announced a final decision, but it's unusual, i want you to understand, to deviate from what career prosecutors would recommend. that's an update we want to share with you as we end the week, you can find me online @arimelber on social media, also melberbook.com to find the january 6th report and my foreword we told you about this week. thanks for spending time with us. "the reidout" with joy reid starts now. >> tonight on "the reidout" -- >> i would like to promise and pledge that i will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if i win. >> six years after those remarks, republican candidates across the country are following trump's lead, threatening

democracy by refusing to say whether they will accept election results they don't like. >> also tonight, what's next after a very bad week for trump with the special master telling his lawyers to put up or shut up and new york's attorney general exposing years of alleged fraud. >> and as kevin mccarthy makes his pitch for speaker, president biden reminds americans exactly what republicans want to take from you if they win. things like reproductive rights and social security. >> good evening, everyone. i'm jason johnson in for joy reid. we begin tonight with the cancer that continues to rot what's left of the desiccated corpse of the republican party. moments from now, the former president will stand shoulder to shoulder with ted budd, north carolina's republican senate candidate. he refused to accept the results if he loses but voting to certify the 2020 election as a member of congress just hours after the attack on the capitol. and he's not the only one. from the carolinas to california, from can cue to

grand's tomb, election denialism has affected the republican organization because they barely act like a party. according to the website fivethirtyeight, 60% of americans will have an election denier on the ballot this fall. out of the more than 500 republicans running for office, nearly a quarter of them have fully rejected legitimacy of the 2020 election. if you want a preview of just what life would look like with these folks in control, take a look at georgia where election deniers are now using false claims to challenge the legitimacy of more than 60,000 voter registrations, and they just happen, i know this is shocking, to be voters that are in counties full of black and brown people. these challenges were brought about because georgia secretary of state the one who is pretending he stood up for rights, refused to overturn the 2020 election for trump, but state republicans afraid of making the maga king and all his people look angry at them,

decided to pledge their allegiance and change state election laws that don't exist. earlier, joe biden warned how dangerous this election denialism really is. >> it's become a litmus test in their party to pledge loyalty to donald trump by buying into the big lie. you can't let the integrity of elections being undermined. democracy can't survive, it cannot survive, not a joke. can't survive when one side believes there's only two outcomes to an election. either they win or they were cheated. >> one of the most prominent election deniers he's referring to is currently running to control arizona's elections. mark finchem is a republican nominee for secretary of state. he's currently a state legislator and actually tried to decertify the arizona election results back in 2020 but he failed. he's also a member of the oath keepers, that right wing paramilitary group, and he attended the capitol insurrection.

according to politico, a fellow republican in the arizona house was shocked at finchem's success given, quote, mark is known as the guy that's probably the dumbest, well there's long list, but one of the dumbest legislators in the house. with friends like these. look, last night, finchem faced off with his democratic opponent, the former mayor copa county recorder who oversaw the 2020 election for really the entire country. a jarring side-by-side of two vastly different perspectives. one grounded in reality and the other grounded in the unhinged fever dreams of the big lie. >> knowing what we know today, there are certain counties that should have been set aside as irredeemably compromised. >> when we have conspiracy theories and lies like the one mr. finchem have haired based in no real evidence, what we end up doing is eroding the faith we have in each other as citizens. >> later, finchem pretty much made president biden's point when he said the reason we can

trust results of his primary and not those of the 2020 election was because he won. >> was the august midterm election fair? were there any improprieties you saw? >> i have no idea. it is what it is. >> what changed? >> what changed? >> yes. >> the candidates. >> well, election day might be weeks away, you can already vote in north carolina, minnesota, south carolina -- sorry, south dakota, virginia, and wyoming. joining me now to discuss this is adrian fantes himself, the democratic nominee for arizona secretary of state. thank you so very much. i have to mention this, adrian. i watched that debate and it reminded me of that old "snl" sketch like wr the character is like, how am i losing to this guy. i can't imagine what it's like being on stage with someone like this. i want to start with this. you're running for secretary of state. that is an incredibly important

responsibility. what are the responsibilities of the secretary of state in arizona? because it changes state by state. what would you be responsible for in 2024? >> first, thanks for having me. the secretary of state in arizona is the chief election regulator. chief election officer in arizona, the 15 counties run the actual elections. the secretary really kind of herds all of those cats. we also have business services and public services inside of that office, near and dear to my heart are the archives and libraries, but we really are sort of a ministerial office, the secretary of state does critically certify the election results that come out of the canvases of each of arizona's counties. and i think that's the main point of discussion for today. >> and so the certification process, that would be you look at all the different counties, they give you their election results. and it's your job to evaluate if those are legitimate. it's your job to rubber stamp

what they do. how does that certification process actually work? >> well, it's not really a rubber stamp. a good secretary will work with the counties as they are building their canvases, will review them ahead of time before the counties actually perform the canvas, do the vote that certifies it and sends to the secretary's office. good teams don't just rubber stamp. they make sure to work together along the way through the process so it is smooth, so we do have free and fair elections, so we have predictable government, rational government. and not just weird chaos which is what my opponent is presenting, and we just want things to work normally. and that's really how the process is supposed to work. >> exactly. your job is to scrutinize what is delivered to you and then make sure it's fair for the entire country, and frankly, arizona will be one of the states where the entire country's eyes will be on you. with that being in mind, i want to play you sound of your

opponent, the country was all focused on something he was involved in last year. i want to get your thoughts about it on the other side. >> do you think arizona voters want their chief elections officer at a riot at the u.s. capitol to overturn an election? is that what you think arizona residents, citizens, voters want? >> the last time i checked, to be at a place when something is happening is not illegal. >> i'll be honest with you. if i was at something that turned into a riot, i would have left. i would have condemned it. if i'm at a party where there's like drinking going on in high school, i left, i was that kid. i guess my standards are too high for someone running for office, but what are your thoughts about that? it's not only someone who is going to be responsible of holding a sacred oath of counting the ballot in the state of arizona, what are your thoughts about running against someone who was basically a participant, bear minimum, an

observer, in an attempted coup of the united states government? >> it was a crime scene, and he claims to have been a law enforcement officer, although the do not rehire from kalamazoo police department speaks more to that. it was a crime scene. it wasn't just any old crime scene or any old riot. this was an attempted overthrow of the government of the united states of america where they had a gallows set up to hang mike pence and nancy pelosi. this was an attempted coup. and for him to minimize it like that is not just callous, it's obscene as against the constitutional order of the greatest democracy this planet has ever seen. and folks like this are all over the country. and they're dangerous in their dilution delusion is it wasn't that big of a deal, just some political gamesmanship. their lack of capacity to understand the gravity of the

moment and the destructive nature of their advocacy for this unpredictable chaos, that's bad. and it's really a negative reflection on the rest of us that we haven't fought back with a lot more vigor, that we haven't held them to account with a lot more disdain, that we haven't moved more quickly to hold those who committed acts of violence that resulted in the deaths of law enforcement officers, by the way, to hold them accountable. so shame on us for not going harder against these guys. shame on us for not swinging back with the strength that they are coming at our democracy with. shame on us for not standing up like so many other generations have for our own voting rights and our own democracy. >> this is the kind of thing we want to hear from our elected officials. thank you. arizona secretary of state adrian fontes. we really appreciate it. >> let's bring in the ceo of the

new georgia project and one of the most impressive voter organizers and activists i have ever had the opportunity to interview. i'm going to ask this because we just talked to adrian, running for secretary of state in georgia. georgia still has a secretary of state whose claim is fame is he did the minimum in 2020. he decided to not overturn an election. but there are still concerns about voter suppression and questionable practices on the part of the secretary of state's off in the state of georgia right now. what is going on in georgia with the electoral system and with certain voting places that's making it harder for people to go out and practice the franchise? >> the georgia republican party of which our secretary of state, brad raffensperger is a member, has taken a sledge hammer to our elections infrastructure, and they're doing everything they can to cheat in advance of the

november 8 elections. a lot has been written and said about senate bill 202, which was georgia's own version of the anti-voting bill. i will remind your viewers that over 50 provisions in georgia's laws were changed, including creating five new crimes for voting related behavior. two of them, which are felonies would carry with them penalties that are several years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. just this wednesday, burnett county, the second largest county in georgia, soon to be the largest county in georgia, the most racially and ethnically diverse county in the southeastern united states, an individual, random citizen, was able to -- was trying to challenge the voter status of 37,500 gwinnett county voters. again, the most ethnically and racially diverse county in the southeastern united states.

why that number matters so much in a state where there's 7 million voters, because georgia's america's newest battleground state. georgia is america's newest swing state. the margin of victory for the president of the united states was just over 11,000 votes. that's .00015%. and republicans have allowed it, that any individual can challenge an unlimited number of voters in any county in georgia. that is deeply problematic. we don't have the resources. we are 46 days away from a historic election where there promises to be historic levels of participation. they are trying to break the machinery of georgia's elections infrastructure because when everyone votes and every vote is counted, they will no longer be in power. it's obvious, and it's disgusting. and brad raffensperger has

endorsed it. he has endorsed it. he is in lock step with his party. he has not in any way come out against these attacks on georgia's elections as an individual citizen, as a patriot, nor as georgia's chief elections officer. >> well, look, we have all known that you can't really trust anything out of raffensperger's staff label and organization. secretary of state's office is clearly compromised and has been since before, when you had brian kemp, who was in charge of these sorts of things and got to administer his own run for governor. my question just quickly because a lot of people are concerned about this. when they hear this kind of news about georgia, when they hear about these challenges, the kind of things brian kemp was doing and see the poll numbers and say, oh, my gosh, is there any chance that any of these candidates who care about democracy can win. what is something that people don't know about georgia? are there large numbers of people who haven't been counted in this polling yet? are there places where

registration has gone up that may counter some of this voter suppression? what's happening on the ground that may give people hope about what the future might look like in the state in 46 days? >> what people need to know is that, one, the new georgia project alone has registered an additional 30,000 black people and young people this year. since mlk day of 2022. not to mention people who continue to move to the state. one. number two, what people need to know is that almost 7 out of 10 absentee ballots that have been requested up to this point have been requested by women. and we are absolutely in a post-dobbs era where people need to note there has bib a 300% increase in black georgians requesting absentee ballots so there's polling, which takes a snapshot of what people think about in this moment and the data coming from the actual ballots that people are requesting, that they are going to submit. i think what people need to know is that while there are challenges with the brand of the

national political parties, that stacey abrams is not the dnc. and that they know her, they know her work, they know her leadership, and they know what is at stake for georgians in this moment. and that's what folks don't know and understand. >> we could talk throughout the entire show. thank you for starting us off on "the reidout" today. >> thank you. up next on "the reidout," are the walls closing in on trump? sure looks like it after a week of major legal setbacks. "the reidout" continues right after this break. this break

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it's been a very bad, no good, horrible week for a bunch of folks with the last name trump. as legal challenges not only continue to mount with the addition of the civil lawsuit announced by the new york attorney general, but because of the direction of the challenges are heading in. like in the case of trump's gross mishandling of classified documents he took to his florida golf resort. beyond the fact the 11th circuit court of appeals has sided with the doj in its effort to continue using those documents in their criminal investigation. the special master that trump's team nominated and trump is footing the bill for, is tetting trump's team to put up or shut up in regards to trump's most absurd differents. earlier this week, raymond dearie called out trump's legal team to provide any evidence

backing up trump's claims he declassified the documents. they declined. just yesterday, dearie gave trump's lawyers until next friday to back up another of trump's public claims that the fbi planted evidence. it's all playing out as we learned this week that trump was warned by one of his former white house lawyers last year that this exact situation would happen if he did not return all of the documents he took from the white house, particularly the classified material. of course, it was a warning that trump did not heed. joining me now is philip rucker, deputy national editor for "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst, and maya wiley, president and ceo of the leadership conference on the civil and human rights who previously worked on the civil division of the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. thank you guys so much for joining me this evening. i'm usually hesitant to get into the this is the worst week ever for trump, but help put this in context for the audience. he had a special gambit, i'm

going to get this special master and that's going to allow me to delay things but it seems like the special master hasn't really been on his side. is that a huge blow? was the special master trump's hail mary? is that what they're sort of saying in trump world or was this just another delaying tactic? >> it wasn't exactly a hail mary. but it was more than a delaying tactic. i think this was a strategy by trump and his legal team to try to gain an advantage in this investigation frankly. they thought that they could recommend as a special master someone who would be more beholden to what trump wants than what the law necessarily dictates, and what's happened this week is we have seen the special master exert some independent judgment and kind of put trump in a position that i don't think he anticipated after getting the approval of the special master. so it's not quite a hail mary, but it's certainly this is all a

setback for trump, and i think it comes at a time when he's facing these converging legal threats, including most especially out of new york this week. >> not a hail mary, maybe a half court shot, maybe a 64-yard field goal. yes, that's a seahawks comment. maya, i'll take this to you. here's what appears to be, according to "the new york times," trump's legal strategy. i want to see if you think this makes any sense. so trump's strategy over the declassification claims is he seems to be saying during the hearing before judge dearie, mr. trump's lawyers provided a glimpse of what the declassification gambit may be about. it appears to be a strategy that the former president's legal team is holding in reserve should he ultimately challenge the legality of the mar-a-lago search in a suspension motion or file court papers known as a rule 41 motion to get some of the seized materials back from the justice department. now, my understanding of this, with only a couple years of law and order under my belt is that his hope is to say the entire

search was somehow illegal and consequently not only does this investigation have to come to a grinding halt, but somehow he can get back some of the papers that shouldn't have been this begin with. does any of that have any legal chance one way or another or did he get this from the alex jones school of legal theories? >> well, i'm going to have to go with choice b, because it's very, very hard to actually even read judge cannon's decision, the underlying decision that the 11th circuit quickly threw out where donald trump said, hey, the department of justice shouldn't even be able to look at the classified documents which are owned by the federal government, by the way, in an ongoing criminal investigation about whether any crimes were committed with those documents. the whole thing, the whole process seemed to me to be grasping at straws and using anything they could find to try

to not only mount some semblance of a defense but also frankly to try this case to some degree in the court of public opinion. to do what trump does quite frequently, which is just make stuff up in order to make it look like he's not doing as much wrong as he's actually doing wrong and convince his base. because the truth is it's why the 11th circuit moved very quickly, why the department of justice moved very quickly, and in terms of whether or not he's got some ability to throw these documents out, if in fact there is an indictment, but let alone get them back when they're not his documents is very hard to imagine. >> right. yes, very difficult to say i want those library books back that are actually in the ownership of the library. philip, i want to play you some sound from a trump interview earlier this week where he also sort of lays out as maya sort of suggests, his public gambit. his let me try to make this a public spectacle and have the court of public opinion handle

this, because i'm not winning the actual courts and get your thoughts on the other side. this is him talking about the unwritten rule that was violated by tish james earlier this week. >> and there's a rule that's an unwritten law, you never do this politically. you won't see hunter biden attacked during this period. 60 to 90 days out before an election, nobody gets attacked. they attacked me. >> so phil, i'll start with you. from the pure politics standpoint, how does that play? right? if you're part of trump's base, you already think that everything is against him. and if you're sort of a moderate american who actually functionally cares about democracy, the vast majority of polling has shown people saying hey, i don't think he should have this. how does that interview play with the audience and the public as a whole in. >> well, it just plays right into trump's effort to politicize all of this. and plays into what his base wants to hear, which is not that

these are sort of legitimate legal and criminal investigations and charges that are brought, but rather in trump's mind, they're political attacks brought by his enemies with a campaign purchase in mind. that's not what this is. this is the state prosecutor leveling pretty serious charges against trump and his company. and what you have at the justice department, of course, is a federal law enforcement investigation into his handling of classified documents. also, just so your viewers understand, that rule that he's talking about, that 60-day rule, is an unwritten rule at the justice department, not a law, but it is a norm that the justice department has followed. the action by tish james in new york is separate from the justice department. that's not a federal action. that's a state action, and tish james' office does not adhere to federal justice department rules. >> maya, very quickly, we have dual investigations, one from the doj, one from the state of

new york. which one do you think gets a conviction faster? do you think that the process that tish james laid out this week, will we see somebody in an orange jumpsuit from trump's inner circle from her or the doj faster? >> well, let's remember that tish james suit is civil, not criminal, number one, and probably going to be alengthy process. it usually is. i have to say, department of justice on these documents, it is a very clear that they have recovered documents from donald trump's residence he did not own. should not have possessed, should not have kept. some of his attorneys told him so, so that's where we are. >> philip rucker and maya whily, thank you. maya, i think i hear a cat in the background. added some real passion. thank you guys so much for joining us. >> up next, a series of scandals and controversies shaking up the world of professional sports.

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nfl hall of famer brett favre is known for many things. leading the green bay packers to victory, showing up in there's something about mary, ridiculous career stats, sexual harassment, possible pain killer addiction and also the $140 million he

earned during his two-decade career. alas, the mighty, the praised, have finally fallen. these days, favre is embroiled in a scandal in mississippi where millions of dollars in federal welfare money went to projects that benefitted the not so needy, including a new volleyball facility at favre's alma mater where it just so happens his daughter attended and played the sport. the scandal in the nation's poorest state is heating up. on thursday, john davis, a key figure in the welfare spending scandal, pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges. elsewhere in the world of sports, the boston celtics share more on its suspension of their coach, saying the penalty came after a months-long investigation that found multiple violations of team policies. the team's interim coach is now assistant joe mazula who comes with legal issues of his own. he was arrested on suspicion of domestic battery in 2009 that was settled out of court. joining me is terrance moore to

discuss all of these things. goodness gracious, when they say sports are soap operas, this is the week. i want to start with brett favre. one of the things that strikes me about this case is not just the corruption but the introspection that it's caused in some ort the sports media. many people, there have been tweets and commentary about the fact that brett favre should be being covered with the same relentlessness that jameis winston got when he sold $32 worth of crab legs, that brett favre should be treated with much more hostility than michael vick or colin kaepernick were. how do you think these sports media has handled covering this brett favre story, given the depth and breadth of the crime he's allegedly involved in? >> well, jason, i'm going to start with this, depending on how all this turns occupant, it's going to make me decide whether or not to burn my brett favre t-shirt. and i bring that up because

being a member of the media, i can speak for all of us. brett favre was a delight to talk to, he really was. that's part of the problem here. he was such a likable person. not so much on the field when he was throwing interceptions and the other things, but for 20 years, he was a great player. should have nothing to do with this and the fact he was a very cooperative player with us, so yes, there is a double standard, no question about it. there's no way in the world when brett favre says he knew nothing about this, a million dollars to speak and you don't speak. okay. when your alma mater is getting $5 million for a volleyball facility, and by the way, that must be one heck of a volleyball facility. nothing against volleyball, but $5 million when your daughter plays a part there. and you talk about the poorest state in the country, this is not a good look, to say the least. >> yeah, you know, i was struck by that because again, being likable is something that can change how they cover you, but

it doesn't change the crimes or seriousness of the things you committed. i want to turn to emu odokeue now. there's strange tweets going out about his personal life, but i'm struck by two things about the story and i'm curious what's your thoughts are. first, you have it first leaked by the celtics organization that they're doing to suspend him for a year. then there's a press conference where they say he violated a lot of team policies. he gets a one-year suspension. what confuses me is we still don't know the specifics of what he supposedly did, but more importantly, there's not been a peep out of the nba coaches union. and usually, the union steps in at this point and says, hey, we're going to investigate this or we're going to appeal the one-year suspension. why do you think there has been no word from the nba coaches union about a one-year suspension of a coach who in his rookie season took a team to the nba finals? >> well, in the words of my late grandmother, this is a hot mess.

okay. no one has ever seen anything like this in the nba, coaches being in this situation. so a lot of this, jason, is that. that this is just a totally unprecedented situation. and let's face it. the person to blame the most is oduka. he got himself in this situation. let's deal with what we know. we know the boston celtics have some rule, you cannot be involved in any affairs with somebody who is part of the organization. he violated that rule. now, what went on beyond that, who knows. but it's obvious from what you said right there, this is pretty bad. we have got not only his peers not defending him, not saying a word about it. there's something more involved here, and what's so sad about this, just from a basketball standpoint, discussing if he did what he was alleged to do, but from a basketball standpoint, here's this guy, first year as a head coach, did a splendid job. there were under .500 in january and streaked to the finals.

all that washed away because of this more serious matser. what did he do here? we don't know, but it does not look good whatever it is. >> and the other thing is, i think the way, in some ways the celtics handled this, let to unfair and sexist speculation because they failed to be clear about what happened. terrance moore, thank you for joining us where. >> we're going to go to who won the week ahead, but first, we only have 46 days until the midterm elections and political jabs are flying fast and furious. that and more next on "the reidout."

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46 days away, we actually have some breaking news. just released now, an arizona judge has just ruled that the state can enforce a near total ban on abortion. a near total ban on abortion. this just coming from a judge in the state of arizona. right in time for leaders of both political parties to be sharpening their messages to voters. look, this is a serious, serious issue and something that's going to be of concern to many voters throughout the country. while kevin mccarthy is trying to make his pitch for speaker of the house, and introducing the republican committee, the republican commitment to america and his agenda in pennsylvania, he's also going to have to deal with the fact you have more and more republicans and more democrats and more americans who are concerned about their

future. but, he figures he can cover all that with the predictable maga republican buzz words. >> on our very first bill, we're going to repeal 87,000 irs agents. we can build an education system that has a parents' bill of rights. we should insure women only compete in women's sports. >> yeah, in case you missed it, yes, that was none other than marjorie taylor greene seated directly behind mccarthy. a short time later in washington, president biden rebuked mccarthy's ban with goals with little or no details and laid out a clear contrast between the parties running for office this fall. >> in 46 days america is going to choose. if republicans win control of the congress, abortion will be banned, but if you give me two more democratic senators in the united states senate, i promise you, i promise you, we're going

to codify roe. >> americans are going to face a choice. if republicans control the congress, social security will be on the chopping block. but if you support the democrats, i promise you that social security will be protected, period. >> joining me now is mara gay and member of "the new york times" editorial bill and victor xi, strategy director for voteroffs tomorrow, cohost of the i-gen podcast. i'm going to start with this. just your reactions to this new ruling from an arizona judge allowing a near total ban on abortion in the state of arizona. i'll start with you, mara. what do you think this does for voters in the state of arizona right now? if they were having any questions about whether they wanted to participate, what do you think this is going to do? >> i mean, first of all, i'm thinking about women, pregnant people in the state of arizona right now, just the heartbreak i

know as a woman that comes when you know that your government does not protect you and in fact is seeking to control the decisions that should be made between you and your health care provider. these are life and death decisions. so unfortunately, we're going to see more tragic stories, i fear, coming out of yet another state as women's rights are being stripped away. i think the political impact is pretty clear. if you look at what the movement that really started in kansas at the ballots this year, it's clear that american voters, not just democrats, and not just women, see what's happening and they see that not only are women's rights under assault but really basic fundamental american freedoms that we have come to enjoy in this country, though imperfectly, are at risk, no matter who you are, because

of the move to really start controlling americans' lives. and i think that americans don't like it. and i think that's why the republicans aren't talking about it, because they know these are unpopular with voters who are not in their deepest red base. and they're hoping that american voters forget come november that they are the ones that are taking our rights away. >> victor, you know, with your work and your organization, you're dealing with new voters, the youngest voters, first-time voters. when legislation -- when rulings like this come down, how does it hit sort of first time voters? is this the kind of thing, you know, after they deal with the shock, after they deal with the offense, the fear, the heartbreak, as mara was just talking about, does it tend to mobilize them or frustrate them that the system seems to continue to ignore what their needs and desires are as american citizens? >> so i think it's that frustration and anger that is really turning out young voters

come this november election. this is why young voters are so mobilized and so engaged in this election. in the past, we have seen the young voter turnout really tick up, but i think in this election you're going to see that really change because republicans are clearly coming after our lives. dobbs, lives. dobbs, that decision overturning roe v. wade, and limiting the ability for young people to access abortion, for women to access abortion, was a key decision. that is the first time people, in my generation, saw a, right literally, get overturned by the supreme court. then you have states, across the country, like arizona today, who are seeking to impose a ban on abortion. this is something young people know all too well, especially young girls, who may be seeking abortions. they cannot access safe, and legal abortions. that is what's rolling up a lot of people in my generation, we feel the anger, we feel the frustration, and i think you will see that turnout, come november. i want to point out one thing, which is that this is going to happen, with the republicans

win in 2022, you just need a listen to someone like senator lindsey graham, and it's not just in the states. the federal government wants to do this. lindsey graham says he wants to impose a nationwide ban on abortion. i think voters, really, need to pay attention to that. young voters, especially, late this time around, aren't oblivious. we understand what's going on, and we will act on it >> let me play you some sound from president joe biden, talking about abortion, and how, in particular, it affects women voters in this election. >> justice alito says, women can decide the outcome of this election. well, he hasn't seen anything yet. i don't believe that the maga republicans have a clue about the power of american women. >> the date of there is that there has been a huge uptick in voter registration, first-time voters, amongst women,

especially women under the age of 30. the question is, we have seen, many times in the past, while there may be an uptick in women voting, they don't, necessarily, vote for candidates who are always about protecting abortion rights. there are large numbers of white american women who vote for republicans, who want to restrict our rights, but at the same time, want to vote to protect those rights. with those numbers we've seen, now how are they playing out? is joe biden right? or the power of women voters, will that protect abortion rights this fall? or do we just not know until election day? we don't know how the women are going to vote? >> that's a great question. first of all, i don't think any of us can take anything in our democracy for granted right now. the elections in november will be one, it's not just at the ballot box, but by get out the vote efforts and, by organizing across the country. generally, for democrats, new

voters, and more voters, is a good thing. so, broadly speaking, it is the case that the more people who vote nationally, traditionally, democrats tend to do better. so, that is a good sign for the democrats. i think the other factor here, is that people, who are newly motivated in this environment to vote, may, very well, be coming out in support of abortion rights. let's just remember, the most hard-core republicans are, likely, to vote in primaries, which have already done. they've already gotten their supreme court picks, so they may not be as motivated. we really don't know. again, nothing can be taken for granted. i think the big question for democrats, as well, is not only what happens in congress, but can they motivate democrat voters who are exhausted to show up in their state elections and, really, understand the importance of what happens in houses across the country.

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mara, quickly with you, who won this week? >> my person of the week's bexar county sheriff's office, our salazar, who is opened a criminal investigation into the flying of the migrants from san antonio, to martha's vineyard. thank you to the sheriff are reminding us, there are consequences to hateful, political conduct >> yes, police doing a good job. victor, quickly, who won the week? >> in the same thinnest justice and accountability, i will choose new york attorney general, letitia james. she is just amazing, and showed, us the rule of law matters, equal justice under law, and i hope this is one out of many, hopeful, acts of accountability that will be facing the former guy to in the weeks to come. >> both great winners. i am saying, the winner of the week is the writers guild of america west, which has announced a new board of directors. look, we talked about amazon, we talked about starbucks, but their unions for the men and women who bring us tv shows

every day that we watch. from housewives, to what we watch on hbo, everything else. they have a brand-new board, fighting for the rights of men, and women, to be paid for the content they create, that we consume, every day. thank you for the w. j.a. west. that is tonight's read out. joy is back on monday. all in with chris harris, starting right now. arting right now tonight, on all in. >> with a straight face, kevin mccarthy says america republican will restore face -- faith in our elections. as we say in my faith, press me father for i have sinned. >> 46 days on november 8th, the party of the coup believes they have a vision of america. >> we want to roll it out to you, to the entire country, to know, exactly, what we will do. >> tonight, what happens if republicans take back the house, and go back to work for donald trump. then, the rhonda santa's human traf