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Agreeing isnt salyut a shim its all right stop the count dont stop the count the election is a fraud this is a democracy at its finest yes those were the cries that have dominated the political noise and rhetoric coming from all corners of the democrat republican water bearers of this historic election week as the United States of america begins to move forward into whatever new future this election has shaped or wrought depending on your opinion and while former Vice President joe biden appears appears to have wrapped up a very narrow victory thanks to mail in voting in the time of coburn that that hasnt stopped my friends that hasnt stopped our brand name and cheap us President Donald Trump from crying foul we think we will win the election very easily we think theres going to be a lot of litigation as we have so much evidence so much proof and its going to end perhaps that the highest court in the land will see what we think theyll be a lot of litigation because we cant have an election still in the like this and i tell you i would i have been going about this for many months for the all of you and i have said very strongly that 1000000 ballots are going to end up being a disaster as there is donald once again declaring that this fight for the white house between our 2 geriatric leaders could end up in a legal battle on the floor of the Supreme Court mocker see at its finest so what is the wave of litigation is that trump and his supporters are counting on well vox reports that the Trump Campaign has filed a wave of lawsuits seeking to make marginal changes to the procedures governing ballot counting but nearly all of these suits involve such minor disputes that its unclear what trump stands to gain even if he prevails in court and as far as the Supreme Court. Concerned so far the Associated Press reports that the Trump Campaign also seeking to intervene in a pennsylvania case at the Supreme Court that deals with whether ballots received up to 3 days after the election can be counted interestingly most legal experts have said that none of these kinds of cases could potentially overturn the election but for those of us who lived through the great bush versus gore debacle of the year 2000 where the Supreme Court ultimately took the presidency out of the hands of the voters and and moved over to the partisan waters we remain on edge and always watching the hawks. If you will whats going on on a cd. Player so you can see this is this you always see you always. Great to see this least systemic deception is show which. Brings up the field as. Well the watching the hawks i am tire open for and im in the crowd and joining us to discuss the postelection legal and political fist fight for the presidency is the codirector of the National Grassroots Election Protection coalition professor and journalist journalist Harvey Wasserman thank you so much for joining us harvey. They could be hero of your monologue thank you how is nice to hear so professor wasserman you and many others have been sounding the alarm on the potential for a legally or politically hijacked election outcome for quite some time after hearing President Donald Trump invoked the Supreme Court once again this week are your fears and concerns becoming a reality. Where we get to see because if you taste. 65 or thats why they rushed for that seat its very good and you know hes got 3 texts but you know he has lost this election by more than 3000000 votes he lost by substantially more than he lost in 2016 and thankfully this year the Electoral College votes no on anything up differently than they didnt join it 16 but you know weve d got to get rid of that Electoral College thats one of the reasons we convened our grassroots Election Protection coalition i think hes done i think hes such an outrageous and ridiculous character that the powers that be are not going to keep him in there but the important thing to remember is that he was the popular vote by well over 3000000 votes in any sane actual democracy we wouldnt be talking about undecided election the elections over us by 3000000 votes thats the same so i mean and you know bush in 2000. Always one by you know if. He actually lost by 500000 what happened in florida should never have happened and what happened in 2016 should never have happened down top should never been the white house so weve got to get rid of the Electoral College get it with kerry and bring one good act in the so actually very big deal is that almost all the ballots were on paper you know because that one good thing that came from the go of it is that we had a giant spread of vote by mail which is a really big step forward for democracy and made a big difference and also because older. People like myself didnt go into the polls to war we had a major generational shift and they had millions of one thousands of more deals and generational z. Kids came out to work the polls a great education and democracy this will change the nature of our country so. Its big step forward because for the last 20 years ive been doing using i were trying to go to machine is still the vote you know push and pray now at least we have the paper ballots that are just going to help those who are most everywhere and those are all really good points i like the transition to you know the people who are actually involved at the polls this go around versus you know weve seen older generations before you touch on 2000 and thats something that weve heard back and forth in media lately what are some of the ways the losing party which in this case now appears to be president dollar trump could still essentially steal this election away from joe biden and the democrats should we be worried about a repeat of gore versus bush in 2000 weve already seen so many legal challenges. Yes absolutely because 1st or they stole for this year i mean they disenfranchise one more than a 1000000 ex felons who the people of florida voted and said ok you can vote and then the legislature the gerrymandered register to step in and scenario cant vote unless you pay your fees and you can even find out how much you owe edges d if those people had voted in florida. Trump would not have carried forward 4 was stolen this year again and for gods sakes hopefully when 40 years we can correct that i think gerrymandering has got to go but this year tactically you know the way the constitution is written the state legislatures choose the electrophoresis to the Electoral College which chooses the president there is actually no mention in the kaiser to sion of the right of the people to vote directly on the president quite the opposite in fact 47892860 there was a transition the legislatures chose the president that but then by 860 that they were following the lead of the public but legally the legislatures have the right to choose the ork doors and if trump had not been such a raving lunatic it could happen again this year but i dont think hes got the support to pull it off you have to have some kind of public support when he loses an election by 33 and a half 1000000 votes and behave the way hes behaved i dont think he can pull it off but legally he could do it you know its interesting because you mentioned a few things that number one like you know giving would have been Electoral College or try agree with the what what can we do to better protect our voting and democratic processes from getting it you know legally or illegally hijacked by one or both of our dominant political parties. Well ive read a history book getting i states about that actually had a history i stay straight a published called this people spiral of u. S. History this summer and then i am Bernie Sanders saving the world. Thats not going to happen then so we get the history of the Electoral College its ridiculous you know Alexander Hamilton came up with this he was a minor because basically he did now on the public to choose the president were so far beyond that we need to get rid of the Electoral College we need get need to get rid of gerrymandering we need to have rain Choice Voting paper ballots and a reliable Action System we also there was also another big step forward this year not much talked about but the a lot of the n. B. A. National Basketball Association i read yes were used for voting and its a huge step forward now to have people on these lines people could come in their restaurants or this food safety thats it their very big success this year 20 a basketball arenas a couple of football stadiums you know in kansas city and charlotte very very good good stuff but number one get rid of the Electoral College number 2 get rid of gerrymandering these are the things that are really killing our democracy thats how we wound up in states like michigan and wisconsin pennsylvania North Carolina with extreme right wing republican legislatures in states that are evenly divided ohio for god sakes a 5050 democrat republican state the same legislations a super majority republican as is now the congressional delegation and thats why one of the reasons our government is so unresponsive is because these people get these seeds and theyre in the state legislatures and congress and theyre completely safe because theyre not competitive elections where its actually been improved this California California has a very good Redistricting Commission which is non partisan or by multi parties and actually and in 20062008 both were just a major and the congressional delegations were put under control of this. Disunity commission and guess who funded it Arnold Schwarzenegger choice nader put 3000000. 00 of his own dollars in for a statewide campaign it was successful and thank you arnold you know for for helping us do this its a model for the rest of it and over the next 4 years if we can win state referenda and maybe even get federal legislation get rid of this gerrymandering thing will again take a big step toward democracy were good good folks like you out there fighting for this and educating the public i truly do believe that we will hopefully see this in the near future and i and its funny they never mention alexander the monarchist in the much popular play i have to thank you so much or had he was also he was also bisexual by the way that they have that actually our rivalry abbess thank you so much for coming on to present was one pleasure having you on. If the great monologues a great way to wake up. Have a great day sir. It to. As the democrats republicans continue to fight over ballots of votes election observers and who makes the Better Coffee on election day one go to controversy that has been thankfully left to the sidelines of 2020 as postelection fight for the white house has been accusations of foreign election meddling or interference unlike 2016 which saw cries of foreign meddling dom meddling dominating the headlines but hey lets not forget 2020 is not over yet and donald is desperate for excuses at this point here is our to americas alex mahela bridge with an indepth look at the hypocrisy surrounding United States peers of foreign election meddling especially given our own sort of history on the matter. From ukraine. To venezuela. For decades the us has been accused of interfering in elections around the globe while insisting that other state out of its voting process puts in someone that is a building standard that they present when they meddle in the internal affairs of other countries where they do not respect the electoral rules of those countries such as what happened in bolivia such as what has happened in venezuela where we are an example in terms of electoral matters u. S. Security Officials Say that there has been no foreign meddling detected in americas current president ial vote a stark contrast to just weeks ago when u. S. Intelligence accused russia any ran of interfering in the election well things are supposedly above board in the us vote the same cant be said for elections in countries where america has been involved bolivia is a prime example of that a nation that just recently democratically elected a new government after the us imposed its will a year ago. What occurred its nothing to be surprised about we also won last year and when democracy didnt serve their purpose they carried out a coup detat the us is accused of helping a right wing interim government take control of bolivia in october of 2000. 19 at least 35. 00 people died in related incidents from Campaign Financing to violent coups some would say the u. S. Is the biggest election meddler of them all dove levon political scientist who conducted an indepth analysis of election meddling told usa today the u. S. Has intervened in the most elections between 1906 to 2081 elections in total this includes well known cases in guatemala and the rand in the 19 150. 00 s. And in chile in nicaragua in the seventys and eightys. More recent campaigns up to the 2000 election in serbia where the United States openly funded a movement to defeat president Slobodan Milosevic approach in afghanistan where the u. S. Failed to remove him meet karzai from power as well as everything from simple funding to revolutions in places like ukraine kenya and lebanon the list goes on one of the most publicized examples of u. S. Interference in recent years happened in venezuela the United States recognize the Opposition Leader one quite oh as venezuelas interim president ignoring that countrys 2018 Election Results in which president Nicolas Maduro was reelected even though some may be questioning just how democratic americas elections are many outsiders are insisting that the process must be allowed to run its course according to the laws of the United States at the same time they hope that the u. S. Will give other nations the same respect for our t. V. Im alex myla bitch. All right were going to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks and other r. T. Programming on demand for the brand new portable t. V. Which is reportable t. V. Outwards is available on all platforms with the Police Download it check it out all right coming up weve talked about the massive amounts of money spent on this election with the cohost of by any means necessary a radio spokesman jack a look and so stay tuned for watching the fox you dont want to miss. It. This is a story of women women with troubled histories and complex cold cases you know some of us gately really. Who lives out there. Who were not. The person that. Cheesiness of the. Dangerous of criminals shes in a still. All the last 23 hours of the tell me that its long enough that. The 2020 alexion is coming to a close america could have a president announce before the end of the day but that likely wont come without legal challenges and a fight to prove vote by mail as project all heralded by the Truck Campaign this election seemingly has lasted longer than a lifetime and amid the backdrop of a pandemic the competition for the white house only intensified unlike most countries america is known for long. Thinking long president ial campaign. And for all the time and money spent on attack ads knocking on doors sending mailers calling people and using social media to change minds campaigns are high dollar events in fact the 2020 president ial election was a whopper of a worker setting proportions this president ial election cost 14000000000. 00 it is thing early the most expensive election in history and twice the cost of the 26000. 00 president ial election breaking it down even with many unemployed and suffering from the way to cope 192020 saw more individual donations to campaigns in other years women in particular just kept giving and the donations were often sit the candidates from out of state. Democrats definitely went above and beyond blowing past republican election spending margins Democratic Candidates and groups spent 6900000000 dollars between super pacs big business individual giving and a strong sense of urgency following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg democrats got the money machine rolling and here to break down those money bags in the 2020 campaign is jack a whoop cohost of by any means necessary welcome. I think for having me well jack a fundraising structure in 2020 for the president ial race this has been very strong especially considering it continued to grow even after the pandemic hit what do you think are some of the driving factors and the biggest influence its. Just the fact that the u. S. Political system itself is a form of political socialism and people giving to campaigns dont get that they believe that you know these candidates come begging for money that you know they have to support them in order to save them from the other candidate who is also begging another group of people for money to save them from other candidates and most americans dont understand that the entire Campaign Finance system in this country is a massive financial rest of the American People but it is so into the political process that the money that is spent so obscure it really does a good job of hiding that so people believe that they are funding better policies for themselves only really theyre just being ripped off i think about it when you look at these numbers over 14000000000. 00 a massive amount of money to be spent on political can praise them immediately my mind kind of goes to what else could we have gotten for 14000000000. 00 going to her butt. And theres been a lot of talk about removing money from politics would have 2020 as i me indication that isnt going to happen anytime soon not about common numbers i was curious could you explain kind of the spring stronghold in the breakdown of individual donations from citizens versus you know Political Action Committee Spending and why one is as you know why a Political Actions would mean so much more devastating to our political process. I mean if your average american citizen really doesnt have a whole lot of money to give to individual candidates even though you know collectively well when individual people get like 27. 00 you know say bernie to Bernie Sanders campaign yes well millions of individual people can give that amount of money to a candidate who is advocating for policies that will improve the material conditions of the people who are contributing to their campaign thats one thing but were talking about Political Action committees that can represent corporate interests that are Companies Large Companies Like amazon and over and you know fossil fuel industries that hate these companies to advocate for issues that a lot of them until only a few are taxes to pay people less money to reduce peoples benefits so that workers are taking away less money having a less secure. Existence in this country then you see the outsized influence of money and politics its not that individual people are giving too much money to politicians its that massive corporations that have enormous endless amounts of money to literally buy policy and politicians have much more influence and power and politics than your average you know mala who wants medicare for all. Scraping together 27. 00 every 2 or 3 months to give to Bernie Sanders amy and jack a at the beginning of a president ial campaign 5 go trump in the Republican National committee out one rave and outspent democrats but there was a huge shift after the summer and moreover in the fall we saw a large surge of donations for Democratic Candidates not only in the president ial race but also in senate and other down ballot races what do you think are some of the think youll or events or groups of events that contributed to the giving shift in that timeframe i know we saw a black lives matter but what are some of the things that you would say really shifted the scales from trump giving to a lot more democratic giving. I think in the way that trump the administration handled the pandemic really rubbed a lot of. Conservatives dont know its absolutely the wrong way and i dont want to give these people any credit for being you know or world in any way was just bad optics when bob woodward came out with the recording portrait admitted that he knew the virus was much more serious that it was that it was deadly from the beginning and he intentionally lied to the American People republicans like to keep their lies like that under cover so that was a really bad p. R. Move for the g. O. P. In their servitude jonas and i mean the death toll among people who were some who were succumbing to the fire was virus was rising the trumpet ministration was due to new and detail playing it it didnt look good for the republicans so they they really really didnt want to be seen continuing to fund that type of open everest toward the American People i think for the republican money machine of the republican donors that was the singular. Turning point for them already in trouble with. There month we got a little bit of time left lloyd but 2 minutes but i want to ask you in this 11 the most important question of all how do we wrestle control d of corporate money impact money away from these 2 parties if we even care and get you know the donations if you can theres always going to be political donations but how do we get it out of the hands of corporations and back into the hands of the people who are belongs. I mean the 1st answer people always give this to overturn Citizens United that people need to think understand that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of corporate spending in politics long before since its united back in the 800 s. There was a similar a Supreme Court case that ruled that you know corporations can spend whatever they want and political campaigns i think the number one thing we can do is to establish working class solidarity among working class poor and oppressed people in this country and unite Work Together up fighting for our interests collective interests as the working class the need for a simple or against the ruling class and in percent in the one percent of the elite yes they temper set the one percent absolutely control 80 percent of the find that of the stock market in this country but the rest of us the 99 percent we absolutely have the power to do Everything Else if we unite and that is the fight that we will continue to fight and that you continue to fight everybody on your radio show thank you so much for joining us Drucker Luqman always a pleasure having you on maam. Thanks so much for having me trace it. 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