justice and go after trump s political rivals. also tonight, we have come to know lindsay graham as the most cravenly opportunistic politician in america, and that s saying a lot. and now two months after saying that states should decide on abortion, he is pushing for a federal ban. and giuliani biographer andrew curtsman joins me on rudy s disgraceful dissent. he was once called america s mayor, and now he s a laughing maga stock. trump saw the governmental ageany as his. it s run by the attorney general, but when said attorney general is one william barr, things get murky. which brings us to geoffrey berman, the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york who trump fired in 2020 after he refused barr s request that he resign. a lot has happened since 2020, a lot. but you may recall berman s firing was a big deal. we re talking about an american president strong arming a u.s. attorney general to fire a prosecutor because he refused to obey and to twist his offi
alternative. he has to deal with the senator from west virginia and the senator from arizona. i have an old seventh grade teacher that said if sands and butts were candy and nuts, we would have all a merry christmasty. by the way, your picture is back. your picture is back. he does, jon, he has the bully pulpit. he can be out there every night selling and quite frankly as some of his predecessors have done shaming, strong arming, convincing, putting pressure upon but we don t see any of that and here is what we see. 2:00 in the afternoon he comes out and gives a speech for the most part that is in a teleprompter and reads it and goes away. we don t see the vice president. what people are saying to me and i m sure they re saying it to you, where is the vice president? where is joe biden? where are the democrats? what are they doing? we don t know.
concerns about the future of the united states, and that donald trump s big lie could change this nation forever. donald trump s attempt to subvert the election started long before anyone voted. we re not going to lose this exception if they cheat. reporter: continued on election night. we want all voting to stop. reporter: sparked and attempted insurrection. we fight like hell. reporter: as disgraceful as trump s public words were, behind the scenes trump and his inner circle were using all the powers of the presidential office to cheat, not to stop the steal. but to start it. it was app attempt to undermine the will of the people. it was profoundly anti democratic and potentially criminal. reporter: the 45th president of the united states tried to c co-worse the department of justice to lie on his behalf and strong arming state and local election officials to over throw the election. there is no question that our democracy is at a breaking
election subversion, right, he was calling all over the country trying to flip election results, right? trump himself was strong armor bill barr, strong armor brad raffensperger, strong arming state legislators in michigan. like, he was the strong man. they ve now weaponized through appointments of election appointments, state law and others. they re institutionalizing lots of little strong men and women so they don t need a strong man so they can subvert and suppress the vote in all these small and large way at the local, state and national level. and so this is a big problem. and it s a little unclear, lawrence, where exactly this process is going to go. but i can tell you what you said the biggest democratic county, the most voters of color. if any county in the state voted for biden, over 70%. and this diverse county now has a three white man majority