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, if we had to repeat in future elections in which, let's say, the republican controlled pennsylvania legislature decided we're not going to certify all those votes coming out of philadelphia because we think that those urban votes are shady. imagine what would have happened. we would have had a worse constitutional crisis than we did. >> that's actually the perfect word to describe it, hughie. >>> i want to go to the condo collapse and what a pool contractor saw in the poolroom. thank you for joining us. appreciate it. this is very important stuff we're talking about because you spoke to a pool contractor that took those photos in the garage area 36 hours before that building collapsed. tell us what you are learning and what these photos show exactly. >> sure. thank you so much for having me. we spoke to a contractor who was working for a company that was bidding to renovate the s champlain tower south pool as for the of the 40-year recertification process and on tuesday, two days before the collapse, he did a walk through of the property. initially walked through the lobby. walked through the p

pennsylvania. but it's something that the legislature might want to might want to pick up in the future. very interesting, just talk to you about this. thank you so much for your hi claire. thinking shy from the university of pennsylvania, joining us there on bill cosby case and the conviction being overturned on the american act. jim, let's turn our attention to the world news now. and record smashing heat wave has been hitting western canada and the northern, the united states killing dozens of people and fueling concerns about wildfires in california is death valley visitors braves temperature is that sort about 50 degrees celsius breast and joe biden has been climate change for the crisis and he's been meeting leaders of western face to discuss ways to minimize his asters, including forest fires. the high temperatures have been linked to dozens of deaths in western canada. most of them elderly people, canada has recorded its highest have a temperature of nearly 50 degrees celsius un, whether experts say very high temperatures are concentrated over one large area, creating a pressure c

was, if we had to repeat in future elections in which let's say the republican controlled pennsylvania legislatureng to certify all those votes coming out of philadelphia because we think that those urban votes are shady, imagine what would have happened. we would have had a worse constitutional crisis than we did. >> for all the talk about the u.s., about the erosion of democracy here, it has deteriorated in other parts of the word fuld further and faste. in hungary, they have curbed the power of the courts and now at the end of pride month no less has signed a new anti-lgbtq bill into law. but there has been some push back. the dutch prime minister says hungary has no place in the eu but others sea thaay that it is gross political mistake to interfere in other country's internal affairs. scott mcclain reports on all of this. >> reporter: on the banks of the danube river, the hungarian parliament was built more than a century ago. another era that some say is better suited for a bill that just passed inside of it. the bill that erodes gay rights passed with almost no objections inside the chamber

so, i know the pennsylvania legislature and those leopard legislators, very, very well. attorney general shapiro said it very well. we are at a moment of just trying to figure out whether we want to rely on punch ruth or lies. democracy is not about certainty. it's about possibility. so, what we have to decide is whether or not we will stand behind the truth, and search for the truth, as we did today with mr. mcgahn in front of the judiciary committee. or we allow these elected leaders, would be leaders, to continue the big lie. i reject the big lie. i think it is a extraordinarily dangerous if the pennsylvania republican legislators who went down to the arizona to take a look at the cyber ninjas fraud even and it. shame on them. sadly a fairly no no shame. >> professor glaude, i ethical the congressman sentiment. reading your material makes us all a whole lot smarter. this big lie thing, which a lot of people thought was done with our maybe behind us, isn't. today, vladimir putin actually commented on the insurrectionists. he said, these are not looters are thieves. the

serving in the pennsylvania house in his very seat for six and a half years, so i know the pennsylvania legislature and those legislators very, very well. attorney general shapiro said it very, very well. we're at a moment of just trying to figure out whether we want to rely upon truth or lies. you know, democracy is not about certainty, it's about possibility. and so what we have to decide is whether or not we will stand behind the truth and search for the truth, as we did today with mr. mcgahn in front of the judiciary committee, or we allow these elected leaders, would-be leaders, to continue the big lie. i reject the big lie. i just it's extraordinarily dangerous and for the pennsylvania republican legislators who went down arizona to take a look at the cyber ninja fraud of an audit, shame on them. sadly, i hear they know no shame. >> professor, i echo the congresswoman's sentiments. reading your material makes us a whole lot smarter. this big lie thing that people thought was behind us isn't. vladimir putin commented on the insurrectionists. he said these are not looters or thieves. these peop

. >> there's a delegation from pennsylvania coming to arizona to meet with our legislature. we'll probably see some action in pennsylvania. >> and in arizona senator shrugs her shoulders. >> i've long been a supporter of the filibuster because it is a tool that protects the democracy of our nation. >> tonight, growing fears over the unchecked republican red lays a shun against democracy. then president biden's direct shot at mansion and sinema, a big deal. plus, new reporting on january six protesters making the prototype the pilgrimage to mar-a-lago. and my exclusive interview with cdc director rochelle walensky, on president biden's new vaccination push. and the public responsibility to vaccinate the world. all in starts right now. >> good evening, i'm chris hayes. graduation season is over in phoenix, arizona. i guess where the backup? to hear, june 20th, 21st, recounted ballots from last year's election. republicans in the arizona state senate for subpoenaed those ballots back in december. ballots from just one county, mind you, maricopa. of course, maricopa is the divers

would have been black laws in the state of pennsylvania so as the territories are becoming states, it is kind of like a trend to introduce the state legislature racially restrictive laws and this comes to pennsylvania and the legislature starts to consider the law that would have done similar things to what they did in ohio, and the black-and-white community but he is at the forefront of protesting that and it's lengthy and it's just kind of a remarkable document but i thought it was interesting to see in the spread of these laws it was originally published in newspapers as a series in the newspapers illustrates both what's wrong morally with racist laws and why it is immoral to make distinctions based on race and also the practical and negative consequences is they are passed and he talks about corrupt officials to try to take advantage. they will see us as people that are vulnerable and people who really don't matter so it's this kind of amazing position explaining exactly.am >> robert has a follow-up to that. there are several questions i will read it. whatou are the sources of the racially discriminatory laws in the states was it sympathy

. >> a delegation from pennsylvania coming to arizona to meet with our legislature and hopefully we willction in pennsylvania. >> arizona senator shrugs her shoulders. >> i have long been a supporter of the filibuster because it is a tool that protects the democracy of the nation. >> growing fears over the unchecked republican radicalization against american democracy and why president biden's direct shot at manchin and sinema is a big deal and protest organizers making the pilgrimage to mar-a-lago and my exclusive interview on president biden's new vaccination push and our responsibility to vaccinate the world. all in starts right now. graduation season is over in phoenix, arizona. guess what they are back up to. veterans memorial coliseum june 20th and 21st recounting ballots from last year's elections. republicans in the arizona state senate subpoenaed those ballots in december. maricopa is the diverse home of the state's capitol that flipped for democrats in november and state republicans targeted maricopa county for this equal parts clownish undertaking. there is an entire ecosystem

the state of pennsylvania so as they are spreading from ohio to illinois, to indiana in the territories that are becoming states it's kind of a trend to introduce in the state legislature racially restrictive laws like the ones the western states had and this trend comes to pennsylvania and the legislature starts to consider the law like that that would have done similar things to what they did in ohio, and in philadelphia the black and white community, he's really at the forefront of protesting that and that's where his famous letters from the man of color comes from and if you know philadelphia history you're going to be familiar with that because it is one of the earlier kind of writings that we have and it's lengthy and it's just kind of a remarkable document, but i thought it was really interesting to see in the context of the spread of these anti-black laws and his pamphlet which was published in newspapers illustrates both what's wrong morally, why is it immoral to make the distinctions based on race and also the practical negative consequences on african-americans if the laws are passed and he talks about corrupt officials will try to take advantage of them. th

pennsylvania, to. so, that must be clouded somehow. or have suspicions cast on is somehow. the way they are trying our zone. there is republican state legislaturesnnsylvania came back home excited to try to mount the same sort of thing in their home state. obviously you'll be able to guess who else love the idea. the former president today, put out a statement praising those lawmakers by name. calling them great patriots. calling out other republican leaders in the pennsylvania state government, by name, demanding that they, to, agreed to start one of these fake audits. or fake recounts in pennsylvania. actually threatening their reelection prospects as republican state legislators, if they don't go along with his plan. pennsylvania's attorney general is a democrat named josh shapiro, he responded to this today by something that has the technical political term of calling bull puppy on it. he said today quote, donald trump lost the 2020 election. not only at the ballot box, but dozens of times in court quart. and his lies won't change. that if his he and his crew of dangerous harrisburg republicans try to pull this bs in pennsylvania again, they

elections in georgia, the very states where these things happened in georgia, pennsylvania, other states, their legislaturess thing and the state of texas is one of those to do this. unfortunately the democrats are playing partisanship and left. we haven't been able to get quorum. we see it on the federal level. hr-1. this is a democrat take over of the entire election process in our country. democrats in the various states want this implemented across the country. they don't want various states to make changes. jackie: it certainly would bolster their position and what you're saying makes a lot of sense. we could talk for hours about this. >> amen. jackie: we're out of time. great to see you tonight. >> thank you, jackie. god bless. jackie: god bless. coming up memorial day marked with deadly violence in many major american cities in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic. is this violence the new normal going forward? fox news contributor deroy murdock, he is here next. you're watching "the evening edit." >> we've got the take back our streets from the criminals. criminals are winning out here and it is all be

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about arizona event, that arizona potential crime scene has now hosted republican state legislatures from pennsylvania, nevada, alaska, colorado, repu this sort of thing. they want to essentially decertify the presidential election results in all of those states, or at least delegitimize those results with an eye towards pressing those results. they're trying to do it any way they can get their hands on the ballots and voting machines. we'll see if he says anything about enforcing the federal laws that are supposed to block that sort of mischief that we are seeing now in arizona that the republican party wants to take nationwide. on tomorrow night's show, we will have the gobsmacking story of a nonpartisan experiencd effective location elections official who was just run out of his job by this praying mob on the political right that's increasingly going after low-level non-partisan officials who won't go along with republican efforts to undo and overturn election results to benefit donald trump. so there's these huge international stakes in terms of standing up for democracy in the world. president bi

. >> there's a delegation from pennsylvania coming to arizona to meet with our legislature. some action in pennsylvania. >> and in arizona senator shrugs her shoulders. >> i've long been a supporter of the filibuster because it is a tool that protects the democracy of our nation. >> tonight, growing fears over the unchecked republican red lays a shun against democracy. then president biden's direct shot at mansion and sinema, a big deal. plus, new reporting on january six protesters making the prototype the pilgrimage to mar-a-lago. and my exclusive interview with cdc director rochelle walensky, on president biden's new vaccination push. and the public responsibility to vaccinate

and my state of oklahoma 7.5 but so is joe biden's state of delaware in pennsylvania minimum wage to be determined by the legislatures people those states to maken them competitive. >> west virginia, a republican. did i pronounce your named correctly? are right -- color, if you can hear me, turn down your television all right. are you there, color?ve i've got to move on. charlotte, florida. dependent. >> fast question, one of the vice presidential election? >> who want? joe biden, he's the president. >> the did you vote for the investigation of the insurrection of january 6? >> i did not. >> -- not. >> we had three investigation going on. this last week, one of the things most don't know is we set in hearings classified hearings democrats and republicans alike listen to the new acting sgt. in arms, new acting head of cattle police, national guard resource general, nancy pelosi and thed hearing, we are all in their as many as practical and those who weren't on the video, on virtual listening to all three of these police that replaced the ones who were fired. talk about lack ofn, communication, lack of information shar

voter participation among communities of color. republican lead state legislature in georgia, iowa, florida, arizona, texas, and pennsylvania past sweeping bills of indian voting rights and particularly targeting the poor minority community with razor thin margins in the house and the senate. the mid term just a year away. and the filibuster firmly in place, it's up to the bite ministration and moreover, congress to act. now, after all, what is the democracy? if voting rights don't exist for its citizens, while republicans and their democratic proxies. senators, jo, mansion and kristen cinema tirelessly work to maintain jim crow and white supremacy at all costs. civil rights advocates are backing down. notably black voters matter fund co founders, latasha brown and cliff albright board, a bus to kick off their voting rights tor across the american south. the black voters matter torque is an effort to fight voter restrictions, pressure, legislators, and increased voter registration drive and competitive phase. where congress is repeatedly dropping the ball on voting rights. the department of justice might be providing a need

and we made it because the republican legislatures in pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin refused toallots to be counted early. they were being pushed so we could know who the winner was election night. and we said, before the election, go get the tape, we said before the election by them doing this, this is going to allow them to drag out these states where trump may be able to keep it closer with early votes. and kristin's exactly right. if they had listened to a lot of election reformers, and if michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania would have -- if those republican-legislatures would have done what the democratic governors asked hem to do and others asked them to do by letting them count their absentee ballots early like ron desantis and other governors have in the past that biden won michigan by 10:00 that night, wisconsin probably by midnight, they would have known he won pennsylvania maybe by early the next morning. but they refused to do it despite the fact that we were warning them and other people were warning them that it was going to cause chaos. >> and that long count di

i'd served to i served as the clerk of the pennsylvania assembly while we were still colonies here in the later. i was elected to the colonial legislature for two terms. although i fell into disfavor as anyone who stays long enough does and was relieved of those duties and i'm grateful for that now, but it certainly brought me into contact with with a lot of people it's and it also made what it was more important to me was that it really being a printer from the age of 12 when i started as an apprentice to my brother. was the most monumental and contributory part of my life to who i would become i everything it first of all it gave me access. i mentioned my limited formal education two years being a printer gave me access to oh, i don't know. i perhaps what one might call an information highway. i don't know if that if i may use that term, but i was surrounded by books. i was printing books. i was publishing books. i was writing books. first of all, it it gave me my education. that and the travel i i engaged in later. it also made me enough money that i could that the the printing and the newspaper and more specifically that i could eng

legislature grounds? senator? i'm trying to talk to these pennsylvania state lawmakers who avoided us and local reporters all day.y're in phoenix, three republican pennsylvania lawmakers are touring the so-called audit of merorocco pa county. why would these pennsylvanians care about what is happening in arizona? one of the non-partisan observers for arizona secretary of state believes it to spread the big lie. >> probably going to be the entities behind a push to continue to sew debt in pennsylvania and fund raise around this event. >> reporter: the most prominent of the pennsylvania lawmakers, republican state senator walking here on the floor and pictured here at the u.s. capitol on january 6th with former pennsylvania state remem representative rick. he helped organize a bus tour for donald trump supporters to travel from pennsylvania to washington to attend trump's rally protesting the election results. as rioters stormed the capitol, he says he had already left the grounds saying in a statement that he was not involved in any violence and peacefully followed capitol police orders to not cross any police lin

legislature grounds? >> senator? >> reporter: i'm trying to talk to these pennsylvania state lawmakers who avoided us and local reportersthis is why they're in phoenix, three republican pennsylvania lawmakers are touring the so-called audit of maricopa county's 2020 election. a partisan effort led by the republican controlled arizona senate. why would those pennsylvanians care about what's happening in arizona? one of the nonpartisan observers for arizona's secretary of state believes it's to spread the big lie. >> they are probably going to be the entities that are behind a push to continue to sow doubt in pennsylvania and to continue to fund raise around this event. >> reporter: the most prominent of the pennsylvania lawmakers, republican state senator doug mustriano walking here on the floor and pictured here at the u.s. capitol on january 6th with former pennsylvania state representative rick cicone. he reportedly helped organize a bus tour for donald trump supporters to travel from pennsylvania to washington to attend trump's rally protesting the election results. as rioters stormed the capitol he says he had alrea

last time only because georgia voters and arizona voters, pennsylvania voters, and others, voted for joe biden. but if the republican legislatures in georgia and arizona and other states are able to rig the next election, the votes of california voters, biggest state in the union, those votes will be denied the victory that they deserve in the presidential election by those state legislatures and those other states that are far away from california. like georgia where stacey abrams has been working on this issue for years. tonight she joined our first guest beto o'rourke on instagram and made the point that the republican attack on voting rights is an attack on every voter in every state. >> we've got to amplify this so this is a national conversation. they are successful when they convince us it is parochial, only happening to some people. it's only happening in the south. it's only happening to black people. no. this is happening to all of us. we all have to be heard. we are the power. it is not hyperbole. this is not idealism. we have to create such a clamor that to do otherwise, to do anything other than save our democracy f

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pennsylvania who feel this bill is not extreme enough. it's not exactly smooth sailing within the republican-controlled legislature. >> dianne gallagher, thank. >>> on capitol hill, bipartisan talks on prosecuting officers. lauren fox joins us. tim scott, cory booker, karen bass have been optimistic in the last few weeks. has that changed? >> reporter: poppy, they have set really a june deadline for themselves, hoping they can wrap these negotiations which have gone on for months now in the next couple of weeks. they are stuck on a key question of whether or not to change the standards in which you can charge a police officer with a crime. what they're arguing about here is known as section 242. it's important because a lot of republicans argue they thought democrats and republicans in these negotiations had decided to set this issue aside in hopes that they might be able to work through other issues like qualified immunity which basically means that you cannot currently charge a police officer in civil court. there had been kind of an agreement that was introduced by senator tim scott that what you might be able to do is charge the police d

leadership of the republican party here in pennsylvania, at least those who aspire to statewide office, and those who still have the power within the legislatureell you that donald trump's conduct here is highly unethical but that's nothing new for the former president. it would be unbelievably unethical for a lawmaker who takes an oath of office not just to the constitution of the united states but also the constitution of the commonwealth of pennsylvania, to use their authority as a lawmaker to carry out donald trump's wishes, to try and perpetuate the big lie and to do so not just on the taxpayers' dime but on the taxpayers' time. this election was won by joe biden. it was lost by donald trump here in pennsylvania. and rachel, we've already had two legitimate audits. audits that comported with the laws here in pennsylvania and audits that showed the results that i said before. if they were to go forward with this sham audit, they would have to go through me. they will not succeed. and they will be violating their oath of office and i believe also committing some very serious unethical conduct. >> pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro,

legislatures. >> in arizona a highly controversial ballot audit is still taking place in maricopa county. it's apparently more than 50% complete, we're told. and today three pennsylvania state lawmakers are visiting to see how that bogus audit works firsthand. they say no taxpayer dollars are being used for their trip, but it is worth noting, one of the lawmakers, state senator also chartered a bus to take his constituents to the capitol on january 6th for that attack, according to local media. he even posed for photos with some in the crowd. he says he never went inside the capitol and never did anything unlawful. let's discuss all of this. we have latasha brown, co-founder of black voters matter and max boot is senior fellow on council of foreign relations. >> he just wrote a new paper. max, you start out by saying that -- you build out this narrative where you say that there is now starting the steal. we've heard stop the steal, starting the steal. explain why. >> well, you have to put the dots together and you have to ask yourself why are republicans passing legislation to restrict the franchise? they already passed those bills in 14 states and in 18 other states

in march 2012 pennsylvania's then republican governor signed into law a bill passed by our legislature which at the time was all republican, which mandated voters provide certain types of identification each time they voted. so it imposed strict new restrictions on the types of eligible identification. under this new law, the lead plaintiff in the case which ultimately succeeded in overturning that law was vivian applewhite, a 92-year-old african-american woman who had voted in every election since 1960. she would have been unable to cast her ballot in 2012 despite having worked for our country as a welder during world war ii, marched with dr. martin luther king. she did not at age 92 have a valid driver's license and at the age of 92 lacked access to her birth ser cat. her story was the same others who lacked the types of id which was newly required. in fact, expert testimony at the trial established that more than half a million or more than 6% of pennsylvania's registered voters lacked the types of id required by the new law, and for context, the number of voters who would have been

legislature. being the air and boy for donald trump is not a legitimate legislative purpose. >> all right. that said, the push for an audit in pennsylvania out the audit taking place there firsthand. tom laymon from wgal takes a closer look. >> reporter: talking about the arizona audit he toured with senator chris disturb and representative rob kauffman. a visit he said was not paid for by taxpayers and one he discussed on facebook live. >> they have microscopes and lights and, you know, the camera takes a picture at an angle so you can see if the spots were filled in were by human or machine. >> reporter: that was authorized by arizona lawmakers and is being conducted by a private company. that has come under criticism from local and state officials in arizona over concerns about partisanship and security. pennsylvania governor tom wolf and a.g. josh sthapiro blasted the lawmaker's trip with wolf saying they were chasing conspiracy theories on a settled presidential race. an audit would be transparent. >> the arizona model is the one. >> tom laymon from our nbc affiliate dm lancaster, pennsylvania. >>> this morning the largest ever cryp

pennsylvania had the interesting experience of having, for the first time, universal mail-in ballots available. our republican legislature with support from democrats passed a law in october of 2019, pre-pandemic, passing a law that for the first time allowed no excuse mail-in voting. millions of pennsylvanians took advantage of that during the pandemic. obviously that graded some issues, we had not had that access before. many of our counties were not prepared for that. but as mr. davis suggested, they performed admirably and with great integrity in meeting the challenges of the day. can you speak about how having access to early and no excuse mail-in voting can help address issues of lines and polling places? dr. pettigrew:certainly. as you noted, pennsylvania was one of many states that provided voters with more opportunity to vote by mail. what's interesting to 2020 is that we had a turnout that was higher than we have ever had. but the number of people who voted in person nationwide was a lot smaller than it had been in any election since 2008. we have about 15 or 20 million people fewer voting in person than 2016 a

pennsylvania, in texas. the list goes on. we are not in the land of simple peddling disinformation now. we are in a master class now. republican-controlled state legislaturestions and punishing election officials to manufacture their preferred outcome. joining me, jocelyn benson, michigan's secretary of state, author of "state's secretaries of state, guardians of the democratic process." also with me kim wailie who wrote a book "what you need to know about voting and why." good morning to both of you. thank you for being with us. secretary bensen, i want to start with you. i was having what i thought was a normal conversation with somebody about these sham audits and recounts that are going on, and he said to me, but shouldn't we want to make sure the system is as safe as it can be? so i started studying instances of voter fraud in the 2020 election. i'm coming out with numbers like 0.002 in mail-in ballot fraud. here in pennsylvania, the lieutenant governor here i think found five instances of trump people voting twice. the attorney general of texas put out a bounty for anybody that can find voter fraud and hasn't been able to pay out the bounty right now

legislatures are pushing back and overriding democratic run cities on everything from lockdowns to voting rolls to defunding the police. we have seen that in florida georgia texas montana wisconsin pennsylvaniaed to allow local governments to have control over local issues. that's been exacerbated by the pandemic and now you were seeing republican governors push mayors aside and say let the policies you're putting forward the far left policies with its defunding the police are arbitrary lockdowns is not only hurting public safety in your city that is hurting our entire state and the economic livelihood. i see this trend continuing. liz: we have an interesting development happening outside of atlanta georgia with the town. they are saying we want to split away from atlanta. we want to have our own police force because we are seeing atlanta crime skyrocketing. you are talking about a 63% in treason murder and assaults are up about one third. we are seeing local parent thing we do want to have anything to dore with the cities. >> that's exactly right and when you talk about public safety the year-over-year crime increases and we have seen it in atlanta and the other in understaffed resources at

legislatures are pushing back, reversing, overriding democrat-run cities and their decisions on everything from lock downs to voting rules to defund the police. you have seen that in florida, georgia, texas, montana, wisconsin, pennsylvaniaernments to have control over local issues. that has been exacerbated by the pandemic. now you're seeing republican governors push the mayors aside, look, the policies that you're putting forward, the far left policies, whether defund the police or arbitrary lockdowns is not only hurting the public safety of your city but it is hurting our entire state as well as the economic livelihood. so i see this trend continuing. elizabeth: okay. so we got an interesting development happening outside of atlanta, georgia with a town called buckhead city. they're saying you know what? we want to split away from atlanta. we want our own police force because we're seeing atlanta crime skyrocketing. they're talking about a 63% increase in murder. rapes are doubling. psalms are up nearly, about a third. so -- assaults are doubling up about a third. local towns are saying we don't want anything to do with these cities. >> that is exactly right, emac. when you talk about public safety and year-over-year

pennsylvania. >> michigan. >> michigan. we have a stolen election. neither bill, the lewis bill or this bill, addresses that. a state legislaturee were three human beings away from having that happen. i don't want to be a party pooper. we're stepping in the right direction. the big scary thing in the room is still not being dealt with. >> to come back to where we all started, the federal legislation is like the vaccine. it undermines all the state laws, that it trumps all these state laws. the fact that that's in the state laws, the federal legislation, in whatever form can be passed -- i agree with eddie. this is where having been -- this is existential to them. they don't give a bleep about a bridge. they don't care if you get your vaccine. cvs will have it. they don't care about anything except rigging the electorate so they can win elections. eddie, claire, nick -- and donny. >> you can take my seat. i'm not going. >> no one is going anywhere. when we return a brandt new interview with the partner of fallen capitol police officer brian sicknick. she said she was snubbed by republicans -- just the latest blow to the image of

this cult of personality of donald trump, republican state legislature are passing these bills that are very trumpian in places like pennsylvania, florida, georgia. and it's not just with more restrictive voting rights. it's across the board with school curriculum, as we're seeing among other things. the party is passing these trumpian laws, even though these folks aren't in congress. >> up and down, which actually, at the end of the day, and we've seen this. it's not that it matters jim vandehei, but we've seen this in the past, i don't know what year it was, maybe in 2010, new hampshire republicans took over the state legislature. i think it was 2010. they darted way right on a bunch of ideological issues. they lost it two years later. the fact, what alexi said is true. the fact that a lot of the state legislatures are darting that way, in certain states, it's going to end up costing them. i mean, nobody will listen, but it will end up costing republicans, not just in d.c., but if they are nationalizing this on a state level, too, they're going to start losing all of those legislatures they picked up during the obama era. >>,

pennsylvania and the last election cycle at the interesting experience of having for the first time universal mail-in ballots available. our republican legislaturepassed also with support from democrats a law in october 2019 pre-pandemic that for the first time allowed no excuses mail-in voting, and billions of pennsylvanians took advantage of that during the pandemic obviously that created some issues because we had not had that access before, and many counties were not quite prepared for that, but they performed admirably and with great integrity and meeting the challenges of the day. can you speak about how having access to early and no excuses mail-in voting can help address issues of lines at polling places? dr. pettigrew: certainly, pennsylvania was one of many states the provided voters more opportunities to vote by mail. it is interesting about 2020, we had a turnout higher than we ever have before, but the number of people who voted in person nature wide was actually a lot smaller -- nationwide was actually a lot smaller. we had 15 million or 20 million fewer voting in person in 2020 then in 2016 and a lot of that is attributable to mai

election and efforts by state legislatures to laws inspired by conspiracy theories and lies about election fraud. russian disinformation is a concern for the commonwealth of pennsylvania. our election system and our electoral college votes have been attacked repeatedly by russian agents and their domestic proxies, spreading up again and lies. the fact and extent of those attacks has been detailed by multiple judicial, law-enforcement, intelligence, and bipartisan investigations, including the special counsel's report in 2018, the indictment of more than a dozen russian agents, and the national intelligence council's report on foreign threats to the 2020 election. since this propaganda appears to have motivated people to participate in the stop the steal rally and the attack on the capital and motivates efforts to make it harder to vote, i would like to direct your testimony to the long-standing russian efforts to undermine american confidence in our elections. i would like to get one thing off the table, the difference between election interference and election influence. referring to your prior testimony and the national intelligence council's report, election interf

election and efforts by state legislatures to laws inspired by conspiracy theories and lies about election fraud. russian disinformation is a concern for the commonwealth of pennsylvania. our election system and our electoral college votes have been attacked repeatedly by russian agents and their domestic proxies, spreading up again and lies. the fact and extent of those attacks has been detailed by multiple judicial, law-enforcement, intelligence, and bipartisan investigations, including the special counsel's report in 2018, the indictment of more than a dozen russian agents, and the national intelligence council's report on foreign threats to the 2020 election. since this propaganda appears to have motivated people to participate in the stop the steal rally and the attack on the capital and motivates efforts to make it harder to vote, i would like to direct your testimony to the long-standing russian efforts to undermine american confidence in our elections. i would like to get one thing off the table, the difference between election interference and election influence. referring to your prior testimony and the national intelligence council's report, election interf

president, act 77 was passed in 2019 by the pennsylvania state legislature when republicans held the majority in both houses. among other voting reforms, the bill provided for no excuse absentee voting and extended registration deadlines. at the time republicans in the state legislature were operating under the assumption that mail-in voting would boost participation among seniors who tend to lean republican. every single republican state senator voted for the bill. in the statehouse, 105 pennsylvania republicans voted for the bill and two voted no. that was 2019. fast forward one year later, donald trump, fresh off a resounding loss in the 2020 presidential election, cried foul and lied, lied that the election was stolen from him like a petulant child. one of his favorite bugaboos, as we all know, is mail-in voting. so a little over a year after 132 pennsylvania republicans voted for act 77 with only two against, they introduced a bill to -- you guessed it -- repeal act 77. a law that republicans passed while they were in the majority just a year before. mr. president, there is a ro