And hello, again. Thanks for joining us. The biggest county in what the Biden Campaign is hoping will be the biggest and most unexpected prize for them is wrapping up its count. Were talking about Fulton County, georgia. The atlanta area. Were expecting to hear from officials shortly. Well bring that to you live. Erin burnett is with me today. Everybody is waiting, now maybe Fulton County answers. Nevada soon more information. Votes coming in from arizona and pennsylvania where hundreds of thousands of ballots still remain. The big question, of course, is will this be enough as these numbers come in to putt biden ahead over the 270 mark, obviously the biden margin is slim and shrinking, but we expect an update on that in the next few hours. The White House Well be hearing live from our correspondents and expect to hear from a number of key news makers. Well know perhaps from georgia momentarily. I want to show you how razor thin the margins are in the remaining key states. What a race
Former President Trump and his allies. During the hearing, Maricopa County supervisor bill gates testified that this effort to undermine the integrity of our elections was, and i quote, the biggest threat to our democracy in my lifetime. Supervisor gates is a republican as are members of our panel today, but he spoke out against this campaign of threats and lies, because protecting our democracy is more important than partisan politics. Today, the committee released a report detailing new findings from our investigation into the effects of election misinformation and disinformation. We asked local Election Officials in four states, arizona, florida, ohio, and texas how election lies are impacting their ability to do their jobs. What we heard is chilling, Election Officials are under siege. They face growing campaigns of harassment and threats, all driven by false accusations of fraud. For example, we learned that after the 2020 election conspiracy theorists alex jones, roger stone, and
Former president donald trump. They also about talk about increasing resources for Election Administration and social medias role countering election misinformation. This roundtable discussion from the House Oversight and Reform Committee is one hour 15 minutes. Undtable on election misinformation. Nearly a year ago this Committee Held a meeting in arizona. This audit was inspired by life about Election Fraud spread by former President Trump and his allies. During the hearing, Maricopa County supervisor bill gates testified that this effort to undermine the integrity of our elections was, and i quote, the biggest threat to our democracy in my lifetime. Supervisor gates is a republican as are members of our panel today, but he spoke out against this campaign of threats and lies, because protecting our democracy is more important than partisan politics. Today, the committee released a report detailing new findings from our investigation into the effects of election misinformation and dis
Supervisor gates is a republican as are members of our panel today, but he spoke out against this campaign of threats and lies, because protecting our democracy is more important than partisan politics. Today, the committee released a report detailing new findings from our investigation into the effects of election misinformation and disinformation. We asked local Election Officials in four states, arizona, florida, ohio, and texas how election lies are impacting their ability to do their jobs. What we heard is chilling, Election Officials are under siege. They face growing campaigns of harassment and threats, all driven by false accusations of fraud. For example, we learned that after the 2020 election conspiracy theorists alex jones, roger stone, and mike lindell singled out one florida election administrator, they publicized his Office Phone Number and encouraged listeners to call with the message that we are watching him and he is a piece of crap. He reported receiving countless th
The response been so far and what additional steps can help approve improve its effectiveness . Thank you congresswoman. That is a tough one. The answer is we set that up several months that. We have publicized it. At the present time, i do not have any accurate numbers that i could even venture to mention how many times people have looked at it. We have had a few. Even though we have that up, we have had a few people in the past say that we are spreading the misinformation at this point in time. It really is difficult and just one more piece of the education process that we put in place. I know several of my colleagues across the country have done something similar. It is just the little pieces that we have to do. I think, ms. Barden said it best. Needing help with communications. Yes, we have our Communications People but we need help at the federal level to help us with this. If you post something on facebook or twitter, it can be spread in a matter of in its millions of people. To