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I hope they listen to officer sicknicks mom and i would not be surprised if they dont. >> this may be a personal problem. im still surprised. when kevin mccarthy sent his guy in to negotiate and got everything mccarthy wanted. equal representation. both parties had to approve of subpoenas. im surprised that republicans walked away from what leadership asked them to negotiate. why are you not surprised? >> time and again they chose to stand with donald trump and the lies. time and again given the...

People being placed rules being changed, the big lie being continued. all of that will break through only if we stop being vigilant. even in this quote/unquote off year, even in may of 2021 when a lot of people are not thinking about it, there are efforts to dismantle it. >> what is the next front on this war of democracy in this state for you? >> were continues to push back against efforts to change the rules of our election. every wednesday there is an elections hearing that my office and othe...

No widespread fraud. the dozens of lawsuits put forward by trump and his team yielded nothing. the ongoing war on democracy is where we start this hour. joining us is jocelyn benson. we spoke last with you and secretary hobbs. since then, it feels like this has intensified. i wonder, one, if thats accurate, and two, how do you explain that? >> yes, i think we should anticipate an intensives of the battle around democracy, continues through 2024. thats really what this is about. these are bad act...

Choose donald trump over our democracy. >> so how do you think this ends? do you think that well end up with a benghazi-style commission? >> i will say that i do hope that we get ten republicans. thats the best-case scenario. but thats not to say that there cant be a benghazi style commission without the republican votes. i sat on the benghazi -- i was a democrat who participated in the benghazi commission. if you watch in my testimony i was trying to get to what lessons needed to be learned and...

>> i asked you this a week ago, and i hate to put you on the spot, but do you feel like the good guys are winning? or do you feel like the side that is trying to invalidate? theyre basically trying to invalidate in the minds of all republicans the result, and then do their own part to reverse it, it seems like, at least with that audit. which side has the upper hand today? >> i always believe the side with the upper hand is the side of the truth and the facts, and history, all of which is on the...

Right, you know, they have come up with all these varies rationalization for this. this is the most insidious part. when you said this is working for republicans, thats right, and thats scary. theyre looking at 222, and think theyre going to win. you know who illustrates is working for is putin? i know it rolls some peoples eyes, but you want to undermine faith in the democracy. they have succeeded. theres an entire party now that doesnt believe our democracy is legitimate. that has all kinds of...

Partisan protesters seeking to give over access to ballots and other things, to make michigan the next front of this cyberninja attacked were seeing in arizona. so those are part of it. then, of course, the elections coming up in 2022 will decide not only the -- those decisions will be made over the next 18 months to two years that will impact or ability to defend and protect democracy in 2024. a lot of the pieces that are going to be in place in 2024, in terms of the rules, people and their aut...

Efforts, to prevail against in future elections. the reason why democracy prevailed is good people on both sides of the aisle, secretaries of state, election administrators, county board, did the right thing and chose to protect democracy against any calls for a different agenda. we need good people to do the right thing. we need people in positions of authority to tell the truth, to protect every vote, regardless of any partisan implications. thats our job. so to make it harder for us to do tha...

Appoint a cabinet-level person on democracy. he should say this is the most important issue facing the world day. its not the pandemic, not infrastructure, free throw redoing taxes, this is the most important issues. democrats relate to that. the third point is democrats need to start making the argument that we cant do any of these things unless we fix democracy. were not going to be able to get an infrastructure bill or common-sense gun reform. we wont be able to preserve a womans right to cho...

And toxic for our nation, i think, its difficult for any of us to grasp. the greatest gift that america has given the world is peaceful transition. we are the oldest functioning democracy. this is a challenge to the essence of democracy itself. you dont -- if you dont believe your president was legally elected you live in an occupied country. you dont live in a democracy. so think about this. 70% of republicans think this. this is what theyll teach their kids. this is not a literal problem that ...