zach, you watched all of these lindell tv shows.ten about them at your prior job at salon and now you're doing this at "the daily beast." how do you keep your head straight when you're covering right wing radicalization as a reporter? >> great question. for me, i always try to keep perspective on it. we have a delusional pillow salesman and we have a former president, twice impeached president, who is coupe friendly. those two things don't exactly match up super well and this interview coming up on tuesday with him and the former president is quite interesting and i think right wing media kind of has a problem on their hands. as some, like the washington examiner kind of keep an arm's length away from mike lindell and you have the gateway pundit, this con spirittorial far right site really push lindell's theories. >> you're saying he does have amplification even outside his own website, outside of all of those web shows he has people hosting and he does get some pickup, even though outlets like fox are wary of him? >> absolutely, ye

lindell?" "upwards of nine." [ laughter ] "so ten?out ten, for sure that ballpark, yeah. "why won't you tell us the exact number?" "it's not important. just please make my friend president again. [ laughter ] and i'm sorry, steve bannon thinks americans need a lawsuit from mike lindell to have a reason to fight at thanksgiving? my uncle ron needs two drinks, and he turns into mike lindell [ laughter ] one minute he's telling aunt debbie she's his light, and the next minute he's screaming, "you pretend to be a loyal wife, but i know about the affairs." [ laughter ] and, again, i know lindell is from minnesota, and not chicago, but, uhh -- i don't care [ laughter ] still, good news for families trying to avoid conflict lindell has failed to file his lawsuit, as promised and he's blaming it on the republican national committee. lindell accused the rnc of calling state attorneys general and pressuring them not to sign the complaint. he also said he was flying to five different states to get attorneys general to sign the document holiday t

mike lindell.e is hosting a 96-hour black friday webcast, during which he claims he will file a lawsuit that will overturn the results of the 2020 election! the mike lindell moron-athon as they're calling it will run from midnight the wednesday before thanksgiving, through midnight on sunday. and what better way to spend the holiday weekend? you know those videos of 4,000 people stampeding into a walmart, beating each other with waffle irons? that's what's going on in mike lindell's head all the time. [ laughter ] other than that, it wasn't a good day for conspiracy theorists. jacob chansley, also known as the qanon shaman, was sentenced to 41 months in prison for storming the capitol on january 6th. [ cheers and applause ] chancely repented, gave a 45-minute speech to the court during which he cited jesus, gandhi, and quoted "the shawshank redemption." [ laughter ] he apologized for storming the capitol. and said he often looks in the mirror and tells himself "you really messed up, royally." [ lau

the my pillow man, mike lindell has quite a weekend plan. is hosting a 96 hour long "thanks-a-thon" on his website, doing all his greatest hits about election fraud and whatnot. lindell announced today that he's planning to bring his case to the supreme court in order to, quote, "do a new election." i'm sure they'll get right on that. [ laughter ] i mentioned last night lindell invited me to call into his delusia-palozza. which honestly, i would enjoy doing. i'd probably let him come over for thanksgiving dinner. [ laughter ] he goes on and on about the election. my father tells us about his knee surgeries. [ laughter ] really, i think they could cancel each other out. but my wife isn't as excited about me getting on a zoom with a bunch of conspiracy theorists over thanksgiving. so now mike may be forced to do this. >> we could actually try and get a, you know, a jimmy -- he's got a fake mike on his show. i would really like to get a fake jimmy. i'd like to surprise him with something. >> get the guy from the control room, they like that ide

meanwhile, former president trump sat down for a truly insane interview with my pillow ceo mike lindellre they continued to spread their election lies. for more on this, it's time for "a closer look." ♪ [ cheers and applause >> seth: watching our two political parties right now is very much like watching two completely alternate realities or like watching two teams on the same field play completely different sports like if the jets showed up to a game against the patriots in soccer gear and loudly complained every time they were tackled. "i'm sorry when you said football, you meant american football? [ laughter ] we wrote that last night, and then, you know, then the jets show up in vaccine news as well. [ laughter ] we had no bad -- no idea how badly they were going to take it [ laughter ] for example, on the one hand, you had president biden signing into law a widely popular bipartisan infrastructure bill that will invest over a trillion dollars in everything from roads and bridges to broadband to electric vehicles. and the best part was, he didn't do that dumb thing trump used to do

this is a major problem, so we've seen legislative attempts, we've seen mike lindell and the pillow guy, but now we're seeing these attempts at compromising the elections from inside county election offices like you have in colorado. >> that's right, ali. thank you for having me on. this is a tremendous concern for the nation. i think many states need to prepare themselves. so what happened in colorado is an elected clerk, elected to uphold democracy and execute elections, ended up turning off cameras to voting equipment, allowing an unauthorized person access, and then passwords and server images to voting equipment was leaked online. so i took quick action, we decertified the voting equipment. i asked a judge to bar that clerk. and we just had great elections. but this is coming, as you mentioned, with this newest insider threat being reported out of ohio. >> you -- the republican clerk in mesa county, tina peters, falsely accused you of organizing a raid on her office, and ended up actually threatening you about it, or sending you a threatening message on facebook. >> that's right. t

mike lindell.e and lindell competed for worst posture, and rambled on about the same old election conspiracy theories. and, by the way, christie has no credibility, especially when it comes to questions about the 2020 election. because he repeatedly insisted in the run-up of the election that trump would accept the result even though trump was loudly proclaiming at the time that the only way he could lose is if it was stolen. >> you know this guy well. do you believe he would follow critical conventions in the united states, and have a peaceful transition of power for those months between this election result and the next inauguration >> there's no question in my mind that president trump will participate in a peaceful transition of power if he does not win tomorrow night >> if it doesn't go the president's way, you know him pretty well, is he prepared to accept defeat? >> yes yeah, i think he is. i think there also is part of him that knows that not leaving the white house, putting up that kind of

donald trump's old pillow pal, mike lindell, is planning to march outside fox news in new york to protest the fact that they won't let him on the air anymore. which is sad. they were so good together. so now, he is relegated to his website, frankspeech.com, where he is planning for what he calls a 96-hour "thanksathon." the mypillow guy will be spreading holiday cheer, and conspiracy theories for 96 hours straight starting at midnight wednesday night. and while you may be wondering what in the world mike will be talking about for 96 hours straight? it seems that one of the things might be me. >> jimmy, if you're watching this, because i'm going to invite you to the thanks-a-thon. pick your time, pick your slot. we're going to let you bump other people, because you've been so, you know, you've let me on your show, and i feel that the -- i should return the favor. >> jimmy: agreed. go on. >> he does so much for me. he's out there, keeping us in the news and, you know, this is big. i was hoping, i was just hoping that jimmy would reach out. he's the only guy, you know, you've got all these n

but really if he wants to play around with mike lindell and pretend he's still president -- i have nodcast is airing -- maybe they need to play act their fantasies and their audience. i really wonder who's tuning in at this day and age. maybe mike lindell will sell some pillows. >> that's always and possibility right before the holiday season. jeremy, it seems like in the republican party, the thing that gets you in trouble is not tweeting about cartoons in which you kill opponents but voting. talk about the state of the gop and the house in particular and how does this play out? paul gosar, of course, is "the arizona republic" who tweeted the disgusting cartoons about his democratic colleagues, and yet those who voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill face potential getting their committee assignment stripped. >> yeah. that's exactly right. i think it's and really telling example of where today's republican party is. you know, you mentioned glenn youngkin and chris christie. i mean chris christie is really the outlier here, and, you know, i don't want to doubt the sincerity of h

and mike lindell. it goes to show you the kind of people trump was surrounding himself with during that very critical point in our nation's history. it is frightening to think about it. why is sydney powell running. going back to the january 6th committee, where are the hearings, where is the justice department, why are they not hauling these people into congress to explain what they were up to, why aren't we seeing more indictments? there is a real serious hunger out there, brianna, for justice. you and i remember all of those rallies where donald trump would talk about law and order. where is the law and order? it does not exist when it comes to a coup attempt in this country. it is insane. >> i wonder what you think about mike flynn's episode here that john carl uncovered where he was trying to enlist help from the pentagon to seize ballots. >> yeah. i mean, and michael flynn who is already indicted once, for lying to investigators -- >> he was fresh off a pardon when he did this. >> fresh off a par

have told them not to in fact, last week, lindell went on steve bannon's podcast to once again repeatlie that china hacked our voting machines to steal the election from trump and claimed that he had proven his theory multiple times. >> we validated now that this was an attack by china we had it validated before but i just got it revalidated by independent sources and we've got the packing captures that go through the machines >> seth: oh, you've got it revalidated. well, that certainly is legit. he sounds like a dad with his teen daughter at the mall who just went back to the parking lot get his ticket stamped "the attendant told me i needed to add more time so i got it revalidated for another three hours. so you can go back to the mall and buy some earrings at the claire's." [ laughter ] also, youngkin jumped on board with the right's new freak-out over something called critical race theory. a thing they can't define and isn't taught in k through 12 schools anyway. fanning the right-wing moral panic over critical race theory was one of the key pieces of youngkin's strategies, you ca

you know, i don't know >> seth: lindell really comes with the energy of a sugared-up kid on halloween his day. "we saw a ghost and a skeleton and then there was -- another ghost and kevin was there but he fell down and cried. everybody -- we got so much candy. [ laughter ] but, okay, a couple of things. first of all, thanks for clearing up that you've been getting flooded with texts on your phone you know, as opposed to texts you get in the mail, or the ones you get at marshals and put up on your wall second, these guys love audits not to be confused with audiss which is what people say when mike lindell enters a room oh, dis ass[ bleep ] [ laughter ] "i thought two horses dump ballots in the road, but it was just regular horse dumps." [ laughter ] also, what do you mean they cheated in virginia but not enough to win? why would they do that that would be like if the jets hacked the scoreboard so instead of losing the colts 45-30 last thursday they lost 45-32 [ laughter ] and that's right this is important. the jets did lose on thursday, which stopped them from having a two-game win st

i watched the mike lindell 96-hour telethon. the my pillow guy.use they think i eat baby blood with hillary clinton. you've got to do a little research. >> jimmy: for the record, that never happened, right? >> i have not eaten any babies. i have not harvested anything. so it was very fun yichltfunny. i had done so much research on qanon, i had them on zoom call for like eight hours. >> jimmy: a special event that happened in your life, quietly and secretly, which is rare for you, kathy. you got married. [ applause ] you and -- either you and lily tomlin got married or you and randy. >> my boyfriend of many years, we've been together ten years. randy. i got married. we did it last new year's eve, and we got lily tomlin to officiate. >> jimmy: that's great. how much does she charge for that? >> $75,000 plus expenses. a club membership. there's a dinah shore worship ceremony. so any way -- >> jimmy: did you have a reception, a party? >> so it was new year's eve. i called her and she and her wife jane came over. the whole wedding is like 18 minutes. i

boiled over after he watched an election conspiracy theory event hosted by the my pillow guy mike lindell messaged an election official saying i know where you sleep. be afraid. you will die. this is by a real person who is findable, traceable, reuters called them. reuters spoke to nine of these folks, believing they believe they didn't do anything wrong, saying election officials deserve these threats. most of the people reuters spoke to, part of the reason they're so cocky and not running from this, there are no consequences for it. most have never heard from police. even though law enforcement alerted officials about the messages and forwarded them all of the information that reuters is able to find these people. as for the vermont guy, the one police said was untraceable, the vermont guy told reuters journalists that thousands of ballots were cast in arizona, he said members of the media would soon be executed. perpetrators of election fraud would be sent to military prison. and then he started threatening the reuters journalists. they say that he sent dozens of voice mails over the w

the sidney powells, the mike lindells, michael flynns and even steve bannon was in his ear. turn. i think herb believes it. the former president believes he won the election. and that's scary. and the other thing though that your viewers need to know, the people around the president, the sane ones know that he did not win. and they are lying to you, and they are lying to him when they suggest that the election was stolen. >> there were more than 60 lawsuits filed by the trump campaign or its supporters. they only prevailed in one case. from pennsylvania. but the number of ballots affected was too small to change the results from the state. >> none of the claims were found meritorious by any court in any way that would have reversed the results of the election. >> georgia faced more than a dozen of these suits. >> many of the lawsuits, they just wanted to throw out the results and then have the general assembly pick their own set of electors. >> brad raffensperger, georgia's secretary of state, a conservative republican who supported trump and has fought with democrats on ele

he's out there talking to mike lindell on the my pillow delusional livestream. there is no way to move past the damage this arsonist did when he is still out there trying to set more fires. >> and it's hard to believe that murdoch is serious about this when he allows one of his highest-paid employees, tucker carlson, to air a multipart, quote unquote, documentary alleging that the january 6th insurrection was a false flag operation, which is just outright crazy and incendiary. and murdoch does nothing to rein that in. >> you're saying rupert should watch his own network before he comments. >> exactly. >> as a former republican. >> right. >> since we're talking about all of this and the means through which it is spread, give us the final word here. >> i mean, i think we're in a frightening situation, don, because i think what we're seeing is growing political violence. you have kyle rittenhouse on trial right now for taking the law into his own hands and shooting several people. remember, you had mass shootings during the trump presidency at a walmart in el paso,

mesa county clerk went back on the livestream webcast, podcast thing hosted by mypillow ceo mike lindellde a full-time job of promoting trump's election conspiracies which she told them the government is coming down as part of a cover up and she is going to keep fighting because it is about our country and stuff. it is awkward because this is the pillow guy's webcast, so even when they're fighting for the soul of our democracy the whole lower third of the screen you can see there, don't forget to use promo code b66 at mypillow.com to save up -- that's literally the lower third of the livestream the whole time she's doing the interview. of all the election conspiracies and fake election and stop the steal we have covered on the show, which is not going away, this might be the most bizarre story of them all, and the first one that has resulted in an fbi raid on at least four single sites in a state for what appears to be a quite serious federal, state, and local investigation into what these folks are up to. joining us now is colorado secretary of state jana griswold. thank you for joining

which she told the lindell livestream podcast was that the government was coming down on her as partup. but she is going to keep fighting because this is all about our country and stuff. it's a little awkward because this is a pillow guy's webcast, so even when they are fighting for the very soul of our democracy, the whole lower third of the screen, you can see there. don't forget to use promo code be 66, at my pillow.com, to save up to 66%. it's literally the lower third of the livestream streaming what the interview -- of all the election conspiracies, fake election audits, and stop the steal that we have covered on the show, none of which is going away, this one might be the world's most bizarre story of them all. and it seems like the first one that has resulted in an fbi raid on at least four sites in the single state. for what it appears to be, it's quite serious federal state and local investigation on to what these folks are up to. joining us right now is jena griswold thank you so much for joining us tonight, i really appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me on rach

lindell's magic horse elixer! ( laughter ) ( applause ) now with anti-5g flavor crystals!ur cousin's friend's balls exactly the same size you know and love!" the administration is also handing out vaccines to kids, and that's going better than anyone expected. in fact, nearly one in ten younger u.s. children got a coronavirus shot in the first two weeks of vaccine eligibility, which represents-- ( applause ) that's right, i agree. "which represents a faster uptake than when adults were initially offered coronavirus vaccine shots." well, that makes sense. kids aren't on facebook. you tell them the vaccine will make them magnetic, they're like "awesome! mom can use me to put my drawings up on the fridge!" ( laughter ) ( applause ) that's the fridge. that's the fridge. that's the fridge right there. i'm a child. now, not everyone is excited about vaccinating children. conservatives are, for some reason, still upset that "sesame street's" big bird tweeted that he received his covid-19 vaccine. hegot his shots from the count. "you need one, two, three-- three boosters! ah-ha-ha

my pillow ceo mike lindell had been promising the complaint for some time, and finally revealed a copyre a lot of things to note immediately. it was not filed with the supreme court. it contained a list of false and debunked election claims, and, perhaps most crucially, the plaintiff was simply listed as "insert your state." unfortunately they are now too busy fighting covid mandate to actually take part. sorry. >>> my high five of the week a sweet christmas story that has a santa you have not seen from norway. santa claus gets a boyfriend. the ad shows the character of someone meeting santa and the two spending time together each year as they get to know each other. eventually harry is seen writing a letter saying all i want for christmas is you. what follows is a very special yuletide embrace. ♪♪ >> the ad was produced to mark 50 years since the decriminalization of homosexuality showing o love has no limits and the response so far has been overwhelming. for that, they get my high five of the week. we'll be right back. across your full financial picture. a plan with tax-smart investi

that's one of the reasons mike lindell is always whining about the channel and going to have a proteste channel is less pro-trump at this point than it is anti-biden. but where does being anti-biden lead? you know where. fox is the beating heart of the gop, a gop that remains in for all a fear of trump. and trump is never going to concede that he lost. just a couple of days after murdoch's message, trump called into laura ingraham's show and maybe chaneling her boss, she asked him about the future. she tried to be focused on the fut churl. but watch how it went right back to the past. >> mr. president, your own political future, where is it headed? >> prior to covid, we built the greatest economy in the history of the world. then we had covid, we did a great job, and then we had an election and that didn't work out too well, it was a rigged election. >> then he went on about supply chain problems. but he had to get that rigged claim in there. his whole argument for 2024 is about taking back what he claims was stolen. he's never going to give up on the big lie or stop big lying. so is r

a new report, dominion voting systems' $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against my pillow ceo mike lindellld result in dominion owning the pillow company but they're not interested 'cause the voting booths are more comfortable [ laughter ] that's right, dominion could end up owning my pillow. wow, if that happens, i hope they keep the dominion name. dominion would be a bad ass name for a pillow company [ laughter ] dominion pillows you will sleep, loser! the new study suggests men feel more heart broken than women after a breakup. the study is entitled "dateline. [ laughter ] in honor of the "sex and the city" reboot, airbnb will offer guests a chance to stay at a recreation of carey's apartment for $23 per night or for just $10, steve will come over and hang at your place [ laughter ] "hey, thanks so much for having me over. miran and i are having a fight." it's so good it's such a good steve [ laughter ] finally today, was rapper and entrepreneur sean "p. diddy" comb's 52nd birthday he celebrated the same way he always does. in line at the notary public's office getting his name legally

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for long stretches of time, i could only hear my own thoughts in the voice of my pillow's ceo mike lindellter ] "oh, darn it i forgot to buy milk at the grocery store. i better go back before my wife realizes all i bought was a six pack of da-beers." [ laughter ] now, not only are republicans and fox news lying about the economy, they're also so fundamentally opposed to addressing those issues or even having a functioning government that they're now threatening to purge any republicans from the ranks who voted for biden's infrastructure bill. marjorie taylor greene called them traitors. and former trump chief of staff mark meadows said they should be stripped of their committee assignments. trump himself blasted those republicans at a speech that he later released himself in highlight real form. >> i say it with a heavy heart, no thank you goes to those in the house and senate who voted for the democrats non-infrastructure bill. also known as the democrat presidential re-election bill. it's only 11% was infrastructure, by the way, 11% of that bill much of it is green new deal crap just lik

the mike lindells and steve bannon was in his ear and i think he believes it.he former president believes he won the election. and that's scary. and the other thing though that your viewers need to know, the people around the president, the sane ones know that he did not win. and they are lying to you, and they are lying to him when they suggest is that the election was stolen. >> there were more than 60 lawsuits filed by the trump campaign or its supporters. they only prevailed in one case. from pennsylvania. but the number of ballots affected was too small to change the results from the state. >> none of the claims were found meritorious by any court in any way that would have reversed the results of the election. >> georgia faced more than a dozen of these suits. >> many of the lawsuits, they just wanted to throw out the results and then have the general assembly pick their own set of electors. >> brad rathensburger, a conservative republican ordered a statewide hand count. that confirmed there was no widespread fraud involved with the machine count. >> no,

turned out that what paul volker thought he had to do happen to be exactly in compliance with what lindell said. in order to have the tax policies expand on the economic output. >> the combination of low tax rates and found money, to me, that's the most important lesson to be learned. i was a young kid then. i did sit in on one of those voter meetings. reagan and volker had something in common. volker was the last guy, he was defeated when nixon went through what he went through in the early 70s. volker was the undersecretary of the treasury at the time. he did not want to de-link the dollar. he wanted to make some minor price adjustments to the gold link, but not and it. i don't know about burns. burns i've heard both ways. i know volker, i know him very well. i was once his executive assistant. i think reagan, those guys saw things syrians similarly. the rest of reagan's didn't like volker and try to push him out, and eventually succeeded in 1987. green span came in, i thought he did a pretty good job. but i always thought those guys -- >> exactly right. >> and volker took no prisoners.

night on wednesday night was video messages from former president trump, from paul gosar, from mike lindellyears ago. just because mark kelly and kyrsten sinema won their seats here and joe biden won by 10,000 vote, it is completely within the realm of possibility that kari lake is the next governor of arizona. they just did their own audit. more than $7 million were raised by trump allies, $7 million raised by trump allies. they can make money off this here and they just did. they still weren't able to prove that donald trump actually won the election here, but yet, at the same time, they have support within this republican party and it could very well win kari lake the nomination to be the next governor of this state. >> yeah, i mean, and the how bad was this loss in arizona? it was so bad the cyber ninjas couldn't make him win. it is an unbelievable state of affairs and a fantastic, fantastic piece of reporting. nbc's vaughn hillyard, thank you so much for joining us, my friend. >>> when we come back, the latest attempt by republicans to tarnish president joe biden loses its punch consid

today should be a memorial day because mike lindel -- we will have the supreme court hopefully look attion fraud so all democrats and republicans should be looking -- rejoicing today. host: another announcement made by a member of congress. louie gohmert saying he plans to announce a bid to run for attorney general of texas. nbc reporting that as well as other outlets. you can read that online. this will be from rose in north carolina. caller: thank you for taking my call. don't you get americans that this is what we've been discussing for 50 years. we really have a coup right under our very nose replacing human beings with artificial intelligence. the depopulation agenda with vaccines and viruses. if you look at this 2009 speech talking about this occurring. it is extremely unfortunate this great reset was originally called agenda 21 and it comes directly -- so pay attention. host: last call on the topic and thank you for all participating today. another edition of washington journal comes your way at 7:00 tomorrow. we will see you then. [captioning performed by the national captionin