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infamously, the former president placed an hour long call to georgia state secretary of state to get him to change the outcome of the vote. >> look, all i want to do is this. i want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. because we won the state and flipping the state is a great testament to our country. now, we do have a way. but i don't want to get into it. had we found a way in other states -- excuse me. we don't need it because we're only down 11,000 votes. so we don't even need it. >> that's interesting. we found another way. i wondered what it is. i think it's the eastman plot he is talking about. we don't know. eight months later, trump is still at it with this letter. it was sent four days ago. claiming large scale voting fraud continues to be reported in georgia. the number of false and/or irregular votes is greater than needed to change the georgia ee election results. people do not understand why you refuse to acknowledge the facts. brad raffensperger is facing a primary challenge from congressman heis who trump endorsed. we brought you the story of another

central state hospital is georgia's oldest and largest state psychiatric hospital.lledgeville because the hospital has been something that has been here for a long, long time. i find that people often have a sense in their own mind of what they think it was like but when they come, it's an opportunity for them to really learn about the size, the scope and the humanity involved in the hospital campus. well, i think history is important because if you don't know where you came from, you're not going to know where you go in the future, and it's extremely important for the people who worked here, for the family members that were patients here and for researchers in the future to know what went on here. the people i've met today have driven home the importance of remembering the patients who lived here and the thousands who died. acknowledging them and what happened is uncomfortable but to me, it feels like the right thing to do. well, that's all for this week but coming up next week — we're in argentina, exploring a haunting city submerged beneath a lake for 30 years th

they were, president trump did not carry the state of georgia. >> then push to save the country from another donald trump. >> it should matter who the president of the united states is. we should want that president not to be able to abuse that office, to enrich themselves. >> congressman adam schiff to see on that. and how the texas abortion law just got the plaintiff it deters. and as biden pushes his big clean energy plan. why is joe manchin of all people crafting the climate bill? all in starts arena. good evening for new york i'm chris hayes, and the other day i was voraciously reading than, used to pay for this year's show. and i came across this letter from donald trump to the secretary of state in georgia, brad, and in the letter trump asked him to start the process of the certifying the election. and i know we read a lot here on the program it's to prepare the show for. you sometimes are paying very close attention, sometimes are in the proofread. and i thought oh and you document had surfaced from those heavy days between the november election and january six. those days wh

new reporting out of the state of georgia that the criminal investigation there into former president donald trump appears to be steaming ahead. as you know, a state prosecutor in georgia, in fulton county, georgia, the district attorney there, has been investigating whether former president trump broke state laws by trying to interfere in the state election in georgia. it's an election that revolves around trump's phone call in january in which he pressured georgia's secretary of state to find extra votes for trump and thereby overturn biden's electoral victory in the state. "the daily beast" is reporting that prosecutor has interviewed at least four officials in georgia's secretary of state's office. investigators have shown a particular interest not just in the phone call from trump but also in a similar earlier call from republican u.s. senator lindsey graham. georgia's republican secretary of state has said senator graham called and told him he should use his power as secretary of state to throw out a number of absentee ballots in georgia in order to hand the electoral votes to t

georgia was one of the states this year to pass a law, and do not take our word for it. nt governor. >> this is really the fallout from the ten weeks of misinformation that flew in from former president trump. i went back over the weekend to look at where this really started to gain momentum in the legislature and it was when giuliani showed up in a couple of committee rooms and spent hours spreading misinformation and sewing doubt across hours of testimony. >> now secretary raffensperger is coming out with a new book. it's coming out later this fall. it's about integrity. we are eager to understand if that extends to the integrity of the constitutional right to vote. joining us now the brad raffensperger, author of integrity counts. thank you so much for joining us. i want to know your thoughts about these two things that seem very much in conflict. >> well, obviously, this election was over months ago and we're still facing these issues. these allegations and we continue to knock them down. after the fall election, it was like rumor whackamole. our tiny office was reall

he said you should throw out the electoral votes in seven states. georgia was one of them. that make you feel that there was a written down plan from a lawyer to discard the votes in your state? >> well, we held the line here. we made sure we had a fair and honest election and i followed the constitution. i stood on the line and others stood for the constitution also. it's a challenging day in america. >> last week you got another letter from the former president of the united states asking all still at this point to decertify the georgia election results. how important is it to stand up and publicly say no to him. you have a book about this. >> well, i look at his letter as a plea for attention. he knows he's lost. he's been told that multiple times by a lot of people. but at the end of the day, that information that he talked about, we opened up an investigation. lots of investigations go on. once we have our findings, we report those to the state election board for final disposition. the fact is president trump did not carry the state of georgia. >> that will be news to

there are 20 bills, lawrence, that have passed in 13 states around the country including georgia that are meant to take power away from elections officials and u move it to jerry mandered republican state legislatures and other elected political bodies because they have taken the big lie. they have taken the drop boxes and early vote and vote by mail that everybody used in the pandemic at new levels, and they are weaponizing all those voter fraud lies to restrict all of that access. and shift election power away and so if he thinks integrity counts, he needs to not take over a county that had the best early vote, the most drop boxes in the state and focus on cleaning up his republican party that is so disinformation add led that they are appealing to the maga nuts at all costs. don't buy his book. don't spend your money on brad raffensperger's book. we've got to get the freedom vote passed. >> chris was asking him about mail-in voting and why you would make changes to mail-in voting. he absolutely never answered the question. it's not worth showing the video of it because he just wand

there are 20 bills, lawrence, that have passed in 13 states around the country, including. georgia that are meant to take power away from election officials, and move it to gerrymander republican state legislations, another an elective political bodies. because they have taken the big lie, they have taken the drop boxes and early votes and vote by mail that everybody used to be using any levels. and they are weaponizing all those voters, we were stripped of all of that access, and shipped election of power. so brad was thinking integrity, counts he needs to not try and take over a local county that had the best early vote. the most dropbox in the state. and focus on cleaning his republican party that is so this informed that are appealing to the magnets at all costs. it's really not okay. so don't buy this book, that's all i want to say. don't spend your money on brad 's book. going at the freedom to vote act passed. >> i was struck by one exchange that chris had with him, when he was asking him about mail-in voting, and why you would make changing to mail-in voting. and he absolut

it comes after trump sent a letter to georgia's secretary of state asking him to decertify the state'sr he officially lost. all of this happened as georgia's prosecutors moved forward with their probe. joining me to discuss, the man himself, georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger, he's the author of the upcoming book "integrity counts" out this fall. your state already counted the ballots three times, and former president donald trump lost three times. is there anything he can do -- is there anything, excuse me, you can do to make this request -- on what grounds is he even asking for you to decertify the election. >> when we receive new information, we investigate. as we wrap that up, we'll send that information to the state election board. at the end of the day, it's been ten months now and i'm alarmed and i think most people are alarmed that we're still talking and facing these issues of election disinformation, misinformation. it really at the end of the day hurts the social fabric of our nation. >> do you think there should be consequences? think about the "new york times"

a 2016 cooperation agreement between georgia state security and the better russian k g b became active. their sense of security in georgia has been shaken. i've tried to believe that this is quite the same that georgia will not use this law against people for under $30.00 money. because if i took a lot of people who are absolutely didn't make anderson better, go to the reason them to, to us. since los cheese elections, the better rushing k g b has ruthlessly pursued lucas shank codes opponents. even hijacking a ryan a flight to arrest journalist romance to say that the subsequent flight embargo of better roost by the you made georgia a popular alternative refuge for emmy gray's bearers will look the ways to catch them. said this activists who are not to be identified in the me, they will tell the georgia government the people who are here that drug dealers, or they have a common crime or they do something really, really bad kind of organized crime. so that the georgia will thing that this is actually very threatening for georgia. there was some people that georgia prime minister has de

former president donald trump released today addressed to the top elections official in the state of georgiaarge scale voter fraud continues to be reported in georgia. really? enclosed is a report of 43,000 absentee ballot votes counted in dekalb county that violated the chain of custody rules, making them invalid. i would respectfully request that your department check this, and if true, along with many other claims of voter fraud and voter irregularities, startle the process of decertifying the election or whatever the correct legal remedy is and announce the true winner. or whatever the correct legal remedy is, you know, just pick something. georgia state code blaudy, blaudy, boo, and, presto, i'm president again. let me know when it is done. in case you wonder, president trump appears to have gotten the claim about 40,000 some invalid ballots he appears to have gotten from a website launched in georgia after the 2020 election. it designed to look like a real newspaper. sure, seems legit. efforts to somehow undo the 2020 elections to get the results thrown out and trump declared the real

on saturday about georgia's secretary of state brad's recorded phone callun evidence that makes donald trump a convicted felon in georgia. >> something wrong with this guy, you are secretary of state. raffensperger. i'm telling you i think there's something wrong with him and we give him so much, can you look at this, can you look at that. election integrity and sometimes you're just gonna look like tina raffensperger's something very strange with him, joining us now is joshua coauthor of the booking institution on georgia's case against donald trump, he also was consul to the house judiciary committee in both impeachment trials of donald trump. thank you very much for joining us tonight i really appreciated. what we just saw tonight in that video seems to be part of this tremendous surge to maybe his belief. that maybe if he does it in public it can't be a crime, he seems to be kind of doing an impression of his phone calls with the secretary of state. asking him to do things. and if he's talking about it in public it can possibly be a crime, that seems to

georgia. god bless america. god bless troy davis. amy: minutes after the stateorgia executed troy davis, a group of reporters who witnessed the execution walked out of the death chamber and onto the prison grounds. they described troy davis's final moments. this is jon lewis, a radio journalist at wsb. >> basically it went very quietly. family and friends sat in the first row, the warden read the order, asked if troy davis had anything to say. davis looked up and made a statement in which he said, he wanted to talk to the victims family and said despite the situation we are in, he was not the one who di it. he said he was not personally responsible for what happened that night. he did not have a gun. he said he was sorry for the family's loss but also said he did not take their son, father, brother. he said to them to dig deeper into this case, to find out the truth, he asked his family, his family of friends to keep praying, keep working and keep the faith and then he said to the prison staff, the ones he said who are going to take my life, he said to them, may

in fact, in georgia, just the state of georgia alone, they have performed three recounts and numerous investigations. so not only is the letter baseless, but it again shows that trump doesn't care at all about the rule of law. in fact, he refers to joe biden as an illegitimate president. now, there is already an ongoing criminal investigation into trufrm's earlier attempts to pressure raffensperger to overturn the election. if you don't remember why, you may want to refresh your memory. .partly because of this call. >> all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. >> no, he did not win the state. outfront now, the republican secretary of state of georgia, brad raffensperger, who is also the author of an upcoming book about the election and what he went through in standing up to trump for the facts on the vote. his book is called "integrity counts." secretary raffensperger, i appreciate your time talking to you about this. this the first time you're commenting on this new letter from the president, in which he refe

asking georgia's secretary of state to quote, start the process of discertifying the election or whatever the correct legal remedy is and announce the true winner, unquote. this is the very reason some top georgia republicans wish the former president wasn't in the state tonight. now, when he takes the podium, he'll be throwing his weight behind legendary football player turned challenger, herschel walker, in the state senate race, but the worry is that he will ditch that plan and focus once again on the big lie. in just a moment, i'll speak to georgia's republican lieutenant governor about that. but first, let's go to perry, georgia, with joe johns. joe, you are a veteran of many of these rallies. tell me what you're seeing on the ground right now. what the general atmosphere is like in perry. >> well, you know, it's kind of typical and this is sort of big lie centralville, if you think about it because georgia's so much the epicenter of the controversy around the election with the secretary of state who trump told to find almost 12,000 votes to overturn the election in the state. take a

something georgia state code. blah, blah, blah. presto, i'm president again.nald trump. let me know when it's done. in case you are wondering, former president trump appears to have gotten this claim about 40 something thousand invalid ballots. he appears to have gotten this from a pro trump website that was launched in georgia right after the 2020 election. it is designed to look like a real newspaper. sure. seems legit. our efforts to somehow undo the 2020 elections to get the result thrown out and trump declared the real president, those efforts are being treated by much of the mainstream press as yesterday's news and recognize that, but in republican land, these efforts have never been more falsely be had. and state after state, including just this week and today, republican legislators in pennsylvania just this week started their brand reassessment. when we call it? of the 2020 election. they are calling it a forensic audit, as if the election was a crime. they're trying to undo the pennsylvania presidential election result from ten months ago. if you vot

ryan, the ceo of american majority and former presidential writer for george w bush and former georgia state representative ladon b jones. so glad to have both of you here. let me $3.00 trillion dollars, and that's not even all of it. another one and a half trillion dollar package as well. and the price tags could go higher yet. the president says it costs nothing that nothing. how was that possible? explain that math, ned, because i missed out on that. and in high school and, and elementary school, it's simply impossible. steve, at some point, 3.5 trillion cost 3.5 trillion. no, no matter how many loopholes you close. as he talked about in this way, which i thought was ironic. steve, as, as we're hearing word that he might have evaded about half a 1000000 in taxes in that suite, which he said it won't cost us anything or anything to the national debt. he talked about, we're going to shut down loopholes on those evading taxes. you kind of get that. yeah, we're, we're going to go to that. but the, i'll say is to this, steve, is this we're now living in a world in which democrats are trying to

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that potential crime, calling georgia's secretary of state and demanding brad raffensperger, quote, find1,780 votes. this obsession spans beyond georgia. the final report of that bogus arizona audit by cyber ninjas finding more votes for joe biden in maricopa county than first reported. while that should be embarrassing for the gop and for trump, they are ramping up fraudits elsewhere. republican leaders in four states now pushing similar election reviews, even in texas where trump beat joe biden. but it's only made possible if your state leaders allow it. here's how arizona's secretary of state put it last hour. >> i think it's important to remind folks that this entire exercise was enabled by elected leaders of the state of arizona who are clearly running the state by conspiracy theory. and this kind of partisan activity, this partisan posturing is keeping us from dealing with real issues. arizonans are simply tired of this. >> i said it once and i'll say it again. if you're watching what the gop is doing and it doesn't make sense, good, that means you live in reality. republicans, at

trump tried to convince georgia's secretary of state to change the vote count. >> there is nothing wrong with saying that, you know, that you've recalculate. >> it seems clearer and clearer that trump was actually trying to steal the election. he was actually trying to create conditions where he would be declared the winner even though he actually lost the election. it is incredibly dangerous and destabilizing. >> reporter: and perhaps most dangerous of all, president trump tried to use the united states department of justice to pull off his attempted coup. in the notes of a december 27 phone call now handed over to congressional investigators, trump told his acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and his deputy richard donohue, just say that the election was corrupt, leave the rest to me and the r congressman. both men refused trump's request and both have testified before the senate judiciary committee chaired by senator dick durban. >> what was the most directly i president was and the pressure put on rosen. it was real, very real and specific. >> reporter: trump tried to pressure rose

have provided them with a copy of my affidavit rescinding my vote. >> reporter: in georgia, trump not only called the state'sctions investigator -- >> whatever you can do, frances. >> reporter: -- but in what now is being investigated as a possible crime. trump tried to convince georgia's secretary of state, brad raffensperger, to change the vote count. >> and there's nothing wrong with saying that, you know, that you have recalculated. >> it seems clearer and clearer that trump was actually trying to steal the election. he was actually trying to create conditions where he would be declared the winner, even though he actually lost the election. it is incredibly dangerous and destabilizing. >> reporter: and perhaps, most dangerous of all. president trump even tried to use the united states' department of justice to pull off his attempted coup. in the notes of a december 27th phone call now handed over to congressional investigators, trump told his acting-attorney general, jeffrey rosen, and his deputy, richard donoghue, just say that the election was corrupt. leave the rest to me and the r congressmen. both m

have provided them with a copy of my affidavit rescinding my vote. >> reporter: in georgia trump not only called the state'sestigator, but in what now is being investigated as a possible crime, trump tried to convince georgia's secretary of state to change the vote count. >> and there is nothing wrong with saying that, you know, that you have recalculated. >> it seems clearer and clearer that trump was actually trying to steal the election. he was actually trying to create conditions where he would be declared the winner even though he actually lost the election. it is incredibly dangerous and destabilizing. >> reporter: perhaps most dangerous of all, president trump even tried to use the united states department of justice to pull off his attempted coup. in the notes of a december 27 phone call now handed over to congressional investigators, trump told his acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and his deputy richard donahue just say that the election was corrupt, leave the rest to me and the congressman. both men refused trump's request and both testified before the senate judiciary committee chaired by se

have provided them with a copy of my affidavit rescinding my vote. >> reporter: in georgia, trump not only called the state's top elections investigator. >> whatever you can do, francis. >> reporter: but in what now is being investigated as a possible crime, trump tried to convince georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger to change the vote count. >> there's nothing wrong with saying that, you know, that you've recalculated. >> it seems clearer and clearer that trump was actually trying to steal the election. he was actually trying to create conditions where he would be declared the winner even though he actually lost the election. it is incredibly dangerous and destabilizing. >> reporter: and perhaps most t dangerous of all, president trump even tried to use the united states department of justice to pull off his attempted coup. in the notes of a phone call now handed over to congressional investigators, trump told his acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and his deputy, richard donahue just say that the election was corrupt, leave the rest to me and the r congressmen. both men refused trump's reque

trump also sent a letter to georgia state asking him to decertify the election results in that state. folks, this is the play book and trump is still playing from it and so the big lie lives on. joining me to discuss this, co-founder of the lincoln project and author of running against the devil, a plot to save america and democrats from themselves. sounding alarm bells about trump's behavior long before january 6 and rick hasan at uc irvine, a new paper out this week that shows how the activities of trump and his allies, quote, served as dress rehearsals for how to subvert election results this 2024 and others. it's great to have you with us. i want to start with that memo that we're talking about. this outline, if you will. the 6 point outline from eastman. how realistic is this scheme and do we really owe the survival of our democracy at this point to one dan quayle who reportedly told pence or convinced pence he could not discard the electoral votes? >> you know, after cnn obtained the two page memo, sent a 6 page memo that was even worse, false claims that the election was stolen

states. he could have been given an excuse if the michigan can s board had not certified. if the georgia secretary of state had not done what he did, and we need do take those excuses out of the process. >> that's well-said. and i should say you noted this before about the compromise bill. i want to read this quote because i'll talk to stacey abrams in a bit on this new piece of legislation. saying the freedom to vote act introduced this morning reveals a surprisingly good voting rights bill. in many places it is an improvement. so you get a thumbs up which i think with count for some folks. >> i do. it's a very good bill. it's a very good voting bill and gives people the tools to protect the right to vote and ensure that republican states follow it because we can't assume that the state of texas is going to simply read this law and say, great, now we're going to do all these things. so it's a really good bill. >> that was helpful in clarifying if slightly terrifying. i appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. >>> still ahead today was the day as i mentioned the democrats unveiled that ne

. >> reporter: at least 30 contacts between trump and republican officials in crucial states, georgia, michigan, pennsylvania and arizona. >> this is the whitte house operator. >> i was out to dinner with friends and a phone call came in from washington d.c. of a number i didn't recognize. >> reporter: client hickman a trump supporter then the chair of the meraricopa board of supervisors couldn't believe it. >> the president is available to take your call if you're free. >> reporter: hickman let the call go to voice mail. days later the president called back. hickman refused to pick it up. >> i thought it would have to do with election operations and i wasn't prepared to talk about that. the governor of arizona certified it. the attorney general of arizona and secretary of state certified it. >> reporter: records now reveal dozens of text messages and multiple phone calls from the white house and rudy giuliani and the head of arizona's republican party. >> i just talked to the president and he would like to talk to you. >> to intervene in a free and fair election that joe biden won. s

georgia gold. fermenting just by living here, you've all seen an example of this cold on the state capitol building. five or six miles from here. the gold is thinly coated with gold. this is a very important source. the people who already lived there, in the area were georgia gold rush took place were the cherokee's, one of the native american society. this ever since the american revolution, the federal government had been trying very hard to integrate the native american nations into the united states. saying, learn to become christians, learn literacy, learn to become farmers instead of hunters and gatherers. become integrated into our society. that was the federal policy in the first three or four decades of the republic. now comes a test case, now suddenly turns out that the cherokees are living on land for which the whites are very hungry indeed. what principle was going to unveil, the principle of racial exclusion was going to prevail. the whites just wanted to get rid of the indians one way or another. in the election of 1888, in a successful candidate andrew jackson, they found someone who

interference of the presidential vote count in georgia, especially his hour-long phone call with georgia's secretary of stateffensperger, which secretary raffensperger recorded and released to the news media the report says we conclude that trump's post-election conduct in georgia leaves him at substantial risk of possible state charges predicated on multiple crimes. these charges potentially include criminal solicitation to commit election fraud, intentional interference with performance of election duties, conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal solicitation, and state rico violations. here is what donald trump said in georgia on saturday about g's straight brad raffensperger, whose recorded phone call of donald trump could be the smoking gun evidence that makes donald trump a convicted felon in georgia >> there is something wrong with this guy your secretary of state. raffensperger. raffensperger. i'm telling you, i think there is something wrong with him, and we give him so much. could you look at this, could you look at that election integrity and sometimes yes, i'm going look at -- nothing ever h