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Causing many election officials, experienced election officials, to retire. its sort of like working the refs, chris. the onslaught of criticism of election officials is going to impact people who are trying to do their jobs the right way in upcoming elections. >> i dont know that its working the refs as much as its working the scorebook. i saw in your thoughts about this issue, counselor, that you say maybe the best bet is to let trump continue these bogus audits and let state by state show tha...

I dont have it at hand but ive got hours of it ready to go some other time, with my plethora, which has an ramora, which is heartbreaking. ramora, which is heartbreaking. this was the headline from the former judge running the audit. quote, former supreme court justice gableman, head of republican review of wisconsin election, says he does not understand how elections work. this is not the onion and this is not a hyperbolic headline. the paper quotes this judge telling them in an interview that ...

Today "the milwaukee journal sentinel" confirms that yes, that trump white house lawyer has been hired by this guy to work on the wisconsin audit of the election results. oh, yeah, that seems totally fine. youre auditing the election results, youve put in charge of the audit a guy who says it was stolen from trump, who cant tell you anything hes actually investigating, who says he has no idea how elections actually work, and hes hired a trump white house lawyer to help him with it. that john del...

Explain even more. >> hopefully youll get much more time so you can explain even more. its going great, were all right there with you. just following right along. tell us more about the amalgamated crayola certification, with the one about me. thats the state of the argument. thats also a sitting congressman. arizona republican congressman paul gosar, leading the charge for the election was stolen from trump cause, at the house oversight committees hearing this week on arizonas so-called audit. ...

The point is they want to undermine peoples confidence in our election process so that they can justify the voter suppression bills that theyre trying to put through and have put through in many, many swing states across the board here. so why would you do an audit in texas? well, because texas is going to go blue one day soon. i dont know if it will be, you know, next election or the next one, but at some point in time, its going to go blue. why would you do one in florida? why would you do one...

Secure. >> president trump said jump. the governor said, how high? >> reporter: dallas county judge clay jenkins, a democrat, says the audit is about undermining democracy and to justify stricter election laws that will make it harder for people to vote. >> this is just jumping around to play into that narrative, to please president trump and to set the table for what this is really about, which is passing laws to make it harder for people to vote. >> reporter: governor abbott has denied cnns re...

Through any county clerks office in any capacity. really? you want all of that? should we send it to john deltas email address? or should we just drop it off the liposuction clinic. we the guy running the audit said this week that hes also going to subpoena the mayors of five of the largest cities in wisconsin. again, planning to ask anything related to the election, thats ever passed through any of their offices, for any reason, and anytime. and he said this week that the subpoenas were going o...

Demanding that his opponent back an audit in virginia. we throw it into the category of culture wars but it is disinformation. it is calling into question facts we know to be true. >> i want to go back to that question i had for you. alex did a great job of pinch-hitting for you, but i want to get the take from you since you are a florida man. what position is this putting someone like ron desantis in? we have shed our reputation as a state that has election problems. now he has members of his o...

Show that everything was okay. but the counterargument is you got lucky in arizona. you had those cyber ninjas. the fact that they didnt figure out how to change the results may have just been good fortune. what if you do an audit in a state like texas and they bring in some outfit that knows how to work the numbers and they show that it was wrong illegitimately? >> i dont think this is about the count so much. theres no way to desert identify the 2020 election. >> but they could undermine confi...

Could be uncomfortable for governor desantis who said -- this puts desantis in a strange spot, does it not? >> yeah. donald trump told "the wall street journal" that he views election fraud from the 2020 election as the most important political issue in the country. trump followers are following him. thats why you are seeing lawmakers even in states trump won, thats why you see them fall in line and do these audits. they werent calling for it eight months ago. this was part of the larger audit. ...