These should be sacrosanct. But the developments in the past few months is now. Why is there such urgency . Whats happening in legislature after legislature. The voting rights, fundamental to democracy, the right that men and women have died for in war time ap and peace time. The rights are all under assault, under assault. One end of the country to the other. In the wake of the 2020 election, Donald Trump told a lie, a big lie that the election was stolen from him by voting fraud. There was no evident for this. His own administration concluded that the 2020 election was one of the safest in his history. His lawyers were laughed out of court, many by republican judges, some by judges he appointed, trump appointed but he kept saying it anyway. He lied over and over and over again. Donald trump lied over and over and over again. Poisoning our democracy, lighting a fire beneath republican state legislators who immediately launched the most Sweep Voting suppress efforts in at least 80 year
banana republics, but you don t see here. let s speak to laurie levenson, a former federal prosecutor and professor of law at loyola marymount university in los angeles. thank you for being with us. trump saying there he is going to appeal but how serious is this for him? it to appeal but how serious is this for him? this for him? it is very serious- this for him? it is very serious. we this for him? it is very serious. we don t - this for him? it is very l serious. we don t know this for him? it is very - serious. we don t know how this for him? it is very serious. we don t know how much money he has but for anybody to have a judgement over 350 million and then be told that he can t that they can t do business in new york and his sons can t do it for two years either, that is a tremendous blow to him both financially and in terms of his reputation and in terms of his reputation and legacy. there are some of his supporters who won t care that there are others who we
# christ was born across the sea battle hymn of the republic plays cheering, screaming and applause well, there you go. the president elect donald trump, saluting and showing his appreciation for the thousands of people who have turned up. the make america great at game celebration. an impressive fireworks display. the forecast tomorrow was for heavy rain andi forecast tomorrow was for heavy rain and i think there was a sense that trump team felt that if they were going to do this kind of thing, they we re going to do this kind of thing, they were hacked to do it the night before. they had to do it. paying respects to abra ham before. they had to do it. paying respects to abraham lincoln. remember, of course, you can see his inauguration as the 45th president of the united states live on bbc news, continuing coverage, tomorrow. the president elect leading his family away from the lincoln memorial. we don t know if there was going to be a continuation of the concept or i