Full transcript of "Face the Nation" on Sept. 4, 2022

"These spaces online, pro-Trump forums, fringe platforms, just really erupted with violent rhetoric, these false beliefs that the FBI or law enforcement is out to get conservatives and Trump supporters specifically."

"With regards to voters who become deceased, we receive information every week from the federal government, Social Security and other sources."

"MAJOR GARRETT: Governor...FORMER GOVERNOR DEVAL PATRICK: ... capitalism depends on democracy."

"All of these movements, Black Lives Matter, Me Too, were able to gain steam online, in that it just continues to offer the kind of promise of educating people, informing them, connecting them."

"And so we have for really the past several years been engaging and working with law enforcement to ensure the security of the equipment."

"And they should -- all voters should know that election officials on both sides of the aisle are working night and day to ensure we're collaborating with law enforcement and every other potential partner to protect the sanctity of the polling place and protect the integrity of our democracy."

"Now, in this case, we had a situation -- and we're still working with law enforcement to investigate what happened -- where not a voting tabulator, but a marking device, a device that's used to assist voters who need assistance in marking their ballot, perhaps may have been inadvertently dropped off at Goodwill, maybe even discarded as something that wasn't clear what it was."

"There's a symmetry to what's been said publicly and on social media platforms and chat groups after the search at Mar-a-Lago and what they saw and what they heard January 4, January 5, 2021, talk of civil war, talk of delegitimizing federal law enforcement or federal institutions."

"MAJOR GARRETT: Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, thanks so much."

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"nnFORMER GOVERNOR DEVAL PATRICK (D-Massachusetts): It's a pleasure."

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"The defendants in court from January 6, when it's time to go ask for leniency, go to sentencing, plead for the mercy of the court, are still so muted in their criticism of Donald Trump and, in some cases, still denying the integrity of the 2020 election."

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"I think, when Donald Trump -- if what you mean is objections to Donald Trump winning the presidency, I don't think there was any Democrat calling the election itself illegitimate because the outcome was surprising or disappointing to Democrats."

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"He goes on offense like we haven't seen except with President Trump."

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"And Mike Pence and his team ultimately said it was ridiculous."

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"MAJOR GARRETT: Former Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick, thanks so much for your time."

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"REPRESENTATIVE JAMIE RASKIN (D-Maryland): Thanks so much for having me, Major.nn"

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"And, look, more than 60 courts rejected every claim of electoral fraud and corruption which Donald Trump advanced."

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"Well, look, Vice President Pence was the target of Donald Trump's wrath and fury and effort to overthrow the election on January 6."

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"No, I wish Lindsey Graham had not voiced it that way."

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"but if that's all we do, in a certain sense, it's validating Donald Trump's argument that there was any ambiguity about it in the first place, which there was not."

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"But I think we need to look far more systematically at what Donald Trump was trying to do."

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"So, former President Trump says that MAGA Republicans are trying to save democracy, and they want to be taken seriously on this issue.nn"

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"MAJOR GARRETT: Does it matter that two U.S. attorneys, both of them appointed by former President Trump, looked into it and did not consider that activity fraudulent?"

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"nn(Begin VT)nnDONALD TRUMP (Former President of the United States): Republicans in the MAGA movement are not the ones trying to undermine our democracy."

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"But it's interesting that he invoked Stalinism, when all of the Stalinists are on Donald Trump's side, like Vladimir Putin, the former head of the KGB, who said that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century, or the dictator of North Korea, who Donald Trump writes love letters to.nn"

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"What is it that's so attractive about Governor DeSantis?nn"

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"He's not afraid to take on anything, nor does Donald Trump."

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"These spaces online, pro-Trump forums, fringe platforms, just really erupted with violent rhetoric, these false beliefs that the FBI or law enforcement is out to get conservatives and Trump supporters specifically."

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"MAJOR GARRETT: Governor...FORMER GOVERNOR DEVAL PATRICK: ... capitalism depends on democracy."

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"We don't work for the Biden administration."

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"So I think we need to take a much broader view about Donald Trump's attack on the entire Electoral College process and the entire democratic process from the counties and the towns and the cities through the states all the way up to the federal government.nn"

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"Steve, if I could ask you, if former President Trump were not to declare for 2024, do you have an alternative who is already a favorite of yours?nn"

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"But we'd like to hear from Gingrich and we'd like to hear from her too."

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"The Justice Department has been suggesting in court filings that they're looking into possible obstruction by Trump and his legal team in terms of their engagement with the National Archives, as well as with the Justice Department."

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"When Senator Lindsey Graham, Joann, said that, if the former president is indicted, there will be riots in the street -- streets, do you agree with that?"

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"FORMER GOVERNOR DEVAL PATRICK:"

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"Yes, definitely Governor DeSantis."

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"Governor, in our focus group that our audience will see in a few moments of Trump supporters, one pointed out that Democrats raised objections in 2000, and they wouldn't let them go."

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"Oh, definitely DeSantis, Ron DeSantis all the way, if it can't be Trump."

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"Oh, definitely DeSantis, Ron DeSantis all the way, if it can't be Trump."

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"nnHow comfortable were you with President Biden's speech last week, and also a speech that Republicans well remember that the President gave earlier this year when he compared changes that Republicans made in voting laws in Georgia to Jim Crow and violent enforced segregation of another era?"

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"It's getting -- to somebody like me, who's not a Republican or a Democrat, but I do support Trump, it's getting really old hearing democracy, democracy, democracy, because what we're doing is part of a democracy."

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"And, if so, how?FORMER GOVERNOR DEVAL PATRICK: I think the business community is becoming more involved and business leaders in the democracy debate."

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"Like many election deniers, Doug Mastriano says, as governor, he would have refused to certify Joe Biden won Pesylvania."

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"One of your colleagues on the committee, Adam Kinzinger, said the next step for the committee is to look into the money behind and the money being made off of the big lie."

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"I don't think that's what Democrats were objecting to in the policy choices of Donald Trump and those who have supported him."

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"Mary, if former President Trump were not to run, do you have an alternative favorite -- alternate favorite already?nn"

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"And so, as Congressman Raskin was saying, there are ongoing discussions in the Senate, Senator Manchin, Senator Collins, trying to come up with their own proposal."

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"A Biden-appointed federal judge has allowed that lawsuit to continue."

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"This was a Donald Trump operation."

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"We learned more about the FBI's investigation of former President Trump last week, including new details about what federal agents recovered during the search of Mar-a-Lago last month.nn"

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"There is conversation about having Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House, come in."

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"Mary, your thoughts about Governor DeSantis?nn"

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"And I think that's why President Biden was right to sound the alarm this week about these continuing attacks on our constitutional order from the outside by Donald Trump and his movement."

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"And I think that's why President Biden was right to sound the alarm this week about these continuing attacks on our constitutional order from the outside by Donald Trump and his movement."

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"We turn now to Deval Patrick, former governor of Massachusetts who, before that, led the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division during the Clinton administration."

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"REPRESENTATIVE JAMIE RASKIN: I -- speaking as one member and only as one member, I would say she has a relevant testimony to render.nn"

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"We're joined now by Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, a Democratic member of the January 6 Select Committee."

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"Scott, fair to say, fairly or not, this has set off a firestorm within the Trump-sympathetic community in our country."

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"We will hear from Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, and we will talk with former Massachusetts Governor and the former head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division Deval Patrick."

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"FORMER GOVERNOR DEVAL PATRICK: What great questions."

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"We will ask Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, a key Democrat on the panel, what to expect."

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"And the way Joe Biden and the Democrats use it as a weapon -- the term democracy has become a weapon."

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"MAJOR GARRETT: To better understand the pulse of Republican politics at the moment, we spoke earlier with a group of voters who would support former President Trump if he ran again in 2024."

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"STEVE (Trump Voter):"

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"STEVE: Ron DeSantis."

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"President Biden delivered his message for the 2022 campaign last week, putting former President Trump and the so-called MAGA extremists he leads squarely on the midterm stage.(Begin VT)JOE BIDEN (President of the United States): The Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country."

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"President Biden delivered his message for the 2022 campaign last week, putting former President Trump and the so-called MAGA extremists he leads squarely on the midterm stage.(Begin VT)JOE BIDEN (President of the United States): The Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country."

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