From your local County Office to the hallowed halls of capitol hill, conversations are right now underway about something that was a few years ago unthinkable here in the united states of america, the stuff we thought happens in struggling, fledgling democracies, not here. Officials today everywhere bracing for the possibility of chaos around the 2024 president ial election. Thanks to an expresident who launched a Coup Attempt that ended in violence instead of conceding his defeat last time and is now priming his supporters to be shocked, shocked if he loses to a candidate whose entry in the race has thrown him for a loop. A candidate beating him in levels of enthusiasm, crowd size, most polls, basically any significant metric for a president ial campaign. The Associated Press reports that one suburban Atlanta County is deploying local sheriffs at early voting locations and Panic Buttons that connect Poll Managers to 911. More from that reporting, quote, californias Los Angeles County
mar-a-lago search as the department of justice appeals a special master ruling. and 53 days to november 8th. i signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying that trump won the election, and emmett, i stand by what i signed. will voters a by a sped snapping republican pivot to democracy? do you stand by that today? so you know, we we live in learn. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, happy friday. i m chris hayes with less than two months to go before the midterm elections, of republican party finds itself in considerably worse shape than they had expected we have new polling out and day from the new york times. it shows that 46% of registered voters said they would be more likely to vote for the democratic candidate for congress in their district, if the election were held today, compared to 44% who said they would vote for the republican. that s within the margin of error. but even if we consider the parties neck and neck, ac
conversation in november, 2020, in which he claims that you told him that the election was rigged and that he had won arizona. to quote the former president, during the conversation he told me the conversation he told me the election was rigged and i won arizona, quote. did you have such a conversation with the president? i did have a conversation with the president, that certainly isn t it. there are parts of it that are true, but parts that are not, sir. the part that i read you. is that false? anywhere, anyone, any time has said that i said the election is rigged that would not be true. and when the former president in a statement today claimed that you told him that he won arizona, is that also false? that is also false. mr. bowers, i understand that after the election. i don t know if this is a conversation the former president is referring to, but after the election you received a phone call from president trump and rudy giuliani, in which they discussed the
one, two, three, four. we ll find out how being a dj can help with mental health courtesy of the musician fatboy slim. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. it s 6am in singapore, and 6pm in washington where three republican state officials have been describing the direct pressure they were put under by donald trump and his team to overturn the 2020 presidential election result. they were giving evidence to a congressional committee, describing threats of violence directed at them from trump supporters when they refused to bow to the pressure. we have various groups come by, and they have had video panel trucks with videos of me, proclaiming me to be a paedophile and a pervert, and corrupt politician. and blaring loudspeakers in my neighbourhood, and leaving literature both on my property and arguing and threatening with neighbours, and with myself. one gentleman that had the three bars on his chest, and he had a pist
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