now, marc elias has challenged elections in the past. he's not been successful. he's challenged republican victories. what i wrote is why would you do this in the midst of this special counsel investigation? also, is he part of a contingency of a possible post election challenge. so that question was put to the campaign. they came back with this astonishing statement. then later, i think it was early today, they said, well, we did succeed in killing the story, which made things worse. >> martha: jonathan, he went after you on twitter with all kinds of insulting comments and, you know, all fired up about the stuff that you said. the nicest things he said were seeing all the attacks on me is confirmation that they know that the fate of our democracy is on the docket. so he professes to be saving democracy. final comment on this part of the story from you. >> sandra: >> well, we have actually been critical of each other a long time. i've been focusing on his role with the steele dossier. he was accused by media of lying as was this clinton campaign about their fundi

the most prominent election lawyer in the country right now is marc elias.is the democratic powerhouse lawyer that headed the team who won more than 60 lawsuits against republicans in the trump campaign, over the 2020 election. elias's been fighting new voting restrictions, put in place by republican legislatures ever since. today mark elias wrote an op-ed, warning about the method in the republicans madness, here in warning that it may be leading us toward a real crisis. he said quote, immediately following the insurrection on january, six republican state legislatures begin round laying the groundwork for 2022 in 2024. they enacted new voter suppression laws, optimize to disenchanted eyes black, brown and young voters. they created false narratives of election it real you larry is in relieved their supporters around the big. by the goal of these new provisions is to manufacture fraud, where none exists. since one of the big problems in all of the sort of bogus republican trumpy election audits, and election results investigations, is that they have been ab

so much so they shelled out big bucks to bring in marc elias.been going across the country challenging and winning election law challenges and voting laws on behalf of democrats. if that doesn't concern you, this should. he was also involved with the firm that hired fusion gps for the clinton campaign. that group behind the steele dossier. it gets worse. he was also associated with and a former partner with clinton attorney michael sussmann just indicted by the john durham probe for lying to the fbi. so, do you blame republicans for being a little concerned about the democrats' hiring this guy? here now jonathan turley, fox news contributor, george washington law professor. jonathan, what bothers you, if anything, about this hire? >> >> well, there great deal, of course, because elias is a known permanent in all of these scandals, we have a special counsel investigation in the field looking at his role in that election. and the pushing of the russian collusion scandal. his former partner, the person that represented the clinton campaign with him

i want to start with you, errin, and marc elias's articulation of what is really happening out there,erstand the republican game. and the significance of what marc elias did was to sort of, you know, beam down into right-wing world where it is a malevolent, a cynical, and anti-democratic campaign but it is a rocket. 33 laws have been passed. they are barrelling ahead, as he writes, they are manufacturing ways to claim fraud because even republicans, when injected with truth serum, have to say there wasn't any. what do you make of that as a wake-up call? >> well, you know, nicole, it's just as you pointed out. it's so important to stress to your viewers this is what 21st century voter suppression looks like. it's not just working to keep certain people from having access to the ballot box or eliminating drop boxes, those kinds of things. it is also about, even if those people are able to jump through all those hoops, overcome all those obstacles to cast a vote, negating that vote on the other side is what feels new about republican efforts to really subvert folks from having access to

for a response to the campaign spending more than $50,000 hiring the allies law group started by marc elias. an attorney who previously challenged elections with hillary clinton's campaign general counsel and hired the research firm that produced the dossier with claims of connection between russia and trump. a campaign spokesperson emailed our reporter back apparently mistakenly saying can we try to kill this? the story is now up on foxnews.com. mcauliffe canceled campaigns this week. he will be with bruce smith of the hall of famer. also with a number of politicians like senator tim kaine from virginia and representatives barbara lee and jim clyburn. bret? >> bret: rich, quickly, i see the background behind you, what have the crowds looked bike for mcauliffe around the state? >> it's been hit or miss. he was in charlottesville yesterday. the crowd had a few dozen people there a strong hold in the middle of the stated trying to get people out this room is largely filled a few hundred people there. as you get to the back it begins to empty out a little bit. it republicans have been talking

. >> marc elias. tell him i'll call him right back. >> sorry about that. >> that's okay. it happens to the best of us. i will give you a hall pass for whoever is needing you right now. marc elias election attorney and founder of democracy dockets. the great to have you here. thank you so much. >> any time. thank you very much. >> much more ahead. stay with us. city in alaska, home to more than 250,000 people. anchorage is run by an assembly effectively their city council is an 11-member assembly. that body does things like certify municipal elections and set budgets and enact local ordinances. last month the anchorage assembly took up a proposed mask rule for indoor public spaces in anchorage, and it was not a surprise that this came up. as we've been reporting in recent weeks, alaska has recently had its hospitals suffering under one of the worst covid caseloads in the nation with the state forced to ration care and literally turn people away. it very quickly got pretty hairy. >> you are backing us into a corner. there is nowhere else to go. we will be forced to fight. y

reporters for fox news, i believe foxnews.com, says he is writing a story about mcauliffe hiring marc eliasat is interesting about this, a friend of this program jonathan turley tweeting out they are a host of election lawyers, but mcauliffe has hired a lawyer accused of lyingn to the media, currently involved in a major investigation that has already led to an indictment of his former partner. mcauliffe may be preparing to challenge any win by glenn youngkin. and the response was, they didn't mean to do it, but they write "can we get this story killed," "can we try to kill this?" what is your reaction to the hiring of elias and the campaign, obviously, feels they have an in with certain media outlets that they can get stories killed.sl >> well, first of all, this just is the exact playbook that terry mcauliffe wrote for the modern-day democratic party, and his campaign is absolutely failing. i mean, the sun is setting on his 43 year political career. and by the way, they are not going to need lawyers because this isn't going to be close. what is happening in virginia today, with us winning

. >> marc elias. tell him i'll call him right back. >> sorry about that. >> that's okay.est of us. i will give you a hall pass for whoever is needing you right now. marc elias election attorney and founder of democracy dokts. the great to have you here. thank you so much. >> any time. thank you very much. >> much more ahead. stay with us. in a screen saver. (man 2) yeah, but we need to go higher. (man 1) higher. (man 2) definitely higher. (man 1) we're like yodeling high. , let's do it. (both) woah! (man 2) i'm good. (man 1) me, too. (man 2) mm-hm. (vo) adventure has a new look. (man 1) let's go lower. (man 2) lower, that sounds good. (vo) discover more in the all-new subaru outback wilderness. love. it's what makes subaru, subaru. - [narrator] this is steve. he used to have gum problems. now, he uses therabreath healthy gums oral rinse with clinically-proven ingredients and his gum problems have vanished. (crowd applauding) therabreath, it's a better mouthwash. at walmart, target and other fine stores. see blood when you brush or floss can be a sign of early gum damage.

marc elias, thank you so much for taking some time out of what i know is a busy day to talk to us aboutversation, alexi mccammond and coauthor of the book "i alone can fix it," both msnbc contributors. there are always two places i like to go back to. one, there was no voter fraud. there wasn't any. chris krebs said it was the most secure election in our country's history, lifelong republican in charge of election security. bill barr who gladly did a whole lot of donald trump's bidding, it seemed from the outside, couldn't find any and leaves before the coup plot really gets serious. i wonder if we can talk a little bit about the fact checking that's still ongoing. there's a great piece by aaron blake today in the "washington post" about the dead people cited by donald trump and we all remember those tweets, over and over and over again. aaron blake writes this. the specific dead people cited by trump and his allies have in most cases proved to not have been cases of dead people's identities used fraudulently to vote. in several other cases in which a dead person was actually recorded a

his name is marc elias. the allies law group. we heard about it fox news asked for a comment.ntly sent an email back to fox news saying can we try to kill this? we think that might have been for someone within the campaign. hey try to kill this fox news story? steve: here's the thing marc elias, the guy tied to perkins couey the law firm behind the steele dossier. in jonathan turley saw that terry mcauliffe had hired this guy, he is going that's astonishing. he wondered whether or not mcauliffe could be prepping to challenge any win by glenn youngkin. so he reached out. and it's the one thing you do you know, did i just answer-respond all? did i just answer the entire company? this is a big disaster for the mcauliffe campaign but apparently they tried to spin it later. so after they sent to us can we try to kill this? later they clarified can we try to kill this dot dot dot to dispute the challenges of the election in an email that actually did not get through to fox news. lawrence: this comes on the heels and you guys have been hearing it for months from the democrats saying

john nichols, the significance of this and the point that the voting rights attorney, marc elias makeshere are so many voter suppression laws passing around the country right now to make it extreme lead difficult for particularly black and latinx populations to vote, that it will make it more possible that there will be charges of fraud and 70 makes a mistake because they are voting in the same way they have for years and suddenly they are wrong. john: there is no question that is exactly what is going on. donald trump is promoting a big lie. there are a lot of folks saying he is the former president, he's been called out as a liar. we know that. but the fact is he is succeeding. in state after state, republican officials, many of whom in the past stood up to him or at least didn't go along with him on everything, are falling in line. they are supporting these bogus audits and as you point out, they are supporting election and voter suppression strategies, that if implemented will make it dramatically easier for the republicans to upend election results or impact election results in 20

. >> marc elias tweeted out don't forego when phillip movies changed ielts name to altria, it was stillat caused cancer. there have been a lot of comparisons between facebook and cigarette companies. the shareholders don't seem to mind given the way facebook stock is performing. how do you reconcile that? yet the share horlsd have nosha problem with what they're doing. >> i'm so glad you mentioned that. i think there is this public problem. i was even thinking when i would cover the bush administration, for example, and i think facebook right now has this thing where it's sort of perceived as like the energy companies were during the bush administration and now i'm not really sure if anyone is really defending facebook that much. like you said, its stock prices are going up. i think that people, its investors, still think that, you know, hey, they're doing all this but they're making money, we think this is a good thing. we believe with what's going on with meta and unfortunately we see this a lot with corporations that, you know, they are looking to make money. they're not always looki

seems like an innovative guy, but nobody is, nobody is too small for facebook and perkins coie, marc eliaselizabeth: who made them the experts, who made facebook experts to dictate what we should read and think? scientists in switzerland saying having no news feed, a massive news feed is better for people's happiness. they spend less time on the platform. this little guy says i can't take on face book, i'm in the uk, would i have to pay facebook's legal fees because i'm over here in the uk. the funny thing he said, now i'm less addicted to facebook because of this experience. i'm happier than i ever have been. your final word. >> he had an epiphany. many need to follow the same course and detach ourselves from these things because they increase our dependence, make us less happy. let's face it the folks who run these things do not have our best interests at heart. they want to limit our freedoms, not expand them. elizabeth: congressman, i want to get this in too. facebook, you know, mark zuckerberg's foundation is financing and backing panorama and panorama is basically selling a toxic age

terry mcauliffe hired an attorney with, oh, let's say, background, with a questionable background, marc elias a clinton attorney, to possibly challenge election results, something both candidates said they wouldn't do. now, there is clearly massive momentum behind glenn youngkin. can a deep blue state like virginia really turn red? can republicans turn out their voters and deliver a massive political upset? here to make the case, republican of virginia new gubernatorial candidate glenn youngkin is with us. seems like a huge jump, statistically almost impossible, if that poll is accurate or close to accurate, that would mean late breaking deciders breaking hard for you and with early voting seeming to be low, you are at a pretty close level with mcauliffe, i would say that gives you an advantage. how are you feeling about it? >> we are feeling great, sean. we are out on day six of our ten-day bus tour. the crowds are amazing. we just had a giant event in augusta county, had over a thousand people. there is energy on this campaign. it is no longer a campaign, it is a momentum. it is absolutely

and then marc elias, at perkins coie, he is helping the democrats to fund and back the anti-trump steele the fbi. what is going on with this law firm? >> it is quite clear the law firm is on the clinton payroll and hid behind their attorney/client privilege so they could peddle the steele dossier, the fake rafah bank story as well as the russia hack story all because they wanted to destroy donald trump. what they did they destroyed a lot of lives for people that worked for the trump campaign. they held our democracy at gunpoint for years. this is despicable and deceitful. hope fullly john durham will get to the bottom of it. liz: the testimony he gave 2017, he basically testified that there was no concrete evidence they had that russia hacked and stole dnc emails. it was circumstantial evidence. he testified they did not have evidence. the emails actually left the dnc servers and went into russia. we still don't even know what happened with this hack. i mean, robert mueller's probe couldn't get to the bottom of it either. all we know that is what michael sussman is telling us and what cr

. >>> first, a media critique from a former democratic alliance attorney, marc elias. he wrote about how peddling these lies can topple democracy, we're one, maybe two election as way from a true constitutional crisis. marc, thank you for coming 0on the program. >> thank you for having me, brian. >> you have been critical of cnn at times, critical of this show last week. i want to hear your number one critique of how the news media is or is not covering threats to democracy. >> yes, first of all, thank you for having me on. and i'm usually more praising of your show than critical, i want to be clear at the outset of that. the problem with the media is that it treats certain aspects of democracy as sacrosanct. for example, any encroachment on the first amendment right to publish newspapers or curtail the media or to take action against the media is uniformly denounced by the media in absolutist terms. but when it comes to free and fair elections, there tends to be more of a nuanced and sliding scale that the media has. so, for example, this morning jake tapper did a grea

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