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Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, sounded an extraordinary warning this week.

After a House GOP report recommended that the FBI investigate Liz Cheney for activities related to the January 6th committee, Murphy pointed out in a powerful social media thread that Donald Trump is clearly putting in place a plan to cripple our democracy,

one we might never recover from. What made Senator Murphy's warning particularly interesting

was how he connected a series of dots to show the plan coming together

and even accelerating right before our eyes, even before Trump has taken office again.

So today we're talking to Senator Murphy about his warning. Thank you so much for coming on,

Senator. Yeah, thanks for having me. Okay, Senator, so Donald Trump has now tweeted about the House GOP report, basically endorsing its findings and saying that Liz Cheney could now be in a lot of trouble.

Do you take that as a direct sign that the FBI, under Cash Patel, if he gets confirmed as director, will try to investigate Cheney?

Well, you have to assume that that's exactly what's going to happen.

What's Cash Patel's number one qualification?

It's that he will do anything and everything Donald Trump tells him to do,

and that he has, in fact, made his career off of an advertisement that he believes anybody

who's opposing Donald Trump politically should be prosecuted.

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