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Changes is so important, it's my number one priority to push. this over the next few years. but legal change alone is not going to protect american democracy. we are going to have to be ready for a mass peaceful protest. we're gonna have to be ready to organize a simple society. the kind of things i never thought we would have to be talking about in the united states. >> i rick hasen, that was so inspiring thank you so. much >> this week stakes are high for democrats and the country as the house tries to pull out one of the most ambitious undertakings in generations. can it be? done everything...

That you never question the death of the united states. but the republicans are playing games. and here's the other thing, they say they want democrats to raise the debt ceiling by themselves, there is a way to do that that pretty easy. and that would've been tonight. not filibustering the bills. they can just say okay, we're gonna let it come to a vote, 50 democrats plus one the vice president can raise the debt limit. and every republican can vote to default on the dead of the united states as you mention. but what they are trying to, do is play games. they want to see is reconciliation beca...

Positions of power up and down the hierarchy, would enable him to do it. now we came close to that nightmare last year. really close. only thwarted thanks to a handful of folks, one of them georgia secretary of date brad raffensperger, refusing to bend to trump's will. before we find ourselves back in that situation again we have to make actual changes to fortify the defenses of our election systems. he's rick hasen one of the nation's top experts on election law. he just published paper titled identifying and minimizing the risk of elections subversion. he's also founder of the election law b...

Claim or pretend to buy into this false claim, i have much less confidence that we will be able to withstand the same kind of thing come 2024. >> you write about addressing this in a legal sense. what are the things we can do, legally, changes we can make, to essentially fortify free and fair elections, to defend them from manufactures like trump? i will read a passage in which you discretion. the kinds of legal changes i advocate ran the gamut, things like ensuring we have paper ballots to be re-counted, convict conducting audits to check the validity, removing from power those who play essen...

Rally rally in georgia, one of the states that helped clinches defeat. trump is not wavered from his thoroughly debunked claims that he won. speaking at the national fairgrounds on saturday made it clear he wants to campaign, not just on this platform of the last stolen election but also explicitly on putting in place people who are willing to steal the next one for him. >> they attacked and cheated on our elections, and they did it right here in georgia also. right here in georgia. now the people of georgia must replace the rhinos and weak republicans who made it all possible. >> this is the ...