justices issuing a ruling on arizona's voting restrictions. how the decision could effect challenges to other voting laws across the country. >>> news tonight about the massive fireworks explosion during a police sting. more than a dozen people hurt. homes, businesses and cars damaged. >>> the fourth of july getaway under way tonight. gas prices at their highest level of the year and climbing. >>> and the former astronaut trainee and avi pioneer, af wait and at the age of 82, she's about to become the oldest person ever to fly into space. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us on this thursday night. i'm linsey davis, in for david. we begin with the new legal jeopardy for the trump organization and its chief financial officer, accused of compensating top executives off the books to avoid paying taxes in what prosecutors call a sweeping an audacious illegal payment scheme over 15 years. cfo allen weisselberg, one of the trump organization's longest serves and most loyal employees. he arrived at the court to hear the charges, handcu

at the cedar fire in arizona, retired 40-year-old veteran firefighter and matthew miller were killed when a plane they were firing to scout the fire crashed. he leaves behind a wife and five kids. the ntsb is investigating. david, as we're seeing this damage, the winds have really picked up here this afternoon and the heat's going to continue to fuel these fires into tomorrow. comes as authorities are issues a statewide flex alert tonight, aski iing californians to conse power. david? >> will carr, thank you. we're tracking that heat, the devastating fires and, of course, the storms in the northeast at this hour. in fact, a tornado warning moments ago. chief meteorologist ginger zee with the latest track for us. ginger? >> reporter: you know, david, there is a tornado warning that just popped about 15 miles to our west. we've got severe tomorrow warnings and flash flood warnings all over the northeast tonight. outside of philadelphia, some of the suburbs picking up four to seven inches of rain. so, flash flooding, probably the biggest threat for most people, anywhere in the green the

>> reporter: washing away cars and stranding this family on top of their suv in arizona. we've seen the images. bone dry lakes that millions need for drinking water. but it's also having a profound effect on agriculture. montana ranchers mike and nancy eraux are worried. >> someday i might wake up and find out i don't have any water for the cows. maybe it will dry up. >> reporter: the hot, dry conditions are optimal for a catastrophic infestation of grasshoppers that can consume six times their body weight each day. >> they ate 100% of everything. >> reporter: the usda predicts this year, grasshoppers could devour nearly 35 million acres across the west. and it's possible the worst is yet to come. so, if there's another mild winter in store, what does that mean? >> yeah. >> our cattle won't be here. >> reporter: you can see behind me, david, they've had to pull all of the boats out of the water and it could be two years before they go back in. >> kayna whitworth in salt lake city. kayna, thank you. >>> former president trump responding tonight to that bombshell reporting

in arizona, they opened their doors with no mask regulations in place decision up to parents. jennifer lewis' sixth grader kellan is too young to be vaccinated and lives in a multi-generational household. she decided he will wear a mask in school. so you wish there was a mask mandate in place? >> i do. yeah, i wish there was. >> i don't want to get sick and bring it home to my mom and my grandma. >> reporter: arizona seeing a rise in daily infections. in maricopa county alone, daily cases have increased nearly 75% in the last week. the state among eight where lawmakers have banned districts from enforcing mandatory mask wearing, despite urging from the american academy of pediatrics. still, families like the o'briens say they welcome being able to make their own decisions about their first grader addison. >> if we're asked to wear masks, great. if we don't have to wear masks, great. and as long as everybody's okay with that, we're okay with that. >> reporter: and, david, arizona's governor also banning school districts from mandating quarantine for potentially exposed students

and as schools in chandler, arizona, right there re-open today, the renewed debate across this country over masks in schools. the american academy of pediatrics, as we reported here, now recommending masks for all children and adults in school even those who are vaccinated to protect everyone.s you'll hear right here tonight, are divided. and the numbers tonight, 186 million americans have received at least one dose of vaccine, 65% of people 12 years and older. abc's whit johnson leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, the coronavirus roaring back in the u.s. daily cases tripling in the last month to more than 35,000 per day. >> this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. >> reporter: and growing concern for unvaccinated kids. more than 23,000 new pediatric cases in the last week. nearly double the number reported at the end of june. in georgia, the family of wyatt gibson says he was a healthy 5-year-old before he contracted covid, strep, and staph. passing away on friday. his father, a sheriff's deputy, writing on facebook, i have lost my best friend. across the country, nearly 22,

. >> reporter: seven states have banned mask mandates in schools, including arizona, where students are already back in school, masks optional. and with the delta surge, a warning from the former head of the cdc dr. tom frieden that covid cases could soar. >> we're hea it's likely, if our trajectory is similar to that in the united kingdom, they we could see as many as 200,000 cases a day. >> reporter: in houston, doctors are seeing a repeat of moments like this from last summer's surge. >> in the last 14 days, we've had a 500% increase in the number of admissions. >> reporter: and in florida, hospitals overwhelmed. some doctors pleading for extra staffing. in ft. lauderdale, the familydaf 15-year-old paulina velazquez says she was planning to get the vaccine when she got covid. she's now fighting for her life on a ventilator. paulina's vaccinated mother is experiencing a breakthrough covid infection herself, not leaving her daughter's side. >> it was terrifying for me, because i said, "why me, why not, you know, why, why my daughter? why not me?" it was very sad. >> let's get to eva pi

the west forcing authorities to issue new quality alerts in six states from washington to wyoming to arizona. the alerts all the way east to boston this week. and we're tracking severe storms moving into the nooegs tomorrow. washington, d.c., philadelphia, new york included. >>> the tragic death, the high school football player collapsing on the first day of practice. >>> in new york, shark sightings for a third day in a row. authorities closing beaches outside new york city. on long island, where they're tracking the sharks tonight. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. and we begin tonight with the coronavirus and the highly contagious delta variant racing across the country. we're now seeing nearly 57,000 new cases a day in this country, that's up 400% in just five weeks. and the new evidence that fully vaccinated people with those breakthrough infections of the delta variant can potentially spread the disease to others. that new cdc guidance urging americans in areas with a surge in cases to wear masks indoors, even if you're vaccinated. and for s

aleve it, and see what's possible. >>> next tonight arc terrifying scene in arizona. authorities say one man was killed and five others injured, attacked by a massive swarm of bees. three firefighters among those hurt. one stung about 60 times. the bees coming from a 100-pound hive that was near a home. most of these bees have now been removed. >>> in banning, california, authorities are investigating a deadly plane crash. two people killed when this small plane went down near an airport. the plane crashing in a vacant lot and catching fire. no one on the ground was hurt thankfully. no word yet on that cause. >>> when we come back, massive mudslides trapping people overnight in their cars. we'll tell you about the rescue effort today. i'm a mother of four-- always busy. i was starting to feel a little foggy. just didn't feel like things were as sharp as i knew they once were. i heard about prevagen and then i started taking it about two years now. started noticing things a little sharper, a little clearer. i feel like it's kept me on my game. i'm able to remember thin

. >>> and this frightening scene in arizona. one person killed and five injured by a swarm of bees coming from a 100-pound hive. >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us on a friday night. i'm cecelia vega, in for david, and we do begin with the pandemic and that alarming news from the cdc, acknowledging that, quote, the war has changed because of the delta variant. officials now say it is as contagious as chicken pox, spreads faster than the common cold and seasonal flu, and that a vaccinated person who becomes infected can pass it on just as easily as someone who is not vaccinated. all eyes right now on provincetown, massachusetts. an outbreak of nearly 900 people. 74% of them were fully vaccinated. we are there tonight. and the breakthrough cases on the royal caribbean cruise ship. six passengers testing positive. four of them fully vaccinated. even still, the cdc is stressing that vaccines strongly protect against serious illness and death. tonight, more than 190 million people have received at least one dose. th

that puts them at odds with governors of states like arizona and florida, where they say vaccinations should not be mandatory. >> kaylee, thank you. >>> we know many of you at home have questions on the new guidance for schools and the confusion after pfizer said there could be need for a booster shot, a third shot, so let's bring in dr. ashish jha. dean of the brown public school of health. doctor, great to have you. first, i want to get your opinion on the updated cdc guidelines for schools. when they said if you're vaccinated you don't need to wear a mask, i immediately thought of kids 12 and under. that's a lot of schoolchildren who they're suggesting should still wear masks. do you agree with the guidance today? >> good evening, david. thanks for having me back. a couple of things. first of all, thrilled that cdc agrees kids need to be back in school full-time, in person. i think kids over 12 should get vaccinated. whether kids under 12 or unvaccinated kids are wearing a mask, my guess is it's going to be driven a lot by local conditions. if you're in vermont, with few infections

most notably, the preposterous brought it going on in arizona. all of that propaganda has had the intended effect on his target populous. 86% of republicans see by mail increases voter fraud. 79% are not confident in the national vote count. perhaps most alarming is the number at the bottom. 46% of republicans that think state legislatures should override their states popular vote. today, we have an actual example in the news of a colossal election administration screw up in the bluest of blue areas. in the democratic primary in the very democratic city of new york city, involving the mayoral race. you should know, the board of elections in new york city which oversees elections, is one of the most notoriously incompetent election administration units in the country. in 2013, the city's department of investigation released a 72-page report on the board of elections detailing incompetence and misconduct. in 2016, in the midst of the democratic presidential primary between hillary clinton and bernie sanders, a member of the board mistakenly removed

then came this challenge to arizona's supreme court. the law requires election officials to throw away ballots cast at the wrong precinct. you have two voting areas, two places to vote, you go to the wrong one, vote there, woops, it gets thrown out. it makes it a crime for anyone to collect and deliver ballots to polling places other than family members. we know this had a disparate impact. they found tossing ballots cast in the wrong precinct has the effect of undercounting minority votes by a factor of 2 to 1. allowing someone else to drop off a ballot is particularly important for indigenous communities in arizona. today the supreme court's conservative majority said all of that stuff is fine. i could give you the legal reasoning but here's the real reasoning. they and all other parts of the right are working in tandem against america's multi-racial democracy. now donald trump's version of that is more vulgar, cringe inducing whipping up a mob to go beat up cops and chant hang mike pence and storm the capitol and go marauding to find

called forensic audit in pennsylvania's ballots like the preposterous enterprise we've seen unfold in arizona. he said donald trump asked him to run for governor. he said, quote, doug, run and i'll campaign for you. doug mastriano isn't the only one vying for trump's endorsement. former congressman lou barletta declared his candidacy and bill mcswain tried to fund raise off president biden's visit to philadelphia where he gave the speech about the threat to democracy. joe biden is coming to pennsylvania to protest secure elections. you think he'd be thrilled to prove he won fairly? puzzled emoji. fight back here. as the former u.s. attorney of the eastern district of pennsylvania mcswain knows there was no widespread voter fraud in 2020. that didn't stop him writing a letter to trump claiming that trump's own attorney general bill barr prevented him from investigating voter fraud and election irregularities. you need to take everything bill barr says with an enormous grain of salt but barr's statement is any suggestion mcswain was told to stand down from investigating allegations of election

leading for a push that of a forensic audit, the preposterous and toxic enterprise we've seen in arizona. he is also said that trump has asked him to run for governor. he said, doug run and i'll campaign for you. but he is not the only republican vying to win trump's support. liu bartlett also declared his candidacy and former u.s. attorney bill mcswain, was also considered in the run, tried to fund-raise off president biden 's visit yesterday to explain quote, joe biden is coming to pennsylvania to protest secure elections. you think he'd be thrilled to prove he won fairly, puzzled emoji. fight back here. now, as the former u.s. attorney for pennsylvania, next we know as well there was no widespread voter fraud in 2020. that didn't stop him from writing a letter to trump, claiming that bill barr prevented him from investigating voter fraud any lag around it like irregularities. what we've learned is that we have to take barr -- barr telling the washington post for any suggestion that mix wayne was told to stand down from investigating allegations of being false. barr actually called mix

justice alito is frightening, not only for the results of the particular things that they upheld in arizona, those two provisions but the language that is in that majority opinion is truly frightening. and i am really concerned about what we see coming out of our supreme court. it's one of the reasons why i think democrats, progressives, people who care about this country have to focus on state and local elections. these legislatures are the ones that are producing these laws at the supreme court is upholding, not only with elections, reproductive rights, and a whole range of other things. we need to be focused on state and local elections. we need to be involved in making sure that we use the state courts whenever we can as opposed to the federal ones. i don't think that, you know, when it comes to election reform that we're going to find a friend or friends on the united states supreme court. they are idealogically against voter protection. >> former attorney general eric holder, thank you so much for joining us tonight. i really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >>> still to come,

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not only that, you are going to lose places like georgia and arizona that were hard, hard fought and barely won. >> final question for you on some late-breaking news today. a federal district judge in your state of texas, appointee of george w. bush, has essentially ruled that the daca protections issued by the obama administration, all the way back i believe in 2012, are essentially unlawful. he has not suspended daca per se, but he has issued, i understand, an injunction for any further applications. this is for people who are brought to the united states as children, as minors, who can apply for sort of protected status. it is not full citizenship, but it does give them a sort of path to citizenship. i have to imagine it is brutal for all of the folks subject to this because it just creates more tension, pressure and uncertainty. your reaction to that ruling? >> it is a gut punch. it just creates that uncertainty, that feeling in the stomach for so many families who have somebody on daca. as you said, it doesn't affect people currently on daca but it does put a pause on new applic

three of the five members that he chose voted to overturn the election results in pennsylvania and arizona, including congressman jim jordan of ohio. who, according to a new book by "washington post" reporters, carol leonnig, and philip rucker, was called out by a potential committee colleague. congresswoman liz cheney of wyoming as the guy who did this. the guy responsible for the january-6th attack on the capitol. and now, that guy is going to possibly sit on the committee to investigate what happened. these are reportedly the five that mccarthy has chosen. there are a couple things we do not know. when speaker of the house nancy pelosi first announced this select committee, one of the things she said was that she would have veto power over the appointments. so right now, it's unclear whether or not she will give these members the okay. i mean, people who actively voted against democracy, on the day of the capitol riot. something to watch. we will talk more about that with congressman james clyburn just a little bit later in the show. but generally, if you feel a sense of dÉjÀ vu as yo

the expected something like what we saw in the case in arizona. first, your reaction to the actual holding here by the court. >> i would be lying if i said that i was surprised by the outcome. i will say however i was surprised by the audacity. i think justice kagan got it right when she said that the majority re-wrote a statute that has been a monument to american greatness. i was listening to your opening chris, you really cannot begin to talk about this country as a true democracy until 1965. true democracies do not keep citizens, eligible citizens, from participating in a political process. until the voting rights act is passed in 1965 are not even a true democracy, that makes us 56 years old as a democracy. we have seen the steady dismantling by the supreme court of the voting rights act. now the dismantling of section two, when i say the audacity i mean the actual rewriting of the history and of the standards used in these cases for decades. i began my career in 1988 as a voting rights lawyer and the first thing i was given was the senate re

pennsylvanian arizona, including congressman jim jordan of ohio. according to a new book by washington post reporter's, was called out by a potential committee colic. as the guy who did this. the guy responsible for the january 6th attack on the capitol, and now that guy is going to possibly sit on the committee to investigate what happened. these are reportedly the five that mccarthy is chosen. there are a couple things we do not know when. speaker of the house nancy pelosi first announced this select committee, one of the things she said was that she would have veto power over the appointments. so right now it's unclear whether or not she will use or give these members the okay. people who actively voted against democracy and the day of the capitol riot. that's something to watch. we'll talk more about that with congress and james clyburn just a little bit later in the show. generally if you feel a sense of dÉjÀ vu, as you survey the landscape of american democracy, the politics in this moment, you are not alone. i feel it to. we have very much

even though three of those five voted against seating electors from arizona and pennsylvania, meaning they essentially voted against democracy and the people's choice for president and in favor of the big lie. one of the picks, congressman jim jordan of ohio, even got on the floor of the house on january 6th to explicitly question president biden's victory. >> president trump increases vote with african-american and hispanic american, won ohio by eight, iowa by eight and florida by three, got 11 million more votes than in 2016 and house republicans won 27 of 27 toss-up races but somehow the guy who never left his house wins the election? >> yeah, we won 27 out of 27 races, but somehow donald trump lost? how could that be? is he just some sort of a novelist psycho path that the american people rejected even if they were voting in other republicans? that's the guy, jim jordan, who could end up investigating the insurrection, the guy who made his name famously har anning hillary clinton over benghazi and defending donald trump from impeachment twice with neri a suit jacket to be found. t

billion, with a "b," dollars to build 135 miles' worth of federal wall sections near yuma and nogales in arizona and in texas. at the time we pointed out the program one of the contracts raised questions because as "the washington post" reported trump repeatedly pushed for fisher to get a wall-building contract, urging officials with the army corps of engineers to pick the firm only to be told that fisher's bid did not meet standards. trump then kept pushing until the company was added to a pool of competitors, and lo and behold finally awarded the massive multi-billion dollar contracts. now, unfortunately for tommy fisher, one of the first things joe biden did as president was halt all construction of walls at the borden, basically cancelling out that mega wall contract. so now tommy fisher is looking for someone to purchase, to buy his three-mile $30 million stretch of texas border wall where a hurricane caused significant erosion of the banks, up to and under the concrete foundation. so not in 100% shape, just fyi. it is a little dinged up, but if you got a cool $30 million, looking for a thr

now, arizona, of course, is the one state that has actually tried to prove donald trump's false and ridiculous claims. that's in the audit of maricopa county's 2.1 million ballots, which has, not surprisingly, been just an absolute clownshow. i mean, it's still going on, apparently. get this. there was a -- there -- there was one at least nominally legitimate face of that recount who is former arizona secretary of state, ken bennett. who said today he's been shut out of the audit. they are just counting and counting because they are trying to reach the conclusion they want, obviously. the ballots, themselves, by the way, just, oh, by the way, almost got rained on the other day when the roof of the building where the audit is taking place started leaking. workers scrambled, i guess, to cover boxes of ballots with tarps to protect them. all in all, seems like a pretty professional operation. it's the level of competence you would expect from a donald-trump project and the level of confidence and good faith we have come to expect from the republican party, writ large. but as ofish as it all is, i

now, arizona of course is the one state that's actually tried to prove donald trump's false and ridiculous claims. that's in the audit of maricopa county's 2. 1 million ballots. which has, not surprisingly, been an absolute clown show. it's still going on apparently. get this, there was one at least nominally legitimate face to that recount which was former arizona secretary ken bennett republican who said today he's been shut out of the audit as a third count of the ballots total is still ongoing. they're just counting and counting because they're trying to reach the conclusion they want obviously. the ballots themselves, by the way, just by the way almost got rained on the other day when the roof of the building that the audit is taking place started leaking. workers scrambled i guess to cover boxes of ballots with tarps to protect them. i don't know, it seems like a pretty professional operation. it's the level of competency would expect from a donald trump projects and the level of confidence and good faith we've come to expect from the republican party at large. but, as oafish as it a

arizona cardinals wide receiver deandre hopkins wrote being in a position to hurt my team because i don't want to partake in the vaccine is making me question my future in the nfl. but some players, i think a lot will get vaccinated so they don't cost their teams games. that's what tennessee titans quarterback ryan tannehill did. and what taylor decker did, a guy staunch leo posed getting the vaccine earlier this spring. we are starting to see the same thing happen in broader nnounced they will require employees to be vaccinated to returning to the office. today the biggest employer in the country announced they will be implementing a similar policy. president joe biden said federal workers will be required to confirm they are vaccinated or submit to regular testing and other restrictions. he also went out of his way to highlight the nfl's policy. >> i also commend the national football league who has announced that if there are outbreaks among unvaccinated players and personnel, then the teams risk forfeiting games. i urge sports leagues at every level to take every step they can. every

arizona corals wide receiver wrote saying being in a position to hurt my team because i don't want to partake in the vaccine is making me question my future in the nfl. but, some players, i think a lot are just gonna get vaccinated so they don't cause their teen games, that is what tennessee titans quarterback did. and what he did, a guy who oppose getting a vaccine earlier this spring? we're starting to see the same thing happen in broader society. several companies like coup goal, facebook, say that they will require employees to get vaccinated when they return to the office. the biggest employer in the country announced they would be implementing a similar policy. president joe biden said federal workers will be required to confirm they are vaccinated or submit to regular testing and other restrictions. he went out of his way to highlight the nfl's policy. he wen>> it will command the nal football league that has announced that if there are outbreaks among unvaccinated personnel that the team risk forfeiting games. they need to take every step they can. every day, more business are

and if you read the voting rights opinion about the arizona case which was after the fact under section 2, maybe there are some small changes that are not driven by animus. but the entire point of having that bureaucracy in place to check it was so that we don't have to have these fights. now that's gone, we do have to have these fights and i don't think republicans want us to stop having them. >> one important thing to remember about the arizona voting restriction laws that were upheld by the supreme court is that arizona admitted that the reason why they were doing this was to influence the election. they admitted that these restrictions disproportionately affected people of color. the supreme court admitted that these restrictions disproportionately affected people of color, and they all said that's fine. and why did they say, that's fine? because they can't win if they let everybody vote. this is the -- the thing that people have to get about voting rights is that this is actually an existential crisis for the republican party because if everybody votes, the republicans can't win. t

important thing to remember about the voting rights laws that are upheld by the supreme court is that arizona admitted that the reason that they're doing this is to influence the election. they admitted that these restrictions disproportionately affected people of color. the supreme court admitted that these restrictions disproportionately affected people of color and they all said that's fine. and why do they say that's fine? because they can't win if they let everybody vote. this is the thing we have to get about voting rights, is that this is actually an existential crisis for the republican party. because of everybody votes, the republicans can't win. they can't abandon building any kind of coalition beyond their white supremacist -- if that white supremacist space is diluted in any way, republicans have no strategy to expand their base and have no policies to appeal to people beyond their white supremacist base and so this is like their way. this is their only way to win elections. it's by keeping people away from the voting. >> but let me just respond to that and i'll come to you mehdi.

one of the important things to remember about the arizona restriction voting laws that were upheld by the supreme court is arizona admitted the reason why they were doing this was to influence the election. they admitted that these restrictions disproportion at ly affected people of color. they can't win if they let everybody vote. this is actually an existential crisis for the republican party because if everybody votes, the republicans can't win. the republicans have abandoned building any kind of coalition beyond their white supremacist base. so if that white supreme sis base is diluted in any way, they have no plans to expand their race or policies to appeal, so this is their way. this is their only way to win elections. it's by keeping people away from the voting. >> well, but let me just respond to that and come to you. i think the republicans think that about themselves. it kind of hilariously is a poor judgment on themselves that they think that. look at 2020. historically high turnout, right? the republicans didn't get blown out. in fact, there were four congressional seats i

republican congressman paul gosar of arizona, a member of congress who should be far more famous than he is. he writes, it is unjust to sweep ashli's death under the rug. her life mattered. we do not allow the execution of citizens by street justice in our country. babbitt is the 35-year-old woman who attempted to charge into the speaker's lobby where members of congress were present at that moment on january 6th with a violent mob breaking down windows, braying for blood at her back. when rioters broke the windows of these doors right there leading to the lobby, which is right outside the house chamber, ashli babbitt and her alone vaulted through, the first one to go through, though there was a gun drawn and a warning, and she was shot and killed by a capitol officer that you see there on the other side. her death is obviously a horrible tragedy. it never should have happened. she never should have been there. she never should have been in that position. the key question is not who killed her but who is truly culpable for her death and the deaths of three other trump supporters that

what are these new revelations from arizona contributed i think about that? >> thank you be with you. happy anniversary, i guess we would say. this is just a crazy moment in american history. we've gone through a storming of the capital. we've gone through an attempt to overturn the results of an election led by the president, and yet we have one political party that is not only in denial but there's also in a position that in order to show fidelity to the parties leader, donald trump, you have to mimic the lie that the election was stolen and you have to push legislation and other rules that are going to make it easier to mess with votes next time. i'm really concerned. and it's really hard to explain. this is different from the concerns about gerrymandering that we talk about all the time. this is worse than voter suppression. where states pass laws that they can't give voters water. this is really about something so basic to a democracy that the vote is going to be fairly counted. you put together what happened in arizona with what happened in georgia, wit

republican governors, texas, georgia, arizona have ordered public universities not to mandate vaccinations. an indiana university announced in the spring it will require all students to be vak si flated. they lobbied the governor to block the move. the president of purdue university, former republican governor of the state last april when the u.s. pandemic was still in its first wave he was announcing they would open in person in fall. mitch daniels announced his university and more than 45,000 students will not require vaccines in the fall. now, i don't know how that's going to turn out. i hope well. maybe people are vaccinated already. again, the principal here is extremely hard to determine. particularly since this defensive private body autonomy is not a watch word among conservative republicans when it comes to the extremely high stakes intimate personal health decision of a woman's pregnancy. it sure seems like the principal is just backlash politics. we perceive that liberals are trying to get you vaccinated, which is not true, so don't take the vaccine. it doesn't have to be this w

the arizona audit has been going on for 68 days. what are they doing? they would have known by now if something was amiss. at the end of the day, it c it down to the core by which we elect our leaders. it's precisely the fight that republicans are so dead set against, it's why it's so central to what this moment is for the democratic party and for our democracy as a whole. congressman clyburn, a democrat from south carolina, is the house majority whip. the senate needs to get rid of the filibuster, to pass the sweeping votes rights bill. he joins me now. where are things to your mind on this core question before congress about national democratic access and democratic standards? >> thank you very much for having me, chris. i think we're at a crossroads on that. i have been arguing for some time that our democracy is at peril. all you got to do is look at the vote today, only two republicans voted to get to the bottom of what happened on january 6 and why it happened. only two republicans. that just cannot be. we need to know why there was this insurrect

not recommended for use, in arizona's summer. cooled by fans and a network of portable coolers, the white hoses hanging all over the facility. this is now home to maricopa county, arizona's, 2020 ballots. a handful of workers began the day with the "star-spangled banner" and god bless america with some ymca dancing. the song donald trump used at his rallies leading up to the 2020 vote. why is all of this happening? the arizona audit spokesman says the numbers they have, after a handcount, don't match with maricopa county's. >> sometimes, we counted more. you know, so it's -- but there's variations in the -- the count. and we are just trying to get to a number that's -- we believe is accurate. >> reporter: whatever they do find, it won't impact the 2020 election because arizona's also, two previous audits by maricopa county didn't find any widespread fraud, but he maintains they could find gaps to continue the question the election. >> i'm saying that's the possible. i'm not saying it did. just a risk raises questions and that's w

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arizona is turning into a politically-purple state. and they are concerned. >>> strong values and strong opinions. >> there is not one bit of proof of any of this. >> reporter: he is the go to for conservative talk on arizona radio. but on these so-called audit? >> i understand that i'm an outlier with my own people when i question what people are going to think about this audit. >> reporter: mike, lifelong republican. trump? >> yeah. >> you voted for him? >> twice. twice, i voted for him. >> reporter: but trump lost and broomhead thinks a so-called audit is a waste of time. instead, he thinks the focus should be on winning republican seats in 2022. >> if they win enough seats in the house, they take over the majority in the house. >> reporter: but some of his listeners, his base, now call him everything from a turncoat to a rino to a liberal. >> when you throw people out that disagree with you, it's hard to get them back when you need them to vote. and that scares me. >> reporter: politically, what is at stake here for republicans? >>

think about the fraudit in arizona, okay? the cyber ninja who has this outfit has no business doing anything like this. they never have before and the guy at the head of it is a known mall factor when it comes to conspiracies. they throw out a number. 74,000 questionable mail-in ballots. out no the ether. what about that number? it's garbage. the number alone though is enough to get trumpers riled up. so what's the truth? where does 74,000 come from? it comes from comparing two lists. one for ballots requested and one for ballots submitted. so what's the discrepancy? where is the 74,000? 74,000 people voted early over a weekend, but their ballot submissions were not updated in the count until monday when the clerks returned to work. is that really it? yes. who says so. the republicans in arizona say so. you know, your people, if you're in that party. so that's the truth. but it doesn't matter. why? because the misinformation is intoxicating because it fuels what people want to be true. there is a problem. and that's why they

apparently he was trying to do the same thing in arizona. there's new evidence surfacing tonight of more reported behind the scenes efforts by trump and his allies to pressure state election officials to help him retain the presidency. this was all back in the weeks after the 2020 election. you remember this in georgia? >> i just want to find

he brought up the fact according to him he won the state of arizona, we know he lost the state of arizona because he was attacking john mccain, i a hero in that state, and he brought that up and attacked john mccain again in our interview. it's just again and again he would say things that weren't true saying they were true, like a different set of facts. a different universe in mar-a-lago. >> we're going to take a break and come back with more clips of the interview with the president including when asked about the vice president's refusal to overturn the election. ♪ ♪ life can be a lot to handle. ♪this magic moment,♪ but there's plenty of magic in all that chaos. ♪so different and so new.♪ ♪was like any other...♪ ♪ born to be wild ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ born to be wild ♪ see disney's jungle cruise. applebee's and a movie, now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. if sweat is your body's natural way of cooling itself down. then condensation is a beer's natural way of saying: drink me. michelob ultra superior light beer. at philadelphia, we know what makes the perfect schme

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. >> arizona's democratic senator kyrsten sinema said today she does not support the other infrastructure bill. how much does that complicate things? >> well, it certainly had a lot of people up here nervous on the democratic side of things when day saw sinema come out and make such a bold statement, particularly on such an important day. and it could complicate things. now, sinema did make it clear that she is going to vote for the budget resolution, which is the framework to begin the negotiations around that budget package. but that, she's uncomfortable with that price tag of $3.5 trillion. and those house progressives that we talked about, before, reacted strongly to sinema making that statement. saying that they are much more concerned about that reconciliation package and, perhaps, they won't vote for the bipartisan deal, as a result. but everybody up here believes that this is just part of the long-term negotiating process. that this is kyrsten sinema and joe manchin just finding a way to get what they want in this package. and ultimately, when push comes to shove, they will vote f

them, play this hypothetical out, and then provided it to a third party like what they're doing in arizona, the taxpayers in those counties would then be on the hook for millions and millions of dollars to replace all that equipment, because it ultimately would be compromised. so the taxpayers would not only pay for it with their dollars to buy new machines, but they would also pay for it because their personal security, their personal information, would be compromised by this sham audit. >> do you think this senator, state senator, actually believes what he's saying, or is this just cynical and dishonest -- as cynical and dishonest and potentially dangerous as it seems? >> look, i get asked that all the time. you would have to ask that state senator what he really believes. but i get asked generally, do these republicans really believe this stuff? anderson, that's what folks ask me. i think they do. i mean, this is the modern day republican party. this is who they are. they have bought into the big lie and sadly, they keep selling it to the good people of pennsylvania. they keep telling t

precisely, along the same lines that -- as the sham so-called audit now taking place in arizona. in fact, state senator doug mastriano was one of a group of local republican officials, who went to phoenix to see for themselves what was going on. last week, gary tuchman caught up with him flanked by some of his supporters to ask why he thinks last year's election count was wrong. >> all i want to know is what happened? >> let me ask you this, though. one thing you didn't mention. you know dozens of courts and judges around the country have ruled against trump's voting claims and a lot of them are trump appointed judges. do you really think the people are above the courts? this is the country of laws. >> all i want is a full -- and you know what? if there's nothing, if -- let the cards and chips fall where they may. if -- if the results were -- that's right -- if they were -- if they were as good as governor wolf and josh shapiro says they were, fantastic. and then, the people in the state will say, i have faith and it was -- if -- if -- i hope not but if the results show that ther