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

in georgia it was recounted three times. it's clear. for those who challenge the results and question the integrity of the election, no other election has ever been held under such scrutiny and such high standards. the big lie is just that, a big lie. [ applause ] >> the president repeatedly focused on what he called election subversion. the most dangerous threat to the integrity of our elections in our history. >> it's no longer just about who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible 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's about moving from independent election administrators who work for the people to polarized state legislatures and partisan actors who work for political parties. to me this is simple. this is election subversion. it's 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 representatives alex domingez and julie johnson, both attended the mee

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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

. >> 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

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

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

, 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

and how that has been changed in georgia. that is being -- they are attempting to change that in texas. that seems to -- seem -- seems, to him, to be one of the scariest elements of this. the way republican legislatures are trying to reach in and put new controls on how they count votes. >> that's exactly right. this is the little, dirty secret in these -- in these voter-suppression laws that we see popping up across the state by these republicans. you know, they want everybody to be outraged about the fact that, you know, they're putting -- they're criminalizing giving somebody a bottle of water. but the real, real rub is that they are trying to make a determination that it's going to be republican legislatures making a determination, on which votes are counted and which are not. lawrence, that -- there is nothing about that is american. that is something that you find in -- in putin's russia. and so, this autocratic mess that we see in the republican party. i don't even recognize this other party. they love to talk about in

it's great that georgia is investigating him for a potential violation of georgia state election laws, but he's a federal problem. he is committed federal crimes against the united states and we need a federal solution. that looks like an indictment from the department of justice. >> i mean, 600,000 people are dead because of this guy. let's be clear about that. thank you both for your time tonight. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> coming up, joe biden's big populist punch at corporate power. that's next. that's next. ywhere in the u.s. who accepts medicare patients. call today for your free decision guide. ♪ what can i du with less asthma? call today for your free decision guide. with dupixent i can du more... yardwork... teamwork... long walks.... that's how you du more, with dupixent, which helps prevent asthma attacks. dupixent is not for sudden breathing problems. it's an add-on-treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma that can improve lung function for better breathing in as little as two weeks. and can reduce, or even eliminate, oral steroids. and here's som

it's great that georgia is investigating him for potential violation of georgia state election laws. but he's a federal problem. he's committed federal crimes against the united states. and we need a federal solution. that looks like an indictment from the department of justice. >> i mean, 600,000 people are dead because of this guy, let's just be clear about that. david kay johnston, glenn kirchner, thank you so much for your time tonight. >>> coming up, joe biden's big populist punch at corporate power, that's next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ summer is a state of mind, you can visit anytime. savor your summer with lincoln. what makes new salonpas arthritis gel so good for arthritis pain? summer is a state of mind, you can visit anytime. salonpas contains the most prescribed topical pain relief ingredient. it's clinically proven, reduces inflammation and comes in original prescription strength. salonpas. it's good medicine. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuroscientist. and i love the science behind neuriva plus. unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuri

and, zerlina, we see a report in the "atlanta journal constitution" that georgia is already acting on that new law, and they are basically trying to pull the vote-counting process away from fulton county in a major democratic county. so the republican strategy seems to be, we don't care how many of you show up. we're going to try to suppress that. but if you do conquer us there and you show up, we're going to be counting. and when we do the counting, you're not going to like what happens. >> yeah. it's rigging the game on the front end and the back end. it's making sure that no matter what happens and no matter what wave of people show up to say, we don't want these people in office, it won't matter because you have your folks in place. it's like playing the referees. i hate the sports analogies, about you it works here, i think, in helping folks understand what's happening here. and i think, you know, i think republicans actually have overplayed their hand, and i think that the momentum is on the democratic side if the biden white house is willing to take this courageous step and be

. >> and choice, is this information relevant to what's happening down in georgia in the investigation that the fulton county criminal probe into that phone call in which trump tried to put russian georgia secretary raffensperger to, i think it was fine me 1000 thousand votes? >> so jonathan the interplay between those two events is pretty interesting, and let me talk about one way that it might be significant. prosecutors worry a lot about moving a detentions intent, what's he just saying stop for was that actually a cohesive plan to overturn the results of an election. something that makes it more likely that it was intentional rather than an accident or a stumbling was that if there's evidence of repeated conduct, it's actually admissible evidence that you could put in an insane giorgio word to indict, they could likely offer evidence of other similar related courses of conduct like this pressure that trump wanted to bear on the justice department to show that it wasn't a mistake, it wasn't unintentional but there was an intentional effort to subvert the election in georgia. >> cong

who controls the counting room, if republicans have had that kind of power, political power in georgia and in other places, arizona, pennsylvania, these key battleground states we ulha had all trumpy successful and stealing the election. a lot of these laws have provision that would make that kind of change. i think it's under the category of, they call it election subversion, that's the new category of negotiation that these voting rights from the senate is all about. i think it's ball game, i think republicans understand that if they control the counting rooms and the counting process that is the way in which they can systematically undermined democracy in the most profound way. we saw it on display on the threat of 2020. and any bill the democrats take up in the senate or in the house or in congress or in these coming months if it doesn't address this issue it misses the point. >> before it was written, it was run before the election, long before we saw these new republican legislative proposals and zerlina, we see that george is already acting on that new law and they're basically

committees investigation, the manhattan's investigation and the grandeur investigation unfold in county georgia, studying evidence of donald trump's possible violations of infected -- election laws there by trying to interfere with the counting. joining us now is john heilemann, nbc news and nbc news fair analysts, -- john, donald trump is famously an insomniac, tonight seems like one of the nights where sleep is going to be very hard for him to come by. >> yeah, he'll be up watching don lemon, over and over again. you know i was going to say is you are going through this investigation, you and i have both been investigated a fair amount and i'm not sure whether you spend time behind bars but i have, i don't think i've never been three investigations simultaneously. i think trump has faced some bad situations and obviously the biggest problems that he no longer has a shield of the presidency and you can see him just in the way that he's dealing with the difficulty season right now, you can see how desperately he's tried to think about how he can get back into that white house so he can have the

there's also an ongoing criminal investigation of which he is the center, in georgia. i mean, this, tomorrow is a sort of day one of a whole new saga in his life. that i think is going to make him a very unpredictable figure. and i think is going to be something that we all the need to open the open minded about in terms of how it's gonna change the news on a day-to-day basis. >> defended trump really officially begins tomorrow. it'll be the company trump that becomes a criminal defendant. but that's what you get when you name the company after yourself. so, the question becomes, and the other uses of the word trump in future indictments. that will be the big question tomorrow. not >> exactly. thanks, lawrence. >> thank you, rachel. hank you, rachel -- based on the kind of businessman donald trump appeared to be, always appear to be, described by marco rubio when he was running against donald trump as a con man. based on that con man a character that he so clearly seem to be, i believe that donald trump's businesses and financial affairs could not survive the kind of s

also have to include not just the voting rights act but the bill that raphael warnock the senator from georgia has put in that would obviate some of these terrible efforts to enable republican legislatures to overturn election results because they don't like them. put that package together and i think biden can play a very constructive role. and then i think we're really on line to get something extraordinarily important done. >> jonathan, that's what's -- that i've been following in this voting rights issue in the senate is that it is a complex, longer term game than obviously it is in the house. and it's always difficult for people to watch that and wait for the sequential elements of the game to play out. >> and people have to understand that hr-1 for the reasons norm just described is obsolete right now. it was written years ago before the 2020 election. there are two big problems. voter suppression, so everybody knows it, it's been around for a long time, and voter sub version, which is a new problem of people trying to act like they're living in a banana republic, banana republicans basi

there is also an i don't know going criminal investigation of which he is the center in georgia. i mean, like tomorrow is day one of a whole new saga in his life that i think is going to make him an unpredictable figure and i think is going to -- i think it's going to be something we all need to be very open minded about in terms of how it will change the news on a day-to-day basis. >> defendant trump officially begins tomorrow. it will be the company trump that becomes a criminal defendant, but, you know, that's what you get when you name the company after yourself. so the question becomes any other uses of the word trump in future indictments, that will be the big question tomorrow night. >> exactly, exactly. thanks, lawrence. >> thank you, rachel. >>> well, this is actually why i never thought he would run for president. what will happen at 2:00 p.m. tomorrow in manhattan is exactly why i thought he would never, ever run for president. based on the kind of businessman donald trump appeared to be, always appeared to be, described by marco rubio when he was running against donal

they want to make black americans in georgia stand in long voting lines without access to water. because that kind of cruelty is the point. that's what donald trump thinks. some people deserve daring to vote and daring to vote against him. when you find republicans who are troubled by donald trump's cruelty but still vote for him, they talk about the things they agree with trump on. like tax cuts or supreme court justices. and then they invariably say something like, trump did a lot of good things. exactly what donald trump said about adolf hitler. leading off our discussion tonight is adam, staff writer for the atlantic. he is the author of the new book, the cruelty is the point. also with us, an msmbc political analyst. i want to begin with you, the people who have been following donald trump closely for years and following his cruelty will on both sides of this not be surprised to hear him quotas saying that he admires hitler for a lot of good things he says. >> yeah. i mean, it is an extraordinary statement. but on the other hand, we did not need a private recollection from j

or what donald trump is doing calling secretaries of state and asking them to change vote counts in georgia. there is nothing tibia shamed about. one of the things i know you want to bring to this when you bring light to it is republican officeholders and states around the country would then be somehow shamed into doing something, i guess less bad than what they were going to do. they don't have that capacity anymore, do? they tibia shamed about what they are doing? >> they're not going to be ashamed. if we expose but they do, we could galvanize the people of this country to throw them in a box. by exposing what they do, by making people aware of how they're trying to pervert our democracy, how they are attacking our democracy. that will mobilize the people of this country to participate in elections. not only at the federal level, but at the state level as well. there are more people who are in favor of a fair system, more people in favor of having a robust democracy than supporting the minority views of the republican party. it's going to take people to make this happen. that's what redis

popular policy, whether you're in montana, or whether you're in washington state, or whether you're in georgia. so i think that is really the need -- the need is so great. and he's absolutely right when he says we can absolutely, and we need to, spend this money so we can give americans a way to feel different about their lives when they wake up every morning. >> congresswoman pramila jayapal thank you very much for starting us off tonight. we need your perspective on this. >> thank you. lawrence >> thank you. and joining our discussion he is executive editor of the recap where he hosts the hell and high-water podcast. and mrs. maxwell who hosts the program -- zerlina, i've got a scorecard here and we have a bipartisan agreement in the senate. one piece of this infrastructure bill. we have the left side of the democratic party in full support of what bernie sanders have managed to accomplish on the budget committee on the 3.5 trillion dollar democrats only package. you've heard from john tester, senator warner is on that budget committee. he basically represents the mentions side of the democr

. >> so looking at nine states, arkansas, oklahoma, georgia texas, utah, vermont, among others, all have passed legislation prohibiting school districts from enacting mask mandates. on the other hand, six states, connecticut, hawaii, new mexico, new york, virginia, and washington will require masks for k to students. who decides this, or does just everybody decide this on their own? >> what i'm noticing, that's a little different from last, year this has become a little too politicized. last year we found success when we allowed our school leaders and our health expects to make decisions, communicate with parents, build confidence, and safely reopen our schools. i think the more becomes political, the more challenging it's going to be for educational leaders who have worked extremely hard to safely reopen schools. and for our educators want to see their students in the classrooms. so let the decisions be on the shoulders of the educators and the health officials, they did it last, year and they're prepared to do with this. year >> let's talk about ventilation, you have got some money for

and later will speak with four secretaries of state and democrat ic legislatures from arizona, and georgia where already passed voting restrictions, kicking off the event, legendary civil rights icon who co founded farm workers of america. here's some of what she said yesterday to the texas democrats. >> it's happening right now, in many ways it's even more severe, it's broader, it's bigger than what was going on in the 60s. the soldiers were fighting for everybody, not just for texas, but fighting for arizona, fighting for all of those states where they are passing these laws to suppress the vote. standing up to the ideals and dreams of what america is and what america should be. >> joining us now dolores huerta civil rights activist and labor leader and co-founder with cesar chavez in 1962, dolores, not meaning to say anything about your age on tv, it's impolite, you started the agriculture a association since 1960 and been working on this since 1955 you were there at the frontlines of the civil rights fights in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 90s. it's never stopped for you. >> no, it hasn't. way

. >> and republican legislatures including georgia's for example, and texas, have been trying to formalize into their state laws what donald trump was trying to do over the phone with the attorney general by basically being able to change the outcome after the vote count, that's what they're trying to put into some of these laws. your hearing today was address something of that. >> yeah, so we have a bill that would preclude some of what the states are doing to replace the local election officials who are just counting the ballots. i mean, this has not been something that has been high profile. this has been a boring activity for centuries where you just count the ballots, now partisans are seeking apparently to take over this function and to skew the results. we can't let that happen and this bill would prevent it. we had a hearing today that was very helpful but chilling as well. because although the registrars and election officials didn't engage in hand-to-hand combat, like our brave officers testified about yesterday, they are facing off with armed militants who are seeking to subvert

popular policy, whether you're in montana or whether you're in washington state or whether you're in georgia. so i think that is really -- the need is so great, and he is absolutely right when he says, we can absolutely and we need to spend this money so we can give americans a way to feel different about their lives when they wake up every morning. >> congresswoman pramila jayapal, thank you very much for starting us off tonight. we really needed your perspective on this. really appreciate it. >> thank you, lawrence. >> thank you. >>> and joining our suggestion now, john heilemann, executive editor of the recount, where he hosts the hell and high water podcast. also with us, zerlina maxwell, host of the program "zerlina" that airs on peacock. i've got my little scorecard here and we've got a bipartisan agreement in the senate on one piece of this infrastructure bill. we now have the left side of the democratic party in full support of what bernie sanders has managed to accomplish in the senate budget committee on the $3.5 trillion democrats only package. you've heard from jon tester. senato

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

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

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

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, quote, 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 reasons to fight just keeps on growing. today this was the headline in the "atlanta journal-constitution." quote, 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 senator

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

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we're seeing that in georgia and all across in nation. to the extent the texas democrats had to flee from their homes to go to d.c. to stop this voter suppression, that's a demonstration of how intense the fight is we're in right now. while we seeing this directs action is not going to stop, this is not something that's not going to go away, that we can outorganize, outlitigate, we're going to have to have federal legislation to make sure we have protect voting rights and really unravel a lot of the damage that republicans are doing right now. >> let's look at the states enacting restrictive laws right now. these are states voting, enacting voting rights laws. you've got a second map here, states that are actually efforting these audits like pennsylvania and michigan where they may not get much traction but they are trying. latasha, until people not directly affected by this as you in georgia were or people in texas were, until everybody understands this is an affront on all voting rights, we're not activating the rest of the population.

that rolls back voter suppression, in texas, in georgia, in florida, and so many other places. and it opens up our elections to every-eligible voter. that -- that's not a democratic-party position, nor a republican-party position. that should be an american-democracy position. and that's why we're marching and that's why we want folks to join us in austin, tomorrow, 10:00 a.m. in front of the capitol. we'll be joined by impacted people and willie nelson, who will be giving one of his first concerts since the pandemic there. so, big day, tomorrow, in austin. >> reverend dr. barber, you -- i think, in the last few weeks, you've been arrested at least a couple of times. doesn't scare you. doesn't scare the texas representatives, who are under threat of arrest. they have done nothing criminal. but the -- the governor has implied that they could be arrested. that's what the summer actions turning out to be. people marching, people putting their bodies on the line. doing what they have to do to remind people that this is the kind of energy that is required. very reminiscent of the --

, who help make sure that the turnout happened in georgia, the texas legislatures came by, and we had several of our organizations from across the gamut come together in unity, to make sure that we are clear that for us voting rights is not an option to say we will go back to the 1940s, rachel. at the end of the day, for every american in this country we have always had to fight for our votes, we always had to have federal intervention. so for us to say, we don't have enough votes, what does that mean? we risk our lives in 2020 to turn out the vote, in the middle of a pandemic. and so we expect for our leaders to lead, and we're gonna continue to put the pressure on those leaders. and believe that at the end of the day we will win, will we win tomorrow? i am sure not, but we will continue to fight until we win. >> melanie campbell is the convene of the black women roundtable, president and ceo of the national coalition on black civic participation, and was arrested today along with joyce beatty. miss campbell, thank you for your time tonight, i hope you get a good night sleep after i

georgia was recounted three times. it's clear. for those who challenged the results and the integrity of the election, no election has ever been held under such scrutiny, such high standards. the big lie is just that. a big lie. [applause] 2020 election is not hyperbole. it's the most examined in the fullest expression will of the people in the history of this nation. it should be celebrated. the example of america is the best. but instead, we continue to see the example of human nature is the worst. something darker and more sinister. in america, if you lose, you accept the results. you follow the constitution. you try again. you don't call facts fake and try to bring down the american experiment just because you're unhappy. that's not statesmanship. [applause] that's not statesmanship. that selfishness. it's not democracy. it's denial of the right to vote. it suppresses, it's subjugate's. then i'll a full and free and fair elections is the most unfair thing that any of us could imagine. the most undemocratic. most unpatriotic. >

i am very grateful for senator raphael warnock of georgia who i think has been instrumental in bringing the party together, including senator manchin. it's really good news. it's a sign of progress. frankly, it's a sign that would bishop barber the poor people campaign and others who are willing to take direct nonviolent action across the country, what they're doing is actually working it's bringing the parties to the table, they're feeling the pressure and they know that they need to move forward. i would argue, and agree fully with bishop barber, that as important as the physical infrastructure of our country is, if we do not save the infrastructure of our democracy, protect the right to vote and guaranteed field for elections going forward we will lose it forever and nothing else is possible. raising the minimum wage. expanding access to health care, confronting climate change, legalizing illegal immigrants in this country. all these things only become when we bring people in the voting places, so that their voices are heard. i hope that senator warnock and others who believe in this

he has consulted with state officials in arizona, pennsylvania and georgia, is that what we call, it consulting? and he has described state ballot reviews as the key to prove that he won the 2020 election. and his political group has repeatedly urged donors to give by claiming that trump is working to protect their votes. fundraising pitches that his advisers say remain the most lucrative. one recent facebook ads says quote, we need you to join the fight to secure our elections. join the fight to secure our elections. pay for my private jet gas. buy me a sandwich. pay for my staff and buy other expenses. save america, that is a world class griff, man. $75 million, just in the first half of the year. but the predicate for this grift, the false idea that they are selling to the masses of trump supporter is this idea that there was some kind of consequential election fraud, right? and eventually they'll get around to finding it someday. maybe if there were more than one cyber ninjas it would be easier. but that predicate for the grift, that idea that they are selling, literally, to pay

health care, other infrastructure that president biden wrote that as part of the pace and for sure georgia through boards or go. today, the chance for station minister pete buttigieg pushed for the infrastructure agenda. i sat down with him here in oregon, to discuss the senate's two track approach to infrastructure, and what he thinks of the bill that senate democrats are putting together which takes a broader view of infrastructure than republicans do. >> the idea that americans ought to have paid leave just like people in pretty much every other country, it's something you don't have to be a democrat and republican to believe in -- and most people think we ought to do it. there is a problem with it in washington. a few months ago, when talking about human infrastructure, i heard republicans say childcare is great, building veterans hospital is great, we just don't think it is infrastructure. you should put it in a different package. fine. now it's in a different package. let's see if they vote for it now. >> yes, we shall see. you can catch the full interview with buttigieg on my show.

so people who are not directly affected by this, as you in georgia were in, or people in texas were, until everybody understands this is a front and all voting rights. we are not activating the rest of the population how do we get the rest of the world to understand this is not a black urban problem, a black voters of the self problem, this is a democracy problem. >> i think there's a number of things that we have to do, we have to be honest and what's happened in georgia this is widespread all across the nation, and while black voters and brown voters have been targeted, anybody in the most dredges laws come up, the truth of the matter is that it is going to impact all voters. that's every single one of us. anytime, one of these that we have to help people understand, is that anytime a political party be the libertarian the green the republican doesn't matter, anytime a political party abuses that power to really be in their authority to actually take laws in place, so that whoever does not vote for them, they can punish, or they can prevent them from voting or making more difficult