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Lose this election. they know its going to be fraudulent. its going to be fraud all over the place. been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots are a disaster. >> im joined now by one of the report who are broke this story, cnns evan perez as well as former federal prosecutor, shan wu. evan, lets start with what we know. obviously this was february of 2020. what was happening in this meeting? who all was there? >> he had a number of important people from inside the white hou...

Cheaters. they go and collect, them they are fraudulent in many cases, i dont want to see a crooked. electric this election will be the most rigged election in history. >> the only way we are going to lose this election is if the election is rigged. remember that. its the only way we will lose this election. >> they know its going to be fraudulent, its going to be fraud all over the place. ive been complaining very strongly about the ballots, the ballots are a disaster. >> im joined now by one o...

Lead election security efforts. washingtons secretary of state kim wayman will help dhs coordinate with elections officials across the country because it comes as secretaries of state across the u.s. are facing ongoing death threats for standing up to trump and reporting the real election results. sara murray is outfront. >> i am a hunter and i think you should be hunted. >> reporter: that message for arizonas democratic secretary of state, katie hobbs, just one of threatening vitriolic voice ma...

Audit as, quote, political theater. sean lingis was first to report the pick and joins us now. what does this tell us about the biden administrations efforts to secure elections? >> it tells us theyre trying to go about it in a nonpartisan way. kim wynman is respected on both sides of the aisle for telling truth to power for her election security experience on the ground in washington, for nearly a decade, and thurston county. it says theyre trying to get someone who understands how elections wo...

Hes still trying today to muddy the waters as to whether or not russia really even did anything at all let alone worrying about punishing them to it. nobody expects anything from the president, himself, in terms of the will to resist, let alone the will to respond. the will to harden us as a target. let alone retaliate against russia for coming after us. but its interesting. as worrying as it is and as unpleasant as it is for us as a country to be so eirredemly polarized in our culture and polit...

Shackle at times ridiculous u.s. congress, you have had some republican support. you have had some bipartisan supported legislation to, for example, up our election security efforts heading into the next presidential election, since the fbi says russia is definitely going to do the same thing to our 2020 elections that they did to 2016. not every republican admits that we need to shore up those defenses, but quite a few of them do. and so there have been actual bipartisan efforts to draft and pu...

Burn who said no one wants foreign interference but that bill was overbroad and should be done in a bipartisan way. the unanimous consent effort was bipartisan, and her heisman was immediately hailed by president trump. now shes being joined by alaska senator lisa murkowski. make no mistake, this senate inaction is a derelict of duty, empowering our enemies at a time when fbi director chris wray says more countries like china are getting into the game and what we have experienced in the past is ...

These places where there is alleged voter suppression and i know we are going to enforce the voting rights act robustly and we will continue -- if theres evidence, we should get that to our fbi and the people who enforce these laws so we can properly predicate an investigation. >> thank you for that. if we dont get answers, i promise you, well keep asking. another question that i have is -- let me see here. what steps did the department take to support election security efforts during the 2018 e...

Hunt is not helpful. but that means that we need to move beyond words, letting the mueller probe continue so we know the full extent. it means come patting the online campaigns that blur the lines with fact and fiction. and it means fully funding election security efforts and backing the bipartisan bill that would require dramatically increased sanctions on country thats dare to interfere with our election. our representatives should vote for our democracy. >> john avlon. >> injecting reality fo...