TO HEART AND DO ALL THAT WE CAN
TO DEFEND OUR DEMOCRACY.
>> IT SEEMS TO ME THERES A
NUMBER OF CLEAR AND PRESENT
DANGER, POINTS OF CLEAR AND
PRESENT DANGER NOW FOR OUR
DEMOCRACY.
IN REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED STATES
EVERYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY WERE
SEEING VERY, VERY AGGRESSIVE EFFORTS TO ROLL BACK VOTING
EFFORTS TO ROLL BACK VOTING
RIGHTS AND QUITE WORRINGLY TO
PUT PARTISANS IN CHARGE OF THE
VOTING AND PUTTING POWER TO
OVERTURN ELECTION RESULTS IN
HANDS OF PARTISANS.
ALSO SEEING I THINK
UNPRECEDENTED INTEREST ON THE
REPUBLICAN SIDE WITH HAVING
PARTISAN THIRD PARTY SHAM AUDITS
AND RECOUNTS WHERE THEYRE
ACCESSING REAL BALLOTS AND
VOTING MACHINES AND GOING BACK
OVER THEM WITHOUT ANY CONTROLS
SUPPOSED TO APPLY TO OUR REAL
VOTING SYSTEM TO CAST DOUBT ON
THE RESULTS.
SHOULD THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT --
WHETHER OR NOT REFORMS ARE
PASSED, SHOULD THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT BE INVOLVED AS
BACKSTOP TO STOP ANY OF THE
THREE COMPONENTS OF WHAT WERE
UP AGAINST RIGHT NOW?
>> YEAH, I THINK THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT HAS GOT TO BE
INVOLVED AND AGGRESSIVELY
INVOLVED.
THAT FRAUDIT GOING ON IN ARIZONA
NOW MIGHT SEEM FOR WHATEVER
REASON AS SOMETHING REPUBLICANS
WANT TO SUPPORT FOR SHORT-TERM
GAIN, I DONT KNOW EXACTLY WHAT
IT IS.
BUT CLEARLY WILL DO LONG-TERM
DAMAGE TO OUR DEMOCRACY IF IT
RAISES IN MINDS OF PEOPLE IN
THIS COUNTRY DOUBTS ABOUT THE
EFFECTIVENESS, INTEGRITY OF OUR
ELECTORAL SYSTEM.
LET ME BE CLEAR, THERE IS NO
INDICATION THAT LAST ELECTION
WAS CONDUCTED IN ANYTHING OTHER
THAN APPROPRIATE WAY.
RECORD NUMBERS OF PEOPLE GOT TO
THE POLLS, HAD THE ABILITY TO
EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS, WERE
COUNTED IN APPROPRIATE WAYS.
REPUBLICAN STATE OFFICIALS
RESPONSIBLE FOR COUNTING OF THE
VOTES DID THEIR JOBS WELL.
TRUMPS ATTORNEY GENERAL, WHO I
HAVE LOTS OF PROBLEMS WITH,
INDICATED THERE WAS NO FRAUD IN
THE ELECTION.
SO ALL OF THESE THINGS THEYRE
DOING NOW ARE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE,
WITHIN BASIS AND WILL HURT, HARM
OUR HARD-WON DEMOCRACY.
>> BUT ISNT THERE SOMETHING
BEYOND THAT, THOUGH?
KNOWING THAT THEY ARE HURTING
OUR DEMOCRACY, KNOWING THEY ARE
INAPPROPRIATE AND UNWISE AS YOU
DESCRIBED, CRITICISM FOR THEM
FOR DOING IT, SHOULDNT SOMEBODY
BE STOPPING THEM?
OCCURS TO ME, PAM CARLIN AS HEAD
OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION OF
ARIZONA WARNING ARIZONA WHAT
THEY WERE DOING WAS ILLEGAL,
VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW IN
TERMS OF THE WAY BALLOTS AND
VOTING MACHINES WERE SUPPOSES TO
BE HANDLED, THAT SHOULD BE
FOLLOWED UP WITH ACTION,
OTHERWISE THEYRE FLOUTING
FEDERAL LAW WITHOUT PAYING A
PRICE FOR IT. >> TO THE EXTENT THERE ARE
>> TO THE EXTENT THERE ARE
VIOLATIONS OR SUPERVISIONS OFSPI
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HAS TO BE
AGGRESSIVE.
SENDING LETTER IS IMPORTANT,
SETS PARAMETERS, IF JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT IS AWARE OF VIOLATION
OF FEDERAL LAW, IT SHOULD BE
INVESTIGATED AND STOPPED, TO THE
EXTENT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
HAS THAT ABILITY.
DOJ IS ONE OF THOSE RARE
AGENCIES THAT HAS THE ABILITY TO
PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY ANY NUMBER
OF WAYS.
THIS IS ONE OF THOSE TIMES WHEN
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AS I SAID HAS
GOT TO BE AGGRESSIVE AND FORWARD
LEANING IN TRYING TO MAKE SURE
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THESE