again, from gabe sterling. >> county by county shows potentially two. so far two. >> two. or close to 5,000. i mean, this is ridiculous. and by the way, when it comes to ballots, the president on that call pushed this baseless claim. >> we hear they're shredding thousands and thousands of ballots. and now what they're saying oh, we're just cleaning up the office. >> sterling again forced to clean up that lie. >> there is no shredding of ballots going on. that's not real. >> and when it comes to one of the most absurd lies from the president, this tweet about georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger that his followers called wrong. let's just take a look at this. trump tweets "now it turns out that brad r's brother works for china and they definitely don't want trump." i guess he's putting out there if you saw this tweet, right? that clearly the secretary of state of georgia brad raffensperger is working for china because he has a brother who works for china. it doesn't add up in any way, shape or form. again, the facts. >> secretary raffensperger does not have a bro

. >>> i want to bring in gabe sterling now. you have heard the overall lay of the land from david, he gave us the voting system implementation manager for the georgia secretary of state's office. gabe, we talk about, here we are. first tell me as we know we are still awaiting final numbers here in the ossoff/perdue race. how many outstanding votes are there still across this state? >> well, our office kind of came in here in the last half hour so operating on three hours of sleep so we have some estimates but i will give every caveat in the world around them. we are looking at a little over 65,000 votes still outstanding mainly from the absentees that came in yesterday. as was noted by your analyst earlier the majority of ballots coming in will be coming in from strongly democrat areas, dekalb has the biggest bucket of them, cobb, fulton, henry has some. there is a few republican areas out but they are smaller, bartow county, gilmore county. we likely will see the leads of the democrat challengers increase as we go through the m

just because gabe sterling and said i heard it and it not a big deal. these are not the droids you're looking for like in star wars. that won't cut it. we want to sit down, look at the signatures and make sure the legal votes are counted. >> bill: thanks, jason for coming open today. you get your chance at rebuttal. thank you. senior trump adviser nor the campaign in 2020. want to bring in fox news contributor andy mccarthy who has been listening and watching this. what do you think of the back and forth, andy? >> you know, bill, this is what we've been dealing with for two months now. there's a plethora of allegations that have been made. some of these have required some investigation, others have been, you know, shown to be -- if not flatly wrong, mostly wrong. we've had court after court after court look at this. i think that's the big problem the campaign is having. >> bill: okay. so miller's point is why wait until now to come out with all of this information? are you a believer that it took the state of georgia to figure it out in 60 days or could

georgia election official gabe sterling went after the president's claims one by one and knocked themwn. watch this. >> i've had to argue with people whom i've known for 20 years. we feel like our election was stolen, our votes don't count. i said, okay, i'm not acknowledging the election was stolen because it wasn't. do not self-suppress your own vote. do not make a self-fulfilling prophecy out of doing this. >> a, that sign language interpreter already won this election. he was xrooextraordinary, but g sterling, he is a republican. he is defending his state from attacks from his own party. how much has all this noise impacted the election and your state? >> i think it's going to have a profound impact on this election. you know, you have party leaders telling folks not to show up and vote. that makes no sense to me. but what is clear is that there is an ideological split within today's republican party that there are folks who are leaning into misinformation and disinformation, that there are people who have taken what i can only describe as donald trump and republican fan fiction o

election official gabe sterling is speaking. >> -- need to be united to get through a tough fight like this, in a state trending, from the point of republicans, the other direction for years now. let's remember stacey abrams who is yet to concede the 2018 race came within 50,000 votes of winning that race. we need a june need team, with a june need message looking to the future. i believe a cnn commentator pointed out, if you looked over the last two months, the president of the united states spent more time attacking governor kemp and senator raffensperger than raphael warnock. >> -- >> it irritates me. >> what are the numbers you've seen about votes that are still outstanding -- if ossoff does win -- >> right now we look at 60,470 that are available to come in for that. that number will go up as they continue to process ballots. it makes it look like jon ossoff will likely have a margin outside of the .5% to avoid a recount. reverend warnock is ahead of him right now. if ossoff avoids the recount, so does reverend warnock. >> is there a breakdown -- >> these are all absentees. one of

i guess if you're going to lie, go big. >>> gabe sterling and brad raffensperger, both republicans -- though that really should not matter -- standing up for the truth. this is a line in the sand, and far too many republicans -- far too many -- are on the wrong side. this attempted coup -- just make sure i pronounce it for when they repeat it on state tv and others -- this attempted coup is the real fraud here, a fraud perpetrated on the american people. and now is the time for republican senators to make a choice. but too many of them are making the wrong choice. top house republican kevin mccarthy quietly supporting the attack on the electoral college, quietly. you know what? your actions and your cowardice speak loud and clear. and how about vice president mike pence? what's he say for himself? >> i promise you, come this wednesday we'll have our day in congress. >> the ultimate sycophant. it's time for choosing, mike pence. what will you do? will you choose the constitution? or will you trample on it in service of an unworthy man? we're all watching. it's not enough for them to tr

i want to play a bit of sound from them and then i want to hear from gabe sterling. let's listen. >> so then we see also while the monitors and the press are still in the room, they bring out the carriers which are normal absentee ballot carriers. i will admit when i listened to the audio of the phone call and the president brought it up again, i wanted to scream -- well, i did scream at the computer and in my car at the radio talking about this because this has been thoroughly debunked. >> power is literally in your hands unlike any time in my career. one step, one state can chart the course, not just for the next four years, but for the next generation. >> each of you is going to vote in one of the most important runoff elections in the history of our country. our country is depending on you. the whole world is watching the people of georgia. >> gosh, patricia, the dynamics are astounding to me as i listen to some of that sound. gabe sterling, the election official from georgia, someone we never would have known if it weren't for what took place in that state in tu

we do know this is something that gabe sterling was asked about yesterday, he's the election official we've heard from a lot. he said that because there's going to be such a high amount of turnout that we anticipate there could be a number of potential threats either attempting to encourage or discourage turnout. not a lot of specifics but, again, looking like it's geared to dissuade people from coming out to vote, at least from gabe sterling yesterday. >> thanks for those details. blayne alexander has been all over this race. steve kornacki, no donald trump on the ballot this time around, how do you think the absence of donald trump or his behavior in the last weeks since the election which has been so extraordinary with the conspiracy theories and the like, how is that going to impact the potential for split ticket voting which we saw so much of where biden carried the state by 11,799 votes and instead you saw an 88,000 margin for, you know, senator perdue. >> yeah, no, exactly, andrea. in the grand scheme of things, there were not a ton of split ticket voters in georgia in november

is what happened on january 6th at the capitol, is that what you, and gabe sterling and others were worriedions have consequences. unfortunately we're watching those consequences play out. january 6th was certainly some of those consequences. when you're willing to lie to 350 million americans for two straight months, stuff like this is going to happen. it's unfortunate. and i cannot wait for us to continue to move forward. let's get wednesday behind us and move on as a country. >> i wish it were that easy. you just saw in sara's reporting these experts on extremism tell cnn it's not just white supremacists and qanon members behind this growing number of threats. they're being joined by these fierce trump supporters who believe, falsely, that the election was stolen from them. how much blame do you think donald trump and those who supported this lie, including the outgoing senators, loeffler and perdue, how much blame do you put on them? >> i'm still astonished of the amount of misinformation that continues to fly in and people being misinformed to complete conspiracy theories. it's in the

the state you represent part of but there was unequivocal language yesterday from the gentleman gabe sterling in charge of voting mechanics in georgia where all lies are today, take a listen to what he said. >> there are people who said their votes didn't count and it is not true. i will go through all this anti-disinformation monday, it is groundhog day again. >> what i get confused that is how both sides can be so steadfast in their positions, people claiming to see fraud, people claiming there was nothing even close to fraud. can you explain that in any way, shape or form? >> the two issues are the constitution and what people did, that happened in georgia too with the secretary of state reaching an agreement in their election law but the other thing is the people that signed affidavits, the courts haven't case, many of these cases have been dismissed on standing or other issues without hearing the evidence and it is important, i know how long we heard from people on the other side making sure we hear people that come forward that are whistleblowers but here's the other point that is so im

. >> juan: greg, you had gabe sterling, a republican election official in georgia, go down the line and -- >> greg: he cherry picked. >> juan: hang on. >> greg:you are just spouting we already heard. -- when you say people aren't answering the questions -- >> greg: they are answering -- that's not true! saying they are debunked is not -- >> juan: you guys don't want me to speak today! >> greg: dude, you've been talking for two days! >> juan: no i haven't. i'm trying to speak to you, greg! i'm telling you that republican election officials had said there is not this issue. >> greg: we know this story. >> juan: those people were lied to. >> greg: okay. >> juan: they were fed lies, incited. they are on social media -- >> greg: can i respond? >> juan: -- a total distortion. you talk about 75 million who need to be heard. why should we hear people who are being fed lies question >> greg: there you go! we got to this point. these people are so stupid that they fell for trump's lies! that's what they think about you! you just said -- >> juan: i said they are being fed lies. >> greg: i am your

. >> martha: today, we watched gabe sterling who laid out the numbers from their perspective and everybodyan watch both of those. take away from it what they take away from it. i want to ask you a quick question with regard to the january 6th confirmation certification of the electoral college results. tom cotton came out and said i've supported the president vigorously for his reelection, but i'm objecting to the certified electoral vote won't give him a second term. it will only embolden the democrats who want to erode further our system of constitutional government and the president tweeted saying back in response to that. that basically republicans have long memories for this kind of stance that cotton is taking. what do you say about that? >> well, what we say is this, there's a constitutional mechanism in place, the 12 amendment in the mid-1800s said that this is where you can object in congress. this is constitutionally statutorily prescribed and democrats raised objections before and republicans thro groa backbone and fight. if you don't buy the integrity now, it's not tomorrow's r

the former top georgia election official gabe sterling is my guest. >>> and more cases of covid variants discovered in the u.s. the biden administration warns there is no stockpile of vaccines. let's go out front. >>> and good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight the party of qanon. tonight the republican party is doubling down and giving credence to a group that is a megaphone for dangerous and deadly conspiracy theories. most of the 211 of house republicans are silent tonight over congresswoman marjory taylor greene's past comments supporting the execution of prominent democratic politicians. instead, greene, a qanon supporter has been given a seat on the education and labor committee. and that should alarm everyone, all of us. for one she tried to make a name for herself by suggesting the 2018 massacre of a high school in parkland, florida, was a false flag, in other words a planned event. a planned event to kill kids. and then posted this video in march 2019 where she's seen confronting a survivor of that shooting, student david hawk. >> david, why are you supporting the red

the former top georgia election official gabe sterling is my guest. >>> and more cases of covid variants. the biden administration warns there is no stockpile of vaccines. let's go out front. >>> and good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight the party of qanon. tonight the republican party i

i asked gabe sterling if this was all the votes from today. he does not know. you compare the numbers to the presidential election on november 3rd, 47,000 people had cast their ballots in person on election day. so this could well likely be most of the votes from today that have already been uploaded. also what's been accepted and uploaded are the 104,000 absentee mail-in ballots, not including today, but many from yesterday and from days before that. >> so momentarily we're expecting 170,000 votes to be counted and reported on in dekalb county. nick valencia is there for us. you are getting more information, nick, as well. >> that's right. you know, really we expected this to be a lot slower of a process here in dekalb county. that's what officials told us to expect. here we are closing on the 11:00 hour. the pace and activity picked up significantly inside. we did try to get a spokesperson for the county. he would not go on camera, but did answer our questions off camera. we want more specifics exactly when that time line that amber is talking about if the la

and most particularly i think folks should look at what gabe sterling, who was the georgia election official, said on december 1st. here's what he said. "mr. president, you have the right to go to the courts. what you don't have is the ability to do, and you need to step up and say this, stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence. someone is going to get hurt. someone is going to get shot. someone is going to get killed." that's chilling to see in the light of what obviously happened on wednesday. so i think the case for impeachment is frankly slam dunk and i think the congress, the house of representatives has a tremendous amount of velocity behind it in terms of getting now a majority number of votes. even republicans are jumping on impeachment this time which is different from last time. and between the veto override of the president last week and republicans who now support impeachment this week trump has done more for bipartisanship in the last month than he's done in the last four years. >> yeah. but as you emphasize also, at such a bloody cost. neal, words as you know

that's what gabe sterling did out there, one by one, knocking down the rumors. the numbers he had were not correct. we had two people dead people voting. that's a great example of how their numbers are so wrong. it's really sad because it's spinning people up. >> blayne, does the secretary of state at this point think, like he did before, that all of this is likely hurting the republicans? >> that's certainly concerning and he made that point when i spoke with him yesterday. all of this is happening -- i kind of got a sense two of things from him, chuck. one, this is somebody who is frustrated, not only with this call that we've been talking about and the fallout from that but somebody who is just frustrated with what we've seen has been weeks of a constant barrage of tweets and insults from the president. so when speaking to him yesterday, i got the feeling he was responding to all of that in totality. secondly, though, yes, he does have concerns or he did when i spoke with him about what this would mean for republicans turning out which is why he said at the e

secretary of state raffensperger, governor kemp, gabe sterling, these people who in comparison to allans in washington look like truth tellers and heroes were actually until trump started fighting his election loss likely allies of perdue and kelly. so it's a good thing for the country that georgia rejected them we'll see if democrats can continue that streak but i think if we can extrapolate that reverend warnock and jon ossoff were superb candidates who ran very disciplined campaigns during a time of incredible turmoil, president-elect biden went to the state and campaigned and kept the message very forward-looking, very positive and it's good that georgians selected that. but i think that it is -- it would be unfair to sort of understate just how challenging the governing climate will be for joe biden and democrats in the congress >> i do want to swing back to something you said about the elected officials in georgia, raffensperger, sterling and kemp, who have defended time and time again the authenticity and, you know, the effectiveness of the electoral process in georgia. and the

gabe sterling an election official in georgia as a news conference now. >> just let me say this for thers and launching of a new system this state, this office and these counties launched the largest new voting system in the history of the united states and did it in record time. executed it well in the middle of a pandemic and had record turnout in every election we saw. it's unprecedented and give a big thank you to the elections officials and poll workers and election workers who really worked their tails off to make this a successful election for georgians. one of the things we haven't heard nobody was complaining about lines. nobody saying they were disenfranchised. everybody who wanted to vote had an opportunity to vote and we feel very proud of that fact. >> have you looked at whether electric day turnout was higher or lower than expected in republican or democratic areas? >> i haven't had an opportunity to do a breakdown. we've been trying to work with the counties to get like i said before, fast is good, accurate is better. analysis can come later to see the specifics. we want

gabe sterling, before the big lie, and before donald trump's war on georgia, gabriel sterling was the kind of republican who would have been a natural ally for donald trump. he was one of the first ones to warn that someone was going to get killed. let's watch. >> it has to stop mr. president, you have not condemned these actions or this language. senators, you have not condemned this language or these actions. this has to stop. we need you to step up and if you're going to take a position of leadership, show some. someone is guess to get hurt, someone is going to get shot, someone is going to get killed and it's not right. i -- i -- it's not right. >> claire, they were warned, josh hawley, ted cruz, the people -- and i'm tired of this, they should have known better. they don't get credit for being well educated at this point on this show, but they were warned by one of their own. what gabriel sterling warned, what shook me, didn't shake any of them out of their zombie-like support of president trump, and we have the warnings in the last hour, that there's an ongoing threat to state c

reporter: gabe sterling is with us now.me there have been no security problems today, other than there was at a county courthouse what turned out to be brieflyic dispute, but appeared to be something more serious. >> mark, live for us, we appreciate that incite and coverage you have. you have heard over and over again how this election will determine the balance of power in the u.s. senate. fred blankenship has a look at what that means. reporter: there are 100 u.s. senators the party breakdown was 53 republicans, 45 democrats. caucusedependents that with the democrats. breakdown is 50 republicans, 46 democrats, then the 2 independents. the vote count is essentially 58-48. the need to win 1 in georgia runoff to hold onto the majority. if democrats win both of georgia's seats, the count would be 50-50, and kamala harris would break any tied votes. >> developing right now, our nation's leaders are watching closely as george accounts its votes. you are looking live at washington, d.c., where the balance of power is at stake. w

you can see the frustration from gabe sterling the elections official that we heard from coming into the show point by point refuting this in a state where the vote, joe, has been counted three times. three times in the state of georgia the vote has been counted and president trump at his rally last night asking people to go vote for two republicans in a place where he claims the vote was rigged previously. wow. >> and he also claims or at least one of his lawyers claimed that kelly loeffler was part of a conspiracy theory to rig the runoffs. >> yeah. >> to keep doug collins out and the president even hinted at this in the tweet earlier. but claire mccaskill, i'm just wondering, i don't think i have been in public life since 1993 when i first started campaigning. i don't think in -- god, all that time, i don't think i have ever over a century said a politician was guilty of sedition or treason. i know that conservatives have always done that. i don't think i'm one of them. you know, there's a big 1960s book that conspiracy theorists on the right love called "none dare call it treason