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Troubling. >> dont be fearful. >> reporter: cnn obtained this recording of a wayne county gop training session over zoom the night before the michigan primary last month. >> so youre all really undercover agents, congratulations. >> reporter: it is partisan training not just for volunteers observing elections, but including the actual paid election workers who will check in voters, hand out ballots, even help in the counting, which is why they are being told is alarming. >> theres a lot of bad s...

Teaching. >> you think a lot of the monkey business that is happening is happening at the vote aggregation location. >> that is election air patrick coal, baku co-led this training session. hes a former state senator who wrote a book called the 2020 coup and has a blog filled with debunked conspiracy theories about voting machines. he has spread so much disinformation about the 2020 election that he got this cease and desist letter from dominion, the voting machine company saying, you are knowin...

Prepared. michigan state attorney says her clerks are prepared and they can remove some of these people if they are violating the rules. but i think more importantly, anderson, the clerks tell me these election deniers, these maga people, actually are born of ignorance of the voting system. and when they actually get them in there to do the work of the election and see the process, many times they become pretty good poll workers. so, there is some hope there, anderson. >> also, as you report, wh...

>> we did see evidence it was connected to the internet. >> reporter: there is no evidence any voting machines were connected to the internet in the 2020 election, but coalbeck is still asking republican poll workers to check. >> theres this little icon in the bottom right-hand corner, and im trying to see whether or not these machines are, indeed, connected to the internet. >> reporter: colebeck refused to speak to cnn but the other leader cheryl did. >> you were training these people to be und...

Regardless of what happens once that access is attained, we have to decommission that machine, and weve done that in michigan. im sure its happened in other states, and replace that machine because ultimately we dont know the extent of the damage that could have occurred by that access, and we have to ensure for every election that we have full confidence that our machines are secure. >> so were now nine weeks from the midterms. as you are the person responsible for michigans elections, what are...

Elections administration to partisan elected officials. recent report from the group states united for democracy found that 244 bills that would interfere with elections administration have been introduced in 33 states. and 24 of those bills have already become law. and then, there are the poll workers themselves. this month, the texas county saw its election officials resign. one official cited the death threats and stalking, that she has faced from election conspiracy theorists. to give you a ...

Of our building. >> i never had people so engaged and enraged about what we were doing just to ensure that people should vote. we had to go bag ready for my family and my children. >> we will demand the truth and you will bleep pay for your bleep, remarks you little liberal lying right now. >> protecting the vote means a whole constellation of things, it means ensuring access to the vote itself. it means keeping poll workers safe, making sure that the elections officials, in charge of the vote, ...

Period, none, ever. cheering and applause. we saw law enforcement brutally attacked on january sixth, officials, poll workers, volunteers, subject to intimidation and death threats. and can you believe it, fbi agentsjust doing their and can you believe it, fbi agents just doing theirjob, facing threats to their own lives from their own fellow citizens? 0n lives from their own fellow citizens? on top of that, public figures today, yesterday and the day before, predicting, and the day before, pred...

Senior commentator john kasich. john, youre one day off, its not casual friday. today is thursday, but its a holiday weekend so ill give you a break. wheres your tie, my man? >> thank you, don. thank you. >> here we go, were starting. somebody told me tonight, i said im going to go on "don lemon" and she said to me, well, watching you and don lemon in these segments its like two men going over niagara falls in a barrel, lets see how it goes tonight. >> i lover our conversations because youre hon...

Theres brutal attacks on january the 6th. weve seen election officials, poll workers, volunteers, of both parties, subject to intimidation, and death threats. can you believe it? fbi agents, just doing their job, facing threats, to their own lives, from their own fellow citizens. on top of that, the republic figures, today, yesterday, predicting, and all but calling for mass violence, and rioting in the streets. this is inflammatory. it is dangerous. it is against the rule of law. we, the people...