At least 13 GOP senators to contest Biden’s Electoral College victory; The Federalist Publisher Ben Domenech reacts on ‘Fox & Friends.’
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You and your colleagues have
created this controversy.
You have failed to offer
specific evidence of that
widespread fraud, but with
youre demanding an
investigation
youre the Arkansassonist
here arsonist. Here
you completely ignored our
investigation of Hunter Biden.
You have destroyed the
credibility of the news media I
by your bias, and we are
dismissing the concerns of tens
of millions of Americans,
Brian. That was a real brawl and
a real conversation about a
really important issue.
Gop senator RON Johnson
defending his plan to challenge
the election after sharp
criticism,
your reaction to this five
minute brawl-
it really was- and I thought RON
Johnson did extraordinarily
well and I dont think Chuck
Todd was prepared for him to
actually answer the question.
I would really encourage all
the viewers to go back and check
this out, because I think RON
Johnson did a phenomenal job,
making the argument the case
for his side.
You know look years ago. I
worked for Tommy Thompson, the
multiple times governor of
Wisconsin.
There is definitely a power to
that midwestern, nice approach
to things
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where you have the ability to
have some clarity to bring out
and say the things that maybe
not everybody else appreciates
about whats going on in this
moment.
Chuck Todd is somebody who keep
in mind two years ago. He went
into the pages of what is now,
sadly, a kind of garbage leftist
rag the Atlantic and said that
Fox NEWS was responsible for
downgrading the authority of the
news media of Creatings
mistrust, creating mistrust
and things like that,
the same guy who was rolling
with the Steele dossier for
years, without any kind of
consequences.
This time around RON Johnson is
basically making the case. This
is the only way that I can go
out there and give any kind of
pushback to what I think is
going on, which is you know,
really unacceptable and that we
have to have an election
commission. We have to have
something that looks into whats
going on here.
What weve really learned
Brian, is we dont really have
the entities set up here in
hurricane to look into these
kinds of to look into these
the kinds of problems in a way
that would bring forward facts,
clarify questions. People have,
I think, thats unfortunate. I
think it needs to be addressed
and I think in any situation
where a significant number of
Americans dont have faith in
the electoral process, thats a
bad thing
we need to address it
and a responsible media would be
saying. Okay. How do we address
it? How do we resolve these
questions as opposed to just
playing politics and being
essentially a partisan actor,
which is what you saw Chuck Todd
doing
Brian right?
What about the investigations? We
did do
what about the invest into
Hunter Biden, where you said that
was russian propaganda.
What about the facts that came
out now that are now confirmed
by places like the New York
Times and E mails that are now
out an investigation that we
now know is ongoing.
What about the fact, the tweet,
the the coup has started,
rebellion and impeachment to
follow. Ultimately,
what about that story?
He did not bring that up when it
came down to Chris Krebs, who
said this election has been the
pure pest ever pure Ifest
ever purest. Ever
he was worried about foreign
entities and he talked about
the substance of his
investigation that his network
never covered.
You know. I really think that
Chuck Todd here did just a
terrible job, but its to be
expected from a lot of these
corporate media entities, who
have essentially looked away
from anything that they dislike
anything that they dont want to
cover about. Whats happened the
last several years,
theyve pretended like things
have been the way they wanted
them to be, as opposed to the way
that they actually are
its humpty dumpty e and through
the looking glass
words mean what I want them to
mean, as opposed to the actual
definition and thats, something
that I think is going to be a
continuing problem in the future,
because this is not going to a
situation where they change or
alter any of their behavior
and weve learned that, from the
last several years,
weve seen the degree to which
theyre willing to participate.
In this. You know ridiculous
and over the top you know
approach to covering politics
where they pretend, like
duly elected republican members,
are in some way conspiracy
theorists that theyre, you
know out there on the extreme,
as opposed to raising legitimate
issues, that a lot of Americans
cower about
Brian Ben Real, quick. Are you
on the side of Tom cotton?
Investigate it, but let the
Electoral College CERT Fire, or
are you in the camp of TED Cruz,
10 day pause?
I I think you have to sort of
stake out your position and say
we would really like to get an
investigation into this.
We would like to have a
commission on this
and I completely understand the
people who are making that
argument.
On the flip side. I also have a
lot of respect for people like
you mentioned, Congressman Chip
Roy, a longtime friend of mine,
who basically says im worried.
If we go down this road were
going to put the whole electoral,
the college road at risk.
The real issue that I sigh see
here Brian is we do not have
an approach that will allow us
to investigate, to find the
facts about this and to be able
to bring them to the american
poo as it currently stands. We
have not addressed these types
of things in the past and, if
were going to have mail in
balloting, have this approach
that was used in this election
going forward? People need to be
able to have trust and faith in
it and thats, not something I I
think were going to get out of
this process.
Brian Brian, and we should have
had this mechanism after one thousand nine hundred and sixty
here we are in twenty twenty.
Well get a look at that
its going to be an interesting
next few days
to me, its simple win, Georgia
help win back the house and then
go get the White House back
well see if he can pull that
you have off.
Meanwhile, he really feels like
this was taken away from him.
Transcript generated on 2021-01-04.