brian kemp has spent the last three years working through the toughest situations. i heard you on a segment ask after day one what's purdue's number one campaign strategy and it's for georgia to figure out how good brian kemp's been. we have under 3% unemployment, we've got hate crimes legislation out there. we've got probably the best reaction to covid than any other state out there. we've balanced lives and lively hoods. i think it's a mistake but hopefully brian kemp is going to be strong enough and show up in the general election and beat stacey abrams. >> i've talked to plenty of republicans and even those close to david perdue in and around the runoff, that donald trump successfully divided the party enough that in a close election, you know, you lose a couple thousand voters and he says it's corrupt i'm not voting. that's the difference between winning and losing. >> i spent nine weeks trying to spread the message here trying to say, look, if we don't focus on reminding georgian what we're good at, we're going to lose this runoff. we lost the u.s. senate beca

brian kemp, a job abrams wants. j do you think they snubbed him, welcome. >> well, either wrote a speech for him knows what he's going to say or realizing georgia is not buying what he's selling and trying to avoid him because of his faltering poll numbers here in georgia and across the country. >> sandra: president biden seemed to explain it this morning when he began his travels by saying this, governor. listen. >> i spoke with stacey this morning, we have a great relationship, we have our scheduling mixed up, i talked with her at length this morning. we are all on the same page, and everything is fine. >> sandra: she helped deliver him the state of georgia. i mean -- you look at him sinking in the polls and now stacey abrams won't even show up for him. what does this mean for your chances? >> well, look, we are going to keep running on what we have done in georgia. i was hoping the president and vice president were coming to celebrate the university of georgia winning the national championship or us perhaps havin

. >> reporter: but after cobb county censured republican county brian kemp last year -- >> i think it sends a message we want to follow whoever donald trump wants us to follow. >> reporter: -- quit the party in protest, isn't sure grubs can unite if a candidate who hasn't been endorsed by trump wins the primary. >> the cobb gop has made it hard to go with a straight face and say, we now support brian kemp 110% because he is our nominee. >> reporter: uniting the party may prove challenging across the state. for many gop candidates here, the 2022 message is largely about 2020. >> today we're divided and brian kemp and brad raffensperger are to blame. >> reporter: embrace the election lies and challenge kemp, who certified the 2020 election in the face of trump's f fury. heist makes absurd claims like this one. >> i'm convinced, quite frankly, if martin luther king were alive today he would be on the side of the republicans on this issue. voter integrity matters. >> heist is challenging republican brad rarchs burger for secretary of state. saxby chand liss empathizes with voters swayed b

so brian kemp gets to give out that money. brian kemp would have no money to give out without those democratic successes. and across the country democratic and republican governors have some tools for this huge massive wave. brian kemp and others aren't doing what they need to do and could do much more, but i want folks as we get into the next week and coming months to really think about the hope we have here in georgia and around the country that we can see victories even with these insurmountable challenges -- seemingly insurmountable challenges. >> raphael warnock has become the conscience of the senate on voting rights and voting rights legislation. we now know senator schumer has now been public about it. he was public about it with rachel maddow tonight. he as of tonight only has 48 votes in the senate for the possible rules change that would be necessary on the 60-vote threshold in order to get voting rights through. joe manchin and kyrsten sinema have not come around yet. what could be said to them to make them know wh

brian kemp gets to give out that money but brian kemp would not have money to give out without those democrats successes. and governors have tools for this huge, massive wave that they are able to do. brian kemp and many others are not doing what they need to do and could do much more and our allowing hospitals to close during a pandemic. but i want folks, as we get into next week and the coming months, to really think about the hope that we have here in georgia and around the country, that we can see victories even with these insurmountable challenges, seemingly insurmountable challenges. >> raphael warnock has become the conscience of the senate. voting rights and voting rights legislation. we now know senator schumer has not been public about it -- he was public about it with rachel maddow tonight -- he has of tonight, only 48 votes in the senate for the possible rules change that would be necessary on the 60 vote threshold in order to get voting rights through. joe manchin and kyrsten sinema have not come around as of yet. what could be said to them? to make them understand what

you don't have to be chuck todd to know that this battle between david perdue and brian kemp is a wild card here. what does that look like for republicans as they head into november, what are the ramifications of this, which is clearly going to be a knock-down, drag-out kind of battle? >> what upside is there for republicans? >> it's hard to imagine one. >> does kemp have to win by 40? >> i don't know what it means. i don't think anybody does. i think we're in new territory. when you talk about david perdue and you talk about brian kemp, there's not a lot of difference in terms of how they view issues. the issue is donald trump here, who stands and looms very large here. but look, kemp and perdue, very similar, but different personal styles entirely. >> perdue looks more like the romney wing of the party. anyway. jeff, i'm running late. good to see you. >> always great to see you. >> one of my great colleagues. >>> thank you all for being with us. we'll be back tomorrow with more "meet the press daily." tune in to "meet the press" this sunday. we'll have a conversation with voters and

. >> reporter: but after cobb county censured republican brian kemp last year -- >> i think it sends a message we want to follow whoever donald trump wants us to follow. >> reporter: -- quit the party leadership committee in protest isn't sure grubbs can reunite republicans if a candidate who hasn't been endorsed by trump wins the primary. >> by sensors the cobb gop has made it very hard to go with a straight face and say we now support brian kemp 110% because he is our nominee. >> reporter: uniting the party may prove challenging across the state. for many gop candidates here, the 2022 message is largely about 2020. >> today we're divided and brian kemp and brad raffensperger are to blame. >> reporter: trump convinced david perdue to embrace the election lies who certified the elect in the face of trump's fury. and the former president is backing election denier and congressman jody hice. heist makes absurd claims like this one. >> i'm convinced, quite frankly, if martin luther king were alive today he would be on the side of the republicans on this issue. voter integrity matters. >

kemp's order to do this? >> i believe this is an attempt to keep our schools open for face-to-face instruction, and as educators no one wants to be in the classroom with our students more than us. we have said that all along during the pandemic, but it must be done in a health and safety way, in a healthy and safe way, with a priority on keeping us in the classroom, by keeping us all healthy. as a kindergarten teacher i can tell that you every little bug my students get they share. >> right. >> they share with their classmates, they share with the teachers and we know that's what happens in our buildings. so we have to be extra vigilant in our classrooms and on our buses to try to mitigate the spread of this omicron variant that is so much more infectious. >> and with this new georgia, you know, state order, also what comes with it is the discretion of each school district. they still can independently make some decisions about what they're going to require from teachers regardless of what the order says abou

that is brian kemp. he is literally the most conservative governor in georgia's history and deserves the opportunity to continue to lead us. jake, to that point i think if any republican going forward is going to be taken seriously they have to have either gotten it right out of the gates which is a slim number of republicans or they'll have to be reckoned with the fact of saying in front of a camera i got it wrong and it is time to move on. >> secretary benson, let me ask you about election reform efforts in congress. there are republicans open to overhauling the electoral count act of 1887, which is kind of written sloppily and is the law that trump and his allies were trying to use to convince pence he could overturn the election. i know that is not what democrats want. they want sweeping election reforms. but shouldn't democrats at least try to get this part fixed and work with republicans on that? >> i think there are really three things that we need from the federal government. one is sustained fun

. >> and your rino governor brian kemp who has been a complete disaster. >> reporter: trump also using his endorsement to preserve his own political brand, attempting to stack the party with loyalists even if those candidates come with controversy. in pennsylvania, trump endorsing former army captain sean parnell. >> she's a real hero, a real tough guy, he'll never let you down. >> reporter: parnell went on to suspend his campaign in november after a messy and contentious custody battle. in the georgia senate race, trump endorsing political newcomer herschel walker. >> herschel is not only a georgia hero. he is an american legend. >> reporter: even as the former football star has faced allegations of threatening multiple women over a span of a decade. walker has spoken openly about his violent past but his campaign denied a more recent allegation of threatening behavior from 2012. >> hello, ohio! >> reporter: and in ohio, trump is backing former senior white house adviser max miller for congress even as he faces allegations of abuse from his ex girlfriend, former white house press step

. >> georgia governor brian kemp delivered the 2022 state of the state address from atlanta. he focused on his administration's record on education, support for law enforcement and outline his budget priorities. [applause] [applause] thank you very much thank you all very much. i am still hung up on what gover and president pro tem and speaker pro tem and members of the general assembly members of the judiciary in my fellow georgians three years ago i stood before this body for the first time as your governor i said i know there will be adversity and those who want to terrace down and there will be difficult days and dark nights. but together we will overcome like coach henderson said be do. standing before all of you with my final year in the first term in office i did not know then how true these words would become. andrew the friday night lights of park central high school legendary football close on —- coach was right again. to fight the divisive politics the pandemic, unforeseen challenges and then to prove it could be done. set the lord before me and i shall not be sh

that's according to a letter to school leaders released thursday from governor brian kemp and public health commissioner kathryn toomey. and in new york, 13% of students have tested positive for covid-19, that's according to sample testing by the new york city department of education on thursday. health experts say the u.s. needs to change its covid-19 strategy to face a new normal. >> a new normal is the way we live with flu, we're going to live with the consideration. it's going to be around. people are going to get infected. but hopefully, few people will be hospitalized. and even fewer people will die from it. and we'll be able to go about our lives as we did before. >> reporter: the fda has now amended the emergency use authorization for moderna's covid vaccine, shortening the period of time between initial vaccination and the booster shot to at least five months for those over the age of 18. meanwhile, experts say vaccines need to evolve. >> what we need, first of all, improve on our vaccines and you're going to see a lot of work being done to try to get us what we call the nex

governor brian kemp. >> reporter: attempting to stack the party with loyalists even if those candidates come with controversy. in pennsylvania, trump endorsing former army captain sean parnell. >> he's a real hero, a real tough guy and he'll never let you down. >> reporter: parnell went on to suspend his campaign in november after a messy and contentious custody battle. in the georgia senate race, trump recruiting and endorsing political newcomer herschel walker. >> herschel is not only a georgia hero, he is an american legend. >> reporter: even as the former football star has faced allegations of threatening multiple women over a span of a decade. walker has spoken openly about his violent past, but his campaign denied a more recent allegation of threatening behavior from 2012. >> hello, ohio! >> reporter: and in ohio, trump is backing former senior white house adviser max miller for congress, even as he faces allegations of abuse from his ex-girlfriend former white house press secretary stephanie gersham. he has filed a defamation suit against grisham. >> trump has endorsed those runn

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. >> georgia governor brian kemp delivered the 2022 state of the state address from atlanta. he focused on his administration's record on education, support for law enforcement and outline his budget priorities. [applause] gov. kemp: thank you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you all very much. i'm still hung up on what the speaker said about marnie and the girls. lieutenant governor duncan, speaker austin, president pro tem miller, speaker pro tem jones, members of the general assembly, members of the judiciary, and my fellow georgians, three years ago, when i stood before this body and the people of our state for the first time as your governor, i said, i know there will be adversity. those that want to tear us down. there will be difficult days and dark nights, but together, we will overcome. like coach henderson said, it can be done. standing before all of you today in the final year of my first term in office, i did not know then how true these words would become. just like i saw all those years ago under the friday night lights at clark central high school, legend

governor brian kemp says it's the opposite. >> georgia's elections integrity act makes it easy to vote and hard to cheat >> reporter: last year, president biden told georgia democrats electing two democratic senators would mean a green light for his agenda >> the power is literally in your hands. >> reporter: now the pressure is on from democrats for him to deliver. and after the speech, some of those activists told me they liked what they heard today, but they wanted to hear the president call out the holdouts in his own party lester. >> blayne and peter, thank you. >>> the nation's top officials in the covid battle faced some pretty harsh criticism today over what senators call their confusing and often conflicting guidelines as the country deals with the most aggressive surge yet here's miguel almaguer >> reporter: on the very day covid cases tallied a staggering record high, 1.3 million new infections reported in 24 hours, key members of the white house covid task force are blasted over their handling of the pandemic >> i'm not questioning the science, but i'm questioning your comm

kemp. >> the election was totally rigged. >> reporter: both were being pressured by former president trump to overturn the election results in the state. >> the secretary of state, who is really-- he's an enemy of the people. your governor should be ashamed of himself. >> reporter: according to the indictment, stark posted on craigslist the day before the january 6 attack on the capitol in washington, "georgia patriots, it's time for us to take back our state from these take back our state fro lawless treasonous traitors." referencing another election official he wrote, "we need to put a bullet in her behind the ears." officials are now under much greater threat nationwide, including those who sit on school boards, now regularly threatened over masking. this was apparent last night in virginia: >> no mask mandates. my child, my children will not come to school on monday with a mask on. all right. that's not happening. and i will bring every single gun loaded and ready to-- i will call every-- i'll see y'all on monday. >> reporter: today, attorney general merrick garland issued a warn

kemp. >> the election was totally rigged. >> reporter: both were being pressured by former president trump to overturn the election results in the state. >> the secretary of state, who is really-- he's an enemy of the people. people. your governor should be ashamed of himself. >> reporter: according to the indictment, stark posted on craigslist the day before the january 6 attack on the capitol in washington, "georgia patriots, it's time for us to take back our state from these lawless treasonus traitors." and "we need to put a bullet in here behind the ears." they're under more threat nationwide, including those who sit on school boards, now regularly threatened over masking policies. this was a parent last night in virginia: >> me mask mandates. my child, my children will not come to school on monday with a mask on. all right. that's not happening. and i will bring every single gun loaded and ready to-- i will call every-- i'll see you all on monday. >> reporter: today, attorney general merrick garland issued a warning: >> there is no first amendment right to unlawfully threaten to

kemp on the reality of what the new georgia laws will do. he will react to the speech, president lincoln or jefferson davis, really? clay travis will weigh in on the coaching changes in the nfl, and douglas murray will put life in perspective. from vaccine requirements to a ban on off-campus dining in ivy league schools, universities are making students jump through hoops. what power do they have? our panel shares their concerns, that is in 13 minutes. there will be a quiz on "fox and friends first" first. now pay attention, back to two lovely people. >> todd: thank you. joe concha in new york, i'm sure you are teary eyed very much. they want us to go to news. new york city business owners calling out alvin bragg on his policy. >> carley: cheryl casone joins us live with details. good morning. >> cheryl: i don't have the band this morning, i have this story, a big one. the partnership for new york city will meet with new d.a. alvin bragg after the group was inunidated about his lenient policies against criminals. >> this guy seems like he wa

we depended on brian kemp, dan quayle, mike pence, brad raffensperger. these are the republicans who saved our democracy. and those people, for the most, part are not going to be complacent in 2024. and if you have people who are not willing to abide by the rule of law, what is that going to look like? what if kevin mccarthy is speaker of the house? and bogus competing electors committed? really, how much can lock be determined if you're willing to just use the veneer of law to accomplish political ends? it's a kind of bloodless coup. >> i want to read michael luttig, a very revered figure in concern for the legal figures. he left a job for the private sector. he said this to abc news, had the supreme court refused to decide these issues, which might have been likely, the country and our democracy would've spiraled into a chaos and which neither would have recovered literally jeopardizing our national security. legitimacy of our democracy would've been forever drawn in doubt and lost it could've never been distort. now that you've got the situation in wh

. >> among the speakers today will include two republican governor brian kemp, georgia has been a focus of the struggle over voting rights laws all the way back since 2020 when president biden managed to flip georgia into the democratic column winning the state by just over 11,000 votes. harris, back to you. >> harris: thank you very much. how about the third round of hillary clinton? anyone? multiple reports that the twice-failed presidential candidate has her eyes set on another run. here is former advisor to president bill clinton dick morris on why we could see hillary in 2024. >> a big chance of it. hillary has set up a brilliant, brilliant strategy that nobody else is able to do and knowing people around her i believe there is only one person capable of that level of thinking and that's her husband. she has set up -- [inaudible] she has positioned herself as the democratic alternative to biden. not just to biden, but to the extreme left in the democratic party. >> harris: he is lumping progressives now with biden. that is fascinating. hillary clinton, jimmy failla host of fox acro

>> we know obviously there's people like brad raffensperger, maybe brian kemp. but it also means people like rudy giuliani, also people like mark meadows. these were key players in donald trump's inner circle who were also working any in they could in georgia to try to undercut the election results there, try to find donald trump the votes he needed. of course the question is going to be does anything rise to being an actual criminal offense? buzz this is going to be up comfo uncomfortable not just for the president but those working with him. >>> the january 6th committee reaching deeper into trump's inner circle than ever, asking his number one daughter to talk to him. - wow. - uh-huh. $0 copays on virtual visits for primary care and mental health. take advantage now. wow! nyquil severe gives you powerful relief for your worst cold and flu symptoms, on sunday night and every night. nyquil severe. the nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, best sleep with a cold, medicine. [school bus passing by] [kids laughing] [bikes passing] [fire tru

kemp. so, if that's the way that he's gonna interview in the selections, then i think all bets are off. and all these predictions about how democrats are going to be crushed, that was pre-trump. let's, you know, all bets are off. >> michael, earlier today, i spoke with the republican that trump hates even more than he dislikes mcconnell. congressman adam king singer is on the january six committee. and i asked him about his own place in the party. , watch this. >> i'm going to maintain my republican identity and i've been one since i was six and i'm gonna fight for the soul of the party but yeah, i'm not gonna sit here and say that i'm a member of thblican family. there's a lot of people that are someone that i think agree with me. we just need people to speak out. because i'm gonna tell, you silence is complicity. and silence was a lot of conspiracy to infect this party in a way way worse than we've even see now. >> okay, to me the news there is that he was a member of the republican party

kemp. it's been nearly 14 years since the shelby v. holder decision in the federal government has not had a response so though the president over the course of his administration has signalled support for those legislative items, we cannot go back to our communities and say the president likes the idea but this he's no action, there's no legislation. when they show up to vote they know that there's a governor, there is a georgia general assembly and local boards of election that are taking actions and taking extra steps to ensure that only certain people are able to vote. we've just seen just last week that the governor signed the new, you know, maps after the census was passed or -- or done, and signed into law, gerrymandered maps, and that has impact over the next ten years. no more speeches will have that kind of impact because we have actual law on the local and state levels that's combating our right to vote >> quickly, if you will. what's your biggest fear if this federal legislation

kemp said. and new york doubling national guard deployment to 100 and preparing for 80 guardsmen to undergo emergency medical training next month, according to the governor. with more virus spreading in the country, more than 30 colleges and universities are changing the start of their spring semesters, and more children are getting sick and being hospitalized than at any other point in the pandemic, just as their school will be navigating reopening after the holidays. >> quantitatively, you're having so many more people, including children, who are getting infected. and even though hospitalization among children is much, much lower on a percentage basis than hospitalizations for adults, particularly elderly individuals. however, when you have such a large volume of infections among children, even with a low level of rate of infection, you're going to still see a lot more children who get hospitalized. >> reporter: on a positive note, studies and reports on the omicron variant continue to sugges

we tried so hard with brian kemp to suppress votes. we hurt so many of these black and brown votes, and, yet, they came out, persisted. during a pandemic in record numbers. and gave joe biden the election. black and brown voters, across america, in arizona, in georgia, in the rust belt where apparently the real americans who don't look like me and aieysha because we're not real, authentic, main stream. americans with asterisk on it have to make sure it never happens again. how? suppress black and brown voters especially in states like georgia, arizona, like the rust belt making sure we have white minority rule. the question everyone should ask, 50 republican senators and manchin and sinema, aren't you a senator? for robe but democracy? voter suppression happening in 19 states also affects white voters. real americans. some of your base. why are you against voting rights? it's because game the system, suppress black and brown votes. gerrymandering, disinformation. white minority rule for the next 40 years. >> i wonder, aishya, how you r

kemp. so if that's the way he's going to intervene in these elections, then i think all bets are off. and all these predictions about how democrats are going to get crushed because it always happens, yeah, but that was pretrump. let's -- all bets are off. all bets are off. >> michael, earlier today i spoke with a republican that trump hates even more than he dislikes mcconnell. congressman adam kinzinger, who is on the january 6th committee. i asked him about his own place within the party. watch this. >> i'm going to maintain my republican identity. i'm a republican. i've been one since i was 6 and i'm going to fight for the soul of the party burr i'm not going to sit here and pretend like it certainly feels like a member of a republican family. there's a lot of people that are silent that i think agree with me. we just need people to speak out. silence is complicit and will allow the conspiracy to infect this party in a way way worse than we've seen seen now, which is frightening. >> to m

so georgia governor brian kemp, he activated the georgia national guard to help hospitals with the surge. in what way do you see that making a difference? >> it certainly makes a difference as we off-load some of the strain on our system. we have had quite a bit of absenteeism with our staff with regard to covid positivity and having to isolate or quarantine, which means that even though, on occasion, we have beds, those beds aren't available because we don't have staff for those beds. and so hospitals like every other industry in the united states are also dealing with staffing shortages. so the national guard helps to offset a lot of those tasks that now people can be redeployed to help support our hospital system while we also deal with absenteeism. >> dr. jane morgan, always good to see you. stay well. >> thank you. >>> after years sitting outside a new york museum, the statue of theet door roosevelt was removed over criticism of its racial image. that is next. ♪(music)♪ at aetna® we're shifting medicare coverage into high gear with benefits you may be eligible for when you turn

. >>> georgia's republican governor brian kemp running for re-election against a primary challenger endorsed by former president trump. governor kemp is now pushing to allow people to carry guns in public without a license across the state. it comes just weeks after his opponent, the former senator david perdue promised a similar proposal, greg blue steen, political report for the atlanta journal constitution newspaper what does this mean for the race for the nomination, the republican nomination in the race for governor. >> this would be the most significant expansion in georgia in almost a decade it's meant to energize conservative voters who see this as a top priority and have for a long time. it could backfire and galvanize democrats who are calling for more gun control and not the pendulum to switch the other way. >> where's the majority on this issue overall? >> yeah, recent atlanta journal constitution polls say the broader electorate supports more gun restrictions at the same time, though, conservative voters in georgia favor more gun rights expansion, so this is clearly a play by go

. >> you know, brian kemp is right about one thing. georgia, it is ground zero, but not maybe for the reasons he's talking about. i mean, maybe it was ground zero beginning with this call. do you remember? >> all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. because we won the state. >> every time i hear that number and the precision of the request makes me raise my eyebrow and wonder what's next. the former president's lies about georgia, it didn't stop when the state passed a controversial voting law last year. frankly, it's fueling a wave of new bills and prompting primary challenges for republicans like my next guest, georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, who's new book is called "integrity counts." i love the play on words. i'll dig into that as well, secretary, on that very issue. because, you know, what has been your reaction to this idea that the biden administration, is somehow the one attacking voting rights? as you know, you yourself have been accused of being complicit in t

kemp. today purdue proposed creating an election police unit to enforce election laws, investigate election crimes, and fraud. this follows the lead of florida republican governor ron desantis. i should note the department of justice found no evidence of widespread voter fraud under the trump administration. attorney general bill barr and others. is there a need for an election police unit? >> no. there is not. to your point, jake, this is a solution in search of a problem when in fact what you are seeing, the ability of the american electorate to cast their ballot, that is election suppression. this is clearly trying to intimidate others trying to cast their ballot and there is no reason for it, no basis for it, and it should stop. >> congresswoman, i should note utah, your home state, it is all vote by mail. obviously a very republican state. >> yes. >> so why are so many republicans in other states unwilling to make it so easy to vote? doesn't seem to have had any effect on -- i wouldn't

>> we know obviously there's people like brad raffensperger, maybe brian kemp. but it also means people like rudy giuliani, also people like mark meadows. these were key players in donald trump's inner circle who were also working any in they could in georgia to try to undercut the election results there, try to find donald trump the votes he needed. of course the question is going to be does anything rise to being an actual criminal offense? buzz this is going to be up uncomfortable not just for the president but those working with him. >>> the january 6th committee reaching deeper into trump's inner circle than ever, asking his number one daughter to talk to them. they say they have first-hand testimony about what ivanka trump did on january 6th. an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan from unitedhealthcare. medicare supplement plans help by paying some of what medicare doesn't... and let you see any doctor. any specialist. anywhere in the u.s. who accepts medicare patients. so if you have this... consider adding this. call unitedhealthcare today for your f

kemp said. and new york doubling its national guard deployment to 100 and preparing for 80 guardsmen to undergo emergency medical training next month. with more virus spreading in the country, more than 30 colleges and universities are changing the start of their spring semesters and more children are getting sick and hospitalized at any other point in the pandemic just as school will be navigating reopening after the holidays. >> quantitatively, you're having so many more people, including children, who are getting infected. and even though hospitalization among children is much, much lower on a percentage basis than hospitalizations for adults, particularly elderly individuals. however, when you have such a large volume of infections among children, even with a low level of rate of infection, you're going to still see a lot more children who get hospitalized. >> reporter: on a positive note, studies and reports on the omicron variant continue to suggest it may not be as lethal as delta, even a

you'll also remember georgia governor, brian kemp, found himself in the trump doghouse for certifying the results of the 2020 election. and of course now he faces a tough primary challenge from former senator david perdue who as you can imagine secured trump's endorsement for his willingness to spout nonsense and lies about the election in georgia. now, on top of all of that a popular conspiracy theory about supposed vulnerabilitiess to georgia's voting machines has continued to live on. u.s. district judge amy totalenbering is now reviewing a report by an election security expert that details how georgia's electronic voting system could be manipulated and votes could be changed. to be clear this report concludes there's no evidence that happened in 2020, none. but the constant drum beat of a supposedly stolen election is already having real consequences. new polling finds only 25% of georgia voters are very confident that the result of the 2022 mid-term elections will be accurate. think about that for a second. let that sink in. 75% of georgians regardless of political party aren't s

. >> you know, brian kemp is right about one thing. georgia, it is ground zero, but not maybe for the reasons he's talking about. it started not with today's visit. maybe it was ground zero beginning with this call. do you remember? >> all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. because we won the state. >> every time i hear that number and the precision of the request makes me raise my eyebrow and wonder what's next. the former president's lies about georgia, it didn't stop when the state passed a controversial voting law last year. frankly, it's fueling a wave of new bills and prompting primary challenges for republicans like my next guest, georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, whose new book is called "integrity counts." thank you for being with me tonight. i see your book there. i love the play on words. i'll dig into that as well, secretary, on that very issue. because, you know, what has been your reaction to this idea that the biden administration is somehow the one attack

you saw in georgia when raffensperger and brian kemp basically refused to been to trump's though, how they have become -- so that raffensperger lost the new law legislation here has removed his power on the state election brd. saw there were billboards defining cap and raffensperger as enemies, as enemies of democracy. because they did not abide by trump's will. at is whee are right now. we have a party that is loyal to a man and not loyal to the country. not loyal to american democracy. not loyal to the united states of america. amy: finally, would you call president trump racist? would you call the voter suppression laws that are being enacted around the country straightforward racist? >> trump is racist. trump gained his political power on birth tourism, which was denying the legitimacy of barack obama, a black man. and the laws that are being passed, they are as subtle and as vicious as the jim crow laws at came up in the 1890's and early 20th century. they don't say we don't want black folks to vote, but the laws are written in the way they use the socioeconomic characteristics o

i'll predict that against both in the republican primary and stacey abrams in georgia, that brian kemp will be re-elected governor of georgia and that will make him an even more prominent figure in the republican party. >> the primary and the general? >> he will win both the primary and the general, and kevin mccarthy will be the speaker of the house a year from now. >> that's a hot prediction. >> all of these political predictions. so many caveats. i also predict that after this surge, we're going to see the end of this pandemic by the end of the summer. i really do. >> that's so optimistic. >> i get the sense that the american people understand that this is time to get fully vaccinated, and to mask up so that eck with get through this. >> we have a few seconds left. i'm going to throw something out there about 2024. what are the chances you give just a number that it'll be a rematch between donald trump and joe biden? >> 50%. >> up. up. i'm at 80%. >> i believe 100% that trump is running again. i don't know what biden is doing yet. >> the matchup is the question? 30%. >>> we'll be ri

. >> your rino governor brian kemp who has been a complete disaster on election integrity. >> reporter: will those attacks on the republican governor divide the republican base and give democrats an advantage in the gubernatorial race and will trump supporters stay home because they don't trust the election system? these are counties we know republicans will hold, but in swing states it's all about the margins. >> reporter: so in 2022 i will be watching for the undecided voters in washel county. now, a third of all voters are no longer registered as democrats or republicans. >> many of the voters in anson tell us that they feel voiceless, shut out of the political process so we will be on the ground talking to voters about what needs to change. voters are reporting a sense of apathy, a lot of fear. >> in 2022 i'm watching to see whether democrats can win back the blue dog voters they lost to donald trump in 2016 and 2020. i'm in luzerne county, pennsylvania, which was one a democratic stronghold but trump flipped the county by double digits. the blue collar workers are getting hit by h

kemp. now, i told you that we could never say enough that all of this is based on false claims of election fraud, there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud, not in these three states or any of the other states for that matter, but, again, this is the candidate that is being en enforce -- endorsed by the former president. he has put out statements essentially saying if he is elected as being the governor of georgia that he will put this into place to make sure all georgians can have confidence in the election system. this is really a continuation of 2020. this goes back to the president putting his -- aiming his ire essentially at the republican governor and the secretary of state, both of them were refusing to overturn the election results here in georgia. now, i've reached out to the secretary of state's office, brad raffensperger's office, they've said they are not commenting on this at all, but it is important to note that this is what so many voting rights advocates are concerned a

kemp within an hour. it disallows line warming. food and water. and taking power from the board of elections. in regards to absentee and early voting, the earliest the voter can request a ballot 11 weeks less than half the time. and the deadline for the ballots moved up as well, requesting and returning ballots requires identification such as driver's license, state i.d. number or copy of an acceptable voter i.d. the restrictions on absentee voting, wynn said, are particularly concerning given that asian-americans vote by mail at the highest rail compared to all other racial groups in the general election. voting data from november showed that in 13 of the most contested battleground states, including georgia, aapi early and absentee voting rose almost 300% from 2016 to 2020. and further pointed out that any laws that make up voting-- make vet voting more challenging, on those limited english proficient or have difficulty communicating in english. the asian-american population has some of the highest rate

kemp, both in the primary and we will have to see what he does in the general. there are races all over the country. arizona, nevada, you got both parties covered. there are a lot of vulnerable seats potentially on both parties but it really comes down, as it usually does, to six, seven, eight seats. >> and it's only a third of the senate so that could make the turnout dynamics quirky as well. what about build back better, what legislative pieces should we be watching for a slimmed-down version there or nothing? >> well, it had better be nothing for them i'm not saying build back better is the key to the election, but i have rarely seen a party do a poorer job in selling what they've actually passed. almost nobody knows the pieces even of the covid relief bill last spring. not to mention the infrastructure bill, which has some meaty projects in it that democrats can be selling and then there are pieces of build back better that could be passed as individual chunks. the whole thing as one big package, that's gone but individual pieces, yes, i think it could go th

kemp said. and new york doubling its national guard deployment to 100 and preparing for 80 guardsmen to undergo emergency medical training next month, with more virus spreading in the country more than 30 colleges and universities are changing the start of their spring semesters. and more children are getting sick and being hospitalized than at any other point in the pandemic, just as schools will be navigating reopening after the holidays. >> quantitatively you're having so many more people, including children who are getting infected. and even though hospitalization among children is much, much lower on a percentage basis than hospitalizations for adults, particularly elderly individuals. however, when you have such a large volume of infections among children, even with a low level of rate of infection, you're going to still see a lot more children who get hospitalized. >> reporter: on a positive note, studies and reports on the omicron variant continue to suggest it may not be as lethal as de

i'll predict that against both in the republican primary and stacey abrams in georgia, that brian kemp will be re-elected governor of georgia and that will make him an even more prominent figure in the republican party. >> the primary and the general?r and the general, andevin the house a yearediction. >> pric so many caveats. i also predict that after this surge, we're going to see the end of this pandemic by the end of the summer. i really do. >> that's so optimistic. >> i get the sense that the american people understand that this is time to get fully vaccinated, and to mask up so that eck with get through this. >> we have a few seconds left. i'm going to throw something out there about 2024. what are the chances you give just a number that it'll be a rematch between donald trump and joe biden? >> 50%. >> up. up. i'm at 80%. >> i believe 100% that trump is running again. i don't know what biden is doing yet. >> the matchup is the question? 30%. >>> we'll be right back. >>> that is all for us today. thank you for sharing part of your sunday with us. we will have special coverage of t

and this is why i'm so worried about 2024, because, you know, we depended on brian kemp, dan quayle, mike pence, brad raffensperger. these are the republicans who saved our democracy, and those people for the most part are not going to be in place in 2024. if you have people who are not willing to abide by the rule of law, i mean, what is that going to look like? what if kevin mccarthy is speaker of the house? and bogus competing slates of electors come in? you know, it really -- how much can law be a deterrent if you're willing to just use the veneer of law to accomplish political ends, the kind of bloodless coup. >> i want to read michael luding, who is a very revered figure in conservative legal circles and was a federal judge and left that job for the private sector. said this to abc news, had the supreme court refused to decide these issues as i think might have been likely, the country and our democracy would have spiraled into a chaos and neither would have soon recovered. literally jeopardizing our national security. legitimacy of our democracy would forever be thrown into do

kemp. and yet there is a donald trump candidate, david perdue, who is primarying kemp. is that something you focus on at all do you enjoy the fact that there are two candidates who are going to eventually face off, one of them is going to face off with you, sort of slinging mud at one another right now? >> there is a proverb that i have completely appropriated and twisted a little bit, and it i'm focusing on georgia. i will let them do what they want my job is to fight for the future of georgians. >> seth: a lot of focus has been on senator joe manchin from west virginia and the power he sort of holds over the democratic caucus right now. do you feel like that has sort of fogged over the fact that georgia won these two runoff elections, and democrats could be in a far worse place right now than just having joe manchin as a tipping point >> we have to remember that america would be in a far worse and warnock; that because of them, we have seen child poverty cut in half; because of their two

you'll also remember georgia governor, brian kemp, found himself in the trump doghouse for certifying the results of the 2020 election. and of course now he faces a tough primary challenge from former senator david perdue who as you can imagine secured trump's endorsement for his willingness to spout nonsense and lies about the election in georgia. now, on top of all of that a popular conspiracy theory about supposed vulnerabilities to georgia's voting machines has continued to live on. u.s. district judge amy toltenberg is now reviewing a report by an election security expert that details how georgia's electronic voting system could be manipulated and votes could be changed. to be clear this report concludes there's no evidence that happened in 2020, none. but the constant drum beat of a supposedly stolen election is already having real consequences. new polling finds only 25% of georgia voters are very confident that the result of the 2022 mid-term elections will be accurate. think about that for a second. let that sink in. 75% of georgians regardless of political party aren't sure

kemp for governor again, but she says, one, they are not able to outorganize what she calls bad policy and bad laws. this is going to be the first statewide election that we've seen since georgia's new law has gone into effect. republicans passed it after 2020 saying that it made elections more secure but of course democrats say that it amounts to nothing short of voter suppression. she says they're not going to be able to outorganize that and that could make a big impact when it comes to the midterms. the other thing is that she says they need to see a return on their investment in order to encourage people to come out and vote again. she says they will have a difficult time making that case for people coming out of their homes, perhaps going against inconveniences to turn out to the polls in the numbers that they did two years ago, unless there is something to show for it, stephanie. >> latosha, republicans over the last few months are issuing primary challenges to governors, running for election boards, fighting on the local level and they are winning. do democrats need to change th