MOST COUNTIES FOUND NO CHANGE IN
THEIR FINAL TALLY.
THE MAJORITY OF THE REST HAD
CHANGERS FEWER THAN TEN BALLOTS.
SO JOE BIDEN WON GEORGIA.
THAT WILL BE CERTIFIED TOMORROW.
HE WON THE PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION.
AND DESPITE THAT CLEAR ELECTORAL VICTORY, AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS
VICTORY, AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS
UNDER ASSAULT.
BY DONALD TRUMP AND HIS
COLLABORATORS IN THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY.
LET ME TAKE A STEP BACK FOR A
SECOND.
REMEMBER FROM THE BEGINNING, AS
WE’VE BEEN REPORTING HERE ON THE
PROGRAM FOR MONTHS, THAT DONALD
TRUMP AND HIS CAMPAIGN WITH THE
REST OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, HE
ALWAYS KNEW THEY WERE GOING TO
LOSE THE POPULAR VOTE, AND
ALWAYS KNEW A VICTORY WAS ONLY
POSSIBLE WITH A NARROW WIN IN A
NUMBER OF HOTLY CONTESTED SWING
STATES.
AND HE ACTIVELY LAID THE
GROUNDWORK TO BE ABLE TO TRY TO
CONTEST AND STEAL THOSE STATES,
EVEN IF TRUMP ACTUALLY LOST THEM
BY NARROW MARGINS.
BUT THEN WHAT HAPPENED IS TRUMP
LOST BY A LOT.
AND THE RESULTS ALL CAME IN AND
THEY STILL AREN’T COMPLETELY
COUNTED.
IT’S THE DEFINITIVE REBUKE.
HE LOST THE POPULAR VOTE BY
ALMOST 6 MILLION VOTES, FOUR
POINTS PERCENTAGE WISE.
LOST THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE BY
THE SAME MARGIN HE WON BY IN
2016, WHICH HE REPEATEDLY CALLED
A BLOWOUT.
ALL OF THAT INSTEAD, THEY JUST
STILL WENT ALONG WITH THE PLAN
THEY HAD ON THE SHELF.
THEY STILL FILED ALL OF THESE
LAWSUITS, ALL BUT ONE OF WHICH
HAS FAILED IN COURT.
AND DONALD TRUMP AND RUDY
GIULIANI ARE DOING PRECISELY
WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT, SPREADING
DANGEROUS AND CONSPIRACY
THEORIES AND DRIFTERS.
ALL OF THAT WAS ALWAYS BOUND TO
HAPPEN.
MITCH McCONNELL AND JOSH HAWLEY
AND MARCO RUBIO AND TED CRUZ AND
TOM COTTON AND THE REST OF THESE
REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS WHO ARE
NO STRANGERS TO SANK MOANOUS AND
AGGRIEVED PUBLIC ORATORY,
THEY’VE ALL BEEN GOING ON WITH
IT, COWARDLY HIDING BEHIND THE
APPARENT EXCUSE THAT SKOURDOUS
SHEB PLAYED OUT AND YOU CAN
ALWAYS GO TO COURT AND MAKE YOUR
CLAIM AND THAT’S ALWAYS THE PATH
OF LEAST RESISTANCE THEY WANT TO
TAKE.
BUT LET’S GET SERIOUS HERE.
TRUMP IS 1-32 IN COURT.
THEY LOST 32 CASES IN THE 16
DAYS SINCE ELECTION DAY AND
TONIGHT A FEDERAL JUDGE RULED
AGAINST THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN
SAYING IT WOULD BE RIDICULOUS
NOT TO CERTIFY GEORGIA’S WIN ONE
DAY BEFORE THE STATE’S DEADLINE.
THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN IS ADMITTING
OVER AND OVER IN COURT THEY’RE
NOT ACTUALLY ALLEGING FRAUD.
EVEN RUDY GIULIANI TOLD THE
JUDGE, THIS IS NOT A
FRAUDCATION.
THEIR LEGAL STRATEGY HAS BEEN
REDUCED TO THE SPECTACLE TODAY
AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
COMMITTEES HEADQUARTERS IN
WASHINGTON, A DARKLY COMEDIC AND
HUMILIATING EXPERIENCE FOR ALL
INVOLVED AS THE PRESIDENT’S LAST
LEGAL HOPE, RUDY GIULIANI
SWEATING IN FRONT OF THE
NATIONAL MEDIA WITH SOME KIND OF
UNDETERMINED DYE RUNNING DOWN
HIS FACE WHILE TRUMP CAMPAIGN
LAWYER SIDNEY POWELL MADE TRULY
WILD STATEMENTS THAT MR. BIDEN
WAS ELECTED WITH HUGO CHAVEZ’S
MONEY, WHO HAS BEEN DEAD FOR
SEVEN YEARS.
THIS IS WHERE WE ARE.
NOW THIS IS NOT ABOUT COUP
ATTEMPTS.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT A BARRAGE OF
BALLOTS OR SIGNATURE MATCHES.
NO, IT’S AN ATTEMPT TO LOSE
LOYALTY TO DONALD TRUMP, TO
SUBVERT AND FRANKLY OVERTURN THE
RESULTS OF A DEMOCRATIC
ELECTION.
THEY ARE JUST ATTEMPTING
STRAIGHT UP TO SUBVERT THE WILL
OF THE PEOPLE AND OVERTURN A
DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED
GOVERNMENT.
WE SAW THE FIRST INDICATIONS OF
THIS WHEN THE REPUBLICANS ON THE
WAYNE COUNTY MICHIGAN BOARD OF
CANVASSERS REFUSED TO CERTIFY
THE ELECTION BEFORE BACKING
DOWN.
THEN TODAY THE REPUBLICAN CHAIR
OF THE FOUR-PERSON COMMITTEE,
MONICA PALMER, SAID THE
PRESIDENT CALLED HER HIMSELF
AFTER THE MEETING ENDED.
AND LAST NIGHT BOTH SHE AND HER
FELLOW REPUBLICAN BOARD MEMBER
WILLIAM HARTMAN SIGNED ACHD
AFFIDAVITS THEY WANT TO RESCIND
THEIR VOTE, THEY WANT TO TAKE IT
BACK, AFTER MONICA TALKED TO THE
PRESIDENT.
ALTHOUGH I DON’T THINK THAT IS A
REAL THING.
I THINK THAT SHIP HAS SAILED.
TRUMP ALSO I INVITED THE
REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP OF THE
HOUSE AND SENATE TO MEET WITH
HIM AT THE WHITE HOUSE TOMORROW,
IEN THOUGH THEY HAVE NO PLANGZ
FOR LONG SHOT MANEUVERS NAMING
AN ALTERNATE SET OF PRO-TRUMP
ELECTORATES FROM MICHIGAN.
THEY’RE TRYING TO JUST OVERTURN
THE ELECTION AND INSTALL THE
PRESIDENT IN POWER.
NOW, I DON’T WANT TO FREAK
PEOPLE OUT.
THIS SHOULD NOT BE GIVING YOU A
KNOT IN YOUR STOMACH ABOUT THE
OUTCOME.
IT WILL NOT WORK.
IT IS NOT A GAME.
IT IS DOOM TO FAILURE FOR A
BUNCH OF REASONS WE WILL NOT GET
INTO.
BUT THAT SHOULD NOT DIMINISH
WHAT THEY’RE TRYING TO DO,
THEY’RE TRYING TO DO THE THING,
THEY’RE TRYING TO OVERTURN THE
ELECTION.
TONIGHT IN AN EXCLUSIVE
INTERVIEW WITH JONATHAN
CAPEHART, EXCLUSIVELY ON MSNBC,
BARACK OBAMA POINTED OUT JBDS
WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
>> JOE BIDEN WILL BE THE NEXT
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
KAMALA HARRIS WILL BE THE NEXT
VICE PRESIDENT.
I HAVE BEEN TROUBLED LIKE I
THINK EVERYBODY AMERICAN,
WHETHER YOU’RE REPUBLICAN OR
DEMOCRAT OR INDEPENDENT SHOULD BE TROUBLED, WHEN YOU START
BE TROUBLED, WHEN YOU START
HAVING ATTEMPTS TO BLOCK,
NEGATE, OVERTURN, THE PEOPLE’S
VOTE WHEN THERE’S NO ACTUAL
EVIDENCE THAT THERE WAS ANYTHING
ILLEGAL OR FRAUDULENT TAKING
PLACE.
THESE ARE JUST BALD ASSERTIONS.
THEY HAVE BEEN REPEATEDLY
REJECTED BY THE COURTS.
AND I THINK THE COURT -- I’M
LESS SURPRISED BY DONALD TRUMP
DOING THIS.
HE HAS SHOWN ONLY A FLIMSY
RELATIONSHIP TO THE TRUTH.
I’M MORE TROUBLED THAT YOU’RE
SEEING A LOT OF REPUBLICAN
OFFICIALS GO ALONG WITH IT, NOT
BECAUSE THEY ACTUALLY BELIEVE
IT, BUT BECAUSE THEY FEEL
INTIMIDATED BY IT.
AND THE DEGREE TO WHICH YOU’VE
SEEN SOME NEWS OUTLETS THAT
CATER TO THE RIGHT AND THE
CONSERVATIVE VIEWPOINT SOMEHOW
TRY TO PROP UP THESE BOGUS
CLAIMS.
>> AGAIN, THAT FULL HOUR-LONG
INTERVIEW COMING UP AT 10:00
P.M. AFTER THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN
OF RACHEL MADDOW, WHICH I’M
LOOKING FORWARD TO.
BUT PRESIDENT OBAMA IS RIGHT,
REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS ARE ON
BOARD WITH THE PLAN.
AND IF THEY ARE NOT, THEY HAVE
TO SPEAK UP TO LET US KNOW THEY
ARE NOT.
TRUMP AND GIULIANI ARE SPOUTING
HORRIBLY TOXIC CONSPIRACY
THEORIES.
THEY RUNNING AROUND, POURING
GASOLINE AND LIGHTING A BUNCH OF
MATCHES AND ALL OF THOSE EXCUSES
ABOUT LETTING THE PROCESS PLAY
OUT ARE GONE NOW.
SO REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS, JOSH
HAWLEY, MARCO RUBIO, TED CRUZ,
ARE YOU OKAY WITH THIS?
ARE YOU OKAY WITH HOLDING AN
AMERICAN ELECTION AND
OVERTURNING AND IGNORING THE
RESULTS?
YAHOO! POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
JON WARD, GREAT REPORTER,
TWEETED, I HAVE EMAILED
SPECSPERSONS FOR ALL REPUBLICAN
SENATORS ABOUT TRUMP’S PRESSURE
CAMPAIGN IN MICHIGAN, AND HAVE
NOT HEARD BACK FROM ANY YET.
THIS IS CLASSIC.
WE’VE SEEN THIS 100 TIMES DURING
THE TRUMP YEARS.
IT’S THE CLASSIC REPUBLICAN, I
DIDN’T SEE THE TWEET, BUT FOR
THE END OF THE AMERICAN
EXPERIMENT.
A LOT OF PEOPLE, MYSELF
INCLUDED, SAID IMAGINE IF IT
WERE CLOSER?
IMAGINE WHAT HAPPENS THE NEXT
TIME AROUND?
THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT
40% TO 45% OF THE COUNTRY, MAYBE
30, 35% OF THE COUNTRY IS