SENATE IN THE INDIVIDUAL
MEETINGS.
HARRIS?
>> Harris: CHAD, THANK YOU VERY
MUCH.
WISCONSIN SENATOR RON JOHNSON IS
WITH ME NOW.
HE IS ONE OF THE REPUBLICANS
PLANNING TO OBJECT TO THE
ELECTORAL VOTE COUNT TOMORROW.
SENATOR JOHNSON, I HAVE BEEN
TALKING WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES,
SENATOR LANGFORD JOINED ME
YESTERDAY.
HE SAID THE OBJECTIVE IS NOT TO
NECESSARILY FLIP THE
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
THERE’S A LOT MORE TO IT THAN
THAT.
PLEASE TELL.
>> HELLO, HARRIS.
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
I THINK THE PLAIN PROBLEM IS YOU
HAVE PEOPLE IN THE MAIN STREAM
MEDIA, DEMOCRATS, WHO JUST WANT
TO SWEEP THIS UNDER THE RUG.
WHO WANT TO DISMISS THESE VERY
SERIOUS LEGITIMATE CONCERNS OF
WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE 2020
ELECTION.
THERE ARE MANY IRREGULARITY.
SOME HAVE BEEN EXPLAINED, BUT
SOME HAVEN’T.
THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, WHEN
YOU HAVE TENS OF MILLIONS OF
AMERICANS WHO SIMPLY CONTINUE
BELIEVE THIS IS A LEGITIMATE
OUTCOME.
WE’VE JUST GONE THROUGH FOUR
YEARS WITH THE DEMOCRATS AND
EXTREME LEFT THAT DID NOT
ACKNOWLEDGE PRESIDENT TRUMP AS
THE LEGITIMATE PRESIDENT.
NOW HERE WE ARE, BECAUSE OF
COVID, BECAUSE OF THE MORE THAN
DOUBLING OF THE ABSENTEE
BALLOTS, DEMOCRATS PUSHED THE
ENVELOPE, RELAXING STANDARDS,
THERE’S SOME REAL PROBLEMS HERE.
THE PROBLEM IS NOT GOING AWAY.
THE ONLY SOLUTION I CAN COME UP
WITH IS INVESTIGATE, EXPLAIN, BE
TRANSPARENT, BUT SWEEPING THIS
UNDER THE RUG AS MANY PEOPLE
WANT TO DO, SIMPLY WON’T WORK.
>> Harris: DO YOU KNOW WHAT’S
INTERESTING?
I HAVE HAD VOTERS ASK ME THIS
VERY QUESTION.
I’LL PUT IT TO YOU.
IF THIS WERE A SITUATION WHERE
OTHERS WERE DISENFRANCHISED AND
IT WASN’T REPUBLICANS, WHAT
YOU’RE DOING BENEFITS EVERYBODY.
YOU HAVE TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE
AREAS THAT ARE BROKEN SO GOING
FORWARD, EVERYBODY HAS MORE
FAITH.
>> THAT’S EXACTLY RIGHT.
ONE OF THE ISSUES WE WANT TO
MAKE IS STATE LEGISLATURES ARE
EMPOWERED BY THE CONSTITUTION TO
SET THE TIME, MANNER AND PLACE
OF ELECTIONS, YET MANY STATE
LEGISLATURES ABDICATED TO
JUDGES, UNELECTED ELECTION
OFFICIALS.
WE’VE SEEN IT TIME AND TIME
AGAIN.
MAYBE THIS IS THE WARNING TO
STATE LEGISLATURES, IF YOU DON’T
WANT YOUR CITIZENS, THEIR VOTES
DISENFRANCHISED, NOT COUNTED,
STEP UP TO THE PLATE, ASSUME
YOUR RESPONSIBILITY, TAKE
CONTROL OVER YOUR OWN ELECTIONS.
DON’T LET JUDGES, ELECTION
OFFICIALS, DO IT FOR YOU.
>> Harris: THIS IS BREAKING
RIGHT NOW, SENATOR.
JUST MOMENTS AGO OKLAHOMA
SENATOR WITH A STATEMENT SAYING
HE WILL NOW NOT CHALLENGE
TOMORROW’S VOTE COUNT DURING THE
JOINT SESSION.
HE SAYS, QUOTE UNQUOTE, TO
CHALLENGE A STATE CERTIFICATION,
GIVEN HOW SPECIFIC THE
CONSTITUTION, WOULD BE A
VIOLATION OF THE OATH OF OFFICE.
THAT IS NOT SOMETHING I AM
WILLING TO DO AND IT IS NOT
SOMETHING OKLAHOMANS WOULD WANT
ME TO DO.
HE IS BREAKING WITH JAMES
LANGFORD, WHO WAS ON THIS VERY
PROGRAM YESTERDAY.
WHAT IS CAUSING A DIVIDE IN YOUR
PARTY?
WHAT IS THE ISSUE THAT YOU LINE
UP ON ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER?
>> I REALLY DON’T THINK THERE’S
AS LARGE A DIVIDE AS PEOPLE
THINK.
I THINK WE’RE ALL CONCERNED
ABOUT CONGRESS OR THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT OVERTURNING A STATE
ELECTION.
NONE OF US WANT TO CONTEMPLATE
THAT.
THE BIGGEST ISSUE IS THOSE OF US
THAT ARE CHALLENGING THIS REFUSE
TO JUST DISMISS IT, TO SWEEP IT
UNDER THE RUG.
I DON’T THINK WE CAN DO THIS.
THIS PROBLEM ISN’T GOING AWAY.
MOST OF US SHARE THE CONCERNS OF
OUR COLLEAGUE THAT WE DON’T WANT
TO SET A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT
HERE.
WE DO RESPECT STATE RIGHTS.
WE ARE CALLING ON STATE
LEGISLATURES TO ASSUME THE
RESPONSIBILITY, DON’T ABDICATE
IT TO UNELECTED JUDGES AND
ELECTION OFFICIALS.
STEP UP TO THE PLATE.
INVESTIGATE THE WRONGDOING,
INVESTIGATE THE IRREGULARITIES
IN YOUR STATE, AND FIX THEM.
>> Harris: REAL QUICKLY, WHAT DO
YOU SAY TO ALL OF THOUGH
MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF TRUMP
SUPPORTERS, 74 MILLION OF THEM,
IF AND WHEN THIS MIGHT NOT FLIP
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION,
CONTEST RESULTS THE WAY THE
PRESIDENT HAS FORECAST?
>> WELL, FIRST OF ALL, BEING
CONSERVATIVE IS THAT YOU RESPECT
THE RULE OF LAW.
WE JUST CONFIRMED A BUNCH OF
JUDGES THAT APPLY THE LAW,
KNOWING I’M NOT GOING TO LIKE A
LOT OF THEIR DECISIONS.
WE DO HAVE TO, IN THE END,
RESPECT THE RULE OF LAW, EVEN
WHEN WE DON’T LIKE THE
DECISIONS.
FROM MY STANDPOINT, IF WE WIN
GEORGIA, I’M ENCOURAGING EVERY
REPUBLICAN GEORGIAN TO VOTE FOR
KELLY LOEFFLER AND DAVID PERDUE.
IF WE RETAIN THE MAJORITY, I
WILL BE CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE
COMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS AND
I WILL GUARANTEE THAT I AM GOING
TO DIG INTO THIS.
I’M GOING TO INVESTIGATE AND I’M
GOING TO FIND OUT WHAT THE TRUTH
IS.
WHAT WE CAN EXPLAIN, WE’LL
EXPLAIN AND SET TO THE SIDE.
BUT WHERE THERE ARE PROBLEMS, WE
DO NEED TO FIX THEM.
>> Harris: INTERESTING.
SO IT WILL GO BEYOND TOMORROW IF