outfront now, brad raffensperger. secretary, i appreciate your time.umstances. but it takes a lot of bravery and it's so important to speak out about it. i mean why is trisha deciding to tell us all of this now, to share these threats publicly? >> well, i think it was helpful really for her to do that probably to get it off her chest but then also just to let people know that it's not just her, it's election workers, people all over this country, people sometimes married to an official, but sometimes it's the election worker themselves. at the end of the day, we need to get the message out that this is not acceptable. this is not acceptable behavior to threaten the wives, the children, the family of people that work for the government or even the government workers. they didn't sign up for this. they're employees. and i don't believe that elected officials sign up for these death threats either. it's time that elected officials on both sides hold our sides accountable. if you're on our side of the aisle, on the right side, we need to hold our people ac

those were all sent to brad raffensperger's wife. mr. raffensperger and his family and his staff viewed these, and other threatening messages to his wife, as an effort to try to coerce him into resigning from his job. he's not resigning. he is, that fact, running for re-election, in georgia, against a trump-backed challenger, who is running his whole campaign on the stop-the-steal conspiracy theory. but the harassment, even for a high-ranking official like that, has gone beyond threats in -- in text messages. this is from reuters today. quote, in -- excuse me -- in late november, the raffensperger family went into hiding for nearly a week after intruders broke into the home of their daughter-in-law. an incident, the family believed, was intended to intimidate them. that evening, people who identified themselves to police as oath keepers, a far-right militia group that supported trump's bid to overturn the election. they were found outside the raffensperger's home. reporter writes quote trump's baseless voter-fraud accusations have had dar

after her husband, georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, resisted trump's personal demands to him. that raffensperger find enough votes in georgia for trump to ruin that state. this one, somebody who filled in their name, as reform burger at revenge the u.s., reads quote, you and your family will be killed very slowly. another message mr. raffensperger's wife received was purported to be from america at jesus that come. and it says quote, please plenary. we plan for the death of you and your family every day. i'm sorry. another one that purports to be from murder at raffensperger .com. it says quote, people keep opposing the audit. of fulton county's 2020 elections. somebody in your family's going to have a very unfortunate incident. those were all set to brad brat brad raffensperger's wife. mr. raffensperger and his family and his staff viewed these and other threatening messages to his wife as an effort to try to cross him into resigning from his job. he's not resigning. he's in fact running for reelection in georgia against a bat trump backed challenger who is running his

the text she read was sent to the wife of georgia's republican secretary of state brad raffensperger. >> that came from a sender called raffensper raffensperger@revenge.com. >> hello, georgia. by the way, there's no way we lost georgia, no way. that was a rigged election. >> reporter: reuters reports the raffensperger family has received a constant stream of threatening texts for months. keep opposing the audit of fulton county's election. and please pray. we plan for the death of you and your family every day. from america at jesus.com. the secretary of state and his wife made a decision to go into temporary hiding following the multitude of threats and after an intimidating house break-in that their daughter-in-law and grandchildren endured. >> she returned from home one evening with her children to find that the garage door had been pulled up, the door leading to her house was open. all of the lights in the house had been turned on. items within the house had been moved around but nothing was taken. >> reporter: many other election workers have been threatened. richard baron is the

brad raffensperger saying that these voters have left the state or died or had no contact with electionrs. this is the state's first major cleanup since 2019. raffensperger calls it key to ensuring election integrity in his state and adding this is why i fought and beat stacey abrams in 2019 to remove nearly 300,000 obsolete voter files: here's brad raffensperger. thanks for being here. good to have you back on. >> thanks, martha. >> martha: it's interesting. we got a comment from fair fight action a group that stacey abrams has founded. she said the last time that he had a purge, there were 22,000 georgia voters that would have been kicked off the roles. what do you say to that and will it happen again with these 100,000? >> no, this time these 10,000 plus folks are coming off the rolls because they don't live here anymore or they passed away. we have sent notices to a third of the people, 33,000, 34,000 people that don't live here anymore. we have national change of address for the other 2/3s of those. about 18,000 have passed away. they'll be removed from the rolls according to and f

the text she read was sent to the wife of georgia's republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger at revenge.u.s. >> this was two days before the capitol insurrection. >> hello, georgia. by the way, there's no way we lost georgia. there's no way. that was a rigged election. >> reuters reports the raffensperger family has received a constant stream of threatening texts for months. somebody in your is going to have a very unfortunate incident. that came from the address murder@raffensperger.com and please pray. bepray for the death of you and your family every day. i'm sorry. the secretary of state and his wife made a decision to go into temporary hiding following the multitude of threats. after an intimidating housebreak-in that their daughter-in-law and grandchildren endured. >> she returned to her home one evening with her children to find that the garage door had been pulled up, the door leading to her house was open, all of the lights in the house had been turned on. items within the house had been moved around, but nothing was taken. >> reporter: many other election workers ha

and i don't know how to make this happen, but the leadership of people like liz cheney, brad raffensperger, al schmidt. these are people who did their job exceptionally well and continue to, and i think finding ways to support courageous leadership is really important, and that does not mean trying to turn republicans who are supporting the rule of law into democrats. that is absolutely not the case. we need to have a comfort level with the fact that we disagree on policy but we will support certain foundational elements of democracy because that's who we are as americans. >> thank you. do you want in on this or should i move on? all right. your thoughts, john? john: i will be quick. i have made this point before. in theory there are some things congress could do at the federal level. it is unlikely big things will be done and most action will be to the states. if i had to pick one thing out of my list before, i think we should be not afraid of being able to count the votes more quickly. we can do it accurately, do it well and getting ballots in by election day is part of that, but i do th

the secretary of state for the us state of georgia, brad raffensperger, has said election workers areeats over last year's presidential election result. in a tweet, mr raffesnperger said false claims that the election had been stolen had led to threats of violence or death. the teenage girl who filmed the murder of george floyd has been awarded a special citation in this year's pulitzer prizes. darnella frazier was recognised for her courage and for highlighting the role ordinary people have to play in journalists' quest for truth. i'm nowjoined by our correspondent david willis in los angeles. incredible to think that darnella frazier was just 17 when she filmed that tragic event. just how much of an impact hair video has also. you're absolutely right. it is extraordinary. that citation being seen as an acknowledgement as the extraordinary impact that nearly ten minutes of cell phone footage had on people not only here in the us but also around the world. the pulitzer board paid tribute to darnella frazier�*s courage as they put it. as well as sparking a global protest movement to ge

the secretary of state for the us state of georgia, brad raffensperger, has said election workers are year's presidential election result. in a tweet, mr raffesnperger said false claims that the election had been stolen had led to threats of violence or death. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: fans celebrate in rome after italy beat turkey 3—0 at the opening match of the football euro 2020 championship. the day the british liberated the falklands and by tonight british troops had begun the task of disarming the enemy. in the heart of the west german capital, this was gorbimania at its height. the crowd pack to see the man who has raised great hopes for an end to the division of europe. it happened as the queen moved towards horse's guard parade for the start of trooping the colour. the queen looks worried, but recovers quickly. as long as the pay to go see me, i will get out there and kick - them down the hills. what does it feel like to be the first man to cross the channel by your own power? it feels pretty neat. it feels marvellous, really. this is bbc news, our top story. t

georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger spoke with cnn last night about the threats his familyn to temporarily go into hiding. >> we didn't know how many people were going to show up that weekend. but it seemed apparent to us they were basically casing our house. we decided to take an early thanksgiving vacation and that's what we did. >> his wife trisha is speaking out with death threats and text messages received as recently as april. >> you and your family will be killed very slowly. we plan for your death every day. and a warning that a family member was going to have a very unfortunate incident. the death threats game to trisha raffensperger, wife of georgia's secretary of state. earlier threats even forcing them into hiding for nearly one week, tricia raffensperger telling reuters. brad and i didn't think we could protect ourselves. i couldn't have them come to my house anymore. you don't know if the people are going to actually act on the stuff, she said. she described to reuters how intruders in late november broke into the home of their widowed daughter-in-law. secreta

report from reuters, that is some, frankly some of the disgusting messages that the wife of brad raffenspergerand upheld the election. here is amara walker. >> reporter: you and your family will be killed very slowly. we lan for the death of your family are every every day. the death threats came but text to trisha raffensperger, detailed in a reuters interview. the messages coming in april, many months after donald trump lost the election. earlier threats even forcing them into hiding for nearly one week. >> i couldn't have my grandchildren come to my house anymore. secretary raffensperger spoke to cnn. >> he's an enemy of the people. >> trisha got the first ones. for some reason they targeted her. first, they said to tell brad to step down, that type of thing, but then they ramped up. then it went to stage two, they just got vulgar and rude. >> reporter: trump's baseless accusations led to an election worker getting threatened with a noose. >> a 20-something tech at gwinnett county today has a death threat and a noose. >> this led gabriel sterling to angrily call on trump and republican lead

trisha raffensperger telling reports brad and i didn't feel like we could protect ourselves.d she cancelled weekly visits at her home with two grandchildren 3 and 5 years old. i couldn't have them come to my house anymore. you don't know if these people are actually going to act on this stuff she said. she described to reuters how intruders in late november broke into the home of their widows daughter-in-law. secretary raffensperger spoke about the threats to cnn in december as trump attacked him incentsly. >> he's an enemy of the people. >> reporter: where joe biden won by a slim margin. >> tricia got the first ones. for some reason they targeted her. the first one was like tell brad to step down, you know, and that type of thing, but then they just real, you know, ramped up and then it went to stage two. they just got vul tar and rude. >> reporter: trump's baseless accusations of voter fraud in georgia also led to an election worker getting threatened with a noose. >> a 20-something tech at gwyneth county has death threats and a noose put out. >> reporter: this led to elect

georgia's republican secretary of state brad raffensperger said friday he has removed over 100,000 namesm georgia's voter rolls. raffensperger said most of the names were linked to a change of address or from residences where election mail had been returned to sender. voting rights group fair fight action warns the last time georgia carried out a purge of state voter rolls, raffensperger was forced to admit errors that nearly disenfranchised 22,000 people. this follows georgia's passage of a sweeping voting law in march that critics call worst voter suppression legislation since the jim crow era. since then, republican officials have removed at least 10 county election officials across georgia -- most of them democrat and about half of them people of color. in related news, the senate is set to vote tuesday on the sweeping "for the people act," which republicans are expected to oppose. 10 mass shootings were reported across the united states this weekend, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens. at least two of the victims were children. the gun violence archive reports there h

formal voter disapproval, "the atlanta journal-constitution" reports his secretary of state, brad raffenspergers censured from the party. >>> we'll hear from a cnn reporter on covid's front lines as she talks about a deeply personal assignment about covering the pandemic in hard-hit india, her home country. >>> welcome back. i'm robyn curnow live in atlanta. so the u.s. will donate about 750,000 covid vaccine doses to taiwan. a u.s. senator, tammy duckworth, announced the donation during a visit to taiwan on sunday. officials there are seeing a surge in cases, and they've been asking the u.s. to share some of the vaccines it plans to donate to the world. >>> meanwhile, a troubling development in the uk as the country records more than 57,000 new cases on saturday. that puts the seven-day rolling average for new infections at its highest since the beginning of april, as you can see from that graph. this comes as concern grows over the spread of the variant first identified in india. amid all of that, downing street is responding to british media reports suggesting the final phase of the roadmap

. >> what about brad raffensperger? these are elected republicans. >> elected republicans, lindsey, who have done their best, unlike liz cheney and me, they've done their best to try to stay loyal to donald trump while still doing their job in upholding their state's constitution. look, it was like mike pence this week. mike pence, former vice president, came out and said -- gave a speech and said donald trump and i don't see eye to eye on january 6th. look, here's the deal. you can't kind of sort of hug donald trump. if you want to succeed in today's republican party and brian kemp and raffensperger learned this, you've got to give donald trump a full, enthusiastic, full frontal embrace every day. you can't just kind of hug him. he is the party. he's where -- and i think this is so hard for a lot of folks on tv to understand because i still engage with republican voters every day. they adore what they think trump is. they worship him. and so if you're a republican and you want to succeed, you got to get down on your kn

democrats are not acting on, not moving on which is the move to take power away from people like brad raffensperger is a republican but operated in a very fair and objective way as the secretary of state of georgia, take power away from him and give it to the legislature, and the legislature is currently reap warnings but the point is you want -- you shouldn't take it away from the people whose job it is to be objective and give it to people whose job it is to be subjective. >> the way a secretary of state sworks to have relationships with all the officials in the counties and the cities, and that is an administration drought. why bob and i decided to write the op-ed is we were co-chairs of a presidential commission back in 2013 and '14. we spent a lot of time talking to local and state election officials, and we both had the impression that no matter the political party, those election officials were with, their goal, their motive was to run a fair election which allowed people to vote and those votes to be reflected in who held office. these are a series of laws. >> the big lie is obviously a big

. >> reporter: the day after the capitol insurrection, cnn asked brad raffensperger what he would say to donald trump? >> obviously that's why i've said from day one, we have to be mindful of our speech. we can't play people and get them into emotional frenzy and an emotional state. deal with the facts. >> they spent a considerable amount of time away from their children since the election because of the threats. he's a conservative and can't believe what happened to their party. he says they need to clean up the backyard. and the country is bigger than one person. a clear reference to donald trump. >> has to keep his grandchildren safe. gary tuchman, thank you so much. >>> before we go tonight, anderson sat down for an exclusive interview with former president barack obama to talk about fatherhood, leadership and his legacy. you can catch it tonight at 11:00 right here on cnn. a lot of news tonight. it continues. let's hand it over to chris for "cuomo prime time." >> thank you, john. there are too many question marks in this doj situation. and they are not needed. let's be clear. if

[ booing ] >> this is ugly stuff, at the some convention, the republican secretary of state brad raffensperger, who also did not bow to trump's demands to i don't remember turn election results was send sewered, also called on governor kemp and all elected officials to repair the damage that has been done and commit themselves to securing georgia elections. margaret, what nonsense. >> what nonsense, jim, and also, you take the third most influential republican in the state of georgia, who is the secretary of state, and he's not running foe re-election. instead he started a political organization a 501-c 4 that's called gop 2.0 because he is trying to forge another pathway forward for the republican party so republicans who fee disenfranchised who feel that -- doesn't represent have somewhere to go because the reality is trump owns the party still. he owns the base. and there are so few people like the georgia secretary of state, like immediate -- like lieutenant governor, brad rachbsberg is the secretary of state. the top three people in that state who are all out of sorts with the base of the

reporter: in georgia republicans already passed a bill taking aim at another election official, brad raffenspergerection. >> reporter: and then the legislature passed a measure removing raffensperger as a voting member of the state elections board. >> i believe it's bad policy. at the end of the day we need to be able to hold counties accountable, but the challenge is when you have unelected chairmen of the state election board, who's going to hold them accountable? they don't report to the voters. >> reporter: republicans say they protect election integrity and ensure election officials don't overstep authority. but to some advocates, that explanation rings follow with still no evidence of widespread fraud. >> it has nothing to do with election integrity and everything to do with the opposite. it's an attack on our democracy. >> and sara murray joins us now. so, sara, arizona's governor who i should point out say republican. is he expected to sign the bill? >> they do expect he's going to sign it. this is part of a broader budget bill. when i was speaking with katie hobbs earlier today, she said

we heard such different things about georgia, joe biden called it the new jim crow, brad raffenspergerecide, does this discriminate against african americans, i am happy to make that decision. i hate having the federal government involved in state voting procedures, but if one party is trying to disenfranchise a race of people, american history has established this is when the federal government is involved, so i am happy to see -- let the courts make a determination, was their intent to discriminate? judy: and democrats are arguing republicans are trying to deny people on a massive scale. >> on a massive scale. which is why attorney general merrick garland and the justice department is taking the action it took today. judy: i guess my question is, whatever the supreme court rules , it looks like this is something that is frozen in congress, it is not going anywhere. >> is completely frozen, until something is done about the filibuster. judy: our favorite senate maneuver, the filibuster. >> right. until it is removed or altered, before the people act is not going anywhere. judy: this w

officials are living with threats of hanging, firing squads, tortures, bomb blasts, include brad raffenspergeryour family will be killed very slowly. another one to his wife, we plan for the death of you and your family every day. i want to get both of you to react to this. elise, you first. >> it's horrifying, alex, no one who is charged with upholding a free and fair election who does the yeoman's work of making sure we all can vote deserving to be threatened like this. it's horrific that rep leaders have not done more to decry the lies, you know, where they started. you see how that handle happened at you will, now the january 6th insurrection is being cast off as notice that big of a deal. i think it's a huge problem when good men and women are threatened for simply doing their job. >> elensia, can you offer any thoughts on to you to combat it. you can try to put truth to -- >> it's so scary reading all those rest our souls. my grandmother was an election worker. i would be live individual if those death threats were sent to her. we have to talk about the erosion of information and how tha

and that's getting very strong pushback from officials in the state of georgia, including brad raffenspergerretary of state in georgia. he says the biden administration continues to do the bidding of stacey abrams and spread more lies about georgia's election law. i look forward to meeting them and beating them in court. how about the governor of the state of georgia, this of course, is from brian kemp. he says the lawsuit is born out of the lies and misinformation the biden administration has pushed against georgia's election integrity act from the start. as you know, voter integrity laws are growing nationwide especially since the 2020 election with lawmakers introducing more than 3389 bills in 48 states enhance voter integrity or restrict voting access depending on your perspective. accusing the biden administration of gross overreach in this particular circumstance arguing attempt to violations of federal law in order to shape state voting laws. shannon? >> shannon: all right. we will have much more and we will see you again at midnight tonight fox news at night. see you then. >> you bet

we heard his phone call to georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger when he said i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have because we have won the state. he also phoned the chief investigator, the secretary of state's office, telling her something bad happened. when the right answer comes out, you'll be praised. he called republican members of the wayne county, michigan, board of canvassers after they initially refused to certify the election results in the county with the largest population of black residents in the state. he then summoned the republican leaders of michigan state legislature to the white house, but not convinced them to change the outcome of the election in their state. and as the former president was doing all of this, to try to overturn the election, it was fair to assume he was also probably trying to use one of the most powerful tools at his disposal, the department of justice. there are a few sort of obvious but i'd say circumstantial clues at the time, right? first, remember that attorney general william barr just left abruptly? anno

he had the call in georgia ru to brad raffensperger trying to get him to do something to find votes and fraud. to find evidence to cast doubt who had won the state. we see this really tense and awful meeting happen. it's after that meeting that yos see rosen's deputy e-mail bj pack. it's only after a few minutes after the entire justice department debriefed op what af happened in the meeting. the president's obsession with georgia is known. the fact something is going to probably happen to bj pack or e mentioned is known. and that point that the number two official calls pack. and you can assume he likely explains to him what has just ca transpired in the meeting. and president trump's obsession with georgia. and he presents him with a a couple options.rg if you are bj pack, i don't know what you would do. b i don't know for sure what i would do. i will say one option being to quietly leave before i'm tweeted about and my reputation is utterly destroyed by president trump doesn't sound like the worst option in the world. you can say that this is still completely inappropriate and undue

we heard such different things about the georgia, joe biden called it the new jim crow, brad raffenspergered. so if the courts decide it does discriminate against african-americans, i'm happy to make that decision. i hate having the federal government involved in state voting procedures, but if one party is trying to disenfranchise a race of people, i think american history established this is when the federal government gets involved. so i'm happy to see, let the courts make a determination, was there intent to discriminate here. >> woodruff: and jonathan, d.m.s are arguing that reps are trying to deny people. >> right. >> woodruff: on a massi scale. >> on a massive scale, which is why attorney general merrick garland and the justice department is taking the action that it took today. >> woodruff: and i guess my question, though, is whatever the supreme court rules, it looks like this is something that's frozen in the congress. it's not going anywhere. >> yeah, no. it's completely frozen, until the filibuster -- something is done about the filibuster. >> woodruff: our favorite senate mane

georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger who pushed back hard on donald trump's claims of voteud in georgia, he says he's looking forward to meeting the feds in court on this lawsuit and beating the feds in court on this lawsuit. >> yeah, democrats might actually end up codifying some of the things that are in the law, voter id would be one of those things. there are some things i think that state legislators across the country will pay attention to. make sure the bills will pass constitutional muster or you'll have a challenge like this in the courts. chris: thank you, panel. see you next sunday. up next, our power player of the week, a former cia secret ops leader hit with a mysterious illness and pushing for justice. chris: he spent more than two decades in the shadows on dangerous covert ops for the cia. but now he's been forced into the public eye, to fight for american officials hit by a mysterious illness. here is our power player of the week. >> it is an act of war, a pretty insidious weapon that's being used. chris: a former cia officer on the invisible attack that end

georgia's republican secretary of state brad raffensperger who refused to fraudulently create the votes that donald trump asked him to fraudulently create in a phone call in the georgia presidential election has been removed by the republican legislature as the chair and voting member of the state election board. secretary raffensperger is now running for re-election and doing everything he can now to ingratiate himself with trump voters. secretary raffensperger has now produced a list of nearly 102,000 voters who will be removed from the voting rolls unless they respond within 40 days to stay on the voting rolls. and leading off our discussion from georgia, helen butler, a member of the morgan county board of elections in georgia. her last day will be june 30th. also with us, the ceo of the new georgia project, the voter registration group which works on education and outreach for minority voters. you've been on this board for about ten years now and suddenly, the republicans are getting rid of you. how did that happen? >> well, thank you, lawrence for having me. what they decided was

georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger who pushed back hard on donald trump's claims of votesays he's looking forward to meeting the feds in court on this lawsuit and beating the feds in court on this lawsuit. >> yeah, democrats might actually end up codifying some of the things that are in the law, voter id would be one of those things. there are some things i think that state legislators across the country will pay attention to. make sure the bills will pass constitutional muster or you'll have a challenge like this in the courts. chris: thank you, panel. see you next sunday. up next, our power player of the week, a former cia secret ops leader hit with a mysterious illness and pushing for justice. life... doesn't stop for diabetes. be ready for every moment, with glucerna. it's the number one doctor recommended brand that is scientifically designed to help manage your blood sugar. live every moment. glucerna. finding new routes to reach your customers, and new ways for them to reach you... is what business is all about. it's what the united states postal service has always

georgia's republican secretary of state, again, georgia's republican secretary of state, this man, brad raffenspergerelection officer, pushed back against the president saying he stood behind the legitimacy of georgia's ballot count and recount results. since then state republicans passed a law removing the secretary of state from the state's election board and replaces he or she with a chair person appointed by the legislature. basically looking at the guy who stood up for integrity of the election results in 2020 and removing his power to do that again. it also gives the state elections board power to suspend county or municipal election workers. this institutional change that is trying to undermine democracy is not just happening in georgia. laws are being proposed and passed to restrict voting or undermine election officials in arizona, in arkansas, in michigan, in pennsylvania, in texas. the list goes on. we are not in the land of simple peddling disinformation now. we are in a master class now. republican-controlled state legislatures are passing restrictions and punishing election officials to

you will remember back in 2020 secretary of state brad raffensperger spoke out very strongly. was him and members of his office, gabe sterling and others, who repeatedly essentially pushed back on then president trump's unfounded claims of voter fraud, essentially saying there's no evidence of widespread fraud and the election was conducted fairly. at the same time during 2020, we saw a growing number of republican lawmakers, many of whom were siding with the then president, talking about the fact it was a fraudulent election, making those unfounded claims but also calling for very specific things. calling for a general assembly to be called, special session to be called, and also calling for the removal of some of those state and local officials. had this law been this place back in 2020, you will remember the secretary of state would not have been the chair of the elections board and some critics essentially say that would have given those very same lawmakers indirectly more power over the state elections board and decisions that came out of that board, chuck. >> blayne alex

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the same time you have georgia's republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger saying he has removed100,000 names from state voter rolls. second most were linked to a change of address or from residences where election mail had been returned to sender. and yet the georgia governor brian kemp saying there is nothing jim crow about the recent voter suppression law passed in georgia. put all of that together. >> what republicans are doing is there weaponizing the big lie on every front. they're keeping alive the line the election was stolen through these bogus audits, making it harder to vote in so many different ways. the georgia law that brian kemp says has nothing to do with jim crow, has 16 different provisions making it harder for democrats and communities of color to be able to vote, which is why stacey abrams calls it jim crow in a suit and tie. they're making it easier to overturn election results. they are purging local election officials. they're taking over county election boards, overstate election boards in 14 states, politicizing election restrictions in an unprecedented w

succeed with gerrymanderings and succeed with getting rid of ethical secretaries of state like brad raffensperger and could do what they failed to do in 2020, thereby overturn the will of the people? >> no, i really don't. and listen, i've looked at some of these changes that some of these states are making. they're rather inconsequential. anyone who's eligible to vote will not have a problem voting in any state. now, again, i don't like the way they're going about making some of these changes, but when you start to compare what goes on in one state with another, i believe we've got some very liberal states that have much more restrictive voting -- much more restrictive voting process than you would have in georgia or texas, as an example. >> what do you mean? like which state? which state do you think has a more restrictive voting process than georgia? ? i >> well, i think it's delaware that doesn't even allow for absentee voting except under very rigid circumstances. some states have no early voting. i think it's new hampshire. and so, when you begin to look at these, how the states run these e

he'd have that call with brad raffensperger in georgia trying to get him to do something to get votes, to find evidence that would cast doubt who had won that state. and then we see this really tense and awful meeting happen. it's after that meeting that you see rosen's deputy emailed, b.j. pak, it's only a few minutes after they have been debriefed in that meeting. the presidents obsession with the georgia is known. the fact that something is going to probably happen to b.j. pak or he's going to be mentioned. and then it is at that point that the number two official calls pak and you can assume that he likely explains to him what has just transpired in the meeting and president trump's obsession with georgia. he probably present some with a couple of options. if you were b.j. pak, i don't know what you would do. i don't know for sure what i would do. i will set, one option being to quietly leave before i'm tweeted about in my reputation is utterly destroyed by president trump doesn't sound like the worse option in the world. and you can also say that that is still completely inapprop

. >> you have georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger who personally stood up to donald trump and and his favorite now planning a big purge. refusing to accept reality which is that he lost a fair and secure election, donald trump has convinced his party supporters that if you did not vote for him, you vote does not count. and there are really alarming numbers that completely back up that fiction among debates. that is next. s next do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy, even a term policy, for an immediate cash payment. call coventry direct to learn more. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized that we needed a way to supplement our income. our friends sold their policy to help pay for their medical bills and that got me thinking. maybe selling our policy could help with our retirement. i'm skeptical, so i did some research and called coventry direct. they explained life insurance is a valuable asset that can be sold. we learned that we can sell all of our policy or keep part of it with no futur

our republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger, recently announced another-100,000 georgians will be purged from our voter rolls. they are going door to door and talking about the issues. creating conversations. we are not going lightly. we have set ourselves up. people have been doing this work for decades. many people, whose names we will never know, who will never get to be on your show. they are out there doing the work. and as the result, we are fighting to make sure that every-eligible voter has equal access to the ballot box here in georgia and, indeed, across the country. >> well, i do want all of them to be on this show. so, you will send us their names. thank you so much as always for your time. >>> georgia is the first state the justice department is taking on other states, like texas, are on the ag's radar, too, as he vows to review not just voting rights but partisan gerrymandering. joining us now to discuss, professor of journalism at columbia university. and hayes brown. hayes, democrats across the country have begged, literally begged, for federal help to stop gop-

in georgia the family of the republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger, this man, began receiving death threats almost immediately after the election and the threats have not stopped. raffensperger was infamously the subject of trump's authoritarian style attacks and anti-democratic demands. he phoned him and asked him to commit voter fraud so that 11,800 votes could be found so trump could win the text. raf enberger's wife shared texts which you can see on screen here. they're heinous. au and your family will be killed very slowly. please pray. i'm sorry. keep opposing the audit of fulton county's election ballots and someone in your family is going to have a very unfortunate incident. last november reuters reports people who identified themselves to police as being members of the domestic extremist group the oath keepers were found outside raffensperger's home. they were not at the home, they went into hiding that day because intruders broke into the home of their daughter-in-law. the oath keepers like the proud boys were allegedly instrumental in the january 6th attack on the u

"uh, also sometimes donald trump rolls through and complains about brad raffensperger." audit he referenced is the same one you may have heard where republicans are reportedly searching for bamboo on ballots to find out if they were smuggled in from asia. >> the other day at the press conference, you were talking about bamboo what was that about? >> well, it's that there's accusations of 40,000 ballots were flown in. >> to arizona? >> to arizona. and it was stuffed into the box. okay and it came from the southeast part of the world, asia, okay? and what they're doing is to find out if there's bamboo in the paper. that camera right there, if they take a picture of the ballot, if you -- they can really look at depth and find out, is it a hand marked paper ballot, because it's a 5k camera >> why do you check for bamboo >> because they use bamboo in the paper process. >> who is they >> people in southeast asia. >> seth: they're using a 5k camera to find out if there's bamboo in the paper and to see if the ballots came from southeast asia imagine going to best buy to get the

like georgia republican secretary of state brad raffensperger who had displayed a hint of spine but has now given it, welcoming a fakey recount in fulton county because he's up for re-election and he needs the votes of the trump cult who believe the big lie. i can't believe i have to say this but i really do. these states are not going to overturn the election. there was no fraud that rigged a biden win, he just won more votes. more importantly, there is no constitutional mechanism for a redo. we had one election. it's over. we have a president. his name is joseph robinette biden. this weekend in north carolina the two sides of this republican coin, the elections are only legit when republicans win normies and the trump is still president lulus are on a collision course ahead of a speech from you know who at saturday's north carolina gop convention. he's texting supporters making it sound like he's still the president and needs their input. the problem is millions of the maga base actually believe him. the only nuance between them and the regular old republicans as adam serwer writes is

and i don't know how to make this happen, but the leadership of people like liz cheney, brad raffensperger, l schmidt -- al schmidt. these are people who did their job exceptionally well and continue to, and i think finding ways to support courageous leadership is really important, and that does not mean trying to turn republicans who are supporting the rule of law into democrats. that is absolutely not the case. we need to have a comfort level with the fact that we disagree on policy but we will support certain foundational elements of democracy because that's who we are as americans. >> thank you. do you want in on this or should i move on? all right. your thoughts, john? john: i will be quick. i have made this point before. in theory, there is a big congress could do at the federal level. it is unlikely big things will be done and most action will be to the states. if i had to pick one thing out of my list before, i think we should be not afraid of being able to count the votes more quickly. we can do it accurately, do it well, and getting votes in by election day is part of that, but i

know, i don't know how to make this happen, but the leadership of people like liz cheney, like brad raffensperger, like secretary is a gas kyi, like al schmidt. these are people who did their jobs exceptionally well, and continue to. and i think finding ways to support courageous leadership is really important. and that does not mean trying to turn republicans who are supporting the rule of law into democrats. that is absolutely not the case. we need to have a comfort level with the fact that we will disagree on policy, but we will support, support certain foundational elements of democracy because that is who we are as americans. >> thank you. dan cox, do you want in on this? or do i move on? nope? "bleacher report." john fortier, your thoughts here. >> i will be quick. i made this point before. first while in theory i think there are some things congress can do at the federal level it is unlikely big things will be done and most action is still going to be at states. if i had to pick one thing out of my list before i think we should be not afraid of being able to count the votes more quickly. w