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trump candidates peddling the big lie. remember what trump tried to do to georgia s secretary of state who refused to overturn the will of the people. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. there s breaking news on that front today. the request by a georgia district attorney to seat a special grand jury to look into that infamous call and other potential election interference by trump has just been granted. the fulton county georgia d.a. will be allowed to seat a special grand jury this spring. and that is ominous news for the ex-president. this is a criminal investigation and some of the key evidence is on tape. much more on that in a moment. speaking of tape, team trump isn t trying to hide its attempts to overthrow president biden s victory. just confessed on live television a few days ago to taking part in a scheme to replace real electors from seven states with fraudulent ones. yes, i was part of the process to make sure there wer ....
the entire trump rein. yeah. and i have got the marks on my back to to prove it, don. um, yeah, you know, i i think we are in worse shape than we were to some extent during the early days, i guess, during most of the trump administration. in part, because of what we have been talking about for the last hour. you know, we we are facing a crisis in this country. if we have a situation, come november, where you have elections all over our country thrown into chaos because everybody wants to act like donald trump, and not accept the fact that they lost an election, i think, yes, we could have a serious breakdown in our democracy. to some extent, things are better. i mean, today we had the president of the united states refer to a reporter as an sob. you know, don, you and i got called a lot worse back in the day. uh, we never got an apology. i don t remember that from the commander in chief. no. so, maybe things are a little bit better, to some extent. not at ....
and helping him stay on target. he gets one-on-one coaching when he wants some advice, and can adjust his plan whenever he needs to. and now he s so prepared for retirement, ben is feeling totally zen. that s the planning effect from fidelity. don t miss full circle, our digital news show. 6:00 p.m. eastern on mondays, wednesdays, and fridays. watch it on the cnn app at any time on demand. the news continues with jim acosta and democracy in peril. thank you. i m jim acosta. this is our special series to expose the ongoing threats to our democracy post-insurrection as we head into yet another election season. the stakes could not be higher. less than ten months away from the midterms, we all need to be paying more attention to what s going on to disrupt our political system, like the changing of laws nationwide to restrict access to voting or election map rigging where all the trump-back the candidates who keep peddling the big lie now running for positions that ....
really rich white christian men and their wives, many with inherited wealth, a small merchant class and lots and lots of poor people and people of color, mainly black people who were de facto unequal. indeed until the 20th century which many consider to be the great american century. women couldn t vote, black men could vote on paper but faced everything from local trickery to lynching to stop them. immigrants were routinely routed to urban ghettos and ramped segregation and a free for all for industrialests to exploit ununionized workers and drill and mine and pollute at will. by the end of that century, largely due to progressive democratic presidents, democratic legislative super majorities despite the dixie cats and forward looking supreme court justices a lot about america changed. and most people think it changed for the better. but not everyone agrees that the new deal, the end of child labor, the ability of american workers to unionize and expanded women s liber ....
former president, one of the key pieces of evidence in that inquiry, trump s not infamous phone call to georgia secretary of state, republican brad raffensperger a year ago. begging him to find the 11,780 votes to overcome joe biden s win in that state. the judges order says the grandeur will begin hearing evidence on made the second and, quote, may make recommendations concerning criminal prosecution. according to the atlanta journal-constitution, the investigation goes beyond trump s phone call and will include, quote, the abrupt resignation of the former atlanta-based u.s. attorney, be jake park, and november 2020 call with senator lindsey. and false claims made by trump attorney, rudy giuliani, during a hearing before the georgia senate judiciary committee. the report says that funny willis will previously argue that appointing a special grand jury was necessary because a significant number of witnesses and perspective witnesses have refused to cooperate. as that in ....