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Ludaeudicrous problems from the beginning. is that what theyre modeling this audit on? >> theres no question. two of the republicans in the caucus leading this effort went out and examined what arizona did and came back to pennsylvania to pursue this type of audit. they came back to pennsylvania and brought with them the groups that did the audit and pressured those counties to do an audit of their own process. one of the witnesses last week testified there was no fraud in fulton county. we beli...

Downturn in the economy and less taxes. >> martha: quickly, art, the idea that theyre going to watch the money that goes into your personal bank account and the outflows. president biden says dont worry about it. its not a big deal. were going to look at one metric, the money that goes in and the money that goes out of your personal bank account. how is that going to sit with most americans? >> if i can do it with a joke. he said he wont bother anybody making less than $400,000. every rich perso...

Spoke in november at a stop the steal rally alleging the election had been stolen from donald trump. what this e-mail appears to look like is an e-mail from the guy running the wisconsin audit asking the dane county clerk to preserve records. this is the pdf that was attached to that e-mail. the letter says the header is from the office of special council and the wisconsin state assembly, and looks like theyre screen capped off the web, maybe. they dont look like official letterhead. the letter ...

Screen cap of the state seal copied off the web and plopped onto this document. this is not real letterhead. and while were at it lets peep behind the hood of this document. look at the metadata for this pdf, this letter with this sort of bogus letterhead on top, demanding the preservation of records to the county clerks. it shows that this pdf was authorized not by john delta or gableman but someone named andrew kloster? who is andrew kloster? why did he write this? maybe its this andrew kloste...

Mr. mcdonald, its a pleasure to have you tonight. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. appreciate it. >> do you know if all the county clerks in wisconsin received the same sort of gmail notice that you did? >> you know, its not clear. i think theres an attempt to send these to all the county clerks. i know some of them received it and some of them it went straight to their spam folders. so they read the news reporting and then started looking for it. >> besides this -- this missive which...

This new effort in wisconsin is of course a copycat of what republicans have been doing for months now with their hilarious cyber ninja audit in arizona. that has in fact been hilarious at times but a security standpoint that audit in arizona has been a disaster from the very beginning. observers of that audit say they routinely for example found the security gates left wide open at the facility where they were counting all the ballots. they said confidential manuals were left unattended, qualit...

Including notifying all necessary steps to comply with this request, including notifying all agents, assigns or custodians of records. to comply with this request. and it is signed michael j. gableman, sort of signed. at least his name is on it. this is the guy republicans put in charge to run this arizona style audit in wisconsin, but look at the e-mail again where this preservation notice came from. his name is on the bottom of it, right, his e-mail has his name on the bottom. but look at the ...

Or have they been in touch with you before this in some more official way? >> no, this is the first communication i got from mr. gableman assuming that was mr. gableman. so, yeah, i mean theres some -- there are a lot of red flags on that e-mail as you pointed out. and, you know, its sort of like fishing 101, you dont open a fake gmail account. you dont send something to that. you know, the name didnt match where the address was from and so this is the person who is supposedly in charge of check...

This is the guy republicans put in charge to run this arizona style audit in wisconsin, but look at the e-mail again where this preservation notice came from. his name is on the bottom of it, right, his e-mail has his name on the bottom. but look at the e-mail address it was sent from. it was sent from john delta, all lowercase. from a gmail address? who is john delta, why is he sending a highly important, highly sensitive records request to county clerks from a gmail address. does the real mich...

. . . keep loving who you are. and ask your doctor if biktarvy is right for you. this week yesterday wisconsin republicans in the state legislature there effectively started their effort to try to copycat the bizarre partisan election audit that has been going under -- that has been ongoing in arizona for months. that arizona effort, these so-called cyber ninjas audit has received months of national attention and frankly ridicule for good reason. but in wisconsin undaunted republican there are...