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The Al Franken Podcast

Marc Elias & Ari Berman on the GOP’s Assault on Democracy

The Al Franken Podcast

The Al Franken Podcast

Government, Progressive, Politics, Senate, Liberal, Senator, Minnesota, Franken, News, Saturday Night Live, Comedy, Snl

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

From voter suppression to the capture of the electoral administration & certification. 

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0:00.0

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0:09.0

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0:12.6

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0:17.3

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0:21.4

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0:32.4

Hey everybody, this is a deadly serious one for a change.

0:38.4

I mean, we very often deal with extremely serious, deadly serious topics.

0:46.4

And this is one of those. Today is about elections. Elections are conducted in this country.

0:54.4

And we couldn't be talking to two better guys.

0:57.4

You all know Mark Elias. Mark Elias was my election lawyer of the Mark for years and years and years.

1:03.4

He, of course, did my recount way back in 2009.

1:07.4

The first time I met Mark was for a training.

1:10.4

When you're a candidate for the Senate, Democratic candidate, you go and get some training about election law and stuff.

1:19.4

And Mark conducted this and he's really funny.

1:23.4

And I made the mistake at the end of it, saying, you're really funny.

1:29.4

And, oh my God, he just kept reminding me of that.

1:33.4

And that was reminding me of that over the years.

1:36.4

And I thought I remembered it as saying, you're funny.

1:43.4

But he remembered it as you're very funny.

1:46.4

And he is. He's very funny actually.

1:49.4

And so when we do these, when we do these shows and we do these podcasts with Mark,

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