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Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

That Phone Call!

Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

WNYC Studios

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4.4675 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Trump pressured Georgia election officials to "find" more votes. But amid these affronts to democracy, don't forget about COVID relief and vaccine distribution policy.

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0:00.0

I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Monday, January 4th.

0:15.1

You've been hearing on the news a few of the same clips, I think, over and over of the hour-long phone call that President Trump

0:23.3

had on Saturday with Georgia election officials, right? Republicans in a Republican-run state.

0:29.6

Mostly, you've probably been hearing the one of Trump asking them point-blank to find

0:34.6

11,000 votes so they can say that he won. But the tape and transcript of the full

0:41.3

phone call exists, and I want to start by playing just a couple of other very short clips than the

0:48.9

one or two you've been probably hearing. These are just to give you examples of the way the Georgia

0:53.7

election officials gave the president's

0:56.0

specific answers when the president brought up specific claims of massive voter fraud that they had already debunked.

1:04.0

So for example, here is a specific claim by Trump, we'll hear Trump first, about a video that he says shows a massive example of voter

1:14.1

fraud in the form of ballot stuffing as he addresses Georgia's Republican Secretary of State

1:20.7

Brad Raffensberger.

1:23.0

Let's face it, Brad.

1:24.0

I mean, they did it in slow motion replay magnified, right? She stuffed the ballot

1:29.3

boxes. They were stuffed like nobody's ever seen them stuffed before. So there's a term for it

1:35.4

when it's a machine instead of a ballot box. But she stuffed the machine. She stuffed the ballot.

1:40.6

Each ballot went three times. So that's the claim. Here's Raffensberger's response.

1:47.7

You're talking about the State Farm video, and I think it's extremely unfortunate that Rudy Giuliani

1:54.7

or his people, they sliced and diced that video and took it out of context. So the next day, brought in WSD TV and we let them show, see the full run of tape.

2:05.9

And what you'll see, the events that transpired are nowhere near what was projected by, you know.

2:12.8

And at that point, Trump cuts him off, but there was that very specific response about Giuliani editing a

2:19.6

tape to look like something it wasn't, and the Secretary of State of Georgia showed the full

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