buttigieg joins me later in the show. president biden is expected to speak in the 9:00 hour. we will carry that live. the coup attempt of january 6th did not succeed. how the insurrection is moving in slow motion across the country now. and georgia's former republican secretary of state is here to tell us what it was like to stand up against the big lie. why he considered trump's call to find him more votes to be a threat and what was unleashed on him when he refused. a genuine breakthrough. the tool used to fight the vaccines. "velshi" starts now. good morning. it is saturday, november 6th. i'm ali velshi. it has been exactly ten months to the day since the violent mob of the ex-president supporters attacked the capitol. just look at how difficult it is

to hold any one related to the plot to overthrow democracy accountable. take jeffrey clark. the former senior doj official to validate the twice impeached ex-president's lies about the election results. making him someone who congressional investigators want to hear from. he did show up for his scheduled deposition before the house select committee but did not offer up helpful information. the panel says he refused to answer questions during the deposition. instead, clark delivered a letter from his attorney defending his refusal to testify citing potential executive privilege. the select committee is threatening to take strong measures against clark, his shaky defense is working for now. it prevented him from being held

being accountable. almost none of the ex-president's cronies have been dealing with the consequences. some republicans who did not bow to the ex-president's pressure campaign. you probably forgot this chapter because 96,000 other things have happened since. before january 6th, georgia and other key swing states were in the middle of certifying the election results. on january 2nd of this year, the man in charge of the process in georgia, the secretary of state, brad raffensperger, got this call from the corrupt former occupant of the white house. >> so, look. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,7810 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state.

>> went on a lot longer for that. that is a recording of the former president of the united states telling a secretary of state what to do to quote find the votes to help him take the 2020 election. the ex-president's plot is there in the recording. despite that enormous pressure, brad raffensperger didn't cave. he certified biden's win in georgia. that comes with consequences for his political career as trump's gop turned him into public enemy number one. raffensperger has amassed no major endorsements next year and struggled to win minimal support in straw polls at republican events across georgia. unprecedented fall for an incumbent in the secretary of state race. the state legislature controlled by his party stripped him of the seat on the elections board for the 2022 election. purely in retaliation.

raffensperger's fall from grace for deciding to actually abide by the oath of office should serve as a reminder of the forces running the gop right now. it puts the spotlight on how fragile this democracy is. raffensperger chose to do the right thing, but someone else might not have. someone else might have caved under that pressure. the safety valve of democracy is certain individuals choose to do the right thing. while the overt january 6th attack on the democratic process may be in the rear-view mirror, the covert erosion of democracy is still under way. joining me now is brad raffensperger. the current republican secretary of state in georgia. he is the author of the book "integrity counts" which is in stores now. secretary raffensperger, thank you for joining us this morning. >> good morning. >> in your new book, you write

quote, i voted for president trump. i'm a long-time conservative republican with the proven voting record to match. i could not do what he asked because the numbers just weren't there. my job as secretary of state is to oversee fair and honest elections for everyone. was i disappointed in the outcome? yes. could i change the outcome? no. end quote. secretary, you decided not to give in to the immense pressure from the ex-president and gop. to answer my concerns and questions. should your choice, your correct choice be the safeguard against what could have been a very anti-democratic movement in georgia? >> you always think people will stand in the gap and do the right thing. i made the hard choice. it wasn't fun, trust me. it would have been easier if president trump won georgia, but the facts did not support.

we gave him a benefit of doubt. we did a hand recount. it verified he came up 12,000 votes short. every allegation made, every allegation, we checked it out. there weren't thousands of dead people. less than five. there were not thousands of felons. less than 74. no underage voting. they said there were 66,000. everything we ran it down so we knew in our hearts and in our minds the numbers are right and president trump came up short. >> there are dozens of lawsuits the ex-president is facing and criminal investigations. one conducted in georgia regarding the phone call i played at the top of the segment. you said you gladly will participate in the investigation. what does that mean? this is a tough position. you are running for re-election. you are having a hard time for the republicans believing in the big lie. what are you doing? the investigation? republicans, i'm sorry. you are getting a hard time. >> the fulton county d.a.

requested papers and information and we have to turn that over. that is part of the grand jury investigation. we said we would comply with any investigation she has ongoing. we don't know the status. she has interviewed some of our people. i have not been interviewed. >> you talk about america's elections overall in your book. it is the ultimate trust but verify system with layers of technology and oversight to prevent fraud. we count and accurately record every legal vote. we recount when necessary and wait, listen, respect. we cannot be persuaded to report anything but the facts. not by the president. not by anyone. you are one of the dozen of top officials in the country who found no widespread fraud despite the claims by the president of the all other secretaries of state came to the same congress conclusion despite the former president's claims. do you feel you want to bang that drum harder letting america

know the elections are safe and the stop the steal rhetoric is nonsense? >> that's why i wrote "integrity counts" to set the record straight. i went through the situation. i have ten pages of footnotes. everything is fact based. i included the letter to congress. everything in the book is accurate. everything in the letter i sent to congress is accurate. i did say there are two dead people. there are two more. there are up to four. there are never thousands of dead people. in the state of georgia, to help my republican friends understand, 28,000 georgians did not vote for anyone. david got 20,000 more votes in the metro area of atlanta and athens than president trump. the congress member got 33,000 more votes than president trump. that tells a story right there. that has nothing to do with what we do or the election director

does. that is the top of the ticket. people didn't turn out to vote and support the president as they supported other races. >> you have taken aim at stacey abrams. in the current struggle about the integrity for elections and the struggle for everyone entitled to vote in the way unimpeded. it strikes me that youabrams ar side of that. >> no, not in the least. if you look at what stacey abrams did, she lost the state of georgia by 55,000 votes. she questioned the legitimacy of the election. she set the table along with the leaders that supported her in her big lie. she set the table for president

trump to ramp it up and take it to the next level. voter suppression and voter fraud. both sides of the coin. stolen election claims undermine. both parties need to look at what they have done on the left and right and say we are not going to do that anymore. we will fight hard to win the elections, but when we lose, lose honorably. >> you cannot draw a parallel that stacey abrams saying voter suppressed and president trump saying find votes that were not cast in my favor. >> there was no voter suppression. we had 4 million people show up for the governor's race. that is 1 million more than before. we had record number of people showing up. no voter suppression. it was made up. and just like voter fraud. we show that president trump did

not win the state of georgia. it is not healthy for american democracy. both need to quit it and people need to win their races on their own merits. >> i agree with the last point. there say distinction with lying about voter fraud and discussing whether states like georgia and texas and others do make it difficult for people who have a constitutional right to vote. the amendments say who can vote in america and every one of the people should have an easy time voting. long lines. rules that discourage people from voting. shorter advanced polling. that is stacey abrams' complaint. that is valid. >> none of that happened in georgia. we cut down early voting. we have record registration and last year, we had 5 million people show up for the presidential ballot. >> you do not think you can do things in georgia to improve the

access for people to vote? make it a better voting system? >> we already have. we moved away from signature match on the absent ballot. we went to driver's license with photo i.d. that is what they are using in minnesota for ten years. it is an objective criteria. we can pull that subjective criteria and put in objective and restore voter confidence. we increased the days of early voting. last november, the lines were less than one hour in all precincts in of afternoon. the counties have done a great job. >> secretary raffensperger, will they let you be the republican candidate next time? >> that is up to the people. i talked to republicans all the time. i understand. a lot of republicans understand i did the right thing and they support the rule of law and they support me. >> any regrets?

>> no. you have taken the oath of office and you have honored the oath. >> secretary of state brad raffensperger, thank you for joining us this morning. we appreciate you did do the right thing. >> thank you, ali. >> author of the book "itegrity counts." i'm joined by the reporter for politico. he is looking into the january 6th aftermath. you study it so closely. there is a concern around that there are trump allies who continue to manage to run the clock out and not face justice. we understand there are 20 more subpoenas ready to go out from the january 6th committee. will they get something meaningful to get to the bottom of who funded the january 6th insurrection? >> i think one thing we learned is they interviewed 150

witnesses. what we know publicly is the tip of the iceberg. they are coming forward voluntarily. we read a lot about the people resisting and fighting and don't want to respond to subpoenas. these are major players like mark meadows. there are people who are quietly cooperating. people who attacked the capitol and went inside. some from the former president's administration. they are making progress. i think there is frustration among the members about those existing like jeff clark. there is more happening. >> what happens? jeff clark did not do what steve bannon did and refuse to show up and pass participate. he showed up and did not say anything meaningful. >> chairman thompson said we are ready to take some strong action if he doesn't reconsider. what that means, i don't know. you can't do more than what they did with steve bannon than refer for criminal contempt. the justice department has not

acted on steve bannon. they had the papers on the desk for two weeks. they want the justice department to move yesterday. whether they go to contempt for jeff clark or partly how they assess what the justice department is doing with steve bannon and whether that is worth doing again. >> these other subpoenas expected to come out. 20 subpoenas that apparently chairman thompson signed. does that influence that? if you get a subpoena for the committee, do you get to look at steve bannon and jeffrey clark and say that's my out? >> that is the fear. if there is no teeth, and people look at them and say why bother? i can resist and withhold and delay and nothing will happen. it is a different calculus than steve bannon. we don't know who the next round

of 20 subpoenas are for. we think one is john eastman. the attorney who helped trump pressure the vice president to not count electorial votes. he may try the same route as steve bannon. some may not make the same legal fight. >> kyle, good to see you. thank you for joining us. kyle cheney. we have breaking news from houston, texas. eight people are dead after the crowd compressed toward a stage at the travis scott astro world music festival. 17 people were taken to the local hospital. 11 in cardiac arrest by the houston fire chief. approximately 50,000 people were attending the two-day world festival. it was a sold out event. one of the deadliest concerts in u.s. history. the investigation is currently

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build back better package, the bigger human infrastructure package and the bipartisan infrastructure bill. it became evident it was not smooth sailing. friday was spent delaying and debating votes. the congress member of washington summed up the events of the day. >> well, the whole day was a cluster [ bleep ]. beyond that, right, i was up there and going through all this a while ago. i thought everyone was working in a congenial way. rank-and-file members figured out a way to get it [ bleep ] done. >> moderates wanted to public the infrastructure bill through. finally, minutes before midnight, democrats dragged the infrastructure bill over the finish line with the help of republicans. six democratic members of the

congressional progressive caucus voted no against the bill which would have tanked it all together if it weren't for the 13 republicans. the bill passed with the march margin. joining me now is dan kilday of michigan. mark was not available. dan will do it in less colorful terms. mark pocan may have spoken for you yesterday in terms of the confusion and back and forth or some say the sausage being made of legislation. how do you characterize what happened yesterday and what happens next? >> what happened yesterday, ultimately, literally, we got the legislation over the finish line. it is not pretty. this is the democratic process. we negotiate in public. it is sometimes confusing. it is a far cry from the worst

day we had during this calendar year. i tried to point this out whenever i can. this is how democracy has worked. we argue. we have different points of view. just think about the broad diversity of the democratic caucus. ultimately with 13 republicans and instead of infrastructure week after week after week, we had one long day that got the job done. it's a huge step forward. where we go from here is a commitment to bring the other piece of the agenda to the floor the week of november 15th. >> there's a lot of uncertainty about that. it seems like you have the commitment. moderates said the cost of the bill is as we believe it to be. meaning no paid for. no net increase to the deficit. they'll support it. things can change. it goes to the senate. more deals. things go out and thins go in.

is that risky for progressives? >> as long as we pass the legislation in the house, we have done our part. if our friends in the senate have changes they like to make, obviously, we will take a look at that and consider it. there's risk in trusting anyone. i think when we look at one another across the table, particularly put our faith in president biden, we think we can get this done. we weren't at the end of it all, willing to put this bipartisan election legislation at risk because we haven't been able to work out the other piece of the agenda. there is risk. the biggest risk is not being able to do anything at all and try to explain what we would have done. the people i represent don't want to hear what we would have done if we would come together. they want to see action. that's what we delivered.

>> you have thin margins in the house and six democratic members who voted not to move forward. is that a rift or is that something you can start to fix? >> i think this is our caucus. we're not going to always be 100% unanimous. this is the way the process of government works. we know we have different points of view. this is the democratic caucus. this is what we have. when you this thin margins, you have to deal with some folks who just can't get there. in this particular instance, it wasn't so much that they would have opposed the legislation ultimately. i know these folks. i know they sincerely want to move both pieces of legislation. they could not get themselves to the point that the other shoe would eventually fall. for the most of us, we did. >> for years, stephanie ruhle and i covered infrastructure

week over and over again. it would start and end hours on a monday. this is it. this is infrastructure week. this is$1 trillion in infrastructure. you live in a state that understands infrastructure very well in michigan. this is a very, very big deal from the historical perspective. >> it is really big. millions of people will have lead service lines from the water system ripped out of the ground and replaced with safe pipes because of the vote we took last night. ali, you covered it. you know about the story of my hometown of flint. this will prevent other communities from dealing with the tragedy that my community is still suffering from. this is consequential. it's a big moment. yesterday was a great day. great jobs report. revise the previous jobs report. unemployment down to 4.6%. we are seeing the future. this is when the government

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of the american families are facing. this recovery is faster and stronger and fairer than almost anyone could have predicted. >> for the traders watches, the stocks sent to fresh highs encouraging. it doesn't mean the supply chain and inflation concerns are gone. let's call it one step forward and one and a half steps back. it is good, bad and ugly. joining me to explore it is caleb from investopedia. >> great to be with you, ali. 531,000 jobs added. september and august revised higher. september jobs looked very bad coming out of that month because of the delta variant. the unemployment number ticked down. we have 81% of the labor market recovery. 18 million jobs from the 22 million lost. that is solid. the average monthly gains, ali,

531,000 jobs a month. we are getting the labor market momentum. people are coming back into the work force and the thing is wages continue to increase. up 11 cents in the last month. doesn't sound like much. it has been a long time since we have seen the wages rise. on the bad side of things, we have to look into the details of the report. there is still some imbalance here. the labor force participation rate. the american adults who be in the work force. 61%. the healthy is 63%. inflation up 5.4%. everybody is feeling that in gas prices and food prices. every time you fill up the car and go shopping. jammed with 70 ships off the port of los angeles. still a lot of jam ups there.

we are looking at the economy which is in good shape. still an uneven recovery, ali. if you are an investor, the stock markets at record highs. 64 record highs so far this year. the housing markets at an all-time high. investing class and those that own home and equity and investment and savings have done wealth. not all the way around. when we look at unemployment at race. twice at white versus others. poverty rate increased in the past year. i thought it would be worse. up 1%. this recovery is uneven. the strength in the labor market is a key indicator and a sign people are getting back to work and we get a full recovery in the final quarter and new year. >> caleb good to see you. caleb silver. coming up next on "velshi"

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on monday, lawyers will resume questioning witnesses in the trial of three white men charged with the killing of ahmaud arbery. it was a fraught day in the courtroom yesterday as both sides delivered opening statements and they began to question a police officer who responded to the scene. you'll recall arbery was shot and killed while running through glen county, georgia, in 2020. trafis and gregory mcmichael and their neighbor william bryan were charged with aggravated assault and false imprisonment. they've admitted to chasing him down in their trucks and pointing a gun at him and trying to imprison him and he shot ar behr ney self-defense. mcmichaels and bryan say they should not be convicted because they thought he was guilty of burglaries in the area and he was not. the racial makeup of the jury, the defense was able to strike several potential black jurors

making the current composition of the jury nearly all white in rural georgia. right now there are 12 jurors on the case and three alternates, but only one of those 15 people is black. that makeup doesn't even come close to reflecting the actual demographics of the local population and even the judge presiding over the case condemned the defense's tactics that were clear as day to him, but he was powerless to stop it. >> this court has found that there appears to be intentional discrimination. quite a few african-american jurors were excused through preemptory strikes exercised by the defense, but that doesn't mean that the court has the authority to re-seat and the court will not place upon the defendants of finding that they are being disingenuous to the court or otherwise are not being truthful with the court when it

comes to their reasons for striking these jurors. >> joining me now is paul butler, a former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. good morning to you, paul. if you're the prosecutor and there's a judge that makes a comment like this, can't fix this problem, but looks like a problem. can't tell if you're lying or not, what's he doing there? is he suggesting that there might be grounds for appeal at some point? >> well, there can't be an appeal unless there's a conviction. if the defendants get off it's game over. the concern is that jury selection one of the defense lawyers told the judge they needed more bubbas. they needed more white, southern men who didn't go to college and now we have a jury that sounds like a relic of the jim crow south of virtuallial-white jury in the case involving white men who lynched a black person. >> the actual case, the facts of

the case, there are not many of them that are in dispute largely because a lot of it was captured on video by one of the men who was charged, but the story, the narrative is one of those situations that reminds me of george floyd. we all saw the video and yet the defense created an alternate narrative. it didn't work in the case of george floyd, but in this particular case these guys are making some kind of we were in danger by ahmaud arbery after we chased him down and held him for, you know, the police to come. >> in their opening statement the prosecutors precedented the defendants as trigger-happy vigilantes. they hunted mr. arbery down and killed him based on bad assumptions that he was a burglar and then prosecutors say the defendants acted as judge, jury and executioner, but you're totally right. the defense has a whole different version of that narrative. they say that under georgia law

at the time they had the right to make a citizen's arrest of mr. arbery and then travis mcmichael shot mr. arbery in self-defense after arbery tried to grab his gun. >> serious arrests of a complicated concept and brian kemp of georgia has since repealed the ability to do that in georgia that's been in place since the civil war. you know, we don't really understand that term, but generally speaking, we don't understand it to mean you can chase someone down on your suspicion that something's up with them and then claim that they were trying to injure you ask kill them in self-defense, this is why some people are referring to this as a lynching. ahmaud arbery, those guys are suspecting him of lurking around the neighborhood had no evidence of it, nothing was proved and he is dead now. >> that's right. that citizens arrest law is a relic of the jim crow south. it was designed to allow white

people to capture runaway slaves and the fact that it was repealed after this incident will be used by the defense to make the point that it was legal what they did, making this arrest, quote, unquote, of this unarmed african-american was legal under georgia law at the time. we'll see what the jury thinks. this county, glen county is 27% black. one of the 15 people available for the jury is black. are there any rules in juries about being somewhat representative of the community? >> the jury pool has to represent the community, but there's no right to a black person on a case involving race although the supreme court says it's a good idea because it gives the verdict legitimacy. you mentioned the george floyd jury in the case of derek

chauvin. minneapolis has a lower percentage of african-americans than glen county. it's 20% black, but that jury was half people of color and that made a difference. we have glen county where this case is taking place. one in three people are african-american. one out of 12 jurors, there's reason to be concerned that this verdict will not be legitimate. >> paul, we'll stay on top of this with you. paul butler is former federal prosecutor and author of the book "choke hold," policing black men. we are getting started this saturday morning on the heels of the bipartisan infrastructure bill. transportation secretary pete buttigieg joins the show and president biden is set to speak to the nation in 30 minutes. don't go anywhere. another hour of "velshi" begins right now. ♪♪ ♪♪

and good morning to you. it is 9:00 a.m. in the east. i'm ali velshi. ten months ago today a wayward mob of the former president supporters carried out a deadly insurrection at the united states capitol and the committee tasked with investigating those attacks is pressing on. the january 6th committee has issued 19 subpoenas and that number is about to double. on thursday committee chairman representative betty thompson told reporters he's already signed about 20 more subpoenas. another committee member, liz cheney also acknowledged this week that they've interviewed more than 150 people across the country. that list now includes the former justice department official jeffrey clark, this man, sort of. yesterday clark appeared for a deposition, but in a statement released after ward, chairman thompson remarked mr. clark's complete failure to cooperate is unacceptable. the disgraced former president himself donald trump and his team have been trying to block the january 6th committee from obtaining more than 750 pages of