"the new york times" and maggie haberman became obsessed with donald trump, driven by theire hatred, their arrogance, their liberal bias. they were blinded by the fundamental standards of fairness and accuracy and truth and the reward as you pointed out, sean, with a pulitzer prize for getting a story wrong. when you award bad behavior with more bad behavior, all you get is more lies, more smears. to "the new york times" is very much like a religious cult when it comes to trump. they are maniacal and they hire mindless sycophants like ben smith, who published the dossier without ever bothering to investigate or verify or corroborate any of it. if he had, he would have learned that it is a collection of lies conjured up by two classic funnies, glenn simpson and christopher steele and funded by the hillary clinton campaign and democrats. they were played for the fools that they are, useful idiots. and if "the new york times" had any integrity, it would fire those individuals who got that story wrong for so long and apologize sincerely to their readers. >> sean: i wouldn't hold my breat

so maggie haberman, if you have any integrity, "the new york times," if you have any integrity, give them back. here with reaction, fox news contributor joe concha along with fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett, ironically you wrote a number one "new york times" best-selling book on all of this. he wrote two of them, actually. gregg jarrett, is there anything that they got right as it relates to russia? >> no, not really, and the longest chapter of my second book "witch hunt" chronicles all the mistakes, all the wrongful reporting that "the new york times" and other news organizations dead and never apologized for. they issued an occasional retraction and correction, never an apology. "the new york times" and maggie haberman became obsessed with donald trump, driven by their hatred, their arrogance, their liberal bias. they were blinded by the fundamental standards of fairness and accuracy and truth and the reward as you pointed out, sean, with a pulitzer prize for getting a story wrong. when you award bad behavior with more bad behavior, all you get is more lies, more smears. to "t

maggie haberman, really interesting reporting. you. >> thanksing guys. >>> this is very much connected. this morning there's a dire warning from 100 leaders of democracy. this group has expressed deep concern about the state of american democracy and the threat of legitimacy of u.s. elections. this is what they wrote. our entire democracy is at risk. history will judge what we do at this moment. joining me now is one of those scholars, professor of political science. thank you so much for being with us. why? >> pleasure, john. >> why do you write this? >> well, scholars as you know don't agree on many things. but they've study democracy around the world. really what they're saying is there's always chatter and concern about democracy and it's very difficult to imagine american democracy will decline. but it has happened around the world. increasingly what we find is democratic breakdown. think about countries like hungary or turkey, philippines, venezuela, and we also know within america there are real weaknesses within the instit

imagine the outrage that would ensue with maggie haberman and her colleagues at "the new york times"of the trump kids did one of these things.f well, they never stop their coverage ever. zero experience hunter,, joe biden, they get the free pass and one after another for their corrupt actions. in here with reaction, author of the case against censorshipit alan dershowitz, fox news contributor lara trump professor starting with you. just from a purely legal standpoint if you want to stop arson and you want to stopnt looting, you have evidence that includes videotapes and pictures of the people involved in the crimes, that's kind of incontrovertible in the court of law and at least my understanding of the law. why would you let people get off the hook like that? >> we need to have a single standing of justice around the country. if you prosecute the people who broke into the capitol building people who went in innocently and i have a client who was a law student who was investigated by the police. if you're going to do that, you have to apply the same standard of justice to the people

maggie haberman. that the former president is claiming that he is going to be reinstated, by august. while his former-national security adviser, michael flynn, saying that coup should happen here. he is -- he's walking those comments back, somewhat. but as someone who almost got killed fighting this mob, are you worried that this could incite another one or something similar? >> oh, absolutely. i mean, again, this is the exact type of rhetoric which ultimately resulted in, you know, the attempted insurrection at the u.s. capitol on january 6th. >> you met with congresswoman liz cheney. someone attacked for speaking the truth about the insurrection. do you feel comfortable sharing any part of your conversation? can you, please, talk to us about it? >> yeah. i mean, again, like i -- we've talked before. i -- i'm not here to -- i don't endorse politicians. but i do endorse people. and, you know, liz cheney is someone who, early on, has been very gracious towards me and my family. and i respect that. and

of those followers hanging on every single word the former president said. >> i want to go to maggie h haberman from "the new york times." i mentioned your reporting of what trump told the people. when i saw your tweet i thought oh my goodness, how invested is trump right now, maggie? >> this is the question that people have always asked of him. the question is , is this real? i don't know if he generally believes it. sometimes he seems to be aware that there is no mechanism for what he's talking about. there is no mechanism in the constitution for a president to be reinstated as he's describing. people have tried to explain to him even if the election results did get overturn, he's not going to be president. he's listening to other allies, who have been offering him this timeline just based on these controversial audits in arizona and trump has been trying to get them up in other states. the reason this may hurt is it is a little different than a former president, all polls show if he wanted to run as of today, he would be the nominee again. he's indicated to a lot of people that he's going to

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oh wait, i said," tweeted maggie haberman with a picture of me with a stroller in the white house.as her pregnant during the final year at the state department but maggie haberman seems to have forgotten that. be to the rest of us don't, morgan. what is your perspective? >> morgan: i have a little bit of a different perspective, this will surprise many fox viewers, jen psaki is actually a good friend of mine and whenever i got the state department spokesperson roll, she had been a prior state department oaks person and really met me and took me under her wing and let me ask questions so i think she is a great person, she is a great mom, she said she's going to step away probably after a year because she has small children i think in elementary school and a lot of women can relate to that so i don't see her success as a threat to my success or kayleigh's success. i think maybe i've come to accept that we are not going to get the same sort of accolades and i think that's okay because the people probably subscribing to "vogue" and other magazines probably, you know, are people who pay

that's where we start with maggie haberman's reporting. trump expects he will get reinstated by august. maggie will join us later. first, john avlon, s.e. cupp, kirsten power, and ashley alison, cnn political commentator and former national coalitions director for the biden campaign. s.e., donald trump is telling people he expects to be reinstated by august. nothing else matters right now. >> put everything down. >> the former president is telling people and people listen to this guy. >> yeah. >> that he's going to be back in power in the white house in august. >> yeah. i mean all jokes aside because obviously this is delusional and down south you'd say something like bless your heart. this is really dangerous. i want to know what he's telling his supporters. what's supposed to happen in october to magically get him reinstated? does it involve another insurrection? is he inciting people to do something? and what are his supporters telling him? the fbi and secret service were all over that, waiting with some concern about how that was all s

they are full of surprises for the efforts and so the other question we have for you, maggie haberman, ben smith, dean beckett, if you had any decency, any honor, you and your colleagues would give back what is a phony pulitzer prize. will you do it?th a one last question, will you do the right thing at "the new york times"? will you give the pulitzer prizes back? will you're not holding our breath. of course, cnn's humpty dumpty whose real job is to be mr. potato head, he won't be holding his colleagues in the media mob accountable. it's like a boogaloo checklist called, they live in the isolated's fake news media bubble and i'll tweet your article that's fake if you tweet mine. he has better things to do like watching fox news 24/7 and watching yours truly. recently come up or humpty had to take time away from watching fox and went on the nationwidemi book tour for their re-released anti-diatribe and i'm told a whopping 13 brand-new chapters. wow. a lot of work. unfortunately, sad news despite numerous tv appearances come up or humpty dumpty only managed to sell, yeah, a meager 1,30

the president as we reported, maggie haberman reporting yesterday he believes he'll be reinstated asch is crazy, but what are people online saying about that? >> there's two slightly different things. on the specifics of trump's claim, inside qanon and the mega movement they're not paying much attention because they don't believe anything out of what they call lying. so if trump himself had said that in his own words, you would see them going absolutely insane in support of it. because it was maggie haberman, somebody who they have a deep dislike for, they're not responding specifically to this claim. all that said, they're extremely excited right now particularly around what we're seeing in maricopa county and rumors in some other states. we're seeing on the one hand -- >> they do think donald trump will become president again this summer perhaps? >> yes. they speak about the talk of trump becoming president. some say not right away, some say sooner rather than later. very few of them expect that joe biden will finish his term. they think trump is coming back one way or the other. >

joining us to discuss now, maggie haberman, washington correspondent for "the new york times."ifferent summit that president biden had than what president trump had. i'm curious what the reaction in trump world is with so many people in the last 24 hours saying, well, this certainly wasn't helsinki. >> remember in helsinki, they were next to each other, putin and trump. biden and putin held separate press conferences. this was the kind of event on the world stage getting enormous attention that he really enjoyed, that he saw as one of the trappings of the office that he thought spoke to a sense of power and strength. there was also some complaining from people around trump about president biden's exchange with kaitlan collins yesterday when she yelled out a question and he sort of got snippy in response, and their complaint was, if we did that, it would be a huge complaint. that is true. on the other hand, president biden has not called it, so it's not an equal thing. it was the real moment of, oh, someone else is president and not donald trump. >> trumpian fomo, i think. >> th

after that reporting from maggie haberman at "the times," a pro-trump columnist at a conservative magazine today confirmed haberman's reporting saying that, indeed, trump believes he's going to be reinstated as president. he earnestly believes it. he's also telling everyone that republican senatos who love in november, they'll be reinstated too. david perdue in georgia, they'll get their senate seats back. just as soon as the whole election is thrown out and he's put back in power and all of the republicans get un-ousted. "the washington post" now confirming this basic reporting, as well. that trump insists he's going to be reinstated as president. it's insane, right? it's palpaby insane. most of them do now believe that the 2020 election wasn't real. it was fraudulent and trump was actually re-elected. even though joe biden's in the white house. it is objectively nuts. but it is real enough to them, because they prefer that to reality, and importantly, because trump keeps saying it's real. and because republicans in states from arizona to georgia to wisconsin and beyond, they keep backing

when you listen, and maggie haberman says he'll be back in power by august. he still tells people this. wow. >> wow is right. if you look at some of the polls you can see what the effect is of all of this. both the former president saying these things, and people like michael flynn amplifying them and it is that there is a substantial portion of this country, many republicans, who think that the last election was fraudulent, was stolen, and think that actions should be taken, some of them think violent action should be taken to rectify that and that is something that, you know, president biden can't do anything about. he can give speeches about democracy and, you know, the moral authority that we have in the world, but if people -- if there is a substantial amount of people in this country, a substantial amount of voters who think that they cannot trust the political system, that is a really dangerous place for us to be. >> i don't think you need to look at polls. look what happened january 6th, that -- you hear people who are currently going through the lega

after that happened this weekend, new york times trump whisperer maggie haberman reported earlier this week that trump believes it. that trump really is telling people that he believes he will be reinstated as president by august, this summer. after that reporting from maggie haberman at the new york times, a pro trump columnist at a conservative magazine today confirmed that indeed, trump believes he is going to be reinstated as president. he earnestly believes it. he's telling people that. he's also telling everyone that republicans senators who lost in november, they will be reinstated, to. martha mcsally in arizona. and david perdue in georgia. they will get their senate seats back. just as soon as the whole election is thrown out and he's put back in power, and all the republicans get an ousted. the washington post now confirming this basic reporting as well. that trump insists he is going to be reinstated as president. it's insane, right? but it is also working for them right now. it is working for them among trump supporters and among republicans. most of whom do now believe tha

. >> athena jones race, cnn political analyst maggie haberman is joining us and the correspondent fore new york times." the race has taken a bit of an ugly turn in the final days, hasn't it? >> it really has, wolf. it's one of the ugliest in a long time at least going back probably 20 years to when the 2001 mayoral race in new york city bloomberg won was an ugly primary. this one has gotten, there are charges of racism. there have been questions about the residency of eric adams. there have been, you know, accusations made by adams about yang. there have been any number of back and forths between the candidates but at the end of the day, this is a really strange race in new york where again, every race sort of defined by racial charges in one way or another in this city but this is an unusual primary. it's in june. there is rank choice voting. we don't know what the turnout will look like. it didn't sound particularly heavy. it has been raining in new york and we'll see what this sort of small percentage of new york city's voters look like weighing in on a race that will have, you kno

"new york times'" maggie haberman is reporting that donald trump has told several people he expect to be reinstated as president by august. he will not. dana bash joins us now. dana, this is bizarre. it's delusional. it's also dangerous. >> it is dangerous. it's extremely dangerous. you know, to be totally transparent with you, i as a journalist, and i'm guessing you both feel the same way, feel conflicted about possibly give it too much credence by talking about it. january 6th, if you don't take seriously the conspiracy theories that are taking root, really taking root among republican voters and, you know conspiracyists who now officials count as more and more of their base, then it is -- it is going to get even worse. what can we do about it? at this point all we can do is shine the big bright light of truth. anyone who has taken basic civics in elementary school knows it isn't how it works, unless there's a coup, and this democracy is completely upended. the problem is this democracy is getting dangerously close to that point. so that is why we have to look at what allegedly the

. >> maggie haberman -- his former attorney sidney powell is ridiculously arguing that it can happen even though it is garbage. so, i mean, what is the point here? just to rev up the base in the short term and then when that comes, then he'll go on to something else? >> yeah, it's insane. let's be honest. it borders on something we've never seen before, that they've been able to capture this conspiracy zeitgeist and ride this wave. it's a clear and present danger to the united states that we have insanity that's being weaponized and monetized.. what john was talking about, if you look at the polling and the fund-raising, and i know, don, you're like, geez, denver is going back to data again. but when you look at the polling and the fund-raising, this is where they're at. i had somebody pull up a poll, look, denver, 35% of people are always supporting trump. look, man, what you have to look at is 78% of republicans do. they don't care about independents right now. they don't care about democratic polling. they care about the 2022 primaries and how they're going to carry that through.

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"new york times" reporter maggie haberman posted this, trump has been telling a number of people he's in contact with what he expects will get reinstated by august -- i botched that. it isn't happening in a vacuum, it's happening as he faced possibility of indictment from the manhattan d.a. you may recall one year ago today we had trump photo op, marched across lafayette square to st. john's church in full authoritarian mode flanked by police in camo, aggressively cleared away people protesting murder of george floyd. learned that police said for the first time that tear gas was indeed used on the demonstrators that day as they insisted it was. leadoff guests, claire mccaskill, form, lamishe, and sam stein. good evening and welcome to you all. senator, start with you. i'm curious about the urgency you must feel right now and curious if you think joe biden can ramp up the urgency in his statements and comments? >> well, i think what is going on at state level -- one of the dirty little secrets about our democracy is that so many of us don't pay enough attention to what goes on in state

. >> but maggie haberman is reporting that trump has been telling a number of people that he's in contactng that, that the former president continues to actively discuss overturning the election? >> you know, i'm an mma fighter. sometimes people will get knocked out and they don't realize the fight is over. that's what donald trump is doing right now. joe biden is our president. kamala harris is our vice president. we need to continue to move forward, pushing for the policies that people elected us to push for. making sure they can vote, that we get big money out of politics, and that we get infrastructure done. >> before we go, i want to ask you about the book behind your shoulder. today is the beginning of pride month, and publication day for "sharice's big voice." i want you to share a little bit of your story. what is it you hope kids will learn from your personal journey today? >> you know, i think the biggest, probably the biggest thing that i hope that folks take away from this is that so many of us know what it feels like to feel invisible, to feel like we aren't being heard. and

charles cook is backing up maggie haberman, saying that the former president really believes he's going to be reinstated. he adds that conservatives should not brush this off. let me quote here. such temptation should be assiduously avoided. we are not talking here about a fringe figure within the republican tent but about a man who hopes to make support for his outlandish claims a litmus test of sort as he decides whom to endorse for state and federal contests in 2022 and 2024. george, most republicans aren't standing up to trump even though some at least seem legitimately alarmed. what's going on? >> they're just afraid of trump. they're afraid of trump, and they're afraid of his supporters, the large percentage of republicans who have been deceived by trump or willingly deceived frankly, and they are -- they basically fear this man who cost them the presidency, cost them the house of representatives in 2018, and cost them the senate in 2021. and, you know, he's nuts. he's absolutely crackers. i mean for him to be going around saying that he's going to be reinstated in august, i mean

maggie haberman, great to talk to you. >>> before we go, some really scary pictures just in to cnn., d.c., a bridge collapsing directly onto the interstate. a pedestrian bridge in northeast d.c. there you see the highway. it crumbles right onto i-295. authorities are telling us at least three people are hurt this hour. it's minor injuries but we are obviously going to look at these remarkable images and hope that nothing gets worse in terms of people getting more hurt. thank you so much for joining us. ana cabrera picks up our coverage right now. ♪ >>> hello on this wednesday. i'm ana cabrera in new york. they were sent to the people's house by the people. but what are they actually doing for them? one day after republicans blocked a major voting reform bill, the focus now shifts back to another key piece of president biden's agenda, infrastructure. we know senate minority leader mitch mcconnell firmly opposes the other side's proposal. and making the picture even messier, house progressives are signaling they might hold that piece ofla

not only is he falsely claiming that the election was stolen from him, "the new york times" maggie haberman reports trump has been telling people he expects he will somehow be reinstated as president by august. now, of course, that's illegal. but some of those same kinds of delusions are, of course, exactly what sent the violent mob to the capitol on january 6th. it's not clear what led him to say this other than the my pillow guy who thinks it's going to happen. also ex-attorney sidney powell is feeding a lot of this garbage out loud. here is what she said this weekend at a qanon event. >> there are cases where elections have been overturned, but there's never been one at the presidential level, which everybody will jump to point out. that doesn't mean it can't be done. it should be that he can simply be reinstated, that a new inauguration date is set. [ applause ] and biden is told to move out of the white house. and -- and president trump should be moved back in. >> now, this was the same event at which former national security adviser michael flynn seemed to suggest a military coup, lik

wasn't -- but we learned from multiple reports in the last few days let by the "new york times" maggie habermaneinstated as president in august because of these unofficial and frankly fraudulent ballot audits going on in places such as arizona. that's not going to happen at all. there's no reality to it. but instead of republican officials making that clear, they're hiding and trying to change the subject. trying to change the subject from the very clear statement by trump's former national security adviser mike flynn. >> i want to know why what happened in myanmar can't happen here. >> no reason. it should happen. no reason. >> just to be clear. that was mike flynn being asked by a member of the audience why what happened in myanmar, a military coup, why can't it happen here? he said, no reason. it should happen here. flynn is trying to claim he meant something else, trying to mean he didn't say there's no reason that a coup should happen here, it should. but you heard it with your own ears. and mike flynn has been proposing some form of military force in the u.s., partial martial law to force

but "the new york times" maggie haberman tweeting he has told a number of people he expects he will just get reinstated by august. that is not going to happen. democracy in peril. there could be no greater threat to our democracy than a coup. and the fact is we've already seen an attempted coup. we saw it. we all saw it when trump-supporting insurrectionists ran riot at the united states capitol on january 6th, beating police, hunting lawmakers in the hallways, and putting up a gallows outside the seat of our government. attempted coup. we all saw it. we can never, never, never ever forget it. but republicans led by mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy are still trying to bury the truth of what we saw, what we saw, what we saw, and what they saw just days after voting to kill the january 6th commission. >> nobody's going to get away with anything who was involved in the incident at the capitol on january 6th. i think we'll know everything we need to know. we were all witnesses. we were right there when it happened. and i simply think the commission is not necessary. >> so, okay. i guess it

we've got maggie haberman at the "new york times". sake we hate drop so much we did not want to believe anything he said. that is really, really sloppy reporting. >> so i need to disclose my wife works at the "washington post". about should not comment on media's that decisions. their issues with the media coverage for this another issue related that goes back even further which is the cdc and the federal health officials were often spreading what amounts to misinformation and disinformation. they were saying step that was at best a supposition maybe something somebody -- that many people thought at the time but they were saying this is absolute true. doctor fauci sang tons of quite a few things over the course of last year. or he has now admitted he was not even that he was exaggerating the conventional wisdom, what he was doing was lying to people intentionally and knowingly an order to manipulate their behavior. think the real problem was back to the public health committee specially in the government that views their job. they see

but what we're seeing now, of course, as maggie haberman reported a few weeks ago, trump talking about this ridiculous notion advising others he may come back in august. this is not all just happening in dark corners of the internet, right? this is not all just happening in conspiracy theory blogs. all of this is being fueled by the former president. >> i guess that's the irony of it all, right, that there is a leader for q, right? it's him. and that makes it so much more complex at the same time. donie, greg, i appreciate you both. thank you. >> thank you. >>> don't miss cnn's special report "assault on democracy: the roots of trump's insurrection." washington may not be doing an investigation, but we are. drew griffin talking about rioters, those now in prison, professional staffers, police and others. what led to the insurrection? can another one be prevented? this is something you need to see this sunday, 9:00 eastern. >>> now on "out front," next, biden calling putin a killer as he prepares to meet with him. they say they're in the dark issuing subpoenas targeting top democrats. n

we have now reporting from maggie haberman of "the new york times" reporting that donald trump has been telling a number of people he's been in contact with, that he expects he's going reinstated as president by august. this is the exact language that incited january 6th. this isn't just anyone. this is the former president who is still in control of the republican party. how dangerous is this? >> your two points of context are key. i always struggle with this. should we talk about something that former president trump saysing that's completely absurd. he can't be reinstated. that's a complete, deliberate misinformation kind of thing. but as you noted, it's exactly that kind of deliberate misinformation that we've seen a real life example of how dangerous it can be, on january 6th with an insurrection on the capitol against our very democracy. i needs to be called out, as absurd a statement as it is. you're right, it's the con text of this broader, just attack on our democracy from a large swath of the republican party where donald trump still has a lot of sway. >> it's like a slow movi

military coup -- after that happened this weekend, "the new york times" trump whisper per reporter maggie haberman reported this trump believes it that, trump is telling people he'll be reinstated by august this summer. after that reporting from haberman at the "times," a pro-trump columnist confirmed the reporting saying trump believes he's going to be reinstated. he's also telling everyone republican senators who lost in november, they'll be reinstated, too. martha mcsally in arizona and david purdue in georgia, they'll get their senate seats backen just as soon as the whole election is thrown out and he's back in power and all the republicans get unousted "the washington post" confirming this as well that trump insists he's going to be reinstate as president. it's insane. but it's also working for them right now, working among trump supporters and among republicans. most of whom do now believe that the 2020 election wasn't real. it was fraudulent and trump was actually re-elected, even though joe biden's in the white house. it is objectively nuts, but it is real must have to them, because they

today i penned another op-ed to the new york times our friends ben smith maggie haberman need to give back the pulitzer, other journalists at the new york times are not journalists they are radical green deal socialists. they've never covered biden's racist past. the times concerned with biden's prior work in the senate with segregationists? he wanted to stop the integration of school and stop school buses.d does the new york times approve of biden's eulogy of the former klansman roberts bird where he praised robert byrd and his incredible 'em steam? does the new york times think it's appropriate that bidenn openly worried that a senator if we had integration of schools in america, that our children would be going to schools thatld are racial jungles? his words. is the times aware that joe biden coauthored the 94 crime bill after referring to inner city residents as predators on our streets? do they care about any of the racist rhetoric from biden that we just played? do they care that his son has used the n word and made many anti asian slurs himself that just became revealed in the

according to "the new york times'" maggie haberman, trump has been telling a number of people he's beene will be reinstated by august. earlier this year, trump supporters in california, also, cheered on the coup. >> biden is just -- he's like a puppet president. the military is in charge. it's going to be like myanmar, what's happening in myanmar. the military's doing their own investigation. and at the right time, they're going to be restoring the republic with trump as president. >> what's going on in myanmar right now? the government took over and they are redoing the election, correct? that could possibly happen here, possibly? >> would you like to see it happen? >> absolutely. you know why? because the election was stolen from us. >> cnn's donie o'sullivan reporting there. now, we have already seen a violent display linked with donald trump when that mob, led by his supporters, stormed the u.s. capitol on january 6th. well now, one of the officers who was severely injured during that insurrection is asking a federal judge to not release the man accused of attacking her. prosecutors

cnn political analyst and "new york times" washington correspondent maggie haberman tweeting today trump has been telling a number of people he expects he will be reinstated by august. keeping them honest, there is no such thing as a former president getting reinstated, and even if there was, he won't be. the image of a one-time former president milling around in his florida club talking to anyone willing to listen about phony election results and imaginary ballots is rather sad and pathetic. but it's more than that. it has real world consequences. republican politicians in congress and state legislatures across the country, hoping to be noticed perhaps by the former president are hoping to enact laws based on his lies. limiting voting. curtailing investigation into the insurrection. some followers of his, now michael flynn who is now selling qanon merchandise online and repeating qanon favorite slogans at times seems to support a coup now against president biden. here he is last weekend at a conference in dallas answering questions about why a myanmar-style coup can't happen here. >> i

according to the "new york times" maggie haberman trump has been telling a number of people he's been that he expects to be reinstated by august. ♪ and the rockets red flare ♪ >> reporter: earlier this year trump supporters in california also cheered on the coup. >> biden is just -- he's like a puppet president. the military is in charge. it's going to be like myanmar, what's happening in myanmar, the military is doing their own investigation and at the right time they are going to be restoring the republic with trump as president. >> what's going on in myanmar rights nourishing the government took over and they are redoing the election. that's could possibly happen here? would you like to see it snap. >> yes. >> absolutely. >> you know why? >> because the election was stolen from us. >> reporter: and jake, you know, all the conspiracy theories we hear from trump supporters from on the road and online, this talk about coup is the most frightening to hear from americans who want to see a cue happenings in this country. michael flynn is trying to walk back what he said. it may be too la

maybe there should be a coup down at mee-an-mar-a-lago. [ laughter and applause ] according to maggie haberman of the "new york times," trump believes that he's going to be reinstated as president in august, after arizona finishes its cyber ninja "audit" of the election they're doing. which is so completely insane, and dumb, it has to be true. it just has to be. we'll know it's true for sure once we hear him deny it. [ laughter ] americans were back at the movies this weekend. "a quiet place 2" made $57 million. which is the biggest opening since the pandemic began. those who are fully vaccinated do not have to wear masks to the movies. but you don't have to show proof. it's done on the honor system. which has worked so well for movies for decades. [ laughter ] i can't even imagine someone sneaking into one of those! here in los angeles, public and private schools are expected to reopen in the fall for five days a week of in-person learning. which is great news for parents. also here in l.a., we saw this on the local news. you know that place where they can't believe it's already june? yeah, t

. >>> joining us now maggie haberman and chief political analyst gloria borger. let me start with you. this new reporting illustrates how big the scope of this actually was. 73 phone numbers, 36 email accounts looking for records dating back to inception. this really sounds like a huge dragnet. >> as we peel the young in, we might discover there were more email addresses and phone numbers that they were looking at 1k3 what becomes clearer and clearer is that this was really a fishing expedition by people who were interested in finding out where these so-called leaks came from. had the president of the united states screaming from the r rafters as you illustrated before he believed adam schiff was a leaker and democrats were leakers and as a result his justice department and bill barr who seemed toreinvigorate was appointing someone to take the leak investigations and look at them because the president of the united states and he said and he told politico they were cabinet members and the in intelligence community were providing pressure on him to get this all don

himself, national review writes his sources back up a report from the "the new york times"' own maggie haberman who believes he'll be reinstated this summer after so-called audit of the 2020 elections in arizona are done. jus for starters, that's not possible. also tonight, while the nation appears to be on the road to normalcy after more than a year of this pandemic we have now lost over 600,000 souls to this virus. as the administration ramps up its vaccination program to get more shots in arms, it's also rushing 25 million doses of surplus vaccine to several nations overseas, where doses are in dangerously short supply. with that let's bring in our leadoff guest tonight, garrett haake, covering capitol hill, who you saw got a chance to speak with senator joe manchin today. also with us, lisa lehrer, and barb mcquade, a veteran federal prosecutor, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. she worked with doj during the biden transition. she is a professor at her alma mater, university of michigan law school, and cohost of the podcast "sisters in law", along with three other f

and overnight new reporting from maggie haberman that trump is telling people he is expecting to be reinstated as president by august. seriously. that is madness. and it's dangerous. and you have to work really hard to hear any republican leaders this morning refuting it. >> and when we see the effects of that disinformation, republican lawmakers seem to ignore the consequences. take the response to the january 6th attack on the capitol. house democrats are now figuring out their options to investigate the most serious domestic attack on america's government since the civil war after senate republicans blocked the creation of an independent bipartisan commission to examine the origins of that day's violence. and that block is just another result of the political gridlock holding up legislation in congress on issues like badly needed infrastructure. republican senator shelley moore capito heading to the white house again today to try to find a bipartisan path forward but with a 50-50 balance in the senate and 60 votes needed to get anything to the floor, compromise looks hard to find here. that

and now this august date that maggie haberman reported on monday, the daily beast reported today came from mike lendell. he just kind of made up august as a time when the president would be reinstated, and then you have the president -- >> from who? >> mike lendell, the pillow guy. >> the pillow guy? >> the pillow guy. he said -- he told us that if the president is saying august, he probably heard it from me. that is where we're at. and it's -- it's ludicrous but not ludicrous ha, ha but ludicrous uh-oh. it's fueling these recounts, as they call them, and continuing the misinformation that is infecting a lot of people in this country. >> and to groups that have shown their willingness to use violence to act on those. and this is the thing and yet, still being ignored at the capitol. jackie kucinich, thanks very much. >>> still to come -- dr. fauci tells cnn this morning his thoughts on the origins of covid-19. he says he has an open mind as to where this leaked from. it requires more investigation. his emails from the early days of the pandemic have now been released d under the freed

. >> there is reporting from maggie haberman stated as president this august and certainly a lot of people maybe listening to that will laugh and say that's just ridiculous but there is a lot of his supporters who believe that and would like to make it happen. >> yeah, 100%. you know, look, if you -- there's a lack of trust in this country. we no that. lack of trust and institutions. the last institution that doesn't really have a lack of trust is the military and people are trying very hard to change that. that's a dangerous thing when people see the military as part zin -- partisan, if you look at this stuff going on and all that misinformation that's being thrown out there, it is a really dangerous moment in this country and people have to stand up and they have to tell people the truth. you know, if we have a party that's sitting around saying it's antifa on january 6th that attacked the capitol but we don't want to do a january 6th commission because it's time to move on or there were no senator johnson said there were no guns or weapons confiscated. there were no arrests because the

himself, national review writes that is sources back up a report from the new york times own maggie haberman, reported this week that trump believes he will be reinstated to office this summer. after so-called audits of the 2020 elections in arizona and georgia or done. just for starters, that's not possible. also tonight, while the nation appears to be on the road back to normal after more than a year of this pandemic, we've now lost over 600,000 souls to this virus. as the administration ramps up its vaccine program to get more shots in arms, it is also rushing 25 million doses of surplus vaccine to several nations overseas where doses are in dangerously short supply. with that, let's bring in our lead off guest on this thursday night show. with garrett haake, our nbc news correspondent covering capitol hill. who saw got a chance to speak with joe manchin today. also with us, lisa lerer, national political correspondent with the new york times. and barb mcquade, federal u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. she is a professor at her on the matter, university of michigan law s

in a tweet "the new york times" reporter maggie haberman says, quote, expects he'll be reinstated byesn't get reinstated? >> i think he can only become more enraged and more psychotic. >> that was dr. lance on this program last night. what happens to those trump believers when the 31 days of august come and go and joe biden is still president while donald trump is still cheating at golf? do they become more enraged and more psychotic? the conservative national review reports today, quote, donald trump does indeed believe that he quite genuinely along with senators david purdue and martha mcsally will be reinstated after audits have been completed. the scale of trump as delusion is quite startling. and what about the scale of delusion in the trump true believers, who might number in the millions? kurt anderson chronicles collective american delusions in his best selling book "fantasyland". joining us now, kurt anderson. his latest book is "evil genius, the unmaking of america". when donald trump gave the date it took me back to the stories in fantland of when people gave the exact dat

in a tweet to the new york times, maggie haberman said donald trump quote expects he will be reinstated enraged and more psychotic. >> that was doctor lance, the former clinical professor of psychiatry at harvard medical school. on this program last night. what happens to those trump believers when the 31 days up august come and go and joe biden is still president while donald trump is cheating at golf? do they become more enraged and more psychotic? the conservative national review reports today, quote, donald trump does indeed believe quite a genuinely he along with former senators david perdue and martha mcsally will be reinstated to office this summer after audits of the 2020 elections in arizona, georgia, a handful of other states been completed. the scale of his delusion is quite startling. what about the scale of delusion in the trump picture believers who might number in the millions? kurt anderson, chronicles such collective american delusions in his best-selling book joining us now is kurt anderson. his latest book is evil geniuses, the on making of america. when donald trump

that piece was predicated by a piece in the national view where cook was bagging up maggie haberman from the "new york times" saying trump said he will be back in office by august. and cook said not only is that what trump is saying, but it appears he believes that's the case. so mike lindell has been making this claim for weeks if not months now. donald trump -- lindell's claim is this, he will have all the evidence he needs that fraud occurred. he will take it to the supreme court, which he assumes is like going to the police, you just walk in and they rule, and then by august donald trump is president again. trump seems to believe some version of that. a lot of it is him placating and soothing his own ego. but it seems like he thinks he deserves to have that happen. there's no mechanism for it to happen. there's no reason for him to assume it should. that's nerve been a barrier for him in the past. >> good to see you again, my friend. phillip bump, national correspondent for the "washington post." >>> the gop's war on the way we vote continues across the country. we'll dive into the i