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Set the stage for his second impeachment. his unwillingness to let go of power including refusing to return government documents collected while he was in office has led to a potentially damaging an entirely avoidable legal battle that threatens to engulf the former president and some of his aides. joining me now is one of the reporters on that story, katie better, she is just a department reporter for the new york times. shes also an msnbc contributor. katie, good morning to you. thank you for ...

Graham arguing that he is immune from having to testify because of u.s. constitutions speech or debate clause and he says that he was operating in a legislative capacity not a political one when he placed two calls to the georgia secretary of states office in the wake of the 2020 election. secretary raffensperger, though, had a different interpretation of those calls, he believed that it was political in nature in part at least. he says there was an implication from graham that he would toss out...

They went on to say delaying the senators testimony would delay his appearance and the entire category of relevant witnesses or information. the judge is going to have to make that decision sometime before tuesday when hes scheduled to appear. grahams attorneys are arguing hes immune of having to testify because he was operating in a legislative role. you remember, he made two calls to georgias secretary of state office, one of those calls directly with the secretary of state, and though lindsey...

Here. just to remind everybody how we got here it was graham when he was the then chairman of the senate judiciary committee that called georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, graham said it was a fact-finding phone call. take a listen to how brad raffensperger characterize that had phone call in an interview with cnn from that year. >> he asked if the ballots could be matched back to the voters and i got the sense it implied that then you could throw those out. really would look at the ...

What did he say to you? >> he asked if the ballots could be matched back to the voters and implied that on this you could throw that out. it is an implication that look hard and see how many ballots you can throw out. >> how does that line up with the pressure trump was actually putting on georgia officials? >> look. this call on november 13th after the 2020 election and the chairman of the senate judiciary committee also a supporter of donald trump calling the secretary of state of georgia sayi...

Actually act as a kind of truth serum, keeping people, you know, keeping them from saying the truth. but now, of course, they are perfectly contradictory, saying, in public, oh, lets release the whole thing and taking no position at all in court where, of course, anybody with any sense knows this affidavit is nothing but bad news for trump were it to be released. >> but harry, i want to drill down on this, because it seems to me that, again, my understanding of this, if you -- it doesnt matter w...

States office in the wake of the 2020 election. on one of the calls he spoke director to secretary of state brad raffensperger, and he says he was on a fact finding vision, but raffensperger had a much different take saying there was an implication to toss out ballots. graham continues those allegations and hes trying to get out of appearing in fulton county next week. if everything goes as planned, hell appear on tuesday. but a federal judge still has to make a ruling on whether or not he can g...

To obtain elections -- information to continue this idea. >> do we know, is there any implication or evidence, there were attempts to manipulate that data in any way? >> so that is a big question here going forward. and, you know, while you can understand that back in 2020 there was so little truth to all the things that the conspiracy theories that were being said, i think now we have to raise the -- open our minds to the question of how vulnerable is this data going forward? dominion voting sy...

Present. the country is in a kier condition. i dont have the sense of engaging in a sense of betrayal. superpowers, big powers decide on the basis of their national interest and what i hope is that they have considered the implication of those. >> you mentioned though millions of a gains are star vinagre at this point and the question may be one year out is what can and should the biden administration do to help at this point? >> well, they created their own very difficult policy dilemma because...

Running reduced services, some running those of us at all and the implication is that some services will be disrupted into sunday as well. thats the not the only disruption you will see over the weekend. avanti west coast are also reducing their timetable from sunday. that is because it relies quite heavily on train drivers volunteering to work on rest days, about 400 services rely on that but avanti say that the numbers volunteering have effectively dropped off a cliff, so they dont have enough...