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shop now at a sleep number store near you. he has died at the age of 56 after a battle with lung cancer and they described her as one of the most important leaders in technology and the first to lead a major company and committed to expanding opportunities for women throughout. the washington post reports that she paid attention to the well-being of employees advocating for maternity leave and child care and one longtime executive said she cared about people in many ways and she was the soul of google.
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and i can report, she is a real one, which in my opinion is one of the best things you can be and she was a great friend of mine. i am so sad tonight to speak about her passing. we lost a great one but we know the legacy lives on in my thoughts go out to sisters, parents, husband and beautiful kids and we are thinking of you, susan and thank you for the light you have shown on us for so many years. on that note i wish you all a very good and safe night. hug your family. every day we have together is precious. thank you for staying up late and we will see you again tomorrow. the fbi is confirming tonight they are investigating a hacking attempt allegedly by
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iran against the presidential campaigns of both major parties. news of this broke over the weekend when first politico and the washington post reported they had each been offered documents that appeared to be internal and somewhat sensitive and nonpublic facing documents from inside donald trump's campaign and political described what they were offered as including a dossier essentially on trump's running mate, jd vance and what the outlet described as a preliminary version of his vetting file and two sources say the documents they were offered were authentic and legitimate documents. they were somehow taken from inside the trump campaign. the washington post reported they to had what seemed like coming from inside the trump campaign and may have included the same material. with those reports out there this weekend, the trump
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campaign went ballistic consisting among other things that no news media should report in the content of these hacked leaked documents and that a foreign adversary had done this and nobody in america should do the bidding of that foreign adversary by reporting on the content of that. to be fair, that is fair. this is reportedly a foreign adversary doing this and lord knows why but not for a good reason and to hurt us as a country. elections are our business and foreign interference in any election is bad. every american and certainly every american campaign should not only be against it but insist nobody try to benefit from it or engage in it or invite this or praise it or reference what has been taken and they are insisting that nobody should do that much for
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them. >> this just came now. by wikileaks. >> it was exposed by wikileaks. >> we don't talk about wikileaks. >> they want to distract us from wikileaks. the wikileaks revelations. >> they have it all down, wikileaks. >> russia, if you are listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 email that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by the press. >> when russia hacked the democratic party and the hillary clinton campaign in 2016, trump, first of all
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blamed the democrats in the clinton campaign for it and said it was their fault. and then they spent months telling everybody including trump personally, how great this hack was and how nobody should look at the material. he hoped russia would hack and the steel and release more. that is how he reacted in 2016. this time with what may be a different opinion and said nobody should look at this material and it would just be doing the bidding of a foreign adversary who wishes our country harm, which matter of our national interests we think we should feel as americans in the face of a hostile foreign power messing with the. trump has never felt this way before when he was benefiting from an attack by a hostile foreign power. it is a good thing when it helps him. it is a bad thing when that doesn't factor into it at all which is as good a summary as
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any of american political life and the era in which donald trump has taken over the republican party. but the fbi again confirming this tonight and we will keep an eye on it and the story here is the washington post's first report the fbi has opened an investigation into what may be an iranian hacking attack aimed at both the trump campaign and kamala harris's campaign and it was reportedly attacked with similar types of spearfishing e- mails and the biden campaign was up reportedly attacked with similar e-mails but the city don't believe those attacks worked and they fended them off in the trump campaign doesn't appear to be as well situated against this attack. but we shall see. this, of course in all seriousness comes at a time
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when we have a strike group leading the middle east right now along with a guided missile submarine which is somewhat ominous with israel warning they are expecting an attack from iran, a military attack sometime soon and in that context they are attacking our elections while they are potentially mixing it up militarily with one of our allies after a hamas leader was assassinated in the capital city. it is all a bit of a tinderbox. so we will keep eyes on those stories tonight as some of them develop. in the meantime, just for a moment can we discuss a thing that didn't happen and at least it didn't happen like this. >> i know willie brown very well in fact i went down in a helicopter with them and we thought maybe this was the end and we were in a helicopter going to a certain location together and there was an emergency landing. it wasn't a pleasant landing
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and he was a little concerned. i know him pretty well. >> this was not a pleasant landing. it is true this whole thing doesn't land well in the end and here is what is going on there. that was from trump's last rambling and i don't mean this in and unkind way but often incoherent campaign press conference at the end of last week with trump and that press conference telling a lot of lies but the weirdest one he told was that he had been in an emergency landing near that helicopter crash with a famous person, willie brown a very powerful politician and the reason the story is weird is because willie brown is around and able to talk and frankly he loves to talk and i grew up in the san francisco bay area when a mother -- among other things he was the mayor and he was a person who people would call
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unavoidable for comment and he would talk to any reporter about everything ever and he is a man who likes to talk about everything in the news and himself so when trump made this surprise assertion about a death defying very dramatic helicopter emergency involving willie brown, people are like never heard from him about this. but also we would have read about this in the news and it's weird that would have happened but there was no news of it and these were two pretty high profile guys, donald trump and willie brown or any dramatic near death helicopter crash and willie never talked about it and it was weird. but then, because he is unavoidable for comment, reporters found willie brown and asked him about it and the local station was the first to find them and it was
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predictably hilarious and fantastic. >> i don't think i would want to ride on the same helicopter with them because there are too many people that have an agenda and with what happens to him including the people in service helicopter so no. >> somehow i have the impression that if you went down you would know about it. >> the world would have known about it. >> so is he making this up? >> he would have to be. i said, he is creative. like real creative. that is so far-fetched, it is unbelievable. so you weren't in a crash? >> no. he is dreaming. >> the new york times and other
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news outlets suggested that maybe what happened here was that trump confused willie brown, whom you just saw with jimmy brown the former governor of california and after all trump took a helicopter ride with him once in 2018 and two problems with that, number one trump was president at the time of that helicopter writing california so we definitely would have heard about it had he had a death-defying emergency landing as president and none of us remember that because it didn't happen. the second problem with the story is that they are not the same person. it is really truly not at all the same. and trump them -- then, in response lashed out online and in an angry phone call to the new york times in which he said wrong. wrong. they were getting this all the wrong way around and he said it
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wasn't his helicopter ride with jerry brown but a different ride and this one in new jersey and it definitely was with willie brian -- brown and he had a death-defying helicopter crash involving willie brown and i am so mad and two problems with that he said that that wasn't him either and like i said unavoidable for comment after speaking with local news and then he said on a cnn interview and i will give you the first two questions and responses and one of my all- time favorite interviews ever. watch. >> have you ever been in a helicopter that made an emergency landing with donald trump? >> no. >> have you ever been in a helicopter with donald trump? >> no. >> that is it. he doesn't elaborate.
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know. -- no. not me. so was at this california thing? and then what happens next is political. political -- politico reported it was in new jersey and it did have mechanical problems but it wasn't with willie brown either but with a totally different man, a man also a black man and also an old guy but again two totally different people. the former state senator and city counselor nate holden telling politico that willie is the short black guy living in san francisco and he said i am the tall black eye living in los angeles, but i guess we all look alike. and by this point trump has not only said this very strange, apparently false thing in his press conference, but insisting on the truthfulness of what he said and posting about it online multiple times and
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losing his mind screaming at the new york times and threatening to sue them and posted that he has records and blogs and witnesses to back up his account that he definitely was there in the helicopter crash with willie brown. >> so you weren't in the helicopter with him that almost crashed? >> no. >> that is your answer? >> when he tells the new york times reporter that he has flight records proving him right and when asked to produce the records, trump responded mockingly repeating the request in a singsong voice who i have flight records. who among us does not forget things? i have two dogs and i call them by each other's names all the
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time. okay. i'm sorry. i once confidently listed all the balkan states as if they were the baltic states and we have all messed things up. but what is different about trump here is and what otherwise is unimportant as an anecdote that has no consequences is he is now not only sticking to this but losing his mind over this in public and repeated statements insisting on this that everybody is laughing in the space about, people who were there and no it didn't happen are laughing about it because they know it didn't happen and he is shouting at reporters about it threatening to sue and produce records documenting this. and on the one hand, this is concerning because he is not just an average person but a presidential candidate. if he isn't just unable to remember a thing but legitimately confused or unable to accept the truth of a thing he got wrong and unable to
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process information about what was true and false even when it is about his own life, that raises questions like is he okay and it is a relevant question for a presidential candidate. is he okay? on the other hand because this is trump, one real possibility is he is so committed to this made up story about willie brown being with him on a helicopter that this will become the new hurricane map showing this was headed to alabama and remember the bulge on the side drawn on with a sharpie and he said that storm was going to alabama so he did say so we are sticking with it and the storm isn't going to alabama but he said it was because the maps had to be changed to reflect that and now it's become an article of faith among republicans that they all must salute and pledge fealty to donald trump who once was in
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an emergency helicopter landing with willie brown well willie brown last supper earthly -- uproariously laughs about it. he said he never threatened to lock up hillary clinton and he said he never asked for that and his supporters said lock her up at the rallies he said they needed to stop that because it would be bad for the country to jail hillary clinton and he never wanted to do that and that is insane because not only blatantly untrue but we were all there and it's something we all witnessed and something we all lived through outside and out loud with the exact opposite of what he is saying. and i do stack these together because it's not just like get a load of this guy. it turns out there is a new book about this as a topic and not just as a personal crush for him personally but a republican tactic of the trump era that he flirted with a bit before he took control of the party that they do it whole hog
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all the time called ministry of truth democracy, reality and the republicans war on recent past and by steve bannon, one of my oldest friends and one of the longest on this show influencing my thinking on american politics as much as anybody has in the world in his new book is a short book, seven chapters and less than 200 pages before you get to the footnotes but it does explain not only that republicans are doing this but not you and you are just noticing this every once in a while but this is a thing they systematically do and they do it in a way that democrats don't but also he explains what they are doing it for. he says, rewriting events from the recent past requires a different kind of audacity and ambition and at issue are events most american saw and remember and these are not subjects of debate for symposiums or obscure developments that an average person may have a superficial understanding of rather at
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issue are events from the last few years that people lived through and experienced firsthand with republicans nevertheless taking on the bold challenge of convincing people that their eyes have deceived them and independent sources of info are not to be trusted and partisan changes to the recent past deserve to be erased. it reflects a radical vision on politics and this is now after all the party of alternative facts and truth is the truth. is trump's first year in the white house neared the end, billy bush to home trump had bragged about assaulting women during the infamous access hollywood report, bush wrote an opinion piece explaining what he wrote and heard about trump and after noting he confronted him about inflating the ratings of his show the apprentice bush wrote that trump told him privately people would just believe you and you just tell them and they believe. years later the republican party adopted and eerily
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similar approach to describing the details of key events from the collective history based in part on the expectation that americans will just believe them. and he said these stakes couldn't be much higher and the foundation of democracy rests in large part on a shared understanding of current events and when that is deliberately collected by brazen partisans the consequences can be dire. and if you're interested in this as a tactic again just making stuff up about the very recent past we lived through, he writes about how they applied to everything from the russian investigation and 2016 to the elections in january sick and it was the fbi who did it and january 6 didn't happen and a normal tourism visit and then now it did happen and they are all patriots. what about antifa and he had
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the greatest economy ever when he was present although isn't as good as either the economy of biden and obama but he said he completed all which he didn't do and why are they doing all of these things? what purpose does it serve? and his book is called ministry of truth out tomorrow and if you are an audiobook person i think this is important enough that if you would like to not only read the book but have me tell you about it, you can also get the book that way but i did that book because i like seeing that and i think it is much needed but joining us now is my friend steve and the producer and editor of the rachel maddow blog and the excellent new book ministry of 2s, democracy, reality and the republicans war on the recent past which comes up tomorrow. congratulations. i know you almost killed
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yourself writing this thing and thank you for joining us. >> am glad to have done it and glad to be here. >> so you concede from the very first pages of the book that arguments over history aren't unusual for this but you are honing in on something different which is about rewriting the recent past and stuff we lived through. what is the tactical difference between lying brazenly about this past we saw instead of lying about things that maybe we can't verify from lived experiences like ancient history or stuff that happens for a way? >> there is a culture right now with republican officials trying to change the history of things and the civil war and revolutionary war and founding fathers which is an important thing in terms of culture but a qualitative difference when republicans target the recent past but it is more audacious and requires the overpowering
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of our memories but about the things we saw and experienced and for example we see them trying to tell us now that the trump response to this crisis was great for covid-19 and it couldn't have gone any better and we know better and we all saw and experienced firsthand what the administration's response was but nevertheless they believe that our memories and their alternative memories can replace what we know. >> then why do it? as you described and you make a good case, it requires a certain level of audacity to do this because they are asking us to disbelieve our own memories about things we saw and heard and experienced as human beings and not stuff we read about but stuff we observed happening because it takes audacious nests and it tells you something about how radical it is and why are they doing it? >> the first thing is by and
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large republicans feel like they don't have a choice and in general there are controversies that always happen in terms of politics and politicians employ a certain crisis management playbook and stick to certain pr strategies and they take your lumps and move on but when you see an insurrectionist mob to attack your own country's capital or failed to respond to a pandemic or cooperate, you do this and you can't just employ the usual tactics and they won't do. these are larger crises and existential things and in large part the reality is if this were an election the public would understand and embrace this because it didn't happen in reality so i think the first thing is they feel like they have no choice but the second thing is the almost feel as if they can get away with it but when it comes to their base they have gotten away with it. is a bright now this polling shows that from the great majority of republicans january
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6 wasn't an insurrection. it was quiet with no documents and trump actually won the election and this is situation in which the majority or a clear overwhelming of republicans believe this so the highest levels because they feel like they can and they feel like they can get away with this. >> it is a really good assemblage of those things when you put it in the terms you did i feel like it all starts to fall in place and you know we tell her viewers if you are flummoxed by the fact that donald trump tells his followers that he completed the wall and also that he needs to be reelected so he can complete the wall, he explains the psychology of that. it is dire and also helpful to have it spelled out. the
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ministry of truth and democracy, reality and the republicans war on the recent past coming out tomorrow with the audiobook read by a goofball narrator named rachel maddow but it is okay and thank you so much for writing this and it is important and i am glad you did it. congratulations. >> much more ahead here tonight. stay with us. >> in a debate situation, who would you put your money on? >> i think it would probably be unfair for her to debate trump because he is so inept. at the absolute basics of knowledge and it's appalling. i am looking forward to hear the announcement of i am going to vegas and i will put every nickel that i have on the
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national abortion ban, banning pornography and abolishing the department of education, turning medicare into a mostly privatized thing? this playbook, written for donald trump for the next trump term in office is filled with really quite radical policy plans for him to use if he is elected to a second term and its called project 2025 becoming a point of central discussion in this presidential election. it is because this playbook was designed for trump and came out of trump world but also because it outlines policies that voters really really don't want.
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this has created for trump by people associated with trump and trump realizing how unpopular it is trying to distance himself saying he has no idea who these people are who wrote this thing but here he is on a private plane with the guy in charge of it, and his running mate jd vance is tells with them and wrote a forward for the book and this here a few days ago with the former trump administration official teasing the fact is currently writing a supersecret transition playbook that he will use if we elect did in november and this guy is planning the transition and you will notice they have mine offers a helpful reminder this isn't the first playbook is written and the guy planning the transition is a project 2025 architect. six of trump's cabinet officials cooperated on the drafting of the playbook and over 140 administration staffers had a hand in working at it and all of that put together makes it a hard sell
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for the trump campaign to claim they had no idea who these people are. and that was before this happened. propublica has published 14 hours of training video put together by project 2025 that essentially are tutorials for members of the future trump administration. the videos are interesting to look at in their own right but for the campaign trying to say that no trump people have ever had anything to do with this or never heard of any thing or any of these people and they don't even know where this came from, for them trying to make this case, these videos aren't going to help them make that case. >> hello my name is jeff small the presidential appointee in the trump administration. >> my name is caroline a former political appointee in a donald j. trump administration. >> i served in the trump administration. >> during the trump administration i had the privilege of serving as the deputy assistant secretary of
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state for digital strategy. >> i was on the team early on. >> i was on the first 15 people hired. >> during the administration i served as the secretary for public affairs at the department of homeland security. >> during the presidential transition i was the director of domestic policy. >> you started on day one of the trump administration and you stayed until the final hour and shocking that i made it. >> poor pam they must've put her through the ringer. >> of the 36 different people who appear in these videos, 29 of the 36 are people who directly worked for the trump administration of the trump campaign. so trying to say trump people have nothing to do with this saying, we have new polling from amherst painting a clear portrait of why the trump campaign continues to try to pretend they have no ties to
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this no matter how unsustainable it is, that claim. part of the findings are that even people who voted for trump in 2020, they by a clear majority say they don't support project 2025 and the same poll took a snapshot of the electorate since biden dropped out and this was taken in january and he led nationally by four points with kamala harris at the top of the ticket leading trump nationally by three points. so a total turnaround. you are starting to see the same turnaround for democrat in important swing states and late last month after biden dropped out harris was tied in some states like michigan and pennsylvania and he was up i one point in wisconsin and if you look at that same poll now in all three states harris leads trump plus more and it is a turnaround. it is nationally and important states and it means if you are
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the republican ticket is you will need a new strategy. you will either need to turn this campaign around to make people like you more, or you need to figure out a way to win. and i have been talking here with some urgency about this. because of what i see as what clearly appears to be an emerging strategy for republicans which is to mess with the count of the vote or to have local republican officials deny certification of the vote county by county and remember in 2020 when the violent mob was put on congress they were there to block the acidification of the vote nationwide but this time around they are professionalizing the effort to block the certification of the vote and systematizing it starting with trained republican officials at the local level in states across the country so they can make a bigger swing at it. i have been talking a lot about
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this on msnbc and i do hear from you a lot and every time i do it i get a lot of feedback. there are some real experts talking about this as well and not just about how worrying this is for november but also what can be done to stop it and some experts have published a brand-new report that has yet to be made public coming out tomorrow but we will reveal it here tonight exclusively for the first time. it is practical and helpful and one of the things i am most worried about. worried about. that is next but trelegy has shown me that there's still beauty and breath to be had. because with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy keeps my airways open and prevents future flare-ups. and with one dose a day, trelegy improves lung function
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this is something i have been talking about for several weeks on msnbc with the rnc coverage and also on the show. there isn't urgent new report on the subject i have been talking about for weeks and we are revealing it here for the first time tonight from citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington called elect chin certification under threat, a legal roadmap to protect the 2024 election including 35 officials who have refused to certify results in the report tracks this crisis across eight states so far we are, in fact there have been dozens of republican local officials refusing to sign off on lawful votes and proper tallies. is this a republican strategy that holds promise of essentially hamstringing the
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electoral count and messing up the election and the administration of the election at the point of counting the bolts -- votes, the vote tallies and do they have any real prospects of messing up the vote in november using these tactics that they have been test driving across the country in lower profile elections? joining us now is the president and ceo of this in washington and thank you for joining us. thank you for the advanced look at the report and i found it interesting. >> thank you for having me. >> ivan talking about this with increasing concern for the last few weeks because it does look to me like republicans at the county level and now starting to be at the state level are test driving an effort that they will try in november to effectively prevent the election from being made official to prevent the vote tallying to go forward in any
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sort of normal way and do you think that is what they are doing? >> i think it is absolutely a thing that will happen and we have seen county officials in multiple states attempt to stop the certification of votes in elections of many cases very little consequence. they were doing it essentially as a run-through of an election of a great deal of consequences. i think there is almost no question this will happen. it seems to be happening in away this year that is more systematic than it has been in the past. that is deeply concerning. the good news is, it is clearly illegal. there are steps that can be taken to effectively halt it in all of these things. >> you single out some of these
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in a way that is six synced and helpful and you write about the state election boards and general and local prosecutors should in advance of the election exclusively tell county officials that they don't have discretion to refuse to certify the election and worn them in advance they could tread into essentially criminal law territory if they do this. we have seen this already happened in a few states. >> that is right. in michigan the secretary of state has been clear that the law provides for a legitimate way to challenge elections if there are questions about fraud for the count and certification isn't one of those ways and it essentially a ministerial process and not a way to challenge results and in michigan officials have told these county officials that you can't do this. if you do there will be consequences. i think both potentially they could deter people from trying this. it also puts them on notice so that if they do try to disrupt
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the election and they are prosecuted or civilly challenge they can't say they didn't realize they didn't do this and that is what we would like to see. >> again we have seen it happened in michigan -- happen in michigan but we haven't seen it happen even in every state were tried let alone states where officials don't yet know if republicans are going to try it but it does seem like there are different tactics legally available to state officials in the various states and in some cases you can have a court essentially order officials to do this and in some states the election board can take over the job of an election official if they refuse to do it and another cases have one removed, but there isn't the same playbook available legally in every state. it does seem like the one thing that every state could do right now is give advice or get it on
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record that they shouldn't do this and not within their rights to try. >> that is right. we have seen a number of these different responses work in many states like new mexico and nevada where they went to court and got orders to order these officials to certify the vote. but the reason we are putting this report out is to say here is the law in this state and what could be done so that officials can get out there and worn these folks and be ready to act and a lot of states i think the signs have been positive and in a state like georgia it is alarming because you have the state election board going in the opposite direction and even though the law is clear you have this board trying to say that county officials can refuse to certify
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and that's definitely a place to keep an eye on. >> exactly because not having a certified result out of georgia would be a very bad thing for the election regardless of who wins in georgia but not having a certified result would be a bad thing in terms of the way the country comes together but it seems to be what they are aiming at. here we will link to this new report and thank you for doing it and bringing together all of these examples were the things that happened and talking about practical things that states could do to headed off and it's an important service and thank you. >> thank you so much for having me. >> we will be right back. stay with us. >> choose for faster stronger >> choose for faster stronger relief (♪♪) [birds chirping] [phone dings] meanwhile, at a vrbo... oh my god. what?
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the last time a democratic presidential candidate won north carolina was barack obama in 2008 since harris moved to the ticket at the top three weeks ago democrats feel north carolina may be in reach again with a poll released yesterday has trump and harris tied at 46% each there. some of that is the relative appeal of the two candidates in their campaign, absolutely but part of what may be doing that is the republican candidate for governor there i believe the technical term is cuckoo for cocoa puffs. mark robinson is the republican nominee for governor and he said school teachers are wicked
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people and has mocked and attacked survivors of school shootings. he has warned ominously that the music industry is controlled by the illuminati and he said the film black panther was created by satanic marxists and maybe not surprisingly he has engaged in the holocaust denial and he is the republican nominee for governor and a real place called north carolina. that same poll yesterday which found trump and harris tied found that robinson is losing the governor's race in north carolina to democrat, josh stein, by double digits and losing by 10 points. there is new reporting highlighting another statewide republican candidate in north carolina will probably top some of the same charts that mark robinson's. cnn has found a video from the republican party's nominee for education commissioner and the nominee to run public schools in north carolina and a video
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that reported from a dc area hotel the night of january 6 of 2021 because she had gone to washington for that days event and in the video she explicitly advocates for a military coup to keep donald trump in power as long as he invokes the insurrection act, he will be re- inaugurated and put back in. her name is michelle moreau and she has previously called for the killing of joe biden and other prominent democrats saying the execution of barack obama should be conducted in public and be pay-per-view and she is now the republican nominee to be the superintendent of all public k 12 education in north carolina and calls public schools socialism centers and indoctrination centers and naturally is endorsed by the republican governor candidate mark robinson who said at a recent event, we will make sure we do everything to get you in
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>> that's going to do it for us tonight. i want to apologize to my dogs, again, for always calling them each other's names. i want to thank them for still liking me anyway, or at least pretending to. i've cleaned up the mess of my personal life, now it is time for the last word where ali velshi is in for lawrence tonight. >> the beauty is that the dogs love you the same, i will say, you offered us that story, to further the other store you started telling us who among us doesn't make mistakes like that. and, the willie brown stuff was fantastic. >>