WEBVTT - Election Concerns, Predictions & Controversy 0:00:01.550 --> 0:00:02.969 This is Monks and Merrill. 0:00:03.270 --> 0:00:08.710 Hosted by Michael Monks and Chris Merrill. This is Monks 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:09.969 and Merrill. 0:00:10.550 --> 0:00:11.120 On demand. 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:14.440 Debra, I popped out of the studio during your newscast. 0:00:14.460 --> 0:00:16.100 Do we have an update on the horse in the mud? 0:00:16.540 --> 0:00:18.180 We don't. I've been looking. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:18.840 Still in the mud? 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:20.880 They're still trying to figure out how to get this 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:21.700 poor guy out. 0:00:21.820 --> 0:00:22.100 Okay. 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.419 Conway's probably got 10 bucks on him over at Los Alamitos. 0:00:27.830 --> 0:00:29.330 Ding dong on that horse in the mud. 0:00:29.350 --> 0:00:33.730 The horse is estimated to weigh 1,500 pounds. Here is 0:00:33.770 --> 0:00:34.350 the update. 0:00:34.409 --> 0:00:38.330 Crews have placed plywood to keep rescuers from sinking. So 0:00:38.450 --> 0:00:41.800 that's really the only update. So that poor horse is 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:42.500 still stuck. 0:00:42.300 --> 0:00:42.699 In the mud. 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.020 That's some nasty mud then if they have to put 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.240 the plywood out there to prevent the humans from getting 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:47.740 stuck too. 0:00:48.180 --> 0:00:50.120 I know. And that's a big horse. 0:00:50.140 --> 0:00:54.600 Poor thing. I was looking at the Supreme Court decision 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.260 to say, no, we're not going to. allow the DOJ 0:00:59.300 --> 0:01:01.740 to block the 20,000 ballots that they claim could be invalid, 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:03.600 that kind of thing. But then I was thinking about 0:01:03.620 --> 0:01:06.580 how that was going to relate to election security, and 0:01:06.660 --> 0:01:09.100 obviously people are going to complain about it. Boy, you 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:10.140 want something else to complain about? 0:01:10.340 --> 0:01:10.520 Yeah. 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.240 Let's talk radio, baby. 0:01:12.540 --> 0:01:12.660 L.A. 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:14.820 County jail inmates are given an opportunity to vote in 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:15.640 the midterm elections. 0:01:15.780 --> 0:01:16.660 Well, what's wrong with that? 0:01:16.980 --> 0:01:19.399 Sheriff's Department announcing it's taken several steps to allow inmates 0:01:19.459 --> 0:01:23.039 at several detention facilities to vote in Tuesday's midterm elections. 0:01:24.990 --> 0:01:26.450 I don't think there's anything wrong with that, especially if 0:01:26.470 --> 0:01:28.890 you're being detained before pretrial, that kind of thing. Like 0:01:28.910 --> 0:01:30.670 you haven't, you haven't lost your civil rights. If you're 0:01:30.690 --> 0:01:33.810 being detained pretrial, you're innocent until proven guilty. But I 0:01:33.810 --> 0:01:35.950 was just thinking, oh, this is going to, this is 0:01:35.970 --> 0:01:37.560 going to set people off that think the election is 0:01:37.590 --> 0:01:42.140 being stolen. Anyway, this is just poking the bear. I 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:45.560 would like to know what that precincts results are. Oh yeah. 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:46.459 You know? Yeah. 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:49.440 Well, Nithya Raman wants to get rid of the prisons, right? 0:01:49.460 --> 0:01:52.610 So does the board of supervisors. 0:01:53.070 --> 0:01:56.450 Oh, so good news. Good news, fellas. 0:01:56.570 --> 0:01:56.730 Yeah. 0:01:57.950 --> 0:02:00.090 They're already closing the downtown jail, right? 0:02:00.210 --> 0:02:01.270 Yeah, the Men's Central Jail. 0:02:01.310 --> 0:02:01.630 Yeah. 0:02:02.070 --> 0:02:03.030 Oh, good news. 0:02:03.170 --> 0:02:06.580 They are not moving on that yet, but that is 0:02:06.590 --> 0:02:10.900 their long-term stated policy goal. But every time a report 0:02:10.980 --> 0:02:12.920 is commissioned, it comes back and says, well, this is really, 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:14.960 really expensive to do, and you don't have a plan 0:02:14.980 --> 0:02:17.250 on the other side of it. And the ladies of 0:02:17.270 --> 0:02:18.589 the board of supervisors are like. 0:02:18.730 --> 0:02:19.190 We don't care. 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:19.620 What? 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.320 What? Plan ahead. 0:02:25.900 --> 0:02:27.160 We were just performing. 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:29.470 Oh, my God. That's exactly what it is. 0:02:29.500 --> 0:02:30.020 It's so stupid. 0:02:30.220 --> 0:02:36.310 Meanwhile, the DOJ had that list of 20,000 potential illegal voters. 0:02:36.340 --> 0:02:39.350 They said, oh, these people are voting. UCLA took a 0:02:39.350 --> 0:02:42.130 look at the DOJ list. 0:02:42.389 --> 0:02:42.489 Oh. 0:02:43.210 --> 0:02:45.710 Because the registrars weren't going to. So UCLA did. 0:02:46.230 --> 0:02:48.810 Data from the University of California shows more than 40% 0:02:48.810 --> 0:02:52.530 of the flagged names aren't even on the state's voter 0:02:52.570 --> 0:02:56.570 registration database. Earlier this week, a judge rejected the Justice 0:02:56.590 --> 0:03:01.030 Department's attempt to seize nearly 20,000 mail-in ballots. It's all 0:03:01.070 --> 0:03:03.900 part of the DOJ's criminal investigation into the state's voter 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:05.020 registration database. 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:05.799 U.S. 0:03:05.860 --> 0:03:10.500 Attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Assele, criticizes 0:03:10.580 --> 0:03:11.640 the group's findings. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.320 Well, I thought we had to call him First Assistant U.S. 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:14.620 Attorney. 0:03:15.010 --> 0:03:16.690 I don't know what we're supposed to call him anymore, 0:03:16.740 --> 0:03:19.540 but it's not U.S. Attorney. That is not allowed. 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.180 The judge said no to that one. 0:03:21.340 --> 0:03:25.060 Calling it contradictory to L.A. County's own reporting. The Justice 0:03:25.100 --> 0:03:29.800 Department is demanding election officials testify next Wednesday after the election. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.380 Okay. Are you ready for this? Yeah. 0:03:32.580 --> 0:03:32.780 All right. 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:37.820 This is fantastic. So UCLA's Voting Rights Project takes a 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.000 look at the 20,000, or it's almost 21,000 actually, names. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.770 They find out that Almost 9,000 of those names aren't 0:03:45.830 --> 0:03:50.050 on the voter rolls. So what's the DOJ doing? You 0:03:50.090 --> 0:03:54.650 came up with 20,000 names, but almost half of them, 0:03:55.890 --> 0:03:57.210 how did you cross-reference them? 0:03:57.790 --> 0:04:01.280 There's no cross-referencing. Where did you get this? The DOJ's 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.840 response was, hey, you weren't supposed to see that. 0:04:04.300 --> 0:04:04.540 What? 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:05.060 Yeah. 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:10.390 That's their whole thing. They didn't refute the findings. Bill 0:04:10.410 --> 0:04:14.230 Asseli's not saying, whoa, the Voting Rights Project completely misrepresented us. 0:04:14.570 --> 0:04:14.730 No. 0:04:15.030 --> 0:04:18.800 What they're saying is the judge said only certain parties 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:22.020 should be looking at that information, and you shouldn't be 0:04:22.100 --> 0:04:26.560 seeing it. This case has been proven to be flimsy 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.310 at every turn. They've not just been rejected at the 0:04:30.330 --> 0:04:32.330 district court level, the Court of Appeals, and now the 0:04:32.370 --> 0:04:35.610 Supreme Court. They've basically been smacked in the face with 0:04:35.630 --> 0:04:39.790 the rejections. By the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court said 0:04:39.830 --> 0:04:42.950 a lot without saying anything. Oh, I agree. And this 0:04:43.010 --> 0:04:45.170 isn't where you can come on and say, oh, these 0:04:45.190 --> 0:04:47.909 are Biden-appointed judges. Oh, you know, Clinton appointed this judge 0:04:47.950 --> 0:04:50.660 back in whatever, 19 tickety-tack. No. 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:52.320 It's Trump's Supreme Court. 0:04:52.339 --> 0:04:56.480 This is a 6-3 conservative majority Supreme Court that dismissed 0:04:56.520 --> 0:05:00.380 the emergency appeal from Trump and the DOJ. No comment. 0:05:01.140 --> 0:05:05.110 No dissent. Yeah, and that's interesting, too. The LA Times 0:05:05.529 --> 0:05:09.110 characterized that as a rare rebuke for President Trump's lawyers 0:05:09.150 --> 0:05:12.930 from the Supreme Court. Even— Amy Comey Barrett. 0:05:13.650 --> 0:05:15.650 Right, but you've got Clarence Thomas and you've got Scalia, 0:05:15.670 --> 0:05:17.409 and those guys are usually going to. 0:05:17.390 --> 0:05:18.089 Be— They didn't say anything. 0:05:18.110 --> 0:05:19.130 They didn't say anything. 0:05:19.150 --> 0:05:19.570 Scalia. 0:05:21.860 --> 0:05:26.840 Alito. I'm sorry. Alito. You know, when they were serving together, 0:05:26.860 --> 0:05:29.020 I was like... Scalia dissented from heaven. I was like, 0:05:29.140 --> 0:05:31.070 one of them is S-A and the other one is A-S, 0:05:31.130 --> 0:05:33.210 and I was trying to... I know. Yeah, yeah. Alito. 0:05:33.930 --> 0:05:38.670 But yeah, really surprising. I will be curious, because the 0:05:38.710 --> 0:05:41.150 DOJ is throwing a flag saying UCLA Voting Rights wasn't 0:05:41.170 --> 0:05:43.680 supposed to see this, because they're not part of the 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.800 group that we're upset with. Well, the group that they're 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.880 upset with, the state of California, is saying, no, no, no, 0:05:48.940 --> 0:05:51.480 these are our experts. They are entitled to see this. 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:52.900 So. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:59.670 We're not even refuting the specious argument about the list itself. 0:05:59.810 --> 0:06:04.190 Now we're arguing the trivialities of the ruling by the judge. 0:06:05.089 --> 0:06:09.800 If the administration put this level of energy into gas prices, 0:06:10.540 --> 0:06:15.760 into combating inflation, into ceasing to warn Iran, you're not 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.640 worried about who's voting because they're all voting for you. 0:06:18.260 --> 0:06:18.600 That's true. 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.040 You had one job. That's true. 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:21.020 That's true. 0:06:22.900 --> 0:06:25.350 The right says illegal voters are coming for the election. 0:06:25.370 --> 0:06:28.470 The left says Trump is coming for the ballots. Somewhere 0:06:28.490 --> 0:06:32.410 between those threats, you are supposed to trust the result. 0:06:33.210 --> 0:06:34.190 How? How? 0:06:34.690 --> 0:06:37.700 Well, you can trust Monks and Merrill to break it 0:06:37.740 --> 0:06:38.300 down for you. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:43.820 You're listening to Monks and Merrill on demand from KFI 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:44.539 AM 640. 0:06:44.540 --> 0:06:46.690 More stimulating talk. 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.790 Monks and Merrill. So glad to have you with us 0:06:49.830 --> 0:06:54.210 on this election day. California Democrats have warned folks that 0:06:54.250 --> 0:06:56.990 the Trump administration could be interfering with the vote counting. 0:06:57.029 --> 0:07:00.150 They may seize the ballots or they may challenge results 0:07:00.230 --> 0:07:04.110 if Republicans lose key races. But of course, of course, 0:07:04.130 --> 0:07:07.000 other side, you've got warnings that there are a lot 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.360 of illegal ballots. Oh, it's illegal ballots. 0:07:09.420 --> 0:07:10.420 It's illegal voters. 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.880 It's vote machines have all been altered, tampered with, so 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:15.880 on and so forth. It's not one thing. It's your mother. 0:07:15.900 --> 0:07:21.260 Am I right? Jared Kofsky is ABC News investigative reporter, 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:25.560 and he is on ballot watch tonight. And we are 0:07:25.580 --> 0:07:27.520 just about 40 minutes away from the first polls to 0:07:27.540 --> 0:07:28.500 be closing in America. 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.400 The first tranche will drop. 0:07:31.330 --> 0:07:33.110 And he'll be keeping an eye on any issues that 0:07:33.150 --> 0:07:36.670 arise that could make the voting process more difficult. Jared, 0:07:36.770 --> 0:07:38.850 thanks so much for being with us. We are hearing 0:07:38.890 --> 0:07:43.560 concerns from all sides of the ideological spectrum about what's real, 0:07:43.750 --> 0:07:46.660 what isn't. What are you looking for in your role tonight? 0:07:47.850 --> 0:07:50.150 Yeah, good afternoon. As you mentioned, ballot watch is on 0:07:50.210 --> 0:07:53.090 and we're keeping track of anything that's happening across the country. 0:07:53.350 --> 0:07:55.670 The good news is that so far we haven't heard 0:07:55.690 --> 0:07:58.890 too many major concerns around the U.S. For the most part, 0:07:58.930 --> 0:08:01.730 it's been smooth sailing. That hasn't really been the case 0:08:01.810 --> 0:08:03.860 in New York or Florida, though. Those are the two 0:08:03.890 --> 0:08:06.690 main states we've been keeping track of. In Florida at 0:08:06.740 --> 0:08:09.260 the moment, the main reason that they've had some issues 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.580 is actually because of the weather and not much that 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.340 they could have done to have prevented that. But a 0:08:13.380 --> 0:08:15.580 lot of people are having issues getting to and from 0:08:15.620 --> 0:08:17.580 the polls. There's a lot of flooding. There are a 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.460 lot of street closures. And so far, the officials in 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.380 Florida are saying they are still planning to close the polls. 0:08:23.140 --> 0:08:24.050 At a normal hour. 0:08:24.460 --> 0:08:26.730 And then in New York, the main issue has actually 0:08:26.770 --> 0:08:29.730 been in the northern suburbs in Westchester, where there is 0:08:29.770 --> 0:08:32.910 a very high-profile house race taking place there. Mike Lawler 0:08:32.950 --> 0:08:34.770 is trying to keep his seat. This is the one 0:08:34.790 --> 0:08:37.199 you might remember that Speaker Mike Johnson was there this 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.559 past week. Hakeem Jeffries was up there because all eyes 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:41.760 are on this race. They're having a big issue that 0:08:41.780 --> 0:08:43.599 they got there at 6 o'clock this morning and the 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:47.000 machines weren't working. And this was a countywide issue. They've 0:08:47.020 --> 0:08:48.780 been trying to figure out what's going on. It appears 0:08:48.860 --> 0:08:51.020 it might have been a software glitch. But both the 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.429 Democrats and the Republicans have come out and saying they 0:08:53.450 --> 0:08:56.030 don't think there's anything nefarious going on. It just might 0:08:56.050 --> 0:08:58.650 take some more time for the votes to be counted tonight. 0:08:58.929 --> 0:09:01.929 Jared Kofsky, ABC News investigative unit, joining us right now. 0:09:01.950 --> 0:09:04.189 I believe I was seeing a stat that said I 0:09:04.210 --> 0:09:06.650 think it's Louisiana is the only state that doesn't have 0:09:06.670 --> 0:09:09.209 the paper ballot backup. They have a completely digital system. 0:09:09.870 --> 0:09:12.550 a voting process. What happens if you're in Louisiana and 0:09:12.570 --> 0:09:15.530 they have a software hiccup like that? It feels like 0:09:15.570 --> 0:09:16.910 the whole election could be tainted. 0:09:16.690 --> 0:09:17.150 At that point. 0:09:18.410 --> 0:09:20.510 It's a good question. I mean, they do have, I believe, 0:09:20.530 --> 0:09:22.890 some contingency plans in place to try to, you know, 0:09:22.950 --> 0:09:24.510 handle things in certain ways. You know, there are a 0:09:24.550 --> 0:09:27.010 lot of states that aren't big on paper. You know, 0:09:27.050 --> 0:09:29.010 New York is one of those states, for instance, why 0:09:29.030 --> 0:09:30.970 with Westchester being able to do what they're doing, that 0:09:31.210 --> 0:09:33.670 they still use an old-fashioned paper ballot, that if worse 0:09:33.710 --> 0:09:35.750 comes to worse and something happens with the machines that 0:09:35.820 --> 0:09:38.420 ultimately count the vote, They're still able to save those 0:09:38.460 --> 0:09:40.760 paper ballots, and then they can put them in another machine, 0:09:40.860 --> 0:09:42.660 or if worse comes to worse, they can count them 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.960 by hand. But there are other states that, you know, 0:09:44.980 --> 0:09:48.840 do a mostly electronic system, but they do have rehearsals 0:09:48.900 --> 0:09:51.420 in advance, just like, you know, in the TV business 0:09:51.470 --> 0:09:53.770 or the radio business, there are rehearsals for election night. 0:09:54.070 --> 0:09:57.450 Election workers at polling places, they do the exact same thing. 0:09:57.470 --> 0:10:00.240 They're always prepared for any contingency. But the biggest issue 0:10:00.260 --> 0:10:02.460 that they more prepare for now isn't even as much 0:10:02.540 --> 0:10:05.819 issues happening with the actual machines. It's what if something 0:10:05.860 --> 0:10:08.100 goes wrong at their polling place? What if there's someone 0:10:08.140 --> 0:10:11.120 who comes in unexpectedly and won't leave? What if you 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.300 have a threat that gets called in? Fortunately, you know, 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.720 fingers crossed, there hasn't been too much of that reported 0:10:16.740 --> 0:10:18.620 around the country. There were a handful of threats that 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.310 were reported earlier today. that were all found to be, 0:10:21.370 --> 0:10:24.170 you know, unbounded, for lack of better words. But they're 0:10:24.250 --> 0:10:25.689 on guard for any contingencies. 0:10:26.210 --> 0:10:27.850 We know we got a lot of ballots to count 0:10:28.190 --> 0:10:31.130 in California. They do it very slowly, even here in L.A. County. 0:10:31.150 --> 0:10:34.430 And we did just get word across our wires that 0:10:35.190 --> 0:10:38.729 the L.A. County Registrar Recorder's Office is reporting that roughly 0:10:38.730 --> 0:10:42.050 1.9 million ballots have already been cast in today's election. 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.640 including one and a half million vote-by-mail ballots, nearly 400,000 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:50.170 people voting in person. And Dean Logan, the registrar recorder, 0:10:50.230 --> 0:10:54.490 says that represents about 32% of the county's registered voters, 0:10:54.510 --> 0:10:57.710 which is higher than four years ago at this time. 0:10:57.790 --> 0:11:00.050 So we are getting a lot of people out there. Now, 0:11:00.470 --> 0:11:04.970 we are talking right now to ABC News investigative reporter 0:11:05.030 --> 0:11:10.880 Jared Kofsky. He's on Ballot Watch tonight. And we heard 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.860 Governor Newsom expressing concerns that they're going to have monitors out, 0:11:15.260 --> 0:11:19.540 watching the monitors. Are we really hearing any type of 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:23.010 real partisan fighting happening on the ground, or is it 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.350 just kind of people keeping eyes on each other? 0:11:27.740 --> 0:11:29.559 I mean, it was certainly a big talking point, not 0:11:29.580 --> 0:11:32.660 just in ballot watch world, about there being monitors out 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:34.520 for Election Day. And it is true. I mean, the 0:11:34.540 --> 0:11:38.570 DOJ is having monitors out there. They do this every cycle. 0:11:38.610 --> 0:11:40.370 This year, there were just, I think, a lot more 0:11:40.429 --> 0:11:42.730 monitors than in past years. They announced that they're sending 0:11:42.750 --> 0:11:45.750 monitors to... All 50 states, they have more than 1,000 0:11:45.750 --> 0:11:48.760 in all. So far, though, we haven't really seen reports 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.820 of anything going wrong with the monitors, which is kind 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:53.160 of how it's supposed to be. You know, they're kind 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.950 of there to make sure that the polling places are 0:11:56.010 --> 0:11:58.829 in compliance with federal law, with civil rights law, with 0:11:58.850 --> 0:12:01.850 ADA access, with things like that. So in theory, if 0:12:02.050 --> 0:12:04.290 all goes well with the monitors, we're not even really 0:12:04.309 --> 0:12:06.630 supposed to know that they were there. And so even 0:12:06.650 --> 0:12:08.860 though they're found out around the country and there were 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:10.959 a lot of reports of, you know, OK, monitoring the 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.800 monitors to make sure nothing has gone wrong, it seems 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.140 like there hasn't been anything too chaotic that has popped up. But, 0:12:17.179 --> 0:12:18.520 of course, the polls are still going to be open 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.020 for many more hours. It's always possible something could happen, 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:22.479 and we'll let you know if it does. All right. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.490 Jared Kofsky, ABC News investigative unit. Jared, great reporting. 0:12:25.510 --> 0:12:26.590 Thank you, my friend. Thank you. 0:12:26.690 --> 0:12:27.170 Very well done. 0:12:27.190 --> 0:12:27.810 Thank you for having me. 0:12:27.950 --> 0:12:30.010 Yeah. Did you see that poll? It was part of 0:12:30.030 --> 0:12:32.330 the Berkeley poll that we've been talking about. 0:12:32.350 --> 0:12:34.360 This Berkeley poll. The LA Times Berkeley poll. 0:12:34.380 --> 0:12:36.980 Exactly. For like a week, because the mayor's race was close, 0:12:37.059 --> 0:12:39.480 and it showed us the governor's race is opening up, that. 0:12:39.420 --> 0:12:39.720 Kind of thing. 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:44.070 63% from the same poll, 63% of California voters are 0:12:44.110 --> 0:12:46.530 worried that the federal government could try to halt vote 0:12:46.590 --> 0:12:51.310 counting after today. Where does that come from? 0:12:51.350 --> 0:12:52.089 Well, look. 0:12:52.130 --> 0:12:54.650 That comes from the DOJ 20,000 ballots thing, doesn't it? 0:12:55.010 --> 0:12:57.969 I think that you've got people on both sides of 0:12:57.990 --> 0:13:01.290 the spectrum who are very uncomfortable with the state of 0:13:01.330 --> 0:13:04.250 elections in this country. We've talked about this before. One 0:13:04.270 --> 0:13:06.410 side believes there's a lot of illegal voting taking place, 0:13:06.530 --> 0:13:10.000 fraudulent voting taking place. Folks on the other side are 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.240 worried that people, legitimate voters, are losing their access. 0:13:12.900 --> 0:13:13.380 To the polls. 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.300 Through intimidation or, yeah. 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.280 I think in the Trump era, which has been a 0:13:18.300 --> 0:13:21.090 pretty long era at this point. Yeah, it's not two years. 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:21.710 It's really 10 years. 0:13:21.750 --> 0:13:23.670 He's been dominating politics for 10 years. 0:13:23.710 --> 0:13:23.890 Yeah. 0:13:24.670 --> 0:13:28.030 And I think unlike many national leaders in this country 0:13:28.070 --> 0:13:33.390 before him, he does sow discord very openly. It's good 0:13:33.410 --> 0:13:36.199 for business. It's a core part of his belief system 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.020 that elections are rigged, especially when he loses. 0:13:39.380 --> 0:13:39.480 Yeah. 0:13:40.100 --> 0:13:42.420 And let's recall that the last time he lost an 0:13:42.460 --> 0:13:46.640 election in 2020, the supporters stormed the United States Congress. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:48.870 There was an insurrection against him. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.400 Well, hang on. They were basically an organized tourist visit. 0:13:53.610 --> 0:13:56.189 So I'm just saying there is precedent for bad behavior 0:13:56.950 --> 0:13:58.770 in recent history. All of them were pardoned, so I 0:13:58.770 --> 0:14:00.590 don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, there's no record 0:14:00.670 --> 0:14:01.470 at all of that. 0:14:01.630 --> 0:14:03.210 Nope. Didn't happen. 0:14:03.910 --> 0:14:05.730 And I know that burns people's butts to have that 0:14:05.750 --> 0:14:07.240 brought up, but that's the truth. 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.440 49% of California voters said they are not confident the 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:14.550 election will be free from federal interference. I feel like 0:14:14.590 --> 0:14:16.730 that's the paranoia that the left has been sowing. 0:14:17.130 --> 0:14:21.470 I think 49% of L.A. voters... California voters. want that 0:14:21.550 --> 0:14:23.590 horse stuck in the mud until the end of the day. 0:14:23.710 --> 0:14:23.850 Whoa! 0:14:23.870 --> 0:14:25.030 I mean, you're just going to find. 0:14:25.050 --> 0:14:25.410 Whoa! 0:14:25.450 --> 0:14:27.970 You're going to find some people that just aren't pleasant. 0:14:28.050 --> 0:14:30.510 Look, Debra's just a mouth agape over there. I can't 0:14:30.530 --> 0:14:31.340 believe you said that. 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.340 Are you kidding? Debra can't wait to wear that horse. 0:14:33.500 --> 0:14:35.520 He's rooting for the mud, Debra. 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.280 Why are you rooting for the mud? 0:14:37.380 --> 0:14:39.260 I'm not rooting for the mud. I'm just saying that 0:14:39.300 --> 0:14:42.300 in today's politics, there are people who don't care about 0:14:42.340 --> 0:14:44.270 the horse. They want the horse, and I. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:44.760 Debra. 0:14:45.330 --> 0:14:45.910 Yeah, Michael. 0:14:46.030 --> 0:14:47.290 You would wear that horse's hooves. 0:14:47.510 --> 0:14:47.650 No. 0:14:48.730 --> 0:14:51.050 I don't need any gelatin. Thank you very much. 0:14:51.110 --> 0:14:54.230 You would claw down these halls in a moment if 0:14:54.270 --> 0:14:57.150 you could get your greasy hands on that horse's hooves. 0:14:57.170 --> 0:14:59.450 Absolutely not. Didn't you hear what I said? I don't 0:14:59.530 --> 0:15:01.990 eat gelatin. You know why? Why, Michael Monks? 0:15:02.390 --> 0:15:03.110 Why, Debra? 0:15:03.130 --> 0:15:03.730 Why, Debra? 0:15:03.970 --> 0:15:06.310 Because they are made out of horse hooves. 0:15:07.770 --> 0:15:09.250 I saw you last week in a ponytail. 0:15:10.790 --> 0:15:11.960 I don't wear ponytails. 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:13.050 Yeah? 0:15:13.270 --> 0:15:14.550 Well, neither does this horse anymore. 0:15:15.550 --> 0:15:17.630 The horse is still alive. Thank you very much. 0:15:18.170 --> 0:15:21.170 All right. Remember the old days when you'd go to 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:22.780 bed on election night and you would know who won? 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:24.739 Now that'll change in 2000. 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:25.440 I remember it well. 0:15:25.820 --> 0:15:28.160 Now you may go to bed wondering whether we're even 0:15:28.180 --> 0:15:30.460 going to know by the end of the week why 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.640 waiting for accurate results has now become one of the 0:15:32.660 --> 0:15:35.260 biggest threats to trusting the count. That's next. Monks and Merrill. 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.660 KFI AM 640 live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:44.870 You're listening to Monks and Merrill On Demand. From KFI 0:15:45.030 --> 0:15:45.470 AM 640. 0:15:45.470 --> 0:15:50.830 Click the follow button and get the podcast. By the way, tomorrow, 0:15:50.850 --> 0:15:53.990 I think we're going to talk about all the lawsuits tomorrow. 0:15:56.190 --> 0:15:56.930 That's it. 0:15:56.950 --> 0:15:58.430 You just anticipate that they will be filed? 0:15:58.650 --> 0:16:01.730 I do. I do. And I think some will be legitimate. 0:16:02.550 --> 0:16:06.400 But I think most will be just absolute Hail Mary 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:12.420 baloney nonsense. Like the MyPillow guy screaming about Hugo Chavez 0:16:12.460 --> 0:16:16.000 stealing the election eight years after he died. That's how 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.650 nonsensical a lot of this stuff is. I'm just so 0:16:19.690 --> 0:16:21.730 tired of that. I'm so tired of the whole everyone's 0:16:21.770 --> 0:16:24.030 out to get me. Everyone wants to be a victim, 0:16:24.070 --> 0:16:25.950 and the politicians know it, so they scare the hell 0:16:26.010 --> 0:16:26.310 out of you. 0:16:26.390 --> 0:16:33.750 Is it just me, or is all this voting fraud stuff, 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:38.100 for lack of a better term, just a bunch of hype? 0:16:39.020 --> 0:16:39.240 Yeah. 0:16:39.380 --> 0:16:45.640 That's being pulled out of thin air with no sustenance 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:50.560 behind it. Do people not see through the grand scam 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:51.000 of it all? 0:16:52.220 --> 0:16:56.940 Uh, no, no, because I think it reinforces the mindset 0:16:56.980 --> 0:16:58.750 that the other side is out to get me. It's 0:16:58.780 --> 0:16:59.800 the boogeyman stuff, right? 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:04.110 I think it plays into this modern trend that more 0:17:04.130 --> 0:17:07.689 and more Americans are losing trust in basic civic institutions. 0:17:08.380 --> 0:17:10.720 Voter fraud happens. We know that. 0:17:11.220 --> 0:17:11.400 Yeah. 0:17:12.109 --> 0:17:14.730 But not at the scale to where it's a crisis. 0:17:15.570 --> 0:17:19.010 It doesn't overturn the results. 0:17:19.590 --> 0:17:19.750 Right. 0:17:20.780 --> 0:17:21.190 Doesn't matter. 0:17:22.030 --> 0:17:23.800 Doesn't matter all we have to do is say boogeyman 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.179 out to get me and anyone that doesn't agree with 0:17:26.220 --> 0:17:30.760 me and then also it allows me to ignore the 0:17:30.820 --> 0:17:33.419 results of the election you're a college basketball fan you 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.380 ever uh you ever lose a game and you think 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.389 uh you you lose a close game and what do 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.870