joining me now to talk more about this and the chance that these candidates actually have is david gilbertoining us. great to see you. this is fascinating stuff. before we get into a larger conversation, i want to play a bit of sound of someone who you spoke about in your piece, joe ray perkins who is running for senate in oregon and she attended the january 6th riot but denies entering the capitol building. let's listen. >> i talk to people about q and ask people if they follow q because i'm curious. there's quite a few that do. the ones that don't, i tell them about q. well, check out q, tell me what you think and i give them a link and they check out q and do their own research. when the people that commented on the twitter post was culling it a cult. i don't know any cult that tells people to go out there and do their own research. >> terrifying. all right, david. so talk to me more about this and also some of the other concerning contenders here. >> yeah, it is quite concerning, yasmin. i think probably the most concerning thing is what many people may not know is last time around in

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