MTP NOW June 21 — Katie Hobbs, Rick Hasen, Steve Kornacki

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🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) and law professor Rick Hasen discuss the latest evidence produced from the January 6th Select Committee. Steve Kornacki previews Tuesday night’s primaries and runoffs in Alabama, Georgia, Virginia and Washington, DC. Texas public safety officials call the Uvalde shooting an “abject failure.” Tom Winter reports on the latest.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Meet the Press.
0:09.3	Now I'm Kristen Welker on another day of compelling testimony from the January 6th Committee.
0:14.5	The Committee's fourth hearing on its findings has just wrapped up, focusing on the Trump
0:19.3	campaign's pressuring of state officials to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential
0:24.5	election.
0:25.5	Here testimony from Georgia election officials including Republican Secretary of State Brad
0:30.3	Raffensberger about that pressure campaign.
0:33.4	But the star witness today was Arizona's Republican House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who delivered
0:38.3	powerful testimony about how former President Trump and his allies repeatedly pressed
0:43.3	him to overturn the state's results and to violate his oath of office.
0:48.5	You are asking me to do something that is counter to my oath when I swore to the Constitution
0:58.4	to uphold it on more than one occasion throughout all this that has been brought up and it
1:04.6	is a tenet of my faith that the Constitution is divinely inspired of my most basic
1:18.0	foundational beliefs.
1:20.8	And so for me to do that because somebody just asked me to is foreign to my very being,
1:28.5	I will not do it.
1:30.0	You had told President Trump you would not do anything illegal for him.
1:33.0	I did it both times.
1:36.7	Emotional testimony there.
1:37.9	Bowers also testified that he repeatedly asked Trump's team for evidence to back up their
1:43.1	claims of voter fraud but they never provided it.
1:49.7	At some point did one of them make a comment that they didn't have evidence but they had
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