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At this point but he says, somebody has to stand up at some point and basically, doesnt seem to worry about his public image. >> at the same time, he knows this cant, i mean, they can shut it down for a few days, its happened before, couple week, often the blame game, but bottom line is the u.s. government isnt going to default, i dont think. >> no, i think they know they are going toes pass it but basically he wants democrats holding the bag and they can go to voters across the country and say ...

Ways election subversion would be through a bloodless coup depended on technical legal arguments overcoming valid election results and the way i read that is basically, overwhelming the safety mechanisms already built into the election process, explain that approach and why its more dangerous than simply crying out voting fraud and asking people to go to the streets. >> well, as we saw with the results of the fake audit this week, its hard to make claims of fraud and make them stick. im sure cyb...

Lost. sir, this election didnt happen. you were not the winner. you are not still president. there is no magical fraud audit to fix this problem for you. you got beat. they wont say it. if you go to kevin mccarthy right now, whos the legitimate president? half the republican caucus, theyll say donald trump. they dont believe we live in a democracy anymore, which should scare the hell out of americans and these people, and by the way, one thing rick mentioned, if kevin mccarthy is speaker, if kev...

Even more bogus audits. i need people to talk to about this. joining me, steve schmidt and senior adviser to the lincoln project stewart stevens. hes author of the incredible book "it was all a lie." thank you so much for coming to "the sunday show." steve, this is your first time on the show. i need you to have at it. why is trump continuing to push the big lie but also tell those people that the arizona audit proved he won the state and that the election should be decertified even though he st...

Investigating a crooked election. in truth, theyre not after me, theyre after you. i just happen to be in the way. >> trumps determination to rewrite the past not only shows a complete disregard for democracy and truth but also the lengths to which hell go to punish those who he deems disloyal to him. he spent a considerable amount of time attacking republican leaders in the peach state, including brad raffensperger. last week he asked him to decertify the election. come on, man. trump also clai...

This audit in arizona, also to the actual process of it, the support has been incredible. and despite the cyber ninjas major flaws, they cannot even accept the results. does this just add more fuel to the fire? >> unfortunately it does, because as we look at this week after week and we say, oh, he wants to do another audit, the audit didnt show anything, hes pressing forward and misrepresenting the results, saying it shows he clearly won, which of course it doesnt. if you say things enough times...

That whatever political -- geopolitical profound differences they may have had with george w. bush, they cannot deny that he was a decent man who cared about our country and cared about democratic institutions. and thats what, you know, signing on to the trump lie does, is it basically says that democracy is less important than a cult of personality. so of course past presidents are going to look pretty good by comparison. they should. >> and, margaret, i want to ask both you and john about this...

Katie, weve known all along this was a crazy conspiracy theory-driven audit that wasted a lot of taxpayer dollars, wasted everybodys time. but set the record straight about what the final report actually said contrary to what trump just said. >> right. i mean to be honest with you, i didnt really take time to read the final report because this whole thing was a colossal waste of everybodys time. but what we know is their results showed that biden actually got more votes in arizona than -- or in ...

And the way i read that is basically, overwhelming the safety mechanisms already built into the election process. explain that approach and why its more dangerous than simply crying out voting fraud and asking people to go to the streets. >> well, as we saw with the results of the fake audit this week, its hard to make claims of fraud and make them stick. im sure cyber ninjas do everything they could and if you could make these kind of technical legal arguments i lay out in the paper that state ...

With george w. bush holding a fundraiser for her next month. as ohio congressman anthony gonzalez, who also backed trumps impeachment, announced he will retire early due to, quote, toxic environments in our own party. all while trump repeats falsehoods about the last election. >> they have headlines that biden wins in arizona when they know its not true. he lost in arizona based on forensic audit. >> reporter: but the so-called audit only reaffirmed bidens victory. >> that was nbcs monica alba. ...