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CSPAN Washington Journal August 20, 1111

Is 2027488000. Republicans use 2027488001. Independents and others, its 2027488002. Send us a text if youd like, 2027488003. Include your name and where you are texting from. On twitter its cspanwj. And we welcome your comments on our facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. Well show you some of the comments of the majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell, and the minority leader shuck schumer. Washington times this morning their lead story is on the attorney generals efforts. Barr improves inquiry into voter fraud. Authorized the Justice Department to probe what he said are substantial allegations of voter fraud as President Trumps legal team detailed new evidence of purported election violations in two battleground states. Mr. Barr issued the memo days after presumptive president elect joseph biden was declared the winner of the 2020 president ial election by several media outlets. The president has launched legal challenges to the results in states where the voting margins are razor thin by giving federal prosecutors a green light to pursuit voter fraud, mr. Barr may give the president more ammunition for his lawsuits, including another one filed in pennsylvania on monday with the backing of several red state attorneys general. Thats the Washington Times this morning. Focusing a bit more on capitol hill, the New York Times this morning and one of their lead stories online at ny times. Com. Republicans back trumps refusal to concede. Declining to recognize biden. They write that leading republicans rallied on monday around President Trumps refusal to concede the election. Declining to challenge the false narrative that was stolen from him or recognize president elect Joseph Bidens victory even as Party Divisions burst into public view. Senator Mitch Mcconnell of kentucky they write, the Top Republican in congress, threw his support behind mr. Trump in a sharply worded speech on the senate floor. He declared mr. Trump was, quote, 100 within his rights to turn to the legal system to challenge the outcome and hammered democrats for expecting the president to concede. Heres some of what majority leader Mitch Mcconnell had to say yesterday. Then theres the president ial race. Obviously no states have yet certified their Election Results. We have at least one or two states that are already on track for a recount. And i believe the president may have legal challenges under way in at least five states. The core principle here is not complicated. In the United States of america all legal ballots must be counted. Any illegal ballots must not be counted. The process should be transparent or observable by all sides and the courts are here to work through concerns. Our institutions are actually built for this. We have the system in place to consider concerns and President Trump is 100 within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options. Lets go back 20 years ago. 20 years ago when florida came down to a very thin margin, we saw Vice President gore exhaust the legal system and wait to concede until december. More recently we accepted the media had called president ushs reelection in 2004. Democrats disputed mois electors and delayed the process here in congress. In 2016 election loss saw recounts or legal challenges in several states. If any major irregularities occurred this time of the magnitude that would affect the outcome, then every single american should want them to be brought to light. And if democrats feel confident they have not occurred, they should have no reason to fear any extra scrutiny. Host senator majority leader Mitch Mcconnell yesterday opening the program this morning asking you about the latest efforts to contest the 2020 president ial election. 2027488000. 2027488001 the line for republicans. And inpends and others, number 202748800 t the attorney general barr yesterday releasing a memo post voting election irregularity inquiries. He says now that voting has concluded it is imperative the American People can trust our elections were conducted in such a way that the outcomes accurately reflect the will of the voters. Although the states have the responsibility to supervise their election under the constitution and laws enacted by congress, the United States department of justice has an obligation to ensure that federal elections are conducted in such a way that the American People can have full confidence in their electoral process. And our government. Part of the statement said from attorney general barr. Hear what you have to think. We go to mike first, democrat in south carolina. Good morning, mike. Caller obviously any legitimate claim of fraud with sufficient evidence should be investigated. However, evidence isnt owe, by the way, weve got pictures of tombstones of dead people. And they received a ballot. That doesnt mean anything. Did somebody vote in their name . Its ridiculous the claims have absolutely no evidence. Again, if there is evidence, i think it should be investigated. But it cant just be the whims of people. Host westfield, new jersey, next up on the independent line. Maria, hello. Caller good morning. I think its the duty of the attorney general and the prosecutors to seek the truth. I think washington warned what weties being have had here is over the years we have become a parliamentarytype system where the truth is situational. Where what party is in power depends on whether you willfully blind or not. We have to root this out. I think we have to look at the five system with Great Britain and israel and commonwealth nations have access to all of our security information. We have to get independence from britain again and start being our own country. So i think its a healthy sign no matter which party is contesting something. We have to look for the truth. Thank you. Host on to our republican line. Kermit, columbus, ohio. Caller yes. Im a creature of the United States of america. I dont like to watch politics because all of them lie. But democrats made this United States really look bad. And the election. The things thats happening in that election. Them meme all be took to court, tried, and sent to prison. Thank you. Host ok. To new rochelle on our democrats line. New rochelle, new york, rosetta. Caller good morning. Trump should get over it. Hes caused wreaked so much havoc within the four years hes been in office. Im talking about prior to the pandemic. The three years prior he was hes been just one problem after the other. The republicans need to grow up, all of them. Get a life. And move on and accept biden and harris. Thats the right thing to do. Host tracking social media, this says if biden won so convincingly he should want the vote checked. Bob from springfield, missouri, a recount is needed. Dead people do not vote. Good morning, my name is anna, from ohio, i just feel the election ballots were not stolen. We as the people voted who we felt would lead our country to help our livelihoods the best. From robtera on facebook, barr needs to be impeached. No judge has found any proof of anything irrelevant until elections. The biden team needs to bring legal action. Richard says attorney general william barr, will end up like him. Disbarred and a convicted fellon. Matthew says, file sorry for barr. Yeah, i said t hes crawling around being abused by trump and the cult. Call 911 hes being abused. The Senate Democratic leader responded to the majority leaders Opening Statements yesterday. Heres some of what he had to say. Baseless claims by the president and his supporters that theres been widespread voter fraud and that the election was somehow rigged or stolen from President Trump, that kind of rhetoric is extremely dangerous, extremely poisonous to our democracy. As in any campaign, the president has a right to bring legal challenges or request recounts where state law allows. However, there is no legal right to file frivolous claims. Lawsuits must have basis in facts and evidence. And make no mistake, there has been no evidence of any significant widespread voter fraud. Joe biden won this election fair and square. The margins of his victory are growing by the day. And former president , george w. Bush, commendably acknowledged that fact when he congratulated president elect biden and Vice President elect harris on their victory. Republican leaders in congress should also do the right thing. Republican leaders must unequivocally condemn the president s rhetoric and work to ensure the peaceful transfer of power on january 20. I have been heartened to see a few of my republican colleagues, its three, i believe, congratulate the winning ticket. But too many, including the republican leader, have been silent or sympathetic to the president s fantasies. Host the Trump Campaign announcing another lawsuit yesterday. The Associated Press reporting on that. Trump Campaign Sues to block pennsylvania Election Results. The President Trumps Campaign Launch add lawsuit to stop the certification of the Election Results in pennsylvania suing monday as counties continue to sort through provisional ballots and mailin ballots nearly a week after the election. The Associated Press on saturday called the president ial contest for former Vice President joe biden after determining that the remaining ballots left to be counted in pennsylvania would not allow trump to catch up. But Trumps Campaign filed litigation in federal court over pennsylvanias president ial election saying, registered democratic voters were treated more favorably than republican voters. Trump has refused to concede, quote, the election is not over. The Trump Campaigns general counsel, Matthew Morgan said, in a News Conference in washington. Also on the attorney general and his effort, his order yesterday, memorandum to attorneys on investigations, this is the politico this morning, plitplith could he. Com, barr ok for Election Fraud investigation royals just shall roils Justice Department. Attorney general william barr appeared to make a bid to reassure backers of President Trump who complained bitterly that the Justice Department was not taking action to combat voter fraud n a memo to u. S. Attorneys, barr authorized them to open Election Fraud investigations, quote, if there are clear and apparently credible allegations of irregularities that if true could potentially impact the outcome of the federal election in a state. They write that shortly after barrs directive was released, richard the director of the d. O. J. Criminal Division Election Crimes Branch sent colleagues an email saying he was transferring to another role in the department. The 28year veteran frrl prosecutor also made unmistakably clear that aharm at barr as policy shift prompted his exit from the job he has held since 2010. To our independent line, here is james in tennessee. Hi. Caller hi, how you doing . Host fine, thanks. Caller thanks for taking my call. I want to say is that these are the same people who still think they are fighting the civil war. And they still think they are fighting it. Beare not going to lay down, jim crow. White man coming down the street. Those days are gone. Trump trying to bring them back to you. We are ready for the war. Bring it. Thank you. Host arkansas, linda on the republican line. Caller yes. I would like to say we were completely not completely blue state, we had clinton as our governor. We went completely red, now we have everything we gained two house seats. And the red states are prolife. The ones that are contesting this, which nancy pelosi has stock in the machines that were used to count the votes. So now we have all red. We have wonderful people. We have tom cotton and all these wonderful people. And its prolife. The states that are doing all this, they want their abortion thing. And also if you can check with david he does a video on them selling baby body parts. We are in a spiritual battle, lucifer versus the republicans and the conservatives. Not all republicans. In fact i think a lot of republicans, they want that money and they want that bribery and all that. I think a lot of them are like that. Host we go to bob in chicago on our democrats line. Caller how you doing. I just love cspan. I fell you. Love the host. Sten, of course i believe in this vote. And i just want to say this. We dont want no war. With nobody. Who is ready for that . Is r two, you know, trump not dealing with a full deck. One example real quick, the testing. He said you dont test. No test, because then well find out how many people got the virus. I mean thats so ridiculous. And we just looking out for you republicans. Thats what we really are. We dont want people dying. Thank you, cspan, for allowing me to say this. Host in spring, texas, independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I would like to remind everyone first that in 2000 after the election 2016 trump had a commission on voter fraud, which was an absolute failure. Not a single finding was issued. Even though a large percentage of states declined to participate in this commission. There was never a single finding issued by this committee that was supposed to find out that trump had won the popular vote. Id like to remind people before the election trump was a large purveyor he had a team in hawaii and they found Amazing Things about barack obama. They never came to light. The hallmark of a great con man is the posts always move. Hunter bidens laptop. These are all examples of a moving post by the con man. The democrats are not an intersent party. Look at the treatment of bernie sanders. The fact that debi Wasserman Schultz is still involved in the Democratic Party. There was no massive voter fraud. What you are seeing is a con man grasping for strauss as his house of cards is falling down. St darlene next up in Washington State, republican line. Aller good morning. Things are just way too person. Individuals, left, right. Its just so dysfunctional. I choose to live my life in a pretty peaceful fashion. We are going back to the election. I really think its a little bit late that things that they need to look at will have been discarded like the envelope that had significance g signatures. As a republican signatures. As a republican, i prefer my president. Unlike they said concede, id like President Trump because i admired the man. To go have a peaceful life and golf his life away. I wouldnt want to be president and have to deal with the challenges that are coming up. But i asked my husband about voting. I said wouldnt it be better instead of wondering every time thee is an election, if all voter rolls were deleted. Canceled out. And there is a mandate that people had to register to vote again. And they had to present those materials and legally register to vote so that the voting rolls would, for once, in the last 40 years, be as accurate as we could get them. I was just wondering feedback on that. I appreciate cspan. Again its too personal, folks. Lets just let the investigations play out. I cant even watch the news anymore. Host darlene you did vote for President Trump this time around, right . In Washington State . Caller i am a republican. I voted for republican values. Thats smaller government. Work hard. And love god. Thank you. Host thank you, darlene. Want to remind our viewers and listeners of our Coverage Today. The Supreme Court, the Affordable Care case at 10 00 this morning. The case, california v. Texas, this consolidated case, the oral argument getting under way at 10 00. That will be live here on cspan. Well carry the oral argument here on cspan. Cspan radio. Follow it as well online at cspan. Org. The morning, Early Morning shot of the Supreme Court across the street there from the u. S. Capitol will be looking in all morning until the oral arguments, obviously, by audio only, and the justices still meeting remotely, not at the chamber itself. We are not in the Supreme Court chamber itself. A look at the usa today and their fact check section on some of the allegations made from the election. States dont have more than 100 turnout. They write a recent meme uses outdated data to argue fraudulent votes have been undermined have undermineded 2020 elections intregity. It just happened so we are on track to have more votes than registered voters in every single state that could potentially win trump the election, says an image posted to facebook nobody 4. You have been caught, democrats. The fact check section of the usa today found that updated data and individual state reporting show no state had more than 100 voter election turnout. In fact, they name all of them. Pennsylvania, for

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