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Speaker 1: And now, for a moment of clarity, you have evidence

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that this is more than just an ordinary criminal investigation

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by the fact that the president says that he wants

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to nationalize the elections, that he believes falsely, that he

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says falsely that the ballots have been falsely counted in Georgia.

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Before that, Tulca Gabbard, the head of d and I,

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which ordinately has no domestic law enforcement authority, is involved here.

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And then there's some allegations that information is being released

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from the investigation telling Fulton County officials that they're going

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to be arrested. Now, all of that suggests that this

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is a political operation.

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Speaker 2: It is a political operation. This is all this is.

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This isn't about the fact that some states have decided

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to go rogue in their voting and their process of

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voting and the idea that citizens can trust the ballots

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in that state and the federal government, which would then

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have a legitimate question about, okay, so what are you doing?

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But they're the pro and commissioner. That's the rub that

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you're going to run into if you're successful in becoming

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the one who's in charge of and looking after the

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vote in the state. Of Georgia and understanding exactly what's required.

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When you have the President of the United States tell

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us that we should lock down and control Republicans should

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control fifteen states, all democratic states, democratically run with democratic

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leadership across the state. When you have Steve Bannon saying that, oh,

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we're going to just we're going to surround the polls

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with ice agents, my question is what polls are you

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talking about, Stevie. Are you talking about oh, I don't know,

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polls in your backyard. Are you talking about poles in

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black and brown communities? Are you talking about polls here

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in Maryland and Prince George's county, largest black county in

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the state of Maryland, you're talking about putting poles there?

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Or you're talking about putting poles in Mike Johnson's district

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where he has to go. Mister Johnson, Speaker Johnson, are

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you ready to have ice agents at your posts? Oh?

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I'm sorry, Oh my bad. Your district is majority white,

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not the balls Michael Steele. Oh that's right. You won't

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have that problem now, will you, sir. But you oversee

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the house and can do something about it. But you

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won't because you're scared you're scared of Steve Bannon, you're

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scared of Donald Trump, and I've heard you over the

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last few days helping to hebb of the hubb the

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line through your teeth. That's the problem that you're going

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to have, Commissioner, when you take control a federal government

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that doesn't give a damn about your sovereignty as a state,

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doesn't give a damn about your process. So how do

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you What are you saying to the people that you're

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hoping to let you elect you that you're going to

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go and be able to protect their most precious asset,

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and that is the vote.

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Speaker 3: Well, listen, one of the things that you said, you know,

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you talked about him going after blue states, but we're

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a swing state and right now our state legislature is

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controlled by Republicans and our state Elections Board is controlled

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by MAGA.

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Speaker 1: Catch Michael Steele on the weeknight Monday through Friday at

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seven pm Eastern on ms NOW