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Maricopa county, arizona by a group calling themselves the cyber ninjas. >> they have no experience at all in election audits. they are headed by this doug logan, whos been in the trump orbit ever since the election. >> people saw images of the cyber ninjas, looking at ballots to ultraviolet light. what were they looking for? >> they were looking for bamboo on the ballots because there was one of these conspiracy theories that thousands of ballots had been sent in the furiously from somewhere in...

The united states. >> on a december 27 call with the new attorney general, trump told him to, quote, just say the election was corrupt and leave the reps rest to meet and the republican congressman. >> he knows if the justice department goes out and raises questions about corruption or fraud, just saying that they are investigating or looking into it, that allows republican congressmen to go out there and do the rest of the work. and put the pressure on the states to start their own audit and ag...

Widespread voter fraud, you know, the kind that did not happen. at least 19 states have new laws. >> try to solve a problem that doesnt actually exist. it occurs infrequently pay >> beyond efforts making it more difficult about her efforts making it easier to undo the result of an election for instance, in georgia, some of the power that used to belong to the secretary of state, someone committed to upholding the rule of law, now lies with the republican- controlled state legislature. >> a numbe...

Returns, and that was according to the washington post. lets also be clear, in his former life as a tax attorney, redding has, quote, defended a billionaire at the irs accused of hiding money in offshore accounts, and venture capitalists, the agency that used accounting to shelter assets. as well as the heirs of a millionaire defense contractors not to fend off inheritance taxes. why with this type of guy, number one, be appointed in the first place, but still be running the irs? i will note tha...

Be there. the committee is going to try to show that starting on that tweet, and leading, on all the pieces of the puzzle starts coming into view. you have the stop the steal activists trying to apply for permits to hold rallies both on the east front of the capitol. the military group, according to their text messages and signal chat, how they started mobilizing. how they started preparing and. the second part of the hearing is also going to feature stephanie murphy, he will talk about security...

And his new deputy, andrew mccain, were targets up the rarest and most severe level of audits by the irs in 2017 and 2019 respectively. both men were at the top of trumps proverbial-less. >> director comey was very unpopular with most people. hes a showboat, hes a grandstander. why didnt colby come clean? why didnt mueller investigate comey? >> you accuse your adversaries of treason. who specifically are you accused scene of treason? >> you look at comey, if you look at mccain. >> the irs has be...

For president within weeks, where does it say to you, congresswoman? >> id like to say that its unbelievable. but given all the moments -- we had a special counsel gableman do an arizona state like audit of our state, coming up with absolutely nothing at a great expense to people in wisconsin. of course, just like all the other states, no fraud was found. robin bosses very clever. im hoping that he is just giving lip service to want to do something further. this already will hemorrhage quotes. w...

States ought to be asking the question, with all these allegations about trumps financial impropriety, to the extent that they may or may not be criminal activity,. if he violated new york state tax law, then it stands to reason he very well might have violated federal fat tax law. if that is the case, who better than the iris to be looking at a criminal context at donald trumps financial dealings? as trumps that for decades and decades, hes been under audit, hes not releasing his taxes because ...

Auditor independence—or rather the potential absence of same—is apparently still a cause of significant agita at the SEC's Office of Chief Accountant.