brilliant new documentary the best democracy money can buy a tale of billionaires and ballot bandits greg palast welcome back. glad to be with you tom it's always great having you here greg you were covering this angle of the georgia six pack and no one else was i mean literally walk us through this what kind of what kind of different levers of voter suppression do ga six voters have to face. i mean this was jim crow with a bullet but instead of using white sheets the airway voters they use spreadsheets a fist a gated methodist i was actually in the georgia six investigating vote suppression beginning in in two thousand and fourteen so it's an old story in that district so number one we begin with this karen handel who is the putative victor she was secretary of state she actually is the one who's who set the terms for the votes she is the one who created the most draconian voter id laws for the state of georgia that kept a lot of new voters and students from voting in the six i know one very carefully closely my daughter. who had trouble they are also after the id law that wasn't enough so they

we turn to reporter greg palast.eorgia sixin congressional district were 6000 very proud, very patriotic and very white georgia citizens are celebrating. republican candidate karen handel, basking in donald trump's endorsement, is working this crowd which has little sympathy for democrats. >> that is who lost the war for us. jane fonda and that group, the whole leftie in the media, too. baby killers. that was all lies. >> this is 30-year-old democratic candidate jon ossoff who fell just two percentage points short of winning this out right in the first round. this should be an easy win for ossof. be theossoff would congressional member right now. he would have won the previous selection but for a combination of systemic voter suppression tactics and techniques. >> the director of the civil-rights center of washington, d.c. >> the district itself was gerrymandering. the republican leadership has been clear that they gerrymandered in order to ensure it would be held by republicans. >> and it was overtly racist. >> atto

steele the georgia six runoff election between john asaf and karen handel investigative reporter greg palast slinks they couldn't ill explain why in just a moment and donald trump has confirmed he's under investigation how much longer are republicans willing to sit by and let this dumpster fire burn the whole house down alaska greer and kind newkirk into night's big picture. the latest polls out of the sixth district of georgia show the democrat john os off as about a three point advantage over republican challenger karen angle if these polls are accurate asaf will sneak by with a win in tuesday's special runoff election or will he one of america's leading investigative journalist now thinks that the georgia six runoff will be stolen or at least could be by republicans and their racist voter suppression laws joining me now to explain just what's going on down in georgia is greg palast state a reporter and creator of the new documentary the best democracy money can buy billionaires and ballot bandits greg welcome back. glad to be with you tom and why don't we have escaped from the sixth i was

racist voter suppression laws joining me now to explain just what's going on down in georgia's greg palast state a reporter and creator of the new documentary the best democracy money can buy billionaires and ballot bandits greg welcome back glad to be with you tom and why don't we have escaped from the sixth i was just going to say welcome back home from georgia so tell us you know first of all if you pay attention the mainstream media they're pretty confident that asaf will win tuesday but you aren't what did you learn when you were in georgia last week that informs your opinion oh boy because that os off isn't running against karen and all the republican she's running against jim crow they are they are testing the latest jim crow techniques to keep voters of color off the voter rolls and the tent that means especially asian americans so for example in my film the best democracy money can buy it happened to be filmed substantially in the georgia sixth congressional i didn't know it be a national issue at the time and i was meeting with voter registration including the group that was labe

in any case it seems like this defeat was born of more than just a one off defeat setting aside greg palast skin siddur ations about voter suppression and interstate cross-check and all that even. even if it would have won by five ten fifteen thousand votes if there had not been the aggressor voter suppression that karen handel had been doing and in georgia had been secretary of state it's still you know what's a republican doing back close to a democrat in this day and age what what does this tell us well you bear in mind too that os soft drew in and spent an enormous amount of money twenty million dollars this was the most expensive house race in history and yet i couldn't even match hellery clinton's numbers in terms of percent percentages she did better than he did i think it's the last gasp of the century this sort of bland republican lite appeal that democrats have been trying to sell themselves on for so many years now i think that cycle in political history is over and i think democrats need to recognize always is that how you're characterizing john also if i mean that characterizat

steal the georgia six runoff election between john os off and karen handel investigative reporter greg palast slinks they couldn't ill explain why.

same way republicans steal most elections it has been well documented by investigative journalist greg palast in the pages of rolling stone on democracy now and elsewhere and yet you'll hardly hear a peep about it on the mainstream media you'll hear more on cable news about fake words that trump is tweeted then you'll hear about the following real words and action fraud. there we did it we got through it and by the way i want to make clear i'm not a huge fan of john asa he seems to have a lot of neo liberal believes that are crushing people's lives and making it exceedingly difficult to watch a happy polar bear in the wild i'm not a fan but just because i don't love asaf doesn't mean i don't want legit a lections we no longer have a democracy or a republic we have corporate totalitarianism with a hint of fascism and a sprinkle of bad reality t.v. that's not really reality by the way and nor is it really t.v. all self selection was stolen from them by making it very hard if not impossible for people of color to vote as palaces documented this was done with a combination of neo jim crow laws cl

suppression may have played in helping karen handel defeat john asaf in the georgia six write off greg palast just a mole and the senate republican health care bill is secret no more.

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