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Well, nothing had been stolen. this was donald trump ginning up an attack. thats where the department of defense piece comes in and is really important. >> it doesnt get any worse than this. this is a recipe for a coup. were going to stay on this. msnbc will stay on it. thank you all very much. that is tonights "reid out." all in with chris hayes starts now. tonight on "all in". >> i want to just thank the people of texas because we won in a landslide. it wasnt even close. >> the big lie sprea...

You because we give any credence to the outcome or the conclusions. indeed, experts in both parties and nonpartisan election officials say that this has become a debacle and that the claims in the draft report has basically no validity. this is not about an audit. this is about donald trump and the big lie and just creating kind of noise around it. the group that did this call themselves cyber ninjas. they got partisan money from the republican party. theyre not part of any actual independent au...

Heartening. maybe -- and well look back on that in a year or two and go, yeah, that was the last time that they didnt simply proceed illegally to invalidate a free and fair election. but you know, my motto in these -- in this trump era and the pandemic era tends to be, could be worse. >> yeah. i mean, i guess the only button here i would offer here a bar shouldnt be so low that a stop the steal imagined fraud in arizona that we, like, eked by, we all say, wow, democracy survived another day. but...

Out if theres fraud and things like that. so what youre seeing now, folks, so we can get off the stupid for a moment, is not more than a political play to disrupt the process. to appease a guy who doesnt want to admit that he lost, and that will further that narrative going into whatever may come down the road in future elections that allow those who want to cheat the system because thats what were talking about here, to do that. so i think we need to understand that all of this, oh, we got into...

Analysis of the votes for president in arizona. analysis which the arizona secretary of state has called a fraud it. joining us now is arizona state senate minority leader, rebecca rios, she represents maricopa county one. thank you for joining us senator rios. what are you expecting tomorrow? >> i think its important to lay the groundwork, that this is basically a conspiracy driven process that has been funded to the tune of five point $7 million by trump supporters. this is a complete partisan...

Credibility finding more votes for joe biden and fewer for donald trump. >> it should be the final chapter when you have a group as official. >> what a waste of time and money. we know this is not the end of it. donald trump put out a statement calling for greg abbott to embrace the audit of the texas 2020 results that he won handedly. he tries to pursue a 50-state audit. he does not care so much about 2020. the idea that he would be reinstated in office was defensible. . what he cares about is ...

Carolina, south maine. but if youre not counting money, youre counting the votes of the ballots, only time that matters is before the certification, thats why we have a process and then its over. what do you make of the republican partys obsession of a bastardized moment of jay coles counting it all up and they lost? >> there is no basis in law for a forensic audit or a thing called a forensic audit of a certified election. in fact, there is not even a process that clearly defines what that fore...

State where donald trump had his best chance to prove the outlandish theories hes had about the elections being fraudulent or rigged and he swung and missed yet again. >> maybe they can get alabama to flip to joe biden at the rate theyre going. in all seriousness, though, ben, i think if one is discussing this as if it is an affirmation or confirmation of joe bidens win, were doing it wrong. thats not what youre doing or im doing here. the issue here is this audit had no grounds to begin with. t...

We are seeing this pro live rate. we are seeing it happen in pennsylvania, wisconsin. this is really a big line for republicans right now and a way for them to show their loyalty to the former president >> its very revealing about what this may actually be about. thank you for that report. joining me now is ben ginsburg. you call what happened in arizona overnight a crippling low for the claims that the former president has made. >> yes, absolutely, john. in arizona, they brought their partisa...

Investigation has the expresident and his allies i suppose hope will some day, somehow overburn president joe bidens clear and sizable decisive win in the 2020 election. even before the findings of the arizona audit were released, republicans in several states have already gotten ahead of it, doing trumps bidding by launching more election probes. the latest is texas. texas won texas by more than five points. it is unclear what they are looking for there. thetimes tries to explain eight and a ha...