request to represent trump. that should be interesting. we have a report on how top republican ron desantis lost a free speech case. by the end of the hour, the beat will go full happy days. henry winkler, our special guest tonight on fallback friday. our top story is the escalation in the probe in georgia where rudy giuliani is being questioned. a judge is telling graham comply. ordering testimony, which the d.a. says will be crucial because of what graham knows. he will not be allowed to delay the revelation of relevant witnesses. georgia is something of an epicenter of more than one of the plots we have been covering for you that you see here. on the left you have some of the plots technically legal like filing lawsuits or the beginning of the electors scandal which turned into something that might be illegal. georgia has several of those red arrows, overthrowing votes, trying to install fraudulent electors. it s eyeing witnesses, lawyers who might not be as well-known
science guy coming up. and also making the beat debut is one of the few live witnesses from the january 6th committee hearings, an expert who stuck to the fact about donald trump s lies and found telling the truth can become something of an act in the maga universe. all of that is coming up here but our top story right now is about democracy, and i d like to clearly tell you what we re trying to do around here. so let me tell you up front right now this is a little different than our typical start to this news program the beat. right now i m going to try to walk through the broader path of how democracy is in danger even beyond how that point itself has become a kind of rhetorical refrain in washington, a refrain that is also true. so we re going to go through that right now, me and you together, and then turn to a special expert on this a little later. the mid-term elections may occur on one day in november, and we know that, of course, is election day. but these primari
tell the prime minister that, in the words of steve baker, the gig is up. i predict we will have a new leader of the party, a new prime minister, by party conference this year. i m geeta guru murthy live in westminster, where we ll be bringing you the latest reaction to the vote. if you are a conservative voter, what do you want to happen next? do let me know on instagram, twitter and tiktok i m @vicderbyshire. an arizona man who begged police for help before drowning is told by officers i m notjumping in. the family of a british geologist jailed for 15 years in iraq for attempting to remove historial artefacts says his conviction amounts to a death sentence we ll speak to them in the next hour. and england manager gareth southgate says racist abuse aimed at england players during the euro 2020 penalty shoot out is a factor when it comes to choosing who ll take spot kicks. borisjohnson will try to draw a line under last night s vote of confidence in his leadership, when
if he was going to hold onto the white house. that was the big issue. we are covering it going into election night. it was a huge deal when biden won arizona. arizona. are you 100% sure of that call and when you made it and why did you make it? absolutely. we made it after basically a half hour of debating it. we finally called it right now. nbc news is projecting that when every last vote is counted in the state of arizona, joe biden will be awarded 11 electoral votes. joe biden your projected winner in the state of arizona. trump and his allies were enraged over exactly that call, especially the fox news call to arizona. it was seen as kind of the nail in the coffin as a state that the trump folks would need to win or somehow continue to cast as too close to call, which might offend these plots you re hearing about. fox later fired the staffer who accurately called arizona for biden. it was close. they were separated by 10,000 votes. biden won with 1.6 million votes
it s another step in new york attorney general leticia james. it includes donald trump and his family, and don junior his oldest son. he came to the courthouse today flanked by police officers as we showed you there first time this has happened. he took no questions outside, but he was on the stand where he took many questions because he had to. experts weighing in that some soft testimony did yield material that attorney general wants to use, including who was responsible for a long-running multiyear fraud. they cot got him talking. at one point a judge asked don junior to slow down his speed. that could happen to anybody. and don junior quipped, i apologize, your honor, i moved to florida but kept the new york pace. if you ve ever been near new york or seen a movie about new york, we do talk a little faster. that s fair enough. fast or slow, the answers that will matter here today in the coming days are about truth, lies and numbers. but in this case, legally that boils dow