in georgia to block georgia's flu restrictions. not to mention those passed in 16 other republican-controlled states just since the 2020 election. that sailed, there is still no clear path to getting that voting rights legislation through the united states senate. at least it doesn't appear that way tonight. but joining us now is somebody who knows better than we do. she's the chair of the rules committee in the senate. minnesota senior senator amy klobuchar. senator, it's great to see you. thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks, rachel. >> so the rules committee does have responsibility for things related to federal elections. lots of rules committee chairs in the past have sort of ignored that part of the purview, ignored that part of the committee's remit and focused on other things that are like administrative things for the senate. you've decided to max out basically what the committee can do in terms of that part of its purview. tell us how that led to this decision today, this remarkable decision, for the first time in

i understand you're back in georgia now, and, i don't know, it seems to me like you have georgia on your mind. >> you know, georgia has always been on my mind. that's what people don't realize. if they go back and look at anything i have ever said, i'm a product of the state of georgia. anything that happens in georgia, you will see herschel walker has showed up and now something is going on if georgia right now, i don't know what it is, and if i'm the right man for the job, you'll see me step up and say i'm running and that's what i say i'm going to do now but it will be on my timetable, no one else's. >> sean: all right, herschel walker, always good to have you with us. out of new york, crime is even worse than ever out of control. senator lindsey graham reacts later and senator ron johnson will join us. a new report regarding hunter biden's art dealer. the anonymous art selling. yes. guess what country it is. we'll tell you, straight ahead. ? we will tell straight >> sean: tonight more disturbing violence caught on tape in america's democratic run cities and states. over the weekend,

anything that is happening georgia, now something is going on in georgia right now, i don't know what it is and if i am the right man for the job and we will see me step up and say i'm running and that's what i'm going to do but it will be on my timetable and no one else's. >> sean: always great to have you, thank you for being with us. more shocking footage out of new york, crime is even worse than ever out of control, senator lindsey graham reacts, later senator von johnson will join us, a new report tonight regarding hunter biden's art dealer. the anonymous art selling? guess what country it is? we will tell straight ahead. >> sean: tonight, more disturbing violence caught on tape in america's democratic run cities and states. for example over the weekend in new york city right here, an off-duty firefighter was attacked by a violent mob in queens while just out walking their dog. apparently, one of the teams quoted saying fight night. the firefighter was then hit over the head with a glass bottle and that's not all. keep looking at the screen. you see a robber punched and stomped o

get georgia right.com. look at this ad. >> tonight's all star game was supposed be to in atlanta but democrats lied about our election law. >> it's racist. it's jim crow. >> some people don't want some people to vote. >> what do you think about the possibility that baseball moved their all star game out of atlanta? >> i support that. >> are you tired of democrats pushing politics? >> sean: and the baseball commissioner is called out for staying in the locker room. take a look. >> commissioner manfred moved the all star game from atlanta. why is he making baseball political? because of his terrible record. viewership way down. ticket prices way up. sketchy deals in china. manfred has been so bad that ted cruz and bernie sanders agree. they should pay taxes like everyone else. major league baseball serve your customers and not woke politicians. >> sean: he is radio talk show host and the director of research. here we have georgia's new law. it's far less restrictive and more inclusive with more access ability

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

senator hearing that was uprooted from washington and moved to georgia and held in georgia instead. this is the first time the rules committee and the senate has held a field hearing in 20 years. but senator klobuchar decided that the issue of voting rights was worth hitting the road for. to go understand in person what's new republican installed voting restrictions mean on the ground in states where they're being enacted. so the committee, at least the democrats on the committee who showed up, republicans didn't show up for this. but democrats on the committee heard testimony from georgia voters an election officials including helen butler who you just heard from their. she served on the board of elections on her rural county in georgia for more than ten years, until this year when a provision in georgia's restrictive new voting law allowed local republican officials to remove her from the board this month so they could take full partisan republican control over her counties election administration. helen butler called the takeover of local elections boards the most egregious part

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

all the focus now is on georgia, and we will go from there. my main goal for doing this it's to just continue to get people state by state to help us, to put pressure on the republicans, and our colleagues, to get this done. this is a concerted effort that people like reverend warnock, and he is someone who, in his own words, he decided to put his speech on the florida voting rights. as he summed it up better than i have in the whole interview, some people don't want some people to vote. that's what this is about. >> senator amy klobuchar, chair of the senate rules committee. thank you for joining us. we always appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> and coming up, mad bombers for trump. two men were accused in federal court today of plotting to bomb democratic headquarters in the hope of starting a war, for donald trump. that is next. rump that is next (realtor) the previous owners left in a hurry, so the house comes with everything you see. follow me. ♪ (realtor) so, any questions? (wife) we'll take it! (realtor) great. (vo) it will haun

without the new georgia voting bill we wouldn't know about any of this but tonight, atlanta, georgia, is not the only place facing scrutiny. an election audit in maricopa county in arizona is happening and it's also trying out pretty shocking results. according to the arizona senate president karen phan, the company is hired by the legislature to review the real election results and came up with a different number of ballots that maricopa county officials. tonight, we don't know of the exact discrepancy as the audit is now ongoing but this has to be concerning, concerning development for anyone that wants integrity and elections. the integrity of our elections, competence and election results is paramount to the survival of our great republic. i often cite several measures that all sites should adopt. chain of custody, integrity, voter rolls. updated for every election and most states haveve statutory language and partisan observers are allowed to watch the vote count from all political sides. they should watch the count from start to finish. audits and investigations also play an imp

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of far more inclusive in georgia, far more accessible for voting in georgia. the state of georgia, their new law, that mandates 17 days of in person early voting. that's accessibility. delaware has 0 in person early voting. in georgia, anybody without any reason can vote absentee. in delaware you must meet specific requirements. you need to give a reason. in georgia they have drop boxes for absentee ballots. they are available at county election offices all throughout the state. delaware has no drop boxes for absentee ballots. both states, interestingly, require voter i.d. but delaware is run by democrats and it's joe biden's home state and he hasn't lifted a finger in the 5,000 years he's represented that state to make voting more accessible. as a matter fact, the state of delaware is one of the most restrictive states in terms of voting accessibility. i've been saying this. this is important. this needs to be done this year, before 2022 and the important midterms. five things that i think every american of goodwill would want for our elections, to ensure int

unlike georgia. none of these deep blue states are facing a lawsuit from this now-emboldened, weaponized doj of joe biden. not one. clearly the left's hysteria over georgia and now texas has nothing to do at all in any way about civil rights. it is beyond hyperbole. it's destructive. they are playing the race card. oh, this is the worst challenge to our democracy since the civil war. it really? then why, joe, have you never lifted a finger in the decades and decades, frankly centuries, it seems, that you've served your state of delaware. you've never lifted a finger. merrick garland, where is your integrity? why aren't you suing joe's state of delaware that has far more restrictive laws than the great state of georgia? and by the way, everything to do with, what, i can only think of -- the only reason you don't want voter i.d. signature verification, chain of custody controls, partisan observers observing and cleaning up the voter rolls is got to have nefarious intentions. i would think this is a non

like arizona, florida, and, of course, georgia. still the epicenter of this suppression scam pain, and where the senate rules committee will hold a hearing tomorrow in atlanta to hear from state residents, including senator raphael warnock, on how the state's so-called election integrity law has affected access to the ballot in the peach state. we're fortunate to have the perfect guest of this story tonight. joining me now is senator amy klobuchar, democrat of minnesota. she's also chairwoman of the rules and administrative -- and administration committee. senator klobuchar, we truly appreciate you being with us as always. i know you were with stacey abrams earlier today at a roundtable of voting rights in georgia. i know you went to get the word at ebenezer baptist church from reverend warnock before that. but of course, you'll be hearing from him again tomorrow, along with other georgia residents and experts in a rare senate rules committee hearing in atlanta on the voting restrictions recently enacted in that state. i was chair

georgia voters and georgia lawmakers, they get to make those decisions. and if anyone else has a problem with it, they can pick up and explain and try to reconcile how it's not racist for them to leave the state like georgia and to leave cities like atlanta where you have so many black businesses and black voters and try to reconcile that along with the rhetoric. don'tn' let the door hit you whe the good lord split you. if you they went along including the corporations and if we compare george's law with joe's home state that i think he's represented for 5,228 years, delaware one of the most restricted states and he had the unmitigated gall to lierg about georgia and then these companies that are woke go along with it, major league baseball goes along with the line? that's infuriating to me. and what an insult to the people georgia. >> i think you're correct on that. two things, i think was the national bureau of economic research that did a study that showed if you are incorporating voter i.d. intoin a study, there was a study that came out from universi

paul: easier in georgia than new york state, kyle, what about hr one? are they going to have a harder passage or could this cause the democrats to say we can't make it as it? we're going to rewrite those in a way that makes it easier to pass. >> they seem with a lot of the provisions and get they have senator joe manchin who says he can't support that bill, what seems more likely to say will fall back to another bill, hr four, the john louisville name for the late representative john lewis and what that bill would do is resurrect preclearance process or state and local voting rules would have to get preapproval from the justice department from signoff but the problem is it's not clear to meet the current supreme court upholds that, the jim crow provision is applied to north dakota boise in 2021 and also it's not clear any repugnant or joe manchin would go for that either. paul: thanks, one more break when we come back, hits and misses of the week. ♪♪ ♪♪ paul: time now for our hits and misses of the week. kim, first to you. ing. >> paul, a hit to

in georgia, anyone can vote absentee, you are right. in delaware, no. you got to give them an excuse that meets a specific report. in georgia, drop boxes for absentee ballots are available at county election offices a all over the state. it's mandated. delaware has zero drop boxes for absentee ballots. both states require voter i.d. joe never lifted a finger to make voting more accessible and delaware and it's not just delaware. wisconsin requires voter i.d., rhode island requires photo i.d. hawaii you actually have your date of birth and address. residents who don't vote regularly can be automatically canceled from the voter rolls. minnesota, voters must meet certain requirements in order to vote absentee unlike georgia. none of these deep blue states are facing a lawsuit from this now emboldened and weaponized day of joe biden, not one. clearly the leftist theory over georgia has nothing to do with civil rights. it's beyond hyperbole and destructive, they are playing the race card. this is the worst challenge to our democracy since the civil war. real

. >>> 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. now recording more than 43,000 cases per day. that's up nearly 51% in the past week, more than three types the number in mid-june. states where vaccinations are the lowest getting hit the hardest. in florida accounting for one in five new cases, concerns about a three-day outdoor music festival attracting large crowds, and in missouri the attorney general vowi

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

states of emergency now in effect in florida and georgia. heavy rain, dangerous winds, 65 miles per hour. one person killed. trees coming down. rescue workers searching for nine people now missing off florida when their boat capsized. more than a dozen others rescued. first responders carrying people from their homes. tornado watches now in effect from florida into georgia. then this storm into the carolinas and up the east coast. d.c., philadelphia, new york and boston will feel this. ginger zee timing it out tonight. >>> the horror in haiti. the president of haiti assassinated, ambushed in his residence overnight. the first lady also shot and the images just in tonight, she has now been brought to the u.s., air lifted to florida. the ambassador to the u.s. saying they're hoping american doctors can save her. >>> the heartbreaking toll tonight. at least 18 more victims found in surfside, florida. now a recovery operation. the mayor breaking down today as she said searchers have been working for days, as if the victims were their own loved o

in georgia and iowa they have cut early voting. in alabama, arkansas, georgia, iowa, kentucky, oklahoma, they've shortened the time you get to apply for a mail ballot. in arkansas they've also shortened the amount of time you have to get that ballot back in. in arizona and florida they'll be kicking people off the absentee voter lists. in arizona, iowa, florida, kentucky, louisiana, texas, utah they'll be expanding voter purges, kicking people off the voter rolls entirely. in florida, georgia, montana, arkansas, new hampshire, wyoming, there's new harsher, stricter, narrower 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 day, no matter how old the waiting voter is. 18 different states, 30 different voter restriction laws and counting. those are passed. those are law. 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

>> in this state, no one ever thought we have to monitor elections in georgia. i just assumed elections were accurate. and i trusted our officials. looking back on it, it's not a very good thing i did, but i did. i trusted the officials and i still do to some extent. i think we know the ones that don't tell the truth and tried to. well, i don't call it corrupt corruption because i don't think that's a good definition for it. >> woodruff: and they're monitoring, president carter, they're monitoring for fraud. they're also monitoring for access. make sure people who should be able to vote can vote. how you mean how concerned are you? and again, the fact that your own carter center is now involv in this. >> i think all over the world, we've always, ever since the carter center was founded, tried to promote national involvement in the people in election themselves and make sure that votes were counted accurately. and all of those things have gone by the board because of a republican state legislature, who take the position that trump is espoused. so i think we'll ha

your colleague, senator raphael warnock of georgia, will testify as well. now, this field hearing is a rare occurrence. can you elaborate for our audience what the need is in georgia, senator? >> you bet. so good to see you tonight, especially on the anniversary of john lewis's death as we're all pondering his phrase "good trouble" and what that means. right now it means fighting to defend the voting rights of all americans. and georgia is one of those states that has passed a comprehensive set of obstacles really targeted at black americans from keeping them from voting. it ranges from things like the state assembly can take over the county boards to you can't hand out water to somebody who's been kept waiting in lines because they understaff deliberately the precinct, and the list goes on from there. this hearing is to go to the front line and hear from the people in georgia about what this means for them, both to give them voice and hopefully for america to listen. >> now, i've spoken to president biden a great deal about voting rights in the last two we

when you have a conservative effort across the country, but in georgia and in other places, it doesn't stay have passed voter suppression's laws to limit people's freedom to vote. and you know the answer should be in washington, where the constitution clearly says that a new congress has the right to make or alter our federal elections. if i don't know it causes greater than doing that right now, this is the moment to get it done. >> i want to read something that politico is reporting from congressman jim clyburn. it says the biden could pick up the phone and tell joe manchin, hey, we should do a carve out. he referred to the west virginia democrat who's resisted filibuster were torn. just do it. so there is jim clyburn saying to joe biden, just do it. you have to get this rule in the senate. vents at least for voting rights legislation. >> well, you know. i would abolish the filibuster and i've come to that decision after seeing obstruction, and so many other important pieces of legislation. thanks people as you get done to help their families for childcare. to do something about clim

we already know what donald trump did to steal the electoral votes in the state of georgia. now we have a new report of donald trump trying to steal electoral votes of the state of arizona and donald trump had succeeded in his criminal attempt as he put it to find votes in those states. he still would've lost to joe biden by at least 6 million votes. he could've storm the presidential election. thanks to the electoral college if you could pick up a few more states. georgia's fulton county district attorney is using a criminal grand jury to conduct what is the single most important criminal investigation of donald trump in history because of its focus on the most consequential crime donald trump has ever tried to commit, stealing the 2020 presidential election. 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

, for the phone call that he made to the georgia secretary of state. a phone call that we've, all, heard the tape of. we know what the grand jury is considering. you have reporting that he made more phone calls than that, including going around the attorney general. and making phone calls, directly, to u.s. attorneys around the country. is there any possibility we might ever be hearing tapes of those? >> i -- i -- there's always possibility. i mean, i think that anyone who speaks to donald trump should be, certainly, switching on their -- their phone. their iphone to tape what's going on here. i think, everybody knows -- knows that lesson. but the -- the other thing and -- and why this becomes -- this will be a somewhat of a -- of a difficult thing to prosecute is that -- is that donald trump is always on the phone. donald trump is always talking. donald trump is only half aware of what he's saying. it just -- it just spews out. it -- there -- there is no rhyme, nor reason, to it. he talks -- i mean, the georgia phone call lasted -- i can't quite remem

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

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

arizona and georgia. georgia in particular. new reports out of there some 35,000 people allegedly voted in a county that they didn't live in. what about that and where people should look for the right information about arizona and georgia because both places are coming out with minuscule numbers officially as of yet. >> well, i think one of the things that we have learned in recent months is that the level of distrust among a cohort of americans who have traditionally been the course source -- had great faith in our institutions in law and order in the wake of the 2020 election has really been raised. they are very mindful a number of different irregularities or questions that they have unfortunately, a lot of this has really been a situation where a lot of this has been swept under the rug and we don't have the level of transparency that we would like to have. not just about these processes but will about the rules that have been put into place. that's something that i think is going to require a number of different state offi

we know that in states like georgia that went for democrats not only in the presidential but any those senate races, state houses led by the gop are going to come back with a vengeance and try to silence the very voters who don't vote for their party, and that's why it's important for democrats to step up, pass something that mirrors the for the people act in the substance about combatting partisan gerrymandering. >> as well as dealing with -- in georgia where they're now replacing even some of those that are in those election commissions. >> yes. >> where they can nullify the vote. but i want to quickly address the new evidence against the former president in his attempt to overturn the election. new notes handed over to congress show trump instructing the justice department to lie to the american people, saying, quote, just say the the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me. susan, what do these revelations tell you about what trump was trying to do in the days leading up to january 6th? >> he's very consistent. he has been trying to undermine and use our government against ou

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

a week ago it was georgia congressman hank johnson. and today it was texas congresswoman sheila jackson lee, arrested in the same place for the same reason. you can see her here being handcuffed in white zip ties. she was later placed inside a police van. she later tweeted this photo of herself in handcuffs. her caption, "i will never stop fighting for voting rights. the time is now to move the voting rights bill in the u.s. senate forward. enough is enough. #goodtrouble." the protests and resulting arrests are part of a summer of action on voting rights. and the list of of reasons to fight just keeps on growing. today this was the headline in the "atlanta journal-constitution" -- "georgia republicans take first step to fulton elections takeover." fulton county is the largest county in the state, 1/10 of all georgians live there. it's where atlanta is. it voted overwhelmingly for joe biden. it also contains a sizable proportion of the state's black voters. the paper obtained a letter showing that two dozen republican state senators sup

yet another member of congress is arrested for getting in good trouble by georgia republicans take steps to undo the 2020 election. the fight for voting rights is next. s is next

judy: he is saying that his own carter center has been called on to monitor elections in georgia. so you now have a situation -- what the u.s. used to worry about and the rest of the world is happening here. >> earlier this year i read the magnificent biography of ulysses s grant and as part of it covers the story of reconstruction. of when it former slaves were given the vote and taken away, so it is hard not to read that history and you hear echoes today. morley, i agree. given the history o america, if you are a legislature -- legislator of any already, you do not want to be on the side of disparate outcomes on racial grounds. that is a bore into. i would disagree with president carter in that i do think the 2022 election will be a fair election. i do not think we have totally trashed our system. that is why they make the emphasis -- when you try to discriminate against people, one of the things that has happened is they come back at you harder. so you get turnout increases when people perceive that the legislators are trying to turn people away. whether that will be the system

in georgia the family of wyatt gibson says he was a healthy 5-year-old before he contracted covid, strep and staff passing away from a massive stroke friday. his father, a sheriff's deputy writing on facebook, i have lost my best friend. across the country, nearly 22,000 americans hospitalized with the virus. doctors in las vegas say they're reliving last winter's surge all over again. >> they're so sick currently that the doctors are talking doing tracheostomies on all of these patients. >> reporter: in alabama dr. brytney cobia says she's seeing healthy young people with serious covid infections, writing on facebook, "one of the last things they do before they're intubated is beg me for the vaccine. i hold theirand and tell them that i'm sorry, but it's too late." she goes on to say after patients die, "i hug their family members, and i tell them that the best way to honor their loved one is to go get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same. they cry, and they tell me they didn't know. they thought it was a hoax." the delta variant now making up an estimated 83% of n

. >> and joyce, is the information relevant to what is happening in georgia, the fulton county criminal probe into a phone call in which trump tried to pressure the georgia secretary of state, find me 10,780 votes? >> so jonathan, the interplay between the two events is pretty interesting. let me talk about one way it might be significant. prosecutors have a hard time so prove intent. was there a plan to overturn the results of a legitimate election? and something that makes it more likely it was intentional rather than an accident, if there is evidence of a repeated course of conduct, and it's actually admissible evidence, say georgia were to indict, prosecutors would offer evidence of other similar related courses of conduct, like the pressure that jump bore on the justice department, but an intentional effort to subvert the election in georgia. >> congressman swalwell, considering you have been an impeachment manager, and devised questions to ask witnesses, what kinds of questions should investigators be asking now? >> at this point, tries to understand what trump and those around hi

georgia's secretary of state's wife telling reuters, she received threatening texts. you and your family will be killed very slowly one of those read. another warned of an unfortunate accident the family would have. still another read, we plan for the death of you and your family every day. don't forget that six months later to the day, the handful of republican lawmakers who stood up for the truth have been cast aside. liz cheney stood up and was stripped of her position. six months to the day, it's the lie that won't die. quoting reporting in "the washington post", of the nearly 700 republicans who filed initial paperwork with the federal election commission to run next year for either of the u.s. senate or the house of representatives, at least a third have embraced trump's false claims about his defeat. late this evening, president biden weighed in with a statement. not even during the civil war did insurrectionists breach or capitol. but six months ago today, insurrectionists did. the president called it a sad reminder that there is nothing guaranteed about our d

plains, georgia. former-president jimmy carter and his wife, rosalynn, are the longest married presidential couple in u.s. history. his sister played matchmaker, setting them up on their first date when he was a midshipman at the naval academy. they married in 1946. over the years through some sometimes-turbulent political campaigns, their relationship never faltered. the former president told "the new york times" the couple is, quote, just grown closer and closer together. jimmy carter is 96. his bride is 93. we wish them a wonderful, wonderful anniversary. the news continues. t'

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

georgia republicans take first step to fulton elections take over. fulton county is the largest county in the state, one tenth of all georgians live there. it's where atlanta's. it voted overwhelmingly for joe biden. it also contains a sizeable proportion of the states black voters. the paper obtained a letter showing that two dozen republican state senators support a performance review of fulton election chief. they have the power to request this thanks to the restrictive voting bill that georgia passed earlier this year. according to that bill, states senate bill 2:02, the state can replace any local election official with enough republican support. the chairman of the fulton county board of commissioners, a democrat, a sounding the alarm saying that is an attempt to take control of the senate and retain the governorship in 2022. it's been record rick until this point. this letter is the first official step in the process. we've got allies in the legislature, we have the court and the court of public opinion. the law as it currently stands is on th