Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central YEW Donald Joe Biden beat
Speaker 1: my ass. Trump.
Speaker 2: None of his legal efforts to undo the election have
Speaker 2: been working, so now he's trying a different approach. You
Speaker 2: might remember that yesterday two Republican election officials in Michigan
Speaker 2: tried to throw out votes from the entire city of
Speaker 2: Detroit and then they had to be shamed into backing down. Well,
Speaker 2: it turns out that wasn't the end of the story.
Speaker 3: Breaking over an i T Republican election officials in Michigan
Speaker 3: have changed their minds again. First they refused to certify
Speaker 3: the election results in Wayne County, then they agreed to
Speaker 3: certify them, but now they're trying to rescind that decision
Speaker 3: despite a lack of evidence.
Speaker 4: And we are now learning that President Donald Trump actually
Speaker 4: called both of them following that controversial meeting.
Speaker 5: Trump's campaign has long been pressuring Georgia Republican Secretary State
Speaker 5: Brad Raffensberger. Anytime that Trump targets a person publicly, they
Speaker 5: get death threats and they have to get security. Raffensberger
Speaker 5: and his wife have received death threats in recent days,
Speaker 5: including a text to him that read, you better not
Speaker 5: botch this recount. Your life depends on it. Arizona Democratic
Speaker 5: Secretary of State Katie obs So, she too has faced
Speaker 5: ongoing and escalating threats of violence. This video shows a
Speaker 5: group of apparent Trump supporters outside Hobbs House at night, chanting.
Speaker 6: Quote, we are watching you.
Speaker 2: That's right, people, Donald Trump, president of the United States,
Speaker 2: is working to overturn the election. And people, can we
Speaker 2: agree this is not normal seeing Donald Trump work. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's not normal, but it's happening. Trump is personally listen
Speaker 2: to this. Trump is personally calling election officials and targeting
Speaker 2: them in public, hoping to pressure them into overturning the election.
Speaker 1: Results, which I don't care who you are.
Speaker 2: Is deeply disturbing because before now he was at least
Speaker 2: pursuing his claims through the courts.
Speaker 1: Ye fun, but it was legal, you know.
Speaker 2: It's the difference between camping on a spawn point and
Speaker 2: call of duty and smashing the control on your brother's head.
Speaker 1: One is bad sportsmanship, the other is assault.
Speaker 2: And the president's supporters aren't even sending anonymous death threats,
Speaker 2: which makes sense in a way because Trump himself wouldn't
Speaker 2: be able to threaten anyone anonymously.
Speaker 1: You know, he'd blow his cover right away.
Speaker 2: If you don't overturn the results, you're gonna be in
Speaker 2: big trouble.
Speaker 1: Tremendous trouble. People tell me all the time. Wow, what
Speaker 1: tremendous trouble he's in, mister President. I know that's you. No,
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not me, it's Binald.
Speaker 2: But this shows you that there's no winning when it
Speaker 2: comes to Donald Trump. If he doesn't like you, you get
Speaker 2: death threats. If he does like you, well, then he
Speaker 2: gives you COVID. And while the President's team is still
Speaker 2: fighting the election in court, it's become clear that even
Speaker 2: that strategy isn't really just about pursuing legal options.
Speaker 7: The Washington Posts by cost the reports that Giuliani's team
Speaker 7: knows the President can't win and instead are trying to
Speaker 7: make sure the vote is not certified. Quote their endgame
Speaker 7: to try to force it to the House.
Speaker 8: There's a legal game that they're playing. If they can
Speaker 8: tie this up in court, if they can create enough doubt,
Speaker 8: then they are hoping that the States just won't certify
Speaker 8: the election. And if the States don't certify these elections,
Speaker 8: it goes to the House of Representatives, where Donald Trump
Speaker 8: has a very good chance of being named president of
Speaker 8: the United States. So there's a legal trick that they're
Speaker 8: trying to pull here. Throw enough garbage in everybody's face
Speaker 8: that maybe these elections don't get certified, he can steal
Speaker 8: it in the House.
Speaker 2: Just to be clear, Trump's lawyers are now reportedly telling
Speaker 2: people that they don't need to win in court, they
Speaker 2: just need to create a situation that is so messy
Speaker 2: Republican legislatures will step in and overturn people's votes. And again,
Speaker 2: forgive me here, but it's so astounding to me that
Speaker 2: America's laws can even allow this kind of thing to happen.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's all these safeguards, double checks, protections for
Speaker 2: every single vote. But then if the legislature is a
Speaker 2: different party than the winner, they can just be like, nah.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna pick our guy instead. That is wild.
Speaker 2: It's like if you set up two factor authentication for
Speaker 2: all your accounts, but then you give your phones to
Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin for safe keeping.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't worry, and make sure that you don't have
Speaker 1: too many porn hubber.
Speaker 2: Count And look, it's extremely unlikely that any of this
Speaker 2: will work. Although a lot of extremely unlikely things have
Speaker 2: happened recently. I mean, if you had told me two
Speaker 2: years ago that the next Wonder Woman movie would be
Speaker 2: going straight to HBO Max, I would have said, what's
Speaker 2: HBO Max? Actually, I'm still saying that what is HBO
Speaker 2: Max like? Is that the same as HBO go? Or
Speaker 2: is that HBO now? Or is it like both of them?
Speaker 1: Like? Do I have it? Am I on it?
Speaker 2: But on the other hand, what might save America from
Speaker 2: Donald Trump tru trying to overthrow the government is that
Speaker 2: it's Donald Trump trying to overthrow the governments. Off the
Speaker 2: two years of votes, of fraud, accusations, and capital riots,
Speaker 2: it is no surprise that Americans have become less confidence
Speaker 2: in their elections. But as Desilidik discovers in her new series,
Speaker 2: America's election infrastructure maybe in even worse shape than you think.
Speaker 4: Hello again, I'm Desi Lidik. When I first started this
Speaker 4: series on our election infrastructure, I was just hoping to
Speaker 4: boost my brand enough to ditch this job and get
Speaker 4: on sixty minutes. But over the last two installments, I've
Speaker 4: learned that our country is on the terrifying brink of
Speaker 4: election catastrophe and that sixty minutes is looking for more
Speaker 4: of a Hoda Cotby type. I mean, what the hell,
Speaker 4: I can go Brenette if that's what it takes. I
Speaker 4: don't mind anyway. Here's our final look at bodemic twenty
Speaker 4: twenty two, our crumbling election infrastructure.
Speaker 9: Who cares? Just roll it.
Speaker 4: Well, America. We did it, election accomplished. Despite a mirraaud
Speaker 4: of election problems, including a paper shortage and a lack
Speaker 4: of poll workers, we successfully pulled off an election thanks
Speaker 4: to my reporting. So I'm back with Tammy a Democracy
Speaker 4: Fund Tammy. Break time's over. We gotta talk to debrief
Speaker 4: and collect my well earned thank yous thanks to your
Speaker 4: work and also my reporting. Things are great, right.
Speaker 10: It did go mostly really well. We had a couple
Speaker 10: of hiccups around the country, but in general it did
Speaker 10: go fairly well. So we should take a moment and
Speaker 10: celebrate that.
Speaker 4: Tammy, I would love to bask with you. Let's bask. God,
Speaker 4: it feels good to bask.
Speaker 10: It's great to bask in the glory of competence and
Speaker 10: a well executed election. But we do still have challenges
Speaker 10: moving forward.
Speaker 7: Damn it, dammy.
Speaker 10: Since the twenty twenty election, election officials have been under attack.
Speaker 10: We know from a recent survey that one in four
Speaker 10: of election officials in this country have experienced threats of
Speaker 10: harassment and abuse. So they're going to be leaving the
Speaker 10: field unfortunately in large numbers.
Speaker 4: How many people are getting harassed? Are we talking like
Speaker 4: a handful or like a shit ton?
Speaker 10: Unfortunately? I think it's closer to the shit ton.
Speaker 4: You heard Tammy's filthy mouth a shit ton in These
Speaker 4: threats from disgruntled election deniers range from local officials to
Speaker 4: secretaries of state.
Speaker 7: And Arizona elections official was moved to an undisclosed location
Speaker 7: because of threats to his life.
Speaker 2: In Milwaukee, elections executive director Claire Woodhall Vogue has been
Speaker 2: bombarded by Nate.
Speaker 4: In Georgia, Secretary of State Brat Raffinsberger, his wife has
Speaker 4: gotten a barrage of threatening text messages. If you had
Speaker 4: to put your finger on it, what or who is
Speaker 4: responsible for this?
Speaker 10: Starting the twenty sixteen election, we had prominent candidates for
Speaker 10: the presidential office Trump who were running saying that the
Speaker 10: elections were rigged, that there was rampant fraud, that in
Speaker 10: fact it was illegitimate Donald jam and that carried into
Speaker 10: twenty twenty as well from Trump. So that has created
Speaker 10: an environment that has provided both incentive as well as
Speaker 10: support for people to target election officials. Oh okay, so Trump,
Speaker 10: But one of the things you might want to think
Speaker 10: about is in fact talking to somebody who was a
Speaker 10: local election official in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, and someone should go do that. Couldn't agree more.
Speaker 4: Someone should definitely go talk to an election official. Oh
Speaker 4: did this twice before? I did again go after being
Speaker 4: bullied by Tammy to meet with the harassed election official.
Speaker 4: I'm at City Hall in Philadelphia to speak with Al Schmidt,
Speaker 4: former Philadelphia City commissioner and Trump's biggest target during the
Speaker 4: twenty twenty election.
Speaker 6: Philadelphia. The city commissioners are responsible for running anything election related,
Speaker 6: from voter registration to mail in ballots, to election day
Speaker 6: operations to the final tabulation and certification of the election results.
Speaker 6: I mean, election administrators are really referees in all of this.
Speaker 4: Is it hard to be a referee in Philadelphia? Given
Speaker 4: Eagles fans?
Speaker 6: It certainly can be challenging, But we have the best
Speaker 6: fans in the country.
Speaker 4: Can you give some examples of the type of harassment
Speaker 4: that you received?
Speaker 6: Well, the threats were pretty general in nature leading up
Speaker 6: to election day, but in the days that followed, especially
Speaker 6: after the former president targeted to me by name on Twitter,
Speaker 6: that's when the threats became much more specific and much
Speaker 6: more graphic, and we're largely targeting my family.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, that must have been terrifying.
Speaker 6: I fortunately have the Philadelphia Police Department looking after my
Speaker 6: family sort of night and day, so walking the dog,
Speaker 6: going to the grocery store. You know, when I took
Speaker 6: the kids sledding, the Philadelphia Police Department was right there
Speaker 6: alongside of us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, totally get it. I'm in the same boat.
Speaker 4: The police follow my family and I around at all
Speaker 4: times for different reasons. Is there accountability for people who
Speaker 4: harass election workers?
Speaker 6: I think there's really two types of accountability that are needed.
Speaker 6: One is for people who are making threats of violence
Speaker 6: and clearly breaking the law trying to coerce the people
Speaker 6: responsible for accounting voters votes. And also a different sort
Speaker 6: of accountability for elected officials who are spreading these lies
Speaker 6: that I would hope that voters hold them accountable.
Speaker 4: Harassers aside, how do you make amends with election deniers?
Speaker 4: You know, water under the bridge excuse me, water under
Speaker 4: the bridge.
Speaker 6: I've really gone out of my way to make sure
Speaker 6: that I go to political meetings and answer questions that
Speaker 6: people have. And the most reason when I went to
Speaker 6: there's an older gentleman in the back who leaned back
Speaker 6: and said, forget about the facts for a moment.
Speaker 1: Biden lost like that.
Speaker 6: Makes it a real challenge to convince someone when their
Speaker 6: belief system is completely independent of facts.
Speaker 4: And as an election official, you could take away that
Speaker 4: guy's vote.
Speaker 6: Right, I want him to vote, and I want him
Speaker 6: to vote in every election.
Speaker 4: Do you though, do you really?
Speaker 7: I do?
Speaker 4: Do you really?
Speaker 6: I do?
Speaker 4: Do you though?
Speaker 6: Most certainly every election.
Speaker 4: Damn, this guy was good, But with all the harassment
Speaker 4: civil servants like him are facing, I was beginning to
Speaker 4: worry that there was no way I could end this
Speaker 4: story on a positive note.
Speaker 1: I think it's a.
Speaker 6: Very encouraging sign that we had more people step up
Speaker 6: to volunteer to work on election day in the midterms
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty two than ever before.
Speaker 4: Great, great, so it's fixed.
Speaker 2: I did it.
Speaker 4: I mean we did it. So there you have in America.
Speaker 4: Despite the problems we faced during twenty twenty two, thanks
Speaker 4: to al and election workers across the country. There's still
Speaker 4: hope that twenty twenty four won't be a complete shit show.
Speaker 4: Because I can't do another one of these.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 11: My guest tonight is the senior Senator from South Carolina
Speaker 11: with whom I served in the United States Senate. Please
Speaker 11: welcome Senator Lindsey Graham. Well, well, thanks for coming, man.
Speaker 9: This is what happens, right.
Speaker 11: I'm hopeful we'll find some common ground.
Speaker 9: There's always hope.
Speaker 11: And okay, let's talk about You said this week that
Speaker 11: these charges or this charges in New York might actually
Speaker 11: help Trump. What do you mean by that?
Speaker 12: I think, well, the Republicans who will help Trump because
Speaker 12: the Saris Fnce was the previous prosecutor. He looked at
Speaker 12: this and said no thank you. That just attorney looked
Speaker 12: at it and said no thank you. And this guy
Speaker 12: comes along, Avon Bragg, and he's now going to prosecute
Speaker 12: Trump taking a mismeanor to a felony by merging two
Speaker 12: statutes that have never been used before. It's in New York,
Speaker 12: and most people on our side think it's a never
Speaker 12: ending effort to take a wrecking ball to Trump. So yeah,
Speaker 12: I think it'll help him.
Speaker 11: Okay, Well, let's take another state where there might be
Speaker 11: a wrecking ball coming from him, and that's in Georgia.
Speaker 12: Yeah, there's Georgia.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I don't know what's going to happen there.
Speaker 11: No, you testified there.
Speaker 9: I was treated will So.
Speaker 11: You know, I wanted to tell you I didn't do this.
Speaker 11: I want to say, like lindsay, because at first you
Speaker 11: fought testifying, I said, just go there, tell the truth.
Speaker 11: You have nothing to worry about. Yeah, okay, because he
Speaker 11: had talked to Raffinsburger. And part of it, you know,
Speaker 11: part of this is he talked to Raffensburger on tape.
Speaker 11: We've all heard the tape, and he said, all I
Speaker 11: need is eleven thousand, seven hundred and eighty votes, one
Speaker 11: more than we have, is what he said. And then
Speaker 11: later in the thing said you better do this. You
Speaker 11: could get in trouble. You and your lawyer could get
Speaker 11: in trouble. Now that that's pretty bad.
Speaker 12: Why don't we wait till it comes out. See what
Speaker 12: miss Willis does with the grand jury testimony. If she
Speaker 12: chooses to indict him, and based on what she says,
Speaker 12: I'll respond. But New York is the one in front
Speaker 12: of us, and we'll deal with that one.
Speaker 11: We don't even know that because Trump said it, and
Speaker 11: it may not be true.
Speaker 9: Anything's possible, anything's possible.
Speaker 11: But you're right, I mean, okay, let's talk about this.
Speaker 11: Because Trump, in that tape I remember, said to Raevelisberg,
Speaker 11: I won Georgia by over four hundred thousand votes. Now
Speaker 11: you know he won the election. He lost the election.
Speaker 11: You know he lost the election.
Speaker 12: I've voted to certify the Georgia election. Provide yes, I did.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you voted to certify. I did, because you have
Speaker 11: been crazy not to.
Speaker 12: I mean that that mean I can't be in the Senate.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Republican colleges who did not vote to certify. You
Speaker 11: know this election wasn't stolen. You know that Trump lost
Speaker 11: the election.
Speaker 12: When I see by and I call him mister president.
Speaker 11: But that's different. That's different than acknowledging.
Speaker 12: Well, they voted on the floor of the Senate to
Speaker 12: certify the results of the twenty twenty election. And here's
Speaker 12: the question for you and maybe others. Trump's trying to
Speaker 12: come back. I think he's got a better than good
Speaker 12: chance of winning the primary, and a fifty to fifty
Speaker 12: chance of being president again.
Speaker 9: And you got to ask yourself, Now, this is what
Speaker 9: we all came your part, right, so you got to
Speaker 9: ask yourself, how can that be?
Speaker 1: Well? Yes, but.
Speaker 11: Here's what I Here's what I know about this country,
Speaker 11: about this democracy, about our constitution. The number one tradition
Speaker 11: that's meaningful in this country is the peaceful transition of power. Right,
Speaker 11: you voted to certify. From everything that's come out, we
Speaker 11: know that Lindsay Powell was lying, Sydney, sorry, Sidney Powell.
Speaker 11: Giuliani was lying that he was told over and over
Speaker 11: again by his anyone who had any credibility he lost,
Speaker 11: that there was no Bill Barry, everybody everybody. How then
Speaker 11: can you want a guy who allowed us to go
Speaker 11: through this violent insurrection.
Speaker 12: Right really to be president again?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, Well, let.
Speaker 9: Me just say this.
Speaker 12: The other side of the story is that when President
Speaker 12: Trump was president, on the things that I care the
Speaker 12: most about, national security, I thought he did damn good job.
Speaker 12: He got the Abraham Accords, which is probably the biggest
Speaker 12: change in my lifetime in the Mid East, where air
Speaker 12: nations recognize Israel and we're trying to work on Saudi
Speaker 12: Arabia on the Bidens Watch he kills Solamoni, who's the
Speaker 12: guy should have been killed a long time ago. He
Speaker 12: secured our border, he made us energy independence. I look
Speaker 12: at the policies of Trump, and I like the policies
Speaker 12: of Trump. And at the end of the day, he's
Speaker 12: got to prove to people, not me, that he's able
Speaker 12: to lead us again. And that will be a challenge
Speaker 12: for him, and that'll be a challenge for Biden to say,
Speaker 12: give me four more years after the last four. We'll
Speaker 12: see what happens.
Speaker 11: Well, I think Biden wins that, but we don't have
Speaker 11: to say it. We bet yeah, how much twenty bucks?
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