able to admit it. in a very special and specific way donald trump tonight has brought america together across partisan lines. with this statement that he just released. i will read it to you in full. he says, quote, if we don t solve the presidential election fraud of 2020, which we have thoroughly and conclusively documented, republicans will not be voting in 2022 or 2024. it is the single most important thing for republicans to do. ta-da. democrats and republicans join hands and come together as one. donald trump says republicans will not be voting in the elections in 22 or 24. democrats you good with that? yes. turns out democrats are good with that. republicans? well, you re going to tell trump he is wrong? you re going to break with trump on this? tell him, sir, admire you for so many things but on this i
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prompt this departmental action the president considered installing you as acting attorney general. your efforts risked involving the department of justice in action shuns that threatened the rule of law. accordingly the select committee seeks both documents and your deposition testimony regarding these and other matters. so that went out tonight to former justice department official jeff clark. based on what is already known about what clark tried to do with donald trump here, how he tried to use the justice department to keep trump in power after trump lost the election. based on what is already known about his behavior the judiciary committee and senate has already referred jeff clark to the d.c. bar association for potential disciplinary action against him as a lawyer. well, now on top of that he has been subpoenaed to hand over documents and testify to the january 6th investigators. and, you know, honestly who knows if he will? the ability of that investigation to actually get
judge today put an end to that lawsuit. that led to this angry response from trump. he said, quote, here we go again. after a very long wait a judge in georgia refuses to let us look at the ballots, which i have little doubt are terrible. terrible ballots? this whole situation is a disgrace to our country. why can t the public see the ballots? our country is going to he double hockey sticks and we are not allowed transparency even in our elections. the people of georgia deserve to know the truth. we will never give up. our elections are so corrupt and nobody wants to do anything about it. exclamation point in the original. no one want to do anything about it. if nobody is going to do anything about it he is going to hold his breath until he passes out i swear i swear watch me watch me i m turning blue. actually the tantrum from him plays out more along the lines of this statement also today. busy day. this one demanding that unless
pending before them both the freedom to vote act in the senate, the john lewis voting rights advancement act, and those will go a long way. there are other things that can be done to specifically target the certification process, which i, you know, write about. i think it s long time past having secretaries of state and governors signatures required in order to certify election results. we ought to be moving toward more nonpartisan ways of certifying election results so a single trump accolyte who is secretary of state can t someone from the election simply by refusing to sign a piece of paper. if the democrats in washington aren t able to get it together to do this, if they leave the filibuster rules as they are, if people like senator manchin, senator sinema continue to not be interested in helping democratic majority slim as it is pass things either by reconciliation or changing the