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an ongoing threat to our democracy today. washington post is out with new reporting that an election official in a rural georgia county threw open the doors to a stop the steal activist who was looking to probe election results there, looking for fraud, fraud that we all know now simply does not exist. that activist later claimed to have arranged for investigators to fly down to that georgia county to copy data from voting equipment. from the post reporting, quote, trump had carried the conservative county by 40 points but election supervisor misty hampton said she remained suspicious of joe biden s win in georgia. hampton made a video that went viral soon after the election, claim to go show that dom i don t know voting systems machines, the ones used in her county, could be manipulated. she said in interviews that she hoped the georgia businessman who visited later, scott hall and others who accompanied him could help identify vulnerabilities and prove, quote, that this e

Transcripts for MSNBC Deadline White House 20240604 20:46:00

stretch, just as you just said, anything this is not by any stress anything that rand paul has not done before. he was he sort of played this card in the past. i think what s even more notable, though, when you look at the votes this week on the hill is just how on the other hand united most of congress has been in getting this aid passed. i mean, even karen bass, who famously voted against the war authorization back in 2001 after september 11th when everybody was when congress gave george w. bush largely a blank check to go to war in iraq and afghanistan, she voted gave a rousing endorsement of a vote in favor of this ukraine aid, which speaks to just, i think, a lot

Transcripts for MSNBC Deadline White House 20240604 20:47:00

of the a vast majority of people of congress are going to be behind this. but, yeah, our allies, you know our allies are still a little bit skittish after four years of donald trump. so this is something that they worry about, but they ve got their own political issues back at home to worry about as well. i think at the moment nato is probably united when it comes to aid to ukraine, with the exception of maybe hungary, and i think that they ve done so far a pretty good job of projecting a certain amount of unity. and i think it s holding at the moment. i don t know how long it holds, that depends on how long this war goes on, but i mean, look, it is a good point and certainly macron was looking over his shoulder during his election and it is a dynamic in places other than here, we tend to look at ourselves more than we appreciate the global dynamics. helene, it is a huge deal that

Transcripts for MSNBC Deadline White House 20240604 21:27:00

liz cheney who is not giving up her role in congress and fighting to remain on the front lines, it s honoring those who stood on the front lines, a poll worker in georgia, and have not wavered despite threats, violent threats, hateful rhetoric and targeted violence because we believe in the foundation of democracy and we believe in a country where voters choose who governs us. did you ever think when you embarked on a career in public service that protecting democracy would be so actual, so tactical, so literal? you never want to think that, but that s also what history suggests is the reality. i started my career in montgomery, alabama, investigating hate groups and hate crimes throughout the country and it was being in salma where i was instilled with this, to those who faced down billy clubs, and threats and violence, so we could have a voting rights act. you do that knowing that you

Transcripts for MSNBC Deadline White House 20240604 21:13:00

have to hold your nose and vote for the lesser of two evils. she has made plain there will be no pivot to the middle if she makes it to the fall campaign. i don t know where the middle is from where she starts, but, you know, you take sort of your body of reporting of what the republican party has pushed in the wake of the 2020 election defeat, and it wasn t an examination of how they lost, it was rewriting and rigging the rules to sort of go along with this fake reality that to them has become all the more real. she seems the embodiment of that national post big lie political wave. well, she actually did it herself, if you go back to her original race for congress, she lost by 20 points. it was a significant loss in a district that no one thought she would have had a chance to win. it was a safe democratic district. but she went knocking door to

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