>> In a now leaked call to Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger. Donald Trump
urges election officials to, quote, find votes in the state that would help him
overturn the election results. Don't believe me? Well, it was an hour long call. Clearly
we can't have you listen to the full hour long call during this program.
But we did pick out
some highlights. Let's listen to the first. >> You should wanna have an accurate election,
and you're a Republican. >> We believe that we do
have an accurate election. >> No, you don't, no, no,
you don't. You don't have. You don't have, not even close.
You're off by hundreds of thousands of votes. You know what they did and you're not reporting
it. That's a criminal offense. And you can't let that happen. That's a big risk to you and to Ryan,
your lawyers. That's a big risk. But they are shredding ballots, in my opinion, based on what
I've heard and they are removing machinery, and they're moving it as fast as they can.
Both of which are criminal fines and you can't let it happen and you are letting it happen. I mean,
I'm notifying you that you're letting it happen. So look, all I wanna do is this. I just wanna find
11,780 votes, which is one more that we have, because we won the state.
>> I mean, is anyone really surprised that Trump would say this openly during a call.
Especially after he was impeached for what he had said to the leader of Ukraine regarding
withholding congressionally appropriated military support? Until they announced some
sort of sham investigation into Joe Biden to hurt his chances of getting elected.
So it doesn't surprise me that after really getting away with that,
with Republicans exonerating him. Now you have a situation in which he just brazenly tells the
Secretary of State from Georgia to find 11,000 votes to help him
overturn the results of the election. And then also issues threats as you can hear in that video.
I also want to just give you a quick statement just to amplify what he said in that video
regarding the risks. He said you know what they did and you're not reporting it. You know that's
a criminal offense and you know, you can't let that happen. That's a big risk to you and to Ryan.
Ryan is the chief lawyer for the Secretary of State. Your lawyer, that's a big risk. And so
this call happened over the weekend, guys. This is not a call that happened
immediately after the election results were called. This happened over the
weekend. Meaning Donald Trump and his lawyers have already lost dozens, over 50
legal battles regarding their unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud.
Everything that he's claiming to have happened in the state of Georgia during the election didn't
happen. They haven't provided a shred of evidence for it. But it doesn't matter. It's clear from
this hour long call that he's just trying to get these Republican officials in the state of
Georgia to help him out, to find enough votes in his favor to overturn the election results.
Iada. >> It's funny because
you know what? Donald Trump has realized that the more he says stuff over and over again through
repetition, that there's a group of people who believes it.
And so he tries it at all costs, right? So he's a con man. He's a criminal.
This is how he's criminally minded. This is how he operates. And that's why he's hitting the man
with the hustle. It's like the street hustle. He's like, yeah, all I need is, it sounds like somebody
doing the the card shuffle on the street in New York. He's just hitting him with the hustle.
He's like, I'm trying to tell you wink, wink. I need you to find this many votes because this
is what we need. It's all gibberish. You know a funny thing is that, shame on the Republicans,
because Donald Trump feels emboldened enough that he can get away with this stuff.
He's been able to do it so many times with so many other people that he doesn't have any shame.
Why would he have any shame when he gets away with this kind of stuff all the time? Look at Ted Cruz.
I believe Ted Cruz thinks his wife is ugly too, the way he's rolling with Donald Trump.
>> My god. >> Yeah.
The way that Donald Trump has unapologetically just been so egregious and obstreperous is the
word. I learned that word for the SATs for a reason. He is completely unruly, and he
doesn't care because he knows that all the angles that he tries, at some point somebody caves.
And that's why he's able to
do something like that without any shame. >> I mean, I think it's really indicative
of his experience as someone who is allegedly a businessman. And I only say allegedly because
of the fact that he has failed so many times as a businessman, gone bankrupt six times.
But nonetheless, I mean, he did manage to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in
loans that he really did not qualify for as someone who had gone bankrupt six times.
But he always finds a way, right? He got Deutsche Bank to give him the loans
that he desperately needed even though no other lender was willing to work with him.
And it's because in business, he's been able to find a way to massage situations. He's always been
able to find loopholes. And I think this might actually be one of the first times in his life
where he's not able to utilize a loophole or force his way into getting exactly what he wants.
And so he's befuddled by it, he's dumbfounded by it. And at the same time, I mean, we can't
in any way launder the image of the dozens, in the case of the House of Representatives.
Hundreds of lawmakers who are willing to go along with Donald Trump's sham lies.
It's just unbelievable. And then there was one other video I wanted to share
with you guys though. So let's listen to the other highlight that I thought was worth your attention,
and we'll break it down. >> Mr. President,
you have people that submit information and we have our people that submit information.
And then it comes before the court. And the court then has to make a determination. We have to stand
by our numbers. We believe our numbers are right. >> Well, under the law you're not allowed to
give faulty election results, okay? You're not allowed to do that, and that's what you've done.
This is a faulty election result. And honestly, this should go very fast. You should meet tomorrow
because you have a big election coming up. The people of Georgia know that this was a scam. And
because of what you've done to the President, a lot of people aren't going out to vote.
And a lot of Republicans are gonna vote negative because they hate what you did to the President,
okay? They hate it. >> So one theme throughout this call
is how Trump is subtly threatening the Republican Party, in this case specifically,
Republican lawmakers, and the Republican Party in the state of Georgia.
Because of the senate runoff races that are gonna take place tomorrow on January 5th. And so
he's basically saying, do what I want or else, maybe my supporters in Georgia, they're not gonna
show up to vote for Kelly Perdue. I don't know why I always do that, Kelly Leffler and David Perdue.
And so he also continued to say that the people of Georgia are angry. The people of the country
are angry. There's nothing wrong with saying that you've recalculated.
But here's the thing. They have done hand recounts in Georgia. And every single time,
it just confirms the fact that Joe Biden beat him.
So what he's asking for here isn't anything legitimate, what he's asking for, and I think
it's implied pretty clearly. Is for them to just find enough ballots to overturn the results of the
election in the state of Georgia. And, by the way, legal experts are saying that this is a serious
problem that you should be investigated for, which I'll get to in just a minute.
But Iada, I wanna get your thoughts on that. >> First, I have thoughts on why you say Kelly
Perdue, you made a contraction of two trash politicians. And you just come bang through
cuz it's got it all in one swing. I think we've spent so much time on Donald Trump
and I'm seriously just counting down the days for him to be done.
Because there are so many other trash politicians in Washington DC who are still gonna be there
after Donald Trump is gone and I wanna just focus on taking out that trash. But I just think,
like I said, he brought that bold criminal mentality and behavior to the White House.
And now it has a stain on it. And our government, these corporations running this country,
it's already bad, we're a joke to the rest of the world.
But I think that this stain is another level of low that our American politics has gone to,
to let a con man, the host of the apprentice run the free world, with the ditzy kids, vanilla ice.
The whole thing, the whole kit and caboodle. it's gonna take a long time for us to get back
to dignity in the White House. Just dignity, basic dignity, and it's just gross.
>> Yeah, I mean, I think that what we're gonna experience in Washington
and unfortunately, to some extent, is a reflection of what we're seeing on Twitter.
The most extreme groups of people who have been sucked in by conspiracy theories,
and don't really know how governing really works. Demanding certain things
leading to all sorts of strange arguments and decisions, divisions as well. And
what I really mean by that is when you look at Republican voters specifically,
the majority of them think Donald Trump did a fantastic job, the vast majority of them.
That is the Republican party, that is the Republican electorate.
And I don't think that it's actually gonna change much. So we'll see how that all really plays out
in four years, which I'm not looking forward to. But we're gonna see
more of this Trumpist mentality play out through the Republican Party.
Which is why you have so many Republican lawmakers signing onto
these false allegations of widespread voter fraud. You have all these lawmakers saying
that they're gonna challenge the electoral votes on January 6th in a ceremonial event.
And it's a problem, it really is a problem because I don't see it going away.
I think the only thing you can hope for, no, you can't hope for. But the only thing you
should be asking for is that there is an investigation into this type of behavior.
One state law, by the way, makes it a felony to solicit, request, command, importune or otherwise
attempt to cause another person to engage in election fraud..
By urging election officials to find votes that were not legally cast for him,
Trump could be prosecuted under law. And interestingly enough, Hakeem Jeffries in the
House of Representatives was asked whether or not they were considering launching an
investigation into this. And unironically, he said that they wanna look forward.
So if there aren't gonna be any consequences for this kind of behavior, then nothing is gonna
change. This kinda stuff is gonna continue happening, and it's pathetic and shameful.
>> It sets a precedent. But what I was gonna say was, how many laws do they have to break?
I'm so tired. I'm not on Twitter, the Hatch Act, that they violated the Hatch Act. There have not
been any consequences for this behavior. It's just ridiculous. What I'd look at it is, the optimist
that I am, is just, it is really exposed, how poor our education system is in this country.
How really deeply rooted the corruption from these
corporations are in our political system and our lawmaking. It really has exposed how we are
not the country that we like to pretend to be in the face of the world. And I hope that in
exposing all of this stuff, Donald Trump came as a major symptom of what's wrong with this country,
that we can actually start addressing these problems realistically.
Because to see these people yelling out at us that we're trying to turn America into Venezuela,
as they say. It's just like wow, we really have gone backwards, or have we?