votes. donald trump s new letter to georgia s secretary of state asks the secretary of state to, quote, start the process of desert fiing the election or whatever the correct reference is. the letter goes on to call president joe biden, quote, an illegitimate president. leading off our discussion is the ceo of fair fight action. she managed stacey abrams campaign for governor in georgia. lauren, i wanted to have you on tonight because i knew brad was going to be on with chris hayes at 8:00 as he was, and i wanted to get your reaction to when you heard from the secretary of state earlier tonight. well, i think it s quite interesting, lawrence, that our secretary of state finds himself on msnbc tonight to sell a book to liberals really looking for an answer in the republican party on their authoritarian march, but we got a larger problem here, and it goes to the
others, including republican senator lindsey graham because of phone calls that both donald trump and lindsey graham made to georgia s republican secretary of state, brad rafens burger after joe biden was declared the winner of the presidential election in georgia. tonight chris hayes asked him about that criminal investigation of donald trump. they ve already interviewed several staff members and also weapon sent documents, and so we fully intend to comply with that and i don t know what her pace is for that. on friday, donald trump sent a letter to georgia s secretary of state. the letter reads like donald trump s defense in the criminal investigation that attorney fani willis is conducting of election fraud in georgia. the trump letter includes an attachment of an article in a trump supporting online website called the georgia star news.
larger problem republicans have in georgia and elsewhere is that they have been playing with fomenting and encouraging this voter fraud narrative and disinformation the entire time. so though i and many others are glad that the secretary of state did the right thing, the election is over. joe biden won. we checked the vote multiple times, we had a runoff, jon ossoff, raphael warnock won, despite their best efforts, and the problem we re seeing here in georgia is that while fani willis our excellent district attorney goes after this massive crime that was attempted here in georgia, at the same time we re seeing rat lis burger and his republican allies use anti-democratic election subversion provisions in the bill they championed earlier this year to try and take over the biggest democratic, most african-american county in the state. in fact, just last week brad raf fins burger was threatening the