Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp joins 'Fox & Friends' to address criticism over his state's presidential election results and discuss the upcoming Senate runoff races.
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Katie President Trump doubling
down on election as chief of
staff, plays a surprise visit to
Georgia? Signature audit
currently underway
Brian Kemp, joins us now with
the latest are Governor Kemp.
Thank you for taking time
Merry Christmas to you.
Merry Christmas good to be
with you,
Griff Griff Governor. I want to
get to what are the most
significant Senate elections
less that two weeks away and how
secure it is there in the peach
state.
I also want to ask you first to
respond to Atlanta Journal
constitution. Had an op ed said
enough is enough.
It is referring to the
presidents, pressuring you
criticizing you trying to get
you to bring the legislature
back to overturn the election
results there in the state.
We saw reports yesterday that
there is even the president
considering trying to primary
you in your next election
whats. Your reaction this
morning
are thats would a lot in that
question,
but let me start with the
election and the president.
No one has worked harder down
here in Georgia to support this
presidents re election than
myself.
I continue to support his and
any candidates legal actions
post election, which is what the
law allows for just like your
last guest was talking about.
I have also got to follow the
laws and constitution of this
state
im going to do it
as far as me getting primaried.
I could care less about that
right now,
all what we all need to do,
regardless of what you think is
going on in Georgia. We have got
to support David Perdue and
Kelly Loeffler.
We are the red Wall to stop
socialism and handing the keys
to Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, AOC,
Bernie and everything else
I mean we have got to win these
two races.
We have the votes to do it
and people need to do just like.
I have been saying, and the
president has been saying
they need to vote for Kelly and
David
vote today. Dont wait.
The Democrats are going to try
to convince you that this race
is over late in the race, with
liberal polling thats going to
come out.
I have been warning people
against that.
I was in an event with both
David and Kelly last night.
The night before
he would are are working hard.
We have to make it happen,
PETE Governor as you you know,
most of american politics has
descended on Georgia and all
eyes are there and right
infantry. So
one of those is Senator Lindsey.
Graham,
I believe we have a tweet that
he put out about the process of
signature verification there in
Georgia
he tweeted recently. I have just
been briefed about the signature
verification system in Georgia
regarding two thousand and twenty mail in ballots
from what I have been told
sounds like they now have a
credible process in place to do
a signature. Audit
look forward to hearing the
results.
Griff alluded to it, governor,
the president has been all over
you on this wanting a special
session.
Wanting more done with the
signature. Audit
has everything that can be done
been done, because there remains
tons of skepticism about the
outcome there in Georgia,
including Fulton County
yeah.
Look I fully understand that
I have been calling on be the
signature audit for the
Secretary of State to do that
per our constitution. Here
he has the authority to do that.
He is elected. Statewide, just
like I am,
I know, Senator Graham
understands that full well as we
just went through confirming
three great justices to the
Supreme Court,
and I know that he like. I
wants judges that are going to
follow the law and not make it,
and the law in Georgia is that
the Secretary of State has the
constitutional authority.
He finally ordered the signature
audit
im glad he did.
I offered to allow the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation, which
is under my purview, to assist in
that
they did that yesterday.
I know for a fact: when Mark
meadows was on the ground down
there and will let him speak
for Himful is, but I feel he was
very impressed with the effort
of our professional officers
working with the post certified
in the Secretary of States
office to do the signature
audit,
and hopefully we will know today
or perhaps in the morning what
the results of that are,
and that should give great
confidence
PETE. So the results of the
signature audit, you believe,
should come today or tomorrow
and is there a possibility? We
learn of nefarious things,
whats your take when people
actually look at these
signatures here.
Look im going to let I
have worked with the Secretary
of state investigators for nine
years. When I was secretary of
state,
these are professional people.
They are post certified law
enforcement officers,
the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation. They have been
right in line with a lot of
things. The Trump administration
has been wanting to do, and that
are my priority. Like going after
street gangs, drug traffickers,
human traffickers,
these are professional people.
They are going to call it balls
and strikes
thats what they need to do.
Thats. What I have told them to
do when I swore in the new
director back in a little
less than two years ago,
im very confident in that
process,
and I will let it speak for
itself whenever the rules come
out,
hopefully rarity today, if not
tomorrow,
Katie Governor Kemp. Thank you
so much for being here this
morning
you mentioned judges, and one of
the big fears is that if Georgia
goes Blue, the Senate will pack
the court under Chuck Schumer.
What are you hearing about voter
turnout in the state?
How are Republicans too long
when it comes to early voting?
And what can people expect for
the special election when we see
that the first week of January
o?
Well, these a really good
question
and thats exactly what we need
to be focused on?
We need to be focused on
supporting two really great
senators, David Perdue and Kelly
Loeffler.
They are both outsiders and
spent decades in the private
sector, just like the president.
Before they have ever went to
Washington,
they both want to drain the
swamp.
We have got to send them back up
there to really- and I talked
about this Wednesday night at a
big rally they had about the
Senate and the confirmation
process and its not just the
judges,
you think about some of the just
radical people that Joe Biden is
talking about putting in his
cabinet. You know the Senate is
the fire wall for that,
regardless of what happens over
the next couple of weeks with
the presidential election, we
have got to stay focused on
these Senate races,
I feel, like turnout is good.
I feel, like Republicans, are
motivated,
but for those that are
skeptical, you need to really
listen to what the president
said on his last rally here.
He said, regardless of what you
think you have got to go vote
for two great friends of his and
friends of mine,
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler
to stop socialism, marxism and
handing the keys to Pelosi,
Schumer AOC and Bernie Griff
Griff Governor, just finely so
its clear for anyone in Georgia
who may be thinking about not
voting because they fear that
its not secure and you are
going to have a record turnout.
You cant do that. You
cant do that. We cannot, even
if they feel that way. I hope
they dont,
but if they do, they still have
to vote.
We cannot sit at home.
We have got to save our country.
That is what David and Kelly
have been doing. Seven, eight
nine stops a day to safe our
country,
thats. What the president
believes in
Ivanka was here yesterday
are Don Jr has been here.
Everybody is pulling in the same
direction on this race. We have
got to reelect these two people
and I believe that we will
testimony
Katie, just a quick, follow on on
that governor.
What, specifically, are you doing
to make sure that the election
is secure,
because people have a valid
reason to feel like their
votes?
I know this is very
frustrating for people in
Washington, D, dot c, that dont
understand what the law and the
constitution says in Georgia,
that is, the responsibility of
the Secretary of state.
The county elections run
elections in Georgia.
We have a unified, a uniform
state system. Here the
constitutional authority lies
with the Secretary of State,
so he needs to be the one that
is assuring that
also the county election
boards, which are represented by
republicans, need to be pressing
their local county officials to
make sure that they are doing
the signature match correctly
and look, I believe in support
the campaigns, whether
Republican Democrat or whoever,
to be in there watching that
process which they can do.
But there is a legal process
that they have to go through to
sign up
thats what the Georgia
Republican Party needs to be
doing.
We have been promoting that for
people to volunteer
all eyes are going to be on this
election.
It needs to be done right,
and I can assure you that you
know one of the first things I
did was allow the Georgia Bureau
of Investigation to be involved
in anything that the Secretary
of state requests of us,
but he has to do that because he
has the constitutional authority
to do that.
There is a lot of confusion over
me being able to just order
those things, and I do not have
that Authority
Griff, Governor Brian Kemp of
Georgia. Thank you for taking
time
just two days before Christmas
coming to us from Athens,
I cant leave this interview
governor without saying: go
dogs
thanks for taking time to join
us.
Go dogs.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-23.