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Use of drop boxes in elections in wisconsin. whats always been interesting to me when i talk to folks about what they think happened in november of 2020 one of the things thats often brought up is drop boxes. these were -- no one was securing them, no one was paying attention to them. theyre easy, full of fraud. can you actually explain to people what drop boxes are, how they work in practice and in concept? >> sure. so i think until donald trump came along and started casting aspersions on drop...

>> and his tenure was really marked less by policy, maybe zero policy, and 100% publicity and sort of trump populism, right? and that was by design. >> yeah, he said openly i think on the front end of his tenure in congress that he arranged his office more from a communications standpoint than a policy standpoint, which is curious as someone who is going into congress particularly as a freshman. so he kind of went there to be out front and be this kind of maga warrior. and that is not what sank ...

Irregularities, how that could impact the election results going ahead. for more on that, i am joined by director of political science richard hidarian. i know you are well—known in the philippines. the concerns being raised now. how much of a problem could that be in regards to the integrity of the election. 65 million eligible voters. we are talking — million eligible voters. we are talking about tens of thousands of machines. electro machines. it is _ of machines. electro machines. it is ...

Future. >> look, i think that mike pence is obviously a guy who wants to be president still, hes really perfectly cast to be a politician before donald trump and i think thats the inherent problem, just like marko rubio, like pences chief of staff marc short yesterday on "meet the press," you have these sort of normal decent republicans and thank god for them, they actually were important in helping donald trump, in preventing donald trumps coup, but yet, they obviously, they know that they cann...

A few months ago, I posted a couple of columns -- Dropping the Ball and Casting Aspersions and Metrology Maketh the Man (and Woman, and Silicon Chip) – as part of which I posed the question: Who can say what discoveries and inventions would have been triggered had the wisdom of the ancients been accepted…

Are mediated by our shared institutions and i think that notion, the notion that is the opposite of vigilanteism and a repudiation is what kyle rittenhouse represents. last summer kyle rittenhouse, the person, the child in the eyes of the law, did something indefensibly stupid and reckless and went to a protest in the aftermath of police violence armed with a semiautomatic rifle and killed two people, wounding a third man. he has done literally irreparable harm to those three families, irreparab...

>> every day is election day. >> reporter: for more than a month now thats been true in virginia. which is why debbie webber is greeting voters outside the county election office. >> hi there. how are you? >> reporter: and fielding questions about early voting. shes a gop volunteer and is getting an earful from many of her fellow republicans. >> they question the -- are these dominion voting machines? as far as i know, no, theyre not. okay? but that doesnt lessen the concern they have that votin...

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 ...

Now the us as well. like i said, the us government has, at least in our case, - the chinese government has stressed that this is part - of a broader us—china politics. this isnt punishment- for our coverage in particular, but it is definitely a very i difficult time for all foreign media operating in china. meera from the reuters institute. tit for tat was mentioned by amy. give us a little bit of context to that. yeah, i mean, first of all, im in awe of all your reporting and its being done u...

Journalists and their own media outlets, as well as foreign ones, casting aspersions on the integrity of journalists, casting aspersions on their political affiliations, implying that theyre not independent. and this tit for tat scenario is very, very dangerous because it enables and it emboldens leaders around the world, i think, to use visas and work permits as weapons when theyre exactly meant to be neutral, impartial, bureaucratic processes that protectjournalism and protect press freedom. i...