right now summed up into numbers, the first numbers 32%, the number of americans who wrongly believe that joe biden is only in office because of voter fraud and that donald trump really is the president. you look at that number that is a significant minority because it is a minority, less than a third of people. in a dime are crusty, a 32% faction is not going to win a ton of elections, normally, but that brings us to the second number which is 62%, fully 63% of republicans and those republican-leaning believe the election was stolen. and that coalition controls half for more than half of the government from the state to congress to the senate. that s an issue here. there is a faction of americans who are wedded to an anti-democratic dilution and whose numbers can be leveraging to control the entire mechanism of the state if things break
in the hands of politicians who want to throw away an election, or judges who want to read it in a particular way. this is not a 24 century act. again, we can break it concerns about the electoral college, but if we re gonna have an electoral college we need to have rules that ensure that the candidate who wins gets those counted for that candidate. we are worried that that might not happen the next time around. rick hasen who has been an important voice, i want to come back to that at greater length. thank you for joining us. thank you. ahead. six months after january 6th, why do the majority of republican voters, the people out there in the country, still believe the election was stolen? still? why trump s big lies here to stay. next. stay next longer need? now
who will be cheering that select committee, thank you so much for joining us. thank you for having me. we know donald trump tried to pressure elected officials in georgia to overturn the election. we heard the audio of him saying to find just enough votes, i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. he really did say that. that specifically. the pressure campaign was not just in georgia. new report by the arizona report shows that trump tried to speak directly to the chair of the maricopa county supervisors in the weeks after the election. again, there are types. this is state republican chair kelly wart, nickname by mitch mcconnell, calling supervisor clint heck men on behalf of trump. they claimed, it s kelly ward. i ve just talked to president trump. and, he would like me to talk
we need to have a fair election process going forward. he s a professor of law on political silence, founder of the blog joins me now. rick, i read your quote in that piece by my colleague, and i think that we all agree that there is sort of there are tears of concern about democratic access from voter suppression and whether people get to the ballot, and a terrifying crisis is a crisis that you talk about. in overturned election. how do you come to think about? what are these new revelations from arizona contributed i think about that? thank you be with you. happy anniversary, i guess we would say. this is just a crazy moment in american history. we ve gone through a storming of the capital. we ve gone through an attempt to overturn the results of an election led by the president,
caused with his recitation of the big lie that the election was stolen, on the floor of the united states house of representatives. on that day, when congress had a duty to simply ratify the people s choice for president, and declare joe biden who was the rightful president the rightful president. so yes, the question of who does have blood on their hands from that day part of the reason why we need to commit to investigate. congressman benny thompson is the chair of the select committee to investigate january six and he joins me now. congressman, i feel like there s a lot we don t know about the deaths of the individuals that died that day. there s been sporadic reports, we have some reporting on ashley babbitt and her death, and other individuals, a woman who was declared a matthews or and brian sicknick. would that be the focal point of the committee? we will look at everything,