welcome to the show. i m mehdi hassan. i want to show you a job posting right now on recruiting say like glass door. director of registration and elections fulton county, georgia. this is where you can apply to be the top elections official for atlanta and this suburb, for the biggest county in the state. you can apply right here on line. there s a fancy brochure attached to the posting. they can experience world-class art, shopping, sports, dining, entertainment, including the museums, the history center, presidential library and the world of coca-cola museum. the world of coca-cola museum. now, if you re recruiting for any job you have to make a hard sell. the job of running elections in the fulton county, georgia, is a hard sell. it s been vacant for ten months. why might people not want that job. in addition to all the responsibilities, they gave press conferences in late 2020. i also want to hear a statement about a video, that i m sure some of you have circulating abo
election. this week, the fulton county s special gown jury subpoenaed seven of trump s cronies. that included none other than senator lindsey graham. graham s attorneys say that they will challenge the 14 they claim this is all politics. take a listen to what they had to say about that in exclusive interview with blaine alexander. he called it a fishing expedition. he said this was nothing but politics. what do i have to gain from these politics? she almost brushed dirt off her shoulder when she said that. this might not stop there. donald trump himself might be maximalist. might we see a subpoena for the former president himself. anything is possible. anything indeed. just when things couldn t get worse for donald trump, former white house counsel pat cipollone is finally cooperate with the january six committee. he testified before the committee for eight hours. joining me now to discuss is msnbc legal analyst charles. this is a former brooklyn prosecutor. we
coup-plotting and pathologically duplicitous ex-president to subvert american democrat see and the process of given the persistent power of donald j. trump in the republican party and the depoched and decrepit party, will end the way it did with wyoming congresswoman liz cheney losing in a landslide. cheney s unforgivable sin in the ice of maga voters and a bunch of other republican voters, too, along with team trump cultivated and blessed the candidate who defeated her when it came to her conviction that trump is nothing more than an existential threat to our republic and cheney acknowledged as much. years ago i won this primary with 37% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear.7% of the vo. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear.3% of the vo. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would have required they go along with the lie of the 2720 election, that i would unravel our democratic system
that was mr. giuliani. he said, we have lots of theories. we just don t have the evidence. and i don t know if that was a gaffe or maybe he didn t think through what he said. i said, what would you have me do? and he said, just do it and let the court sort it out. but rusty bowers, the arizona speaker of the house and other election officials were not just facing pressure from the trump team. many also endured harassment and in some cases actual violence from people in their states who believed trump s election lies. listen to this tape from the michigan secretary of state, jocelyn benson. 45 minutes later, we started to hear the noises outside my home, and that s my stomach sunk. i thought, it s me. and then it s just, we don t know what s going the uncertainty of that was what was the fear. like, are they coming with guns? are they going to attack my house? i am in here with my kid. i m trying to put him to bed. so it was that was the scariest moment, just not k
text messages from january six itself, also the day before that were deleted as a part of a bias replacement program. we don t know what the facts are, we will get to the facts about why that happened and we will do whatever we can to retrieve the substance of those tax. that committee subpoena the math at the agency summit relevant records by tuesday and that s just in time for the next high-profile crime here on thursday. let s get into this joining me now is elie mystal. he is an author of the new york times bestseller, allow me to retort a black ice guide to the constitution. mandatory reading that tell. you so happy to have you here, i know your weekends are very busy so i was grateful when you can join us. i have to ask you first, what do you make of this whole report on the secret service text messages around january six been deleted? how does that happen? it s hard for me to believe that secret service is saying there was not done maliciously, maybe it was not mal