abortion, as texans head to the polls. and news tonight the january six committee will only hold six public hearings next month. committee member, jamie raskin, i ll ask him about that. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. or just 11 hours away from polls opening in tomorrow s crucial primary electorate in georgia. and the two marquee races that republican primaries for governor, and for secretary of state. to trump back candidates are essentially running single issue campaigns, on the ex presidents big lie of a stolen election. you ve got former senator david perdue, close trump ally, who lost his senate seat last year. he s challenging the incumbent republican governor, brian kemp. and you ve got far-right congressman jody hice, who s hoping to oust the current incoming secretary of state, brad raffensperger. these races are notable, not only as a referendum on trump s attempt to do, but also to set the groundwork for the next one. b
republican primaries for governor, and for secretary of state. two trump backed candidates are essentially running single issue campaigns, on the ex president s big lie of a stolen election. you ve got former senator david perdue, close trump ally, who lost his senate seat last year. he s challenging the incumbent republican governor, brian kemp. and you ve got far-right congressman jody hice, who s hoping to oust the current incoming secretary of state, brad raffensperger. these races are notable, not only as a referendum on trump s attempt to do, but also to set the groundwork for the next one. because out of all of trump s attempts to overturn the will of the voters and steal the election, what is the state of georgia, where he put his most effort? part of that of course has to do with how humiliated trump appears to have felt by his defeat over there, not only because the election was widely seen as repudiation to him and his movement, and it has been years since a democr
say what happened. calling for legislators to go rogue and overturn the election. now, thankfully, the folks, the highest level of the department of justice, understood this. and they threatened mass resignations, trump backed down. but that was another failed plan. the clock was ticking. trump was running out of time. so, by now, this january, and he finally made it through the georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger, for that missed call, when he told raffensperger to find the votes. and ruby freeman, dozen times. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have because we won the state. 18,000 voters having to do with ruby freeman. she s a vote scammer, a professional vote scammer, hustler boot ruby freeman. she s not those things just
inaccurately claimed, she was stuffing ballot boxes for biden in the middle of the night. even though those accusations were debunked, there is no evidence of fraud. giuliani went to georgia as a various before the state senate. this is a terrible, terrible constitutional crisis for him. don t have to be a genius to figure out what happened. i don t have to be a genius to figure out that those votes, are not legitimate votes. you don t put legitimate votes under a table. wait until you throw the opposition out, and in the middle of the night, count them. we would have to be fools to think that. so no need to push it any further but there is more than ample evidence to conclude that this election was a sham. again all that completely bogus, right? there was nothing that freeman did that was wrong. they caught her on some tape, and made some huge deal about her, she wasn t, okay? they counted the ballots, they counted them again, ruby freeman story does not and
party that needs to tidy up. now again ruby freeman didn t gave, right? she didn t find a false confession. she showed an incredible amount of courage there, under truly bizarre circumstances, under pressure from this person, who s representing herself as a emissary for the powerful, right? ruby freeman stands her ground. and another attempt by trump s allies to steal georgia failed. we re not done yet. because that same day, january 4th, u.s. attorney for georgia, b. j. pak, resigned. now, that was weird, we all kind of noted it. like, that s strange. it doesn t usually happen. he later said he quit before he can be fired by trump s forte, you guessed it, refusing to support trump s claims of election fraud. it was a multi-pronged, systematic effort over weeks, and weeks, and weeks, trump