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I'm Jane Pauley and this is Sunday morning. It's been well over a year since the election and yet mistruths about the outcome continue to cast a shadow across America even though courts have dismissed dozens of lawsuits challenging the accuracy of the vote. Former Pres. Donald Trump's false claim. The election was stolen lives on this morning will take a closer look at event still testing the limits of our democracy. Starting with a report from Maj. Garrett is also clear that we have one Georgia George's Republican Secretary of State bread reference Berger has spent the last year, feeling as if he was howling into the wind. Truth has become a casualty, no matter how we looked at it. Pres. Trump came up short.

This election was stolen. The so-called big life you will be January 6 ride and death threats against election officials nationwide water so watch your back coming up on Sunday morning.

Echoes of the 2020 election still ringing. One year later the curtain is slowly going up on Broadway and a new version of an old classic is in the spotlight. I'll be talking to the star. I am not sure but I think Hugh Jackman on Broadway. The show will go always. I would prefer the theater of the movies I thought a lot about you had bigamy wanted music man Hugh Jackman as you've probably heard the legendary Betty White, a beloved television mainstay for decades passed away on Friday will have an appreciation from maraca Prince Charles on my show. All you and he would make a wonderful pair old American question White had impeccable timing, but she hadn't even rarer quality that made her time less she sparkled, she walked into her room and you could not not just this kind of light and energy that she carried with her all the time. Later on Sunday morning remembering Betty White reader braver talks with Congressman Jamie Raskin about a year of political turmoil and personal tragedy. Tracy Smith takes note of music phenom will allow Zacks class a story from Steve Hartman thoughts from Jim Gaffigan and more on this Sunday morning, January 2, 2022 will be back in a moment, 20, 21, was a year of political turmoil. Perhaps unlike any other in American history and it all began. Maj. Garrett tells us when the phone call is also clear that we have one Georgia one year ago today Pres. Trump set in motion. His most brazen effort to overturn election defeat one of 11,780 loans is 1 More Way in a recorded phone call. He told George's Republican Secretary of State bread reference Berger he could face unspecified criminal charges if he did not then you can think all you want, Mr. Pres. We have the facts. I'm sorry you lost the truck you also make sure that we follow the law follow the Constitution but wasn't swayed pushed or deviating from reference Berger recounts that call in the turbulent months after the 2020 election in his new book, integrity counts distributed by division of Viacom, CBS reference Berger was dogged by accusations that he helped steal the election from Mr. Trump he faced death threats. His wife was threatened with sexual violence.

Reference Berger, a lifelong Republican and conservative who voted for Mr. Trump felt hunted by fellow Republicans have been going water so watch your back and you start looking for people tells what is that circular saw the exotica reference Berger also got a dog. Is it a guard dog. No visa awareness talk face baseless allegations of fraud in Georgia and other states amplified by Mr. Trump. This election was stolen from you from me from the fueled violence. C.

They were misled they were deceived.

There were given falsehoods about the results of the election. Those falsehoods were on display in full color in Maricopa County, Arizona, where the GOP -controlled state Senate sponsored a so-called election audit last May, it concluded Mr. Biden actually one with more votes than originally indicated. I pledge allegiance a summer symposium on 2020 election fraud conducted by the CEO of my pillow yielded no evidence always come out.

Even so, 20, 21 Psalm 19 states most led by Republicans tighten election laws. One irony of all this, the conservative leaving Heritage foundation phone for the states Pres. Trump most vociferously contested at some of the nations most secure voting procedures. Helen Butler is a proud Democrat who served on the board of elections in Trump friendly Morgan County, Georgia for more than a decade, Republican County leaders there recently enacted new rules allowing them to purge board members, including Butler reconstitute the board with a lot of members that I made about by one political party and the political lie that party is that you have to change the outcome of the election to keep someone in power. This is a way to do it. Meeting as the old saying goes, it doesn't matter as much to votes, it matters more counts I see it as we didn't get it done this time but next time I'm gotta get it down because I have total control of the election process. Threats of violence still stalk Americans who did nothing more than counterbalance this work would start one of them is Tom Freitag, director of elections in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Angry calls, threats, things we talk about. We received one email that said that we would all hang for treason. Bucks County is a swing county in a swing state. Mr. Trump won Pennsylvania by 44,000 votes in 2016 he lost by nearly twice that many.

2020 high-speed standard over here.

We met Freitag in September 2020 when he was working round-the-clock to build a vote counting facility from scratch all to comply with staggering new demand for voting by mail, love, or to do with the place is a lot different than the last time you hear it all play out and we were all nervous going into it. Overall I think it went really smoothly with the pain we were dealt yet threats and bullying continued for a full year.

Are you frustrated so much that you like what there've been days where I wonder why I'm still doing this. I don't think I got to the point where I want to quit just yet, but there's been days where I really don't want to come and work. This is not something I've seen in history this country except for the before the Civil War. Bob Harvey is elected County Commissioner in Bucks County. We asked about January 6. If you wanted to destroy democracy, the first thing you do is turn members of that country against each other and the second thing you do is to get people start doubting the validity of elections doubts they circulate the country as a contagion of conspiracies to Lawful votes Trump one Wisconsin Wisconsin, long a hotbed of hard-fought and very close elections is in the throes of a secretive Republican led investigation into voter fraud in 2020.

I am a Republican. We can't continue to beat a dead horse. We need to move on. State Sen. Kathy Bernier of former election administrator herself as a loud Trump supporter and among the most conservative voices in the legislature where there voter fraud cases that were in their being investigated now that there was not organized widespread voter fraud in the state of Wisconsin that anyone has provided proof of cover occurred in 2020. The man leading the effort to find it.

Republican state assembly Speaker Robin Voss declined our interview request for this story for some pro-Trump Republicans contesting or denying the 2020 result is no different than Democrats refusing to accept Mr. Trump selection there has been no collusion, no less harmful they would they than persistent allegations of Russian collusion is no collusion Bernier accepts Biden's president, but the Democrats are just as guilty as the Republicans for perpetuating misinformation or outright lies.

Secretary of State reference Berger in general agrees stolen election claims. What they do is undermine voters competence in the election process. He's more focused now on his next election GOP referendum of sorts on election denial is his opponent, Congressman Jody Heise, the election conducted November 3 was faulty and fraudulent objected to certifying George's election results I feel about this, primary well I can step on the truth standoff, Heise declined our repeated request to speak with think at some point people to face the brutal truth of what election results were do you feel that on this particular topic. You were howling in the wind well like a voice in the wilderness. Yeah, this is intelligence matters with former acting Dir. of the CIA.

Michael Morel bridge Colby is cofounder and principal of the Marathon initiative project focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition states put our mind to something, we can usually figure it out what people are saying and what we can know analytically and empirically as our strategic situation military situations not being matched up with follow. Intelligence matters where ever you get your podcasts. Steve Hartman now on the power of a mother's love is your presence at first blush, this may look like another one of those viral videos all so surprising her family. After months apart in our story is about this for you. It's about the woman who made it possible. Mattie Mitchell is the unseen hand behind it. Untold number of joyful surprises here in Nashville, Tennessee.

This stay-at-home mother of two, with the third on the way got started making other people's days after her worst day of fourth child, William died just five weeks. I felt like my friend can't just come in this world chess to suffer and die.

He found his purpose help so many kids, how many good deeds as your group.hundred hundreds. Mattie started a nonprofit called Liam change the world and in the 10 years since he has heckled those for children from planning a parade for a kid with cancer to collecting supplies for flood victims.

If kindness is needed. Liam's Bob is there.

Her most recent effort to help Army Pfc. Harmony Jackson surprise her family harmony hadn't seen her kids in person and seven months.

Mattie found harmony on Facebook and offered to orchestrate the reunion. She lowered the dead, telling everyone a photo shoot for the family and showered them with gifts, and finally the ultimate present course for Mattie. The moment was tinged with irony hug like this is something she and Leo will never know, but Mattie insists that every good deed. She does unites her to sign how he's still working his purpose. Nice work William raising a great mom and I just want to wish Marilyn Congressman Jamie Raskin spent this past year and not only consumed by fallout from the January 6 capital riot by unthinkable loss closer to home he talks with Rita brave Americans watched Congressman Jamie Raskin manage the impeachment trial of former presidents from last February. This trial is about who we are who we are and they now see him on the committee investigating January 6 capital so collect all of the evidence we need to report back to Congress and the American people.

Many dealers may not know that Raskin has carried out these duties under circumstances. Most of us could not even imagine. After all, Jamie Raskin seems to have lived a charmed life since 2017, representing a Maryland congressional district and shares his pragmatic progressive ideals. This is a can activists and cream visionaries that always has been is my law professors Sarah Bloom, Raskin, former deputy treasury secretary and Federal Reserve Board member when they were both students at Harvard Law school so I can well I do life would be really really deep and beautiful. Jamie Jamie Raskin's mom Barbara was a best-selling novelist. His dad Marcus and anti-Vietnam War activist who landed outgoing Pres. Richard Nixon's enemies last certainly gave me a sensitivity to people who get into high office for the highest office of the presidency and then abuse it for their own political purposes. When Raskin, a longtime professor of constitutional law at American University decided to enter politics.

His family was all land. Sarah daughters Hannah and Hannah thought, and especially son Tommy. Tommy was pure magic. He just was his eyes writing plays is always writing poems.

He was exuberant.

Everybody wanted to be around as gifted as he was also winning adolescence and beyond started to have some problems with anxiety and other mental issues, yet he did like so many kids today.

He had a struggle with mental health during the pandemic. Tommy took his Harvard Law school classes remotely from the Raskin's Maryland home. He was shaken by both George Floyd's death and Donald something all selection frames voter fraud. The darkness of the time overcame and on the night of December 30, 2020 attorney Raskin would take his own life and the next morning with Mike and the world. Tommy left you. Please forgive me my illness one today look after each other. The animals in the global poor all my love Tommy for him to ask forgiveness of us means that we can ask forgiveness from him. Jamie Raskin's new book unthinkable is not only about the tragedy of his son's suicide, but also about the tragedy that befell the whole nation just a few days later, on January 6, Raskin felt duty bound to be in the House chamber when Congress was to certify Joe Biden as the next president that is for members of Congress.

Raskin breathed a sigh of relief when VP Mike and we feel is Donald Trump's demand to reject some electoral votes was vice president on that day. He was a hero and this is a guy who I thought went along with way too much during the Trump administration. But on that day.

He was a constitutional picture speaker.

Once the proceedings began. Raskin got up to speak, for your love and tenderness which my family and I will never forget was in a standing ovation and I was absolutely overcome with emotion and for a second split second I thought maybe because of Tommy. The two sides are the fight tonight there was a bit of within a few minutes after a rally where placing the lie that the election stolen from him some sub point is the capital trying to break into the house chamber boom boom boom that point it was chaos, Raskin and other members found themselves running through the hallways, trying to find a safe base to shelter when I didn't feel any fear. The entire time and I think that was because of Tommy.

The very worst thing that could ever happen to me is already happened. And then I felt like it was in my chest.

I felt my heart he was giving me strength last February after the house voted to impeach Donald Trump for incitement of insurrection.

The evidence will show you Raskin became the lead house manager this trial, but the Democrats could not get the two thirds majority they needed to convict her think I believed from the beginning.

Up until the moment when the rollcall was called that we could get 100 votes.

I thought it would be 100 zeros result Congressman Jamie Raskin agreed to serve on the January 6 committee methodically trying to uncover what she now sees as a plot to stage a coup.

There was a plan essentially to set aside the presidential election of 2020. Despite the fact that Joe Biden one by more than seven going but set it aside, and then implant the new presidency. Given your own personal tragedy. Look, I've already lost my son the thing most precious to me, but I'm not going to see American democracy go down the tubes.

We are in the fight of our lives to defend American democracy this morning comes from retired U.S. Army Gen. Stephen Anderson 43 years ago I swore an oath to protect the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic back then who can imagine the domestic attack on a democracy a year ago this week, I become increasingly concerned that a military become politicized and infected by the acrimony that plagues our society today. Just consider this at least 10% of the January 6 insurrection is charged with crimes served in the military over 100 retired senior service leaders signed an open letter supporting Trump's big lie about the 2020 election convicted felon retired Lieut. Gen. Michael Flynn advocated military action to support this claim and the Republican Party spent the last year downplaying the insurrection and obstructing investigations. All this nonsense may confuse our troops on the difference between allegiance to a leader and allegiance to our Constitution, such confusion could set conditions for another coup attempt. I thought that chills me to the bone. So what should we do first all insurrectionist must be held accountable to include the politicians that supported the capital assault we need to educate our servicemembers on the Constitution and the integrity and legitimacy of our election system, the Pentagon must identify emerging threats and wargame against future domestic terrorist acts and we need policy that prevents troops from joining hate groups, military service as a profound privilege and we cannot allow extremists to contaminate unit morale and cohesion. Ultimately, our military is merely a reflection of us. You and me. The misinformation and hateful rhetoric that infects our country and our political discourse weakens our national defense and finalizes our adversaries.

We must learn from the January 6 insurrection and take immediate actions to protect our great democracy from the domestic cancer that continues to grow within our last word comes from Jim Gaffigan who just can't believe it's 2022, the year is 2022. How can that be.

I understand 2022 would come after the year 2021 but that can't be. You see, my eldest child will graduate from high school in June 2022 and I remember clearly dropping her off at kindergarten like last week that was the day I learned that she was part of the class of 2022, which I thought was hysterical, 20, 22, as if 2022 is a year that will exist in our lifetime. Is this Jackson, 20, 22, is not a year. It's something a nervous 19-year-old stutters to a bartender after they've been asked that rage me on 2022 2022. Sounds like the title of a bad 90s movie about a dystopian America, which is embrace tribalism during a prolonged multiyear fight with the disease that is killed hundreds of thousands white. We living in a movie that I play the fat guy sexy. Thank you for listening. Please join us when our trumpet sounds again next Sunday morning with page again this week. Stephen Long live Mitch McConnell in one of Washington's biggest midterm money list for me to Senate races you think Republicans have the best chance of taking a democratic seed with Nevada not Georgia. George is right up there, but New Hampshire's surprised New Hampshire people really just kind of don't like that you have for more from this week's conversation, follow the take out with Maj. Garrett on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts