joshua. i know it s in capable hands with speaker hastings. and he will gather all the evidence to ensure that this is a process that goes forward, that is transparent and just. but listen, i think he should step down. i ve said it in the past. and i say it now. spare new york the hurt. that s the right thing to do. new york congressman adriano espiat. thank you for making time for us tonight. georgia republicans have ordered a formal review of election officials. rob pitts joins us now next. plus, what does the delta variant mean for the school year? a new report shows cases are up more than 80% among children in just the past week. we ll get into that as the week continues on msnbc. hat as week continues on msnbc not just unpredictable relapses. all these other things too. it can all add up. kesimpta is a once-monthly at-home injection. that may help you put these rms challenges in their place.
that is transparent and just. but listen, i think he should step down. i ve said it in the past. and i say it now. spare new york the hurt. that s the right thing to do. new york congressman adriano espiat. thank you for making time for us tonight. georgia republicans have ordered a formal review of election officials. rob pitts joins us now next. plus, what does the delta variant mean for the school year? a new report shows cases are up more than 80% among children in just the past week. we ll get into that as the week continues on msnbc.
so keep that in mind. it s no secret that georgia and more specifically fulton county is under attack and we re not going to stand for it. the 2020 elections are over. the votes are counted three times, one time by hand. the results were substantially the same in each of the three recount. that election has been certified. in fact, the secretary of state and mr. sterling praised fulton county for a job well done for the 2020 elections. so what s happened from that time to where we are now other than senate bill 202. i can tell you what s going on. plain old hardball politics. the secretary of state fell out favor with then president trump, who asked for him to be removed. he s up for re-election. he s going to lose, so he s doing everything that he can now to curry favor with former president trump and his believers of the big lie. this is just an ongoing effort on his part to curry fair and hold on to that seat, which i see no possible way for him to win.
directly to something that gabriel sterling told me last night on our program on peacock. he s the chief operating officer for georgia s secretary of state, brad raffensperger. mr. raffensperger oversees elections across georgia. i asked him about fulton county in our conversation. here s part of what mr. sterling said. look at june and the primary election, there were thousands of georgians, thousands of democrats, probably hundreds or thousands of republicans that were disen franchised by the incompetence of the office, unfortunately, in a very stressful time of covid. i m not going to discount that, but every other large county managed to get their work done. fulton department and they have a history of it. chairman, what s your response to that? well, let me put this in perspective. mr. sterling, first of all, is a former opponent of mine who lost. so keep that in mind. it s no secret that georgia and
by order of governor greg abbott. the governor s agenda has 17 items. among them, the same republican-backed voting bill that caused democrats from the texas house to leave last month for washington. meanwhile, georgia s controversial election law is being put into practice. republicans in the state assembly are demanding a performance review of election officials in fulton county. it is a major democratic stronghold. one of the two counties that directly encompasses the city of atlanta. this process could let the republican-led state legislature suspend and replace fulton county s election board. the county has georgia s largest concentration of democratic voters. voting rights activists are crying foul, warning that the move is an act of election subversion. and that the chairman of fulton county s board of commissioner, rob pitts, called ate hostile takeover. he joins us now to discuss it. chairman pitts, welcome to the program. thank you for having me, joshua. i would like to b