joining us now is kristen clarke.nt and exclusive director of the lawyers committee for civil rights. thank you for joining us. what's your sense of what lindsey graham did if raffensperger's allegations are correct. is it improper? is it unethical? is it illegal? where does if lt lie to you? >> we know that these are just allegations. but what i can tell you is that they are deeply disturbing, incredibly troubling that the head of the senate judiciary committee, somebody who handles incredibly important matters including the vetting and nominations of federal judges -- it is deeply troubling to have a state official allege that a member of the united states senate took the position that this state official should throw out ballots cast by eligible voters. i don't think that we should turn a blind eye to this. we should see the senate open an ethics inquiry to determine whether or not these allegations are true. and attorney general barr has been on a fishing expedition to uncover evidence of things that went wrong wi

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joining us now is kristen clark.he's president and executive director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law. they run the national election protection hotline. again, it's 866-our-vote. ms. clark, it's an honor to have you with us tonight. thanks for taking time. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> so much is different about this year, not least that nearly 100 million, or 100 million americans have already cast their ballots. does that mean that the hotline and what you've been hearing at the lawyers committee, that those calls and that sort of view of the voting system started earlier and has given you a better view early on about how things are going this year? >> it's been a remarkable year, in large part because of the unprecedented barriers and challenges that voters face this season. you noted that we were started in 2000 after bush v. gore. and in the two decades that we've been leading this program, this has definitely been our most intense year ever. we have increased the size of legal volunte

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i'm joined by janelle and christian clacris kristen clark, a former federal prosecutor and director ofl lawyers committee for civil rights under law. thank you to both of you for being here. janelle, put the people trying to answer my quiz out of their misery about what philadelphia, milwaukee, atlanta and detroit all have in common. >> they all have very large black populations. most of them are 40% black or more. so these are cities where not only are they -- do they have large black populations but home to the largest portion of the black population in those states. for example, were the i guess republican members of the wayne county elections board able to go ahead with what they planned, which was to simply hold off on certifying the votes in detroit but go ahead and certify all the votes in the predominantly white suburban areas around it, they would have effectively nullified the votes of half of michigan's black population. there are similar stories if you take a look at the data out of philadelphia. similar stories in many other states as well as georgia. >> and kristen, you k

. >>> joining me now is kristen clark, civil rights attorney for the bipartisan task force on election crises. kristen, let me start with an emotional question. i talked to a lot of people the last few weeks who feel this ebbing and flowing of anxiety. biden won, right? he's not going to pull off some coup. then a thing happens and they get stressed out again and they come back to thinking it's all okay. where are you on this? how do you view what's happening over the last few weeks? >> it's been a roller coaster, but we've all been on a four-year roller coaster throughout the duration of this administration. but what we're seeing right now is that democracy is being pressure tested. a historic number of eligible americans have gone out and they have made their voice heard. and now we see the president resorting to every trick in the book, any tactic that he can put his hands on, along with his allies to try and distort the outcome of the election, to try and subvert the will of the people. so emotionally, i'm feeling okay. we've gotten involved in many of these baseless and frivolous

we are joined by kristen clarke, president and executive director of the lawyers committee for civil under law and will bunch a national columnist for the philadelphia enquirer. good day to both of you. kristen, this is the first day where america wakes up and has a new president-elect and this is settling and it's being absorbed and these suits that remain are almost beneath discussion in the sense that they don't have the prospect of changing the outcome so we have reported that fact and yet are still in the discussion, kristen, because it is unusual to have a sitting president do what he's doing. walk us through what you see now, which seems to be sounds like them backing off and slowly getting ready to pull the remaining suits, but some of them are still out there. >> well, this was the legal strategy that was under way even prior to election day using the courts and using rhetoric to undermine confidence in the electoral process. and in the outcome of an election. there are 147 million people who have now made their voices heard and we need the president to respect the will of t

kristen, good morning to you. that's right, biden's lead here is widening. 124,000 votes left to count statewide. now here in clark county, the majority of the counting is right here. it's 54,000 ballots that are left to count in terms of mail-in ballots. the registrar tells me that he hopes to finish that count by sunday. after that they're going to do 60,000 provisional ballot counting. that's going to include that critical same-day registration that chuck was talking about earlier. now, as for the speed of the count here, i know a lot of people have been criticizing nevada for it. i've been pressing the registrar here in clark county about that exactly and he says there's no way to speed this process up. they have to be able to use their machines to scan and then also they have the element of human review. so as for when we're going to get some results here, they say they're going to release two more tranches of votes today, and they actually have until november 12th to count all of the ballots. and then the 16th to canvass and have that official number, but six very critical electoral votes here, guys. >> jo,