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Counting the vote, unquote, it's pretty clear he means stop counting the votes when he's up and when democrats are in the lead, vote counters need to find votes for him, as he instructed georgia republican secretary of state brad raffensperger to do. >> there's nothing wrong with saying that you've recalculated. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. >> this plan to put loyalists in key positions where they can do this for him is going on right now with trump-backed candidates for governor, secretary of for governor, secretary of state and more in key states. and the...

In many cases with republicans invoking the big lie that the election was stolen as justification. just to be clear so our viewers know, you have said that joe biden won the election fair and square and called the big lie the big lie, but we did see trump last night in arizona trying to pressure legislators to decertify the 2020 election. on friday he called for an effort to get vote counters, more in office who are supporters of his. take a listen. >> we have to be a lot sharper the next time when it comes to counting the vote. a famous statement "sometimes the vote counter is more important ...

Candidate for the presidential party. >> he could be the nominee. more in the here and now, what he said there, that is probably more important, who counts the votes than the candidate, that's exactly what is happening in states across the country as republican governors and state legislatures have moved from not just trying to keep people electric registering to vote and keeping them from voting, but now architecture to make the vote counters exert their will over the will of the american people. >> that's right. the architecture to do that. you on your show actually -- you are holding a spec...

At 10:00 in the evening and then all of a sudden things closed and it reopened and, viola, look what happened. so we have to be a lot sharper the next time when it comes to counting the vote. famous saying, sometimes the vote counter is more important than the candidate and we can't let that ever, ever happen again. have to get tougher and smarter. >> my panel is back with me. stewart, that last bit in that harangue, whatever that was from donald trump, is the most chilling thing that folks are talking about now. the idea that republican governors and state legislatures in some places are sett...

Let me switch gears a moment to voting rights. there is going to be a vote tonight sometime in the 8:00 hour. how is that going to go? is there any chance that manchin and sinema will allow a switch to a talking filibuster or a filibuster with 55 votes needed instead of 60 or any changes at all? >> it doesn't appear that we're ultimately going to win the vote on changing the rules. but it is important that we are going to be united in our vote for the freedom to vote act, which, in and of itself, could save democracy. unfortunately, it doesn't look like we will be as united when it comes to th...