when he takes the stage tonight, does he defend the mother of his children from nick fuentes and charlie kirk? >> i don't expect for him to even acknowledge that that's happening. i mean, listen, he is a good storyteller. "the new york times" best-selling author. he knows how to paint his biography in the best possible light, and so what we'll see tonight is certainly the most sanitized version of his agenda, of his thinking, of his upbringing, of his philosophy that we can ever expect to see but i just hope that people are very clear-eyed about why he is the pick there, and, you know, when mckay is talking about republicans that tried to stand up and weren't able to, i mean, the thing that is most threatening about the trump/vance ticket aside from possibly the end of elections is the fact that they have a plan with project 2025 to systemically gut checks and balances and we've seen the first check which really is the republican party blown, absolutely no checks on that and this is a full endorsement of not only the scary authoritarian policy ideas but this hostility that you see toward

far right figures like the daily wire's matt walsh and nick fuentes who met with donald trump lost theirance and sexual history while slamming the rnc for inviting her. and from there, it only got worse when pro trump attorney dylan delivered a sikh prayer during her speech. those same far right figures expressed their outrage. another activist suggested that dylan should be, wait for it, deported. even trump running mate jd vance's family wasn't spared as far right extremists set their sights on his wife who is indian american. one conservative talked about an indian coup taking place right before our eyes and shared an article about the vances' three children. let's bring back my panel. what is there to say? >> i don't even know where to begin. >> i was watching this in horror and shock say would try. maybe a part of me wants to say good on them for trying to do it but even that was even performative. >> completely. i will give you many of my top thoughts. for sure hulk hogan. marco rubio as the son of cuban immigrants to be in that stage. in the midst of this crowd that is chanting. n

folks trust you when you have had someone inside of your mar-a-lago who was a white supremacist, nick fuentes, when you have said things to black journalists their faces, particularly black female journalists calling them stupid, are calling their questions stupid or dumb. so these are questions that really were on the minds of the folks in the room and outside of the room, especially here in chicago. a candidate coming into a room of journalists expecting to be high high-fived and be sort of uniting. that's just not reality. and i think that if that's what they were expecting, they came to the wrong place. this is a room full of journalists and by the way, for all the controversy surrounding whether or not donald trump should or should not have ben here, whether or not any bj should have reached out, any be bj since 1976 has been inviting presumptive nominees for the presidency. here and donald trump accepted and the room was absolutely packed. there was not an empty chair in that room. these are all either prospective jurors journalists or aspiring journalists, or journalists who have been

nick fuentes, the neo-nazi, having lunch in mar-a-lago is not a democrat. so neither party has a monopoly on anti-semitism in this country. and let's not politicize that. now with the remaining time that i have left, mr. wainstein, i want to go back and give you a chance to actually have the time to respond a little bit and talk about particularly as it relates to the southern border the work that your office is doing to make sure that we minimize and intercept as many threats as possible. so can you please expand on the work that you are doing and the people under you are doing? >> thank you, sir. appreciate your comments. i think i addressed a number of them but a couple of things i would like to mention. one is fentanyl. and the fentanyl threat is a huge crisis. we are losing 70,000 odd americans a year, untold damage to american families and economy. and it's unlike other drug threats, which you know, were labor-intensive, sometimes difficult to secrete and send across the border. fentanyl is easy to produce. there seems to be an endless stream of precu

access to donald trump, much in the way that the door to mar-a-lago is open, even to the likes of nick fuenteshat finds his way into mar-a-lago. she's not acting as a gatekeeper. donald trump is his own gatekeeper. so therefore for him, is provided an opportunity to dismantle his republican points through the gop primary process earlier this year, and no he's ahead in polls nationally against joe biden, so for donald trump, he feels like this is a moment where he's wholly been allowed to be himself, surround himself with people who could be considered extreme right, it's not politically harmed him four months out from this election. >> david, it strikes me we're almost 18 minutes into this conversation, and the idea of profit tiering. just talk about something that was central to your beat during the years of the trump presidency. >> well, we know even while he was president, 4th would do things like go to thinks clubs very much, the secret service has to follow him, and he would charge his own protectors, up to $650 a night for hotel rooms. that was the first time around when he was in theory

nick fuentes who expressed doubt that the holocaust happened, dined with former president trump, he hasix years have i gotten closer to the republican party or have they gotten closer to me? and fuentes argues that they've come closer to him. >> you write this book about the internet. they really have gotten some republicans, not all, but some republicans to repeat things that were inconceivable eight years ago. how did this pipeline evolve? >> it started off -- it started off with the psychedelic epiphany of a three food tall in cell named patrick brennan. when neo-nazis enter a space, they freak everyone out and normal people leave and the only idea that bounces around is fascism. so this grew and grew and they felt this real swelling momentum like they had real numbers and started wanting to move into the real world. i should say frederick is not part of the neo-nazi groups, he just wanted to build the website allowing them to flourish. >> they are fascists, many are anti-semitic, a bunch of what they do and preach is anti-semitic. why are they so drawn to donald trump? >> they like