recording pressuring michigan election officials not to certify the 2020 election results. overseas, police release body camera video about the shooting in prague that left 14 people dead. back here in the u.s., the humanitarian crisis at the border reaching record levels after a week of never before seen numbers of people crossing into the united states. and we begin this hour with yet another report of detailing former president trump s alleged efforts to halt the certification of the 2020 presidential election. new recordings reportedly detail trump pressuring canvassers in michigan to not certify the state s 2020 election results, which he lost. he reportedly told them, quote, we can t let these people take our country away from us. the detroit news says the recordings were made by someone presen f the conversation, but were obtained by intermediary who was not present. nbc news has not heard or verified the recordings. in response, the trump campaign says, quote, a
to see over time, that rudy had those qualities. - they should be followed. they must be followed. - he s the mayor of new york city, america s mayor. - quiet. quiet! - he blames it on me. he blames it on you. david dinkins! [cheering] - throw him out of office. get somebody else. - who demonstrate some irresponsibility on his behalf. [dramatic music] - the high power, high profile addition to the president s legal team, rudy giuliani. - anyone can become an influencer. - throw him out. - just sort of a mini cult leader in their own right. - the corruption in the ukraine. - there s an effort by rudy to get information about evidence that hunter biden was on the take, and that joe biden was getting money from ukraine. - he sounded like a mobster. - when people say there is no mafia, i mean, i know from my history that there is such a thing, and i know what it does and what it can do. - he s he is a he is a warrior. - i saw god out on the block today he was darker than t
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what you had earlier in the show about why donald trump and others in history have said these provocative things that they do. i would ask the usual post that because that should be watched over and over again. to those who don t listen to the demagoguery we have a job to do to get democracy from it because as you pointed out it has worked over and over again. and so, we may be victims of whether or not we fall prey to that sort of language. yes you don t have to believe in it for your country to fall for and to change itself fundamentally because of it. we have to understand it s not just bad the people are doing these things and how they are work and how to counteract them. i have thought that for a long time and my brain can t articulate the way you can say them so the fact that you said it, i am just going to please you show, i had to send it to everybody. this is why you have to care about the stuff that he says and others like him say because it s your democracy. th