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Quote, told advisers the issue will help the party win control of congress next year and win back the white house in 2024. he has privately floated the possibility of an early presidential campaign announcement to underscore the message to conservative voters. it comes as republicans in wisconsin are attempting to take over the states election process just one month after a report found no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election. joining me now, charlie sykes msnbc contributor and the editor at l...

Do you think external observers are going to make of this? i think ups external observers will not call it that, i think they are going to see leading up they are going to see leading up to the election, there is no free press, practically. many candidates were banned from running, many are in exile. a million venezuelans were registered to vote, they could not vote abroad. so i do not think they will call at that however, i think the eu observing the election, we have a better understanding of ...

To either a popular vote or the governors approval. joining us now is michigans secretary of state, jocelyn benson. also joining us, charlie sykes, columnist and editor at large. secretary benson, tell us whats happening. >> well, you know, notably, today is the one-year anniversary of our state board of canvassers in michigan certifying the results of the 2016 november election and its remarkable that here we are a year later, still battling the misinformation about the truth of that election a...

Guardrails around the people who are supporting the violent insurrection. and seeing it play out outside of washington as well. including the alarming actions by robin and the leaders of the wisconsin legislature. trying to hijack the election process. its not a party its a cult. and we have to be utterly alarmed at the direction that this is taking. we cant survive as a country without a viable two party system. without leaders willing to stand up to this set of violent responses, and kevin mcc...

Lines. its really the real threat is the takeover of every aspects of the election process. and gerrymandering goes right along with it, because it is taking total control of every aspect -- they want us to be able to exercise that precious right to vote. georgia has as history of racial discrimination, and this is continuing that process. people of color where the largest demographic that increased in the 2020 census, 10% increase. and all of that was people of color, well one population basica...

Given water while you stand in long lines. its really -- the real threat is the takeover of every aspect of the election process, and gerrymandering goes right along with it because it is taking total control of every aspect for us to be able to exercise that precious right to vote. georgia has this long history of racial discrimination, and this is continuing that process. people of color were the largest demographic that increased in the 2020 census. 10% increase. and all that was people of co...

But 25% african-american. there were 1,000 jury summons sent out. hundreds were interviewed and many african-americans for the possibility of serving on the jury. then we get to the selection process. the way that you select a jury is by the defense and prosecution deciding who they dont want on the jury. they do it by strikes. the judge awarded twice as many strikes to the defense as they did to the prosecution. by the time that the process was done at the end of the day yesterday we found out ...

Glenn county is where this trial ils taken place is majority white. 25% african-americans. there were a thousand jury summons and hundreds of people were interviewed including many african-americans for the possibility of serving on this jury. then we get to what is the actual selection process. the way you select a jury is by the defense and prosecution deciding who they dont want on the jury. they do that by strikes. the judge awarded twice as many strikes to the defense as they did to the pro...

Joke about the black man shot by police in kenosha, jacob blake. opening statements will begin later today in the murder trial of three white men accused of killing a black jogger in south georgia last year. after a long and grueling process, a nearly all-white jury was selected to hear the case sparking outrage and accusations of racial bias. cnns martin savage reports. >> reporter: outside the courthouse in brunswick, georgia, reaction to the overwhelmingly white jury ranges from disappointm...

Georgia, reaction to the white jury ranging from disappointment to outrage. 11 white jurors and one african-american will decide the fate of the three white men accused of killing the 25-year-old black man ahmaud arbery while he was out jogging. the jury chosen at end of a grueling two and a level week selection process that had originally summoned a thousand residents, drawn from a county where a quarter of the population is black. >> were very pleased that we have been able to select now 16 me...