insights. i am ayman mohideen in new york. don t forget to catch me sundays at nine. with my good friend ali vouch. good, evening ali. good evening, my friend. we ll see you again tomorrow. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the winner of the 2017 2016 election was donald trump. you will recall that while he won the electoral college, he did not win the popular vote. and in fact, in the weeks after election day, the margin of his popular vote loss kept growing. every day, every week, hillary clinton s lead in the popular vote kept increasing. it was one and a half million. it was 1.7 million. it was 2 million. ultimately, hillary clinton would win the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes. and the reason for this was california. you see, california famously takes a very long time to tally all its ballots because there are a lot of ballots there, for one thing. and as they counted their ballots, hillary clinton s popular vote margin kept increasing. this
insurrection. all we are demanding of vice president pence is an afternoon at 1:00, we are in he let the legislatures of the states look into this, so that we get to the bottom of it, and americans will find out whether they have control of the government or not. we no longer live in a self governing republic if we cannot get the answer to this question. this is bigger than president trump. it is a very essence of our republican former government and it has to be done. and anybody that is not willing to stand up and do it does not deserve to be in the office. all right, so, that is what eastman was saying publicly. but more notably is the work that he summoned was doing behind the scenes. he altered the now infamous coup memo, where he actually urged then vice president mike pence pence to literally throw at the results from seven states that joe biden had one before he, quote, gavels president trump as reelected. in order for that scheme to have work, trump and eastman n
women should actually be extremely concerned about that, to put it mildly. but i also want to say that the additional terrible part of this opinion is that it said that the only unenumerated writes we are going to protect our those that are, quote unquote, deeply rooted in this nation s history and traditions. if we apply that test, which, despite the courts claims to the contrary, ignores higher precedent, what we would get rid of our things like the right to same sex marriage, the right to privacy in our sexual conduct, the right contraception, even the right to interracial marriage. so we should all be sounding the alarm bell. you start to see, ali, why i m a little less concerned about the leak and a little more concerned about the substance of the opinion. even if, in response to this leak, let s say best-case an area they change opinions, they water it down, and they come up with a much more anodyne version of what they wrote in this draft opinion, they still cannot on ring the b
voters, and then i got the sense that he implied that then you could throw those out. looking at the counties with the highest frequent error of signatures. so that s the impression that i got. i just want to be clear on this, mister secretary. you said senator graham wanted you to find ways to get rid of legally cast ballots, because cnn asked him about these allegations. he denied them. he says that s ridiculous. his words. that s ridiculous. well, it s just an implication that look hard and see how many ballots you can throw out. it wasn t the straightest answer in the world, but an implication of look hard and see how many ballots you can throw out, could it maybe just be just enough ballots for trump to win? i m just asking for a friend. well, remember, that call from lindsey graham to the georgia secretary of state is part of the fulton county of georgia
didn t even win the popular vote. they are pushing for an agenda that doesn t respect the president. even some of them said before congress, so there is nothing to stop it. this is indeed an invasion of privacy issue, at least for the courts, on abortion. there are a lot of other decisions that are based on the position of privacy. what stops the court from pulling back? yeah, that s exactly the question i think is on everyone s mind as the story continues to develop. we charles blow, michelle goldberg, thank you very much. we greatly appreciated your insights. i am ayman mohideen in new york. don t forget to catch me sundays at nine. with my good friend ali vouch. good, evening ali. , evening ali.