Peter Alexander

a click maximizing machine not a truth maximizing machine and i bring that up why because this clip i'm about to play you is the product of a click maximizing machine it's sensational It caters to one of the favorite hits of the Democratic liberal media, which is Russian collusion.

Okay, and here is Peter Alexander ignoring all the safeguards of journalism like confirming, getting a second source on the record.

Nope, they just run this story straight to air.

Clip 22.

Um, a new poll from The Washington Post found eight in 10 voters were against the execution of the Fort Hood shooter.

Did that sway him? Joining us, anchor of State of Play and MS Now chief, chief national reporter Peter Alexander, Hofstra University law professor and author of Who Decides Who Decides on Substack, James Sample.

Basil Smikle still with us.

Um, w- why did the president change his mind on this?

Basil, thanks for being here.

Peter.

Peter Alexander, my friend.

This is our first time on set together.

It's also a headache for a- attorneys general.

Rob Bonta spoke to our colleague Peter Alexander a short time ago about the DOJ's threats over the state's voter rolls and what the ultimate goal may be.

Take a listen

listenAre you concerned that the Trump administration, the Department of Justice, is basically laying the foundation, the groundwork, to challenge whatever the election results are from the state of California?

They don't want something incontestable, and they're laying the groundwork now for contesting, uh, the, the votes that are gonna be counted in, uh, two and a half weeks.

We've been talking about California, but it's notable to me that you had the president, Arizona sort of replaying his greatest hits about Kari Lake's election.

Adrian Fontes, who runs that state's elections, was on last night with our colleague Allie Velsh.

I want you to take a listen to how he described what's happening.

The latest on Katie Zacharia's credibility crisis.

Our colleague Peter Alexander is our guest.

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This was Peter Alexander reporting...

And this is what

he said.

Don't worry.

We'll have another one tomorrow.

Peter Alexander should be ashamed.

He should never throw to Ken Delanian again.

This was, is this it right here? This was MSNOW.

This was Peter Alexander reporting.

And this is... what he said this is just a couple

days ago i got to right now here on msnow this is about the fbi director kash patel msnow has learned that patel has landed in russia for a meeting scheduled to take place there that's according to two people familiar with the matter joining me now is msnow justice and intelligence reporter ken delaney and ken let's just give a little bit of a backdrop to this right this is only a matter of days after the president last week on friday spoke to vladimir putin later that day announced that he was going to be opening up oil imports from russia that congress had banned as a function of a law and then the next day he criticized vladimir zelensky what is kash patel doing right so

Don't worry.

We'll have another one tomorrow.

Peter Alexander should be ashamed.

He should never throw to Ken Dilanian again.

That's so pathetic

Um, so the anchor, Peter Alexander, opened the segment by citing two unnamed people who said Patel had arrived in Russia for a scheduled meeting.

Correspondent Ken, uh, Dilanian piled on with warnings about the risks of what was happening, telling viewers the FSB would try to surveil the director and crack into his devices, while his purpose in the country remained unclear.

I mean, so they're doing this in-depth analysis about this the whole time Kash Patel is speaking-