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Discourage people from voting. your vote will count, you need to check your ballot. >> we know from florida, georgia, you name the state that people are going to -- there are voter suppression efforts out there. voter suppression isnt just keeping people once they go to the polls from getting in to vote. >> right. >> its stories like this that might encourage someone, theyre going to keep me from voting so why should i bother to show up. voting is not just some, you know, secondary activity, you...

Schultz return address on there and it gets mailed out to all democrats, theyre going to look at this package and say oh, its from congressman schultz and it explodes at this particular point in time. forensics will tell us that. but its interesting that all the packages so far have had her return address on there, so thats going to be a key bit of information that law enforcement is going to blast out to everybody around the country, to make sure that everybodys aware, hey, if youre getting a p...

An alibi. >> it would give him an alibi. whether it was preconceived or whether or not that was legitimate, we -- we did not know. >> reporter: andy swore detectives would find no evidence against him in grimes. >> when was the last time you were in grimes? for any reason. >> theres a basketball court in the u is what they call it. that was awhile ago. >> whats a while mean to you? >> three weeks to a month -- three or four weeks at least. its been a while. theres a bunch of guys that get togeth...

Entity on that alone. they are going to try and corroborate and cross-reference and, you know, double-check as much as they humanly can. and that is often a lot. particularly when were talking about information about the trump organization. you know, it sounds like cohen is giving information in so many different avenues here. we know hes talking to mueller or thats whats been reported. we know now hes talking to the southern district and the new york a.g.s office. thats going to dove tail with ...

Charges against anyone or any entity on that alone. they are going to try and corroborate and cross-reference and, you know, double-check as much as they humanly can. and that is often a lot. particularly when were talking about information about the trump organization. you know, it sounds like cohen is giving information in so many different avenues here. we know hes talking to mueller or thats whats been reported. we know now hes talking to the southern district and the new york a.g.s office. ...

Is under such scrutiny and under attack these days. that was the most scary moment of that episode. were in a conference call with white house officials. theyre screaming at us over the phone trying to intimidate us and convince us not to run this story. and as they hang up, one of the officials says, you need to go back to all of your sources right now to double-check that information. there could be nothing more foolish to do as a reporter than to come out of that call knowing its already anim...

Story. and as they hang up, one of the officials says, you need to go back to all of your sources right now to double-check that information. there could be nothing more foolish to do as a reporter than to come out of that call noknowg its already animated the white house, there are leaks and referrals underway. it was scary, but not the only scary moment covering this administration and this story for the past year and a half. >> so nice, i read it twice. certainly got my attention. this is the...

Came to me was unusual. efforts it took me to try to protect the sources that were providing this information, i try to layout in the book. give you sort of a glimpse of how we go about doing our jobs. journalism is under scrutiny and under attack these days. that was the most scary moment of that episode. were in a conference call with white house officials. theyre screaming at us over the phone trying to intimidate us and convince us not to run this story. and as they hang up, one of the offic...

Looks like our website and prevented any damage to us and deeply grateful. >> so -- but you have to assume this is going on. others have been targeted, as well. microsoft or maybe other institutions have not discovered this. >> sure. look, we have been on high alert for sometime. chinese tried to take down our website about a year ago and failed and hackers of shanghai. we have been on high alert and told the team to be very careful and alert to spelling errors, attempts for login i.d.s and told...

The secretary of states office. to assure all of them all this didnt mean anything he posted georgias elections are safe and our systems remain secure. how can he possibly say that. >> he cannot say that with a straight face. >> reporter: mayor len marks is part of a group that has sued georgia. she says the state system is easily penetratible and if the system is hacked or infected with malware there would be no way for georgia to double-check the votes. in part she wants a paper ballot backup ...