forces in america. from the voting rights crackdowns and assorted government plots, to the big lie attacks on election results that can stoke actual insurrections. we know the u.s. has faced many different types of crises before, but this era has been a perfect storm of right wing demagogues, weaponized propaganda from the internet to the fox news defamation we covered, and this is key, the perfect storm includes a high powered, elite driven effort to main streak attacks on democracy and try to write them into our rules. and that part of the effort is not, let s be clear, criminal activity like january 6th. it s not something people are going to go to jail for. it is what at least lawyers and others call arguably legal attacks that are still designed to hijack democracy from within. this is our top story tonight, because this brings us to efforts to bend or break current laws and rules, to try to foster more anti-democratic outcomes that would be technically legal if these pe
convicted by marijuana possession. russian uzscaping putin s draft, fleeing to america. we learned two russians are in alaska after crossing the berring strait by boat just to escape putin s draft. the two russians we re told are requesting asylum after landing in this alaskan island. the clerk there the men told the villagers they had sailed their boat from north eastern russia, which is approximately 300 miles by sea away. this is the latest as we understand it. and the department of homeland security tells out front that the two russians came ashore in a small boat on tuesday. think about that. 300 miles and now fleeing to america. it s a desperate move, and it s coming as an official ukrainian source says that in the east of ukraine, ukraine has regained control over 93 settlements in the past two weeks. that s incredibly quick, and in the south 29 settlements have been retaken by the ukrainians. all of this leading to a new barrage of criticism. the russian deputy appo
n. the queen sleep number 360 c2 smart bed is now only $899. plus, free home delivery when you add an adjustable base. shop now only at sleep number. thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly. thanks so much. i m ari melber and we have a new legal breakdown of trump s smoking gun audiotape, the one obtained by jack smith now out in public. that s coming up later. we begin now with major news on these rising antidemocratic
secretary of state brad raffensperger. 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. and flipping the state is a great testament to our country because, you know, there s just it s a testament that they can admit to a mistake or whatever you want to call it. so what are we going to do here, folks? i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. okay, if he s indicted what then? if he s indicted i think there s that smoking gun audiotape. they have the entire audiotape of the entire conversation. it s a very long conversation. i think he may, if he was a normal defendant in a case like this they d have to think about pleaing or something like it