my fears are a little bit deeper right now particularly around the potential for political violence. i think the election officials are going to have a run a good election. i think we ll have high turn out. for most voters they ll find the process to be really convenient. we talk a lot about the problems in voting, but 99% of voters have no problems in voting whatsoever. but there is a strong possibility given some of the candidates all over the country that if they lose they might claim an election theft which will then incite their followers to how will things get better? what are the steps that are necessary? so one of the remedies is to back away from what we describe as a new abyss in our cultural civic life. and that abyss is elections only are legitimate if my side wins. if we on any level continue to go down this road, and the other party and i m not saying it would be because this is
did not get torn. they are not there to be like, well, my guy didn t win, so screw it. all of a sudden, those people, who largely did act in good faith in 2020, stop acting that way, and start acting in the way that it appears these to republicans at the state board of canvassers do like, the things fall apart. am i right? i mean that is really what this looks like. this is exactly what joe biden was talking about in his speech when he essentially said, you cannot only believe in democracy when your side wins. and what we are seeing in today s republican party, and as the president said not all republicans but the maga republicans, is that this is a party of petty grievances and sore losers, more and more. and what we have learned is that you have an entire political structure untie or political party that is willing to undermine
side wins. wow! we re gonna leave it there. that is a scary thought on a late tuesday night. nick troiano, peter baker, stuart stevens, thank you all. peter and stuart, stick around. on this programming note, liz cheney will be doing an exclusive interview with a today show in the morning. you do not want to miss her remarks. coming up next right here, they are the highest ranking people from the trump administration that are reportedly being questioned in a classified document controversy. prosecutors said to be talking to top white house lawyers. and later, it is being called an ongoing threat to democracy, posing a grave physical danger, not just to law enforcement, but your neighbors. those who are working at local polling places, the 11th hour just getting underway on a very important tuesday night.
look at that, there s a whole lot of crazy right there. election deniers. insurrectionists. weirdos, freaks, you have it all. the republican candidates in arizona, all of them extreme, all of them insurrectionists, all of them people who actually don t believe in american democracy. they believe in their form of government, where, well, you only recognize elections where your side wins. and this is what folks on the far right have been working on for quite some time. what this says about trumpism and the future of the republican party. also, a russian court sentences wnba star brittney griner to nine years in prison. we will have reaction from president biden and the latest on efforts to get her home. and monkeypox now declared a national public health
states actually signed the statute. we just never ratified it. which is the treaty that created the icc and the countries that signed to be a party to it. we are already seeing bipartisan support for the icc investigations into russia s crimes in ukraine. we passed a bill in the house that would make sure the u.s. is providing support to investigations, and evidence collection for these investigations. i think it is incredibly important that as we support the icc investigation in ukraine, we also officially join. because right now, we are in a fight for the future of the international, if it will be an international system based on autocracy or based on the values that we all hold dear. and it is very important part of making sure that our side wins, that we continue to have a rules based international system, is that we hold ourselves to the same rules we re asking other countries to hold themselves to. because one of the biggest