were rejected. in just one county alonee , 700s votes were tossed out. that s more votes than perez s current margin.d out. of victory. additionally, there are thousands of votes that haven t even been counted in this race, essential to a functioning democracy is ensuring thatt is every vote that s cast c is counted. the ap s decision to declare the victor in a significant number of those votes cast have yet to be counted. thithis is the thing that erodi people s faith in the process.th process. what is happening in what s happening in washington state right now is not helpingn strengthen that faith. imp this issue is so important a because if democrats and republicans are serious mana about protecting our democracy as so many say that they are, they need to come together longe before the twenty,is twenty four election and fix what s broken in this system. there s no system. room for joe partisanship here.nows now, joe kent know this this ber than many others. of he s dedicated over 20
three times, i hope you don t sell our missile. please don t be rude. don t do that little rocket man. and if you don t do it, i llp stop calling you that. something like that. like okay, so i go to say on declassifying that, that would be fine. ut tif it s something else i do. and here s the other thing we may never know the last point i will make is the presidential records that came in after watergate. then we have this inventionnd called email and the internet and whereas you used. to have maybe tens of thousands of documents, you now have tens of millions of documents. it s all the emails. it s everything that you ever did while you were there. all their text messages.pr now those are presidential documents and andy was saying is that we ve never litigated this. if a president declassify somethingntecla on nuclear weapr or capabilities or resources or locations, he could he can do that. but a also there s a process th it s never been tested in courts. does a cia director get to sa
i m glad claire has been tying we re watching live r coverage of the impeachment hearing. while each e side s version of closing argument, it still is startling. every time you hear the fact based case on the democratic side and then you see the antics and the drama, and the tantrum on the right, it is so apparent that, you know, what all of you say, when you don t have the facts you fightt the process. if you don t have the process th you run to the fox news camera. we have a terrific contrast here with the inspector general s report and the impeachment. imagine barack obama, they had that meeting in the senate i should we talk about russian interference and mitchan mcconnl says no. imagine barack obama says in the middle of 2016 russians are involved we think they are involved in president trump s um campaign. that s what president trump is trying the togn do. that s the contrast here you had onere president who was in char
supported certain conservatives on twitter whether the message could get. this is a process.th they said it wasn t happening. they weren t even i allowing itn youtube to be seen. so you are working on that as well. this cannot sustain itself. i thank you for you bringing it forward but it comes to point that we may have to legislate. we will there. alexandra cortez heading to el paso. thank you so much. kevin mccarthy, still had on breaking news, trump steps into north korea. trump ministration, china, bernie sanders campaigns cochairman and the man in charge of u.s. citizenship and immigration services acting