the thrust of your tweets is that they're revelations that fulton county is unable to produce all ballotments and invested thoroughly as we have other counties that failed to follow rules on the drop boxes. this cannot continue. you have to say there's been a leadership fail in full on the county. some people will look at that and think back to fulton county on election night and were there errors and people on this list that can't vote anymore that did vote in that election? >> of the 118,000 people coming off of these roles, none of them voted. we had two dead people that voted. two dead people. but what we're talking about with full full is really systemic mismanagement that goes back to 1993. the first secretary of state that got them on a descent decree which allowed a monitor in there. he presented these fundings to our office and the state election board. they put that information out to the press. he also met with if fulton county election board, which is three democrats, two republicans and they made the decision to fire rick bar ron. he got bumped out to the county commissioner

they're sure that the votes out of fulton county shouldn't count and they can figure out a way to saypiracy theory promoting trump supporters should get to have a look at absentee ballots from fulton county and he ordered that they be allowed to look at images from the ballots and even expects the original physical ballots although unlike arizona fulton county would not be allowed to just hand the ballots over to them. well that was an initial ruling and today the judge held a hearing which election officials tried to get him to dismiss the case before it goes any further. the judge heard arguments for about three hours. he did not rule today and he said he needs more time to think about it but we're rule as quickly as possible. the reason we're watching this is that maybe soon we will hear that the judge shut the door completely on republican fantasies of trying to overturn the 2020 election in georgia already or maybe he will let them have their so-called audit of those ballots in the cyber ninjas people will move over there to. we shall see. watch this please. but new cascade plati

they will remain in the care and security of fulton county. it is also possible he'll require them to submit their findings to the court before they go out and talk about them publicly. he is trying to put some guard rails in place but obviously it is going to be quite a spectacle no matter what. >> sara murray, appreciate it. now the effort election doubters in georgia, pennsylvania, and elsewhere have modeled their would be so-called audits after. in our last hour we heard from the arizona secretary of state kitty hobbs about her concerns as the audit there wraps up. joining us now is maricopa county recorder and republican steven richard. appreciate you being with us. what is your understanding of what is going to happen when the so-called -- these, quote-unquote, results come out from the so-called audit in arizona and what exactly is the process for returning the ballots? >> thank you very much for having me on. i really appreciate it. part of the problem is we haven't gotten clarity about this process. we don't know what to expect. we do

that fulton county elections director's worked on elections for 22 years. he's also volunteered as an elections observer overseas. he said his experience dealing with trump supporters right now, quote, it seem like we were descending into this third-world mentality. i never expected that out of this country. election supervisors now telling reuters they fear high numbers of temporary workers who regularly staff polling sites won't return for any future votes because they want to avoid harassment and threats. and potentially, violence. one polling manager, telling a hair-raising story from the night of the january senate runoff in georgia. this is amazing. after the polls closed, she was quote driving to deliver ballots to an elections office in bardo county. the polling manager, who is black, was traveling with her daughter. also, a poll worker hired temporarily for the election. on a dark, rural, two-lane road, they noticed they were being followed by an suv. the manager called 9-1-1, as her daughter sped toward town with the suv nearly running them off th

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 his whole campaign on the stop the steal camps conspiracy theory. but the harassment, even from high-ranking official like that has gone beyond threats in text messages. this is from reuters today. quote, a late november, the 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 identify themselves to police as, oath keepers, the far-right militia group that supported trump's bid to overturn the election, they were found outside the raffe

richard baron is the fulton county election director. we talked to him in the georgia presidential race that was too close to call. >> you haven't gotten pressure from the campaigns but do you feel pressure on your shoulders? >> yes. we want to make sure all the votes count. >> reporter: election workers did their jobs well but trump's innuendos resulted in -- >> hundreds of phone calls, emails threatening hanging. there was one in particular that really alarmed him. a caller had said that they were planning on standing him before a firing squad and killing him. >> here is the audio of one of those phone calls. >> i think you need a pair of handcuffs slapped on you. it's quite obvious the fraud that went on so why don't you just come out and admit it and quit jerking the american people around. just wondering how much they paid you. when i'm done with you, you'll be in prison. >> 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

to help students like harmonee, fulton county doubled the number of schools offering summer classes,d course options, and opened the program to all students. but finding enough teachers was a challenge, even after thousand-dollar bonuses were offered. >> our teachers, quite honestly, are exhausted. i could have probably put about 30 more kids in summer school, had i had more teachers. >> sy: summer school is just one tool in bringing kids up to grade level. research shows more time in the classroom during the regular year and specialized tutoring programs also help. both school districts have no illusions that a few weeks in the summer alone can combat the covid slide. >> our belief is not that everything will be resolved at the end of june 2021. >> we know that we have to have a long-term perspective on our plan moving forward. this can't be made up in one year. >> sy: both atlanta public and fulton county districts have three-year plans to get students back up to speed. summer programs are voluntary, unlike regular school, and registration fell short of district goals, meaning many

former president, finally giving in, even though he thinks this is bogus, there was an audit in fulton countywe'll get the answers that will be very similar to what we had back when this election was carried out and we did the audit process. and we can put this to the and we can move forward. frankly, he's exhausted and wants to win reelection. >> right, that's the thing to keep in mind that he's running fors reelection again, and he has an opponent in u.s. rep jody hice who's conservative, as trump's endorsement already and who has pushed the election misinformation about 2020 general election. so even though he's said all along we've counted the ballots already multiple times, we've confirmed the outcome of the election multiple times, sec the secretary is also saying if people who are concerned need another review and that will help them feel more secure about the election result let's do it but the concern as you've mentioned is this review still will confirm the results of the election, but won't quite those critics. they'll still be squg for more, won't trust the outcome of the election

another warned keep opposing the audit of fulton county's 2020 election ballots and somebody is goinger-in-law's house. that same night the oath keepers a far right militia group that has supported trump's bid to overturn the election were found outside the home. violent threats were also made to lower level election workers. here is one recording of many that the fulton county elections director received. >> you fleed to get your act together or people like me will really -- go after people like you. it's -- there will be a riot i think somewhere. >> these violent threats have gone national. katy hobbs arizona secretary of state is getting death threats to this day because of her opposition to the fraudulent and dangerous election review happening in her state. arizona has become the big lie mecca hosting delegations of republicans from georgia, alaska, colorado, and virginia to name a few looking to spread these legally dubious, un-democratic side shows to their own states. yesterday wisconsin republicans announced they were sending a delegation to arizona. the trip will be paid for

there are questions being raised about plaintiffs and folks in fulton county and whether it could have an impact of the election. i think those are what he's focusing on. the things he's saying are not things that could, there is no path for being reinstated as president. >> it is amazing that you keep on saying that but it is crucial for people to understand. maggie, thank you for sharing your reporting. > >> the audi t is a sham and republicans have said this needs to stop. i want to go to pennsylvania's attorney josh supero. you fought challenges with trump to overturn the election results in pennsylvania which were in favor of biden. you hear maggie reporting that trump is telling people that he's going to be reinstated by august. what do you make of that, attorney general? >> it has been over 200 days since the election, the same thing is still true. joe biden won the election and donald trump lost. it was true here in pennsylvania and also true that we had a safe, secure and free and fair election. one that was run by republicans and democratic county officials and neighbors all

. >> you point out how georgia specifically outlawed early voting, buses used by fulton county wheretlanta is. they also severely limited drop boxes. are laws like this about targeting predominantly blue, urban, and you know what i mean by that, urban areas? black votes. >> unquestionably. that's what we are seeing. in state after state. and this pattern of increased preemption of red states and blue cities began in 2010. it kind of percolated along in the decade. it took a huge leap during the pandemic when you saw kemp in georgia and abbott in texas and desantis the head of the line in florida, pressured by trump repeatedly overriding the decisions by executives or mayors whether to close down businesses or fine people who weren't wearing masks, and that posture has rolled right into this legislative session. key west, florida passed a ballot referendum to limit the docking of large cruise ships and the state is overriding even that. there is almost no area na seems to be out of bounds at this point, and again, it is part of this larger pattern of all of these issues where the red

one poll manager who worked in fulton county, georgia for decades said she witnessed thousands of ballotsor biden with identical photocopy markings. all done identically. how does that happen? she was pressured to drop her claim and then she was fired very, very viciously. instead of hearing evidence from election fraud experts, rinos in michigan are: for sham investigations to shut it down -- calling for sham investigations shed. it down, immediately. even though detroit is perhaps the single most corrupt election area in the united states. you heard what happened there. the number of votes and the number of voters. somebody is going to have to say, why do they want it shut down? 55% of voters support election audits. i want to thank the brave republican senators in the state of arizona for what they are doing. because they saw what was happening. i have nothing to do. what is going to happen is, they are going to issue a report, sometime in the not-too-distant future. that is them doing it. this is the state senate of arizona. let's see how that comes out. it will be coming out very soo

you remember the fulton county absentee ballots being counted late into the night there on camera and what will it take to stop these endless audits, fraud-its, election fraud, to have a free and fair election? i have to go because i have some breaking news. go on. >> don, it hasn't stopped. we need federal legislation, we need the for the people act and the john lewis voting advancement act. we need federal legislation to protect the right to vote in this nation. >> latosha is all dressed up and looks amazing, her bus tour has started already and she's out working for had you this is one doing the work. latosha, i love having you on, i love what you're doing, it's so patriotic and so american. thanks for standing up for all people, republicans and democrats, and the right to vote. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me, don. >> absolutely. so here is the breaking news, the doj is releasing videos from the capitol riot. we have 'em, we'll go through them. don't go anywhere. that's next. everything felt like a “no.” but then paul went from no to know. with freestyle libre 14 day

what does houston happen to have in common with places like atlanta and fulton county and places likeetroit, michigan where we know trump and the republicans directed a lot of their anger, right, it's back and prounl. it included language -- that was rim clowe language and they event hi took it out but reveals what their true intentions were. >> one of the critics that was pointed to as targeting black voters is the provision that sunday early voting could not start until 1:00 p.m. and democrats say that would hurt events that are called souls to the polls where people if to vote right after church. now republicans when asked about this in the last day or so, they say it was just a typo. they didn't mean to say 1:00 p.m., they meant to say 11:00 a.m. take a listen. 11:00 a.m., can you back up what the state rep said? >> 11:00 a.m., if there's any limit at all. we want to make sure people are not limited on what they can do for souls to the polls. was that an owe roar? >> that was added over in the house and i'll defer to the house colleagues. they say it was a typo. i'll take their wo

he's similarly obsessed with an effort going on in fulton county, georgia. and no matter what topic, this is what he brings everything back to. for instance, his speech this weekend, his team is trying to script a speech where he will go after biden, do something that would be helpful to the republican party. but they're simultaneously bracing for him to go on the trump tangents for which he's so well known. criticizing fellow republicans and talking about the election that he lost. >> erin, listening to michael flynn and sidney powell this past weekend, they reminded us, while perhaps not intentionally, of why 1/6 happened in the first place. in your reporting and the reporting on your website, how much self-awareness, if any at all, are you picking up from republicans? they launched this, i'm tempted to use the phrase, you break it, you buy it. but it could in the end break them. >> yeah. and brian, this, to frank's point, is why this 1/6 commission is so important. because, yes, senator mcconnell said that everybody was there on january 6th. and yet we do

over and say, okay, a republican legislature could say, you know, we think there was fraud in fulton countyre we're going to certify a different set of electors. that's really dangers and that didn't happen in '20, but it could. voting rights is critical and i don't know -- i haven't talked to joe about it in particular. we got to focus on what the most crucial issue is, which is protecting democracy. >> there's a lot of legislation that has been stalled in the 50/50 senate. you wrote that the fate of the filler buster, whether or not the senate will continue to require 60 bovotes, what are th doing today? are they negotiating in good faith? do you support eliminating the filibuster? >> we've been negotiating in good faith for about two months on this competitiveness bill, the competitiveness and innovation bill that's designed to help us compete in china. that's been entirely bipartisan. it sort of stalled right before we left town last week. hopefully, we're going to be able to finalize that. that's a good example of how we can work together. but i was thinking about that bill, if the bil

unraveling fast, he is continuing to push this lie, specific to georgia, specific to your county in fulton countyow, all that we can do is try to be as transparent as possible and to -- when we have the facts then we will respond with factual information. there are some online tabloids that are making claims based on information they have, and they've either misinterpreted it or they don't understand it. they make these claims and then it inflames the situation. there needs to be responsible journalism that is followed, even by these tabloids on these online tabloids that are popping up. i think the mainstream media needs to look at online tabloids with skepticism, and it seems like they are acting responsibly because they are calling and trying to get information in order to fact check some of these organizations or media outlets that are popping up that are making all sorts of outlandish claims. >> there's only so much i think mainstream organizations can do if the people who are making these threats aren't listening to the mainstream media organizations, if they're getting their information fr

we know that recently in georgia fulton county a judge there had called for a review of some of theirnd after that happened she received another text referring to that where people text her really at all hours of the day and night. she says she gets ready for bed, she gets text messages, 3:00 a.m. in the morning she'll receive a text message. she'll wake up to these text messages. so, you know, they continue to be targeted. and it's -- her recent text messages -- people reach out to her via text. she was really the first target within the secretary of state's office. she said she received her first text the day that the two u.s. republican senators in georgia called for him to resign, calling him an embarrassment, saying the way he managed the election was an embarrassment. she said that day is when she received her first text message. >> wow. >> and she's been receiving them ever since. >> right. >> and it's not just those text messages, but frightening things have happened to not only her, but also her family. she, of course they lost their eldest son three years ago so their daught

vote when it is well in between black voters are more likely to be standing in line, nine in ours fulton county, six hours in harris county in the middle of a pandemic. so all of these provisions have already passed many legislatures. what do we do about those? those would not be subject to pre-clearance under the john lewis voting advancement act, which & they will take people off the rolls and keep people from being able to vote. what the for the people act would do is begin to do the work that should happen in any healthy democracy, which is expand access to voting, expand about tee voting, expand early voting and guarantee early voting, require automatic voter registration. these are the things that are actually going to add people to the rolls and allow people to be able to vote more comfortably with more opportunity through early voting and absentee voting so they can't undercut the ability for people to participant in the process. so we need both of these. we certainly need the elements of both of these. if they want to mash them together in something else, that's a whole other story. bu

below, ana, was mark meadows asking him to look into allegations of, you know, voting anomalies in fulton countyu know, jeffrey rosen obviously saying this is -- this is crazy. i'm not doing this. so he forwards it to richard donahue, and then later they get this youtube link from mark meadows that, again, purports to, you know, be part of this conspiracy of italian satellites trying to manipulate voter data. jeffrey rosen just sends it to richard donahue, and the number two at doj just responds simply pure insanity. and that captures the hysteria out of the white house that doj was trying to deal with in the run-up to the riot, ana, just put the timing into context. that's how hysterical they were at the white house. just throwing whatever they could at the wall to try to see if anything would stick to convince doj to overturn this election, ana. >> what's so fascinating about this, whitney, is that this was after then attorney general bill barr was booted from the trump administration, in part, we believe, because he would not buy into the big lie and was publicly saying that he saw no widespr

investigate a conspiracy theory which falsely claims that anomalies with signature matcher in fulton county has been widespread enough to make trump the loser. two days after that demand was pead, the trump campaign lawyer and meadows participated in trump's infamous phone call in which he say they commit fraud and find the vote so trump could win and meadows suggested that the trump campaign find a way forward that did not involve the courts. the times reported that rosen did not agree to open any of these investigations and the people close to him and former officials said he did not do so. and rosen is in talks to testify on the matter and on the january 6 insurrection. if you need a moment to digest all of this, that is okay. joining me is the co-author of the bombshell piece, the pulitzer prize reporter katie benner. always with big news and she joins us with, but this one, katie, this one is if you submitted this in journalism school, they would laugh you out for talking about, as you said fantastical things. this is full of conspiracy theories except that is real. it happens in the h

richard is the fulton county, georgia, elections director.ed and scanned. >> do you feel pressure on your shoulders? >> well, yes, because we want to make sure all of the votes count. >> reporter: election workers did their jobs well. but trump's lies resulted in the election's director receiving -- >> hundreds of phone calls, emails, threatening -- there was one in particular that really alarmed him. a caller had said that they were planning on standing him before a firing squad and killing him. >> reporter: and here is the audio of one of those phone calls. >> i think you need a pair of handcuffs slapped on you. it's quite obvious the fraud that went on. why don't you come out and admit it. and quit jerking the american people around. just wondering how much they paid you. when i'm done with you, you'll be in prison. >> 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

meadows emailed jeffrey rosen, quote, there have been allegations of signature match alone leads in fulton county, georgia. can you get chef clark to engage on this issue immediately to determine if there's any truth to this allegation. >> jeffrey rosen forwarded this email to richard donahue saying, quote, can you believe this? i am not going to respond to the message below. jeffrey clark, who was then the acting head of the civil division of the justice department had no conceivable jurisdiction over voting issues in georgia. but as we discovered in january, jeffrey clark was in secret communication with the trump might house and encouraging with the acting attorney general called pure insanity. and was actually expected donald trump to remove the acting attorney general and give him the job of acting attorney general. put clark in there as acting attorney general. republicans are very disappointed that all of that pure insanity did not work, and the real winner of the presidential election is not rated as the 46th president of the united states. and so republicans in state legislatures are doi

. >> all rice, fulton county criminal corps is now -- >> on august 12th, 2013, the trial of paul novaknty courthouse. the district attorney opened the case. >> the evidence will show that as catherine begged for and fought for her life, the defendant ended her life. murdering her, in the basement of her own home. >> prosecutors set out to prove that paul orchestrated this murder down to the last detail. >> he was planning this for a period of weeks, maybe more in his own mind. on how to rid himself of catherine. >> he's a murderer. he's a sociopath. he planned, he executed, and he killed catherine novak in cold blood. >> their star witness was paul's ex lover, michelle lafrance. the jury heard every minute of those police interrogation tapes of michel describing the details of how he killed his wife. >> he told me that they were fighting and that they were rolling around on the basement floor for about 45 minutes. and that's why he was so late. and she was screaming and begging for her life. >> and the jury didn't have to just take her word for it, prosecutors called scott sherwood, pa

>> was fulton county the first? i guess it was. you said is there any significance to them coming out so early. these cases were argued in november. obamacare was argued the day after the election. it has been a long time. something has been going on that -- usually cases that take this long to come out, it's because of the back and forth between the majority and minority opinions. they keep responding to each other before they are ready. i think jeffrey is right, decisions are announced when they are ready. it took a long time to get these. perhaps we will find out later that alignments changed here. on the philly case, there was a supreme court decision that said there's no religious exemption to laws that are -- that generally apply to everybody. it involved some people that got fired for ingesting sacramenal paoti. that's the question here, would the supreme court overturn its ruling that basically said -- it was written by scalia. it says laws that apply to everybody, there's no religious exemption. catholic social services wh

conspiracy theory promoting trump supporters should get to have a look at absentee ballots from fulton county at the images of the ballots and even to inexpect the original ballots. unlike alabama, they would not be allowed to just hand the ballots over. that was the initial ruling. today the judge held a hearing in which election officials tried to get him to dismiss the case before it goes any further. the judge heard arguments for about three hours. he did not rule. he said he needs time to think about it but will rule as quickly as possible. we're watching this because maybe we'll hear that he shut the door completely on republican fantasies trying to overturn the 2020 election in georgia already. or maybe he will let them have their so-called audit of them and the cyber ninja people will move over there, too. we shall see. watch this space. when heartburn takes you by surprise. fight back fast, with new tums naturals. free from artificial flavors and dyes. tonight...i'll be eating crab cakes with spicy aioli. (doorbell rings) thank you. can we be besties, simone biles? i guess? yessss! s

. >> it turns out fulton county prosecutor clint rucker was thinking the same thing. >> there was noct operating condition. it had 12 pounds of pressure needed to pull the trigger. >> meaning it is not easy to do. >> it is not easy to do. it became very clear to me this had to be an intentional act. >> diane's colleagues gave the da her computer and files, hoping rucker might find more evidence. >> and that is when the evolution of the motive then developed. >> rucker's investigators found documents suggesting tex was in financial trouble. what is more, diane's colleagues revealed she had been working on a new will. rucker wanted to find that will so he got a search warrant for the ranch and condo. no will turned up but something else did, a glock in tex's condo. that was a violation of his bond, so tex went back to jail. the next day rucker filed new charges and the tex mciver cases escalated from careless accident to malice murder. it was according to tex's sister, dixie, preposterous. >> if you're going to kill your wife, is that how you would choose to do it? it makes no sense. >

in fulton county georgia. asking justice officials to investigate. rosen forwarded the email to con shoe and said can you believe this? i am not going to respond to the message below. it wasn't just meadows. the email showed trump's assistant sent a document claiming voter fraud in michigan and private attorney olsen contacted daj with a draft lawsuit challenging the election ruts. his email said i have been instructed to report back to the president after the meeting. it doesn't appear the meeting ever happened. days before the january 6th insurrection after weeks of pushing back against claims from the president's allies another doj official wrote it sounds like rosen and the cause of justice won. congresswoman sheila jackson lee is on the judiciary committee and pledged an investigation into the efforts. >> they were using the power of the white house the executive to undermine our separate but equal powers. we as a congress cannot stand for that and you can be assured a deep investigation may result in actions that will move this to a criminal re

conspiracy theory-promoting trump supporters should get to have a look at absentee ballots from fulton countye allowed to look at the images of the ballots and even to inspect the original ballots. unlike alabama, they would not be allowed to just hand the ballots over. that was the initial ruling. today the judge held a hearing at which election officials tried to get him to dismiss the case before it goes any further. the judge heard arguments for about three hours. he did not rule. he said he needs time to think about it but will rule as quickly as possible. the reason we're watching is that, you know, maybe we'll hear that the judge shut the door completely on republican fantasies trying to overturn the 2020 election in georgia already. or maybe he will let them have their so-called audit of them and the cyber ninja people will move over there too. we shall see. watch this space. this space [♪♪] looking to repair dry, damaged hair without weighing it down? try pantene daily moisture renewal conditioner. its color-safe formula uses smart conditioners to micro-target damage helping to repai

officials on board with a plan to do th something particularly in georgia, particularly in full -- fulton county. we see time stamps coming out of that meeting. various officials are saying we don't have a full read out. we think he'll remain acting attorney general.fi t one email even said the cause of justice won. we're not going to have something who believes these conspiracy theories running the justice department.avg a lot of that meeting was about georgia.wa a lot of that meeting was about donald trump's true belief something happened in georgia. 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 n

less than half of fulton county is now fully vaccinated, less than half. of the country, it is higher than the rest of the state. and with the state opening up and vaccines rolling out, atlanta is also grappling with a massive spike in crime. homicides up nearly 60 -- 60% in 2021 and that's after last year was the deadliest in the city's record. joining us now, atlanta's mayor keisha lance bottoms. mayor, more than half the residents who can get the shot haven't. who are you reaching, why aren't they, and what's your strategy? >> it's very disappointing, stephanie, there is hesitancy obviously across this state right now. you have to remember this is still, in so many places in the state, still a head state, so we know there is hesitancy on the far right, but also many minority communities are still very concerned about the vaccine, and we know the historical context of those concerns, of longstanding dissonant trust of vaccines, so we are continuing to educate people. i've been fully vaccinated as well as my husband, my mother, and two of my teenagers are

and fulton county georgia, the judges deliberating on whether to allow an audit of their 147,000 ballots. democratic state lawmakers in those states and all the people in the country have been watching this is all on voting rights. 480 of them signed on this letter to congressional leadership pleading with them to pass federal voting rights legislation. some of those texas democrats who walked out of their own state house to kill that restriction voting bill have been on capitol hill for pushing for federal action. arizona's democratic secretary of state herself the target of threats and harassment and vitriol right? called out her own state senator democrat kirsten sinema for refusing to get rid of the filibuster that stands in the way of passing this voter protection law. because full democratic unity is the only way to get this done. senator raphael warnock, pastor, the same churches were martin luther king jr. spends oh time working on these issues along with preaching before being elected thanks to last year's incredible turn on georgia, eloquently laid out the stakes today. >> righ

we remember the fulton county absentee ballots being counted late into the night there on camera.hat we saw, the efforts around suppression, what is it going to take to stop all these endless audits, fraudits, the election fraud, to have a free and fair election? what is it going to take to do that? i got to go because i got some breaking news by the way. but go on. >> it hasn't stopped. we need federal legislation. we need the for the people act and john lewis voter advancement act. there's no way around it. we're going to have to have federal legislation to actually protect the right to vote in this nation. >> listen, let me tell everyone. i'm just going to be transparent. latosha is all dressed up and seize she's looking amazing now. her bus tour started already, and she's out working for you. this is someone who is actually doing the work. latosha, i love having you on. i love what you're doing. it's so patriotic, and it's so american. thanks for standing up for all people, republican and democrats, and the right to vote, okay? thank you so much. >> thank you for having me, do

trump theories and the big lie, a georgia court throwing out an attempt to look at the ballots in fulton countyaudit which is going on also. there was a list of all the procedural deficiencies with that. so bill barr saying all along that there was nothing to these allegations fits into a larger puzzle where the big lie is sort of falling apart as a winning theme. >> barr also tells john carl about then senate majority leader, now minority leader, mitch mcconnell's approach. quote, mcconnell also believed that if he openly declared biden the winner, trump would be enraged and likely act to sabotage the republican senate campaigns in georgia, unquote. so mcconnell asked barr to do it because he couldn't, in his view. trump, in his statement, said, quote, he lost two senatorial seats in georgia. he never fought for the white house and blew it for the country, unquote. but it's interesting, mcconnell knew that the big lie was a lie. he knew that it was damaging to the country. but he also didn't want to say so publicly until after the georgia election runoffs were over for fear of losing them. >>

the district attorney in fulton county, fanny william -- willis -- is investigating potential violations of georgia state election laws and, frankly, they have the evidence on a recorded phone call. and we also know that the department of justice has volume two of the mueller report. which documented several counts of potential obstruction of justice, for which bob mueller famously testified, donald trump could be indicted after he leaves office. this could break the floodgates open, if the decision is made -- >> go ahead. >> no, so you are kind of -- for me, what i am hearing. i just want to understand what you are saying. this could kind of be seen as a domino effect. you are saying if the floodgates are then opened, you could see other people jumping on board? >> listen. there is probably great reluctance, among all prosecutorial offices to be the first one out of the indictment chute against a former president of the united states. so, if the manhattan district attorney's office and the grand jury, now sitting and hearing evidence, in this case, decides to take that first leap and in

and there's another one that says keep opposing the audit of fulton county's 2020 election ballots and someone in your family is going to have a very unfortunate incident. last november, reuters reported people who identified themselves as being members of the oath keepers were found outside the raffenspergers home. luckily they weren't home at the time. they went into hiding that very day because intruders broke into the home of their widowed daughter-in-law. the georgia secretary of state had to go into hiding in america in 2020. the oath keepers along with other domestic extremist groups like the proud boys were instrumental in the january 6th attack on the united states capitol. members of those two groups have been charged with conspiracy and now there are new conspiracy charges. six more individuals including a former police chief, all with ties to extremist groups have been charged with conspiracy according to newly revealed court documents. all of this comes as details continue to spill out about a brand-new trumpian scandal, one that gives the appearance of a justice departmen

officials on board, with some sort of plan to do something particularly in georgia, particularly in fulton county. we see this showdown happen at the white house. we see time stamp coming out of that meeting between 9 and 10 pm, where various officials are saying we don't have a full readout but we think that rosen is going to remain attorney general. one email event says that the cause of justice one, we're not gonna have somebody who believes these conspiracy theories running the justice department. a lot of that meeting was about georgia. a lot of that meeting was about donald trump's true belief that something has happened in georgia. 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

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 united states capitol. members of both groups have been charged with conspiracy related to the attack. now there are new conspiracy charges. six more individuals including a former police chief, all with ties to extremist groups u have been charged with conspiracy according to newly revealed court documents. all of this comes always we continue to learn more about the former president's newest scandal as evidence mounts that he tried to weaponize the justice department against the press, which he famously referred to as the enemy of the people and against democrat

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 not whether elections need to be changed but whether pol

in fulton county, georgia, which includes the city of atlanta and is home to 11% of the state's hospitalization they only opened five polling locations during their primary location. harris county, texas, home to one of the fastest growing cities in the country, houston, voters reported waiting up to six hours to vote in the primary election due to poll closures. l.a. county closed more than 3500 voting locations in its primary reducing the county's poll location toss 978 for a county whose population is nearly double the entire state of wisconsin. and new york city not only were polling places reduced for the prime' election but some didn't open on time and locations were changed hours before voters showed up to vote. washington, d.c. went from 143 location toss just 20 for its primary. chicago had reports of multiple polling location closures. philadelphia county reduced polling locations by 77% for their june 2 primary and admittedly the list goes on. so i have to ask my colleagues in the mainstream media who is listening today where was the outrage from democrats? where was the oversight he

the new fulton county sheriff are supportive after going after violent crimes.llowing federal law in this state. did i that nine years when i was secretary of state. the left was outraged as well. they act like nobody ever moves out of the state and doesn't notify the secretary of state's office that they are moving. so i think it's pertinent for the secretary of state's office to be following federal law when it comes to list maintenance and updated. you need to remove deseize seized people. this is not only in georgia but states around the country. it's another example of these hollow talking points of the democrats that are really being hypocritical if you think abouting voting law 2.0, you know, month and a half ago, and now she is saying things like 15 days of early voting and voter identification when you vote are perfectly fine when it's joe manchin's bills and it's a compromise at the federal level. they can't have it both ways. in georgia it's easy to vote and hard to cheat. steve: there you go. new york is just wrapping up early voting here. i think th