today, arizona republicans who are doing there, so called, audit, in arizona, they gave a briefing on the progress. only two republican senators were there but they try to call it a hearing. this audit that they're doing in arizona, they launched it in april, this it will take three weeks. it's of course mid july under still going strong. they make clear today that they're definitely finding all the fraud they've been fantasizing about. but it's definitely gonna take a lot of more investigation, lots more materials, probably lots more donations from trump supporters nationwide. it looks like they will subpoena more stuff from the county america where they got all the ballots from. the way they're talking about it today it sounds like they have weeks to go, maybe months still to go. it's such a big and complex investigation. there is no sign that there was anything wrong with the presidential vote in arizona. nothing. there is no sign that there was anything wrong with it, at all. and i'm saying that because i can observe it, because i can observe that the vote in arizona was subjected

amplifying the big lie and praising arizona republicans despite what arizona senate president and leader of the effort karen van publicly says. >> this is not about trump. this is not about overturning the election. this has never been about anything other than election integrity. >> reporter: her e-mails tell another story. obtained by watchdog group american oversight last month. van writes in a december e-mail she spoke with mayor giuliani at least six times in two weeks and mentions a private two hour meeting with giuliani and the trump legal team. in november van writes she asked the trump legal team to please file a lawsuit to halt vote certification in the state. she tells another voter last december about a personal call from president trump thanking us for pushing to prove any fraud. but van wasn't the only elected official who received calls from the trump orbit. maricopa supervisor bill gates got a voice mail 2020 from then trump lawyer rudy giuliani. >> i have a few things i'd like to talk. maybe we can get this thing fixed up. >> reporter: do you believe this entire thing wa

in phoenix, arizona. this is thursday last week, it was 112 degrees in phoenix that day. ♪ can't take it no more ♪ ♪ we're fired up ♪ ♪ we're fired up ♪ ♪ can't take it no more ♪ >> fired up, can't take it no more. 112 degrees that day in phoenix. not counting the radiant heat off the tarmac there. that was outside the office of arizona's republican attorney general, mark burn avich. those folks were protesting outside his office because of his role in promoting and defending new voting rights restrictions in arizona, including all the way up to the united states supreme court. also, arizona's new rules about how the state's elections will be conducted in the future, new rules explicitly designed to make sure officials from the democratic party can't play a top role in election administration in arizona anymore, only republicans will be allowed to do that from here on out. of those folks protesting outside attorney general's office in arizona, nine were arrested. it wasn't -- they weren't

particularly, the arizona one. i mean, that have been just so readily debunked, including by the republican-election officials in maricopa county. >> right. >> so, you know, it is a con. it is a scam. and -- and people are involved in fantasy fulfillment for donald trump. >> and it goes on. i mean, now, maggie, he's going to -- to arizona to go onstage. to have all the politicians who are going to be running are going to be on the stage with him or dying to -- to get a photo with him. and there will be, i'm sure, more e-mails going out about sending money to him to continue fighting for what they are calling is election integrity. even though that's a ruse. >> it's interesting, anderson. you know, he -- he was talking -- some reporting that he was talking to an adviser a couple of weeks ago and he was trying to push this person to say, you know, that -- that this idea that he could be reip st reinstated in august is real, which it isn't, to be clear. squ and he was trying to push this person to say this arizona eff

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 tonight that one of the republican state senators in arizona who's been promoting the audit thing in arizona all along, he's now selling t-shirts promoting his cause. the cost of his t-shirts, it's a sliding scale by size. they're $35 to $45 for a t-shirt. wow, order yours today. it's $35 for a small or $45 for a double extra large, which frankly just seems rude. the "washington post" reports tonight former president trump seemed to have found a tidy path through the wreckage to pay his living expenses via this nonsense he continues to stoke. the headline in "the post" tonight, quote trump's pac collected $75 million this year, but so far the group has not put money into pushing for the 2020 tally he touts. it raised about $75 million the first half of this year as he trumpeted the false notion the 2020 election was stolen from him. but the pac has not devoted funds to help finance or push for similar endeavors in other states, according to people familiar with the finances. instead the save america leadership pac, which has few limits on how it can spend

maricopa county, arizona. the one being run by the cyber ninjas' guy, who is a qanon stop the steal conspiracy theorist. where they have been running through ballots. they have been taking the the ballots and running them under ultra violet light looking for bamboo fibers because maybe the ballots were secretly sent to america from east asia. today, the guy who's been overseeing the audit for the arizona republicans quit. after being locked out. i'm -- that's not a -- i mean, he was actually, physically, locked out of the building where the audit has been taking place. well, that was this morning. he quit. and then, later today, he unquit. so, that's going well. the whole arizona audit circus was supposed to last a few weeks. we are now four months in. the arizona senate republicans, just this week, sent a whole new batch of subpoenas to maricopa county for more stuff that they want to look at. they are just going to keep on looking. this thing is going to go on forever, so that donald trump and his allies can

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

now there are no good options for this audit here in arizona. it was -- first of all, it was unnecessary. our republican county board of supervisors, which is 4-1 republican conducted two audits using election assistance commission approved companies, bipartisan commission, non-partisan professional companies two audits confirmed we had a fair election here in maricopa county. it was no purpose to begin with but since it's been a conclusion in search of evidence and now that no evidence of fraud or error has been detected, they've taken to inventing statistics and facts made up out of thin air about more ballots received than requested, which of course is thoroughly debunked. there is no good resolution for this. when i started, there is no good that can come out of this. >> here is the thing, when this audit and, you know, i put the quotes around it, when this is done, whatever it's done, it been going on and on and still goes on and on and there is an outcome and what chris said is powerful. you can go off the cliff or jump off the train going

it is in full swing in arizona. we are expecting them to announce their supposedly scandalous results sometime soon. republicans even now are movinga to also do it in wisconsin, also in pennsylvania, also in georgia. even also in oklahoma where trump won by more than 30 points, but still there must have been democratic fraud. in his remarks today, president biden then turned to what voting rights advocates are desperate u to hear from him.fr a full-throated unreserved call to act, to protect voting rights nationally in washington, which is the only way to stop the state-by-state devastating attacks on voting rights that republicans are now pursuing across the country. watch. >> last month republicans opposed even debating, even considering for the people's act. senate democrats stood united to protect our democracy and the sanctity of the vote. we must pass the for the people act. it's a national imperative. we must also fight for the john lewis voting rights advancement act to restore and expand -- [ cheers and app

in arizona and florida they'll be kicking people off the absentee voting list, in arizona, iowa, florida kentucky utah they'll be expanding voter purges, kicking people off the voter rolls entirely. in florida, arkansas, new hampshire in wyoming there is harsher, stricter narrow voter i.d. requirements. and yes, in florida and georgia they're banning water or any food or snacks for anyone in line no matter how long the line gets, no matter how hot it is that the, no matter how old the waiting voter is. 18 different states, 30 different voter restrictions law and counting, those are past, those are laws. and the effort to find a way to stop it, to try to put a floor under voting rights nationwide so no state can restrict voting rights below that nationwide floor to hold them up, that fight still hinges on the for the people act, which has passed the house and it's stuck in the senate, is still stuck in the senate because of uniform republican opposition to it and the hope the republicans are getting in that effort from democratic senator joe manchin. as we've been reporting for the past c

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

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the whole arizona audit circus was meant to last a few weeks, we are now four months. in the senators say that the new batch of subpoenas that -- they're just gonna keep on looking. this thing is gonna go on forever so that donald trump and his allies can keep pointing to it and say proof of all the fraud is coming, it's just around the corner. and it's spreading. in wisconsin, the republican chair of the assembly elections committee is gathering up for her own arizona audit. she doesn't just won a forensic audit, she wants a cyber forensic audit. we don't know what that is but i'm sure that it is much fancier than the regular audit. this is how a wisconsin we republican made a pilgrimage -- this is on top of the investigation initiated by the republican speaker of the wisconsin assembly who wired some ex cops to dig into the 2020 election results for him under the watchful supervision of a republican former wisconsin supreme court justice who became a stop the steal activist after the election. and there's also the audit of ballots in, wisconsin being carried out by a

it's not in arizona. it's not in california. the border is in every town in america. >> driven in part by president biden's promise to legalize america's undocumented population to betort will 8,000 migrants in june. >> it is quickly approaching a million for the year. and untrack to the highest in history. >> biden administration still says the border is closed. it eliminates any sense of credibility. either president biden or his administration has about anything under the president's more compassionate policy, most children and families will receive shelter and the notice to appear in court some time in the future. >> i don't see anything right now that shows any sign of slowing things down. >> if you want to come to the united states of america illegally all you have to do is present yourself anywhere along the border entry point you will get processed in with no issues whatsoever. >> officials multiple red states toured the border yesterday. >> there is a total free for all. and every single american should be beyond outrag

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,

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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

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 hand count, 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 vote was, already, certified. 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 ris

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 aviation pioneer, after a 60-year 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 and audacious illegal payment scheme over 15 years. cfo allen weisselberg, one of the trump organization's longest serving and most loyal employee s, a stunning sight as he arrived

crews making a dramatic rescue in arizona. and further west more than 80 large fires burning across 11 states, many uncontained. these firefighters along the nevada/california border driving right through the massive flames. rob marciano is standing by. >>> and the devastating landslides in india. more than 100 people dead. more than a thousand others rescued. >>> the deadly boat collision in georgia. two boats smashing into each other on a lake in the early morning hours. what we're learning from >>> the ators tonight. the group's vice president taking a firm stance after the league announces new rules. what he says about players who don't want to get vaccinated. >>> and the surprise gift for a thousands of tips pouring in from total strangers changing his life forever. >>> good evening. it's great to have you with us on this saturday. i'm whit johnson. we begin tonight with the concerning summer surge in covid-19 cases across the country fueled by the highly contagious delta variant and a stalling vaccination rate. the u.s.

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

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. ♪ ♪ >>> topping our political lead, former president trump heads to arizona this weekend to boost the big lie that the election was stolen from him, which we know is not true. this as the so-called audit of the 2020 votes in maricopa county launched by arizona republicans continues. let's launch right into it with our panel of ladies wearing red. you've got on red shoes. [ laughter ] so let's talk about this. really it's stunning what "the washington post" is reporting, that former president trump's political pac stockpiled $75 million, and most of that money is staying in its war chest. why not put your money where your mouth is? >> well, billionaire presidential candidate is someone who's also known for never wanting to really risk his own money when it comes down to it. there's a lot of talk and very little action. and i think it really demonstrates that at the end of the day what this is all about that war chest is all about is his own political future, what happens to him, his ability to run again in 2024, and not so much financing this sham audit in arizona, which i think even h

arizona has done it. now pennsylvania, the republicans in pennsylvania legislature are pushing for an arizona style so-called 2020 election even though it's been tested and re-tested and re-litigated and the judges have all declared there was no problem in pennsylvania. what is pennsylvania going to do? >> to your point, andrea, here in philadelphia where i'm coming from and represent there has already been an audit in philadelphia twice, and don't take my word for it as a democratic congressman, the republican city commissioner, one of the commissioners in charge of our elections has verified that it was audited. furthermore, the entire vote count for philadelphia was actually live and streamed anywhere. the irony is, of course, that in 2020, donald trump had -- had slated better in philadelphia than he did four years prior, what really sunk him was the vote in the suburb switching so hard from red to blue. statewide in pennsylvania i am deeply concerned that we will no longer be in arizona and the key r

an election audit in maricopa county in arizona is happening. it's also turning up the shocking results. according to the arizona senate president, "companies hired by the legislature to review the election results came up with a different number of ballots then maricopa county officials." tonight we don't know the exact discrepancy, as the audit is now ongoing. but this has to be concerning ag development for everybody that wants integrity and elections. integrity of our elections, confidence in election results, it is paramount to the survival of our great republic. i often cite several measures that all states should adopt. voter identification, signature verification, chain of custody integrity, voter rolls being updated for every election, and most states have statutory language that partisan observers be allowed to watch of the vote count, all political sides, they should watch the count from start to finish. audits and investigations also play an important role, while audits can be painful and they can be expensive and time-consuming, and

this is the headline from the arizona republic today. quote, arizona representatives andy biggs and paul gosar votes to abandon afghan allies. what follows is a scathing editorial indicting these two congressman for being part of a small group of 16 republicans who voted against an overwhelmingly bipartisan bill to try to expedite the process and forgetting afghan translator to help u.s. forces day safety as america ends its longest war. quote, when the u.s. pulled out of vietnam, there were unfortunate, sometimes tragic repercussions for some of the vietnamese who assisted our troops. the idea of the house bill was to not let that happen again. to appreciate loyalty to. demonstrate empathy. to emphasize humanity. the bill before the most unmistakably and indisputably good. in voting, no, congressman gosar and biggs prove themselves to be unmistakably and indisputably the opposite. gosar and biggs are not the only republicans facing bash slash for voting against helping the translators. the veterans group released this ad targeting two d

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if there is action from the arizona state senate from this issue has it not not happened yet. 47,000 mail in ballots received never mailed that appears to be based on data that does not show the total mail-in vote and does not reflect the total early vote either. something acknowledged by the third party audit itself. audited to the roll after the election and still voted. again maricopa county officials say provisional votes go through a rigorous are verification process to ensure validity. they say only eligible voters added to the rolls, again, they are in charge of that election. also the trump claim that all access logs to the voting machines were wiped was debunked back in may by the republican chairman of the county board of supervisors. former president trump claims the election server was hacked during the election. maricopa county says its election server is not connected to the internet and independent auditors found no evidence of a breach there. as we reported last week, there have been a total of 182 potential fraud cases referred to investigators in arizona. only four

those states are ohio, pennsylvania, new hampshire and arizona. pennsylvania's especially notable because there it was a democratic governor, tom wolf, who signed the budget including a expansion of the tax credit scholarship program there. this brings now a total of seven states this year that have expanded school choice programs that lets poor kids attend schools that actually teach. that's real equity. paul: great, thanks, dan. that's it for this week's show. thanks to all of you for watching. i'm paul gigot, hope to see you right here next week. ♪ arthel: day two of the conservative political action conference is in full swing as republicans look ahead to the midterms and the 2024 presidential elections and while the party waits for its next leader to emerge, one name still looms large. hello, everyone, welcome to "fox news live." i'm arthel neville. eric: thank you for joining us, i'm eric shawn. well, it may not quite have as many key heavy hitters -- conservative heavy hitters as it did earlier this year, but former president trump will b

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the supreme court has already reviewed the arizona case. and the arizona case they upheld arizona. the constitution says states make these decisions. not federal government. the case is pretty well settled. >> bret: all right, panel, when we come back, we will tap you for tomorrow's headlines. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ summer is a state of mind, you can visit anytime. savor your summer with lincoln. like you, my hands are everything to me. but i was diagnosed with dupuytren's contracture. and it got to the point where things i took for granted got tougher to do. thought surgery was my only option. turns out i was wrong. so when a hand specialist told me about nonsurgical treatments, it was a total game changer. like you, my hands have a lot more to do. learn more at factsonhand.com today. what's on the horizon? like you, my hands have a lot more to do. the answers lie beyond the roads we know. we recognize that energy demand is growing, and the world needs lower carbon solutions to keep up. at chevron, we're working to find new ways forward, like through our venture c

he told us that of course, he won arizona. everybody knows he won arizona. joe biden won arizona. that's what the vote totals show. it was one lie after another and it was very clear that he's not been able to come to grips yet with the reality that he lost the election and he is no longer the president. >> i wanted to play for both of you, carol, these -- his comments about the lies about the election which are still fueling the so-called audits in arizona and they're trying to do it elsewhere, and new restrictions on voting and let's listen to what he said and i'll ask you about it on the other side. >> i'm a big believer in science. are you talking about disinformation or are you talking about lies? there is a more beautiful word called disinformation. >> disinformation, not lies. carol -- your takeaway when he's saying that? >> we were both pretty gob smacked, andrea as the president described disinformation as a beautiful word and it is really the through line of his final year in the oval office. i mean, think about all of the things that he has said that are essentially han

his team manages calls placed along the arizona-mexic border. overseeing calls from cell towers and imagery off o surveillance systems. >> we have a decision support system so when a call comes in, what condition are they in, is it a rescue? is it urgent? what capabilities are up. we have to do the pilot calculus, figuring out the bird, how much flight time is left, how much it takes to get to the area. we don't want to send a bird somewhere to turn around. >> every agent has a smartphone connected to the team awareness kit. the network expanded this past april, giving everyone in this room and in the field a clear enough picture to send support when needed. >> there on top of it. reporter: improved technology isn't always enough to save people from the dead the elements in the desert, as shown with a honduran man who died. >> this was the worst case scenario of where the team did the best they could with what they had. the call comes in, it is immediate, do you have the coordinates. 100,000 square meters to figure it out. the person on the phon

martha: and president trump in arizona won, trying to make sure that arizona gets back into his column. he also went after mike pence last night, saying someone gave him sot bad advice on -- some bad advice on certifying the election. last thought on trump in arizona. >> well, i think biden said in virginia, he ran against trump and he whipped him and now you have terry mcauliffe running against trump in virginia in terms of glen youngkin, i think that's a pretty good line. what you see trump doing in arizona is trying to stir his base. i don't know that he has much ability at this point. martha: thank you all. good to have you with us on our sunday panel this week. coming up next, our power player of the week, bryan cranston, on the iconic roles that have made him one of our most respected actors. but eventually, with spring comes rebirth. everything begins anew. and many of us realize a fundamental human need to connect with other like-minded people. welcome back to the world. viking. exploring the world in comfort... once again. i brought in ensure max protein, with thirty grams of

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

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

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

it's present in the wildly unprofessional election audit in arizona that republicans now want to replicate nationwide. texas state representative steve tot this week called for an audit of the larger counties in the state that mostly went for biden. "the washington post" notes, quote, asked if he would consider something of the smaller counties, he replied, what's the point? i mean, all the small counties are red. end quote. it was a rare bit of honest from an elected republican that unwittingly made speaker pelosi's case about the existential importance of this investigation to our democracy. with us now is congressman hakeem jeffries of new york, chairman of the democratic caucus and a member of the judiciary committee. congressman, president biden spoke last night about the importance of the january 6th commission. take a listen. >> listen. i mean, think about it. turn on the television every day and seeing the replay of what happened on january 6th and saying i was told there are a lot of peaceful, wonderful people, god -- no, i really mean it. think about it. it is bizarre. we have to

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

moved out of the coliseum, brought across the arizona state fair grounds on these trucks and delivered to a storage facility. and now look at this next video clip. and this is from about a week ago. this facility looks like you'd expect, storage, ballots are all boxed up. there's nothing happening. it looks like a ring camera. well, suddenly, there was activity. this morning, if you look at this next video clip, suddenly, there were two counters, they're paper counters that were delivered. and we are now told it's not a hand count, it's a machine count. these machines are going to count each ballot. they're not going to look at what's on the ballot. they're just going to count the ballot. the arizona audit spokesman tells me is the reason they're doing this is to double and triple check what the contractor has done, cyber ninjas. he's calling it basically cleaning up. what does that mean? i don't know. i've talked to a number of people. maricopa election officials and national officials, and they're scratching their heads saying they just don't know what's happening, anderson. >> just