but -- because we have a big issue with dominion ain other states and perhaps in yours. but we haven't felt we needed to go there. and just to, you know, maybe put a little different spin on what mark meadows is saying, yeah, we'd like to go further but we don't really need to. we have all the votes we need. we won the state. if you took -- these are the most minimal numbers, the numbers that i gave you. those are numbers that are certified. your absentee ballots sent to vacant addresses, your out of state voters, when you add them up, it's many more times -- it's many times the 11,779 number. so we could go through -- we have not gone through your dominion. we can't give them blessing. in other states we think we found tremendous corruption with dominion machines but we'll have to see. we only lost the state by 11 -- by that number, 11,000 votes. 779. with that being said, with just what we have and, you know, with just what we have, we're giving you minimum numbers. we're doing the most conservative numbers possible. we're many times, many, many times above the margin.

dominion filed a defamation suit against giuliani for $1.3 billion. the company's best evidence, giuliani's own words. tom foreman has more. >> this dominion company is a radical left company, one of the people there is a big supporter of antifa. >> reporter: for dominion voting systems, the case against rudy giuliani comes from his own mouth. >> the company counting our vote with control over our vote is owned by two venezuelans who were allies of chavez. >> reporter: through falsehoods -- >> it is not made up. >> reporter: the lawsuit says former president donald trump's lawyer pushed blatant lies about the company. >> one of the experts that has examined the krookt dominion machines has absolutely what he believes is conclusive proof that in the last 10%, 15% of the vote counted the votes were deliberately changed. >> reporter: dominion's $1.3 billion lawsuit against giuliani follows a similar suit against sidney powell who promoted trump's false claims the vote was rigged. >> people believed this lie. people believed the statements that were made

tom, i know that dominion's attorneys talked to dominion this morning. what did they say? >> what they said is listen to rudy giuliani's words. dozens and dozens of times during this election promoting this lie that there was massive fraud, so listen. the. >> the company counting our vote with control over our vote is owned by two venezuelans who were alice of chavez. this dominion company is a radical left company, one of the people there is a big supporter of antifa and has written horrible things about the president for the last three or four years. dominion sends everything to smart matic. can you believe it, our votes are sent overseas? they are sent to some place else. some other country. one of the experts that have examined these crooked dominion machines has absolutely what he believes is conclusive proof that in the last 10%, 15% of the vote counted the votes were deliberately changed. >> >> reporter: dominion lawyers say all of that is simply not true and a lot of fact checkers said that's not true either and when you talk about this claim for $1.3 billion they

a dominion lawyer points this out. they say guiliani never made the dominion claims in a court of law when he would have been under oath. he only made them in public or testifying when he wasn't under oath. why does that matter here to the point you were just making? >> reporter: yeah, it's a good point by the dominion lawyers. it goes to rudy's knowledge if these were false. if he believed them, he would have said that in law. the risk as a lawyer is you can get sanctioned by the court. get fined, thrown out of the bar even. so i think that's a good indicator. another interesting detail here, rudy didn't just say something once. sometimes one statement that a person says you can argue well, maybe they misspoke a little bit or were misunderstood. rudy made the statement dominion complains about here, dozens of times, 50 times. it's harder to run away from that. >> dominion writes, after we asked him to stop his claims, he said he would love discovery. we are here to remind him, discovery is a two-way street. >> reporte

rudy giuliani accuses dominion — sorts. rudy giuliani accuses dominion of— sorts. rudy giuliani accuses dominion of attempting - sorts. rudy giuliani accuses dominion of attempting to i dominion of attempting to censor the exercise of free speech. but dominion say they have had to spend half $1 million in security and fighting disinformation because of allegations against them. they now seem intent on replacing the court of public opinion with a court of law. mark labelle, bbc news. and new zealand, over the weekend, 20,000 mosques in hastings. the oxford dictionary says that 0xford dictionary says that moshing is to dance to rock music in a violent manner while jumping up and down and deliberately colliding with other dancers. not much of that over here then, nor in the united states stop in fact, we are not likely to see live events like that happening anytime soon. but the bad the flaming lips have come up with a typically ingenious way of playing live while staying safe. it brings a new meaning to the saying stay in your bubble. wayne coyne, the leasing of the

and i believe your ceo of dominion will be on chris cuomo's show later on tonight. thank you for being with us. >> thank you, jake. >>> a new, scary warning about the uk variant of the coronavirus that is already here in the u.s. that's next. >>> plus the gop turning on its own. we'll go visit a swing state where trump's hold on the republican party is causing a war within the party. stay with us. >>> in our health lead today, moderna says its vaccine is expected to protect against new strains of coronavirus but is working on a booster shot that could be more effective against these new strains. highly contagious and what appears more deadly uk variant is spreading in the u.s. and in 45 other countries. dr. fauci says he's more worried about a south african variant, as cnn aerica hill now reports. >> reporter: the virus variant first discovered in the uk is not just more transmissible. scientists say it could also be more deadly. >> they became convinced it is, in fact, a bit more virulent, making it more difficult when you get to the point of serious disease and ev

cnn's tom foreman has more from washington. >> this dominion company is a radical left company. one of the people there is a big supporter of antifa. >> reporter: the case against rudy giuliani comes from his own mouth. >> the company is owned by two venezuelans who were allies of chavez. >> reporter: through dozens of falsehoods on television, radio and the internet. >> it is not made up. >> reporter: former president donald trump's lawyer blatantly pushed lies about the company. >> one of the experts that has examined these crooked dominion machines has absolutely what he believes is conclusive proof that in the last 10%, 15% of the vote counted, the votes were deliberately changed. >> reporter: dominion's $1.3 billion lawsuit against giuliani follows a similar suit against attorney sidney powell who also promoted trump's false claim the vote was rigged. >> people believed this lie. people believed the statements that were made by giuliani. they were motivated to take action in the real world. >> reporter: dominion says the deception spurred deep mistrust of the voting system

. >> this dominion company is a radical left company. these crooked dominion machines. they cheated with the machines and a venezuelan company counted our votes. >> joining us is an attorney for the dominion voting systems. thanks for being here. $1.3 billion lawsuit against giuliani. how did you reach that figure? >> well, in some ways, the damage that's been done to this company is immeasurable. the reputational harm that mr. giuliani and others have inflicted on the company and its employees, you can't measure because they'll never be able to get their reputation back given now what's out there on the internet and in the air waves and in the archives of cable news shows. but what we've done is we've attempted, using our current projections to look at what the lost profits and revenues of this company are going to be going forward, what the amount of money this company is going to have to spend going forward to remedy the harm to itself, and also to try to measure the reputational damage to the brand and to the company as a business going forward. we'll update those n

and also that dominion took on the machines, that dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their machinery. do you know anything about that? because that's illegal. >> this is ryan. no, do minuion is not moving -- >> but have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts? >> no. >> are you sure, ryan? >> i'm sure. >> you should want to have an accurate election, and you're a republican. >> we believe we do have an accurate election. >> no, you don't no, no you don't. not even close. you're off by hundreds of thousands of votes. you know what they did and you're not reporting it. you know, that's a criminal -- that's a criminal offense, and, you know, you can't let that happen. that's a big risk to you and to ryan, your lawyer. that's a big risk. but they are shredding battle in my opinion, based on what they have heard and removing machinery, and then moving it as fast as they can, both of which are criminal fines. you can't let it happen, and are letting it happen. >>> "the washington post" reporter helping to break this story, amy gardner is back

dominion sued sidney powell and now suing rudy giuliani. they're terming it this big lie that giuliani has been propagating. so this is what they said in their lawsuit this morning. they said just as giuliani and his allies intended the big lie went viral as people tweeted and re-tweeted and ranled that dominion had stolen their votes and while some little lies die with the next news cycle, the big lie was different. the harm to dominion's business and reputation is unprecedented and irreparable because of how fervently millions of people believe it. and one thing that dominion is pointing out is that rudy giuliani made the false claims on his podcast, on tv shows, but never actually in court filings because of course the repercussions for that would be severe. he could be sanctioned and even disbarred. so they are suing him for $1.3 billion. >> thanks, jessica. >>> we're going to get more on this. harry litman is joining me now former assistant attorney and it is good to see you. >> you too, kate. >> and first, it is either shocking or not

also that dominion took out machines, that dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their machinery. do you know anything about that? because that's illegal. >> this is ryan. dominion has not moved machinery out of fulton county. >> have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts? >> no. >> are you sure, ryan? >> i'm sure.

this is dominion voting systems? >> no. it's a very weak public response. he doesn't deny that he made any of these statements, because he can't. the complaint which is 107 pages of really all of his charges, false charges against dominion is imposing. i'm sure he wishes he hadn't said all of the things he had said, but now he's got to deal with it, and claiming it's a left-wing attack just doesn't work. >> so right now dominion is suing rudy guiliani, they're suing sidney powell, another trump attorney. this is what the lawyer for dominion says if it's going to sue former president trump. >> we're certainly, we're not ruling anybody out. one of the things that you have seen from dominion, they're very careful, taking a very evidence-driven in both complaints filed, and looking at everybody. >> if they're suing giuliani, and they feel like they have grounds to do it, in your view, considering what trump said, would they have the grounds to sue trump? and if not, then, why not? >> it's possible that they could be, trump could be sued. there is a case from th

let's go back to the overall claims of dominion voting systems. they claim in wisconsin they had these voting machines. in the 14 counties in which these voting machines were used, the president got 59% of the vote. in the counties in pennsylvania were dominion voting machines were used, he got 52.5% of the vote. he made a claim that over 900,000 votes were deleted and the 14 counties where that happened they had 1.3 million people voted. turnout.% -- 76% in order for 900,000 to have been deleted, they would have had to have a 130% turnout. that did not happen. easily, provably false. .et the president persists by doing so undermines georgians faith in the election system, especially republican georgians, which is important because we have a big election tomorrow and everybody deserves to have their vote counted if they want it to be. republican and democrat allowed -- i like. there were claims about signature matching not being done. they are based on feelings. we believe no specific evidence was brought up until there was a of signaturegation ve

rudy giuliani accuses dominion of attempting to censor the exercise of free speech. but dominion say they have had to spend half a million on security and over $1 million fighting disinformation because of allegations against them. they now seem intent on replacing the court mark lobel, bbc news. president biden has overturned president biden has overturned president donald trump's ban on transgender people joining the us military. he announced the and in 2017 citing what he called disruption and medical costs. the 0bama administration found transgender people had very little impact on military healthcare spending. it is just over a year since china imposed the world's first look down on the world's first look down on the city of wuhan. by then, coronavirus had been spreading there for several weeks and the chinese government insisted everything was under control. a new bbc documentary has revealed the gap between what was happening on the ground, what chinese officials and scientists knew, and what the world was told. new year's eve, 2019. by now, it has been 30 day

it means that white people believe that they have dominion over everybody and dominion over everything. that they are, in fact, supreme. so, we saw a group of white people, of white supremacists here, thinking that they own a country that they colonized and therefore they can do whatever they want with it. they think they can storm any building in that country, because they believe they own it. they think that they can erect a noose on the side of a building that was built by enslaved africans in america because they think they have full permission to do so and did so on camera because they knew the police would do nothing about it. but they do not own this country, they do not own democracy, they don't own us, they are tragically confused and we will not be intimidated, despite the fact that the police did not hold the line today. >> frank, final question to you and that is, these are the stakes. this is the argument that law enforcement, that government, had better have a good answer to. >> we've got to rethink -- look, this is a much larger discussion, brian, not only just about ret

also that dominion took out machines, that dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their machinery. do you know anything about that? because that's illegal. >> this is ryan. dominion has not moved machinery out of fulton county. >> have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts? >> no. >> are you sure, ryan? >> i'm sure. i'm sure, mr. president. >> this breaking news comes on the same day the new congress was sworn in. phil mattingly is joining us on capitol hill. what reaction are we getting now from lawmakers? >> reporter: i think the biggest thing is it's exacerbating something that's percolating underneath for the better part of five or six days. that's a total rupture inside the republican party. you have more than 140 house republicans who have made clear that come january 6th on wednesday, when they are atte t attempting to certify the electoral college votes, they plan to object. you have 12 senators who said they would join in the objections or support the objections. what you hadn't seen really become public until today was significant

that's what the rumor is dominion took out machines, that dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their machinery? do you know anything about that? because that's illegal. >> this is ryan germany. no, dominion has not moved any machinery out of fulton county. >> but have they moved the inner parts of the machines, and replaced them with other parts? >> no. >> are you sure? ryan? >> i'm sure. i'm sure, mr. president. >> what about the ballots, the shredding of the ballots? have they been shredding ballots? >> no, the only investigation we have in the vat they have not been this shredding. an issue in cobb county office shredding getting rid of old stuff. this was stuff from past elections. >> i don't know. >> that's what it -- >> it doesn't pass the smell test though, because we hear they're shredding thousands and thousands of ballots, and now what they're saying oh, we're just cleaning up the office, you know. i don't think that plays. >> mr. president, the problem you have with social media, people can say anything. >> no, this isn't social. this is trump media. this is not soci

saying this: >> this dominion company is a radical left company. >> these crooked dominion machines. >> they cheated with the machines, then a venezuela company counted our votes. >> the ceo of dominion voting systems, john pulos, joins us in an exclusive interview. welcome to primetime". >> thanks, chris. thank you for being here. >> why sue? >> we have no choice. what we're seeing right now, i don't think we've ever seen before and it's affecting certainly our good name and it's raising serious doubts in electors' minds across the country. and, frankly, it's the only avenue that we have to rectify the situation. >> the 1.3 billion, you say it's ruining your good name. have you lost any contracts? >> the 1.3 billion there's certainly a lot of questions on that. there is no money, chris, that can even begin to make up for the damage in reputation that our company and the customers, the election officials that have used our technology to count ballots. and the actual calculation is a legal calculation and we will play that out in court. but if i could trade our reputation back from no

i won't give dominion a pass because we found too many bad things. we don't need dominion or anything else. we have won this election in georgia based on all of this. and there is nothing wrong with saying that, brad. you know, having a correct -- the people of georgia are angry and these numbers are going to be repeated on monday night along with others that we're going to have by that time which are much more substantial, even. and the people of georgia are angry. people of the country are angry. there is nothing wrong with saying that, you know, that you've recalculated. because the 2,236 in absentee ballots, they're all exact numbers that were done by accounting firms, law firms, etcetera. and even if you cut them in half, cut them in half and cut them in half again, it's more votes than we need. >> during that call, brad raffensberger repeatedly pushes back on the president's false assertions and this morning before this call was released to the public he resorted to the president's favorite medium, twitter, and said this. respectfully, presiden

and let's go back to the overall claims about dominion voting systems in general. if you look in wisconsin, they're claiming wisconsin was stolen through dominion voting machines. in the count 4 counties in which dominion voting machines were used, he got 59% of the vote. he made a claim that 900,000 votes were deleted by dominion voting machines and the 14 counties they had 1.43 million people vote. 76% turnout. in order for 900,000 to have been deleted, they would have had to have 130% turnout. that did not happen because it cannot happen. again, this is all easily provably false. yet the president persists. by doing so, undermines georgian's faith in the election system, especially republicans, which is important because we have a big election tomorrow and everybody deserves to have their vote counted if they want it to be, republican and democratic alike. now let's move on to signature matching. there were claims about signature matching not being done. there were -- they were based on feelings. we believe no specific evidence was ever brought up until in one o

dominion voting systems is holding him responsible. >> it's a radical left company, one of the people that's a big supporter of antifa. >> reporter: the case comes from his mouth, the company counting our vote with control over our vote is owned by two venezuelans who are allies of chavez through dozens of falsehoods. >> it is not made up. >> reporter: the lawsuit says former president trump's lawyer knowingly pushed blatant lies about the company. >> one of these allies has conclusive proof that in the last 10%, 15% of the vote counted, the votes were deliberately changed. >> reporter: dominion's lawsuit follow as similar suit against sydney powell that promoted trump's false claims the vote was rigged. >> people believed this lie. people believed the statements that were made by giuliani. they were motivated to take action in the real world. >> reporter: dominion says it spurred deep mistrust could cost the company a fortune and triggered threats against the employees. giuliani said the massive suit is intended to frighten people and an act of intimidation by the left wing to wipe o

and trump and his allies have alleged that dominion rigged the system. they counted every single paper ballot by hand. it did not happen. and yet he still is talking about dominion on this call. >> amy, before we let you go, did you get any response from the white house, reaching out to them to respond to your story? >> the only person who responded was mitchell, the attorney. nothing from meadows or murtaugh. >> amy gardner, if it weren't for journalists like you, we may never know about phone calls like this or their contents. thank you for joining us. >>> i want to bring in ned foley, election analyst. amy invoked a few of the really da damning things about this. what is jumping out to you right now? >> top of mind is the need to protect our democracy from this kind of assault. what is on that phone call is an attempt to undermine our democracy, and we need to protect the voters and the right to vote from that attack. you know, how to do that, i think you mentioned the meeting in congress on wednesday. that is a key step in terms of protecting our sys

this is taking off my dominion hat and my long-time republican hat. i still remember him at the 2004 republican convention in new york standing in the middle of madison square garden. america's mayor. a front runner, and it is a shad and shocking fall to where we are today. >> i should say so. michael steel, i'm glad to have you here to talk about this. please come back to update us when you can. thank you so much, good to see you. >> coming up, why the destruction to the nation might be worse than most of us realize. f us realize. because when caught in early stages, it's more treatable. i'm cologuard. i'm noninvasive and detect altered dna in your stool to find 92% of colon cancers even in early stages. tell me more. it's for people 45 plus at average risk for colon cancer, not high risk. false positive and negative results may occur. ask your prescriber or an online prescriber if cologuard is right for you. i'll do it. good plan. ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) once-weekly ozempic® is helping i'll do it. many people with type 2 diabetes

. >> reporter: dominion's lawsuit follow as similar suit against sydney powell that promoted trump's false claims the vote was rigged. >> people believed this lie. people believed the statements that were made by giuliani. they were motivated to take action in the real world. >> reporter: dominion says it spurred deep mistrust could cost the company a fortune and triggered threats against the employees. giuliani said the massive suit is intended to frighten people and an act of intimidation by the left wing to wipe out and the exercise of free speech. >> dominion, these machines are controlling the country. it's a rigged election and a sham and a shame. >> reporter: still, trump and supporters enjoyed a great deal of speech trashing dominion without a shred of proof to back the claims. >> the biggest fraud is the dominion machines. >> reporter: they are looking hard at fox news, news max, sean hannity, lou dobbs, rush limbaugh, the epic times and more as the company contemplates the next legal moves. what's more, dominion is hoping to learn through legal discovery whether some of the

that's what the rumor is, and also that dominion took out machines, that dominion is really moves fast to get rid of their, uh, machinery. do you knowing in ig about that? because that's illegal. >> this is ryan germany. no, dominion is not moving out machinery. >> no, but have they moved the inner parts of the machines, replaced them with other parts? >> no. >> are you sure, ryan? >> i'm sure. >> you should want to have an accurate election, and you're a republican. >> we believe we do have an accurate election. >> no, you don't. no, no, you don't. you don't have one, not even close. you're off by hundreds of thousands of votes. you know what they did and you're not reporting it. that's a criminal offense. you can't let that happen. that's a big risk to you and ryan, your lawyer. that's a big risk. >> mr. president -- >> they are shredding ballots, based on what i heard, and they are removing machinery as fast as they can, both of which are criminal fines. you can't let it happen and you are letting it happen. >>> all right. extraordinary to hear all of that. let's bring in kyung lah

dominion, according to an analysis by "the washington post," dominion voting systems used in counties -- excuse me -- counties that used dominion voting systems, president trump won 81% of those counties. in pennsylvania, 14 counties used dominion voting systems. trump won with 52%. in wisconsin, the president's team asked for recounts in two counties. dominion equipment is not used in those counties. in the counties where dominion equipment is used, 59% went for trump. this is gibberish. this is disinformation being sold to the american people and it has to have consequences. >> what do the folks inside the company think their prospects are for winning? >> very good. i mean, we're looking at serious charges. we have fairly conclusive -- look at it this way. rudy giuliani went to every microphone available, every podium, every podcast, every cable news show, repeating these lies. but not in a court of law. that's because lying in a court of law has consequences. that's why we want to get them into a courtroom where there are consequences for lies and let the american people see the tr

. >> the dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their machinery. >> no, dominion is not moving the machinery out of fulton count. >> no, but have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts? >> no. >> you sure, ryan? >> i'm sure. i'm sure. >> so what are we going to do here, folks? i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. >> so monica, take us inside the white house this morning. we haven't heard much from president trump since that call was released. even as we get new reporting from sources familiar about that call, tell us what you're hearing from your sources at the white house. >> we really haven't heard from the president publicly in a very long time, hallie. that's why this extraordinary more than hour-long phone call that we heard that now we know took place on saturday is such a revealing insight into this continued desperation, really, on the part of the president to spread conspiracy theories that have been debunked and to continue to make baseless claims about this election. he continues to insist ther

he wrote, ethical, dominion voting machines employed in fulton county had an astronomical and astounding 93.67% error rate. it's only wrong 93% of the time. in the skin about requiring review panel to adjudicate adjudicate or determine the voters interests, and over 106,000 ballots out of a total of 113,000. think of it, you go in and you vote and then they tell people who you were supposed be voting for. and make up whatever they want. nobody has ever even heard -- the adjudicate your vote. they say we don't think trump wants to vote for trial. we think he wants to vote for biden. put them down for biden. the national average for such an error rate is far less than 1%, yet you at 93%. the source of this astronomical error rate must be identified to determine if these machines were set up or destroy to allow for a third-party to disregard the actual ballot cast by the registered voter. the letter continues, there is clear evidence that tens of thousands of votes were switched from president trump to former vice president biden. in several counties in georgia. for example, president trump

no one is changing parts or pieces out of dominion voting machines. that is -- that's not a real -- i don't even know what that means. it's not a real thing. that's not happening. the president mentioned on the call yesterday, or from two days ago. that's, again, not real. i don't even know how exactly to explain that. let's see. secretary raffensperger does not have a brother named ron raffensperger. that is not real. the president tweeted that out as well. it's -- let's see. got such a long list. oh, yes, the other really fantastical thing we saw the other day was a potential hacking of dominion equipment during a senate hearing last week. that did not happen, either. let's go over a couple reasons why. first of all, ballot marking devices and scanners, neither one have modems. it's very hard to hack things without modems. there's nothing to talk to. so let's get that clear. the poll pads, a no-ink device, does have the ability to connect to wi-fi which we use it for loading purposes and in case there's an issue on election day, but they're not hook

in addition, theres the highly troubling matter of dominion voting machines. i want you to watch this very carefully tomorrow, everybody. you have to watch it carefully. i want to read you a letter from william legan. you know who he is. highly respected guy. "dear mr. president, as chairman of the judicialry committee on elections, i request that you send an outside team of cyber experts to look at potential hacking and irregularities a associated with the machines used in georgia." you don't hear this from your secretary of state and you don't hear this from your governor. you do have a great legislature. i have to tell you. the governor won't let them hold a session to de-certify. on december 30th, 2020, the committee held a hearing investigating potential fraud and other irregularities during georgia's 2020 general election. the committee unanimously approved a report dated december 17, 2020 discussing a myriad of voting irregularities. the committee stated in the executive summary that the november 3, 2020 general election was chaotic and reported results

in addition, there's the highly troubling matter of dominion voting machines. [booing] and i want you to watch this very carefully tomorrow, everybody. you have to watch this carefully. i want to read you from a letter from georgia state senator, william ligon. you know who he is, right? highly respected guy. dear mr. president, as chairman of the senate judiciary committee, i request that you immediately sent an outside team of cyber experts to investigate potential hacking and other irregularities associated with dominion voting systems, scanners, ballot marking devices, ballots, polling pens used in the 2020 general election in georgia. you don't hear this from your secretary of state, and you don't hear this from your governor. and you do have a great legislature, i have to tell you, but the governor will not let them hold the session to decertify. on december 30, 2020, the committee held a hearing investigating potential fraud and other irregularities during georgia's 2020 general election. the committee first unanimously approved a report dated december 1

no one is changing parts or pieces out of dominion voting machines. i don't even know what that means. it's not a real thing. that's not happening. the president mentioned on the call today or from two days ago. again, that's not real. i don't know exactly how to explain that. secretary raffensperger does not have a brother named ron raffensperger. that is not real. the president tweeted that out as well. such a long list. the other really fantastical thing we saw the other day is a potential hacking of dominion equipment during a senate hearing last week. that did not happen, either. let's go over a couple reasons why. first of all, ballot marking devices and scanners, neither one have modems. it's very hard to hack things without modems. there is nothing to talk to. so let's get that clear. the poll pads, which is a no-ink device, does have the ability to connect up to wi-fi which we use for loading purposes and in case there is an issue on election day, but they're not hooked up live all the time, and if they saw anything, they could see tracking b

the lawsuit says giuliani spread lies about dominion being owned by venezuelan communists and corrupting the election. this is the second defamation lawsuit dominion has filed against a trump lawyer in recent weeks is floors warriors head coach steve kerr shaking up his starting lineup tonight against the timberwolves taking out a rookie center james wiseman will have a full report coming crust is the most important part of “stuffed crust.” it's half the name! papa john's crust is made from six simple ingredients... ...seven if you count all this cheeeese! better ingredients. better pizza. papa john's. >>the 6 a placer county sheriff's department says someone has died just hours after being given the covid vaccine, although the sheriff's office says the person died after getting the vaccine. we still don't know the exact cause of death raja son guy has the latest on the investigation now underway. >>in a facebook post the placer county sheriff's office announced its corner division and public health recently were notified of the death of a person who tested positive for covid-19 in l

also, dominion voting is suing donald trump's lawyer, rudy giuliani, for false claims he made about dominion voting machines. dominion wants more than a billion in damage, way more than giuliani has. they've threatened legal action against a number of people and organizations, including fox news. finally, a short time ago, cierra, "new york times" reported that the justice department is looking into investigating anyone who may, in the justice department, use that department's power to try to reverse the results of the election. we expect that investigation will take quite some time, but it's by the inspector general of the justice department. >> thank you for your updates, scott. thank you. >>> san mateo county business owner is now under investigation over what appears to be threats he made against a county supervisor. this instagram post surfaced just after san mateo county for remaining open during the pandemic. red #delete get on his face and faces of his family. by phone he admitted he made those comments and said he just wanted to harm his political career. we talked about the lawsuit

appoint special councils to vest the nonexistent voter fraud and wanted a special council to investigate dominion, the elections equipment company that falsely said changed votes. and he wouldn't do it. and jeffrey clark was secretly meeting with trump and that cascaded to days before that insurrection at the capitol when trump had to be convinced not to fire jeffrey rosen. he didn't. but this is all coming out now about this big plot that trump tried to replace him so he could

also that dominion took out machines, that dominion is moving fast to get rid of their machinery. do you know anything about that? that's illegal. >> reporter: general counsel for the secretary of state's office chimed in. >> no. dominion haven't moved any machinery. >> have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts? >> no. >> reporter: the call raises questions about whether trump violated election laws. >> there's no question that this is morally problematic that the president of the united states sounds like he's pressuring a state secretary of state to help him win the election. i don't think you'll see any criminal charges here in connection with what has happened. there's certainly an argument that the president has walked right up to the line. >> i think a tremendous abuse of power. i think if there were more days left in the term another round of impeachment based on this obstruction. >> reporter: vice president elect kamala harris says the call was an abuse of power. >> it was a bold face abuse of power by the president of the united st

it takes legal fees to fight a corporation like dominion. at some point he will be drained of his resources and/or will get into real legal trouble. so he's faking it. he may not make it. >>> sam stein, we will pick this up later this week, with a lawyer in tow. the lies are on tape, on his twitter feet. we'll stay on this. thanks for spending time with us. >> thanks. >>> we are waiting for the house of representatives to send the single article of impeachment against donald trump to the senate. >>> up next, the coronavirus pandemic and the life-and-death race between delivering the vaccines and emergence of dangerous new variant, that is next. erous new vaerriant, that s next health officials confirmed the first case of it is brazil variant, known to be more transmissible, but so far no more deadly. moderna says it's working on a booster shot, quote, out of an abundance of caution to guard against the south african strain. early data shows it may be reduced by this particular strain. >>> meanwhile, prime minister johnson's warning last week

first, the dominion voting machines employed in fulton county, at the home of safety at an astounding 93.67 error rate, 93 . 67 error rate in the scanning about requiring a review panel to adjudicate or determine the voters intent so they're going to a voter intent. what did the voter b- boat. somebody, i thinkthat government something other, he doesn't want to, let's just around . they're trying to determine the voters intent. and for 106,000 mounts outof a total of 113,000 ballots . this is from your representative. i respected. national average for such an error rate is far less than one two percent so that was 93 percent. the source of this astronomical error rate must be identified to determine if these machines were set up were designated to allow for a third-party to disregard the actual outcast by the registered voter. this is what i have. look at this proudly happier island senior. he had no way. now, you know the gallup poll, i don't say this privately. the most admired man in the world or the country . i don't say it. i say it for a different reason. so i came in first, oba

uh, dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their, uh, machinery. do you know anything about that? >> reporter: georgia lawyer ryan germany shot that down. >> no, dominion has not moved machinery out of fulton county. >> no, but have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts? >> no. >> are you sure, ryan? >> i'm sure. >> reporter: the president threatened the georgia officials could face legal trouble themselves. >> you know what they did and you're not reporting it. that's a criminal -- that's a criminal offense. that's a big risk to you and to ryan, your lawyer. that's a big risk. >> reporter: piling on partisan guilt. >> you should want to have an accurate election, and you're a republican. >> we believe we do have an accurate election. >> no. no, you don't. >> reporter: tonight a biden senior adviser described the call as irrefutable proof of a president pressuring and threatening an official of his own party to get him to rescind the state's lawful, certified vote count and fabricate another in its place. >>

but let's bring you some more of that records in specifically where president trump questions the dominion voting systems that were used during those elections now do you think it's possible that they shredded ballots in palm counting because that's one of the rumors and also that your minions took out regimes that no minion is really moving fast to get rid of their. machinery do you know anything about. is absolutely right in germany no the 1000000 is not moved in the scenery out of the county where. they move you have they have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts not if you were right i'm sure. we'll see if clinton's as the host of a on just a or a show the bottom line and editor at large of the hill he joins us by skype from washington d.c. steve for just heard another segment of coal there are a lot of conspiracy theories being fought is about there about these dominion voting systems but could not just that example mean through the entire minutes of this call it seems to be heavily weighted on conspiracy theories how troubling is this. well it

and also that dominion took out machines that dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their machinery. do you know anything about that? and then i said, supposing you brought the light inside the body. which you can do, either through the skin or in some other way. no, but have they -- have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts? and then i see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute. one minute. and is there a way we can do something like that? by injection inside or almost a cleaning? >> president trump and his theories. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is monday, january 4th. with us we have white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire. washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay. national security expert, columnist at "usa today" and author of the book "the death of expertise" tom nichols. making his "morning joe" debut, cofounder of the lincoln project and a contributing columnist to "the washington post," george conway is with us this morning. what a day to begin with mr. conway. we begin w

first the dominion voting machines deployed in fulton county. that's -- had an astounding 93.67 error rate. 93.67 error rate in the scannin of ballots required a review panel to adjudicate or determined the voters intent so they go into a voter intent. what did the voter mean by this vote? seventy votes for trump. i think that meant something. he doesn't want something. he'll just switch it around. they're trying to determine the voter intentmi in over 106,000 ballots out of a total of 113,000 ballots. this is from your representatives, highly respected. the national average for such a error rate l is far less than 1% , so that was 93%. the source of this astronomical error rate must be identified t determine if these machines wer set up the designated to allow for a third-party to disregard the actual ballot costs -- ballot cast. there was no way. the cut this crowd that we have here. biden came here and he had -- you know the gallup poll, i don't think this breaking late. the most admired man in the world in the country. i don't say it. i say

and also that dominion took out machines. that dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their, uh, machinery. do you know anything about that? because that's illegal, right? >> this is ryan germany. no, dominion has not moved any machinery out of fulton county. >> but have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts? >> no. >> stephen: if he wants to steal an election, he really needs to sound less like your grandpa complaining about his phone. "there used to be a button on the bottom, now it uses my face. what did they do with the button? did they hide it with the ballots inside those voting machines?" god, i hope they don't hide my face. now, the president also re-upped the theory that dead people voted, and raffensperger hit him with a real-time fact check: >> the other thing, dead people. so, dead people voted, and i think the number is close to 5,000 people. >> the actual number were two. two. two people that were dead that voted. so, that's wrong. >> stephen: yeah, that's a pretty b

that dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their machinery. do you know anything about that? because that's illegal. >> no, dominion is not moved any machinery out of fulton county. >> but have they, have they, have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts? >> no. >> you sure, ryan? >> i'm sure, i'm sure, mr. president. >> we have won this election in georgia, based on all of this. and there's nothing wrong with saying that, brad, you know, i mean, having, the -- having the correct -- people of georgia are angry. and these numbers are going to be repeated on monday night, along with others that we are going to have by that time. which are a bunch more substantial even, and the people of georgia are angry. the people of the country are angry and there's nothing wrong with saying that you know, that you have re-calculated because the absentee ballots are all exact numbers that were done by accounting firms, law firms etcetera. and even if you cut them in half, cut them in half, and cut them in half again, it's more votes than we need. >> wel