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Tomorrow, January 10, 2023, the Senate Democratic Majority will pass legislation to reform the operations of New York’s local boards of elections. This

Presidential citizen medal. as well as five election workers who protected the vote counts. cnns jasmine wright joins us from the white house. president biden, he talked about the sacrifices that these recipients who got this medal made to defending american democracy. >> reporter: yeah, he did, alex. that is why the president bestowed one of the highest honors that a civilian can receive from the individuals. they broke down into law enforcement officials who responded to the carnage and the po...

There is no magic bullet to quickly restore Americans’ confidence in elections; it will need to be rebuilt over time. For those who have lost faith in the election process, regardless of the reason, it will take many small building blocks to repair the foundation. One of those building blocks should be “election poll duty,” akin to jury duty.

Six insurrection, after the insurrection were like no they will rein him in, now you have the violent insurrectionists, people who supported that like marjorie taylor greene as the power, as the base of the gop. and the rise, and this is what really worries me. i want to focus on it really briefly. the rise a political virus and the rise of terrorism in the united states promoted not just by the right wing but right-wing media focusing on poll workers, law enforcement, educators, doctors, especi...

Republican incumbents who lost in 2020, to essentially tamp down the rhetoric, to turn it down, cool it off, as they were playing up the former presidents claims that the election was stolen. the center point of that stolen election happened in georgia we heard from two poll workers in georgia who said their lives were never the same after the harassment they received so i think thats fascinating and really jumps out at me they also ask him, has there been election fraud in georgia before he sai...

We are given additional detail about the way in which those i the trump white house who were overseeing the fake electors plot, appeared to have som consciousness of guilt referring to the georgia plot, the trump team and the fak electors also engaged in act of subterfuge to carry out their plans. for instance, a campaign staffer notified the georgia participants the fake electors by email, that he must ask for a complete discretion. he explained that their effort required complete secrecy. i me...

Social platform, trump blasted the report as a wind chill hunt. the 800-plus-page review contained more revelations including a 23-minute phone call the then-president had with conservative attorney john eastman, the day eastman suggested a controversial memo. and there were new text messages from remember forewhite house adviser hope hicks who wrote to another staffer during the attack, "we all look like domestic terrorists now." the committee called for nearly a dozen recommendations, includin...

Day. so if youre herschel walker and at least you know that there are some conservative voters that turning out. whether it is enough, i dont think we have a good understanding of that. im waiting to hear from walker allies as to what theyre hearing in other parts of the state. >> thank you. shaq, let me go to you. the poll workers and getting uses to that, is that having an impact where you are? >> were seeing this 34r5i out in realtime. ill tell you, since ive been here this afternoon, the vas...

People have to go through. talk to us about how surprised you were. were you furious? how did you feel about this? >> good morning, yall. thanks for having me on. first of all, shotout to all the poll workers who helped that process. those folks are really the salt of the earth. we started out in the morning, we had been looking all week, noting the lines had been long all week. we have three young kids. we were trying to go at a time when we didnt have them to manage. friday was the last day of...

Setting contest. joining us now, gabriel sterling, the chief operating officer in the office of the georgia secretary of state. hey, thanks for joining us. i want to start with what were seeing now in this early voting. and just see what you think about this. weve seen long lines at some of the voting places. some people are pointing to this as a sign of voter these. i cant. some georgians are questioning why they are spending so much time in these long lines. hours, in some cases. and im wonder...