legislator who was also outside the capitol on january 6 and supporting jody highs trying to beat brad raffensberger in georgia. lake is already making campaign stops. >> my second kari lake event. >> reporter: this week lake throwing what she calls an election integrity rally.

a key focus the january 4th phone call between trump and georgia's secretary of state brad raffensberger. you remember. the call where then president pressured raffensberger to, quote, find him the votes to win. >> so tell me, brad, what are we going to do? we won the election and it's not fair to take it away from us like this. and it's going to be very costly in many ways. and i think you have to say that you're going to re-examine it and you can re-examine it but re-examine it with people that want to find answers no the people that don't want to find answers. >> whatever that means. now the man on the other end of the phone call is speaking out in the fall out from the 2020 election raffensberger refused to go along with trump's big lie and by doing so became public enemy number one for trump supporters and was inundated with death threats and escorted out of georgia's state capitol on january 6th when protesters entered the building looking for him. in his new book "integrity counts" he recounts what took place before and after the now infamous phone call. georgia secretary of state

georgia secretary of state brad raffensberger will join me live in a moment to talk about that and mucht devicive hot button issues in this country -- abortion and the second amendment. we'll look into what they asked and what it might tell us about how they will rule. and huma abedin is out with a new memoir. later this hour a candid interview about her life in the spotlight and her advice to democrats dealing with tough election outcomes. let's get

. >>> let's get more on this with georgia's secretary of state brad raffensberger.etary, thanks for joining us. what's your reaction to the former vice president citing james madison for his decision to stand firmly and not overturn the 2020 presidential election? >> nothing better than james madison, george washington, abraham lincoln, some of our great foundational leaders of our nation. and so that's what i lean into. i lean into the constitution, the rule of law. and that's why i wrote the book to set the record straight. first of all, integrity counts. always has. always will. but also to really explain to people exactly what the facts were. and the facts were that president trump came up short in the state of georgia. >> you, of course, as a lot of our viewers remember, faced enormous pressure from trump to overturn the election as well. so how revealing could those documents from the white house be, the documents, the select committee is seeking? >> i have no way of knowing. i'm down here in georgia. you have the washington political scene. but what i do know

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we have learned that the georgia secretary of state brad raffensberger sat today for an extensive interviewh the january 6th select committee. we're told the interview took more than four hours. raffensberger, of course, the republican election official in the state of georgia that resisted intense pressure from the former president, donald trump, to attempt to investigate false claims of fraud in his state. raffensberg, of course othat phone call with donald trump and mark meadows where trump put heavy pressure on raffensberger to act. of course, wolf, he did not do that and the election results in georgia stayed a victory for joe biden. wolf? >> that select committee moving along relatively quickly. ryan nobles up on capitol hill, thank you very much. >>> let's get more on all of this. joining us now, the former republican governor of new jersey, chris christie. his new book is entitled "republican rescue: saving the party from truth deniers, conspiracy theorists and the dangerous policies of joe biden." governor, thank you so much for joining us. just two weeks ago, meadows, the former w

he was hoping republicans would be on his side, like that guy in georgia, brad raffensberger who he called up and said find me some more votes. that alone, how is that not a crime? and mr. raffensperger said, no, we can't do that, this is america, we don't find votes. but what he's doing now is behind the scenes, he has spent all his time since he lost putting people in place who will find the votes. that's what is so disturbing, because next time it happens i think they are going to find the votes. he is purging the republican party of people like that. people who -- i think only ten republicans voted for his impeachment. two of them are already gone, because they see that they cannot win an election. he will primary them. he will destroy their reputations. and by the time we have the next election, i bet you none of them are running. liz cheney, certainly, is not going to win that election in wyoming. and so the republican party, as much as i keep hearing about, oh, trump, he's not as relevant anymore, trust me, he's going to run, absolutely. he's going to get the nomination. and i certa

of this as you said is being corroborated also by the georgia republican secretary of state brad raffensbergerll very, telling a very potentially bad illegal story for donald trump. and it is fitting for donald trump to go down for as you say racketeering charges since he does run the world's like least subtle crime operation. it is kind of like the sopranos except every time tony kills someone the narration is thrown on instagram live because that is what he does. trump announces it to the world. >> it would be a tweet or maybe now a parlor or whatever else they're cooking up. neal katyal, thank you, sir. >> thank you. >>> you could go to msnbc.com/opening arguments where we have this and other neal break downs, some of them are helpful as we try to make sense of all of this. up ahead, the special report i mentioned, how works are using shifts in the labor market to challenge corporate power. a special report to share with you tonight. and then the covid wars. the vax meltdown. ted cruz picking a fight with someone much bigger than him. i'm talking about big bird. stay with us. t big bird sta

. >>> one year ago today, georgia secretary of state brad raffensberger certified the 2020 election results he said what would have happened if officials caved to trump's demands but the unfortunate reality is we could soon find out. on ballots across the country, next year big lie promotors are running to take control of their state election systems. and i take a closer look at some of them tonight in tonight's "for the record." >> first up, carry lake, a former phoenix television anchor. >> i'm carrie lake. >> turned rising star of the right. >> former president trump breaking his silence on the race in governor in arizona throughing his support behind carrie lake. >> and big lie fan girl, . >> you could say -- >> just so you know, not a huge fan of cnn. >> none of this makes sense to me. >> and then we have kristin karamo. who trump is backing to be michigan's next secretary of state. >> yes, i have president trump's endorsement which is massive. >> as she amplifies his lies about election fraud. >> it is not right. there are hundreds of thousands of votes that are allowed to be consider