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Received a letter -- honestly it was a sort of strange e-mail from a random gmail account, telling them they needed to preserve records from elections equipment used in the 2020 election. in dane county, wisconsin, the county clerk there immediately forwarded that random gmail request to his i.t. security department. this is how they replied. quote, scott, if this e-mail from from a gmail request i would strongly recommend against replying to it with any information. if these actions are any off...

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...

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...

Gableman assuming that was spencer 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 draes was from and so this is the person whos supposedly in charge of checking to make sure our election was honest and fair, and its pretty scary. >> i know that it sort of deepened the letter, whoever w...

Who is john dealt? so why is he sending an important highly sensitive, highly confidential records request county clerks, from a gmail address. does the real michael gableman know about? this is this the real michael gableman? is there a mr. delta? is that a reference to a sci-fi movie i havent seen yet because im an old person now? thats not the only thing he knew about this, go back to the letter. look at that seal on the top of, it really does look like a screen cap of the state seal. that wa...

That arizona effort the so far, cyber ninjas audit, has received months of national attention, and frankly ridicule. in wisconsin undaunted republicans there are pursuing the same sort of course as of right now. county clerks all over wisconsin yesterday received a letter, honestly it was sort of a strange email from a random g miller count telling them that they need to preserve records from elections equipment used in the 2020 election. in dane county wisconsin, the county clerk there scott mc...

2020 election. in dane county, wisconsin, the county clerk there immediately forwarded that random gmail request to his i.t. security department. this is how they replied. quote, scott if this e-mail from from a gmail request i would strungly recommend against replying to it. we also have no verification of any operational security practices from the special counsel and at this time i would not recommend any disclosure of sensitive information until official channels of communication have been e...

>> 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 was strange in a lot of ways. it is from a random gmail address. it had a pdf attached to it that the metadata suggests was written by potentially a former trump administration official whos not known to be attache...