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Z -- partisan officials have. in georgia some of the power that used to belong to secretary of state, someone committed to upholding the rule of law now lies with the republican controlled state legislature. >> a number of states have tried to take running of elections away from professionals in giving it to politicians. so in state legislatures like georgia give power to the state legislature to potentially overturn results, thats very worrisome. >> this past year there has been no better examp...

Georgia give power to the state legislature to potentially overturn results, thats very worrisome. >> this past year there has been no better example of a politicized counting process than the so-called audit of ballots in maricopa county, arizona. this past spring and summer by a group calling themselves the cyber ninjas. >> they have no experience at all in election audits. theyre headed by doug logan who has been in that trump orbit ever since the election. >> people saw images of these cyber...

Campaign they tried to tie youngkin to trump every stop. heavy hitters like president joe biden who just tried giving him a boost from across the atlantic ocean. >> i think we are going to win in virginia. you know you are reporting it being close. the race is very close. its about who shows up. who turns out. and granted, i did win by a large margin. but the point of the matter is that i think that this is -- this is going to be-we all knew from the beginning this is going to be a tight race. >...

Vice president mike pence to stop the steal, as they call it, by taking control of the electoral counting process that, process that was underway on january 6th when the attack on the capitol happened. what happened at the willard hotel and what the team was planning at the command center in the weeks leading up to january 6th is now of great interest to that january 6th select committee. the twice impeached presidents supporter had their own command center. sourced from documents provided by th...

Thats how the electoral count could be scott stopped, thats how the naming of biden as the winner of the election could be technically stops. john eastman is the one who laid out the memo from how the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol, which did stop the counting process for sometime, he later the memo for how the attack on the capitol that day could work. particularly if pence went along with it, this is how we can work. well, today, bizarrely, that lawyer, john eastman, the guy who wrote ...

The memo laid out how vice president mike pence had the right not to accept those electors, and thats how the electoral count could be stopped, thats how the naming of biden as the winner of the election could be technically stopped. john eastman is the one who laid out the memo for how the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol, which did stop the counting process for some time, he laid out the memo for how the attack on the capitol that day could work, particularly if pence went along with it,...

Around voting rights is that it has always been the case that nothing was going to stop these republican legislators in the wake of trump leaving office and making this the creed for the party that the election was stolen. they wanted to do this anyway. trump is, as usual, not really a leader. he is the accelerant, the match on the fire, right. >> yeah. >> so all of these republicans have for a long time wanted to restrict voting rights. theyve wanted to be able to on the front end to get fewer ...

Theyre not only making it harder to vote, in every way they can, they are systematically changing the administration of elections and the way votes are counted, to give partisan republicans control of the process. to give them the power to oust elections officials, who wont do what they want. republicans, all over the country, are giving themselves that power to subvert election results and seize the counting process for themselves. and now, they are actually starting to try to use it in georgia...

Rates are low, as we were just discussing with dr. fauci. it also applies, of course, to our democracy. one of the stories the team here covered while i was away was a story that i think needs way more attention, moving forward. its a story out of georgia where republicans in the state legislature are gearing up to actually use their big draconian new anti-voting law, thats been so controversial. they are gearing up to use it to try to force out the top elections official in fulton county, georg...

In these anti-voting bills being passed by republican legislators across the country, they are not only making it harder to vote and everywhere they can, they are changing the administration of elections and the way votes are counted to give partisan republicans control of the process. republicans all over the country are giving themself that power to subvert election results and sees the counting process for themselves and now they are starting to try to use it in georgia which is a big deal. r...