And most Americans can see it.

Donald Trump has now responded again to this ad.

He just posted this a moment ago.

Vivek Ramaswamy put up a very powerful ad, he says, about a mother saying that her daughter, who is running for governor of Ohio, is a liar and much worse.

The press, in a concerted and well-coordinated attack, is trying to get Vivek Ramaswamy to take down the ad.

Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about a daughter in that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving in office, let alone the office of governor.

If my mother, the legendary Mary McLeod Trump, said anything bad about me, the fake news would play it up.

And you can trade right now on CalSheet.

What are you looking for when you go there? What are you feeling about, uh, what's going down in the state of Texas?

You said 30 years since they've won statewide.

They haven't won a Senate race in Texas in even longer than that.

1988.

Already spending $200 million on what should be a safe seat.

I'm excited to get down there because as you well know, you can only find so much from polling.

You gotta get down there and you gotta talk to people.

Yes

I, I think it's gonna be pretty empty.

So much lying that's happening in the White House, or in Washington from the White House right now.

Um, the Reflecting Pool is not green.

It's been torn up by vandals.

Everything is beautiful and it's wonderful, and Donald Trump is making the, the city great again.

I mean, Matt Viser had a, a, a really great piece in The Atlantic today, Tim, about how there's fencing around everything.

Um, there's construction sites everywhere.

I'm gonna go watch some soccer."

Mm-hmm.

We have not been the best to ourselves, to our own people, and we have not been the best to, um, foreign lands and foreigners.

Uh, but we have been good.

By and large, we have done good, and we can do more good if we all believe in it.

I think we need that as a country right now.

We are so divided, and he has this opportunity at our 250th birthday to try to bridge that divide.

And, and we shouldn't be surprised, but he's not taking it.

So what are you planning to do for July the 4th? How are you planning to celebrate it?

And this is a

moment where the country obviously feels very divided, from Republicans to Democrats and independents to people who look at all the parties, even the independents, and say, this is not working for me.

So...

What caught my eye about this is the bubbling up of support for these movements and what it means and whether we are adequately addressing it.

So there's like the Cal Exit movement.

There's a movement in the Pacific Northwest movement.

uh... to unify there's that the texas group all of them saying a version of the same thing the federal that government does not work for us it's stealing from us it doesn't prioritize us or it's holding us back or their values aren't the same uh... and is it a good idea There have been a lot of historians and analysts over the years who have argued both sides of this.

So I thought that was an interesting piece of it.

Yeah.

And the beauty of it is that, that it's a private company, so they have the money to spend, unlike the, unlike NASA.

You can't flow that-

There's something about the human element of discovery that we, that has been with our civilization from the beginning, that we cherish the, the accounts of what people have for seeing something that no one has seen before.

There was also an amazing coming together of people in this country to watch the launch, to, to-

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Um, he's not, he's not the ideal candidate for them.

You know this.

John Cornyn was the ideal safe candidate.

Uh, the Cook Political Report, the second that Paxton won, went from likely to lean Republican.

That's a, that's a decent swing.

The internal conversation, and you tell me if I'm wrong about this, 'cause you know, probably know better than I do, $250 million to protect Paxton in that race, $250 million that can't be spent on Georgia or North Carolina or Alaska, so maybe not Texas.

This-

They're choosing not to.

In what could be a first, the ranking member of Senate Intel, Mark Warner, was denied a visit to a defense agency, and now Laura Loomer is taking credit for, for it.

Warner was supposed to meet in his oversight capacity with the director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, a meeting that itself was confidential, according to Warner's office.

So how did Laura Loomer, who has no security clearance and does not work in the government, know about it? Tim?How- how does something like this happen?

So, if you're inside these agencies and you see a Laura Loomer coming for you because you're having a meeting with Mark Warner, well, it's not illogical for you to say, "Okay, well maybe I should just back off from this or else I'm gonna be the next one to get the ax."

Let me read what Senator Warner said about- about this.

He- he spoke to The, uh, New York Times.

He said, "Is congressional oversight dead?" Um, he said this with a meeting- in a meeting with reporters broadly on Wednesday.

And they cannot believe what they're finding.

Good to be with you, back with you.

I'm Katy Tur.

In 2011, shortly after a successful appearance at CPAC, Donald Trump said he was considering running for president.

During that time, he spent weeks telling anybody who would listen that then-President Barack Obama needed to prove that he was born in America, single-handedly bringing into the mainstream what was previously a fringe conspiracy theory.

Since then, we've seen no limit to what sort of conspiracies Donald Trump has been willing to fan, like January 6th was a government-staged riot, or that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were eating people's pets, or that the George Floyd protests constituted a coup attempt that was led by well-funded, uh, by a well-funded network of anarchists.

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