>>> WE ARE BACK, FOLLOWING THE
CONTENTIOUS PHONE CALL BETWEEN
PRESIDENT TRUMP AND GEORGIA’S
SECRETARY OF STATE.
IT IS ANOTHER ATTEMPT BY TRUMP
TO GET THE ELECTION RESULTS
OVERTURNED, AN ELECTION HE LOST,
THANKS TO MILLIONS OF VOTERS IN
GEORGIA TO VOTED FOR JOE BIDEN.
WITH THE HELP OF ACTIVISTS,
DEDICATING TIME AND ENERGY TO
TURN OUT VOTERS IN THE STATE,
DESPITE THE RAGING PANDEMIC AND
CONCERNS OVER VOTER SUPPRESSION.
REVEREND AL SHARPTON, PRESIDENT
OF THE ACTION NETWORK AND HOST
OF "POLITICS NATION."
REV, IS THERE SOMETHING SPECIFIC
TO THE STATE OF GEORGIA THAT
MAKES IT SO HARD FOR PRESIDENT
TRUMP TO COME TO THE TERMS WITH
THE FACT THAT HE LOST THE STATE?
>> I THINK THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT
THE HISTORY OF THE STATE OF
GEORGIA, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE
FACT THAT JOE BIDEN WAS ABLE TO
DEFEAT HIM IN A STATE THAT
REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN WINNING
FOR MANY YEARS, AND THEN THE
SYMBOLISM OF THE STATE IN THE
VOTING RIGHTS MOVEMENT, A VOTING
RIGHTS THAT DONALD TRUMP TRIED
TO UNDERMINE IN EVERY WAY HE
COULD, THIS IS A STATE THAT GAVE
US DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING AND
REVEREND WELLS AND JOHN LEWIS. WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THE
WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THE
AUDIOTAPE, HE IS NOT INQUIRYING
WHETHER ANYTHING DID WRONG.
HE IS INSTRUCTING, FIND ME VOTES
WHICH WILL PUT ME OVER THE TOP.
WHICH, IN EFFECT, IS SAYING
DISENFRANCHISE THE ACTUAL VOTE
THAT HAPPENED.
I THINK IT WOULD BE FRIGHTENING
IF IT WASN’T FOR THE FACT THAT
WE HAVE TO GIVE CREDIT TO THAT
SECRETARY OF STATE AND OTHERS
THAT REFUSE TO GO AGAINST THE
RULE OF LAW EVEN THOUGH THEY MAY
PUT, IN MANY WAYS, STAND AGAINST
MANY OF THE THINGS POLITICALLY.
>> AND KEPT ASSERTING OVER AND
OVER AGAIN THAT THE CONSPIRACY
THEORIES THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS
CITING WERE SIMPLY NOT TRUE.
THERE WAS SO MUCH IN THIS CALL,
REV, THAT WE COULD TALK ABOUT.
THERE’S SOMETHING I FEEL LIKE WE
HAVEN’T HEARD ENOUGH ABOUT,
WHICH IS THE PRESIDENT’S
FASCINATION, IT SEEMED TO ME,
WITH STACEY ABRAMS.
TAKE A LISTEN TO THIS ONE CLIP.
>> STACEY ABRAMS IS LAUGHING
ABOUT -- SHE’S GOING AROUND,
SAYING THESE GUYS ARE DUMBER
THAN A ROCK.
WHAT SHE HAS DONE TO THIS PARTY
IS UNBELIEVABLE.
>> WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THAT
OBSESSION WITH STACEY ABRAMS?
>> HE IS OBSESSED WITH A BLACK
WOMAN THAT HAS BEEN ABLE TO
MOBILIZE AND GALVANNIZE A VOTING
BASE THAT HAS RENDERED HIM A
LOSER AND HAS SHOWN IF YOU BUILD
ACROSS GENERATIONAL AND RACIAL
LINES, YOU CAN WIN, EVEN IN THE
DEEP SOUTH.
AND SHE’S A SYMBOL OF EVERYTHING
HE IS AFRAID OF.
IT’S LIKE HIS WORST NIGHTMARE
COMING ALIVE, PERSONIFIED BY
STACEY ABRAMS.
AND HE’S RIGHT, BECAUSE SHE’S
REPRESENTING THE BEST OF
DEMOCRACY, WHILE HE IS
ATTEMPTING A NONMILITARY COUP.
AND WE HOPE IT REMAINS
NONMILITARY.
I’M HAPPY TO SEE FORMER DEFENSE
PEOPLE COME OUT, DEFENSE
OFFICIALS OF THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT, SAYING THAT MILITARY
CANNOT BE USED.
WE HAVE NO IDEA THE BOUNDARIES
THAT THIS MAN HAS AND WE SHOULD
NOT UNDERESTIMATE HIS QUEST TO
REMAIN IN POWER.
>> REV, YOU KEEP SAYING TWO
THINGS ABOUT VOTERS IN GEORGIA.
HE KEEPS SAYING THEY’RE ANGRY
AND WON’T VOTE.
WHICH VOTERS DO YOU THINK HE’S
TALKING ABOUT?
>> I THINK HE’S TALKING ABOUT
HIS SUPPORTERS.
I THINK HE’S TALKING ABOUT THE
EXTREMIST
EXTREMISTS, THAT REFUSE TO LIVE
REALITY, PEOPLE THAT FEED INTO
CONSPIRACY THEORIES, THAT MANY
OF THEM HAVE FABRICATED
THEMSELVES.
BUT IF THEY BELIEVE IT, WE DO
NOT KNOW THE BOUNDARIES OF WHAT
THEY WOULD DO.
YOU TALK ABOUT A PRESIDENT THAT
HAS CALLED FOR PEOPLE TO RALLY
ON THE 6th WHILE THERE ARE THOSE
IN THE U.S. SENATE THAT ARE
SAYING THAT THEY WILL OPPOSE THE
CERTIFICATION OF THE ELECTORAL
COLLEGE.
THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED AT A TIME
THAT THIS COUNTRY OUGHT TO BE
UNITING AROUND THE WILL OF THE
PEOPLE THAT HAS SHOWN AT THE
POLLS NOVEMBER 3rd FOR OUR
COUNTRY TO BE SITTING AT THE
EDGE OF THIS KIND OF DISASTER
AND DISPLAY OF THOSE THAT HOLD
THE RULE OF LAW IN CONTEMPT IS
SOMETHING WE EXPECT IN OTHER
COUNTRIES THAT WE’VE LECTURED
AND EVEN FOUGHT.
YOU DO NOT EXPECT IT IN THE