I'm Mary Louise Kelly. Today we're in Georgia where it is almost election day

again. For weeks massive get out the vote operations have been in full swing

here ahead of two runoff elections on Tuesday. Those elections will determine

which party controls the United States Senate. Okay all right so Mr. President

everybody is on the line and just so so the stakes were already high. Tensions were

already running high when Saturday afternoon came the phone call. So what are

we going to do here folks? I only need 11,000 votes. Tell us I need 11,000 votes

give me a break. In leaked audio first obtained by the Washington Post the

President pressed officials here in Georgia to find a way to find votes to

overturn the state's presidential election results which have been counted

recounted recounted and legally certified Joe Biden won by 11,779 votes. I just

want to find 11,780 votes. Trump talked from more than an hour on the call

about shredded ballots and rigged voting machines ideas based on fringe

conspiracy theories from the internet with no basis in reality. Legal experts

tell NPR that what the president did on that call may amount to election fraud.

As we've heard from the Republicans now for months voter fraud election

fraud is a crime. That's Kim Whaley professor of law at the University of Baltimore.

And it's also a crime to request solicit or ask someone else to say falsify

returns or falsify reports of votes and arguably that's what we heard on the

call. Those actions Whaley said could be impeachable. But whether this is

prosecutable is a different question from whether it's antithetical to the

rule of law and the Constitution and democracy itself and I would say clearly

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