tomorrow. and it's a big scientific breakthrough, you know, they've been trying to do this for years. you're right. the engineering breakthrough can actually be able to build a power plant and harness this, it's, you know, there is a lot more optimism than it could be done now. but, you know, don't be expecting to be using fusion power in the next couple of years, maybe in ten years. >> but it is still, like, this is real, right? like they did crack something here that they did not have chris, i was in the makeup chair earlier than i usually am tonight just because i lost all control of time. but i was sitting there in the

makeup room while you and harry litman briefly talked about my podcast being both good and useful. i smiled so large that i popped the capes in the makeup room. >> he interrupted me. i referenced the show. he interrupted me mid sentence to say with, like this earnestness, oh, my god, thats so g i absolutely love. which is also true. >> the thing is, like, first of all, you knows what he's talking b second of all, you've been listening and like it and it was relevant to what is in the news today. i won the trifecta there. i popped the cape off. >> truly. >> thank you, my friend. well deserved. >> thank you. all right. and thanks to you at home for joining thus hour. really happy to you have here. so this was january 17th last year. on january 17th last year, just to get your head what was going

on, inauguration day was august 20th this is january 17th, 11 days before january 17th was january 6th when the pro trump mob stormed into congress to try to prevent congress from certifying joe biden's election as the new president. so on january 17th last year, it is a week and a half since january 6th and it is three days until the inauguration. and on that date, january 17th, here is a text message that was sent to donald trump's white house chief of staff mark meadows. it says, quote, mark in, seeing what's happening so quickly and reading about the dominion lawsuits attempting to stop any meaningful investigation, we're at a point of no return in saving our republic! our last hope is envoeking marshal law. please urge to president to do

so. so three days before joe biden's inauguration, white house chief of staff is getting this text message urging president trump to invoke martial law as if this person think there's is a martial's law and also a ross dress for less law or a t.j. max law. what he means is martial law in term of putting the military in charge to rule by force. our last hope is invoking martial law. please urge to president to do so. of this is three days before the inauguration. use military force. use weapons of war against the american public in order to stop the inauguration of the new president and instead put trump in power. and, you know this is a message not sent by the white house chief of staff. it's a message sent to him. so maybe you're thinking, you

know, i bet the white house chief of staff gets all kinds of weird spam text messages from over eager trump supporters. whoever sent this doesn't know how to spell martial law so how serious could this be? this wasn't from someone who just guessed the phone number of the white house chief of staff. this text message was from a sitting member of the united states congress. republican congressman roll of norman of south carolina. on january 17th last year, three days before biden's inauguration, congressman ralph norman was texting white house's chief of staff to urge president trump to call out the u.s. military to use the military against civilians. in order to keep trump in power. congressman norman was saiting member of congress when he sent that -- was a sitting member of congress when he sent that. he is still now. ralph norman was just re-elected. he was reelected by a lot, like

a 2-1 margin. and marveling about the seditious radicalism of a member of congress, somebody that wants to suspend the constitution and keep their guy in power by force using military force to do it, i mean marveling at some member of congress being that far out there. i mean that, is something we get to do from time to time. but right now knowing this is what ravel norman was advocating to the white house, right, us is spent the constitution, put troops in the street, take power by force. knowing he was advocating that is one thing. knowing that he and his party are going back to congress as the new majority party there for next year, that feels like something different. because what are they going to do with the real power when they really have it? that text from congressman ralph norman comes to us from hunter walk area long with josh

kavenski from the news website talking points memo. they posted a series of articles based on thousands of text messages they have obtained. thousands of text message that's they say were sent by and to white house chief of staff mark meadows between election night, november 2020 and biden's inauguration day in january 2021. these are thousands of text messages that were turned over to the january 6th investigation in congress. and talking points memo obtained them. and they're reporting tonight based on this trove of texts that as unsettling as that message was from congressman ralph norman, he was far from the only sitting member of congress exchanging text messages about what can be done to keep trump in power. 34 republican members of congress were reportedly texting about it with mark meadows.

hunter walker published a lot of them tonight. we have not reviewed the original text messages ourselves. we're just reviewing what has been reported by talking points memo. that said, we have reached out to both mark meadows and ralph norman for comment but have the no heard back. when talking points memo reached congressman norman themselves when they reached him and asked about his texts calling for marshal law, congressman normal told them, quote, it's been two years. he asked them to send him a copy of the text message for him to review. after tpm forwarded congressman norman a copy of the message, they say, quote, we did not receive any further response from the congressman. i should also note that some of the texts between mark meadows and members of congress have been reported on previously and some released by the january 6 investigation, the entity that obtained them in the first place. but seeing them all in one place at tpm tonight really is

something. particularly because republicans are about to take power in the house which means they're imminently about to shut down the work of the january 6 investigation. i mean, in addition to congressman ralph norman of south carolina calling for march martial law, calling for the u.s. military to keep president trump in power, there is a republican congressman from tennessee telling white house chief of staff mark meadows that republican legislature should just overrule the vote in their states and proclaim trump the winner. congressman mark green of tennessee told the white house chief of staff that should happen in various republican controlled states because he described a guest on news max as saying that was a legal possibility. also, a north carolina congressman pushing the same strategy. congressman greg murphy of north carolina pushing the same strategy as green. cut and pasted from a white wing website in his case. also another north carolina

congressman suggesting to mark meadows, ted budd of north carolina, he suggested the voting machines have been rigged by george soros. he is going back to congress as a senator. he just got promoted to u.s. senator in last month's election in north carolina. ted budd. also right-wing favorite paul gosar of arizona sent a link to supposed evidence of election rigging. he got this supposed evidence and forwarded the citation to mark meadows in the white house. the blog he got the information was called some swear word told me. word that starts with b and rhymes with mitch. some blank told me. that's the name of the blog that he cited to the white house chief of staff to justify whatever means were necessary to keep trump in power. some b told me.

congressman jim jordan of ohio texting a detailed plan for how vice president mike pence could overturn the election and proclaim trump to have been re-elected. expected to be house of the judiciary committee next year. there is no record of mark meadows ever replying to the messages. but in some cases he does. and there are also reference that's suggest he was communicating with many of these members of congress separately on incrypted messaging apps and those are message that's as far as we know the january 6 investigation has not yet obtained. scott perry exchanged so many texts with mark meadows full of theories about italian satellites rigging voting machine ands they're in cahoots with the british government to steal the election.

there was so much of that from republican congressman scott perry that talking points memo has a whole separate article tonight dedicated just to scott perry's texts to and from the white house chief of staff. congressman scott perry chairs something called the house freedom caucus which is a powerful group, a far right republicans, whose power is set to grow next year under the republican's razor thin majority. it may be the entity that determines who gets to be the next republican speaker of the house. we also reached out to congressman scott perry of pennsylvania for comment tonight. we have not yet heard back. again, many of these text messages have been reported before. some of them in drips and drabs. the difference tonight is we now know, a, we can see the text messages together, right? but also they're going to be in charge of the u.s. congress. that means, among other things that, the january 6 investigation which first unearthed these text messages, that's going to be shut down because, of course, if you were a republican who had been

involved in this stuff during the january 6 era, of course, you would like to shut down that investigation. that time line means the january 6 investigation has a short amount of time to finish the work and publish indings to the public. they met last night to discuss whether they're going to make criminal referrals to the justice department and how many and of whom. nbc news reports that committee has yet to make a final decision on that. the committee's also reviewing a draft of its final report which expected to be released next week. next wednesday, specifically, the 21st. merry christmas, everybody. the final publication of that january 6 investigation report may involve a formal public presentation by the investigators which presumably will happen sometime around the time the report is finalized and published which expected wednesday, january 21st.

we're awaiting for details on that. but meanwhile, the prosecutions in court for january 6 related crimes and alleged crimes, they're also entering a really crucial stage. crucial for the defendants and the country in terms of accountability and getting the history right and getting the story straight about what happened and what crimes were committed on that day. he would just got seditious prosecutions for two members. they were found guilty of seditious conspiracy and plotting violence to keep trump in office. that was the seditious conspiracy conviction that is already happened though. there are two more seditious conspiracy trials on the way. today there were opening statements. in the next round of oath keepers' prosecutions, this is yet another trial for four more members of the oath keepers including some of whom were -- some of those seen entering the

capitol on january 6 in that stack formation. we have another seditious conspiracy trial coming starting next week. that will involve members of the proud boys. here's something to keep an eye on when it comes to charges against january 6 defendants. when you had those convictions of the oath keepers on seditious conspiracy, right, that is the headline charge that got all the most attention and for good reason. but when you got those seditious conspiracy convictions, oath keepers and the other defendants charged in that same trial, they were all also convicted of a different felony, obstructing an official proceeding.

and that charge obstructing an official proceeding, that hasn't just been used against these organized parra military groups like the only keepers. 300 different defendants have been charged under that specific felony statute. obstruction of a official proceeding. that statute, obstruction of a official proceeding is seen by many legal experts as one of the most likely felony charges that could be brought against donald trump himself if he were ever to be charged personally in connection with the january 6 attack. that's why it's worth sort of memorizing that phrase. obstruction of an official proceeding. it's worth keeping an eye on that as a specific felony charge. that's been used hundreds of times and has been used to get hundreds of convictions thus far against january 6 defendants.

a panel of three federal appeals court judges started to decide whether that charge should be nulified when it comes to january 6. whether it shouldn't be allowed to use that charge against january 6 defendants. at a lower level at the district court level and the federal court system in d.c., there is one trump appointed judge who has ruled that that felony charge, that obstruction of an official proceeding charge can't be used against january 6 defendants. lots of other judges in that same court said it's fine to use that charge. in fact, have overseen trials in which it has been used and it has been used to secure convictions. but there is this one trump judge who says it shouldn't be used. it was a federal appeals court which heard oral arguments on whether or not that specific felony charge can essentially be

obviated and that could have wide sequences for everybody all wait down the line not only people who have already been convicted of that charge but people who are facing charges on that -- facing that felony charge and potentially the consideration of whether or not a charge like that might be used against people who were at the very top of the alleged conspiracy. the appeals judges can rule when they want but a lot is hinging on the ruling. it is crunch time right now on the legal front and for the january 6 investigation in congress which as we know is in the final weeks. joining us now is congresswoman zoe lofkin. i really appreciate you being here tonight. thank you. >> happy to do it. >> first, let me ask you if i

got any of that wrong or got any of the wrong way around? either the new information that's been reported to night about republicans texting with the white house up to and after january 6 or any what i just reported about what is happening in court? >> not that i'm aware of. we're going to be publishing these. i think there will be a lot of interest when we release the records and there's a lot to sort through. >> and in terms of all your records that, will be the transcripts of the hundreds of interviews you conducted and also the documentary evidence that you obtained as a committee? >> yes. this exception, the secret service sent us but they lent it to us, like a million documents.

most of it is not relevant. it's no the a committee record. we don't own it. we were just allowed to sort through it. but the relevant pieces of information are that we obtained from that, we will, of course, make available. >> what should we expect next week in terms of the release of the report? we're expecting and i think sort of as people in the news business sort of hoping for a public presentation of the findings of the committee to go along with the written report, is it fair for us to accept -- expect some version of that next week? >> i hope we can do that. to be honest, we're working -- we worked through the weekend. we are editing and reediting the report. it's not even done yet. we're working so hard on all of it. and so it's crunch time for the committee not just the staff. but all of the members that are working on all of this. so we'll get done and i'm looking forward to having it

being done. >> in terms of the decision making that still needs to happen, have you and your colleagues come to a decision whether or not you're willing to talk about what that decision is tonight. but have you come to a decision about the question of criminal referrals? and if so, when will we the public find out what the -- what that decision is? >> well, we had a great discussion last night. and we're going to have a little more sorting through it. i think i mentioned before, we have yet to have a vote in the committee. we just sort through and reach consensus. so i think we're reaching consensus on this element as well. and i believe this will be released the intent is we'll see if we can get it done, released along with a report and the recommendations and the like. >> as we get close to the end of the investigation, are there any

frustrations or regrets you have in terms of the investigation being shut down in, terms of avenues you were not able to proceed down, potential leads you were not able to follow because of the constraint of time? >> we always knew we just had this congress, select committees are only alive for the congress. unless we newed. so we always expected this would be the end of our efforts. i do wish that we had heard from some of the individuals that we subpoenaed who basically blew us off including members of congress and other officials. there is information they have that we would like to have. but i'm comforted in this. the department of justice has tools that the committee does not have and we were stymied. although it's not going to be in our report because we couldn't

get to the information that was relevant. i think there's a high likelihood that some of this information will become known to the public as the department of justice does its work. >> the justice department was vocal in wanting records from the committee sooner than the committee was willing to hand them over. they wanted full transcripts from the interviews that the committee, the investigators were able to conduct. have those points of conflict where the justice department wanted more from you guys than you were willing to give them, have those been resolved or will the justice department be treated as if they're a member of the public and get everything the same time we get it? >> we have provided some information to them in advance of our report. not all of it. but i mean the point is we're not an arm of the department of justice. we're the legislative branch and we're not -- they're investigators anymore than the

department of justice is investigators for the congress. so we have -- we support what they're doing. we're providing information now. and they're going to get everything, of course, when we publish our committee records. so i think we're in a good spot. and it looks like obviously they don't report to us. but it does look like the special counsel picked up the pace on some of these investigations. >> congresswoman zoe lofkin who explains is very, very busy along with the other committee members and staff. thank you for your time tonight. thank you for your time. good to see you. >> good to see you. all right, much more tonight. to see you all right, much more tonight. need a backup plan?

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. >> so we're about a month out from the midterm elections now. georgia had time to do the u.s. senate runoff. california has had the multiple weeks that apparently always takes them now to get their votes counted. so now we can bottom line it. the bottom line is in this year's midterm elections, republicans did terribly. they had a historically terrible showing. i mean that in a tech nick am sense. historically speaking in, the first election after a new president moved into the white house, that president's party gets wiped out in the midterm elections. and, you know, don't ask me why.

it's what american voters like to do. it always goes this way. if you look historically, the party that isn't the president's party, they pick up an average of 26 seats in the midterm elections. the average since world war ii is 26 seats. and recently it's been even worse. in president trump's midterm, democrats pick up 40 seats. in president obama's midterm, the republicans picked up 63 seats. and that historical data is presumably why republicans ahead of the midterm, they were crowing about the fact they were going to pick up 30, 40, 50, 60, maybe even more seats than that.

the republicans got nine total seats. they didn't even hit double digits. that is a historic wipeout. the democrats even gained a seat in the senate to add ip sult to injury. they were expected to do great in governor's races. they thought they would flip some state legislatures. they didn't do that anywhere in the country. this turned out to be the first midterm since the 1930s that the opposition party didn't flip a single state house or state senate. it went against the republicans

in the country in all kinds of races. look at wisconsin and in kansas. in both of those states, republicans had control of the state legislature. they were a total lock to stay in control of the state legislature. but on top of that, they were really confident that they were going to get rid of the democratic governor in both of the states in both kansas and wisconsin. thereby, they would get full republican control of both those states. republicans fully expected that at the end of the day by this point right now, they would have not only the governor's office but the whole state legislature in both wisconsin and kansas n wisconsin and kansas, the republican candidates for governor both lost. to democrats. so the republicans were not able to get full control of the states even though they fully expected to. it was actually the democrats in this election who got full control, who got the governorship and both houses of the state legislature in four states where they didn't have it

before. four states you can remember with this easy device. because it's four states that start with m. massachusetts, maryland, minnesota, michigan. in all four of those states, the democrats did not previously control the whole state legislature and the governor's office but after this midterm election now they do. and again this is an election where historically speaking the president's party, the democratic party should have been wiped out. instead, they made up all that ground. "the washington post" actually crunched the numbers on what that means in terms of the u.s. population in terms of which parties are in control of which states. the election was historically horrible for republicans and shockingly good for democrats, they found the overall top line results, thanks to how well things went for democrats in the states is now for first time in a decade more americans next year will live in states with full democratic control than in

states with full republican control. 140 million americans as of next year will live in blue, blue, blue states where the whole legislature and the governor's office are controlled by the democrats. 140 million in blue states as opposeded to 131 million in red states. where the republicans control both those things. more americans will live in blue states than red states in terms of which party has total control. and that's profoundly important. that's not just important for mathematically keeping score between the parties and for pointing and gasping at how poorly this republican party did in historic terms this year. it's important in real life. it's important because so much policy that's relevant to people's lives is decided by who's in control at the state level. everything from whether or not abortion is legal, thank you, supreme court, to whether can you get health insurance. whether you can get medicaid, how well teachers are paid, road

repairs, legal pot, voting rights, everything in between. republicans did historically bad this year and democrats did historically well. and so more americans will live in democratic controlled states next year than in republican controlled states. and that is hugely consequential. and we now know as of today that the surprising election results this year may have been shaped in part by a very large previously secret pro-democracy investment in this year's election. it previously unknown investment of tens of millions of dollars was made without any publicity, without any public announcement during the midterm elections. we did not know about it until today. but this is tens of millions of dollars in 16 states including all the states i adjustment mentioned and it was sent -- spent on local efforts to stop efforts to limit voting and to get people out to the polls an -- i mean, tens of millions

of dollars all spent in the states all on pro-democracy efforts, all of it unknown until today. who did it and why and how and is that part of why the election results this year blew everybody's minds and changed history? the answer to that riddle is next. stay with us. riddle is next stay with us

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this is brand new news to me and to everyone. totally new. headline was inside the secret $32 million effort to stop, stop the steal. a pair of progressive organizations operating in complete secrecy spear headed a $32 million campaign during the mid terms to push back against former president donald trump's stop the steal movement. the group's operated in states across the country as the election system faced unprecedented pressure from trump and allies who falsely said the 2020 election was stolen. altogether the organizations funded 126 groups across 16 states from battle grounds like arizona and pennsylvania to places like south carolina and new jersey. the group intentionally operated behind the scenes throughout the midterm election cycle not conducting media outreach or even launching a public facing website. "politico" is the first to report on the group's existence and extensive funding of these

scores of groups. david donnelly, the operative behind the group says it was very clear there was a mobilized constituency that cared about democracy in this election cycle but it was on the wrong side. donnelly said the goal of his funding network was to bring people to the fight not just bring more policy walks or more lawyers to bring more people to the fight. we decided it wasn't going to be enough just to fund a bunch of election protection efforts or fund a bunch of candidates to run against election deniers, we needed to fund infrastructure to bring more heft to the battles on democracy. more heft. tens of millions of dollars of more heft. joining us now is david donnelly, veteran progressive operative behind the pro-democracy center and pro-democracy campaign which i had to check against my notes. these are organizations i had never heard of before today. mr. donnelly, thank you for being here.

>> thank you for having me. >> can you put meat on the bones in terms of what exactly you funded? this is a lot of money to have put into this election cycle. what were you funding? what were the priorities? >> first, let me say that i believe there say cast of 1,000 -- thousands of people who helped to deliver these election results all across the country. i think americans stood up for democracy and against those that would take us in the wrong direction. the kind of work that our partners did and frankly i think a whole lot of credit belongs to the 126 groups that we supported, the kind of work they did spanned the spectrum from voter registration bribes to turning out votes all across the country. they advocated with election clerks to make sure that there were longer hours to cast ballots. they encourage people to reach out to neighbors and to expand

the voting roles. and they work on ballot questions and other policy fights to make our democracy more reflective and responsive to all of us. >> the thing that -- there's two things that seem notable about this effort in the way that we're learning about it. one is that this is not -- does not seem to have been a let's create a new organization that's going to train operatives centrally and dispatch them into the states which is a lot of what we sort of imagine a big well funded national, you know, tens of millions of dollars effort might be like. of this is supporting existing organizations in states and communities. so i'd like to ask you about that as a strategy. but the other reason that i'm talking to you tonight and the other reason that i think this is getting a lot of attention is we did not know about this until after the election was over. why was this such a low profile effort? why were there no public announcements. why aren't we finding out about

it until now? >> we simply didn't believe we should promote work before we did it. we're under the impression you should actually go prove yourself in the world before you claim any credit for the work that you've done and we thought that the -- our organizational partners in the states were the ones that were doing the hard work and should be talking about their work many of them got great press conference in black and brown communities and work they did on policy and we think that is more important story to tell than the work that we did. there are great organizations working in communities all over the country. much -- they needed more resources. i did a deep dive in the states in the summer of '21 to hear from leaders of local organizations and statewide

organizations and there was an appetite to work on democracy over the long term. but there was also a fear that unless they got to work urgently to tackle and to beat back the attacks against their ability to cast ballots, then we're going to not even have the long term to fight for. so we set out to help support them. in the near term but also to lay the groundwork for these organizations that are working in black and brown communities and among young people to have a stronger leadership role and the questions of democracy over time. >> because you decided to show your work and not talk about your work to have this be a low profile, secretive effort, why is it that we know about it now? why go public now with the name of your groups, the pro-democracy center and campaign. why now have "politico" and "the new york times" described the work that you did now that election is done?

we think it's a really important story to tell about what these state partners did all over the country, the grassroots groups engaged their community. again, there are cast of thousands of people who actually helped avert us from a the kra -- democratic collapse. it's litigators, those that did protection work, those that engaged in all sorts of other kinds of ways to make change and to hold -- you know, to pull us back. we believe it's critical to ground the work in the front lines those 5:00 tacked and -- attacked and those having rights taken way. we think it's critical that the stories were told and part of the election roundup that we're now engaged in understanding that, yes, indeed, we have a country that is more pro-democracy slightly more. we held the line. i think we have a lot more work

to do. we think it's critical that these groups are out engaged in the communities. it's what you described early in your segment. the flip of the state senate there will now allow for there to be an opportunity to do policy in minnesota and efforts critical and the groups need the resources to do that work. >> david donnelly of the pro-democracy center and pro-democracy campaign, thanks for helping us understand tonight. i really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. much more news ahead. stay with us. more news ahead stay with us

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remember the images in front of the white house. see the big pipeline. here it was in new york city. for years you'll remember this movement. it was a big well organized aggressively creative campaign to protest keystone. it's the most famous pipeline on the continent because of the movement to stop it. and they argued against particularly the keystone xl pipeline expansion was twofold. they said first that this point in the climate crisis we should

be leaving the oil in the ground not building new funnels to help bring that stuff to market and burn it. activists raised the alarm about -- for all the money in the oil industry, even brand new modern oil pipelines like to leak. keep the oil in the ground and if you put it in the pipeline, prepare for disastrous oil spills. of that is the argument from the anti-keystone activists. what do you know? the oil dumped out of the pipeline and into a nearby creek and rural pasteur land. the biggest oil spill on land in the united states in more than nine years.

and this is not the first time the keystone pipeline ruptured, not by a long shot. including the spill from this past few days, this one pipeline, the keystone pipeline sprung a leak 23 times in the last 12 years. and the leaks are getting bigger as they go. more oil burst out of the pipeline than in all of the previous 22 spills combined. keystone soaked the united states in more spilled oil than any other pipeline in the last decade. since it first got up and running in 2010, the keystone pipeline has spilled so much oil that if you scooped up all of it and put it all in one gallon milk jugs, that line of milk jugs would stretch all the way from new york city to philadelphia and beyond. the company that runs the pipeline says with the new spill in kansas they say they're totally sure there is no threat to drinking water at all. it's all going to be fine. they say they put out all the state of the art technologies to

stop the spill from spreading further down stream and some day clean it up. to be clear, the state of the art when it comes to cleaning up oil spills is pretty much what you might invent if you were a particularly unimaginative second grader, cleaning up oil spills looks like did it in the 60s, sections of boom and big paper towel thingies and sometimes vacuum trucks to try to slurp it up and dump it somewhere else. lobbying for oil drilling and things like pipelines that spew oil that, is the state of the art in the industry. cleaning up the spills? that technology is still very much their model t ford. it's not like they're priority for research and development is figuring out how to clean up what they spill. the company that operates keystone says they still don't know what caused this latest biggest spill. they say it was all a big surprise to them.

wasn't a surprise to everyone though. more ahead tonight. more ahead tonight before dexcom g6, my diabetes was out of control. i was tired. not having the energy to do the things that i wanted to do. before dexcom g6, i was frustrated. all of that finger-pricking and all of that pain, my a1c was still stuck. there is a better way to manage diabetes. the dexcom g6 continuous glucose monitoring system eliminates painful fingersticks, helps lower a1c, and it's covered by medicare.

before dexcom g6, i couldn't enjoy a single meal. i was always trying to out-guess my glucose and it was awful. (female announcer) dexcom g6 is a small wearable that sends your glucose numbers to your phone or dexcom receiver without painful fingersticks. the arrow shows the direction your glucose is heading: up, down, or steady, so you can make better decisions about food, insulin, and activity in the moment. it can even alert you before you go too low or when you're high. oh, the fun is absolutely back. after dexcom g6, i can, on the spot, figure out what i'm gonna eat and how it's gonna affect my glucose. when a friend calls and says, "hey, let's go to breakfast," i can get excited again. after using dexcom g6, my diabetes doesn't slow me down at all. i lead line dancing three times a week, i exercise, and i'm just living a great life now. i have eight grandchildren. now i'm able to keep up with them again. we're not afraid anymore. it's so easy to use. dexcom g6 has given me confidence and control that everything i need is right there on my phone.

if you have diabetes, then getting on the dexcom g6 is the single most important thing you can do. once a patient gets on dexcom g6, it's like the lights come on. (david) within months, my a1c went down to 6.9. (earl) my a1c has never been lower. (donna) at my last checkup, my a1c was 5.9. (female announcer) dexcom g6 is the #1 recommended cgm system, and it's backed by 24/7 tech support. call now to get started. you'll talk to a real person. don't wait, this one short call could change your life. (bright music)

it's been great to you have here tonight. that's going to do it for me for now. alex wagner is back tomorrow. "way too early" is up next. conspiracy theories. a plea for mch