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Report lasted three hours and the ceo of cyber ninjas, the group hired to do the audit that lasted five months, a group that had no experience auditing elections. heres the couple of minutes he spent talking about results of the hand count they did. >> you take a look at the presidential race, trump loses 261 votes from official votes, biden gains 99. juror again son loses 204 votes. these are all small numbers when you talk about 2.1 million ballots, small discrepancies. we can say that ballots...

Despite whether he won or lost? it seems counter productive. >> reporter: christi, i dont think anyone would dispute the fact that these efforts are not going to change the results of the 2020 election. we know that joe biden won. what the efforts are doing is creating an unprecedented campaign here to politicize election administration and undermine confidence in the results and thats what were seeing even in places like you said where president trump won. so texas that you mentioned. president...

Right now, though, lets start with cnns kyung lah whos been on this story for -- i mean, god bless you -- for months. and sat in on todays hearing on the so-called audit. so what did these folks say, kyung? >> reporter: well, many hours -- whatever presentation, misinformation campaign, if you will. i actually spoke to ken matta, who is with the secretary of states office, the information security officer, and he estimates 90% of some of the inflammatory information in there was inaccurate. 90%....

The results that nobody wanted are in. leaders of the arizona state senate held a news conference, if you want to call it that to present the findings of the highly partisan sham ballot audit that they spent months facilitating. state republicans spent almost $6 million just to prove that not only did donald trump lose maricopa county to joe biden by about 45,000 votes as we already knew, but according to the results released yesterday donald trump actually released 261 fewer votes than original...

Again president biden defeated donald trump in the 2020 election. the final report of findings adds votes to the final biden tally, specifically in maricopa county. >> as the arizona audit ends, this is inspiring copy cat tactics in other areas. republicans in states like wisconsin and pennsylvania along with states that trump won like florida and texas, theyre now attempting to conduct bogus audits of their own. natasha chen joins us live. what can you tell us about results of the audit, it did...

Official certified results last year. but as one audit ends, another begins, texas is launching a forensic audit of the 2020 election in four counties after donald trump called on governor greg abbott to spearhead those efforts despite winning the state. state representative jasmine crockett told msnbc earlier today, this is not what the country needs right now. >> we have a duly sworn in president. this is a waste of time. we are still in the midst of a pandemic where we need to be focussing on...

Up to that fatal day and those that spoke to him during the actual insurrection. of course, that led to another trump tantrum where the rage-filled statement repeating his big lie about nonexistent election fraud, and one of the most absurd, baseless, ill legitimate screams under that figure lie failed hilariously this week as the clowns show of a so-called audit in arizona couldnt find or manufacture any evidence of fraud. instead it showed that biden won the state by an even larger majority. a...

Comply with that request. and so on august 22nd, the committee sent another letter and he still didnt comply. but since july, since july, douglas logan has been on notice that the federal government through congress wants to look very closely at his work and all of his homework on his so-called audit in arizona. and so when the time finally came today, douglas logan was unwilling to tell the big lie for donald trump. >> if he if we look at the presidential race, trump actually loses 261 votes fr...

Than even the republicans were saying and that the audit demonstrated that biden indeed did win arizona and of course contra the big lie, president biden was duly elected president of the united states both in the popular vote and in the electoral college voes which is the one that counts, but i think as democrats you get a little bit of momentum out of something like that to be able to say, look, with he told you so all along, with he knew that we won both houses of congress and the white house...

Arizona fraud closely and are following leads with their own further endangering democracy as we know it. not just watching it. they sent people to literally go there and observe it. joining me now, grant woods former republican attorney general of arizona. >> grant, in philadelphia, "the philadelphia enquirer" said we will not refer to this thing in arizona as an audit because it doesnt meet the basic standards of an audit actually is. in michigan the secretary of state tells me there should be...