analysis of the votes for president in arizona. analysis which the arizona secretary of state has called a fraud it. joining us now is arizona state senate minority leader, rebecca rio s, she represents maricopa county one. thank you for joining us senator rios. what are you expecting tomorrow? i think it s important to lay the groundwork, that this is basically a conspiracy driven process that has been funded to the tune of five point $7 million by trump supporters. this is a complete partisan audit that was done after numerous audits and hand counts show that there was literally no fraud in arizona. i don t have high expectations, though i fully expect for them to continue the grift. to continue the show. this is essentially throwing
red meat to their base and it should be a full out clown show tomorrow. so it s a strange sounding presentation i am reading about. you would expect it to be, since the republicans in the senate, asked for it, you would expected to be asked for it in a hearing environment. but it s going to be a situation where, apparently, all of you are invited to attend, members of the senate. but only the two republican leaders of the senate will be allowed to ask any questions at all. and there won t be any county voting officials who were there to respond to anything that is said. that is what the reporting is about how this will be unveiled. that has been how this process has been played out. that will be the third presentation. the first presentation, senate leadership attempted to go in and we were kicked out. but in each of these past presentations, we are not
i ve been in congress. the national debt has tripled from nine trillion to 20 trail yet. so this makes no sense we braised the congress has raised that million about roughly 100 times in 100 years. it s been a routine. right now the only purpose it serves is to allow the party out of power to hold the economy hostage, and engage in bateman show. which does not serve anybody. we need to get rid of it it doesn t make sense and it s ineffective but you know it s tough to ask members of congress to say you re going to eliminate the debt ceiling it s politically tough, but in terms of policy it is the only thing that makes sense.
and wise judgment. but then you just pulled this other show up from somewhere. that fills the whole hour of a tv show, as far as i know didn t exist about a half an hour before you went on tv. and so now i officially do not know. i have no idea how rachel does it. i just don t know. you know you re very kind, i have no idea where this was going when you started this line of inquiry. i will say for close watchers of msnbc, if you go back to the handover between chris hayes and me, you will know that at the very beginning of the show, i m going like this. and i m offscreen still typing what s going to be on the show in the a block. because everything we did we did have an entire show unrelated to completely what we saw on the air, and then all of that stuff broke. including the stephen hadfield stuff, luckily we were able to get jamie both the news from
we re going to do your deposition, really sucking them up fast. so we re eager to get to that. but rachel, i just want to, the most common question i get out there in the world, about msnbc s, how does reach will do? and i always say she s the hardest working person i know. but tonight i don t know how she did it, okay. because i am aware, let s say half aware of how hard you were working today on the arizona story, and how far down that road into the arizona sorry you were, and how late in the game you were on the road. and then your show comes on, and somewhere you made the judgment that you can t use what you found, were gonna wait 24 hours or less.