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exclusively as he can afford to, about how to protect the franchise, because it is apparent to me and many in the civil rights community that he will have to, since senate democrats cannot get their act together. meanwhile, the entire republican party only has variations on one goal, set the table for donald trump or one of his prototypes in 2024, while retaking the u.s. house and senate in this november s midterm elections, and brand new numbers from nbc news contend that democratic voters may not have the enthusiasm to stop them. 72% of americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction, according to the poll, and that s just one percentage point higher than three months ago. 76% of americans say our democracy is in existential peril. i reiterate my charge, in solidarity with the civil rights community, calling on president biden to issue what executive orders he can to protect and, frankly, enhance our voting rights. my next guest, a civil rights champion, no ....
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 ....
that would have directed the defense secretary to seize voting machines and calls for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the 2020 election. the executive order, whose author is unknown, is dated december 16th, 2020. that s more than two weeks after trump s attorney general william barr said the justice department had found no evidence of election fraud. politico also says the draft order would have given the defense secretary 60 days to write an assessment of the 2020 election. now, think of those dates. that suggests that it could have been a gambit to keep trump in office until at least mid-february of 2021. nbc news has not yet reviewed these documents. earlier on this network the trump official who ran the department that called the 2020 election the most secure in american history had this reaction to politico s report about the draft order. it is actually a clear violation of the act which means the department of defense cannot use federal troop ....
trajectory towards war. growing concerns about a russian invasion of ukraine, president biden set to meet with his security team at camp david today as the first round of biden s recently approved military aid arrives in ukraine. will the u.s. be pulled into a conflict overseas? also you think about what mlk stood for, he said he didn t want people judged on the color of their skin, but on the content of their character. you listen to some of these people nowadays, they don t talk about that. florida governor ron desantis has been using martin luther king jr. s words to push his so called anti-woke agenda. his new bill would ban schools and businesses from making white people feel discomfort over past racism. congresswoman wasserman-schultz joins us to talk about what s going on in her state. good morning, everybody, happy to be with you, it is saturday. i m lindsey reiser. developing right now, we want to get to that major bombshell in the january 6th commi ....
eye on the ukraine border where some experts say an invasion is imminent. from a picture of a teacher taping a mask to a student to a mother s threat to bring guns to her school if kids are forced to wear masks. the debate over covid and schools boils over. plus, later this hour, the man whose case led to the legalization of gay marriage is announcing a major new chapter of his life as he takes on politics in ohio. he joins us live. we ll begin with the breaking news out of arizona. the state democratic party s executive board has voted to censure senator kyrsten sinema over her support of the filibuster. in a statement, the board characterized her protection of the filibuster as, quote, a failure to do whatever it takes to ensure the health of our democracy. senator sinema issued her own response to the vote telling nbc news via spokesperson that, quote, she has always been honest about the where she stands. with me to discuss is nbc news senior political reporte ....