Georgia elections official pleads with Trump to stop fearmongering.

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🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Plus, Britain beats the U.S. in granting the Pfizer vaccine emergency authorization, and President Trump threatens to veto a defense bill unless a legal shield for tech firms is repealed.

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0:00.0	Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily
0:07.3	202 for Wednesday, December 2nd. In today's news, Britain beats the US in granting the Pfizer vaccine emergency authorization.
0:17.0	COVID school closures worsen the achievement gap.
0:21.0	And President Trump threatens to veto a defense bill unless a legal shield for
0:26.8	tech firms is repealed. But first, the big idea.
0:36.9	A Republican election official in Georgia accused President Trump yesterday of fostering violent threats.
0:48.0	Gabriel Sterling, a voting systems manager for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, was visibly angry and shaken as he approached Elector in the Capitol in Atlanta.
0:55.2	Someone's gonna get hurt, someone's gonna get shot, someone's gonna get killed.
0:59.7	Sterling's public chastisement represents one of the strongest rebukes yet of Trump's baseless attacks on the election's integrity by a member of his own party.
1:10.0	Sterling also demanded that the state's two Republican senators, David Perdue and
1:14.8	Kelly Lofler, denounced the threats that have been flowing into his office,
1:18.8	including against junior staffers since Trump began attacking Raffinsberger for failing to support his false
1:26.2	accusations of fraud.
1:28.7	It has to stop. Mr President, you have not condemned these actions or this language.
1:37.0	Senators, you have not condemned this language or these actions.
1:44.0	Trump responded to a video of Sterling's speech overnight on Twitter by reiterating the very
1:49.2	false conspiracy theories that have fueled the threats and claiming again with no evidence that the
1:55.1	Secretary of State and the governor of Georgia both Republicans are trying to
1:58.8	steal the election from him. Meanwhile here in Washington, Attorney General Bill Barr said yesterday afternoon that he has not seen any fraud that could affect the outcome of the election. Barr's comments to the Associated Press, while caveats, make him the highest-ranking Trump
2:14.9	administration official to break with the President on his false allegations, and they might
2:19.5	offer some political cover to other Republicans to stake out similar positions.
2:24.0	Barr says the FBI and the Justice Department have looked in to fraud claims and couldn't find anything
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