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Marred by checking for bamboo and really nobody has talked about the legitimacy here and even republicans in arizona are trying to distance themselves from it. yet, were still seeing more efforts, for example, now texas. does that surprise you? >> you know, its actually not surprising. because what this is, its a playbook weve seen from the republicans in the past. they will continue to allow a thread to unravel. so now what weve heard is now claims that since they said, okay, maricopa has check...

Its just an untenable position for britney to be in. >> reporter: while britneys father also filed a petition earlier this month asking to terminate his daughters conservatorship, legal experts say the courts may be hesitant to give her immediate independence. >> this conservatorship has gone on for 13 years. its a business in and of itself. its going to take some time to wind down. it all really comes down to how the judge wants to go about implementing this. >> our thanks to dasha burns for th...

Electoral process writ large or the small drip erosion of democracy itself, then you may see this as a lost battle if youre a democrat and start to see the larger war. heres the secretary of state saying it much more eloquently than i ever could. listen to what she said about this. >> this whole entire process, this fake audit and the resulting report and information contained in there is just part of a multifaceted attack on election integrity and our democracy as a whole. but this report and t...

Clarity on this issue i think before a lot of the rest of us did. and this does feel like a crisis now. in does feel like a splitting point that has grown out of whatever is wrong in republican politics and in the politics that have arisen around the former president. and today with the call, even after the results of this audit showed that trump lost worse nan he thought, the call that this necessarily means the election results should be thrown out and trump declared the winner it feels like a...

>> you know, you mentioned other counties in arizona. we know this audit, this review was just for maricopa county, the most populous in arizona. but what about other counties? whats next here in arizona? are you seeing reviews already under way in other counties? >> you know, we are already seeing cause for that to happen. i run one of the largest civic engagement organizations here in the state of arizona, and we are in, you know, pima, pinell, were hearing from voters and voters understand th...

Republicans and right-leaning americans. how do you measure success? look at what theyre trying to achieve, doing in their work. today in arizona despite concluding on their own terms that by their count trump lost arizona even worse than the certified results say he did, nevertheless, the republican audit folks today spent hours today very excitedly, spent more than three hours excitedly showing powerpoint slides and -- and giving long confusing presentations all aimed at casting aspersions on ...

Able to win elections even when there are more people willing to vote against them. that is essentially saying that votes that are not white are not legitimate. >> yeah. to your point, and curt ill go to you with this one, theres a new article on nbcnews.com, it says while the audit in arizona may not be over, the influence is just begin. theres a quote from kate fan whos a republican who says we need to do bigger audits on every election just to make sure that everybodys following the rules. re...

The court. the judge demanded hearing in which all trump lawyers would appear before her and explain themselves. at the hearing many trump lawyers tried to pretend they hadnt done anything to do with the case. at least one lawyer broke down and cried at the hearing. the judge eventually ruled all trump lawyers involved in the case would be sanctioned for it. sanctioned financially. the exact amount theyre going to have to pay is being add jute indicated now. the judge declared that each of the l...

Recertified by state officials who are often republicans? >> let me flip this around and give you an analogy i think will work. if you remember, i brought this up on your show before. from my perspective as a republican, i thought the adam schiff comments, what he said about investigating trump and they had proof they never produced months after that was all over, theres still people that believe that the election was stolen from hillary and stacey abrams. but that group of people that is still ...

Have fallen in the way that they have. >> lets listen to what harris county judge hidalgo told rachel maddow in the last hour. >> i have our county attorney here looking at legal ongss. its not clear to us that there is a statute under which the state can conduct the audit. but we recognize that the state supreme court will be very friendly to whatever claims the state makes. we also are calling on legislatures not to fund this. this is the time where they should look at their moral compass look...