democracy by refusing to say whether they will accept election results they don t like. also tonight, what s next after a very bad week for trump with the special master telling his lawyers to put up or shut up and new york s attorney general exposing years of alleged fraud. and as kevin mccarthy makes his pitch for speaker, president biden reminds americans exactly what republicans want to take from you if they win. things like reproductive rights and social security. good evening, everyone. i m jason johnson in for joy reid. we begin tonight with the cancer that continues to rot what s left of the desiccated corpse of the republican party. moments from now, the former president will stand shoulder to shoulder with ted budd, north carolina s republican senate candidate. he refused to accept the results if he loses but voting to certify the 2020 election as a member of congress just hours after the attack on the capitol. and he s not the only one. from the carolinas to
search was somehow illegal and consequently not only does this investigation have to come to a grinding halt, but somehow he can get back some of the papers that shouldn t have been this begin with. does any of that have any legal chance one way or another or did he get this from the alex jones school of legal theories? well, i m going to have to go with choice b, because it s very, very hard to actually even read judge cannon s decision, the underlying decision that the 11th circuit quickly threw out where donald trump said, hey, the department of justice shouldn t even be able to look at the classified documents which are owned by the federal government, by the way, in an ongoing criminal investigation about whether any crimes were committed with those documents. the whole thing, the whole process seemed to me to be grasping at straws and using anything they could find to try
new york. which one do you think gets a conviction faster? do you think that the process that tish james laid out this week, will we see somebody in an orange jumpsuit from trump s inner circle from her or the doj faster? well, let s remember that tish james suit is civil, not criminal, number one, and probably going to be alengthy process. it usually is. i have to say, department of justice on these documents, it is a very clear that they have recovered documents from donald trump s residence he did not own. should not have possessed, should not have kept. some of his attorneys told him so, so that s where we are. philip rucker and maya whily, thank you. maya, i think i hear a cat in the background. added some real passion. thank you guys so much for joining us. up next, a series of scandals and controversies shaking up the world of professional sports.
what they do. how does that certification process actually work? well, it s not really a rubber stamp. a good secretary will work with the counties as they are building their canvases, will review them ahead of time before the counties actually perform the canvas, do the vote that certifies it and sends to the secretary s office. good teams don t just rubber stamp. they make sure to work together along the way through the process so it is smooth, so we do have free and fair elections, so we have predictable government, rational government. and not just weird chaos which is what my opponent is presenting, and we just want things to work normally. and that s really how the process is supposed to work. exactly. your job is to scrutinize what is delivered to you and then make sure it s fair for the entire country, and frankly, arizona will be one of the states where the entire country s eyes will be on you. with that being in mind, i want to play you sound of your