then on the night of january 3rd, the day trump's call with georgia's secretary of state was published, the man in charge of the maricopa county election got this voice mail. >> hello, sir. this is the white house operator. i was calling to let you know that the president's available to take your call if you're free. if you could please give us a call back, sir, that would be great. you have a good evening. >> trump has never stopped that pressure campaign. it was a multi-pronged effort that included pressuring elected officials, storming the capitol, and now passing restrictive

so he also gets wrapped up in, if you remember, the fights between president trump and the state of georgia over the count. and he has to navigate doj's you know essentially staying out as best they can from that fight. so he keeps touching these very complicated, very tricky issues. i think you are right, the notes are taken for a reason. they were taken because he feels there need to be some kind of record that this is going on. and importantly, he needs to preserve as much what trump said, which is what we are focusing on. i think from the justice department's view, they need to preserve what they said and they did. that very important, you can see, in rosen's public and praft statements. >> yes. devlin barrett, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> donald trump's request for the justice department to sigh the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me sounds a lot like his request the ukrainian president said in his first impeachment who said, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though. he was more desperate to misstate his q. because these were his people. daniel goldman serv

i live in this county. 159 counties in georgia. there is a reason why republicans are only investigating one. out of all the other counties that had problems on election day, no other county is being investigated and at risk of being taken over by a republican pair a gram. it's only fulton county. they are afraid to say what we all know is true out loud -- that, is too many people that look like me showed up to vote and fulton county. now they want to do something about that. what we also know, when you look across the board and how we've made changes in fulton county, in june, we had our primary elections. the fulton county board of -- commissioners came in to see what happened on election day. they came in got things together for the november election. give people more access to get the lines, down they made sure they had more poll workers. you know what the state did? they passed espy 2:02 to say you can't do mobile voting units. we will not do all these drop boxes to reduce the waiting in line. the republicans are still to blam

she's also the chair of the georgia democratic party. congresswoman, first maybe just a little bit of level setting here on what the situation is. there's a county board of elections and there is someone who has the job of managing those elections that the county board appoints, rick baron, is that right? >> the county board of electioning is comprised of democrats and republicans appointed by each county democratic party and republican party and then you have staff that actually run the election system, which are hired and come out of the fulton county board of commissioners' budget. so it's an independent body that is running the election. these are career bureaucrats. these are people who have signed up to protect elections, to administer elections across the board. >> and so one of those people has become a real target of ire of state republicans, rick baron. i want to just give the argument here, the sort of -- the argument that actually fulton county, independent of the big lie and these accusations of fraud which are ridiculous ha

and you might also recognize that on the far left his republican congressman andrew clyde of georgia. and you can see the sheer panic on the man's face. he's pressing and self against a wall as a security officer gun drawn, protects his life. in the months that followed, congressman clyde rather infamously changed his tune about that day at a hearing about security lapses that may have allowed the attack to happen. clyde compared the scene on january six to a, quote, normal tourist visit. of course, that is a ludicrous characters i station, everyone who is not under dame trumps thumb knows. that the suggestion that they were is offensive to the people that were there that day and lift to the terror of it. that includes jamie raskin, last night raskin confronted clyde at a rules committee meeting, clearly feeling that business could not just go on as usual with those comments still hanging in the air. >> did you have an opportunity to see officers hodges and fun none, and done, or sergeant canal? >> mister raskin, let's stick to the amendment -- >> i'm getting to the amendment. if you

on the far left is republican congressman andrew clyde of georgia. you can see the sheer panic on the man's face. he is bracing himself on the wall as a security officer, gun drawn, protects his life. in the months that followed he infamously changed his tune about that day at a hearing about security lapses that may have allowed the attack to happen he compared the scene on january 6th to, quote, normal tourist visit. of course, that's a ludicrous characterization. everyone not under donald trump's thumb knows that. that's offensive to people there that day and lived through the terror of it. that includes democratic congressman jamie raskin. last night raskin confronted clyde at a rules committee meeting clearly feel that business could not just go on as usual with those comments still hanging in the air. >> did you have an opportunity to see officers hodges and fanone and dunn testify today or sergeant gonnel? >> mr. raskin, let's stick to the amendment as -- >> well, i'm getting to the amendment. if you don't like the question, say you can take t

testifying today about a truly ridiculous press conference held by representatives marjorie taylor greene of georgia, mat gaetz of florida, lumy gohmert of texas. congressman gaetz and his cohorts held their stunt event outside the department of justice in support of the mob that stormed the capitol. when a small group of protesters showed up, they managed to shut the whole thing down after only a few minutes led by a person seemingly very interested in mat gaetz's criminal investigation. >> they owe the people of this country the answers to the questions. >> we got to go. we need to end it. >> thank you. for those of you that really care about due process, thank you. >> the left shot us down. they hate free speech. they hate free speech. >> are you a pedophile? are you a pedophile, congressman? congressman, are you a pedophile? are you a pedophile, congressman gaetz? are you a pedophile? a pedophile? , rollerball design. because with the right pain reliever... life opens up. aleve it, and see what's possible. mission control, we are go for launch. ♪♪ t-minus two minutes and counting. ♪♪ um,

republicans, even the ones that turned against him later, in the interim, between the election and the georgia runoffs which was the day before january six, they all sort of went along with it because they wanted to placate him because they had an election to win. but of course, the nature of elections is that there's always another one coming and so the justification for that is always present. and so there will always be reason to accede to the lies until there's some sort of definitive defeat or they win. and we stop having elections or ones that matter, anyway. so, tomorrow, the bipartisan commission investigating the insurrection kicks off. and again the politics around this commission are a perfect microcosm of the moment. back in may, democrats and republicans worked out a bipartisan compromise to form an independent commission. we had chairman thompson on the show to talk about it. and the house approved it, and 35 republicans joined democrats to vote in favor. that's a good big majority. 252 to 175, that's a healthy bipartisan majority. but then it died in the senate where also it got

he spoke at a stop the steal rally december 12th in georgia he was in the white house conspiring with donald trump. so i would like the community to investigate those things. i don't want jim jordan investigating himself. i don't want a 9/11 truther investigating 9/11. i don't want people who are pro-insurrection investigating an insurrection. >> all of that is very well said. banks was on this republican study committee trip to the boarder where there was someone inside the capitol on the day of the riot who was along with them and pictures were taken. this is fairly fresh in people's minds. it points to the difficulty that i'm watching whether you look at corporate america with its donations, it's hard for people to maintain the line that was erected about that vote and the violation and taboo of the vote and resist the pull of getting back to normal and maintain that day after day. >> yeah. that's exactly what the republicans who are perpetuating this lie and who are rewriting the narrative of what happened on january 6th are counting on. they know the more it's normalized, the mor

and it focus specifically on georgia's absurdly new voting law. jagger's man james clyburn, is the number three ranking democrat in. the house he endorsed biden, when it seemed like biden's campaign might be. flaying that endorsement helped him with south carolina, essentially the nomination after that. he's advocated the president, and senate democrats work behind the seems to carve out an exception to the filibuster, to pass voting rights protection. he joins me now. first i wonder if you agree of my read of the prioritization right now. of the legislative agenda. of this democratic administration right now. >> i think you've got it right. i'm not sure you had a raid on the subject matter. to me voting is the top priority. whatever we're talking about in politics. that means it'll be voted on first. voting remains the top priority with us. all the other things are secondary if we can't get people to the polls. >> part of this comes back to the map in the senate, reconciliation, i think you've been very compelling on the idea that they're already

to honor him with the likeness that the state of georgia is going to send up here to the capitol. all of that and all john lewis ever really wanted out life was for people, who looked like him, to have unfettered access to what makes this country what it is. and it would be a shame for us to go through all of these machinations and not pass the john r. lewis voter registration and education act -- advancement act. that's what we need to be doing. that's what john lewis would want, more than anything else. and i would hope that, with everything else, we would do that. but see, i do remember. that six months after that march over the edmund pettus bridge, which was, back then, the march 1965. august. august 6th. lyndon johnson signed the 1965 voting rights act. it was kind of interesting. less than a year later, he was unceremoniously ousted. and so, these kinds of things i am used to but i would hope that we're a better body than that here, in the congress. >> i want to thank you for coming on tonight, congressman. i want to sort of put a pin in and say next time you come on, i wou

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

and doug dousey in georgia. however egregious their behavior was, they behaved responsibly with regards to discharging their responsibility. everyone who behaved in that way is now being threatened with replacement. the kind of soul criteria for a new generation of republicans is total fielty to the big lie and kind of a professed willingness to do in 2024 what republicans weren't able to do in 2020. >> yeah. that's -- will, that i think is where the danger happened. we think about mastriano as governor in a contested election, what he would do. i guess the question is is there some degree -- i guess here's the question, right? if someone like mastriano won that primary, are they vulnerable to the general or the dynamics of mid-term elections in pennsylvania such that whoever it is that wins that primary is going to have a coin flip shot? >> oh, yeah. i think whoever wins that primary will have a coin flip shot. one thing is the democrats are fortunate in that the attorney general, josh shapiro who most viewers

even in states like georgia where joe biden just won an election. where they elected to senate democrats. there is no filibuster in the senate, its majority rule. but then if you want to protect voting rights at the national role, then it takes 50 votes, 60 votes. and those votes are just not there because republicans won't play ball. not only that, but think of this craziness. the filibuster, as we say often on the show, it's not some nonnegotiable principles changing overtime. indeed, i covered it changing back in 2013. democrats got rid of it for most presidential nominations because republicans were using the filibuster to make it impossible to fill courts and office appointments. that was a big deal. republicans at the time said, you will regret it. and in some ways, probably true. donald trump got to confer a lot of judges. historic judge confirmation rate. but that's just what democracy looks like. that's the way the cookie crumbles. one thing democrats did leave in place back in 2013, right, they said we're getting rid of the filibuster for

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 pressure campaign was not just in georgia. new report by the arizona report shows that trump tried to speak directly to the chair of the maricopa county supervisors in the weeks after the election. again, there are types. this is state republican chair kelly wart, nickname -- by mitch mcconnell, calling supervisor clint heck men on behalf of trump. >> they claimed, it's kelly ward. i've just talked to president trump. and, he would like me to talk to you and also see if he needs to give you a call to discuss what's happening on the ground in maricopa. give me a call back when you can. thanks. by. >> rudy giuliani also left of voice mail and on the night -- the man in charge of maricopa election got this voice mail. >> hello sir this is the white house operator is calling to let you know that the presidents available to take your call if you're free. if you could please give us a call back, sir, that would be great. have a good evening. >> trump has never stop that pressure campaign. now he's passing restrictive laws to try nex

the pressure campaign was not just in georgia. a new report by "the arizona republic" shows that trump tried to speak directly to the chair of the maricopa county board of supervisors in the weeks after the election. and, again, there are tapes. this is state republican chair kelli ward, nicknamed kim trail kelley by mitch mcconnell, calling supervisor clint hickman on behalf of trump. >> hey, clint. it's kelli ward. i just talked to president trump, and he would like me to talk to you and also see if he needs to give you a call to discuss what's happening on the ground in maricopa. give me a call back when you can. thanks. bye. >> rudy giuliani also left a voicemail for hickman. then on the night of january 3rd, the day trump's call with georgia's secretary of state was published, the man in charge of the maricopa county election got this voice mail. >> hello, sir. this is the white house operator. i was calling to let you know that the president's available to take your call if you're free. if you could please give us a call bac

rose ann boy lan was a 34-year-old from georgia who had gotten involved in qanon and had gone to the capitol and got in the tunnel in one of the most violent scenes. medical examiners said she died of an amphetamine overdose as well, but clearly the conditions of the mob contributed to it and her fellow rioters showed no effort to stop their attack on police while she was lying there on the ground. >> even hill from "the new york times" visual team. thank you so much for your work and for coming out tonight. >>> all right. is there still a glimmer of hope on voting rights if democrats are able to budge on voter riding? we're talking about a franchise for a broken senate next. a fran for a broken senate next ♪♪ i'm steven, i'm 52, and i'm a makeup artist. i met my husband in 2002. i miss those eyes. do you think you could fall in love again? i'm so ready, you know? so, what do you see when you look at yourself? i see a really long life lived of vast experiences. botox® cosmetic is fda approved to temporarily make frown lines, crow's feet and forehead lines look better. the effect

roseanne boylan was a 34-year-old from rural -- georgia who had gone to the capital, you could see her getting stepped into the tunnel, which became one of the worst scenes of violence that day. when she emerged, she was unconscious. the medical examiners said she died of an infected man overdose, we investigated that as well. the conditions of that mob contributed to it, clearly. her fellow riders really show no effort to stop their attack on police while she was lying there on the ground. >> >> evan hill evan ho from the new york times visual team. thank you so much for your work and coming on tonight. >> if there is still a glimmer of hope on voting rights? we'll talk about a crucial stretch for spending the franchise for a broken senate next. at next try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health. versus 16 grams in ensure high protein. boost® high protein also has key nutrients for immune support. boost® high protein. i became a sofi member because i needed to consolidate my credit card debt. i needed just one simple way to pay it all off. it was an easy dec

roseanne boylan was a 34-year-old from georgia who had gotten into qanon and gone to the capitol. and you can see her there kind of just getting sucked into that tunnel, which became one of the worst scenes of violence that day. and when she emerged, she was unconscious. the medical examiner's office said that she died of amphetamine overdose, and we investigated that as well. clearly the conditions of that mob contributed to it and the fellow rioters showed no effort to stop their attack on police while she was lying there on the ground. >> evan hill from the "new york times" visual team, thank you so much for your work and for coming on tonight. >>> all right. is there still a glimmer of hope on voting rights, if democrats are willing to budge? we'll talk about a crucial stretch for extending the franchise for a broken senate next. g the franchise for a broken senate next from the world's number 1 selling nerve care company. as we age, natural changes to our nerves occur which can lead to occasional discomfort. nervive contains b complex vitamins that nourish nerves, build nerve

. >> when georgia was enacted its voter suppression law couple of months ago. i was in a lot of these conversations where people said the law on his face, and i had to remind them that exactly what you said the poll taxes also facially neutral, the literacy test was facially neutral, they knew with the result of it would be. remember the grandfather closet said that you could vote in places like oklahoma if your grandfather was able to vote in 1850, facially neutral, but whose grandparents were able to vote in 1850, black people? no. the idea that this disparate impact kind of happens is so outrageous. and more importantly, chris, this was explicitly referred to in the senate report. it has been recognized by congress that these are the kinds of laws, these facially disparate laws that were supposed to be attacked by section two. and so essentially with the majority does is ignore congress, again. first ignored congress by ignoring the records that were accumulated and now they've gone all the way back to ignore congress in an acting to voting rights act in the

this is happening because georgia went blue. republicans understand the numbers are not on their side going forward, nor in the present in those critical states, including texas, which is closer than they would have wanted. they are implementing a plan to restrict voters -- the votes of voters less likely to vote for them. it doesn't matter if you have the best message if your voters don't have access to the ballot box. >> this comes back to the question of using the power you have. this was the lesson of mcconnell and garland and amy coney audac norm. unless you can get manchin and sinema on board for basically majority rule in the senate, 50 votes, to wield the power you have, then you can't wield the power you have. >> maybe we should start lobbying exxonmobile to get them to lobby manchin and sinema. they seem to are more influence. >> can we hire the exxon lobbyist to lobby them? >> that's what the indivisble should do. >> if they believe giving d.c. statehood, getting rid of the filibuster and adding justices would be in t

ahmaud arbery, the young man who was murdered in georgia, essentially by safe control, had his case set swept underneath the rug by prosecutors who refused to move forward. a subsequent prosecutor said that was wrong and i'm going to make this right. under today's ruling, that second prosecutor would not have been allowed to prosecute his colors for murder, which was an extreme injustice as we've said here. >> yeah, the point here is that castor puts out a press release, which is to use your term katie, the only written record. we're all talking about lawyers who peeper everything, that's what they do. the only retired record is this press release which i think the prosecutors and others have argued essentially, is a representation of an act of prosecutorial discretion. and today's point, does that buy in future offices? is that act some ironclad deal which then cannot be taken back by a future prosecutor. i guess the question also is, was the mistake on the part of prosecutors here entering civil testimony, even if they got the trial judge to say it was okay? >> no, because he could ha