Transcript: The Rachel Maddow Show, 6/21/21
Guests: Ezra Levin, Jeff Merkley
June 22, 2021, 1:00 AM UTC
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will put the For the People Act, the big voting rights act, on the Senate floor, and there will be a vote on whether or not it gets debated. Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, the lead sponsor of For the People Act, is interviewed. Arizona Republic reporter Jen Fifield got word that the Cyber Ninjas expect their election audit to be done this week.
RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBCH HOST: Chris Hayes, how was your Father`s Day?
CHRIS HAYES, MSNBC HOST, ALL IN : It was utterly delightful. It was almost destroyed by a travel delay and I came very close to a like just full breakdown in the airport. I felt it slipping away from me because I was already rolling the dice, but then that got fixed and I did get to have a lovely Father`s Day dinner. It was awesome.
department must investigate these things. and as crazy as that is and as much of a conundrum this poses for the people who are in charge of justice department who have to figure out how much trash in their workplace they re going to dig out and how much can lay around stinking and maybe it ll dissolve, the fact remains that this kind of stuff is the foundation, is what has led to this fantasy on the right and this pretext in the republican party that there was something gravely wrong with the election. this is the same type of thinking, the same types of conspiracies that are running the arizona audit, run by the cyber ninjas. i ll just point out one other element of this. the lady with the fake house. remember she was michelle ballarin and then she was michelle lynn golden and she s michelle roosevelt edwards.
was due. the restoration of the airline alitalia and that she would be involved in the project at the request of the italian government. a quote in the newspaper described this in a sarcastic way. michelle s representative outlined ideas similar to those she has for a new wow. two months later, there was no news and when the italian government announced the end of our tally at the end of the year, there was no mention of michelle roosevelt edwards or her company, u.s. aerospace partners being part of the new carrier. meanwhile while all that was happening, michelle roosevelt edwards or michelle whatever her name is has been trying to convince people that she also owns a big chunk of iceland s other airline, it s flag carrier. the major national carrier, iceland air. and she said that she will eventually be marching iceland air and wow air into one even bigger airline.
election against donald trump. according to the conspiracy, which is now become known as italy gate, people working for an italian defense contractor, in coordination with senior cia officials, they used military satellites to switch from trump to biden, and swing the results of the election. there s all comes from that little known aviation company, but the washington post discovered these two companies, usaerospace associates, whose letterhead was on top of the trump head of staff had forwarded to the attorney general. also the institute for good governance was putting out press releases promoting the gate conspiracy, with both posts on any organizations is that they re both run by michele roosevelt edwards, who was formally known as michelle ballarin, but changed her name last year. you ll remember u.s. aerospace partners, that is a company that bought wow air, or at
that this kind of stuff is the foundation, is what has led to this fantasy on the right, and this pretext in the republican party that there was something gravely wrong with the election. right? this is the same level of thinking, the same types of conspiracies created by the people, promoted by the people who are running the cockamamie arizona fake audit, right? run by cyber ninjas. and i just point out one other element, the lady with the fake house who said that it was her house and it was in her house . remember she was michelle ballarin and then she was michele lyn golden and now she is michele roosevelt edwards. that kind of thing seems to be a thing among these folks. the adding of impressive old tiny american names to whatever their names started as. the arizona circus? one of the key people involved in that, at the guy who is the magic secret technology that would not allow the examination of the ballots to show all of the fraud that you can see by looking at the paper, he has