kemp: all right, any questions? yes. >> [question inaudible] gov. kemp: i will let dr. toomey speak more to that. she probably has more later data, as we say, sometimes on that. i will say, that is what is so interesting about the scenario that we are in right now. i want georgians to know that we are going to be -- i said when we started the vaccine rollout that it was going to be a methodical process, and that we knew that we would hit situations where you do not know how this is going to go. that is the problem we have right now. we have more people who want to get vaccinated in the metro areas than we have vaccines, and it is completely the reverse of that in rural georgia. the demand is not there from the people who want to get it, but the vaccine is there. that is why we are changing. we are moving. we talked with dr. redfield yesterday about this, this cdc guidance is exactly that, it is guidance. we are dealing with the georgia scenario. we agree that if there is a vaccine sitting in a freezer somewhere, that is not what we want. we want somebody to be getting i

um, we're going to find you one way or the other. >> detective tony kemp also vowed to find her.was convinced heather did not run off with her old boyfriend ed. so he asked her friends, what else would cause heather to leave her husband and children? that's when kemp began to flush out what really happened when heather moved out on chris. >> it was very scary and it only continued to deteriorate. >> friends and family told him how at first chris tried to woo her with flowers and chocolates. but those loving gestures soon turned ugly. >> he would text her and call her, but this time they were just like violent, you know, you're not taking my kids from me. i'm not going to let you leave. you won't get away with this. i will come after you. >> then friends said chris started acting more desperate and heather started getting really scared. >> he would show up at her work. he would show up at the gym. he started showing up at the house in the middle of the night. and i just remember thinking like, this is insane. you're literally stalking her. >> i got a lot of information on chris on

kemp: let me speak to the bigger picture. the system that we have for people to do the reporting, it is just more workload. especially for our medical facilities and hospitals. they are very busy right now. reporting.have good we know where our numbers are. we are underreporting. publications are putting that we are a lot more worse off than we are. happy.t with where we are. we have to keep moving the needle. we are working on that every single day. this is a heavy logistical lift. you have to get a shot, monitor that person, there are certain time limits you have to be between. it is a lot different. this vaccine is safe. it is highly effective. it has been through the rigors of any other vaccine. it is miraculous how quickly that was done. inave complete confidence the vaccine. i will be getting one as soon as i become eligible. workershese health care , we have showed that it is safe to get this vaccine. that is what we are dealing with. lot of people who are calling our office and health departments every day who want va

i got to know governor kemp on the campaign trail. i spent two years traveling around night and day and all over the place and sometimes we would be around the same room but we worked across the state for 2 plus years and every time i got up from listening to governor kemp give a speech, four things were unmistakably etched in my mind as to why he wanted to be the governor. one because of his conservative values, 2 because he cared about rural georgia and 3, he was a small business minded individual at 4, family centered. the role of governor, i get to work with him every single day and understand those four priorities become reality in virtually every single meeting we are in. i watch him encourage the room when we are sitting around the table to be the one that leads the conversation on how to shrink government, how to make decisions closer to the voter, how to be fiscally conservative and prepare for rainy days. i hear him encourage an entire room to care about rural georgia, on an investment the state makes and every economic oppo

kemp: you are asking about the vaccines and students going back in person. obviously students of that age bracket do not meet the qualifications yet, nor live. we have great conversations with school superintendents and others about getting the vaccine out to our teachers and professors and other people. obviously in those systems right now, if there are those who meet the criteria, school nurses, school resource officers, those over 65, they can call their health-care department and have availability, they can go get the vaccine. withata we are seeing young people in our state is clear. kids should be in the classroom, there is a safe way to do that. if anybody wants more information we would be happy to follow-upomey's team in regards to that. i expect you will see a lot of kids going back to the classroom regardless of what the situation is and with vaccinating their staff. but that's front and center on our mind for where we go to the next stage and have more available -- more availability. we definitely want our educators back along with others on the f

governor kemp saying your state is at a critical point.u opened an emergency field hospital at the georgia world commerce center. give us a sense of how desperate it's gotten? >> governor kemp has been so solid for us and a great cornerstone in helping us through this coronavirus. we're like every other state working through an increased infection rate. we're also working through a distribution plan for our vaccine. you know, at the end of the day, the most important thing we can do is make sure there is enough healthcare facilities and workers available for our patients and folks infected. governor kemp has done a great job to make sure that is the case. we will continue to monitor the situation. certainly, these are tough times. we got to get through this. get ourselves into the early summer so that vaccine can truly change the trajectory of this virus. >> real quickly, if you will, more than 4500 doses of the corona vaccines have been shipped to florida. just over 75,000 doses have been administered. why is that and what do you need to

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kemp: let me speak to the bigger picture. the system that we have for people to do the reporting, it is just more workload. especially for our medical facilities and hospitals. as you can imagine they are very , busy right now. i'm very sympathetic to that but we have to have good reporting. we know where our numbers are. .he problem is, we we are undere publications are putting it that we are a loss worse -- lot worse off than we really are. i'm not happy. i'm pleased with how hard everyone is working. i'm not happy with rer. we have to keep moving the needle. we also told people, this is a heavy logistical lift. it's not like getting a flu vaccine and a quick shot in the arm. shot, youo give the have to monitor the person for 15 minutes. there are certain time limits you have to be within to make sure that the vaccine is not spoiled. it's a lot different from things we've done in the past. to the reluctance of some to get vaccinated. everyone,encourage please, this vaccine is safe. it is highly effective. it has been throug

brian kemp, vote him the hell out of office, please. his rates are so low, his approval rating now, i think it has just reached a record low. they've rejected five separate appeals for an independent and comprehensive audit of signatures in fulton county, even without an audit, the number of fraudulent ballots we've identified across the state is staggering. over 10,300 ballots in georgia where cast by individuals whose names and dates of birth match georgia residents who died in 2020 and prior to the election. more than 2,500 ballots were cast by individuals whose names and dates of birth match incarcerated felons in georgia prison, people who were not allowed to vote. more than 4,500 illegal ballots were cast by individuals who do not appear on the state's own voter rolls. over 18,000 illegal ballots were cast by individuals who registered to vote using an address listed as vacant, according to the postal service. at least 88,000 ballots in georgia were cast by people whose registrations were illegally back-dated. 60,000 votes, each o

pandemic and president xi saying we should be competing quote, fairly an atlantic council ceo fred kemp object the top challenge for joe biden and his administration in an opinion piece. he joinsis now fred, it is good to see you. so we just mentioned the keynote at the virtual world from davos this morning the biden administration like the trump administration before it, the obama administration before it, and the bush administration before it, really has a lot on its plate where china is concerned how would you expect this administration to now approach it >> the biden administration has made clear how it's going to approach it. that's with urgent patience. and first and foremost, president biden sees the way to approach china is to strengthen the u.s. economy so this $1.9 trillion covid relief deal, and infrastructure build that's going to follow that you have to first of all heal your democracy, bringing author unity. build up your economy and critically reach out the allies. what xi jinping, president xi said to the world economic forum today, essentially, if you read between the l

i think that, really, what's going on is that brad raffensperger and brian kemp are afraid of georgia voters, because now they know that all georgia voters who are eligible to vote will have the opportunity to be heard. >> i don't know georgia republican officials as well as you do. i feel like in what's happened since the november election, it feels like the person who brian kemp and mr. raffensperger are most afraid of right now is president trump, with the way that he has come down on them with both feet, trying to get them to falsify election results. this tape over the weekend, essentially, directly raffensperger and his office to counterfeit the election results to declare that trump won, despite what the results were in georgia, and it is, you know, it's heartening to hear on that tape raffensperger say, no, mr. president, your facts here are wrong. but to hear them face that wrath from the president -- i just have to ask you, what kind of -- how that changes things in terms of this all-important election, how that changes the dynamics in the state, and what you make of how the

i feel like what's happened since the november election, it feels like the person who brian kemp and mr. raffensperger are most afraid of right now is president trump with the way that he has come down on them with both feet, trying to get them to falsify election results. this tape over the weekend essentially directing raffensperger and his office to counterfeit the election results, to declare that trump won despite what the results were in georgia. and it is -- you know, it's heartening to hear on that tape raffensperger say, no, mr. president, your facts here are wrong. but to hear them face that wrath from the president, i just have to ask you what kind of an -- how that changes things in terms of this all-important election, how that changes the dynamics in the state, and what you make of how they have, in effect, stood up to the president with what he's done since the election. >> well, i would cast it slightly differently. they aren't defending the right of voters. they're defending a system that they created. it was under brian kemp that the state authorized the single larg

reagan was pushing kemp roth. he had been developed as an issue in '78, doing radio commentaries about it. and then kemp roth tax cuts become one of the centerpieces of his '80 campaign. and it's really bedevilling bush because he can't match it. he came up with his own tax plan but it was more focused on business and less on the individual, whereas reagan was more focussed on the individual and less on business. and so bush unwisely goes out and starts attacking a very popular plan of reagan's, that reagan is scoring well politically with, and he calls it voodoo economics. and reagan was so furious over that. he almost didn't pick bush for -- in fact, it was a big sticking point with reagan why he didn't want to pick bush as his running mate in detroit in 1980. >> so let's move beyond this because we're about out of time. we want to invite the questions from the audience. so please have your questions prepared. i want to come back to this because we started talking, craig, about trump, reagan. >> yes. >> reagan a

he's attacked him, brian kemp. he's attacked brad roethlisburger. he talked about the election being illegal and immoral. he may have a terrific rally tonight in georgia and be the difference of getting the republicans out. but almost everything he's done it seems to me has complicated the effort of loeffler and purdue to get elected. think of his veto of the national defense authorization act. you know, a very popular act in a state with as many military as georgia has. that's an up popular vote. you had -- put purdue and loeffler in a tough spot there. you had his call for the $2,000 direct payment that was blocked by the republican senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell and then you've now got the democrats saying elect the democrats. put chuck schumer in charge and you get your $2,000 direct payment. seems that the president has intentionally or not made it much more difficult -- i'm not saying they're not going to win but mated it more difficult for these two incumbents to hold on to their positions. >> if you're a democrat, you have to be ple

i'm not brian kemp. mouse .-dot-- malfeasance doesn't disappear because it goes underground and what happened in part was that the same structures that have been deeply problematic in georgia for the last decade, it rears its ugly head again yesterday, but thinly on top of it in confidence and that in confidence began with what brian kemp said when he was secretary of state and with brad raffensperger because despite the constitutional obligation they hold to be the superintendent of elections meaning they are responsible for directing, training and investing in those elections they basically said it's all on the county. of the constitution doesn't say that. the law gives counties certain responsibilities, but what raffensperger did was refuse to do his job and if so counties, not just by colton, the two largest in the state, but smaller counties, republican counties all experienced terrible results from these new machines that brad purchased at the cost of $107 million. i'm bringing this to a close. $107 millio

--did learn governor kep governor kemp will make an appearance here tonight.republicans would for the results of the democrats, right now we have live coverage of the warnock and also of campaigns. campaigns.ff sophia? reporter: we are here in front of ebenezer baptist church, where warnock is a senior pastor. today, he told me, if he wins, he will come back to atlanta every weekend to give his sermon. to wehere at history expected supporters together tonight, because there is no traditional campaign party due to covid. we have been speaking with security officers out here. they tell us we might even see demonstrations or protests. whatever happens out here, we will be here to bring it to you live. what a place tonight. we bring in lori wilson. your outside jon ossoff's campaign headquarters -- you are outside jon ossoff's campaign headquarters. reporter: yeah, jon ossoff does not have an officia event -- does not have an official campaign headquarters. i spoke to him over zoom today. he says he is confident that he and rafael warnock will win. = -- he says hi

now of course the governor is a trump target so she can't side with governor kemp.oth of them know they don't just need georgia republicans to come out and vote for them tomorrow. they need trump republicans to come out and vote for them tomorrow. and those are not necessarily the same basket of voters, and i think that's also what you saw when you saw gabriel sterling get up and give the press conference today in georgia, really making a full throated endorsement of voter participation. something you don't hear as someone who's covered georgia republicans for a long time when i covered the legislature really saying everybody's vote should count, and if you believe the election was stolen you should come out tomorrow as a way to push back against that. show just how concerned republicans are that the president's messages of disinformation about a rigged election he lost could be having an impact on the republican voters that are largely going to be casting their ballots on election day tomorrow. >> yeah, they're like don't disenfranchise ourselves. it's very interes

right now governor kemp is like the sponge that's soaking up a lot of the trump and trump supporters' right now. he's not swinging back directly at president trump. he is swinging back at conspiracy theorists who are targeting himself and his family. but he's not directly assailing president trump for his attacks. instead, he's saying that voters should focus on the january 5th -- on tuesday's runoffs instead of worrying about distractions. and also saying that hey, the ship has left the -- the ship has sailed, the focus now is on wednesday's vote in congress over the electoral challenge, there's nothing more to be done in georgia where the votes have been validated after three separate tallies and all sorts of legal challenges have just been roundly rejected. >> greg bluestein from the "atlanta journal-constitution." greg, thanks very much. >> thanks for having me. >> and remember to join us tuesday night at 7:00 eastern for msnbc's special coverage of the georgia runoffs. rachel maddow, joy reid, nicolle wallace and will have analysis. and skeef kornacki and his khakis will break do

an honor to stand here today for the opportunity to introduce our governor i got to know governor kemp on the campaign train one - - the trail traveling all over the place sometimes in the same room and sometimes we would it but we worked across the state over two years and every time i got up listening to governor kemp give a speech there were things that were unmistakably etched in my mind why he wanted to be the governor. one is his conservative values and he also cared about role georgia and a small business minded individual"because he was family centered don't know the role governor i get to work with him every single day and i get to watch those priorities become reality in virtually every single meeting we are in. i get to watch him encourage the room and we are sitting around the table to be the one that leads the conversation on how to shrink government, how to make decisions closer to the voter and how to be fiscally conservative to put ourselves for a rainy day. i get to hear him encourage to talk about role georgia every investment and economic opportunity the state makes

he told supporters last night that he will be campaigning against kemp and the secretary of state inas pretty clear. i'm curious though, two more years between now and then. what is it going to look like for the state of georgia and this current president? >> well, not good on those two officials. clearly he has in his mind that he's been wronged by them. but his focus on that ahead of today is not helpful to the republican party down here. both of those officials say you have to get out and vote and they're trying to get kelly loeffler and david perdue across the finish line. the president says he wants to do that as well. but the whole battle and the focus on the tape and it was leading the atlanta journal constitution headlines about all of this. it's just not helpful for getting out the fault. i will say raffensperger said he wouldn't have authorized putting out anything or his people put it out if the president hadn't tweeted and attacked him about the phone call. there's all kinds of back and forth there about the release of it. the substance of the phone call is also problemat

he blamed the republican governor of georgia, brian kemp and called him names and blamed stacey abrams who organized a massive moment. >> i know this call is going no with than ultimately, look, ultimately i win. -- >> mr. secretary, mr. president. -- >> you guys are so wrong and you have treated this, you have treated the population of georgia so badly. you, between you and your governor who was down at 21 -- he was down 21 points and like a shmuck i endorsed him and he got elected. i will tell you, he is a disaster and he will never -- i can't imagine the people are so angry in georgia, i can't imagine he is ever getting elected again, i will tell you that much right now. stacy is as dishonest as they come. she has out played you in every heart. at everything. she got you to sign a totally unconstitutional agreement which is a disasterous agreement, you cannot check signatures. i cannot imagine you are allowed to do harvesting, i guess in that agreement. that agreement is a disaster for this country. she got you somehow to sign that thing, and she is a -- he she has out smarted you a

but governor kemp is not the only person who likely won't be attending.erdue is currently off the trail and in quarantine after being exposed to someone who tested positive so someone that tested positive for covid-19. this comes as a number of senate republicans voted. pricilla thomas has more. >> senator purdue is having to change his strategy. he held his 100th event campaigning right before he found out he was exposed to someone that tested positive for covid-19. he acknowledged it earlier this hour. >> with an abundance of caution we decided to go into quarantine these last few days. it's terrible timing, but we're not going to miss a step, we will participate in all of the events as if i was there. >> the question is will voters turn out to those virtual events. including president trump on monday and also vice president pence, not to mention the democratic candidates that will be out campaigning. >> thank you as always. we have breaking news right now, the senate is voting to override the president's veto of the national defense authorization act.

he blamed the republican governor of georgia, brian kemp, and called him names. he also blamed stacey abrams, who had orchestrated a massive voter registration movement. >> and i know this phone call's going nowhere other than -- other than ultimately, you know -- look, ultimately i win, okay? because -- >> mr. secretary -- mr. president -- >> you guys are so wrong, and you've treated this -- you've treated the population of georgia so badly. between you and your governor, who was down at 21 -- he was down 21 points, and like a schmuck, i endorsed him, and he got elected. but i will tell you he's a disaster, and he'll never -- i can't imagine the people are so angry in georgia, i can't imagine he's ever getting elected again. i'll tell you that much right now. stacey is as dishonest as they come. she has outplayed you at everything. she got you to sign a totally unconstitutional agreement, which is a disastrous agreement. you can't check signatures. you can't do -- i can't imagine you're allowed to do harvesting, i guess, in that agreement. that agreement is a di

advisers say they expect trump to expend the most energy trying to damage kemp's re-election bid.o the "times," is congresswoman liz cheney. she was the only member of house gop leadership to vote to impeach. it is unclear whether trump will target her seat or simply her leadership post in the house, but advisers said they anticipated he would take opportunities to damage her. good luck with that. joining us now, former nrcc communications director, republican consultant matt coramen. he is a vice president at the firm targeted victory. matt, good morning to you. i actually want to start with something we haven't really read through in depth yet because i know this is something you spend a lot of time thinking about, and that's senator rob portman, who announced that he's not going to run for re-election. and i want to play a little bit of his explanation as to why for everyone and then talk to you about it on the other side. let's watch. >> honestly, it's gotten harder and harder to break through the partisan gridlock and make progress on substantive policy issues, and that has c

stacey abrams didn't challenge it but didn't say kemp was elected legitimately and you've been attacking republicans constantly for voter suppression in georgia. win or lose are you accepting the results of the election on january 5th? >> i will. and i believe that we will win on tuesday because of the grassroots momentum, the unprecedented movement energy in georgia right now. look. this is the state of georgia. think about how far we have come, jake. we are the most competitive battleground state in the country. we are hosting two united states senate runoffs for control of the united states senate. the democratic standards bearer are the young jewish son of an immigrant mentored by john lewis and a black pastor who holds dr. king's pulpit at ebenezer baptist church. we are bringing so many young people into the electorate. we are empowering people to make their voices heard. my campaign made a million phone calls to voters yesterday alone knocking on tens of thousands of doors. we have hired thousands of young people predominantly people of color to organize their own communities and

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the president also attacking governor brian kemp over the weekend calling for his resignation, kemp forthey try to navigate the division, trying to put the focus back on democrats. >> not just radical ideas that would transform our country, it's radical candidates like raphael warnock. >> we'll show the world that the people of georgia know what's at stake here. we're going to hold the line here in georgia. >> reporter: meanwhile, vice president-elect kamala harris was down in savannah yesterday on the attack. watch. >> certainly the voice of desperation, most certainly that, and it was a bald-faced, bold abuse of power by the president of the united states. >> reporter: so here comes dueling rallies. president-elect joe biden will be down in atlanta at some point today, but then tonight the, 9 p.m., these folks, the crowd already going, they're chanting four more years, it it will be very interesting to see, guys, exactly what the president has to say in his message as he tries to turn out voters in north georgia, an area where the early voting has shown republicans need a strong showi

so much so that the governor, brian kemp, is opening the world congress center behind me to act as a make-shift field hospital of sorts, 60 beds will be available for overflow. the health systems here are overwhelmed by the surges we're seeing in the winter. here's what the governor had to say about the field hospital behind me, yesterday. >> this is to help alleviate strains on our hospitals in the metro area as well as across the state. that facility will begin acceptiaccep accepting patients at the end of this week. >> reporter: i did speak to the governor's office a short time ago, they said today they are going to start accepting people inside that facility. hospitalizations here also hitting records. more than 5,000 georgians waking up in the hospital. and this is the third time this is hospital has been put to use this year. >> as the surge is taking place, more states are reporting cases of the new, more contagious covid strain first detected in the uk. let's go to elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, three new cases reported in san diego, that's on top of the case, possibly two, in c

. >> live in atlanta, georgia governor brian kemp is about to give the state of the state address. >>madam doorkeeper. >> mister president, the honorable brian kemp, governor of the state of georgia interesting was to guest enter the house chamber. >> please let his excellency

, the they must be careful of the political rubbish and which is rampant, the governor kemp have donean nothing, they are disgrace to the great people of georgia, to be clear secretary of state john raffensperger's office now know election fraud, biden leaving nothing to chance, he will come here to atlanta where he will hit the ground hard in the big star of the day on his team is of course vice president elect kamala harris going to savannah. jon: griff jenkins in atlanta, thank you. for more on this was bringing republican senator from ohio rob portman as surrogate for the loeffler and purdue campaign and a member of the senate committee homeland security foreign relations and finance, thank you for spending time with us this evening. jon: i want to point to the early voting that is taken place in georgia, the numbers are pretty astounding, more than 3 million people have already voted, 928,000 and change in person, the others are in pris prison, a lot of those votes, a large percentage of votes coming in from the areas around atlanta which tend to vote heavily democratic, how conc

we will work closely with brian kemp, it's important to get out to vote for brad.""vote for brian kemp, he will be a great governor with the state of georgia!" clearly his sentiments have changed. this morning on fox news, brad raffensperger was defending his decision to release the audio transcript of that phone call he had with the president on sund sunday. >> they weren't actually supported. i corrected him on his phone call and obviously, the same pieces of disinformation. that is where we had a press conference yesterday. he has said over a thousand people who are dead voted in georgia. we go we expect we will hear a lot from president trump, he will address the big march year in washington, d.c., and then tomorrow is the date when the electors will be certified, the vice president pence will be providing over all of that, his office telling me the vice president will follow the law, he will act tomorrow with fidelity to the law and the constitution. we will see how it goes. dana? >> dana: we will. thank you. senator josh hawley blasting antifa scumbags were sh

we don't believe there will be a lockdown, because that's not the type of state governor kemp has been. >> but is it fair to say as covid rises, does it add a degree of difficulty? >> i think the things that are creating difficulty for republicans are president trump. he's creating a difficult situation for these republicans by talking about the last election they have not had a unified message about their own election, and kyung was talking about the turnout states, the rural areas are lagging behind even in the early vote from november. even the ones who did vote early in the last election are not doing it in the same quantity and volume they were before the november election. it's creating quite a problem. >> kyung, typically turnout in a runoff is lower than in a general, but the senate majority depends on these runoffs. there's no bigger states, so the leaders of both parties will campaign in the peach state in the coming days. how does that affect the ground game? how significant is it that president trump is going to these rural counties. >> the gop is counting on him to juice t

first, do they have the resources, the brian kemp who had a falling out with the president, said they resources and they are ready. he perceived the threat is low against the state of georgia. and against the capitol here. which is an interesting statement given the fact that georgia played such a pivotal role in two critical elections, voting for joe biden and then overturning and making the senate democratic. here is security measures that are being worked on right now. these are not a reaction as to what happened in washington. this is a long-term security issue they've been wering on. it is a permanent fence and not in place by this weekend or in any time for the inauguration. let me point out, they have this. this is the kind of security fencing you may have seen around the capitol on the day of the protests. it was pretty preliminarisy stuff and any dedicated crowd to easily punch through. now they have beefed up the security presence here. in fact, you could see you have an armed vehicle like this one right here. this is belonging to the georgia state patrol. so you've got the

he lashed out against brian kemp saying that he was a smuk fchmur endorsing him in 2018. when he spoke and the general counsel spoke, they laid out the same facts over and over and over again. joe biden won georgia and there was no fraud. >> i have a couple more people to bring in. how did the president react when he just said look, joe biden won georgia. what was the reaction of the president? what was the tenor of that from him. >> he didn't really take it in stride. like i said earlier he suggested that republicans are angry in georgia. people in georgia are angry. if it comes down to it, and democrats could flip the senate and it could rest in the hands of brian kemp and rashensburger. >> stay where you are, we're joined now by kimberly atkins. a senior opinion writer for the boston globe. what a conversation to jump into, guys. jeff, you first, has there been an official response from the white house to this audio that has been leaked? >> not that i have seen yet. it is clearly explosive. it is amazing in a way this is coming out right now at the beginning of january

chief among those targets is governor ryan kemp of georgia. the president has considered the original sin kemp committed against him after trump helped him win to be picking senator kelly loeffler as the replacement for an open seat in georgia. the president wanted doug collins to be chosen. that did not happen. sen since then, the president has been blaming him and the secretary of state in georgia for not throwing the election has way. next up is liz cheney. congresswoman from wyoming and number three in house gop leadership. not clear what he'd like to see her lose, her seat or leadership position but he plans on doing what he can to try to impact that. and then there are a bunch of house targets. there's representative gonzales in ohio, representative upton in michigan. these are people who voted in favor of impeachment and who were very, very critical of the president in his mind of the actions he took on january 6th. the list goes on, john. it's not clear what infrastructure the president is even going to have to make good on these threa

i was inspired by kemp's optimism and trumpneurship. he was a bright light in a dark party. fast forward to 2021, donald trump's republican party is not that same party. the republican party has been headed this way for a long time. if you were to go back and google articles i've written for 20 plus years you would see me screaming about this saying you are heading in a dark place if you continue to be this monolithic party and don't grow. how many are on board for impeachment? i think suzanne is correct, i think there is at least the openness now in the house with those members that you saw vote against upholding the objections to the electoral college. in the senate you can probably get a dozen of them now if the article was, i think, very tight and if there's time i think is going to be the issue here. but i do think you're going to have a republican party that's going to have a civil war internally. there's going to be a fight for what's going to happen next after trump that's going to happen. >> okay. so let's talk, erroll, about what happens to trump after all of this.

and also president trump last week calling on governor kemp to resign as a distraction. and then you have that continuing lull or that cloud, so to speak, hanging over georgia when it comes to election integrity. but still, voters here in georgia put all that aside, 3 million early votes cast, thousands and thousands more expected to be unloaded come tuesday. >> oh, the numbers are extraordinary. but here you've got a republican governor kemp who says there was nothing wrong with the elections, everything is valid. but you've got the president of the united states who plans on stumping monday for these senate incumbents, but he continues to say that the georgia race was invalid and illegal. so how do these candidates position themselves to counter what the president is saying and try to encourage republican voters in georgia to come out and vote if they haven't already in the early runoff? >> as journalists we like to talk to people and a lot of people are calling all of that political muck. what they want to hear now is their messaging through the mouths, coming out of

if you keep in mind that brian kemp, the governor here, a republican is still very popular.ow video while we're talking, joe biden speaking of the president-elect is now at the event in the atlanta area where he is trying to rally the troops. there is the president-elect trying to get voters show upholding one of his now patented drive-in rallies. alicia, the president will be in the northern part of the state later today. it is interesting because you don't see the same type of rallies that we saw you know, traditional political rallies on the democratic side. the president will try to rally the troops in the traditional way tonight in northern georgia. we'll see if it works. reporter: all about turnout. all about the energy here that the president is able to bring here. that is what republicans are hoping he is able to do. connell: right. there seems to be a lot of energy on the ground when you speak to people. alicia acuna live here in marietta as the president-elect continues those remarks at that drive-in rally in the atlanta area we talked about earlier. that is a live

i beat her two years ago with a bad candidate, brian kemp. they took, the democrats took the republicans to lunch because the secretary of state had no clue what the hell was happening. unless he did have a clue. that is interesting. maybe i was with the other side but we've been trying to get verifications of signatures in n in fulton county. they won't let us do it. the only reason they won't because we'll find things of hundreds of thousands. why wouldn't they let us verify signatures in fulton county which is known for being very corrupt? they won't do it. they go to some other county where you would live. i said that is not the pom. the problem is fulton county, home of stacey abrams. she did a good job. i have congratulate her but it was done in such a way we can't let this stuff happen. we won't have a country if it happens. as a result georgia's absentee ballot rejection rate was more than 10 times lower than previous levels because the criteria was so off. 48 counties in georgia with thousands and thousands of votes rejected zero bal

what actually happened that night, though, was imagined by writer kemp powers, first in his 2013 playlm's screenwriter. >> they were significant then. they're significant now. and, one can't help but wonder what a group like that might discuss if gathered together in a room. i mean, who wouldn't want to be a fly on the wall? >> brown: all were at personal or professional crossroads, having reached unimagined heights, but facing doubts about the way forward. >> when the play was first produced, i was actually older, at 40, than all the men in that room. and that really struck me, because we think of these men doing amazing, transformative things with the benefit of age and wisdom. but the reality is, they were young and, in many cases, they didn't know what they were doing, and they were often taking leaps of faith and believing in themselves. >> brown: also challenging each other-- does economic success bring personal freedom? at what cost? in this scene, malcolm x takes on sam cooke for pandering to white audiences, in his view. >> pissed off, brother sam? you know what's going on ar

governor kemp calls it a distracti distraction. clearly the republican voters don't any it went to way it should have gone. despite the relooks, they want the signature in fulton county. they want other things. the governor was the former secretary state. he knows the deal. they're in a tough spot. they're under a barrage of trumpsupporters and the biggest, president trump himself. >> bill: one thing i picked up on your interview last night, he said republicans in georgia won almost 54% of the seats that were up for grabs in the state senate. if that is the case and you canvassed the entire state of georgia and that would portend i think somewhat of a optimistic prediction for what may turn out tomorrow here in georgia. >> listen, this is what president trump says. how did all of these other seats do well and then i lost? the bottom line is that there are a number of places around the country that we saw that. where the congressional seats went republican. that they weren't thinking they were going to or the state houses stayed rep

raffensperger takes right after brian kemp him who preceded him in the office. ever since he was elected coming into office after the 2018 election, brad raffensperger has pulled tricks. still dealing within voting within a pandemic and how it has disproportionally impacted people of color, brad raffensperger has sided with republicans who have been talking about issues around voter fraud -- even though we have seen raffensperger and other members of his staff rightfully saying there have not been -- there is no evidence of widespread issues, no evidence of x, y, z. the process has gone smoothly. we have seen doubletalking in providing support for some of the less extreme allegations. we have seen use of the investigations of his office leveraged to tech organizations. the new georgia project early in the run-up period were attacked by raffensperger's office based on wild claims they were trying to register people in new york city when in fact it was a matter of volunteers who were doing postcards, as we all know. volunteers all over the country have been sendin