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Year 2000 where the Supreme Court ultimately took the presidency out of the hands of the voters and handed it over to the partisan lawyers we remain on edge and always d watching the honks. Whats going on a city street. There so you. See this is this you always still see a. Great city desolate systemic just says so which. So brings up the old. Welcome on the watching the hawks i am tire opened and im in the crowd and joining us to discuss the postelection legal and political fist fight for the presidency is the codirector of the National Grassroots Election Protection coalition professor and journalist journalist Harvey Wasserman thank you so much for joining us harvey. They could be hero of your monologue thank you how was nice to hear so professor wasserman you and many others have been sounding the alarm on the potential for a legally or politically hijacked election outcome for quite some time after hearing President Donald Trump invoked the Supreme Court once again this week are your fears and concerns becoming a reality. Where we get to see because if you taste. 65 or thats why they rushed for that seat d its very good and you know hes got 3 texts but you know he has lost this election by more than 3000000 votes he lost by substantially more than he lost in 2016 and thankfully this year the Electoral College votes are lining up differently than they did join in 16 but you know weve got to get rid of that work of powers thats one of the reasons we convened our grassroots Election Protection coalition i think hes done i think hes such an outrageous and ridiculous character that the powers that be are not going to keep him in there but the important thing to remember is that he was the popular vote by well over 3000000 votes in any sane actual democracy we wouldnt be talking about undecided election the elections over us by 3000000 votes thats saying so i mean you know bush in 2000. Always won by you know if. He actually lost by 500000 what happened in florida should never have happened and what happened in 2016 should never happen don thompson never been the white house so weve got to get rid of the Electoral College you got to get with kerry and bring one good act in the so actually very big deal is that almost all the ballots were on paper you know because that one good thing that came from the go of it is that we had a giant spread of hope by mail which is a really big step forward for democracy and made a big difference and also because older. People like myself didnt go into the polls to war we had a major generational shift and then millions of 1000 some more details and generational z. Kids came out to work the polls a great education and democracy this will change the nature of our country so. Its big step forward because for the last 20 years ive been doing using i were trying to go to machine is still the vote you know push and pray now at least we have that paper ballots that are just going to help those who are most affluent and those are all really good points i like the transition to you know the people who are actually involved at the polls this go around versus you know weve seen older generations before you touch on 2000 and thats something that weve heard back and forth in media lately what are some of the ways the losing party which in this case now appears to be president dollar trump could still essentially steal this election away from joe biden and the democrats should we be worried about a repeat of gore versus bush in 2000 weve already seen so many legal challenges. Yes absolutely because 1st or they stole for this year i mean they disenfranchise one more than a 1000000 ex felons who the people of florida voted and said ok you can vote and then the legislature the gerrymandered register if you stepped in in scenario cant vote unless you pay your fees and you can even find out how much you owe edges d if those people had voted in florida. Trump would not have carried forward 4 was stolen this year again and for gods sakes hopefully when 40 years we can correct that i think gerrymandering has got to go but this year tactically you know the way the constitution is written the state legislatures choose the electrophoresis to the Electoral College which chooses the president there is actually no mention in the kaiser to sion of the right of the people to vote directly on the president quite the opposite in fact 47892860 there was a transition the legislatures chose the president that but then by 860 that they were following the lead of the public but legally the legislatures have the right to choose the ork doors and if trump had not been such a raving lunatic it could happen again this year but i dont think hes got the support to pull it off you have to have some kind of public support when he loses an election by 33 and a half 1000000 votes and behave the way hes behaved i dont think he can pull it off but legally he could do it you know its interesting because you mentioned a few things that number one like you know giving would have been Electoral College or try agree with the what what can we do to better protect our voting and democratic processes from getting it you know legally or illegally hijacked by one or both of our dominant political parties. Well ive read a history book getting i states about that actually had a history United States raid a published called this people spiral of u. S. History this summer and then i write i have Bernie Sanders saving the world. Thats not going to happen then so we get the history of the Electoral College its ridiculous you know Alexander Hamilton came up with this he was a minor because basically he did now and the public to choose the president was so far beyond that we need to get rid of the Electoral College we need get need to get rid of gerrymandering we need to have great Choice Voting paper ballots and a reliable Action System we also there was also another big step forward this year not much talked about but the a lot of the n. B. A. National Basketball Association i read this were used for voting and its a huge step forward now to have people on these lines people could come in their restaurants or this food safety thats it their very big success this year 20 a basketball arenas a couple of football stadiums you know in kansas city and charlotte very very good good stuff but number one get rid of the Electoral College number 2 get rid of gerrymandering these are the things that are really killing our democracy thats how we wound up in states like michigan and wisconsin pennsylvania and North Carolina with extreme right wing republican legislatures in states that are evenly divided ohio for god sakes a 5050 democrat republican state the same legislations a super majority republican as is the congressional delegation and thats why one of the reasons our government is so unresponsive is because these people get these seeds and theyre in the state legislatures and congress and theyre completely safe because theyre not competitive elections where its actually been improved this California California has a very good Redistricting Commission which is non partisan or by multi parties and actually and in 20062008 both were just major and the congressional delegations were put under control of this. Disunity commission and guess who funded it Arnold Schwarzenegger choice nader put 3000000. 00 of his own dollars in for a statewide campaign it was successful and thank you arnold you know for for helping to do this its a model for the rest of it and over the next 4 years if we can win state referenda and maybe even get federal legislation get rid of this gerrymandering thing will again take a big step toward democracy were good good folks like you out there fighting for this and educating the public id truly do believe that we will hopefully see this in the near future and i and its funny they never mention alexander the monarchist in the much popular play i have to thank you so much or had he was also he was also bisexual by the way that they have that actually our rival abbess thank you so much for coming on to present was one pleasure having you on the highly. If the great monologues a great way to wake up. Have a great day sir. It to. As the democrats republicans continue to fight over ballots votes election observers and who makes the Better Coffee on election day one go to controversy that has been thankfully left to the sidelines of 2020 as postelection fight for the white house has been accusations of foreign election meddling or interference unlike 2016 which saw cries of foreign meddling dom meddling dominating the headlines but hey lets not forget 2020 is not over yet and donald is desperate for excuses at this point here is our to americas alex mahela bridge with an indepth look at the hypocrisy surrounding United States peers of foreign election meddling especially given our own sort of history on the matter. From ukraine. To venezuela. For decades the us has been accused of interfering in elections around the globe while insisting that other state out of its voting process but its in that one that is a built in standard that they present when they meddle in the internal affairs of other countries where they do not respect the electoral rules of those countries such as what happened in bolivia such as what has happened in venezuela where we are an example in terms of electoral matters u. S. Security Officials Say that there has been no foreign meddling detected in americas current president ial vote a stark contrast to just weeks ago when u. S. Intelligence accused russia any ran of interfering in the election well things are supposedly above board in the us vote the same cant be said for elections in countries where america has been involved bolivia is a prime example of that a nation that just recently democratically elected a new government after the us imposed its will a year ago. What occurred its nothing to be surprised about we also won last year and when democracy didnt serve their purpose they carried out a coup detat the us is accused of helping a right wing interim government take control of bolivia in october of 2000. 19 at least 35. 00 people died in related incidents from Campaign Financing to violent coups some would say the u. S. Is the biggest election meddler of them all dove levon political scientist who conducted an indepth analysis of election meddling told usa today the u. S. Has intervened in the most elections between 1906 to 2081 elections in total this includes well known cases in guatemala and the rand in the 19 150. 00 s. And in chile in nicaragua in the seventys and eightys. More recent campaigns up to the 2000 election in serbia where the United States openly funded a movement to defeat president Slobodan Milosevic approach in afghanistan where the u. S. Failed to remove honeyed karzai from power as well as everything from simple funding to revolutions in places like ukraine kenya and lebanon the list goes on one of the most publicized examples of u. S. Interference in recent years happened in venezuela the United States recognize the Opposition Leader one wide open as venezuelas interim president ignoring that countrys 2018 Election Results in which president Nicolas Maduro was reelected even though some may be questioning just how democratic americas elections are many outsiders are insisting that the process must be allowed to run its course according to the laws of the United States at the same time they hope that the u. S. Will give other nations the same respect for our t. V. Im alex myla bitch. All right were going to recommend that you can also start watching the hawks and other r. T. Programming on demand for the brand new portable t. V. Which are portable to the operatives available on all platforms with that play download it check it out all right coming up weve talked about the massive amounts of money spent on the selection of the cohost of by any means necessary a radio spot meant jack a look and so stay tuned for watching the fox you dont want to miss that. This is a story of women women with troubled histories and complex cold cases you know some of us gately really. Who lives out there. Who are not believe the person that they are accusing them simply they are considered the most dangerous of criminals shes in a still. All the 23 hours of the day. Tell me that is long enough and it. Will give women on death row. Joining me every day so im unsure when ill be speaking to get out of the world of politics. Im sure. Ill see that. The 2020 alexion is coming to a close america could have a president announce before the end of the day but that likely wont come without legal challenges and a fight to prove vote by mail as project all heralded by the Truck Campaign this election seemingly has lasted longer than a lifetime and amid the backdrop of a pandemic the competition for the white house only intensified unlike most countries america is known for a long. Long president ial campaign. And all the time and money spent on attack ads knocking on doors sending mailers calling people and using social media to change minds campaigns are high dollar events in fact the 2020 president ial election was a whopper of worker setting proportions this president ial election cost 14000000000. 00 it is thinking only the most expensive election in history and twice the cost of the 26000. 00 president ial election breaking it down even with many unemployed and suffering from the way to cope 192020 saw more individual donations to campaigns in other years women in particular just kept giving and the donations were often said to candidates from out of state democrats definitely went above and beyond blowing past republican election spending margins Democratic Candidates and groups spent 6900000000 dollars between super pacs big business individual giving and a strong sense of urgency following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg democrats got the money machine rolling and here to break down those money bags in the 2020 campaign is jech a look cohost of by any means necessary welcome. Thanks for having me while checking the fundraising structure in 2020 for the president ial race the races has been very strong especially considering it continued to grow even after the pandemic hit what do you think are some of the driving factors and the biggest influence its. Just the fact that us a little system itself is a form of political socialism and people giving. Dont get. You know these candidates come begging for money that you know they have just for in order to save them from other. Is also begging another group of people for money to save them from. And most american. I dont understand that the entire Campaign Finance system in this country is a massive financial grassed of the American People but it is so baked into the political process that the money that is spent so obscure it really does of good job of hiding that the people so people believe that they are funding better policies for themselves only really theyre just being ripped off by these politicians but when you look at these numbers every 14000000000 dollars a massive amount of money to be spent on political campaigns im immediately my mind kind of goes to what else could we have gotten for 14000000000. 00 going to but theres been a lot of talk about removing money from politics would have 2020 as i me indication that isnt going to happen anytime soon not about kind of numbers i was curious could you explain kind of the strength stronghold in the breakdown of individual donations from citizens versus you know Political Action Committee Spending and why one is as you know why a Political Actions would mean so much more devastating to our political process. I mean your average american citizen really doesnt have a whole lot of money to give to individual candidates even though you know collectively well when individual people details like 27. 00 you know say bernie to Bernie Sanders campaign yes well millions of individual people can give that amount of money to a candidate who is advocating for policies that will improve the material conditions of the people who are contributing to their campaign thats one thing but were talking about Political Action committees that can represent corporate interests at our Companies Large Companies Like amazon it over and you know fossil fuel industries that hate these companies to advocate for issues that a lot of them until only. Fewer taxes to pay people less money to reduce peoples benefits so that workers are taking away less money and a less secure. Existence in this country then you see the outsized influence of money and politics its not individual people are giving too much money to politicians its that massive corporations that have enormous endless amounts of money to literally buy policy and politicians have much more insolence and power and politics than your average you know multiple who wants medicare for all scraping together 27. 00 every 2 or 3 months to give to a Bernie Sanders to me and at the beginning of a president ial Campaign Cycle trump and the Republican National committee out one rave and outspent democrats but there was a huge shift after the summer and moreover in the fall we saw a large surge of donations for Democratic Candidates not only in the president ial race but also in senate and other down ballot races what do you think are some of the think you are events or groups of events that contributed to the giving shift in that timeframe i know we saw a black lives matter but what are some of the things that you would say really shifted the scales from trump giving to a lot more democratic giving. I think in the way that trump the administration handled the pandemic really rubbed a lot of. Conservatives dont know theres absolutely the wrong way and i dont want to give these people any credit for being or world in any way was just bad optics when bob woodward came out with the recording where charlie admitted that he knew that the virus was much more serious than it was that it was deadly from the beginning and he intentionally lied to the American People were publicans like to keep their lies like that. Their coverage so that was a really bad p. R. Move for the g. O. P. And their conservative donors and i mean the death toll among people who were up some who were succumbing to the fire was virus was rising the trumpet ministration was continuing to downplay it it didnt look good for the republicans so they they really really didnt want to be seen continuing to fund that type of open avarice toward the American People i think for the republican money machine of the republican donors that was the singular. Turning point for them supporting trial with their money we got a little bit of time left lloyd about 2 minutes but i want to ask you remiss loving the most important question of all how do we wrestle control of corporate money impact money away from these 2 parties if we even care and get you know the donations if theres always going to be political donations but how do we get it out of the hands of corporations and back into the hands of the people who are belongs. I mean the 1st answer people always give this to overturn Citizens United that people need to think understand that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of corporate spending in politics long before since its united back in the 800 s. There was a similar a Supreme Court case that ruled that you know corporations can spend whatever they want and political campaigns i think the number one thing we can do is to really establish working class solidarity among working class poor and oppressed people in this country and unite Work Together up biting for our interests collective interests as the working class and the oppressed and poor against the ruling class and the 10 percent and the one percent of the elite yes they the temper set the one percent. Absolutely control 80 percent of the finding of the stock market in this country the rest of us the 99 percent we absolutely have to do everything else. And that is the fight that we will continue to fight and that you continue to fight every day on your radio show thank you so much for joining us jack a locum and always a pleasure having you on them thanks so much for having me. All right everybody that is our show for you today remember in this world were not really not told little of the not so i tell you walt i love you i robot and i dont need to crop keep on watching those hawks out there and have a great day and night everybody. They are tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didnt commit i dont even think people in the us really get that the police are allowed to lie to you the person who falsely fast actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession is taken the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that isnt. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. 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