democrat dechlic precinctses. the plan as outlined by a republican national committee staffer in michigan includes utilizing rules to provide political balance among poll workers to install party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at democratic majority polling places to connect a website in establishing a network of party-friendly district attorneys who can intervene to block vote counts at certain precincts. here is a clip of an rnc official in michigan making his pitch to potential recruits in october 2021. that is what we are here tonight for. to show the program that we are creating to create that safety net on the polls before election day, after election day to make sure that fraud does not happen again. i understand that we are upset with the 2020 result, but we cannot just look at the 2020 results or else the exact same thing will happen in 2022. we need volunteers on the ground on election day ahead of election day working so that that fraud does not
take such steps in 2020, quote, come election day, you create massive failure and the quote, the real hope is that you can throw electors to state legislatures and that, that is where we begin today and heidi prisbila for politico, byline of that that reporting and heidi, we ll talk about it and joyce vance, law professor at the university of alabama and msnbc contributor, and as well as an msnbc political analyst. heidi, i ve already said noose things about your reporting and it s a mind blowing piece in a lot of ways and another one of the things that falls into the category of shocking, but not surprising with steve bannon and others, and go deeper for us here and talk about some of the things that you uncovered in
the new york times. he stated america s continued and robust support for ukraine while also reiterating its desire to not provoke a wider war with russia. america s goal is straightforward, we want to see a democratic independent, sovereign, and prosperous ukraine with the means to deter and defend itself against further aggression. biden continued, quote, we do not seek a war between nato and russia. as much as i disagree with mr. putin and find his actions an outrage, the united states will not try to bring about his ouster in moscow so long as the united states or our allies are not attacked, we will not be directly engaged in this conflict, either by sending american troops to fight in ukraine or by attacking russian forces. we are not encouraging or enabling ukraine to strike beyond its borders. we do not want to prolong the war, just to inflict pain on russia. despite that reassurance from biden, the kremlin still described the supply of these rocket systems as, quote, delibera
we need laws that protect our students from those guns. even as all of us have a feeling that we are charlie brown running towards the football and about to have it snatched away, this afternoon a bipartisan group of senators met again virtually on the topic of gun safety legislation, as politico pointed out today, quote, senator chris murphy has thrown the door open for small incremental changes that republicans could possibly get on board with like encouraging states to enact their own red flag laws or expanding background checks. the political reality of the 50/50 senate means that larger paradigm shifting changes like an assault weapons ban or raising the age of firearms purchase turning 21 are likely impossible. joining us now, former chairman michael steele and david plouffe, former obama presidential campaign manager in 2008, white house senior adviser, both of them are msnbc political analysts.
this hour of msnbc. deadline white house starts right now. deadline white house starts right now. aloha and namaste, everyone. i m in for nicole wallace, and news worth piece in politico that could throw the 2024 election into chaos with roots deep in trump world and fueled by the big lie with the last election stolen by joe biden, the democrats from the supposed rightful victor donald trump. the reporting comes from our old friend and for politico and she says this, quote, video recordings of republican operatives meeting with grassroots activists provide an inside look at a multi-pronged strategy to overturn votes in