election proclaiming that it was faked and rigged was actually put down in writing and the president was willing to consider it. he held a meeting with these very allies who were spouting these this crazy talk so that they could discuss how they could do it. what i think is really important to keep in mind, ali, about this is sydney powell s press conference. the one that you shared there in the small part, she claimed that sort of the ghost of hugo chavez had gotten into the machines essentially that through the dead hand of the venezuelan leader there had been this interference in our election. well, behind the scenes and i m sure the january 6th committee will reveal this in painful detail, behind the scenes many of the people off camera who worked for donald trump were aghast. they said we can never have her do a press conference again. we cannot believe that this laughable thing has been said on
film starring meryl streep as a trumpian president consumed by pr and operating a corrupt family umpire as they face an existential threat requiring a scientific emergency response, how to prevent a planet-killing comet heading towards earth. madam president, this comet is what we call a planet killer. we just call it a potentially significant event. but it isn t potentially going to happen. it is going to happen. exactly. 99.78% to be exact. oh, great. so it s not 100%. call it 70% and let s move on. we should get some of our scientists on this. no offense. when are the midterms? three weeks. three weeks. so if this breaks before then, we lose congress and then there s nothing we can do about it anyway. it will be gridlocked. the timing, it s atrocious. i m going to make a statement, a presidential statement to the american
the fact of the matter is the misappropriation and the convenient use of his words is always the case when people are trying to accomplish their own agenda and that s what we see over and over again and this scenario and so many others. take the time to study and understand the hold and comprehensive martin luther king junior. this was a man who literally a long with john lewis, along with amelia and jose williams and others sacrificed their life and bodies to fight, to preserve the right to vote to protect it to advance it so anyone who thinks that dr. king would say let s move on, everything is all right is sadly mistaken because he would not made that sacrifice if he if it was necessary to do so.
dog catcher and senator will say mi election was rigged and i m refusing to accept the results and these are the spaces in which our democracy starts to come apart. absolutely. and what i said is this is something i m preparing for as a journalist. this is the kind of talk we re hearing from sources about the plot, the plan, and once, you know, small-level state officials start saying hey, i lost this secretary of state position and it wasn t fair. the election was rigged, the way they drown out the democracy is by going on television and telling everyone the election s not fair. the more you parrot that, and the more you echo that the more americans get nervous that that is reality and it is more important what you ve shown on television because you ve shown claims made out of whole cloth that rudy giuliani and sydney powell make.
vote, and their vote ought to be counted if they are a valid voter. on election night, we want to figure out who won and who lost and let s move on. reporter: voting rights advocate helen butler has her own concerns about 2022, mainly that republicans are exerting more control over elections and making it harder to vote. my home county and morgan county reporter: she s among the black democrats booted from boards after the republican led legislature paved the way for six counties to overhaul them. the shift gave local republicans more power to name nearly all new board members require than the prior practice of divvying up appointments by political party. if you re unhappy with the outcome of an election, this is a way that you can have total control of a process. reporter: the move comes on top of republicans passing a restrictive new voting law that imposes new voter identification