competitively that republicans flipped four seats, ultimately handing the republican party the majority in the house, and kevin mccarthy, the gavel, we re going to work on the lights. now, democrats have a chance to try once more. a state appellate court threw out the maps again. a major win for the party. we re going to explain what happened because if that ruling stands, the democratic party has a serious shot at retaking the house next year. especially since the needs of front line republicans, the moderate ones who won, like toes here in new york are being sacrificed by kevin mccarthy to appease the conservative wing of the party. the amendments added to the defense version of the budget focusing on culture war issues like abortion, diversity, critical race theory, transgender medicine and covid vaccines. what does the democratic party do now, and what does kevin mccarthy do now? let s bring in nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake and msnbc legal analy
the winner. the washington post was first on this news reporting the state s attorney general has also asked about evidence collected by both the doj and a georgia district attorney in similar probes. joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. i had to read this a couple of times. i was surprised arizona hadn t already started investigating this, since it was one of the areas this fake elector scheme seemed so prevalent. one big piece of context there, katy, is that the attorney general s office changed hands last year from a republican to a democrat, so the democratic elected attorney general, chris mayes has decided to open an investigation. some stays where this happened, like michigan and wisconsin, simply referred this conduct to the justice department, so jack smith is investigating there. but arizona has decided to investigate under state law, and we re reporting that the attorney general has reached out to some of the 22 people who put
chris stirewalt is now the contributing editor for the dispatch and joins me now. i of course, chris, like many of us will never forget those events and when that call went down. i wonder if arizona hadn t been called when you folks called it, how might that have bolstered trump and led to something else taking place on january 6th? well, you saw how miserable he looked when he came to the cameras that night because they and mark meadows admits as much in book excerpts that he s put out that this was a real shot. he was flabbergasted that my boss, bill salmon that we were not going to knuckle under to the criticisms about this because they wanted that narrative intact that night. and it s amazing to hear people say it out loud, right? it is now amazing to me to hear that this stuff is taken as normal by a pretty substantial wing of the republican party that they were trying to steal an election and they were
the work of antifa or that the 2020 election was a train wreck. it may have cost my next guest his job at fox news. he was fired from his role as political editor after the network called arizona for biden on election night. he says fox hosts primed the pump for the assault on democracy. chris stirewalt is now the contributing editor for the dispatch and joins me now. i of course, chris, like many of us will never forget those events and when that call went down. i wonder if arizona hadn t been called when you folks called it, how might that have bolstered trump and led to something else taking place on january 6th? well, you saw how miserable he looked when he came to the cameras that night because they and mark meadows admits as much in book excerpts that he s put out that this was a real shot. he was flabbergasted that my boss, bill salmon that we were not going to knuckle under to the criticisms about this because they wanted that