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The fear and the concern is that this is sowing discord and sowing doubt of election integrity. could it backfire? is it only sowing doubt about election integrity among republicans? >> i love that you presume that trump has an end game here, which im not sure weve seen his track record. i think its a lot of fly by the seat of his pants, great, great rally lines, things he can go out to his email list with, even yesterday, when the independent audit, as you point out, should have great questions...

Major visionary, she didnt impose a lot of radical changes on politics. so if you think the german elections and german politics arent that interesting, well thats kind of the way that germans like them. guys? >> thats how they like them. thats why that meme of her with those birds taking over her has gone all over the place. and has gone viral. matt bradley joining us from berlin, matt, thank you, good to see you. >> and we begin a new hour of msnbc right now. ♪♪ first up on msnbc, big li...

The report anyway we will wait to see what they finally release. i did tell you last night that what we were seeing in the draft report showed the results of the arizona audit were hilarious. well today we got the final report. released it to the public. and indeed, in fact, it matches with the draft that we saw last night. and hilarity did in fact ensue. after their five months of trying and searching for secret bamboo fibers and using uv lights and putting the ballots on lazy susans and spinni...

Of the last election behind us and we can look forward. many of my republican colleagues, conservative colleagues, they just dont trust that to system, they dont trust the media, they dont trust the election process, and that is a fundamental threat to our future, we have to overcome. it fanning these flames of this lack of faith in our institutions is problematic. >> despite that urgent call from one republican congressman to just move on, and the fact that arizona is expensive audit has just s...

Is playing a part in this. this does not deserve to be treated as a serious matter or a serious audit. it is an irresponsible political trick. it is a sham. it is a cavalier and a dangerous assault on voters and on democracy. >> this does not deserve to be treated as a serious matter or serious audit. its an irresponsible political trick. its a sham. its a cavalier and dangerous assault on voters and on democracy. joining us now is mayoris county judge lynn aire hidalgo, the chief executive of t...

A point by point rebuttal. still, though, this isnt over. the attorney general in arizona says he will use everything within his legal power to continue pursuing this and obviously oh states now across the country have started to pick this up as part of their own strategy. >> okay. thank you for that. appreciate that, steve. lets bring in hayes brown now to discuss further. of course, hayes is columnist and editor for msnbc daily. your reaction to what steve was just reporting and the overall re...

Other thing that happened today in arizona. these were the folks who showed up to the big audit reveal in the arizona state senate to show off guns and militariesque commitment this is not a shockingly poor national guard unit. these are randos, pro trump, pro audit militants who dressed up like this and got their guns. and what looked like working dogs to show you they have guns and dogs. and theyve been trained. they are ready. what are they ready for? on the eve of the audit release the conse...

The question is will they end up being martyrs for a cause. >> thats a good point here, barbara. you have been waiting for repercussions for what happened january 6th. you have seen it for the 500 plus individuals who have been charged but not for those who ins gtigated it. i can only say that the sham review in maricopa county. it showed what we already knew, actually that joe biden won by more. texas is doing a full forensic audit because the former president asked them to do so. i guess my qu...

Thinking, forgetting that there are likely tens of thousands of trump supporters that were told by trump that there would be some evidence of a rigged election from this audit. there obviously was none, and in fact, it came out that biden had a net positive of votes from those findings. but if you are thinking more strategically about this being maybe a sense of performance art meant to cast more doubt on the electoral process, then you may be applauding, and that performance art was capped off ...

Its a lie. the fact that theyre not election changing didnt stop him. nor did it stop arizonas state republican who ordered this so-called audit or review from firing off a letter to the state attorney general raising fresh doubts about election security which, of course, was always the real aim. a point not lost on this republican congressman who, by the way, is not one of the few who voted to impeach the former president. >> many of my republican colleagues, conservative colleagues, that just ...