ruby freedman's daughter had long been an election worker in fulton county, largely democratic county, when the election approached it looked like fulton county would be under staffed for the election so she asked her mom, ruby, if she would sign up as a temporary worker to process ballots on election day. she did so, the two of them, mother and daughter, worked with other election workers through election day and into the night processing ballots in atlanta at the state farm arena. but as president trump and his colleagues, coconspirators -- i don't know. as president trump and his crowd set to work trying to flip the election results, trying georgia to overturn biden's win in georgia and say trump won instead, one of the so-called pieces of evidence they ginned up to justify their case for georgia to throw out the real election results was a video clip from the closed circuit television video, the surveillance vivideo on election night at the state farm arena. and that video clip happened to show ruby freedman, the woman we just heard on that 911 call -- ruby freedman and her daught

state election board declared fulton county under-performing and already moving to take it over themselves to get control to install their own. it certainly would appear that what they are trying to do is have the biggest black democratic county in the state of georgia taken over at the local level by, presumably, white republicans. it is bad enough, heart breaking enough to see the way that efforts to overturn the 2020 election have upended the lives of election workers like ruby freeman and her daughter, but it really does look like just the beginning. i mean, yeah, threatening and harassing individual election workers has really been working for them. imagine how well it will work when they take over the entire election machinery top to tail to do with it what they will. superpowers from a spider bite? i could use some help showing the world how liberty mutual customizes their car insurance so they only pay for what they need. (gasps) ♪ did it work? only pay for what you need ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ spider-man no way home in theaters december 17th ♪ liberty. liberty. lib

fulton county, georgia is also the place where most democrats are in the state of georgia. if operating an election in fulton county is now a hotbed of threats against people running those elections how do you, i don't know, get out the vote under those conditions? how do you get people to volunteer to work at the polls? that is the daunting task facing democrats, big d democrats and small d democrats in georgia. if there is one person whose life experience might make her uniquely suited to taking on that task it is probably stacey abrams. georgia voting rights pioneer, the woman who very nearly won georgia's governor race three years ago stacey abrams has just announced she is running for georgia governor again and is here live for her first national tv interview since her announcement, next. stay with us. stay with us make your nights anything but silent. and ride in a sleigh that really slays. because in a cadillac, tradition is yours to define. so visit a cadillac showroom, and start celebrating today. ♪ ♪ switching wireless carriers is easy with xfinity. so just lean o

she was hired in fulton county, georgia. and she, along with her family, endured a -- an unbelievable campaign of harassment and intimidation because president trump himself accused her, personally, by name, of having stolen the election from him in georgia. this story should be ringing a bell for you. we've covered it a few times now, when president trump called georgia's republican secretary of state to pressure him to overturn biden's win, when rudy giuliani went to the legislature to pressure them. in both instances they were fixated on an out of context video clip they insisted showed the election being stolen. they said they had video of election workers in atlanta, black election workers naturally, stuffing suitcases full of illegitimate ballots through the counting machines. they accused those election workers by name of committing crimes. on that call with georgia's secretary of state, trump used the name of one particular election worker 18 times. he called her a professional vote scammer and a hustler. trump even

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fulton county, georgia, is also the place where most democrats are in georgia.operating an election in fulton county is now a hotbed of threats against the people running those elections, how do you, i don't know, get out the vote under those conditions. how do you get people to volunteer to work at the polls. that is the daunting task facing democrats. big d democrats, and small democrats in georgia. if there is one person whose life experience might make -- picking on that cask, it is probably stacey abrams. georgia voting rights pioneer, the woman who very nearly won georgia's governor race three years ago. stacey abrams has just announced she is running for georgia governor again, she is here live for her first national tv interview since her announcement next. stay with us. stay with us that's why, in difficult times, we provided one hundred and fifty million meals to feeding america. and now through the subaru share the love event, we're helping even more. by the end of this year, subaru will have donated over two hundred and twenty five million dollars to

fulton county hit really hard. most everybody who has been displaced through the night is already staying with family. okay. wdrb. all right. well, we'll make sure they get that question answered if they send it to us. a really tough night. i'm on about two hours of sleep, admittedly can get through family that i have in this area. i know there are a lot of other people that are going through the same thing. it's going to be all right. it's going to be hard. and there is a lot of loss. just like everything else we've been up against, we'll make it through this too. thank you all very much. >> all right. we were listening to kentucky governor andy brashear, outlining just how bad the storm was. the governor said the death toll is likely to reach as high as 70 to 100 people across five counties. he said there were multiple casualties at a candle factory in mayfield, kentucky. 110 people were working and he fears they could lose dozens of workers there. the governor said it was likely four tornadoes that hit the state

there you have the authority for overseeing the election taken away from local officials in fulton countyich surrounds atlanta, and turned over to the state legislature. how does that play into the point you are making here? >> lets go through the list of everything that has happened in georgia at with respect to elections. you had a republican governor and secretary of state, both of whom certified that biden had won the election. that was their job, to reflect the actual count of votes in georgia. forhis crime against trump, the former president has declared war on the georgia governor, has recruited a candidate to try to replace him. the georgia legislature has removed the secretary of state's power over elections so the next time, he won't be the one capable of certifying or decertify the election. they have changed the rules so that a board appointed by the republicans in the legislature can fire the election officials in counties like fulton county where atlanta is in most of the democratic votes are. they have gone systematically through all of the things that prevented trump from

of joe biden and on that call he mentioned this truly crazy story about an election worker from fulton county, georgia named ruby freeman. trump falsely claimed that she and her daughter had illegally stuffed fraudulent ballots marked for biden. despite that story being completely false -- remember, this is after multiple audits. trump mentioned freeman by name 18 times. last week we reported on the story because freeman is suing that far right conspiracy website that allegedly published that false report. today we are learning just two days after trump called the georgia secretary of state ruby freeman got a visit from a woman she later learned was a publicist for kanye west pressing her to confess to voter fraud. >> thank you so much for agreeing to meet with us. we didn't want to frighten you, >> a loose end for a party that needs to tidy up. ian basten is executive director of the non-profit organization protect democracy which along with other attorneys represents ruby freeman and her daughter shae moss in their lawsuit against that right-wing publication and he joins me now. first let's

we have fulton county hit really hard. most everybody who has been displaced through the night is already staying with family. okay, wdrb? all right, we'll make sure we get that question answered if they send it to us. a really tough night. i'm on about two hours of sleep, admittedly can't get through family that i have in the area. i know there are a lot of other people going through the same thing. it's going to be all right. it's going to be hard, and there is a lot of loss, but just like everything else we've been up against, we'll make it through this, too. thank you all very much. >> governor andy beshear, a very difficult early morning/overnight from friday to saturday as he was reflecting on the damage that his state has sustained caused by what they believe to be four tornadoes. and of course, they have to wait until the data comes in, sun rises, and they can survey the damage. and some of the video we were showing a little bit earlier certainly does get a sense -- gives you a sense of the sort of damage. the big

fulton county, georgia is what they're talking about. the democrats and if stacy arams gets through the hoops and wins the popular vote in georgia, it's the current people that could simply reverse the election in fulton county and hand it over to that guy. your thoughts? >> absolutely. that's part of the reason why we were fighting sb 202. right now i have actually less voting protection in the state of georgia than i did a year ago. right? so we're looking and doing that already. we're lookingurdue and it amazing how they mastered lying, that the fact of the matter you start off with unifying but i'm going to take on the incumbent government. that's a lot of unity. what we're seeing is the republican party is imploding. it's imploding in georgia. i think it is going to be an uphill battle because they weaponized administrative process but i want to remind people 2018, the democrats have actually captured two congressional seats, two senate seats, three state senate seats and 12 house of representative seats. i'm saying that to the exte

an article from the associated press talking about fulton county, pennsylvania, says in post-electionlater sought to block pennsylvania's electoral vote from being cast for biden. one said that we can't let this election get stolen. these are people who swear an oath. they are there. it shouldn't matter whether they are republican or democrat, their job is to execute elections to letter of the law. this is a big problem. you can't rust the people running the elections, this becomes something other than just political. >> what we know from 2020 is those local clerks, republicans and democrats, generally speaking, across the board, did their jobs, under just immense pressure and stress coming from the former president and his enablers. but we also see that there are too many people who took that oath of office, who out of a profound sense of personal weakness are willing to trade our democracy and our institution for some short-term little gain or short-term love prosecute former president. that is dangerous. that is what we need to call out. we need to call out those lies. we need to m

the lawsuit states fulton county poll workers ruby freeman and her daughter, who are both african americanreceived death threats after a "campaign of malicious lies designed to accuse them of interfering with a fair and impartial election, which is precisely what each of them swore an oath to protect." in minnesota, a jury has found former brooklyn center police officer kimberly potter guilty of first- and second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of daunte wright during a minor traffic stop in april. video from the killing showed potter, who is white, pointing her nine millimeter pistol at wright, who was black, repeatedly shouting "taser!" before firing a single bullet into wright's chest. potter claims she drew the pistol by mistake. kimberly potter will be sentenced in february. she faces up to 15 years in prison, although under minnesota sentencing guidelines, she could receive as little as six years in prison. in california, los angeles community advocates are condemning the police killing of valentina orellana-peralta, a 14-year-old girl who was fatally shot by lapd thursday

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so, you know, in fulton county, georgia, which is another place that's taken a lot of heat, you know, that's a democratic county, and you're seeing a lot of democrats. in maricopa county, arizona, it's a republican-dominated county, but, again, it's the same phenomena. you're seeing the same thing. >> it is a sad state of affairs in our country when election officials who keep our elections operating are being threatened with their lives for simply doing their job. peter eisler from reuters, again, thank you for helping us to understand your excellent reporting along with your team. greatly appreciate it. >>> up next, will republicans be successful in their efforts to gerrymander congressional districts ahead of the 2020 election? there's new data on out and it may actually surprise you. stay with us. ith us i'm jonathan lawson here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85, and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three ps. what are the three ps? the three ps of life insurance on a fixed budget are price, price

daughter falsely accused by donald trump and his campaign of somehow rigging the election count in fulton county related to cleared of wrongdoing, but despite that, donald trump, his lawyer, rudy giuliani, and media outlets continued to repeat these bogus allegations. tonight before we got on the air, we learned ms. freeman and her daughter filed a lawsuit against rudy giuliani and one pro-trump news outlet for the character assassin of them. the harm they have caused to plaintiff's representations, privacy, safety, and earnings and other pecuniary loss is immense. i don't know if rudy giuliani has a good lawyer at this point. i don't even know who he'd still be able to call if he wanted to try to get one. but watch this space. want your clothes to smell freshly washed all day without heavy perfumes? now they can! with downy light in-wash freshness boosters. just pour a capful of beads into your washing machine before each load. to give your laundry a light scent that lasts longer than detergent alone, with no heavy perfumes or dyes. finally, a light scent that lasts all day! new downy light, av

georgia, one of these new laws is used to launch a review of operations in solidly democratic, fulton county, in atlanta which could lead to a state takeover. so, this is a really important piece of reporting by nicolas rick hardy. it is really well done. you should read. it and it puts to get the full picture of this republican power graph. it is really significant that it comes from the associated press. which is one of the most important journalistic outlets we have. the ap was founded 175 years ago. they have burrows in nearly 100 countries. they are scrupulously nonpartisan, non ideological. and so it is noteworthy that they are through their reporting, recognizing and communicating the plain truth about what is happening here in the u.s.. this report speaks to what is likely to be one of the biggest challenges of 2022 as we near the beginning of a new year. the one year anniversary, the first violent transfer of power in this country since the civil war. the question is, will our american institutions be able to deal with what is unfolding in front of us? the press, including the ap, i

there's a district attorney in fulton county georgia looking at charges and liability up to includingmer president of the united states. some people invoke the fifth amendment right against self-incrimination in bad faith. sometimes it's done in good faith. here we don't know which of those it is, but given the nature of what he was planning, given the strident opposition he got and threats of resignation he got and that were transmitted to the then president trump from the acting attorney general and others, it seems like he was certainly very, very nefarious and certainly a possibility that it was criminal, yes. >> to move on to another individual we didn't hear a lot about until these investigations kicked into gear, lawyer john eastman. he helped draft a plan for then vice president mike pence to interrupt vote certification. why would a lawyer worry about incriminating himself if he's just crafting legal strategies? >> because maybe he's doing more than that. that's one reason why he might not have attorney/client privilege. if you were engaging with your client, who you otherwis

, i've had people email me like, hey, i haven't been able to make contact with my relatives in fulton countyelatives in another county. do you know anything about the situation there? the lack of electricity there and the lack of service is just -- it's making it a much scarier situation far lot of people, and you see these images, and it's scary enough. >> yeah. i mean, i'm sure -- you know, there are situations in which people are hoping and praying they're not hearing from their family members because of the lack of electricity, of internet, of phone service. hopefully if that gets up and going again, they'll hear from them, but nonetheless, there are still so many people missing. let's kind of talk first about the electricity situation, because we know there are thousands upon thousands of people without any electricity. it was extremely cold overnight. people without housing having to seek shelter. where are we on that? what's the situation, and how are they working to get things up and running once again for folks whose homes are still intact? >> yeah. the lack of power has been an iss

call is also the focus of a criminal investigation of possible election fraud by donald trump in fulton county, georgia. we're he has paneled a grand jury to consider that evidence. donald trump's lawyers had a very difficult time in a federal appeals court in washington d.c. today because, as judge patricia miller put it, we have one president at a time under our constitution. private citizen donald trump has brought a lawsuit to try and overruled the decision of the president of the united states, joe biden, to have the federal archives hand over trump white house records to the january six committee for his investigation. one of the judges, on today's judge panel, judge tom g brown jackson, a biden appointee, said this. >> this all boils down to two decisions. to who decides when it is in the best interest of the united states to disclose presidential records? is it the current occupant of the white house or is it the former. is there a circumstance where the former president ever gets to make this kind of call and why should he? >> joining us now is mathew miller an jill wine-banks, prosec

he filed a lawsuit alleging aall sorts of unsubstantiated claims about fulton county ballot counting,d a special session to investigate ballot claims which we know there is no evidence to support. he's open with this. and governor brian kemp, former state elections official, can only sort of point to that law that we were just talking about, to say that georgia has tightened its election restrictions and answered some of the issues that republicans keep bringing up, even though, again, there is no evidence of any sort of rampant fraud. >> thank goodness you're on. we'll be having you on a lot between now and the elections. greg, thanks very much. >> thank you. >>> up next, the white house told us to wait. that reports on inflation were just transitory. remember that word? as new data comes in, the picture is not changing very much. prices are not dropping. how the omicron variant affects all of this too. my family's been devastated by covid-19. and we're not alone. we've all had to find new ways to keep going. and cue has made that easier. with cue, you get lab-quality covid-19 test r

the board immediately launched a performance review of the democratic leaning fulton county board which reconstituted boards in two of the six counties have already moved to restrict voting access in addition to spaulding's termination of sunday voting. lincoln county has proposed consolidating seven precincts into one voting center, which critics say would discourage voting for people in republican areas. joining us is colin allred, he is a voting rights attorney. thank you very much for joining us tonight. i want to get your reaction to what is emerging of the details as to how republicans in georgia are using their new election law. >> yeah, well, you know, we're not being asked to county bubbles on a bar of soap or jelly beans in a jar but we have seen this before. we've seen the use of these election boards to try and make it extremely difficult for certain folks to vote. and this is why we passed the voting rights act in the first place was because we knew that in, you know, divisions throughout the south, we were having election boards doing things to make it so certain voters co

with groups to get cell service back in hopkins, marshall, and i think that it is up and going in fulton county as well working on hickman. so recap, we declared state of emergency roughly midnight, before midnight, before the storm really hit. we received immediate federal emergency declaration i believe on sunday which is the fastest we've ever seen. and last night we received a federal declaration of major emergency i think the fastest that has ever been issued. and we are really grateful from fema. they will give us an update on what that means. but it is good news for our families, it means that fema will be on the ground documenting losses at people's homes, helping them go ahead and file their claims. again, i believe that this is the most rapid response by the federal government in the h history of the united states and we are grateful for it. and then michael dosset will go over a few other things here in a minute. new pieces out today, and i have a lot of pieces of paper here are i'll work through them the best i can, is i'm ordering flags to half-staff in honor of those lost and thos

eight million ♪ >>> in 2017, 37-year-old shay moss started working as a clerical worker in the fulton countyoffice. her job was to handle voting applications and process votes. this past year her mother, ruby freeman signed up for a temp job to help count ballots in november election. they needed a lot of extra workers. even though the georgia election was audited three times, found to have no fraud, that did not stop the conspiracy theories directed at those two. in december of last year, this mother/daughter pair became the subject of a slew of false stories published in the pro-trump conspiracy website gateway pundit. those stories made their way to donald trump's lawyer who identified them in testimony before georgia state lawmakers. >> how can they say there's no fraud. look at that woman. look at her taking the ballots out. look at them scurrying around with the ballots. they look like they are passing out dope. not just ballots. it's quite clear they are stealing votes. >> that's an incredible basic cuelation to level. it's quite clear they are stealing votes. he identified both women

in fulton county, georgia, that is a democratic county and you are seeing a lot of democrats. coppa county arizona, you're seeing the same thing. >> it is a sad state of a fair one election of officials are being threatened with their lives for simply doing their jobs. well peter eisler, national correspondent at reuters. thank you for coming in, greatly appreciated. up next, will republicans be successful in their efforts to dream under congressional districts ahead of the 2022 election? there is new data out on that and it may actually surprise you. stay with us. stay with us cause with the right pain reliever... life opens up. aleve it... and see what's possible. one of my favorite supplements is qunol turmeric. turmeric helps with healthy joints and inflammation support. unlike regular turmeric supplements qunol's superior absorption helps me get the full benefits of turmeric. the brand i trust is qunol. (upbeat music) - [narrator] this is kate. she always wanted her smile to shine. now, she uses a capful of therabreath healthy smile oral rinse to give her the healthy, spa

aerial survey yesterday and i can tell you that the track is continuous from south of casey in fulton county to at least beaver dam where we finally turned around. so the damage that we have surveyed so far indicates that the rating is at least an ef-3. however u, we have world renowned experts on the surveys right now and also experts within the national weather service that are looking at the data and will be looking at possibly upgrading that rating as well. on behalf of the national weather service, our hearts go out to each and every person that has been affected by this tornado. and not only affects us here locally and our offices but across the entire weather service where we've had numerous people come to us and say, how deeply sorry they are for everything that's happened here. as we get more information, we'll definitely release that to you. we have lots of surveys that we continue to do over the next couple of days and a lot of work. >> is that ef-3 for mayfield or -- which part of -- >> that's the highest rating that we've found along the entire trek in our area. our area serves

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but falsely accused by donald trump and his campaign of somehow rigging the election count in fulton countyshe and her daughter had been repeatedly cleared of any wrongdoing, but despite that, trump, his lawyer rudy giuliani, budge of trump media outlets repeated the same boeing bogus allegations. they have filed a federal lawsuit against rudy giuliani and one pro trump news outlet for defaming them. the complaint says, quote, the harm they have caused to plaintiffs' reputations, privacy, safety and earnings and other loss is immense. i don't know if rudy giuliani has a good lawyer at this point. i don't know who he still would be able to call if he wanted to try to get one. watch this space. >>> all right, that's going to do it for us tonight on this beautiful christmas eve eve. we'll see you again tomorrow. >>> as we prepare to mark the new year, we also know that means january 6th is coming. one year since the attack on the capitol. i sat down recently with three of the officers who testified before the american people about being attacked that day. the one officer trapped in that doorwa

the constant threats so terrified the two women that they did not return calls from the fulton countywhat trump said about freeman. he referred to her by name during that phone call with raffensperger. ant call, he called freeman, quote, a vote scammer, a professional vote scammer and hustler. what trump wrought for these women is not part of the defamation lawsuit. trump is not named in the suit, but it is a by-product of all his media outlets doing his bidding. >> and yet another demonstration of how he abused the power of his office to target an individual citizen. i'm sure prior to that phone call, donald trump had no idea who ruby freeman was so one of the interesting things that could come out of this litigation is to find out who planted ruby freeman's make in his ear, who in georgia and who in the white house convinced them on that phone call to target her. because that phone call remains one of the biggest smoking gun pieces of evidence in any kind of legal battle against trump about trying to overturn the election in georgia more broadly and whether he fomented electoral fra

they're looking into fulton county, which is the most democratic. and in the south that also means the blackest county in the state. so these are rural counties. normally this kind of thing would happen outside of the bright spotlight of metro atlanta if it wasn't for voting rights and voter suppression being such an issue. you've got organize owners the ground that are obviously trying to once again make this a question of voter turnout versus voter suppression in georgia as you a couple of really high profile races, the governor's race and also senate race coming up next year in georgia. so the stakes could not be higher. but the infrastructure is already on the ground, in place and in motion to potentially disinfranchise so many of the people you saw standing in line in record numbers just this time last year and again in january to turn that state blue. >> and the thing is, olivia, you have on the one hadn't hand, part of this is gotv. because the republican voter base cannot stand to loose, they're just like donald trump. they stomp their feet a

directly with groups to get cell service back in hopkins, marshall, and i think it's up and going in fulton county, as well, working on hickman. to recap, we have declared a state of emergency, roughly midnight, before midnight, before the storm really hit. we received immediate federal emergency declaration, i believe, on sunday, which is the fastest we've ever seen, and last night, we received a federal declaration of major emergency, i think, the fastest that has ever been issued. and we are really grateful, from fema, they are going to give us an update on what that means. but it's really good news for our families. it means fema is going to be on the ground, documenting losses at people's homes, helping them go ahead and file their claims. again, i believe this is the most rapid response by the federal government in the history of the united states of america. and we need it. and we are really grateful for it. and then, michael dossett will go over a few other things here in a minute. new pieces out today, and i have a lot of pieces of paper here, i'm going to work through them the best i can

chavez didn't come back to inhabit dominion votes and 50,000 ballots stuffed in a suitcase in fulton county that all of the claims were not true, right? >> well, again for jennifer and i, it goes back to -- we have personal issues. just like although i would ask you, do you now admit that the russia memes that you ran 24 hours a day like early days of the trump, right, that got maybe several million impressions which our pages often do. >> you have to -- dustin. dustin. i'm saying there are specific facts about the election -- no. we're not talking about -- you want to talk about characters. i'm talking about -- >> there were things that were ridiculous claims. >> whatever you think about my coverage. which you have not watched. >> joe biden is the president. >> listen to me. i want something more than that. the claim that the election was stolen, that there was widespread manipulation of ballots by either the software makers who ran machines in some cases didn't even run the machines, by individuals who were systematically committing fraud on a scale of tens of thousands of votes to alter

aerial survey yesterday, and i could tell you that the track is continuous from south of casey in fulton county all the way to at least beaver dam when we finally turned around. so the damage that we have surveyed so far indicates that the rating is at least an ef3. however, we have experts who are on the surveys right now, and also experts within the national weather service that are looking at the data and will be looking at possibly upgrading that rating as well. on behalf of the national weather service, our hearts go out to each and every person that has been affected by this tornado. and that affects us locally and across the entire weather service where we've had numerous people come to us and say how deeply sorry for everything that's happened here. but as we get more information, we will definitely release that to you. we have lots of surveys to continue to do over the next couple of days. >> is that an ef3 for mayfield? which part of the county? >> that's the highest rating that we found along the entire track in our area. our area serves parts -- and there are locations along the pat

it's being carried out by fulton county's prosecutor. among other things to know about that criminal investigation, my favorite fact about it is that faunae willis has hired an experienced rico prosecutor to help lead that investigation into that pressure on georgia elections officials. rico is the statute they use against organized crime, so hey, stick that in your stocking and call it christmas. but we don't know the timeline for that criminal investigation in georgia. we did learn something today, though. today, i mean, if brad raffensperger had more than four hours in the chair in the investigation on capitol hill, it does seem clear the georgia state criminal investigation of those matters is not stopping the congressional investigation from also covering that same territory. sometimes, when you know there's an ongoing criminal proceeding, an ongoing criminal investigation, congressional investigations just steer clear of that and stay away. brad raffensperger was in the chair today for four hours, we know they appear to be not stee

repeatedly and falsely accused by donald trump and his campaign of somehow rigging the election in fulton countying but despite that, trump, his lawyer rudy giuliani and a bunch of trumpy media outlets have been repeating the same bogus allegations against ms. freeman and her daughter. before we got on the air, we learned that ms. freeman and her daughter have filed a lawsuit against rudy giuliani and one pro trump news outlet, one america news network. -- they are responsibility for the partisan character of the accusations against ms. freeman and ms. moss. they harm but is immense, including peculiarity loss. i don't know if rudy giuliani has a good lawyer at this point and i don't know who he would call if he would want to get. one but watch the space. tch the space. it goes on clear. no mess just soothing comfort. try new vicks vapostick. as a professional bull-rider i'm used to taking chances. but when it comes to my insurance i don't. i use liberty mutual, they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. wooo, yeaa, woooooo and, by switching you could even save 665 dol

but i do think that not only the fulton county d.a. but frankly the justice department ought to be investigating the efforts of the former president and people around him to essentially find 11,780 votes that don't exist, to find just the number of votes that would put him over the top and beat joe biden when those votes did not exist. i think if you or i or any of our viewers -- your viewers were in a recorded conversation like that one, we would be under investigation. >> are we about to see multiple members of congress potentially facing contempt charges or pleading the fifth in what seems to be pretty vast conspiracy for lack of a better word among trump supporters inside of the congress, some inside of his staff, perhaps some inside of the justice department to try to overturn a lawful election? >> i don't know the answer to that. i can tell you that in other investigations, the russia investigation, we had a democratic member of congress come testify. we had a republican member of congress come testify. there is certainly precede

in georgia, fulton county district attorney fannie willis is engaged in an ongoing criminal investigationhe 2020 election results. one legal analyst believes that's the most serious case for trump out of all of them. >> it's a clean case. it's got the same facts as we've heard already in georgia involving his shake down of the georgia secretary of state to find some votes that never existed. that is a crime under georgia law. >> reporter: could these ongoing investigations hurt donald trump's potential political comeback? >> i would have to say no. there's almost nothing that could happen to him, including going to prison, that would separate him from his loyal followers. >> reporter: the georgia case, the lawsuits, the new york cases looking into his property values, either donald trump or his representatives have denied wrongdoing. often accusing those bringing the cases of engaging in political witch hunts. in the latest denial they accuse new york attorney general letitia james of trying to further her political ambitions in a run for governor of new york. james then announced she's e

aerial survey yesterday, and i can tell you that the track is continuous from south of casey in fulton county all the way until at least beaver dam where we finally turned around. so the damage that we have surveyed so is far indicates that the rating is at least an ef3, however, we have more renowned experts on the surveys right now and also experts within the national weather service that are looking at the data, and we'll be looking at possibly upgrading that as well. on behalf of the national weather service, our hearts go out to each and every person that has been affected by this tornado. it not only affects us here locally, but across the entire weather service where we've had numerous people come to us and say how deeply sorry they are for everything that's happened here. as we get more information, we will definitely release that to you. we have lots of surveys to continue to do over the next couple of days and a lot of work to do. >> [inaudible] >> that's the highest rating that we found along the entire track in our area. our area -- [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] >> and the

on the other hand, you've got a local da in fulton county georgia who was doing her job of doing a proper investigation. you've got this litigation by the department of justice, which if they are energetic and aggressive in the discovery phase, they could find out quite a lot. . we've got our investigations going in the judiciary committee and the senate. so there is more to be done on the investigative side and more to be discovered i think through courts and through investigators. so while we are kind of blocked up with trying to find a way procedurally forward around republican obstruction and filibuster of these democracy reforms. there is still good proceedings that could yield very valuable information that could help turn this thing. >> the core role in this is sort of like back and forth between the courts, prudence on the ski distract were structural reforms. give the green light to state legislators to barricade themselves in the power. has kind of a flywheel effect. this is the fear that you intend you ate the ability to call people to account. that you attenuate the basic mech

the georgia fulton county da's looking at in election interference, with a famous phone call to brad raffensperger. are we gonna see trump held to account for january six in a court of law? >> look, we don't know. we really don't know. and there is both what can happen at the federal level. and by the way, as you well know, there's ongoing criminal case that's being driven by the manhattan da's office in conjunction with the new york a.g.'s office as well. but accountability and the rule of law requires that we -- nobody, not the former president, nobody's treated differently because of their stature. and i think the fear around garland and january 6th is that there -- he may be being more timid because of fear of backlash. but we can't plea nice with republicans. no matter what garland does he's going to be biased. there is no way to appease that than and -- not just bannon himself, that the ban strain. so zephyr? we're going to take a quick break because there's a lot more to talk to you about. you mention the manhattan da and the new york a.g.. we'll talk about your race as well w