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states across the country with no legal authority. protrump electors including many local party officials tried to ward their states electoral votes to trump instead of biden and in arizona, nevada, wisconsin, michigan and georgia g, they even vouched with their signature they were duly elected and qualified electors, which they were not. now, these fake trump electors are under renewed scrutiny after the attorney s general of michigan and new mexico called for federal investigations into their conduct this week. more importantly, we re learning these weren t isolated incidents that just happened to coincident unfold in seven different states. the washington post and cnn yesterday confirmed suspicions this attempt to falsify election results was part of an organized top down scheme as cnn reports, trump campaign officials led by rudy giuliani over saw the efforts to put forward the illegitimate electors with giuliani s team coordinating the nuts and bolts of the proce ....
and cnn s latest poll of polls, it is a low outmatched in modern times only by the former president. the figure reflects his his decisions on covid, shortages, inflation, and more broadly speaking, it speaks to a question president biden was asked this evening when he spoke to reporters in the east room does he now, after a year on the job, think he overpromised on what he could accomplish when taking office? the fact of the matter is that we re in a situation where we have made enormous progress the number of deaths from covid. it was three times that not long ago. it s coming down. everything s changing. it s getting better. i did not anticipate that there would be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most important thing was that president biden didn t get anything done. think about this. what are republicans for? what are they for? name me one thing they re for. well, the president came back to that theme over and over, again, hitting republicans o ....
we have made enormous progress, you mentioned the number of deaths from covid. it was three times that not long ago. it s coming down. everything s changing. it s getting better. i did not anticipate that there would be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most important thing was that president biden didn t get anything done. think about this. what are republicans for? what are they for? name me one thing they re for. well, the president came back to that theme over and over, again, hitting republicans on what he says is their lack of policy or vision beyond just standing in his way. he did acknowledge that his signature build back better legislation was unlikely to pass, as is. but he was optimistic it seems about getting major pieces of it done this year. as for the package of voting reforms on the line tonight, he expressed hope of salvaging major portions of it as well and expressed confidence in his point person on it. you put vice president harris in ....
president biden today. you delivered on roads and bridges, now deliver on voting rights. later this hour, i ll talk to grant lewis, the mother of late georgia congressman john lewis, the name sake of one of the bills. i ll ask him what this battle means for his family and what john lewis would tell us today if he were still with us. then major developments in the 11-hour texas sin nothing standoff now being called an act of terror. two teenagers have been arrested in the united kingdom in connection to the standoff. what the fbi is now revealing about what the hostage takers said repeatedly during the negotiations. in a fight against omicron, the numbers keep climbing and climbing fast. there are nearly 1 million new cases in this country every single day. we re going to talk about australia s controversial new tactic to deal with the pandemic. let it rip. we are going to start with the voting rights fight as we honor the life and legacy of dr. martin luther king ju ....
need to be four times longer. i don t know. right. but, yeah, the gulf between the reality and how we re perceiving is massive, and very disturbing. adam mckay, it s a great movie, you should check it out. thank you so much. thank you, chris. always a pleasure. that is all in, the the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. thank you, chris. thanks for joining us on this hour. we have a lot to talk about. after president biden s big voting rights speech in georgia, and all the fallout from that. we ll talk to a senator who was there at the speech, and has a bit of an inside track on whether or not the senate is going to deliver on what vice president harris and president biden called for today. this is a senator who has been with the president all day. she s going to be joining us live in just a few minutes, after she touches back down in d.c. on the air force one flight back from georgia. very much looking forward to that conversati ....