ryan, turned 11 today. i was very excited about that. >> nice. the birthday. >> she's fantastic. i was your thanksgiving? >> it was good. i know what you're saying about viral togetherness. and that very specific sense. whenever anybody's got, everybody's got it now. even in the absence of covid. luckily, knock on wood. but, yeah thanksgiving for me, for somebody who's kind of integrated, it's always both absolutely wonderful because i love our friends and family and adult orphans that end up at our house, and also, i just need to be alone for six weeks afterward to compensate. >> well, good luck with that. >> thank you very much. thanks, my friend. appreciate it. and think it's to all of you for joining us. it's good to have you here. the monday after the thanksgiving holiday weekend, thanksgiving holiday weekend >> good luck with that. >> thank you very much. thanks, my friend. appreciate it. thanks you at home for joining us this hour. great to have you here.ou the monday after the thanksgiving holiday weekend, it always has kind of a drill sargent feel to it for me.

because you get this nice holiday, right, you hopefully you get thursday, friday, saturday, sunday off. it's really one of our only big long holiday periods like.ll but then the monday after thanksgiving holiday weekend, t back to work on the double, especially because we just have this short period of time before people are off again around the christmas holiday, so i always feel like this specific day on the calendar, the monday after thanksgiving is always the day when the to-do list feels aboutt 50 pages long and you feel like you're sort of late for everything. and you see that in the news cycle today, too.e although in politics, i feel like right now we're in this moment where it feels like we are back to work for sure, that post-thanksgiving vibe is here, but in politics, we're back to work on two very different but parallel tracks. because on the one hand, congress is coming back into t session now for the first time after the midterm elections.s that creates all sorts of normal political news.

it poses all sorts of political questions. the democrats now know they'll only control both houses of congress until january 3rd, which is when the new congress will be sworn in, and the republicans will then take over the house. anything the democrats want to get done, while they control t both the house and the senate before the republicans take the house january 3rd, democrats have got to do it now, which might make you think they'd be in a hurry to get stuff done in the limited remaining time, t right? i mean, the clock is ticking here. it's only 36 days until the republicans take over the house. you might think because of that that the democrats would be planning on working around the d clock for all of those 36 days, right? making use of all the time they have left to get as much done as possible before the republicans arrive and nothing can be done. alas, that is not the approach. of the 36 days between now and the republicans taking over half of congress january 3rd, the

senate is planning on having workdays on 15 of those 36 days. the house is planning on having workdays on 12 of those 36 days. that's it. and the other days are like holiday, travel, mondays off. i mean, i don't know. still, though, they're still going to tray to get some ra important stuff done. the senate had a procedural vote tonight to make marriage rights u.s. law coast to coast. right now, the reason same sex couples can get married all ovet the country is because the u.s. supreme court said laws banning same sex marriage are unconstitutional. but since trump appointees joined the supreme court, now the republican-appointed hardline conservative supermajority on the court is c threatening that they're going t to reverse that decision on marriage.se

they're going to let republican-controlled states once again start banning same sex marriages.in they're threatening that they may do that, and that of course would throw millions of american families into legal chaos.ro so the idea of passing a federat law in congress now to make de marriage a nationally protected right in law, that's basically to try to protect same sex couples and their families from what the conservative supreme court majority is threatening to do to them in their next session.ri that procedural vote on marriage passed the senate tonight with support from all democratic s senators and 12 republican fr senators. you see the 61 yea votes. they needed 60 to get through this procedural hurdle. with 61 votes on this tonight, this look like something they'l be able to pass before the lame duck is over, and that's a big r deal in term of civil rights lae in this country. as senator amy klobuchar was just talking about with chris hayes a few minutes ago, the senate is also going to try to pass a law that would clarify how the electoral count act works.

so it will be clear to everybody that they'll have no legal leg to stand on the next time the republicans want to try to overthrow an election result by chasing down the vice president and threatening to kill him with a mob. that electoral count act is an ancient american set of laws and procedures that does have ambiguity in it that the trump side tried to exploit when they directed the mob at mike pence on january 6th. this clarification of the electoral count act would presumably preclude anybody from evem trying to hint they have the legal right to do that. it is possible that they'll get the electoral count act reforms done as well.ss the house ways and means committee, they also effectively have this same little 36-day window to review the tax returns of former president donald trump now that the courts have ordered those tax returns ordered over to the committee. now there are no outward signs of any action, any urgency on

the part of that committee to actually get those tax returns in their hands and start their review. it is to, my mind, inexplicably quiet over there on the ways and means committee given that they have this incredibly limited period of time in which to review those records, which it took them years to get. now that they've theoretically got the right to access them, there appears to be no rush on their part to actually do it, which i do not understand. i don't know. you got holiday shopping, hair washing, whatever else you got going on there while this clock ticks down. they haven't got the records yet. so, as congress comes back after the midterms, there are all these kinds of normal political things going on. the democrats are going to be picking their house leadership on wednesday this week. they're going to be picking ay their senate leadership on monday next week. the house republicans have to decide if they're picking kevin

mccarthy as the speaker. although he's the front-runner, he appears to be in such a weak question that there's a live question whether or not it takes multiple rounds of voting before he or someone else gets a majority to be speaker. that would be interesting. nothing like that has happened in a century. the last time something like that happened was 1923, i believe.im but even that, it's still just a kind of -- that's all stuff that's on the interesting edge of what counts as normal o everyday politics and all of it normal frustrations and dramas. at the same time, though, that congress is back to work and all these normal political processes are playing out, there's also this second somewhat parallel track on which things are happening adjacent to politics,i connected to our politics, and that second parallel track is really not normal politics at all. one of the things we're going to be checking in on tonight this hour is the decision by at least one republican-controlled county

in the state of arizona that they're going to refuse to certify the results of the last election, this last election that took place this month. in arizona, as you know, the republican candidate for governor who lost is refusing to admit that she lost. s the republican candidate for secretary of state who lost is also refusing to admit that he lost. the republican candidate for attorney general, who appears to have lost, but it's going to gob to an automatic recount because it's really, really close, he has file a lawsuit against the state, trying to force the state to overturn that apparent result and just declare him the winner, regardless of the recount, even though he's behind. as crazy as that sounds, you s should know that he has a partner in the lawsuit.no it's not just him. the republican national committee, the national us republican party has joined him in that lawsuit. so, things are already --

whether or not anyone believes in elections and intends to abide by them. but with today as the deadline for counties to certify the vote in arizona, with one republican-controlled county refusing to certify it by the deadline, we're now entering into territory that has a lot of mines in it. this raises the prospect that i the county that's refusing to certify, they'll likely be suedt for refusing to certify. that means we're looking at thei prospect that in fairly short order we're going to be looking at a court order that directs the county to certify the vote, even though they don't want to. at that point we're going to be hard up against a question of republican party that doesn't accept election results is also a party that refused to abide by court orders.a at which point we're in the abyss and we have left all politics behind for something in favor of something that's

very much more like brute force. so, this one county in arizona refusing to certify, on the oneo hand you can look at it as an obscure little local election abnormality. t on the other hand, this is a signal for something that could escalate quickly, and that is happening over on this arcing, stray voltage crackling edge of what otherwise looks like normal politics today. we've got that going on in arizona. today in california, a new judge was chosen for the trial of the man who's accused of breaking into the home of the democratic speaker of the house nancy pelosi and then bludgeoning her 82-year-old husband with a nd hammer, fracture his skull.ol those legal proceedings continued today in california. and in washington today, a federal jury there continued its deliberations in the sedition ju trial, the criminal trial of a pro-trump paramilitary group p accused of trying overthrow the government on january 6th last year.

that leader of that group currently on trial for seditious conspiracy, stewart rhodes is a former congressional staffer to republican congressman ron paul. we're awaiting the jury verdict in that massive sedition trial in washington, d.c.ma also today, we got guilty pleas from the gunman who livestreamed the whole thing while he shot and killed ten african american men and women at a supermarket in buffalo, new york, in may.me the judge today asked him in court one by one about each of the people who he murdered.by the judge named each of those le victims and asked the man one by one if he murdered that person because of their race.an the man answered yes each time, ten times for each of the ten people he killed. with these guilty pleas today, he will do life in prison with no possibility of parole. he's a white supremacist. he says he killed all those people in buffalo because he was hoping to set off a race war, just like the guy who shot up the church in charleston, just

like the guy who shot up the uy walmart in el paso, just like the guy who shot up the tree ofn life in pittsburgh. just like all of them.o and simultaneously, while all that's going on, we've got the n leading presidential contender i for the republican nomination in 2024 this holiday weekend having a nice thanksgiving dinner with kanye west, the rapper who just lost all of his corporate sponsorship deals when he hi started saying he was going to go death con 3 on the jews. the leading presidential candidate, mr. trump, just hosted mr. west this weekend an. also this man for what was apparently a very nice thanksgiving dinner at the a former president's home. >> when you look at these thingo like abortion, it's popular. people like abortion. hate it, but it's true. and you can thank the jewish media for that. abortion is popular. sodomy is popular.

being gay is popular. being a feminist is popular. sex out of wedlock is popular. contraceptives, that's all popular. that's not to say it's good. that's not say i like it. that means the people support it, which they do. and it's sucks and it is what it is, but that's why we need a dictatorship. that's unironically why we need to get rid of all of that. we need to take control of the o media and force the people to believe what we believe.wh >> that's why we need a dictatorship. force people to believe what we believe. we need a dictatorship. unironically. so that clip is from people for the american way. they have a project called righ wing watch where they monitor and document what's going on onw the ultra right, far right fringe, and that's a great public service all the time. it becomes a fire alarm system for the whole country when a someone from that fringe, someone from that far out on the political spectrum ends up frl having a thanksgiving dinner with the republican party's leading candidate for president.

>> here's the pathway. we have one more election where white people can make the decision. but white people got to make the right decision and then trump's got to get in there and never leave, that to me at this pointa is the pathway. it's time to shut up, elect trump one more time and then e stop having elections. we have got to talk about the fundamentals of our world view and what it would look like to build a society based on our distinct world view. it looks like a society where women don't have to right to l vote, and it looks like a society where boys and girls get married as teenagers and start having kids and they don't use birth control and they don't use contraceptives and they have big families and a high birthrate. and it looks like women wearing veils at church. and it look like women not being in the workforce. banning gay marriage is back on the menu. banning sodomy is back on the menu. banning contraceptives is back on the menu.

and basically we're having something like taliban rule in america, in a good way. we're having something like a catholic taliban rule in america. who cares? enough with the jim crow stuff. who cares?it oh, and to drink out of a different water fountain. big [ bleep ] deal. oh, no, they had to go to a different school. their water fountain in that famous picture was worse. who cares?tu grow up. drink out of the water fountain. it's water. it's the same. even if it was bad, who cares? it's better. it's better in general. we all agree. >> it's better. it's better. jim crow, segregation, it's better. almost all of that was posted by people for the american way, their project right wing watch,j which monitors stuff on the far right, which is usually only of interest to people who study the

far right, but it suddenly becomes relevant to everyone re else in the country when a guy like that suddenly ends up invited to the home of the republican party's leading t presidential candidate, to have a private thanksgiving dinner with him.ti that guy and former president h donald trump. i should tell you he's also a holocaust denier. i'm not going to show you those clips of him denying the in holocaust, but they're there. he not only explicitly calls for the imposition of a dictatorship in this country, but praised hitler.ai says jewish people should not be allowed to participate in jewiss government and now he's having a nice dinner with the man who's probably next republican nominee for the president of the unitedx states.pr so, yeah, back to work on this split screen. in politics we've got sort of normal or normal-ish questions right now about what are the democrats going to get done in the lame duck period? are they working enough days in the lame duck period?or

are they acting with enough urgency given that they're about to lose control of congress?co will there be a funding bill in time to avert a shutdown? will the republican leader get p enough votes to become speaker t on the first bout?ir we've got normal headlines here on earth one, but it's all simultaneous and adjacent to the death con 3 on the jews guy and the holocaust denier eating turkey and stuffing with the leader of the republican party at his home. and i feel like since this camel to light over the holiday weekend, most of the talk in political circles has been about whether or not this is bad for trump, whether or not this is going to reflect poorly on him as the leader of the republican party, whether this is something that might hurt him in some way, whether this might be a mistaket or whether this will slide off him, too. okay, the reason groups like

people for the american way monitor guys like this and keep track of what they are saying and doing is not just because a guy like this might have an incidental effect some day on a real politician who interacts with them. no, the reason that it is worth keeping track of holocaust denying racist agitators who advocate race war and -- i kid you not -- burning women alive r in america, the reason you -- the reason you monitor guys like that is not just because of their potential future impact some day on other people who have power, it's because of their power and the damage they want to do. and guys like that, neo-nazi agitators getting a big l proverbial hug, getting a private audience with the republican party's likely next presidential nominee, sure that reflects on that political al o candidate and on his party, but more importantly, it's great for the nazis, right?

it's a supercharging thing for them, for their perceived legitimacy, their reach, their ability to get their message out to people, to operate, recruit, and do what they want to do, which in this guy's case is turning the united states of america into a whites only, no jews allowed fascist homeland under a dictator who he would please like to be donald trump. it is hard to have regular, everyday, normal politics alongside this type of politics, too, but that's where we are, and the violent ultra right will benefit greatly from this moment, whether or not gr politicians do, too. joining us now, kathleen bellew, teaches history, and author of "bring the war home", which is a seminal text in this field.f i appreciate you making time to be here tonight. thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> i want to ask you about my job in this and my role in this

and the role of our conversation about this, because i feel likeo one of the things that i've learned from your scholarship and from the field which you've contributed so much is when you get ultra right white supremacist movements adjacent to people with real political power, yes, it may be worth looking into how they influence people with power, but the more immediate impact is that it tends to supercharge and promote and help do their work these people who are on the far, far ultra right. and i don't want to be part of that. i don't want to amplify this guy's message, but i feel like trump just put him in a new level of the stratosphere in terms of political influence. >> absolutely, and we can talk about that without saying his name or directing people to his websites or anything like that.o i think the issue here, if we step back a moment from sort of the news cycle part of this and think about how it sits in a

broader historical context, is that this is an activist that trump is claiming not to know, even though this person was involved in the unite the right rally in charlottesville in 2017, was involved in january 6th, this is a long time player.6t so, the claims not to know who he is are specious as best. but the bigger point here is what this kind of a meeting unlocks for the future. because i think the only place i would take issue with your opening monologue, which was excellent as always, is the idea that this movement would like trump to be the dictator. i mean, they'll take him becaush he's there, but trump is not the point. the point is the seizure of power. the point is the white ethno state. the point is all of that violence against populations targeted by the movement, that

has unleashed in a ad hoc passion but would be unleashed in a systemic way if and when these people gain political power. what we have to think about is not only trump, but also all of the other people in the gop who have been shoulder to shoulder with this particular activist, including marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar, including several others, and the people who are also presumptive nominees in 2024 who have not taken the opportunity to decry this meeting.e i saw that mike pence did eventually today, and okay, perhaps there's a delay because of the holiday weekend. but the fact that the gop is not coming out full throatedly against this is a notable escalation in how much they are allowing extremist politics to shape the party. >> if republican politicians aren't playing enough of a sort of gatekeeper role on this, if they are not quickly and uniformly and unequivocally condemning this sort of thing, which i hear you would make a difference in terms of how much

space is unlocked for these groups to operate in on the right, is there anything else the rest of the country can do to try to mitigate the harm that's caused by this type of c embrace, by a figure like trump? >> i mean, the list of action needed is long and extensive. one of the big ones is i think i've seen not only in the news media, but on twitter and in personal conversation, this c sense that because these sort of big lie candidates were pushed back in the midterms and trump didn't do as well as he had hoped and maybe the announcement was lackluster, perhaps we're ma out of the woods. and one thing just to remember about the white power movement particularly is that they probably don't care that much ad all who the dictator is. trump being out of power would not stop this groundswell. this is now a social problem that we all face, regardless of what's going on in sort of -- what did you call it? world one, planet one of normal politics as usual?

whatever's going on over there, we now live in a world where these activists are emboldened, they're showing up to pride parades and school board meetings. they're targeting our communities, acts of violence like the ones in buffalo, but rg also smaller and equally devastating acts of violence regularly in our community. this is going to take a full-scale response that's not just about politics. it's, do we care about harm to one another or do we accept it?p >> kathleen bellew is an associate professor of history at northwestern, the author of t an important book called "bring the war home." i have it in hard back and in paperback because i read it when it first came out and have re-read it and consulted with it so many times i wanted a lighter copy to carry around. a professor, i appreciate you i being here. thank you for your work and thank you for talking to us tonight.

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it was june of last year, dawn, 500 police officers at dawn entered this office in hong kong, the office of a newspaper called "apple daily," and the police came into the newspaper's office. they rifled through reporters' notebooks, went through reporters' computers, disconnected the computers, and

then they arrested five of the executives at that newspaper. they frog marched them right out the front doors. "apple daily" was an independent pro-democracy newspaper, the last remaining independent paper operating in the city of hong kong, as of last june, following escalating crackdowns on journalism by the pro-chinese government. after that raid in june, authorities froze the assets of the newspaper, and then they started arresting not just executives but also journalists who worked for "apple daily," so "apple daily" shut down. they had no assets, no way to pay people or fund their operations. their employees were being thrown in jail, and so the last pro-democracy paper in hong kong was forced to close. this was the scene outside the "apple daily" offices late on the final night of publication. these people gathers outside in

the rain to show their support to the journalists inside who were for one last night doing the work of the free and fair press in hong kong. the people outside held their cell phone flashlights and inside, the people of apple daily, the journalists waved back. ultimately it was a photograph of that show of support that the journalists could see in the streets below that became the cover photo for the final print edition of "apple daily." the final headline said hong kongers bid a painful farewell in the rain. we support apple daily. this was a line in hong kong the next morning to buy a copy of that last edition of "apple daily." people got in line before the sun came up. on a normal day "apple daily" would print about 80,000 copies. for the final edition, they printed a million copies. by 8:30 that morning, all million were sold out, and then that was the end. when we covered this story last year, it got a really big response from our viewers.

the story has had some trailing ends. a few weeks after "apple daily" shut down, even though it was shut by then, it was no longer any ostensible threat to the china government, authorities arrested even more editors and writers from "apple daily" in addition to the ones they had frog marched out of the office. now the paper's editor-in-chief along with five other writer have just pled guilty to the criminal charges brought against them. charges of colluding with foreign powers just for working at a pro-democracy independent newspaper. charges like that can carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. but again, that's the editor-in-chief and five other people from the paper who just pled guilty to those charges. again, potentially facing life in prison for the crime of doing journalism. the newspaper's founder is facing similar charges, but he is not pleading guilty. he's fighting his case. his trial slated to begin next

month, and this is all happening in hong kong amidst a sudden and extremely rare outburst of protests in mainland china. this weekend saw protests in cities all across china, sparked by opposition to the government's strict covid lockdowns. it's almost impossible to overstate how unusual it is to see any kind of public protest, opposition in china, let alone large crowds protesting in multiple cities. this is an authoritarian country. the chinese government has cracked down incredibly hard. they've made it nearly impossible for activists to organize at any scale at all. but look. here the people are, chanting and demanding freedom. and yes, the spark of it was about covid lockdowns, but it's everything. in shanghai, protesters there called for the chinese communist party to leave power. called for china's president to step down. that's a sentiment that is

almost literally unspeakable in china. in the capital, beijing, protesters chanted freedom of the press to each other across the river. call and response, freedom of the press, freedom of the press. an unofficial symbol of the demonstrations has become a blank sheet of white paper held in the air by the protesters as a symbol of all the things they're not allowed to say. you might remember seeing russians arrest in the russia after russia invaded ukraine. russians arrested on the street for nothing other than holding a piece of paper or a piece of poster board with nothing written on it. now the people in china are doing the same thing, showing that they are not allowed to speak. things are very tense and scary in china right now amidst all this bravery from the chinese people. nobody really knows how the government is going to respond. there are fears of course a violent crackdown may be coming. but those blank pages of course are a reminder, you can shut down every last pro-democracy newspaper, but you can't shut

down the human desire for free speech and for free press. it's also a good reminder people, wherever they can, will fight like hell to get those things. and hopefully they'll fight like hell to defend them and keep them once they've got them. we'll be right back.

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in the great state of arizona, today is the deadline for every county in the state to certify the election results from the midterm elections. three of the state's counties waited until today's deadline to

actually take their vote on certification. mojave county flirted with maybe refusing to certify their election results today, but ultimately after two long meetings they did vote unanimously they would certify. cocheese county previously tried to insist they would only count their votes by hand, something they proved immediately and definitively unable to do. you might remember that. ultimately they ended up abandoning their hand court when a court ordered them to do so. well, today, they declined to certify their election results they apparently say they don't care about the deadline to certify. they're going to talk about certifying again at an another meeting on friday this week. but again, today is the deadline by which they needed to act. they did not act. because of that, they're now facing two lawsuits to compel them to certify the vote.

the question then of course immediately arises -- if the courts do end up ordering cochise county to certify, will the cochise county obey or defy it? if they defy, what happens? there's another deadline approaching december 8th, that's the deadline for the whole state of arizona to certify the results statewide. theoretically, if cochise county make it to december 8th while still refusing to certify the votes for their county, theoretically that would mean that arizona would certify the vote count for every county except cochise county. cochise county voters wouldn't have their votes added to the state vote totals. if that happens, which would be crazy, that might actually end up in resulting in some of the races having some of the results flipped. cochise county votes heavily republican. some arizona races that went to

republican candidates might end up flipping to the democrat instead. once you subtract all the heavily republican votes from cochise county. that of course would be particularly nuts. the reason they're not certifying the election results votes there is not because they believe anything fishy happened in their county. it's because of things they've heard that sound bad to them about the elections in other place, specifically in maricopa county, arizona, which is arizona's biggest population center. today, the maricopa county board of supervisors voted unanimously to certify their election results but they only took that vote after a tense four-hour-long public meeting filled with a very excitable group and a very packed auditorium. >> shame to hell to maricopa county for dragging our fine arizona straight to the toilet. >> this is vote trafficking at

its finest. i've seen the criminal element. you are vote traffickers. you are a vote trafficker. criminal! >> you're not losing friends because of the way that you handled this election process. you're losing friends because you're evil and corrupt and you know it, okay? >> i came here today to get an up close and personal look at the seven traitors to the united states constitution. >> hey, again, please -- >> are sitting at that desk. the voting booth is supposed to be a time for a peaceful revolution. >> you're time is up. >> those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution necessary. >> that was maricopa county arizona today as they, nevertheless, voted to certify the election results. joining us now, the "washington post's" democracy reporter in arizona. she was there today in maricopa county to see this all unfold.

really appreciate you being here tonight. thank you. >> thank you. >> so, we watched a lot of the footage today from the public comment period, and we pulled sound from people that we felt like was -- showed the depth of feeling and the ragged edge of the rhetoric in that room. can you tell us more about what it was like and what the supervisors were sort of up against when they took the vote today? >> sure. i've been a political reporter here in arizona for 20 years. some of that time was solely dedicated uncovering maricopa county during sheriff joe arpaio's tenure. there were a lot of news days during his time in office, and i can tell you, not one of them had that auditorium as packed as it was today. one of the things that the cameras were not able to show were the sheriffs deputies who were lined up against the wall just sort of underscoring the

potential security concerns that they have had. this is a board that has faced a lot of threats over the past couple years since the 2020 election. the other thing that i don't think viewers got to fully appreciate was nearly every time someone took the podium to thank the supervisors and election workers for their work, for fulfilling their duties, many people in the crowd started coughing, and you had lots of people in that room coughing, really trying to drown out the comments that were being made thanking these people for their work. so it was a long meeting. a lot of people had a lot of things to say, legitimate concerns about serious issues that did happen on election day with a lot of printers. but the board reiterated repeatedly that no one was denied the right to vote, and ultimately the results were accurate and they were fair, the supervisors said.

>> do you believe that this is being either driven or overtly organized or otherwise connected to the republican gubernatorial candidate kari lake, the republican secretary of state candidate, mark finchem, both of who lost and are also refusing to admit they lost, and the attorney general candidate, who appears to have lost, but it's so close he's going to a recount. he's nevertheless suing to have the election results overturned and him declared the winner regardless of the recount. those actions by those top of the ticket candidates in arizona, is that the organizing effort behind what you saw today? is it connected or are these things happening on separate tracks? >> i can't yet say specifically who's behind this thing. we have a lot of public records out trying to determine what that organization behind the scenes looks like, especially in some of these rural counties. what i can say is that these

candidates and these republican activists, who for two years have been stoking mistrust in our voting systems, continue to message that sort of distrust, mistrust on social media. and during the meeting today i was sitting next to a couple of women who were having conversations with people sitting right in front of me, and they kept flashing social media apps, one of them was telegram, and they were communicating on a "moms for kari lake" channel. so i can't specifically say what she is saying behind the scenes of anything to try to stoke this. kelly ward, the state republican party chair, also seems to be very supportive of these efforts, as well as other activists with some pretty high-profile groups, pro-trump youth groups that have essentially taken over the

state republican party over the last four, five years. so i think that they see this as a productive way to air their grievances in front of their local government, and it seem as though they're willing to blow past some of these important deadlines, potentially jeopardizing the votes of tens of thousands of people, many of whom are their voters in ruby red cochise county. to make a point. >> crucial deadline today, but as you point out, a lot of really important milestone deadlines coming up in the next week and a half or two. i know we'll be talking with you again as you continue reporting on this story. thank you, yvonne, appreciate it. >> thanks so much. >> we'll be right back. stay with us.

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