i interviewed stacy abrams the other day. i don't want to be too cute about this but donald trump is no stacy abrams. what happened in georgia was a more defensible post-election non-concession in terms of -- >> the margin was larger. >> i think it's fair the o point it out but i do want to call a little false equivalence on what trump is doing in trying to delegitimatize the incoming president and not honoring him with a smooth transition during a crisis. we saw this in 2000. the 9/11 commission argued the mess up transition that year because of the recount gave the bush team -- did not allow the bush team enough time to organize themselves and departments tadidn't take the tlehreat of terrorism. it's the scale of completely not honoring a presidential election result and cripple iing, as day turn into weeks the incoming president's transition in the middle of multiple crisis. >> it's not just one state. biden flipped georgia. biden flipped arizona. he won the rust belt and ultimately cnn projects he won 306 electoral votes.

stacy abrams is calling for people to move to georgia to ti the balance of power in the u.s senate. because of the arena in georgia i would push back because we're going to change the supreme court from conservative to liberal, or going to do away with the electoral college. >> but that 30 days before the election they can votes and the when the votes over they can move out. that's what they're telling people to do? >> literally. please, for god sake, look at changing georgia law to neutralize what stevie stacy abrams is trying to dupree chee is going to send in hundreds of thousands of mail in ballots fo it all and asking is to have a bipartisan group of people verify the signature, not a single person. when it comes to moving to georgia have allowed the you can't have been for the purpose of taking and then move out. you have a chance to change the law, change it. >> you had twitter, facebook. >> they have the most power in the history of mankind, they ca all conspire to tell us what we can see. they can mold how we think. they have no legal liability, they can take down your cont

. >> those are not stacy abrams' ballots. georgia is going to turn out for this because they don't want a socialist america. they know everything that is at stake and that's exactly what the president has fought for the last four years and the president f himself has encourad georgians to get out and vote for david purdue and myself, because we he are standing between america's future and socialism. we are going to stop it right here. and i need all georgians, i need all americans to get involved, to visit kellyforsenate.com, to chip in, to get involved, to volunteer. because we are going to hold the line right here in georgia. we are not going to give up the fight right now. maria: all right. let me ask you about what's taken place so far in terms of affecting this vote. we heard from andrew yang who said my wife and i are moving to jar gentleman, we want to help the democrats in the runoff race. tom freedman from the new york times encouraging people to move to georgia and then there's all this money coming in, senator. wha

>> stacy abrams, lies, lies, lies.nnell has been detected should in terms of making sure the senate operates appropriately. he's been a lot of republicans -- the interesting thing, this georgia race, the polls are almost split when it comes to the two candidates and will sign up very soon and considering that this particular democratic nominee relied on black support, support from young folks, that support usually drops down when it comes to non-presidential races. that will be an interesting dilemma not to mention the fact republicans are very concerned especially with widespread claims of voter irregularities in the presidential race, there's no way for the republican voter in the state of georgia isn't going to come out to protect the republican senate which every republican should be doing. shannon: chuck schumer who was hoping to change to majority leader if you can said this weekend, we change georgia and we change america and we heard alexandria ocasio cortez say we have to whinnies senate seat so we don't have

that's the beauty of the work that we've been doing on the ground, joy, like when people talk about stacy abramst stacy has said time and time again, this is not about one person, one candidate or one election cycle, it's about giving the power back to people who felt unheard and unseen for far too long. and so this is the way that we get people back out to vote. showing them their power and that's what we've been able to do, especially when georgia is finally called in the blue column and we can show them that they decided their president and i and they can also decide the balance of the senate. >> we're all going to do a little -- fund raise and send stacy a cape, she needs a full cape, she's ha superhero. thank you. we are approaching, now, the top of the 8:00 hour here on the east coast. four critical states, pennsylvania, georgia, arizona, nevada all still officially too close to call. all in with chris hayes is up and here he is, is he going to pop into the box? >> i'm here. >> chris, i don't see you, i only see me. there you go, chris hayes, take it away, my friend. >> thank you, joy, ver

out the vote and one of the people who is really responsible for that in the state of georgia is stacy abrams who was the 1st african-american woman to be a nominee for a gubernatorial ticket and a lot of people believe that she did not win because it was clear because it was a result of voter suppression so there was this groundswell of people and on the ground activity i say that because this shows how the democrats are lacking in a ground game now they're able to benefit because of what stacy abrams said not so much about what they've done on the ground and they've been suffering a little bit with the african-american vote which has always been a stronghold and it still is i mean that's why we're seeing so many votes come in and support of joe biden but here's the thing. if you're african-american and you voted for the democrats your entire life you start to wonder what are you getting out of it and is there any difference between a party that tries to suppress your vote and a party that lives or exaggerates to get your vote and so if you feel like both parties are the same or poor people

al gore and stacy abrams just to name two from recent memory. your reaction?he new york times" really hasn't learned. they had all of these hysterical warnings about donald trump in 2016 putting on the front page and analysis articles saying maybe it was time to throw out the traditional standards of journalism because this guy might start a nuclear war and here we are four years later and they are comparing him to these dictators. it's appalling, but we've kind of come to expect it. >> harris: pulitzer prize-winning journalist judy miller, your take. >> formerly at "the new york times." >> harris: the list gets longer depending on which way you like to say it. >> the times has clearly gone over the top here even though if you act like a dictator and undermine democratic institutions, you lay yourself open to be accused of being a dictator but i think joe biden has the right approach here, the country right now needs a civil and dignified debate, donald trump donald trump needs to accept political reality and we need to enter this transiti transition, neither

that is from stacy abrams last year who ran for governor in georgia and did not win was the atlantic those just because an election legal doesn't mean it is legitimate. she continues to be celebrated for refusing to concede the race formally and yet currently donald trump is not even a week into his legal battles and our calls for him to man up and do what is right for the country and stop fighting. >> one of the things the media forgets is they do not select the president of the united states, the american people elect the president of the united states and in 2000, al gore spent 37 days exhausting every option and donald trump should also exhaust all options that are available to him. he's doing this to make certain that the votes that are legal are counted, that illegal votes are tossed out and the american people can have confidence that this election was properly run, the votes were properly cast and counted. the president -- i will tell you i'm very pleased that ag bar is beginning to look at the irregularities and anyone who was disenfranchised or anyone -- go to the donald tr

stacy abrams. she lost the governor race in 2018.o get people registered to vote. as of monday, abrams' group called fair fight action raised 6 million there are for ossoff. that number has likely grown. joe biden was able to flip a likely southern state and much of that credit has to go to stacy abrams and tireless voter outrea outreach work in georgia. the work is not done. joe biden will take a coronavirus approach backed by asscientists scientists. we'll have more on that when i come back. we'll have more on that when i come back. you work hard for your money. stretched days for it. juggled life for it. took charge for it. so care for it. look after it. invest with the expertise of j.p. morgan, either with an advisor or online, through chase. after all, it's yours. chase. make more of what's yours. my husband would have been on the sidelines. but not anymore! an alternative to pills voltaren is the first full prescription strength non-steroidal anti-inflammatory gel to target pain directly at the source for powerful arthritis pai

[cheering] and to be back in georgia good to be with my friend stacy abrams.e hear it for stacey abrams? [cheering] i was talking to stacy and i said, look at where we are, georgia. look at where we are and where you have been and what you have been doing. organizing and mobilizing and getting folks registered to vote. early voting is now over, but we want to remind everybody they can drop off their balance in the drop boxes. we want to make sure they are doing that through 7:00 p.m. on election day. abrams iyin santa stacey was so thankful to her -- saying to stacey abrams i was thankful for her to fight for georgians and the right to vote, which she has been doing for years. fight with a good thankless energy that she keeps giving. all that we are looking to now in terms of georgia and the prospect of what we might accomplish in this state, in large part we have to say, thank you, stacey abrams, for the work you have done. [cheering and applause] thank lucy mcbath. [cheering] we have got to get her reelected. mcbath itlected lucy made a real statement about

across london is calling it the stacy abrams effect how much credit should go to her for turning the state blue or explode. so she gets a good amount of credit as she should because the last couple of years this get out the vote effort has been huge but really it was her gubernatorial run in 28 which really helped the this shift but this is been this has been happening here in georgia for a little bit especially in the urban areas atlanta so vanna columbus what you're seeing here is these areas have been shipped exits about 2014 when the gubernatorial races so it's not jason carter was very close and to unseating the republican governor and then again abrams herself keeping so close to 20 so that since this is the been an ongoing trend but abrams really pushed it over the top so by the campaign to be very happy here in georgia i mean democrats have carried the state since 992 will there be some soul searching going on for the republican party . absolutely what they kind of counted on the state for a while it's servant of state but the shifting demographics of the state and the growth

but this year black voters turned out in force and that's in largest thanks to one person that's stacy abrams she not only lost the race to become governor 2 years ago by just 55000 votes she accused republicans of widespread voter suppression doing everything they could to purge black voters from the rolls and battle civil rights groups and court over ballot access so instead of running for senate abram's instead got to work fighting those efforts her organization registered approximately 800000 that georgia residents to vote. well tony what canst from the new georgia action fund the community group engages with under represented communities in the state says that there are many reasons behind the high voter turnout this year well i think 2020 has really has been a voting motivator in and of itself we see a lot of things is really coming to coming to their breaking point we see protesting in the street because we see people dying on television every day that look like us and we're tired of it we're tired of a criminal justice system that treats our people and fairly black and brown and immig

and i'd like to give a shout out to stacy abrams what she did in georgia. the interesting thing is that for the 1st time, these progressives are not afraid to work for u.s. national interests. and that means challenging the israel, the right to israel, so occupied palestine. and they have proven that this is not all the elect electoral suicide that they have won by being able to say we are no longer supporting the israeli occupation, we can set forth and then continue to get elected under fortunately, the palestinian authority is, as i suspect, force of the p.l.o. or some joint think among the palestinian people. and that's why i think it needs to move towards a completely against the security cooperation. i find it useless to me. is joe biden, who you should eat when he wants to talk with the palestinians? first of all, i mean what joe biden can do is there's quite a few things that joe biden could make very easy, very great changes, which he can do, which will strive towards, shall we say, to correcting all of the wrongs committed by the trumpet. but a st

black lives activist and writer cherrell brown is based in atlanta, georgia, where politician stacy abrams is credited with delivering hundreds of thousands of votes for the democratic party. >> there will be a number of articles that praise abrams, that praise black and brown voters, but whether that translates into actual material benefits for those same communities is still the question. >> reporter: brown recently wrote an article for "essence gazine," where she argues biden's proposals for addressing anti-black state violence aren't radical enough. >> the right has done this really wonderful job, actually, of painting president elect biden and vice president elect kamala as this very anti-cop, socialist ticket. but nothing could be further from the truth. biden and harris both support giving more money to police for things like police training around anti-bias or to diversify the force. >> reporter: according to the american election eve poll 2020, which surveyed more than 15,000 registered voters, black voters named discrimination and racial justice as the second most important issue

democratic candidate for governor in georgia, stacy abrams lost by 55000 votes. she didn't like the outcome. she thought it was stolen, but the regularity she never conceded, it didn't matter. it's so if trump doesn't want to concede, if he doesn't want to go to the inauguration, he could be a child. and that's unfortunate, but that, that doesn't, doesn't stop biden from become president, by the way. doesn't stop trump from running in 2024. that's as a clinician, you know, that's right. maybe we'll be talking about it in the foreseeable future. ian bremmer, president of the reason it is always the precinct your insides. thank you. britain's conservative government has just approved a new road tunnel that would run directly past one of the world's best known ancient monuments. stonehenge, the 3 kilometer long underground highway would replace the congested road next to stonehenge. but that plan collides with warnings by britain's planning inspectorate, which says the prehistoric site could suffer quote, permanent and irreversible harm. unlike any in stonehenge is

decides he doesn't want to conceive, you know, what democratic candidate for governor in georgia, stacy abrams lost by 55000 votes. she didn't like the outcome. she thought it was stolen, but the regularity she never conceded. it didn't matter just so. if trump doesn't want to concede, if he doesn't want to go to the inauguration, he could be a child. and that's unfortunate. but that doesn't, doesn't stop biden from become president, by the way. doesn't stop trump from running in 2024 that's at the nation. you know, that's right. maybe we'll be talking about in the foreseeable future. ian bremmer, president of the reason professor it is always be appreciate your insights. thank you. 3rd. britain's conservative government has just approved a new road tunnel that would run directly past one of the world's best known ancient monuments. stonehenge, the 3 kilometer long underground highway would replace the congested road next to stonehenge. but that plan collides with warnings by britain's planning inspectorate, which says the prehistoric site could suffer quote, permanent and irreversible harm. u

the vote by mail was huge, and there are a lot of thank yous from democrats for stacy abrams, who after running for governor, turned her attention to fighting for voter suppression. the demographic areas leading the shift, larger and more black and hispanic than it was just a few years ago. >> steve joins us now from atlanta. as we reported, this is likely headed to a recount. when should we expect final numbers there? i know i ask this every night. hard to answer. secondly, the democrats gaining ground overnight, but also in the senate races there. it looks like both georgia senate races could head to a runoff? >> reporter: that's right, david. on the final numbers the answer is a little bit messy. the secretary of state says he hopes to have more final numbers by tomorrow, but this is a seriously close race where every vote counts, and for example, there are 8,400 military and overseas ballots that are possible. we don't know how many made the deadline. could be zero, could be 8,000. we just don't know. as far as the senate, those two races are headed to a runoff, that will be in janu

joe biden is going to have to see who supported him who helped carry him over the finish line stacy abrams did it practically singlehandedly in georgia we can talk about that later but to galvanize the black vote there georgia should not be in play in any other reality but in 2020 because she was able to galvanize so much of the black vote and get people yet to actually say ok i'm not giving up on this process i'm going to fight more for democracy this is this put him in play same in arizona nevada with other with not only black voters but also brown voters and voters prop. also seeing him as the vice president of barack obama and his historic presidency and i continuation of that continuation of what they knew from that and you think bringing camila harris on to the ticket did speak to both black voters and south asian voters in the way that they hoped it would i think also the fact that she's a woman. yes i mean if we can just stop to think about it for a 2nd it's 2020 we have never had a woman and such a powerful position before i think that that did speak to a lot of people representat

democrats have spent a lot of time in a lot of money in georgia you'll remember a woman by the name of stacy abrams she ran for governor 2 years ago when she lost very not only she decided that she was going to essentially marshal a get out the vote operation in georgia and in other states but particularly in georgia with an eye towards the 2028 presidential election and it looks as if that me what because we are seeing a large increase particularly in some republican areas but a lot in the likes of atlanta all of that democratic vote and that could be what joe biden needs to push him over the edge if he wins a georgia it's all over there is no other path to 274 donald trump that doesn't include georgia so you see why it's important big given that the lead is less than a 1000 it's almost certainly going to mean it's almost certainly going to mean legal action as well so he could well end up in the next couple of hours being declared the winner in georgia but that doesn't mean to see that that will make him the president elect here's another reason why the biden campaign desperately wants to do well

how and there's a lot of discussion in democratic circles today about what i'm going to call the stacy abrams effect who is she so she was considered a possible running mate for biden she's the 1st black woman to get the democratic nomination for governor in the state of georgia she ran in 2018 it was a very close race and afterward she cited what she said were instances of voter suppression but even before that it's been almost a decade of abram's working to engage communities of color to get them to register to vote by one estimate i read that she and her 2 nonprofits were able to register 800000 new voters she's also put a spotlight on voter suppression and has been very aggressive inviting voter suppression in the state of georgia so that might give you a bigger picture about why biden is a contender in the state but right now the secretary of state has said that there will be a recount he said that even before of course the tally had been completed he said the implications are huge for the rest of the country it's important to note that the secretary of state says there are no as far as

senator: stacy abrams made a lot of claims about georgia. biggest claims were that she was against our governor brian kemp. it's interesting to me when they talk about voter suppression is when they lose. the issue that they didn't have the turnout that they looked at. georgia is not working because since 2014 the actual increase in minority participation in our voting elections have actually increased many times over 20%, so people are voting in georgia. we are trying to make sure what they are voting or others are actually getting is a true legal count but you're not having people vote outside the county or people that moved away or not legal residents. those are the things that we saw a lot of ander getting reports every day. inboxs are full 3 to 4 days people after they see this, wait, this wasn't supposed to happen. why was i said that i voted absentee when i didn't get a ballot. maria: it looks like those are questions that attorney general barr is asking. ag sending memo authorizing prosecutors to investigate specific allegations of v

stacy abrams has already raised $6 million for the dems.ader chuck schumer hitting on them for calling on the secretary of state to resign. >> they allege the secretary of state did not deliver honest and transparent elections, stunning charge in the united states of america. the kind of thing you hear about in banana republics and dishonest elections. >> calling for a manual recount in georgia, republicans warn of a radical socialist agenda if they lose. >> earlier this year the secretary of state agreed to send an application for a ballot to every registered voter whether they wanted one or not. >> mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer will retain their leadership roles regardless which way the balance of power leans. jillian: joining us to react, young americans for liberty analyst kristin tate. you just heard marianne's piece. explain what's going on in georgia because that used to be a solidly red state and it is becoming more liberal. should republicans be concerned? >> republicans can't get too comfortable about georgia. it has rapidly c

like stacy abrams who claimed the race was stolen for her.he started fair fight to fight for more people to be registered to vote and a legal strategy to challenge certain votes, i think she did a great job with it. that's the only reason georgia is in play. people don't listen to what is happening on the ground. i went to georgia half a dozen times over this election. i saw the shift on the ground. i warned people -- people say this is a solid red state. it feels different on the ground. when i talked to people also, it's different since the presidential race. people like the theory of divided government. they don't like the royal flush giving joe biden the ability to ram whatever legislation he wants in. there is some concern of rising taxes. the fact that the allegation of potentially packing the court. as well as the green new deal in energy legislation that would hurt them. all of that is going to be in play. >> harris: when you say the threat of racing taxes, i think it's the inevitability. we will ask our democrat marie? >> joe biden w

they do have confidence in georgia because of what stacie abrams managed to achieve for running. very recently she lost by 55,000 votes. and so really pushing that state into a new kind of electorate. they have a sunbelt confidence they say we can bins win without the big four. >> the questions today seemed to be about what's going to happen with the cuban-american vote, which clearly and traditionally leans republicans, versus an african-american vote that didn't come out in the numbers that they had hoped in 2016 on the democratic side. >> and did not come out in 2018. they thought they could fix it and energize the voting coalition that hillary clinton did not. in 2018 republicans won in mid term statewide at senate gubernatorial levels that has been an area where the rnc, trump campaign and trump aligned super pacs have been on the ground paying attention to every kind of voter they could reach, even storm survivors from puerto rico, ingratiating themselves with the cuban voters who came out very strongly in 2018 but are very energized now of the issue they've been messaging

the democrats do manage to flip that state this year you can expect a lot of the credit to go to stacy abrams she is a former state politician she narrowly lost her race for governor in 2018 and there were allegations of voter suppression in that election that targeted minority communities basically the black community which is more than 30 percent of the population in georgia so off that election stacey abrams made a personal mission to start a real voter registration drive in georgia registering reportedly about 800000 new voters so if the democrats win that state that could be down to richard walker thank you so much for that perspective. now let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world almost 200 people are dead or missing after. the storm. the rescuing people stranded by floodwaters and landslides has now been downgraded but forecasters expect it to regain strength as it crosses the caribbean this weekend. water cannon the demonstration. the latest in an ongoing social unrest movement has been demanding reforms that the pension health care and education system. fo

>> reporter: we got a preview a couple years ago when we had a gubernatorial race, stacy abrams losing by a very narrow margin and you could see georgia may be trending in that direction. the reason we are seeing joe biden take a small lead is because predominately votes are coming in from urban areas around the atlanta area. we see that in philadelphia. as far as pennsylvania is concerned with trump, these late votes all breaking for biden and obviously if joe biden captures georgia he captures the presidency but since these votes are so close in pennsylvania, in georgia, in north carolina and wisconsin they will have recounts. we will have a winner in terms of biden perhaps, these recounts will extend the final final confirmation of that for weeks or even when you are sitting around for christmas dinner. jillian: the last updated information there were still ballots to be counted in georgia. we are in no way saying joe biden has won georgia, he has taken the lead and a slim lead at that. to that point to this conversation why do you think this is happening? there are states in this c

i interviewed stacy abrams in georgia and she is making the point that not only that biden chose kamalaut that all of the finalists were women of color, and i did not think of it, but how important it was to leader abrams that she had a meeting with the vice president biden of the type of leader that she would like to see. >> and i don't mean to cut you off, but we are unrunning up to a hard break. and so, thank you all very much. at university of phoenix, students with relevant life experience and eligible transfer credits save on average $11k and 1 year off their undergrad degree. see how much you can save. it's our sharpest ever, and while some other companies would charge more for something new, we don't. because why be like everyone else? harry's. not the same. my psorii had enough!s pain? because why be like everyone else? it's not getting in my way. joint pain, swelling, tenderness...much better. my psoriasis, clearer... cosentyx works on all of this. four years and counting. so watch out. i got this! watch me. real people with active psoriatic arthritis look and feel better with

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stacy abram ran for governor, she won by a nine-point margin. now we're seeing joe biden win this about a 14-point margin. mitt romney won the county in 2012, the republican, by 12 points. so we have seen a plus 12 for republicans turn into a 14-point victory for democrats in just eight years. that's an incredible change. >> reporter: thank you so much, jackie. again, cobb county previously this part of the county represented by newt gingrich, a very different story today, but they folks still know that it's going to be a very tough fight for those runoffs. fred? >> thank you. >>> andrew yang says he has a lot of confident in those races. that's why he's moving to georgia? we're going to talk to him about his plan, next. - [announcer] we're thrive causemetics, we create high performance, cruelty free, 100% vegan formulas and we love that you love our products. like our award winning liquid lash extensions mascara. plus, with every product you purchase we donate to help a woman thrive. join our movement today at thrivecausemetics.com. >> tech: ev

ultimately what makes a difference, people like stacy abrams who have been working for years in the trenchesalvanizing and mobilizing to recognize their own power. i am a huge believer in grassroots bottom-up work and what started with safety a her gubernatorial mpaign and she perpetuated and others got involved with, that is the reason georgia went r joe biden and that is what i think it is going to take to sustain this down the ro, if i am doing someobo calls or guest appearances it gets people excited, the people in georgia recognizing their own power that makes a difference. i will turn to elizabeth who will start our qstioning. >> let utalk about the writing of this wonderful book, great ameran genre, i think because america believes, with collected tobiography. how you thought about genr how you thought about writing autobiography a how the tune developed when you were writing. >> and and we arnot bound by whatever station we were born in. whether that is mythological or fully reflected in the reality of class barriers and race barriers and others, part of us that we have internalized,

. >> reporter: prominent georgia democrats including stacy abrams are tweeting links to the state's officialication sites. state election officials say 760,000 georgians have requested absentee ballots, 3 times the requests they received in the 2018 election. >> reporter: thanks. some good news before we say good night. an update on the owl that hitched a ride on the rockefeller christmas tree, the wildlife center which cared for persons she was discovered tweeted today it's on the right home in upstate new york, and here is the video. she can continue her migratory journey before winter and in checking with experts to make sure she would be safe, she is adorable and if you have seen that tree she is probably happy to get away with it. most-watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent the evening with us. i am shannon bream. -ed myself. i shouldn't have. but i have been very good this year. wow! wow! wow! this year, turn black friday into buick friday all month long. now during buick friday, pay no interest for 84 months on most 20-20 buick suv models. something you wanth to play games wit

alexandria ocasio-cortez and stacy abrams have started fund raising initiatives to support the campaignsperdue and ossoff spoke out sunday morning about what's at stake in the high profile race. >> these seats are the last line of defense against the liberal socialist agenda the democrats will perpetrate. you heard schumer say last week if we take georgia, we change america. we heard aoc say we have to have those two seats because they don't want to negotiate, they want total control. schumer will change the rules in the senate so they can do anything they want. >> what we're feeling for the first time in four years is hope, is recognition that with trump departing we have the opportunity to define the next chapter in american history, to lead out of this crisis but only by winning these senate seats. carley: the runoff elections take place january 5th. still ahead, bill de blasio says new york city schools will open today after leaving parents, students and teachers in the lurch all weekend. jillian: a state assemblyman says schools aren't the problem, bad leadership is. he joins us wit

grateful to my fellow americans and these public servants as you eloquently put it and people like stacy abramsts on the ground shouted out to make sure the process works with integrity, honor and highest version of our country. checkmyballot.net, you can check your provisional ballots, make sure it counts. i've been reminded we're still the nation we were founded on, in terms of devastating history of white supremacy and racial division and we've got a lot of work to do. at least now we have a fighting chance to get back to making this union a bit more perfect. >> ask you both the same question, starting with you, baratu baratunde. 70 million of our fellow citizens voted for trump. how does that in a practical matter affect the way you approach the world? starting tomorrow, affect the way you walk through your country, knowing how divergent the two sides are? >> it's a project that i've taken on in the show, on the podcast "how to citizen," trying to live to with open heart and mind, still firmly gripped to my values. i think we have a hard road ahead. i'm not of the opinion we go out of our w

out, because biden winning georgia or appearing to or close to winning georgia, was a credit to stacy abramsistration and campaign turn out there. is it likely the democratic party can say we need you to come out in numbers again? >> this is where the democrats have a major challenge in georgia. republicans have won every statewide runoff election dating back to 1982. that's because the electorates tend to be older and less diverse. but the democrats are doing everything they can to reenergize the same base and hope having a younger candidate, john osoff and an african-american on the ballot will help get people to out and vote. >> warnick versus loeffler. warnick a pastor of a famous church and loeffler appointed by the president. who has the advantage? >> the reverend benefitted the first round because he was the democrat party's first choice. everyone got behind him. he had enormous fund-raising advantage over other democrats whereas kelly loeffler was duking it out with doug collins over who was most supportive of president trump. so reverend warnick skated by. now he's under attack by t

besides, doesn't want to concede, you know what democratic candidate for governor in georgia, stacy abrams lost by 55000 votes. she didn't like the outcome. she thought it was stolen, but the regularity she never conceded, it didn't matter. and it's so if trump doesn't want to concede, if he doesn't want to go to the inauguration, he could be a child. and that's unfortunate, but that doesn't, doesn't stop biden from become president, by the way. doesn't stop trump from running in 2024. that's as it were, the nation. you know, it's right. maybe we'll be talking about it in the foreseeable future president. and the reason it is always be appreciate your insights. thank you. 3rd. britain's conservative government has just approved a new road tunnel that would run directly past one of the world's best known ancient monuments. stonehenge, the 3 kilometer long underground highway would replace the congested road next to stonehenge. but that plan collides with warnings by britain's planning inspectorate, which says the prehistoric site could suffer quote, permanent and irreversible harm. unlike a

make all the difference but ultimely, you know, what really makes a difference for people like stacy abramse been working for years in the trenches galvanizing in bilizing peoe to recognize their own power and i am a huge believer in grassroots bottom-up work and i think that what started with stacy and her gubernatorial campaign and that she perpetuated and others got involved with that is the reason that georgia went for joe biden and that is what i think will take for us to sustain this down the road. if i'm doing robo calls or some guest appearances it gets people excited but ultimately it is the people of georgia recognizing their own power that makes all the difference. >> thank you. we want to get to a discussion about your book and i will turn it over to elizabeth will start our questioning their. >> let us talk about -- hello there. let us talk about the writing of this wonderful book. i wanted to put out to you the idea that autobiography is a great american genre and i think that because america believes in the self and in the eye in the we isn't what we get with the collective p

and i'd like to give a shout out to stacy abrams what she did in georgia. and the interesting thing is that for the 1st time, these progressives are not afraid to work for us national interest. and that means challenging the israel, the right to israel to occupy palestine. and they have proven that this is not only a left electoral suicide that they have won it by being able to say we are no longer supporting the israeli occupation. we can send forth as they can to get elected. or fortunately, the palestinian authority is as i suspect, force of the p.l.o. or some joint think among the palestinian people. and that's why i think it needs to move towards a completely against the security cooperation. i find it useless. jimmy graham, who is joe biden, did you should be told when he wants to talk with the palestinians. first of all, i mean what joe biden can do, there's quite a few things that joe biden could make very easy, very great changes, which he can do, which will strive towards how we say to correcting all of the wrongs committed by the trumpet, registr

. >> the undermining of the system, stacy abrams two years ago or donald trump today, without evidencewe can't buy into it. there has to be evidence. everything has due process. >> gabriel sterling said he and other officials have received threats from people apparently upset over the outcome of the race here in georgia. police are investigating. neil? >> neil: thank you very much. with us now, the georgia secretary of state. thank you very much for taking time. as you know, a third vote now. what you think of that? >> when a candidate is a half percent, that's their right to ask for a recount. we will give you that result feared we fully expected, it will be similar to the first two results. >> neil: the second result from the first result showed a thousand votes narrowing word do you expect anything like that this time? >> when we did the first audit we found mistakes and three counties, over 1,000 votes for president trump and those were added to his totals. that has been accounted for. this one will be very close to what we have now. i don't see much difference whatsoever. we run t

part of the reason a years on ground game effort led by stacy abrams who nearly won the governorship in 2018. instead of targeting likely voters abrams and her supporters targeting people who did not usually vote including young people and minorities, visiting potential voters 3 or 4 times, registering 800,000 new voters. now both parties europe for two runoff elections january 5th. it could determine control of the senate and once again the focus is on the ground. >> there will be more boots on the ground to engage voters and we have ever seen before. and that will include all kinds of campaigning, canvassing, doorknocking. >> that means going door-to-door during a pandemic. >> we are not asking folks to leave their house but a willing to open the doors and talk to us through their door and we are standing within 6 feet away and we can at least leave a flyer or something. >> republicans the ground game means changing the subject and recapturing what once was a republican stronghold, suburbs around atlanta. >> the ground game is to stop the whining and complaining about elections and

stacy abrams raised $10 million. show might have more of an impact.ot of georgians like their old identity, which they lost if the recount goes the same way. the other thing i heard is jon ossoff in terms of negative campaigning, he's a trust fund socialist and warnock loves cuba and jeremiah wright. so the other side, purdue and kelly loeffler, who doug collins says i back her now. that gives him his 24%. they're both favorites. the second amendment. both are pro second amendment. georgia is a second amendment state. that's where the rubber hits the roads and purdue and loeffler are combining like a joined ticket. and mitch mcconnell tends to get his way. i think he will pour a lot into that. >> juan: katie on the hard-nosed money angle here. how much money hours in? here i am picking up on dana perino's point that the democrats spent a lot of money in south carolina, kentucky, didn't get much back. so how much money do democrats put in to the races in georgia given what just happened in the last season? >> katie: we're seeing a loot of grass roots m

decides he doesn't want to conceive, you know, what democratic candidate for governor in georgia, stacy abrams lost by 55000 votes. she didn't like the outcome. she thought it was stolen, but the regularity she never conceded. it didn't matter just so. if trump doesn't want to concede, if he doesn't want to go to the inauguration, he could be a child. and that's unfortunate, but that, that doesn't, doesn't stop biden from become president, by the way. doesn't stop trump from running in 2024. that's as it were, the nation. you know, that's right. maybe we'll be talking about it in the foreseeable future. ian bremmer, president of the reason professor it is always be present your insights. thank you . britain's conservative government has just approved a new road tunnel that would run directly past one of the world's best known ancient monuments. stonehenge, the 3 kilometer long underground highway would replace the congested road next to stonehenge. but that plan collides with warnings by britain's planning inspectorate, which says the prehistoric site could suffer quote, permanent and irrevers

. >> he and stacy abrams are seen as martyrs for saying that but donald trump comes out today and hadake tapper say that, that is so sad and pathetic. hillary is not - >> we should remind everybody the constitution says the state legislature adjudicates voting unless congress chooses to intervene. we really need something like the 20 sixth amendment saying no vote shall be accepted after 12 am on election day. we have to override this madness. >> cannot happen again am a or there will never be another republican president. in a shocking twist house republicans will be adding sees this election weakening nancy pelosi is holding putting leadership, kevin mccarthy tells us how this happened and what is next. achievable steps along the way... ...so we can spend a bit now, knowing we're prepared for the future. surprise! we renovated the guest room, so you can live with us. oooh, well... i'm good at my condo. oh. i love her condo. nana throws the best parties. well planned, well invested, well protected. voya. be confident to and through retirement. >> laura: in the laura: in the days lead

that stacy abrams group has gotten in there and they haven't broken the law but it's time for peoplee there. >> brian, i think there needs to be more authentication of those signatures on absentee ballots. brian: how do you get 600,000 applications already? >> well, both sides are encouraging voters if they're worried about their health to vote by absentee ballot. absentee ballots have been used in georgia and other states. what there has to be is bipartisan authentication of signatures. brian: yes. >> if there is any question at all those signatures and ballots have to be set aside so you can actually give redress. so you can make sure if the signature doesn't match that that ballot hasn't been thrown in the hopper and can no longer be traced back to its signature that needs to be done in georgia during this run off. it wasn't done effectively enough on the election on november 3rd. steve: a story earlier this week, senator, was the fact that arlington national cemetery decided because of coronavirus they were going to cancel wreaths across america. a couple hours later, news trickl

stacy abrams is inviting people from california to move to georgia.atures, they want to pass them through. help me help gouge, lindseygraham.com, you send money to the website, it goes to pursue and goes to ossoff, she's raised $3 million. that's bad for the georgia election system, i'm glad trump is fighting back and i'm going to fight with them, lindseygraham.com, let's make the squad's life miserable by holding on to the senate and let's tell senator schumer you are not going to run the place by keeping the two georgia senate seats republican. ainsley: by signing the decree it allowed for two different types of standards for elections. the mail-in ballots -- >> senator: yes. ainsley: most republicans win in person. continue to fight there. aoc, the aoc-linked group, it's called, what's the name of the group, y'all know it? what's it -- consensus. okay. all right, so this new group sent out a memo and they sent it to joe biden's transition team and it's runed by aoc's former chief of staff. move forward with our economic agenda and don't worry about

because what i believe is that when stacy abrams challenged the georgia results, the liberal media instanding up for democracy. but when a republican challenge is a contest, we are accused of undercutting democracy. and here's my statement — democracy depends upon fair elections. president trump's team is going to have the chance to make a case regarding voting irregularities. they deserve to make that case, and i will stand with president trump. ifa i will stand with president trump. if a democrat were doing this, it would be cheered on. we are going to let the media intimidate us into exploring whether or not these contests were fairly had. senator lindsey graham there, giving his reaction to the legal challenges being instigated by the trump campaign. some live pictures from outside the white house now. clearly as this election drags on, as these cou nts as this election drags on, as these counts continue to move agonisingly slowly, tensions are rising. we can see there just outside the white house, growing crowds of anti—trump protesters will stop there's obviously an impatience a

ultimately, i think what really makes a difference is people like stacy abrams who been working 4 years in the trenches galvanizing and mobilizing people to recognize their own power. i am a huge believer in grassroots, bottom-up work and i think that what started with stacy and he gubernatorial campaign and that she perpetuated and others got involved with, that's the reason that georgia and for joe biden and that's the reason, that'swhat i think it's going to take for us to be able to sustain us down the road . doing robo calls for some guest appearances, it gets people excited but ultimately it's the people that of georgia recognizing their own power that makes all the difference. >> we want to get to a discussion about your book and i'm going to turn it over to elizabeth. >> hello there. let's talk about the writing of this wonderful book and i wanted to put out to you the idea that autobiography is a great american genre. i think because america believes in themselves and the i in the week is what we get with the collective fiction picture of ourselves in biographies so i wonder if

bubbling up of a blue wave that the state is on the precipice of achieving largely in part to stacy abrams, after her 2018 bid against the now governor brian kemp. she really mobilized this state, created three organizations that helped with voter turnout registration and outreach to underserved and minority communities. dozens of voter strategists and activists say this effort to get people politically involved civically engaged has made all the difference but what i'm also focusing on that i think is a microcosm of the president's larger problem across some of these red states, he won georgia by five. he ostensibly should not be campaigning in rural georgia on the eve before election eve, if this is actually a solid state for him but he's having problems with white voters specifically, white women voters. we heard the tale of suburban house moms gone wild throughout this entire cycle, but i really saw it firsthand on a hyperlocal level, a bunch of women who are volunteering for the first time in cobb county, georgia, which voted overwhelmingly for mitt romney in 2012 and took a step out

stacy abrams says biden will be declared the hands-down winner. >> we know that whether it's tomorroweek, the result will be the same, that joe biden has won the state of georgia. >> meantime, the spotlight will stay in georgia for the next two months as both of its senate races enter a january 5th runoff. that could decide the balance of you power in washington. if republicans want to keep control of the senate they will likely need to win at least one of these two senate races. meantime, joe biden's deputy campaign manager out with a message of unity, saying biden is willing to work with senate republicans. >> joe biden believes his job is to work with everybody. so that is -- that is the message for the american people, that's how joe biden views governing. work to bring people to the table, to try to find consensus. he has a record of being able to do that and that's how he's going to lead. >> and while biden is ready to reach across the aisle, his own party is squabbling after suffering surprising losses in the house. >> we have a slimmer democratic majority of. it will be more i

. >> you mentioned stacy abram's efforts there.ot of people credit her for turning georgia blue in this cycle. how much of an impact that will have and joe biden going down there will have? we know his chief of staff expects to see biden down there before these runoff elections. >> well, look joe biden won georgia the first time in decades that a democrat won the state. i think a lot of that credit goes to people like stacy and many organizations that have been working since the gubernatorial election a couple years ago. so the foundation is there. now the key is turnout. i think there is a lot of energies as i said earlier, it's going to build towards a high turnout. i think if that's the case campaigning down there is nothing but a positive. >> i want to ask you, too, about former president obama, the biden campaign sent him into georgia the day before election day. he was their top surrogate down there. he's tweeted about the georgia runoffs, do you anticipate he gets back on the campaign trail for these two democrats down in ge