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
our next guest, even though georgia s results were recounted more than once, the ex-president s lies about it are ongoing. donald trump sent georgia s secretary of state, brad raffensperger, a letter last friday alleging large scale voter fraud and asking him to start the process of desert fiing the election or whatever the correct legal remedy is and announce the true winner. after that call, where he attempted to strong arm the secretary of state into overturning the will of the people by finding 11,780 votes exactly the number that would change the election outcome. secretary of state raffensperger walked the line in defending the georgia vote. telling the president his facts were wrong. but what has happened in georgia since then is just as dangerous for our democracy. georgia was one of the states