ron desantis said he was stripping disney of his self governing power in the state when he sought to control higher education and when he briefed people on his coronavirus response in 2020, he did it all from, you guessed it, the villages. if something major and

conservative politics is happening in florida, and chances are it's happening at the villages? >> even voter fraud. just the safe, to residents of the villages confessed to voter fraud in the 2020 election. they pleaded guilty to filling out one that more ballot and when the more state. one of them is a writ registered republican. the other one has no party affiliation. actual documented convicted cases of voter fraud. this is huge. somebody alert election deniers. somebody alert the governor of florida, ron desantis. let him know. we got him. >> the state of florida house charged and is in the process of arresting 20 individuals across the state for voter fraud. they are disqualified from voting, because they've been convicted of either murder or sexual assault, and they do not have the right to vote. >> wait a minute. desantis was not talking about

voter fraud at the villages. in central florida. he was announcing arrests that were made in heavily democratic south florida, part of a crackdown by his controversial new election police unit, created to pursue donald trump's false claims of the stolen election. didn't donald trump win florida? yes. red state, right there. which means that desantis is instead pursuing people who genuinely did not realize they do not have the right to vote in florida. people who apparently -- wasn't aware, ramona oliver wasn't told -- restored voting rights to most former felons in 2018 does not apply to convicted murderers or sex offenders. desantis added to the confusion when he implemented a poll tax of sorts. requiring ex felons -- before being allowed to vote. sure, you could say those are people who committed a murder

or sexual offense of some kind. that's who they are. yes, they did the timeframe. some of them are reformed. now they might be going back to prison again for which appears to be an honest mistake and is part of a dissent is -- a photo op that did not take place in the villages. compare the mistake these people made to the actual voter fraud filling out that more than one ballot and won state by those residents at the villages that i mentioned a moment ago, they aren't even in the same ballpark. only voter fraud when ron desantis is its voter fraud. george orwell at his finest. he rules the state as one of the authoritarian, and while he pretends to be a champion of freedom, remember his so-called stock act and tries to restrict conversations about race and racism and education, and in private business? on friday, federal judge in florida declared the act unconstitutional. a violation of the first amendment. the first one. and halted part of the law in a

44-page ruling. tallahassee u.s. district -- florida truly believes we live in a post racial society, then let it make its case. but it cannot win the argument by muzzling its opponents. another federal suit filed by parents and teachers is still undecided. on friday, though, the sentence went from broke in his war le pen to walk. >> we must fight the walk in our schools. we must fight the walk in our businesses. we must fight the walk and government agencies. we can never ever surrender to woke ideology. and i will tell you this, the state of florida is where woke goes to die. >> i for one would love to hear that man define woke just once. that's all i ask. if the cadence from that refrain, that the sends refrain, we must fight, we must fight sound familiar, maybe it's because the freezing echoes

winston's churchill's we shall fight them on the beach in june 1940 at the start of world war ii. so yeah. ron desantis seems to be comparing his opposition to the nazis? perhaps nowhere is the orwellian nature of the desantis approach is better illustrated than andrew warren. the sentence -- a democrat for in effect, not believing with the census does. >> when you flagrantly violate your oath of office, when you make yourself above the law you have violated your duty. you have neglected your duty and you are displaying a lack of competence to be able to reform those duties. >> wet? whatever the violations mentioned by desantis in that press conference? andrew warren had said he would not enforce any prohibitions on sex gender operations from minors. something that is under debate

in the state of florida, but is not against the law, at least not yet anyway. which means desantis is holding warrant to account for not upholding the laws that don't yet exist. it's mind-boggling, the thought police coming to life. as you might expect from the former justice department and prosecutor -- he is suing in federal court to get his job back. >> a violated my first amendment rights, by retaliating against me for speaking out on abortion and transgender rights, and he's violated the florida constitution by removing me from office without any legal justification. >> while it may be tempting to dismiss what's happening in florida as, well, that's just florida being florida, on friday desantis hit the trail for what looks like a 2024 presidential run. forget trump for moment. desantis is only well documented autocratic tendencies and violations of the constitution could soon be yet another nail in the coffin

of american democracy. joining me now to talk about it is the man himself, the elected, they'll currently suspended le pen and you oren. like you for coming on the show tonight. andrew, why do you think you were suspended and escorted from your office by an armed officer? we know why ron desantis says he suspended you. but what do you think the reason once? >> i was totally blindsided by this. it was part of a political circus to advance the governor's own presidential ambitions. without any notice he had me removed from office, suspended, escorted out by armed deputies as you said. no opportunity to read the order of suspension. no opportunity to talk with my staff. he came in here and essentially overturned an election. there's been a lot of talk about people claiming that we saw an election overturned on january 6th. if desantis did it on august 4th. you return to elections by

suspending me without any legal justification. >> so, côte d'ivoire we know that the transgender law as i mentioned a moment ago has not come -- hasn't been passed. desantis was talking about. but on abortion, they have passed anti abortion laws and you said he would not want to prosecute people under the law. put aside the rights on the abortion debate. from a prosecutorial point of view, desantis says you have to enforce the law. what do you say in response to that? is that a legitimate argument he's making? >> that argument is legitimate, but that is not the actual argument that he is making. would he is saying is that by me speaking out on this issue, i'm somehow violated my duty. let's be clear, the governor has not identified any law that have declined to follow. because he can't. as you pointed out, a transgender health care law does not exist and that no abortion law case has come before my desk yet. at 15-week ban in florida has

been ruled unconstitutional. this is not about what i have done or my declination to prosecute any case under any law. this is about what i have said because i voiced my opposition to governor desantis. in a way that other people have done in florida and other groups have been retaliated against. he went after teachers, now he's gone after a public servant. who's next? >> yeah, and as we mentioned the stock walk act, quote unquote, the judge went off to that saying that violated the first amendment of free speech. with so many trump appointees stalking the federal courts, how much hope do you have for your lawsuit? >> my hope is the rule of law. the rule of law is clearly on our side. this is not about me. there's so much more at stake. this is about defending our democracy. it doesn't matter which party you belong to or who you voted for, your vote matters. that's the sacred trust of our democracy. no elected official has the

right to thread that, out that's exactly with the governor's trying to do here. again, the law is on our side. we want to make sure that the court has a chance to hear the arguments are more confident here on the facts -- they will side with a lot inside with democracy. >> last question, andrew, you mentioned defending democracy. you mentioned overturning elections. some liberals, some democrats outside of florida think, the sentence isn't that bad compared to trump. but they would rather have the sentence at the 2024 gop nominee over trump, because at least desantis, they think, is not as authoritarian or autocratic or anti democratic as donald trump. would you say to them? >> well, smart man without any moral compass are extremely scary. we should be silken's earned for the sake of our democracy where people who are only willing to follow the rule of law. only willing to follow the constitution when it's convenient. who are only willing to do so when it serves their own political interests. when it fits with their own

political narrative. true patriots support the rule of law and the constitution at all times. that's not what is happening here. desantis is violating two laws. my first amendment rights and the florida constitution. we filed suit because we want to make sure that as long as ron desantis's governor does the first amendment still have meaning? it is the florida constitution still have meeting? and you election still have meeting? neil >> andrew warren, thank you for your time. >> thank you so much for having me. >> next, an alarming rise in violent rhetoric following the fbi's search of trump mar-a-lago's home. -- members of congress and their families. like eric swalwell. i will talk to him the, california democrat after a short break. do not go anywhere. r short break. do not go anywhere do not go anywhere

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the fbi searched donald trump's mar-a-lago residents, violent threats from the far-right have been on the rise. supporters on pro trump internet forms immediately told others to quote lock and load and called make calls for civil war. and it august 11th, a armed trump supporter wearing body armor tried to breach the fbi senior cincinnati field office. he was killed during an hours long standoff. he was apparently incensed of the mar-a-lago search that an account bearing his name with a quote we must not tolerate this

one. and now members of congress are saying they're facing an increase of the rhetoric against them in their family. just listen to this call the california democratic congressman eric swalwell said he received afterwards. >> you worthless piece of. heads of kids head off, worthless piece of. i love for someone to cut your head off. and cut your wife's head off to and your kids. i hope all you mother effers die. die. trump 2024. >> how frightening and sickening and disturbing is that? a member of the maga right threatening to kill a sitting congressman's wife and children. for what? daring to have a different view about donald j trump? where does this and? right now we are heading to a very dark place in america. we may already be there. congressman eric swalwell joins me now.

he's a member of the house intelligence and judiciary committee. congressman, thank you for joining me this evening. let's start with the threat against your family. i have to ask, how concerned are you about you and your family safety right now given up with the threats you received? i think we may have a frozen congressman on the link. can we see if we can get a? backed or we may have to take a quick break. i get asked my team, the perils of live tv. have we got congressman swalwell? can i hear him? we don't. we're gonna try to fix that. there's an important discussion as we just heard and were gonna take a quick break and come right back hopefully with congressman eric swalwell. do not go away. do not go away can never have too many pillows. sometimes i'm all business. wooo! i'm a momma 24/7. seriously with the marker? i'm a bit of a foodie.

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we talked about florida and ron desantis outrageous attack on the education system there. if you think florida is bad, let's talk about texas for a moment. the keller independent school district has already pulled 42 books from their library before the start of the academic year under new policy introduced by conservative party leaders there. the books include the bible, tony mason's the bluest eye, and jen ginger queer just to name a few. even a graphic novel of the diary of and frank, yes you heard that correctly was temporarily pulled until of temper public backlash called super tenant to backtrack and say it would be back on its channels if it passes the new standards. if it passes the new standards. where are we in america? where are we in america where anne frank is now a controversial topic for the right? according to the texas tribune, trustees voted unanimously to amanda district book policy, when they received donations from right-wing political

groups. the gop attacks the left, member being up in arms about dr. seuss being canceled? and here we are. some texas parents in that school district or refusing to go along with it. one of the lady halls tweeted quote i want to make it clear that the administrators, teachers librarians and staff are not to blame for the extremist tech over and book banning in color school district. it's our for extremist school board members who are funded by right-wing packs. they brought the political culture wars to my children. she has four children in the school district, and the and frank that was temporarily put from the shelves, she joins us now. thank you so much for coming on the show tonight. you said you asked the committee when they would put these books that they pulled when they would put them back. have they responded? and and frank graphic novel novel being pulled? >> we don't know when they are gonna come back. they just keep telling us soon. i believe that the backlash

means they will be back, the diary of anne frank in the bible i. think it will be back soon. i'm concerned about the remainder. 39 books? i think they've had enough public outcry that they realized the diary of and frank needs to come back, but i'm not sure about the other books. >> when you say the other books, it's easier for them to go off the black and queer offers? >> yes absolutely. no question. in fact they are releasing a new set of guidelines tomorrow that is kind of the rubric. it's a rubric, a checklist for books and a pretty much will cook will kick a lot of books out of our library. this rubric was morales created for the purpose of getting rid of these books that were listed on the list. they created the rubric for that purpose. >> you say to the washington post that made the point that

not every one of these books may be completely appropriate for children. saying quote calling them pornography just just down the whole conversation because we're not in the same reality. how tough will be to argue that point conservatives are making cynical bad faith arguments about creating and protecting kids from pool? >> not only that, but they're calling our teachers and librarians groomers. they're using language, and threatening to file suit. they are going to the police and firing police reports saying our libraries and teachers are spreading child primary or free. the teachers are not grooming the children for sexual assault. it's disingenuous. >> and what's interesting is that republicans say, parents should be in charge of their children's education, we want to put power in the back of the parents. but it's conservative parents.

you're a parent and you don't agree with what they are doing? >> yes. it's something we have said. i think one of the school board meetings for a year. you have said you make decisions for our children, i will make decisions for our children. we are never all going to agree and what's best in appropriate for our children. but we need to agree on is we can't be making decisions for other peoples children. every time i go i say, i'm a parent to, i have perspectives, i have children in the school district but they don't seem to care. >> we are living in a very heated political environment as i was just saying before the break. this is a very controversial sensitive topic. has there been a backlash against you for speaking out against some of these school board members and these book banning decisions? >> they are livid that it got national attention. i've got the local chapter of the republican party who is publish pictures of my name to

all their facebook followers. i've got a company that's patriot mobile action who's sharing my personal legal action information online, details that are going to open me up to harassment. >> that's awful, i'm sorry to hear that. one last question i have to ask you lanny. when the whole critical race theory nonsense erupted last year especially during the virginia governor's election, a lot of people were arguing about teaching their kids history, about slavery, about race. became racialized conversationalist conversation like everything becomes in america. you are not a black parent, you are wiper. what do you say to other white parents that this is controversial for our kids. we don't want our kids hearing bad things about our history, about previous generations of white people would do. >> a lot of white parents are saying that, and i say it's ridiculous right? when my kids go to school and learn about history, i want them to see themselves in the

stories of the abolitionists. and if they are going to school and seeing themselves in that it's inspirational. we've got parents in the school board election a claim that our teachers are making our children feel guilty for being white. i have four children in the school and none of them are coming home feeling guilty for being white. i would tell fellow white parents's time to teach our kids and have these hard conversations. see who the abolitionists were. it's time to take a stand and acknowledge racial white privilege exist right? it's time to look at the world and ask how we can make it a better place for everyone. that's what i would say to the other white parents. and vote. would it say to my fellow white parents's vote. even if you think your school board is going fine, is a good chance it could be taken over. so just do your research and vote in school board elections. >> well said. we will have to leave it there. lanny wulf thank you very much and please stay safe. >> thanks. >> after the break, i am told

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about political violence in the threats against members of congress in their families. congressman eric swalwell is with me now. i believe we have resolved or

technical issues. congressman, thanks for coming on the show. i want to start by asking you about you and your family. how concerned are you about their safety right now? >> thank you mehdi. with but the fiscal gremlins tibet and the technical ones came out so thanks for doing the segment. i am worried. i've never been more worried and i will do everything to protect my family, my wife, the staff who work for me, but i will not relent in my efforts to try and do my job, to keep this democracy rolling. and to address the threats that donald trump and others like him keep posing. while it is reached a boiling point, we've never seen a point like this in american history. sure there's been political violence but we've never seen it come from the top. right now if you are not advocating for violence in the maga republican party, you are condoning it with your silence. there is not many liz cheney's in adam kinzinger's and mitt

romney's who condemn violence, it's mostly people like kevin mccarthy and ali stefani echo dorset i make the statements against violence and when they're asked about it, they don't want to address it. >> congressman, you have become a villain for the far-right in this country. you are in an impeachment manager, your outspoken against the gop on twitter, and they always claim that you are connected to an alleged chinese spy even though the fbi said you did the right thing cutting off contacts of that person. do you feel that you are being especially targeted? that is coordinated with maga media almost? >> it's become i am effective mehdi. it's because people like adam schiff and nancy pelosi and others, they are effective as well. i get it, it's the job i am in. they can criticize, they can lie about me, it's a free country, you can go pretty far as far as what you say but elected officials, but where the line has to be drawn is when you start to use violence

as a means to an end. your political will and that's the moment we are at right now. so i am not going to back down, i'm not going to be silent, but i am going to start calling more and more people out. that's why i have been putting these threats online because i want the person to know who makes the threats to know that it's going to be publicized into, i want the leaders of the republican party to know that it's their conduct that is inspiring and inciting this violence. and often as you see in the recordings that i put forward, they're calling back to donald trump or tucker carlson or son lie that they've heard about me from those individuals and then they are aiming it very violently at me and others. >> so you have an attack on an fbi field office in ohio from a trump supporter, you have armed guys turning up at another fbi field office in arizona. the mad at the capitol we don't know what his motives were.

we have the insurrection last year. at what point do members of your democratic party come out and say, we are facing a form of fascism right now? one of the blunt about it? >> we are facing a form of fast system right now. donald trump and the republicans have put a target not only at the fbi back. they want to support the rank and file and the fbi in this country. well guess what? most americans don't. most americans just lump police officers in with fbi officers and kidder side or the law enforcement. i think of two brothers a minor walk to beat every day as police officers, and i fear that some deranged individual inspired by donald trump's conduct and his claims will just see the first law enforcement officer and take up arms against a person because they feel that that law enforcement officer is associated with the fbi. this is a gangster said there are pro cop, they're not pro

cop, they were pro violence against the police officers who are protecting communities in america. >> i have to say congressman, you are pretty outspoken on twitter, you call people out. not all of your colleagues in congress do that. i look at the current political scene we have the republican party calling for the dismantling and the defunding of the fbi. a look at what happened to your party win a few activists say let's defund the police. that was hung around your necks in 2018 sorry 2020 in the congressional elections. it's been hung around your necks in the 2022 midterms. i wonder when the democrats can use the open goals at the republicans are doing and fight back. i don't see the the same kind of level of pushback from your party. >> we have to because it's next attentional and we saw that in an nbc news poll today, that democracy and its survival is an important concern of americans. yesterday, i saw my colleague reuben movement geico, really carry the arizona gubernatorial

covenant candidate because, she endorsed a very antisemitic gay candidate. just relentlessly pointed this out and cholera. >> it can't be just you and reuben guy a go, it's got to be more support for me or more people in your party. >> that's right, but maybe this is essentially -- a cage match so democracy and fascism is getting out of the cage match. we have to do everything we can to call these people out, register people to vote, engage them and mobilize them to the ballot boxes in a peaceful way, that's the only way we're gonna win this november. it's gonna be people or is it gonna be politics. it's gonna be community or it's gonna be chaos. we have to fight for people, we have to fight for community, because i am afraid that never before has it all been on the line. >> congressman eric swalwell we'll put. thank you for your time this evening. please do stay. safe >> my pleasure thank you. >> coming up next. debunking lies around the

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armed to the teeth ready and eager to be sick tip on law abiding trump supporters and hardworking small business owners. the right has become obsessed with this new and i would argue extremely dangerous conspiracy theory. you would be forgiven if you were unaware of this but they are all over it, and you just don't have to take my word for it. watch for yourself. here's just a small selection of the current craziness. >> the irs is already wonderfully mysteriously heavily militarized. they stockpile thousands of firearms and millions of rounds of ammunition. why? >> it's a praetorian guard that will be unleashed. joe biden said he was gonna grow the middle across harris and unite the country. instead, you have a government targeting the citizens. >> they are arming up the irs like they are preparing to take volusia. >> like james bond, but instead of hunting down evil maniacs

they kill middle class taxpayers. >> are they going to have a strikeforce that goes in with ak-15's already loaded ready to shoot some small business person and iowa? >> this is making the irs -- -- >> your time has expired >> they are disarming you because you cannot be trusted with guns because they are you are too dangerous. in case you missed a theme here, they're hiring another 87,000 armed irs agents just to make sure got? it got it? is it clear? >> i cannot believe i even have to clarify this but to be clear, nothing you just heard there is remarkably tethered to our shared plane of reality. so mixture of lies, fantasies, paranoia and sheer idiocy. this is not just fringe voices. it's the whole gop and the whole right wing far-right complex. so tonight i want to debunk their claims against the irs. but before i do, i'm curious,

one of the were all true? why are the republicans upset with the tax police having guns? i thought they backed the blue? trump derides, gun carrying irs agents as if gun carrying is a bad thing. i thought it was the most american thing possible? i thought we were all supposed to carry guns. anyways, it is all nonsense and conspiracy. yes the irs is getting almost 80 billion in new money over the next decade from the inflation reduction act, but no we don't have a biden helmed dystopian police state ahead of us, and neither are the irs on track to become the new gestapo. here's some good old-fashioned debunking. let's deal with the armed agents hysteria. look our they're irs agents who carry guns? yes. what's the gop is trying to win or exaggerate, these are the guys who literally got a

component. today they can pose a small sliver of the workforce, with some 2000 agents, they represent less than 3003% of the irs employees. their goal is to take down modern-day occupants. just this week, i repeat just this week they put a whole network of cocaine traveler traffickers behind bars. you think republicans would be happy about that. apparently not. they don't want the irs stockpiling animal they say, which spoiler, is actually bs. yes the internal revenue has bought some $700,000 worth of ammunition this year. remember the cocaine traffickers they have to deal with? but this is not some new, unusual development that the trump administration spent that a same amount of money on the irs. so they are not uniquely stockpiling ammo and they're not 87,000 armed agents coming to get you. so wooded this much repeated and ominous 87,000 figure come from? seriously, it's become a

quasi-secret figure for a world, so maybe if you say it three times into your bathroom mirror, marjorie taylor greene appears with the monologue on the second amendment. you will be shocked to learn that the it is 7000 figure is not true. your misappropriating data from 2021 treasury. port saying that given additional funding for the irs, they said they could employ 87,000 plus employees as old workers retire. that's the key point. here more than half of the employees current employees here are eligible for retirement, and expected to leave the irs in the next five years. so that's money for existing people. and as time magazine reports, in total the net increase and irs employees might only be about 20 to thousand new employees over the next decade, not 87,000. and only around half of them will be hired to do enforcement.

the rest of them are i t personnel, backup staff, technical, rough janitors and the rest, not auditors, not enforcement agencies, not members of the criminal investigation division. many of these new employees will simply be making up for cuts to the irs workforce that took place over the last decade, taking the irs back to 2010 staffing levels. because following the 2010 teen party election way, republicans in congress got irs funding by more than 20% ice -- making it easier for rich tax papers to avoid paying taxes. so why do republicans hate the irs? why are they bent on demonizing irs employees right now? it's not because they are looking at for you. oh no. as one tax expert told time, the largest corporations in the united states with over 20 billion dollars of assets have had their rate of audits go down for nearly 100 percent to 50% over the last decade among wealthy individuals when a positive income of 1 million dollars or more, the rate fell

from 8.4 in 2010 to 2.4 in 2019. are you starting to see the big picture now? as propublica reports, over the last ten years as the irs resources have steadily disappear, so too has their inability to monitor the rich. in some recent years the likes of elon musk and jeff bezos paid very little, sometimes nothing in federal income tax. so let's be clear. these conspiracies about the irs on the right are really about republicans looking up for their donors. it's always been about the gop protecting the super wealthy. so when joe biden and congressional democrats announced the ire it would be fought the irs's capacity to audit the super wealthy, republicans had to act. they don't care if people get hurt in the process. has ron wyden warned this week, these are incendiary and

increasingly dangerous an out of control conspiracies about the irs. look. republicans on the right broadly want you to believe that the irs has declared war on you when the truth is the day they declared war on the irs on behalf of their big donors. it's not the irs that financially was to screw you, it's the gop. coming up at the top of the hour with a man moylan. democratic congressman on his recent trip to taiwan. threats from china in response to republican attacks on law enforcement. that's all next on ayman. we'll be back in a moment. 'll be back in a moment. 5g network. but, they don't. they only cover select cities with 5g. and with coverage of over 96% of interstate highway miles, they've got us covered. i think i changed my mind about these glasses. yeah, it happens. that's why visionworks gives you 100 days to change your mind. it's simple. anything else i can help you with?

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to my friends ayman mohyeldin before we go as if we didn't have enough to deal with, did you see the george w. bush is now making a comeback? and it's not for his self portraits or his swapping of cough drops with michelle obama at funerals. it's for a master class video. it never guess where his class is gonna be advertised on? tough calls, ayman tough calls and life lessons. yes the president made some of the worst calls in modern american history, illegally invading iraq, abandoning that

guy is going to teach a course on tough calls. amen, for me the lesson is that unless you hold a lawless president to account, we brand it they just or rehabilitate it is time goes by. i fear that at this rate in a decade or so we will have a cuddly donald trump. >> i was gonna say, listen america loves to second chances right? speaking of accountability, did you see the video of bush's former lending his voice in support of his now defeated daughter. watch this >> he tried to steal the last election. using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. he's a coward. a real man would not lie to his supporters. >> mehdi, remold in up to remember dick cheney lying to the american public about the

weapons of mass destruction that led to the biggest foreign policy blunder in american history. i'm old enough to remember enhanced interrogation techniques are tortures more commonly known and of course, not to mention, the irony of all our, need bush and cheney coming into office but despite being rejected by the majority of american voters back in 2000. dick cheney left office as vice president, his approval rating was a mere 13%. i would have thought twice about getting my dad's endorsement publicly when it is dick cheney, the list of, who knows, maybe he'll be doing a master class on human rights international lawsuit. >> look, i'm all for standing up to trump but you don't need to invoke bush and cheney to do this. >> great to see you as always, my friend. enjoy the rest of your evening. >> thank you. >> good evening to you at home and welcome to ayman. coming up tonight, trump's senate rejects bad polls, major

gaps, the growing signs, the candidates might tank in the midterms. pushing back on china's threats, we'll be joined by democratic congressman don beyer who just returned from a delegation to taiwan days after speaker pelosi's visit. an american support investigating donald trump new polling shows that voters along the former president held to account. i'm ayman moye had been. let's get started. tonight, we begin with a status check. the midterms are just 11 weeks away. so the question tonight is, where to both sides stand. if you ask mitch mcconnell, he doesn't sound very confident about republicans prospects for winning the senate. there's probably a greater likelihood that the house flip