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Cooperate with him but what choice do they have, if they push back, decline to turn things over or were to come and testify or be deposed but not be cooperative, then the committee could fall back on the media accounts of which there are many. we have reported a lot of the timeline to the best our amount, so have many other news organizations. the committee will have to put into the record of their investigation the best timeline that they can ascertain, and they have to ask the principles what ...

Enormous waste of time and energy. an enormous waste of taxpayer money. and i think its all done exactly for whats your previous guest said, this is about raising money, this is about exciting the trump base and the trump partisan to continue to give money to people who are pushing the audit. as you said, why on earth would we audit texas. as a democrat, i would concede texas. michael, as a republican they won texas. we can set that aside. are we going to oklahoma, and alexa next. >> maybe the q...

Hallie, who ends up doubling down, this exercise in arizona and elsewhere, all of the act to admit he didnt lose the 2020 election. if you end up having a saying he didnt lose the 2020 election in arizona or elsewhere. so if you wine up having another audit elsewhere, you push the goal posts so you dont have to admit you lost the election. we have already seen the former president releasing a statement responding to the draft reports that everyone has reported on saying it is incorrect, the medi...

It would be inappropriate to assert executive privilege and block all this trump information. what they were doing, saying, emailing, who they were calling from the committee. i will conferks im a little surprised because biden is generally an institutionalist. and who knows -- this precedent has been set after nixon, but still, i am surprised. what do you think? >> i think that the calculation inside the biden white house is that they campaigned on being different, on transparency and telling t...

About election conspiracies supporting the big lie, and during the process of five months, wave seen strange things, workers using uv lights on ballots, looking for bamboo fibers and the processes, methods continuing to change. thats one point the maricopa county makes an issue of that makes this audit questionable because of the constantly changing methods, no bipartisan oversight and other issues. >> lot of energy from the crowd behind you. people they expected to expose the truth as they see ...

Hes tried to pander to trump and we see that trump is still greatly involved in the leadership here in texas as evident by the quick and swift call for this full and complete forensic audit. >> so we know from a recent cnn poll that 59% of republicans believe that it is important to believe that president trump won the election as part of the credentials of being a republican. you have to believe that to be a member of the party. so lets flip this a bit. once this comes out, this audit is comple...

Maricopa county. trump earned 261 fewer votes. >> republicans hope that the audit would back up trumps false claims of fraud in the state. but biden was declared the winner in november and taxpayers are still on the hook for $425,000 states that trump actually won, florida and texas. natasha chen joins us from phoenix. the group that ran this, cyber ninjas from florida, expected to detail in a presentation to the senate this afternoon, what should we expect? >> thats about to happen in a couple ...

That could go out and do physical reviews so i dont think its just going to be some type of electronic. i think theyre going to actually go into these election offices, the administration offices and start kcounting and making sure that they followed processes and procedures that are in place by the law. but again, there was no evidence of fraud. this is all a part of the big lie because trump won and our new president is president biden. >> now, let me ask you, last one here, the president aske...

As we were just talking about, trump literally put out a quote/unquote open letter and it said greg abbott, we need a forensic audit of the 2020 election, says donald trump, and greg abboltd says okay. no matter what, truth be damned, isnt the damage already done? >> well, the audits do come at a cost, people having faith in elections, but its more likely to be republicans who sort of lose their faith in elections. thats not a good electoral strategy. and honestly, i see a silver lining in the s...

Its not going to put this to rest. >> its problematic or its the point if what you want to do is make people distrust any election where they dont win. lets talk about whats happening in texas. youve got republicans there agreeing to start their own audit. this was perhaps coincidental, perhaps, after former president trump called for one. talk about what hes asking for specifically and why texas where he and basically every other republican on the ballot overperformed. >> garrett, this really d...