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The memo laid out how vice president mike pence had the right not to accept those electors, and that's how the electoral count could be stopped, that's how the naming of biden as the winner of the election could be technically stopped. john eastman is the one who laid out the memo for how the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol, which did stop the counting process for some time, he laid out the memo for how the attack on the capitol that day could work, particularly if pence went along with it, this is how it could work. well, today, bizarrely, that lawyer, john eastman, the guy who wrote o...

Around voting rights is that it has always been the case that nothing was going to stop these republican legislators in the wake of trump leaving office and making this the creed for the party that the election was stolen. they wanted to do this anyway. trump is, as usual, not really a leader. he is the accelerant, the match on the fire, right. >> yeah. >> so all of these republicans have for a long time wanted to restrict voting rights. they've wanted to be able to on the front end to get fewer african-americans and other reliable democrats to vote and on the back end to be able to mess with ...

They're not only making it harder to vote, in every way they can, they are systematically changing the administration of elections and the way votes are counted, to give partisan republicans control of the process. to give them the power to oust elections officials, who won't do what they want. republicans, all over the country, are giving themselves that power to subvert election results and seize the counting process for themselves. and now, they are actually starting to try to use it in georgia. which, i think, is a really, really big deal and deserves more national attention. while, meanwh...

Rates are low, as we were just discussing with dr. fauci. it also applies, of course, to our democracy. one of the stories the team here covered while i was away was a story that i think needs way more attention, moving forward. it's a story out of georgia where republicans in the state legislature are gearing up to actually use their big draconian new anti-voting law, that's been so controversial. they are gearing up to use it to try to force out the top elections official in fulton county, georgia. fulton county, georgia, of course, the democratic stronghold that includes atlanta. in these a...

In these anti-voting bills being passed by republican legislators across the country, they are not only making it harder to vote and everywhere they can, they are changing the administration of elections and the way votes are counted to give partisan republicans control of the process. republicans all over the country are giving themself that power to subvert election results and sees the counting process for themselves and now they are starting to try to use it in georgia which is a big deal. republicans are succeeding in washington in their efforts to try to stop any national protections for...