A Moment Of Clarity: Is Our Democracy Ready? The Critical Warning for This November’s Election
The Michael Steele Podcast
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
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Is the 2026 election already being undermined in plain sight? In this urgent segment, Michael Steele sits down with UCLA Law Professor Rick Hasen—one of the nation’s preeminent experts on election law—to dissect the warning signs most people are missing. From the potential invocation of the Insurrection Act to the strategic targeting of key voting jurisdictions, they pull back the curtain on the tactics that could define the coming "difficult fall."
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| 0:00.0 | And now for a moment of clarity. |
| 0:06.2 | With us is Rick Hassan. |
| 0:07.8 | He's a professor of law and political science at UCLA Law School. |
| 0:11.4 | And I would argue the expert, one of the experts in this country on elections. |
| 0:16.6 | Well, let's start with the expert because Mr. expert, Professor Hassan, this is very clear for me. |
| 0:24.2 | It's not a complicated conversation at all. |
| 0:27.6 | There are two things about Donald Trump. |
| 0:29.3 | We all should be very, very firmly astute to. |
| 0:31.9 | One, he's a liar. |
| 0:33.5 | And two, he will steal the elections this November. |
| 0:36.8 | He's setting this in motion as we speak. |
| 0:40.4 | I don't know how people, you know, kind of look at this, but everything Donald Trump does, |
| 0:46.4 | he tells you ahead of time he's going to do. |
| 0:48.9 | So if we know that, you know, there are going to be ICE agents at polling places. We know he's going to |
| 0:54.7 | target the 15 states or the 15 jurisdictions that are predominantly democratically controlled, |
| 1:00.0 | a small capital D Democrats. And you know, and we know, we know that he's already bantyed |
| 1:06.6 | about the idea of the insurrection act. What should we be doing as citizens right now to get |
| 1:11.9 | ourselves ready for what will not just be a long hot summer, but a very difficult fall |
| 1:17.5 | when it comes to elections in this country? Well, I think that there's certainly an argument |
| 1:23.8 | to be made that we've got to be vigilant. We have to be on guard now. |
| 1:29.8 | Catch Michael Steele on the weeknight, |
| 1:32.3 | Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern on MS Now. |
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