- Wow, 2021, everybody!
- We thought we were done with Donald Trump,
and we weren't quite.
The first three weeks of 2021,
Donald Trump was still president.
We had Trump's phone call at the last minute
to the Georgia secretary of state.
We had the January 6th insurrection,
and then since Biden became president,
Trump has continued to go around the country
repeating these lies that he actually won the election.
- And again in Detroit, which is known
as the single-most corrupt election venue
in the country for many years,
but nobody wanted to look at that,
there were many more votes than there were voters.
- And he said it so often and in so many venues
that he has managed to convince a sizable portion of Republicans
that he was robbed of victory.
- By now, we've had all these audits,
all these reviews, the DOJ.
There's just been no evidence, and yet,
Trump keeps his base energized.
His supporters are running for office in these key posts
in the states that get to certify elections
and they get to run polling places.
Trump is not in front of us every day,
but the very intense followers
that he has motivated by his false
claims about the election continue to be very active.
- One of the things we then found ourselves fact-checking
a lot was bogus narratives
about what actually happened on January 6th,
where a number of Republicans made statements
about January 6th that were proven to be false.
- There is some indication that fascist antifa elements
were involved, that they embedded themselves.
- What happened last week was the result of anarchists
who came loaded, prepared, and with weapons.
- There were groups of agitators
that were the tip of the spear that caused that,
not the tens of thousands of Trump supporters
who would never even contemplate that.
- There have been news reports that said Speaker Pelosi vetoed,
vetoed bringing the National Guard in here,
and then the day of the attack, there's been news reports
that said she hesitated on calling up the National Guard.
Why?
- Both Jim Jordan and Donald Trump
tried to suggest that Nancy Pelosi was somehow
at fault for not getting enough security there
to prevent the insurrection from taking place in the first place,
and, you know, all the available testimony and evidence
shows those claims are false.
- Senator Johnson and many others
who are peddling vaccine misinformation,
they often point to the Vaccine Adverse Event
Reporting System, or VAERS.
- We're already over 5,200 deaths
reported on the VAERS system.
That's the CDC, FDA's early-warning system.
That, by the way, exceeds the number of deaths
reported on the VAERS system
for all other vaccines over 31 years.
- And what they do is they're just hoovering up
as many reports as possible.
Anyone can submit any report.
You know, you get a vaccine, "I had a headache the next day."
You know, that is grounds for a report,
but is anyone checking that you had a headache
or that you got the vaccine?
You know, that's what's missing.
Senator Johnson uses it as sort of, like,
his evidence that the COVID vaccines are causing mass death.
At one point, it was 5,200 deaths
that had been reported from people who said, you know,
that the death happened after the vaccine was taken,
but at the same time, the CDC was saying
that they had no link to establish any vaccine
as the cause of any death.
Now, you know, at the end of 2021,
the CDC says there's evidence that six cases of thrombosis,
you know, could be linked to the J&J vaccine.
Much more than half of the population
has been vaccinated by this point,
and so six deaths to be proven to be linked to one vaccine
still makes Senator Johnson's comparison,
you know, utterly flawed.
- One of our Pinocchios a year
is what we call a Biden original,
and sometimes, it has to do with a memory of his.
- I probably spent more time with Xi Jinping,
I'm told, than any world leader has because I had 24,
25 hours of private meetings with him
when I was vice president, traveled 17,000 miles with him.
But my point was that when I came back from meeting with him,
traveling 17,000 miles with him when I was vice president,
he was the vice president.
- That he claims something happened
when you dig deep into it,
turns out it didn't really happen, or if it did,
it happened in a much different way than he described it,
or it can be a policy issue.
When he claimed that there would be no hospital beds left
because of an overwhelming number of Alzheimer's patients.
- You know, if we don't do something about Alzheimer's
in America,
every single solitary hospital bed that exists in America,
the nurses can tell you,
every single one will be occupied
in the next 15 years with an Alzheimer's patient.
Every one, costing us in excess of $1 trillion.
- No one could explain to us where he got that figure.
He was very precise. He said 15 years.
Another time, he said 20 years,
and, you know, it's an example of,
particularly when the president is not reading from a script,
how he can create his own reality.