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CNNW CNN Tonight With Don Lemon November 18, 2020

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Tonight President Trump firing the official from the department of Homeland Security after he rejected trumps claims of widespread election fraud. Chris krebs. He released a statement saying, quote, there is no evidence that any Voting System deleted or lost votes, changed votes or was in any way compromised. That was his statement. After that krebs was fired and on twitter this is what he said. His deputy matt travis resigned as well. Trump canceling plans to stand at maralago. One official saying it feels like a bunker mentality at the white house. That was his statement when he said the election was not compromised in any way. I want to bring in jeremy diamond, Alex Marquart and jeremy. Theres a lot going on here. We dont know what the next 60 or so odd days are going to be like. Jeremy krebs is out. You have a source telling you more about the number two official at the agency that we just reported about. Tell us what you know. Reporter yeah, thats right, don. Matt travis im told by source miller that he has resigned tonight now. He was not fired by the white house, by the president in the same way krebs was, but instead im told that travis resigned after it was clear he was not going to be taking the helm of the agency. So he is stepping down and instead brandon whales who is a career dhs official, hes the number 3 and he is expected to take the helm. Whales is a career official but he has served in senior positions under john kelly and kirsten nielsen. I think, don, whats interesting here overall, we found out another way that somebody can get fired in the trump administration. Weve known you can get fired if you are disloyal to the president , we know you can get fired if he no longer agrees with his policy decisions, and we learn you can get fired if you state the facts to the public. That is what krebs did as it relates to the 2020 election, clearly trump decided he didnt like that truth and he decided to fire the person who said that. Alex, you have a statement from ab official at cesa. What does that statement say . This happened suddenly, don. We know that krebs didnt know he was fired until he saw the tweet. Now weve just seen a letter that has gone out to the work force from the cesa chief of staff, her name is emily early. It is essential that we do not lose focus on the important work we collectively undertake on behalf of the american people. I know we can count on each of you to continue to do the excellent work you do every day as we Work Together to defend today and secure tomorrow. Thats something that krebs said all the time. That was essentially his tag line. That was the line that came out of cesa all the time. Jeremy is absolutely right, krebs was fired because of what he has been saying in the days that have followed the election where he has been pushing back more and more aggressively against the president. Not pushing back and naming him, calling out conspiracies, debunking what he calls hoaxes and nonsenses. Perhaps, don, hisse biggest cri in the view of the president was saying that in no uncertain terms, he said this alongside other state, private, federal Election Officials, this was the most secure election in american history. This comes as the president , of course, is calling it a rigged election. You read some of that statement, don, in which they say that there is no evidence that any Voting System deleted or lost votes, changed votes or was in any way compromised. The president is saying the opposite and now chris krebs is out of a job. Krebs number one priority was making sure americans decide american elections. While he might be out of a job, he can sleep soundly tonight knowing that he was a huge part in overseeing a very safe and secure 2020 election. Don . Pamela, i want to get to what happened in michigan. Michigans wayne county reversing their decision to block the certification of joe bidens victory there. What caused them to change their minds, pamela . We dont really have a clear answer on that, don. Heres what we know. What they did initially blocking those votes was unprecedented. There was public outrage to that move. Hours of public outrage and then they came back and decided to unanimously certify the vote. They did ask this Border Patrol board, did ask for the secretary of state to look at some of the imbalances at some of these precincts where the number of signatures in the poll book doesnt match up with the number of votes tabulated. This is something wayne county has had an issue with historically. Election experts say its a clerical error, administrative, not reflerctive of voter fraud. All of this fed into the president s hands and he pounced on it, tweeted on it. It fed into initially his false narrative, don, somehow the election was rigged even though as alex pointed out and jeremy, this was the most secure election in history according to u. S. Government officials. Interesting. Jeremy, the president has been celebrated the wayne county republicans decision not to certify the count. He tweeted when it and they reversed it. He tweeted about it and referred to it incorrectly saying michigan just refused to certify the Election Results which isnt what remotely happened in the situation. Don, whats clear is the president is kind of grasping for anything he can in the situation. Day after day the president has his advisers come to him and inform him the lawsuits in the courts are failing. They are either getting dismissed or they have to drop them or the lawyers who are acting on the Trump Campaign half arguing the Trump Campaign are withdrawing from the cases because they realize they have no real legal merit to them. So the president is trying to make the case that the election is not legitimate. We know this was legitimate as chris krebs correctly told the american people. Whats troubling is the president is getting told by people while theyre telling the president , trying to level with him and tell him the reality hes not going to overturn the election through the courts, giuliani as pam reported, hes been arguing the opposite. There is something that can be done here. He made many of those conspiracy laidened arguments in federal court. Giuliani is always in there somewhere. Listen, ukraine, impeachment. Boy oh, boy oh, boy. Thank you all. Be safe. Joining me is julia kayem and douglas brinkley. What a strange time were living into. Julia, krebs was fighting for the truth, he was telling the truth. You say his success was his undoing. Why is that . Reporter his mission and the Offices Mission was to protect the 2020 election from foreign interference, foreign disinformation and to, you know, basically provide state and locals with the tools they needed to protect the election. They did so successfully. It was remarkable. We didnt see the kind of disinformation or disruption we were worried about from russia, if not china. We saw an election that put lots of stresses on the system. Covid and a pandemic that we had to deal with but it held together. So the next day a president who wanted it to be held together might have given chris krebs an award and said he began to undermine the president began to undermine the work. The disinformation was coming from within the white house and chris krebs and his team decided, rightfully, that they worked for the United States and not for the president , they needed to shoot that stuff down, and they did. Doug, i dont know if youve ever seen anything like this, especially considering the timing, right . This president is out the door every turn. He and his allies are doing whatever they can to undermine the election, undermine the democracy of the process and for every krebs and his deputy who are standing up, there are countless more who are enabling this president. What is going on . Reporter well, for starters, chris krebs is one of the heroes of 2020 along with dr. Fauci. I hope joe biden considers giving him his job back once he gets inaugurated. Heres somebody who did an amazing job. Record voter turnout in 2020 amidst a pandemic yet we ran a great free and fair election. The problem trump has are these cowardly enablers, and the key one is Lindsey Graham. Americans invest in their senators over a period of time and Lindsey Graham knows about the u. S. Armed forces. He knows about cia and state department. He knows about whether chris krebs is all about, what it means to our democracy and instead you see Lindsey Graham doing gutter work in georgia, trying to see if he could get ballots thrown out in states to let donald trump keep his fantasy that hes still president and its one of the saddest, most pathetic u. S. Senators. Lindsey graham is hitting joe mccarthy territory. Luckily we still occasionally have these patriots who are Holding Things together. There are some in the republican party, but theyre very, 1re6 few. Everybody should be telling donald trump share operation warp speed. We paid for the vaccines. Dont hoard them. Dont keep information. This is an american flam can save lives. Help. Yeah. Ive got to ask you, julia. I keep looking down because it keeps coming in. Yeah. This is a letter chief of staff emily early whos cesas chief of staff. She said change in leadership is not a change in mission. It is essential we do not lose focus on the important work we collectively undertake for the american people. When you think about whats happening, doug just mentioned there are People Holding it together. Is our democracy hanging by a thread . No. I mean that honestly. I mean, i would be worried if the votes were closer and i do worry about whats acceptable behavior now in and that lasting longer than donald trump, but ive been pretty calm. Theres not lots of people on the streets. Trumps trying to have these rallies, a couple thousand show up. Most americans are accepting the election, and we have and i think the way i think about it is they all think america is a joke. This is the way to think of trump, graham, all of these sort of losers that have surrounded him. It turns out people who take america seriously clearly outweigh them, outnumber them. That gives me hope. Im not saying im not anxious trump does, its quite likely he goes and plays golf and never comes back. Thats someone who does not take america seriously. I wasnt born yesterday. Ive been around a long time and it just shows i think the systems holding. It has been stretched. There are stress tests going on. I do worry about the longterm damage, but it turns out theres more of us than them and that should give people a lot of confidence. Were on the same page. At first i was very calm and the more i see every single day im like, oh, my god, this is getting worse. I have to remember, its going to get worse before it gets better. Thank you both. We have a lot of big breaking news including michigans largest county certifying Election Results hours after republicans tried to block certification. Want to brain better . Unlike ordinary memory supplements neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. Memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. Try our new gummies for 30 days and see the difference. 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Find your fitscore and get your answers today to get the most out of medicare. Call now. Breaking news out of michigan tonight. The wayne county board of canvassers voted unanimously to certify its results. Huge reversal after republicans temporarily blocked certification of the results. Wayne county is home to detroit and is michigans largest county, by the way. It was critical to president elect joe bidens victory in the state. He won michigan by more than 148,000 votes. Wayne countys decision to certify its results only happened after citizens at the boards meeting tonight shared their outrage. Some saying republicans initial decision to block Election Results showed there was an attempt to silence the vote of the people. How dare you. How dare you try to silence the voice of the citizen. You will not get away with this, and understand and know that every decision that you make that does not have moral decency, you will have to stand and give an account for that. Well, lets discuss. Amanda carpenter is here, former Communications Director for ted cruz and jim massena, former Campaign Advisor for brak obama. Aman amanda, you said what happened in wayne county reveals something very important about our democracy and i think i retweeted this. What is it . I mean, our democracy is so dependent on good character of men and women in leadership positions. If you dont have men and women of good character in those positions, you do not have democracy. And the donald trump era has taught us how fragile it is. I want people to look at these results and seriously consider would our democracy survive a 2,000 style extremely close recount under these conditions . Or a trump second term . I dont think so. Look at what happened in michigan tonight. The results are clear. The election is over and still, two republicans on a fourmember board threaten to throw the system, once again, into chaos because everyone knows that the Trump Campaign lawyers are fantasizing about this long shot scenario where they can get local boards not to certify the election. They select the winner of the election, not the will of the people. Thats what the two republicans were playing with in that vote of the night. As a native michigander who grew up there, sitting on a zoom call on a tuesday night watching and they had the facts saying isnt it fascinating to watch . This is not in line with what happened in the past. They were prepared to stop the steal in real time. That was incredible. Kudos to michigan. Werent you inspired by that, amanda . I watched it. I had it on. I didnt care about the audio glitches. Im sure you saw the same thing. Every time id go back to work when there was an audio glitch. When i heard the audio, id pop it up on my screen. It was fascinating. Id watch. Jim, the democrats have been fighting back in court. You also saw these people in wayne county go to town. They went to town on the officials. So far the process is moving along and it seems to be working, but arent you concerned that its that it has dragged out this long and what could happen before the inauguration in january . Well, any american should be concerned by whats happening in wayne county. I, too, watched it. On one hand its absolutely crazy the two republican electors attempted to subvert the rule of people. To your point, in the end people rose up and their collective voices won and they immediately backed the two idiots down and they realized they were about to be a national travesty. I agree with john, the problem is we can try to subvert the willey. Donald trump lost 21 and they are trying to come away with machinations. A bunch of grassroots people got together and said absolutely not. Thats how we elected barack obama. Thats how tonight in wayne county the people con. Weve got to continue this wherever it occurred. I dont care how many times Rudy Giuliani and his band of lawyer idiots attempt these things, so far theyre 0 for everything. Amanda, talk to me about Lindsey Graham and your relationship with ted cruz. Ted cruz, Rudy Giuliani, theyre all playing a part in this damage to our democracy. Its hard to wat

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