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Chauvin. minneapolis has a lower percentage of african-americans than glen county. its 20% black, but that jury was half people of color and that made a difference. we have glen county where this case is taking place. one in three people are african-american. one out of 12 jurors, theres reason to be concerned that this verdict will not be legitimate. >> paul, well stay on top of this with you. paul butler is former federal prosecutor and author of the book "choke hold," policing black men. we a...

Election. it was people. it was people like you, secretary raffensperger. are you worried if this happens again, a different result will come out of it? >> to your point, thats why integrity counts and thats why it counts at my position, and all your poll workers. when you think about it in georgia, we have over 2,500 precincts. we have thousands upon thousands of precinct workers, poll workers that volunteer their time, get paid very little for 14-hour days and those are your neighbors and peop...

Raffenspergers fall from grace for deciding to actually abide by the oath of office should serve as a reminder of the forces running the gop right now. it puts the spotlight on how fragile this democracy is. raffensperger chose to do the right thing, but someone else might not have. someone else might have caved under that pressure. the safety valve of democracy is certain individuals choose to do the right thing. while the overt january 6th attack on the democratic process may be in the rear-vi...

>> no. you have taken the oath of office and you have honored the oath. >> secretary of state brad raffensperger, thank you for joining us this morning. we appreciate you did do the right thing. >> thank you, ali. >> author of the book "itegrity counts." im joined by the reporter for politico. he is looking into the january 6th aftermath. you study it so closely. there is a concern around that there are trump allies who continue to manage to run the clock out and not face justice. we understand ...

The 2020 election laws. brad raffensperger. i appreciate you being here. youre also the author of a new book called "integrity counts." your new book is evidence in the probe of mr. trump and his role to try to overturn the 2020 election. when you heard the former president proudly recount his interactions with you, and, of course, you were there, you took the phone call from him, did you think to yourself that he might be trying to build is some sort of a case or he was trying to lay the ground...

Pressure from then president trump to find votes to overturn the 2020 election. >> look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is 1 more than we have. because we won the state. >> raffensperger writes that, i felt then and still believe today that this was a threat. others obviously thought so too because some of trumps more radical followers have responded as if it was their duty to carry out this threat. and georgias secretary of state, brad raffensperger, is joinin...

Know the elections are safe and the stop the steal rhetoric is nonsense? >> thats why i wrote "integrity counts" to set the record straight. i went through the situation. i have ten pages of footnotes. everything is fact based. i included the letter to congress. everything in the book is accurate. everything in the letter i sent to congress is accurate. i did say there are two dead people. there are two more. there are up to four. there are never thousands of dead people. in the state of georgia...

Brad Raffensperger is a conservative Republican who serves as Georgias elected Secretary of State — he oversaw the 2020 elections cycle in the state. In a conversation about his new book Integrity Counts, he tells NPRs Miles Parks and Georgia Public Broadcasts Stephen Fowler about resisting former president Trumps push to corrupt the election results.This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, voting reporter Miles Parks, and GPB reporter Stephen Fowler.Connect:Subscribe to the NPR Po...

"integrity counts," in which he writes forcefully against donald trumps false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. thanks for being here. appr good morning. >> good morning. you often say, and ive seen you say a couple times, youre an engineer, not a lawyer. so you dont like weighing in on legal matters. but would you like to see what these documents could reveal about trumps efforts to overturn the election that a federal judge is kind of hearing arguments about today? >> i think transpa...

When his term ended, the end of the year, this would be the end of the case. we would know who was going to get indicted and who wasnt. this signals a new term, into the new year, we dont know when its going to end. that surprised me. i dont know if it surprised them. >> david, great reporting. thank you for jumping up in fronts of the camera. this literally just posted on "the washington post." i commend folks to read it. thanks. nbc news has not yet confirmed this report. were working to match...