so, this is damaging in many ways to arizona. and it is unfortunate that the folks running the show continue to try to drag it out for their political goals. >> well would you advise the house oversight committee in washington in their investigation of this, what you call me fraudit? what should they be looking for and asking about? >> i think all the things that they highlighted in their letter it all of the right points. and the points that we have been making for months about all the problems associated with this exercise. i welcome their voices and their intervention into this fight. quite frankly, our offices here concerns from voters every single day over this exercise. and they are tired of these partisan games. that is why i am running for governor to get to work on real issues and problems that we have here in arizona. not rehashing the 2020 election. and folks can join me in that katie hobbs.org. >> let me ask you about that. your secretary of state, now. you are directly involved in elections election security. wouldn'

the arizona republic reports hickman's phone rang about 8:30 p.m. on new year's eve while he was on a date with his wife and friends in north central phoenix. he didn't recognize the number carrying washington d.c.'s area code and let it go to voice mail. hickman quickly listened to the message. the white house switchboard wanted him to call back so he could talk to the president he called in an interview with the arizona republic. hickman did not return the call and later deleted the voice mail. trump encouraged him to find enough votes to reverse trump's narrow loss there. hickman recalled listening to the leaked audio of that hour-long phone call after "the washington post" and other media outlets published the recording. i was horrified, hickman said. that same night at 9:22 p.m. approaching midnight in washington, his phone buzzed again. it was the same area code. he let it go to voice mail again. here is that voicemail from the white house operator on january 3rd. >> hello, sir, this is the white house operator. i was calling to let you know t

that's apparently unique to arizona. and so they're asking now the people running it are saying, oh, we don't have enough time to finish, we need more time, and we need more information. they were handed all of the ballots. what more information could they possibly want? >> well, i think they're trying to make it look like maricopa county has not been cooperative with them, which is absolutely not the case. they're trying to make it look like there are potentially incomplete results because of this. but the bottom line is they're just continuing to try to drag this out so that they can continue to sow doubts all the way into the 2022 and 2024 elections. >> arizona secretary of state katie hobbs, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >>> we're joined now by colorado's secretary of state, jena griswold, the chair of the democratic association of secretaries of state. secretary griswold, this case in your state in colorado, federal judges handling saying not one iota of evidence of any kind of election f

a similar criminal investigation might be underway tonight in arizona. if only lifelong republican had decided to answer his phone. the arizona republican reports then president donald trump try to speak directly with the chair of the maricopa county board of supervisors in the weeks after the november 2020 election as his allies sought to change the election results in a state he narrowly lost to democrat joe biden. donald trump called lifelong republican clinic man twice, they're a white house operator. it's reported his phone rang 8:30 pm on new year's eve, while he was on a date with his wife and friends in north central phoenix. he didn't recognize the number of carrying washington d.c.'s area code and let me go to voice mail. hickman quickly listen to the message. white house switchboard wanted him to call back so he could talk to the president, he recalled in an interview with the arizona republic. hickman did not return the call and later deleted that voice mail, he said. three days later, news broke of trump's january 2nd phone call with georgia

for example, sham election audits like the ones still taking place in arizona. the brennan center for justice reports that similar partisan reviews are now taking place or being proposed in wisconsin, in michigan, in georgia, and in pennsylvania. quote, the proposed election reviews failed to satisfy basic security, accuracy, and reliability measures and the auditors themselves fail to meet

aywhat's happening in arizona were the fixed audit is taking place? officials and arizona slammed. it are republicans in pennsylvania going to copy arizona and do the same? >> they're trying to do that in pennsylvania and my colleagues in the caucus are taking every step we can to prevent them from continuing to put on this charade. we are fighting hard, to make certain our colleagues, senator mastery on who's the leader of this group doesn't get the opportunity to do audits and we are working closely with our department and state as well as our attorney general, the governor's administration to prevent it from being able to conduct one of these audits. it doesn't have the authority. they sell the news committee, was not used for this purpose. to conduct audits along those lines. we simply think it's the wrong thing to do and we will continue to fight it. >> is joe biden, is a democratic president of the united states, your party leader, the federal government doing enough to help democrats like yourself in swing states like pennsylvania where republicans are in the majority in the

what is happening in arizona, the fake audit is mad, it's ridiculous, local election officials in arizona have slammed it. are republicans in pennsylvania really going to copy arizona and do the same? >> they're trying to do that here in pennsylvania. and my colleagues in the senate democratic caucus are taking every step that we can to prevent them from continuing to put on this charade. we're fighting hard to make certain that our colleague, senator mastriano, doesn't get the opportunity to do audits. we're working closely with the attorney general and the governor's administration to prevent him from being able to conduct one of these audits. he doesn't have the authority because of a chairmanship of a seldom-used committee, certainly not used for this purpose, to conduct audits along these lines. we think it's the wrong thing to do, obviously, and we're going to continue to fight it. >> is joe biden, is the democratic president of the united states, your party leader, is the federal government, doing enough to help democrats like yourself in swing states like pennsylvania where republ

audits, recounts that were conducted in arizona, wisconsin, georgia it was recounted three times. it is clear, for those who challenge the results and questioned the integrity of the election, no other election has ever been held under such scrutiny, such high standards. the big lie is just that, a big lie. [applause] >> >> the president repeatedly focus on what he called elections subversion. the most dangerous threat to the integrity of our elections in our history. >> it's not about who gets to vote, or making it easier for voters to vote. it's about who gets to count the vote. who gets to count whether or not your vote counted at all. it is about moving from independent election administrators, who work for the people, to polarize state legislatures and partisan actors who work for political parties. to me, this is simple. this is election subversion. it is the most dangerous threat to voting in the integrity of free and fair elections in our history. >> leading off our discussion tonight are texas state legislature alex dominguez and julie johnson, both attended the meeting w

[applause] >> arizona state representative kyrsten sinema gets tonight's last word. perhaps senator kyrsten sinema might listen to her. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. >> and good evening once again. they 162 of the biden administration and indeed nbc news reporting tonight the manhattan da's office and the new york attorney generals office together have obtained indictments against the trump organization and its longtime cfo, allen weisselberg. as expected, the charges said to be tax related and are expected to be unsealed in court tomorrow in manhattan. washington post was first to report the news tonight, the paper adds this. weisselberg is expected to surrender thursday morning at the office of manhattan da cyrus vance. he's expected to be arraigned later today in front of a state court judge. the trump organization will also be arraigned, represented in court by one of its attorneys. weisselberg has reportedly been under pressure to cooperate with prosecutors and flip on one donald trump. the investigations of course continue. -- also today,

no one's been convicted no, votes in arizona were counted twice. but republicans in the state are still after three months carrying out a fake fraudit in maricopa county. it has not ended. they don't know better. you can knock down their election conspiracies over and over and over again, even in a court of law, as has been done, and they'll still tell you that there is fraud. it is embarrassing. it is shameful. republicans used to be afraid of shame but do the entire gop stays quiet part out loud, shame be damned. it's why similar idiotic fake audits are being attempted in other states like pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin. they want to subvert the will of the people to stay in power. i'd like to wait for republicans to wake up and do the right thing, but that isn't going to happen. they don't know better, mr. president. what they do know is that their efforts to keep voting safe are working. they're not keeping voting safe, they're just working to keep people away from ballots. more people in more states are going to find it harder to vote b

no one has been convicted, no votes in arizona were vote counted twice. but republicans in the state, still after these months, are carrying on this fraud in maricopa county. they don't know better. you can knock down their election conspiracies over again even in the court of law and it will still tell you that there is fraud. it is embarrassing, it is shameful. republicans used to be afraid of shame, but now the entire gop says the quiet part out loud, shame be damned. it's why similar idiotic -- and wisconsin. they want to subvert the will of the people to stay in power. i'd like to wait for republicans to wake up and do the right, thing but that is not going to happen, they don't know better, mister president. but they do know is that their efforts to keep voting safe are working. not keeping voting safe, they're just working to keep people away from ballots. more people in more states are gonna find it harder to vote the next time they go to the polls because of voter security efforts by the gop. and those people are, by and, large people of color, s

second year of the obama presidency, when she was a 33-year-old member of the state legislature in arizona, she accurately described how dysfunctional the senate had become because of what she called the false pressure to get to 60 votes. >> the senate, we no longer have 60 votes. some would argue that we never had 60. one of those was joseph lieberman. whatever. and nelson, too. now, i think it's the president. on wednesday, none of this pressure, the false pressure to get to 60. what that means is that, the democrats can stop kowtowing to joe lieberman and seek other avenues to health reform. it's likely a process called reconciliation. and you may recall before the democrats took the senate in 2008, that the republicans controlled the senate for quite some time, since around 1994. they never had 60 votes and they managed to do really bad things during that time. so, the reconciliation process is still quite available and we will use it for good, rather than for evil. >> arizona state representative sinema gets tonight's last word. maybe senator sinema might listen to her. >>> the 11th h

or the latinx vote is growing in a state like arizona. and so, all of this stuff is coinciding with the democratic shifts. demographics aren't destiny in terms of democrats winning elections. because they attract those voters if those voters do not have access to the ballot box those voters gave the democrats the majority in the senate and it would be a shame for those democrats are protect those ballots for the same committees. >> none of the voting rights bill that have been considered by the congress include any provisions about how the votes are counted, which is one of the new threats to voting rights and the new georgia law has, the texas law had it there and then they took it out. but there is this whole republican attempt to change what happens after votes are cast did. this is part of the new negotiation that the democrats are working on now. let's listen to what senator manchin said about that. let's listen to wh at senator manchin said about>> i've told e bottom line is that we should basically dedicate ourselves to a voting pi

if republicans had had that kind of power, political power in georgia, in other places, you know, arizona -- name your state, pennsylvania, these key battleground states, donald trump could have been successful in stealing this election. and a lot of these laws, most of them have provisions that would make that kind of change. and i think it's under the category now, lawrence, of they call it election subversion. that's what the new category of negotiation is all about, and i think it's ball game. i think republicans understand that if they control the counting rooms and the counting process, that is the way in which they can systematically undermine democracy in the most profound way. we saw it on display, the threat of it in 2020. i think if any bill that democrats take up in the senate or in the house or in congress over these coming months, if it doesn't address that issue, it misses the point. >> the for the people act was written last year. it was written before the election, long before we saw these new republican legislative proposals. and, zerlina, we see a report in the "atlanta

you are the soldiers who are fighting for everybody, not just for texas but for arizona, your fighting for all of the states where they are passing these laws to suppress the vote. you are standing up for the ideals and the dreams of what america is and what america should be. >> joining us now is dolores huerta civil rights activists and labor reader, she is the cofounder of the united farmers of america. they did that in 1962, but dolores, i'm not meaning to say anything about your age on tv, it's impolite, my mother would be very crossed. you started the agricultural workers association in 1960. you have been working on this stuff since 1955. this fight, you know, when you tell these people that this is more serious than it was in the sixties, you are there at the front lines of civil rights fights in the 19 fifties, in the 19 sixties, 19 seventies, 19 eighties, 19 nineties. it hasn't stopped for. you >> know it hasn't, and way back in the fifties, actually, in california we passed the laws that people could vote in the spanish line language, and that anybody who was a citizen could

the soldiers were fighting for everybody, not just for texas, but fighting for arizona, fighting for all of those states where they are passing these laws to suppress the vote. standing up to the ideals and dreams of what america is and what america should be. >> joining us now dolores huerta civil rights activist and labor leader and co-founder with cesar chavez in 1962, dolores, not meaning to say anything about your age on tv, it's impolite, you started the agriculture a association since 1960 and been working on this since 1955 you were there at the frontlines of the civil rights fights in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 90s. it's never stopped for you. >> no, it hasn't. way back in the 50s actually in california we passed a law that people could vote in a spanish language and not only that got rid of the deputy registrars so anyone who is a citizen can register another person to vote. in california we have some of the most liberal voting rights, people can vote online, and they can register with their cellphones or computers. when you go to the dmv to get your driver's license you're auto

con disappears co that siemian siemian i will write a written statement to a arizona newspaper, senator referring to the other track of infrastructure legislation the democrats-only bill that will go through reconciliation. she said about that, i do not support a bill that costs $3.5 billion. $3.5 billion. support a bill that costs $3.5 trillion. that's odd because all democrats had a celebration with president biden when that $3.5 billion deal was agreed to by the senate budget committee members what's your reaction to what certainty cinema had to say. >> we find the senator to be thoughtful and very deliberate about what she's doing. also this is the legislative process, the sausage-making process, so a lot of times people will make their positions known but that's why it is called legislating. i think what president biden is doing is showing the real art of making the deal. and so, yes, we read the statement. we take the certainty at her word but this is her word but this is we take the senator at her word but it is a long process and this indicates where she is at this moment. every

this one in arizona has been going on since february. and these fraud-its must be stopped. these are extraordinarily dangerous for democracy if it's heads we win tails you lose. which is a republican position right now. they will protest the results of any election that they don't win. and that must be dealt with legislatively. so hr-1 must be amended to include warnock's provisions and perhaps other ones. also, democrats need to go on offense on this and not just be playing defense. so my feeling is that when the human infrastructure bill comes to the floor, the one they're going to push through with 50 votes, and reconciliation, because election equipment has been declared critical infrastructure by the department of homeland security, they should have a provision that says that any state that wants any of that money for that critical infrastructure to upgrade their election systems must provide no excuses absentee ballots at a minimum so that they don't curtail people's right to vote by mail-in ballot if they choose. >> sorry, we're out of town on this segment. thank you

states are gaining momentum following the recent supreme court ruling that upheld new election laws in arizona and the success of senate republicans in blocking federal voting rights legislation. now leaders of national civil rights groups are stepping up pressure on the white house. late today, they met president biden and vice president harris in a private session to lay ou

the court upheld two voting restrictions in arizona. one requiring ballots cast in the wrong precinct to be thrown out. and the other, limiting who could collect and deliver ballots to polling sites. last year, the 9th circuit court of appeals ruled the laws violated the voting rights act because they disproportionately impacted minority voters. but today, justice samuel alito argued that the laws did not place burden on minority voters that would prevent them from voting. quote, the mere fact that there is some disparity in impact does not necessarily mean that a system is not equally open or that it does not give everyone an equal opportunity to vote. in a scathing dissent, justice elena kagan, accused the conservative majority of rewriting the law, beyond what congress had intended. what is tragic here is that the court has, yet again, rewritten, in order to weaken a statute that stands as a monument to america's greatness and protects against its basest impulses. election law expert and professor of law and political science at univ

to the ballot are now gaining momentum, following the recent ruling that upheld new election laws in arizona, and the success of senate republicans in blocking federal voting rights legislation, now leaders of civil rights groups or stepping up pressure on the white house. late today they met president biden and harris in a private session, the layout of what they plan to do to safeguard the right to vote. >> democracy is under vigorous, vicious and sinister attack. beginning with the events of january 6th at the capitol, and cascading like a tsunami through state legislatures across the country. >> we are going to build a movement across this country to resist that. what is clearly a move to try

the second time in eight years in the six three decision the court upheld to voting restrictions in arizona, one requiring ballots cast in the wrong person to be thrown out. and the other limiting who could collect and deliver ballots to polling sites. last year, the ninth circuit court of appealed ruled the laws violated -- because a disproportionately affected minority voters. today, one of the justices argue that the law did in placed the burden on minorities. the mere fact that there is some disparity in impact does not necessarily mean that is system is not equally open or that it does not give everyone an equal opportunity to vote. in a scathing dissent, justice accuse the conservative majority of rewriting the law beyond what congress had intended. what is tragic is that the court has yet again re-written, in order to weaken, a statute that stands as a monument to america's greatness and protects against its bassist impulses. election law expert, rick and say that it makes it harder to prove racial discrimination in passing a voting rule making it that much harder for tuesday to win

. >> nbc news is reporting that your delegation considered going to west virginia and to arizona because senator joe manchin and senator kyrsten sinema opposed abolishing the filibuster. but your group of fear in that states with republican governors would help return you to texas. do you feel that you will still make attempts in washington to contact senator manchin and senator sinema? >> there was a delegation of house members who came to washington a few weeks ago after the first time we broke quorum to meet with senator manchin. i myself went to west virginia. about two weeks ago, to participate in the voting rights rally, where the freedom ride landing in west virginia and heard from these constituents that they had hope and they were working with their senate and encouraging them to do his part so that west virginia could be as human passing voting rights legislation. of course i'm talking about the for the people act. the john lewis voting rights. as you know, in 1965 there was a texas president, lyndon johnson and he was a champion and ultimately succeeded and having i passed. an

. >> nbc news is reporting that your delegation considered going to west virginia and to arizona because senator joe manchin and senator kyrsten sinema have opposed abolishing the filibuster to pass the for the people act. but that, your group feared that those states' republican governors would help return you to texas. do you feel that you will, still, make attempts in washington to contact senator manchin and senator sinema? >> there was a delegation of house members who came to washington a few weeks ago, after the first time we broke quorum, to meet with senator manchin. i, myself, went to west virginia, about two weeks ago, to participate in a voting rights rally. where the freedom ride -- the new freedom ride landed in west virginia and heard from his constituents. they had hope and they were working with their senator. and urging him to do his part so that west virginia could -- in passing federal voting rights legislation. of course, i'm talking about the for the people act and the john lewis voting rights act. you know, in 1965, there was a central texas president, lyndon johns

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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