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County recorder adrianne fontes joining us now and also a 2022 candidate for arizonas secretary of state. thank you so much for being here. i understand two special agents with state a.g. mark burn very muchs office recently interviewed you about the 2020 vote. what do you think they are up to? >> well, first of all, thanks for having me, ana, and its just a sad moment in our history when a prosecutor will send two badged officers to chase down and bolster a big lie. thats all this is. mark burn...

Proponents of ballot-by-mail investigate which is a very, very popular way for folks to vote here was my predecessor in office, a republican who held the office for a very long time. weve done elections well in arizona and maricopa county for a long time. i hope the new recorder continues that legacy, i think he also, and reasonable-mined arizonans know that this is a stunt. this is going to hopefully go away soon and the sooner the better. >> thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks for ha...

>> reporter: a cornerstone of lakes campaign? baseless fraud claims raised by the republican-led sham review of maricopa countys 2020 presidential election. >> the system is corrupt. have you followed whats happened in our election here? >> absolutely. i covered the audit. >> reporter: relentlessly, repeating misinformation. do you think it was the right thing to do to delete a bunch of million files the day before the audit? >> that was roundly debunked. >> not by the press but by the maricopa ...

Candidates in arizona was superdepressing. i just want to play one thing that one of them said. >> the system is corrupt. have you not followed whats happening in our election here? >> absolutely. i covered the audit. >> do you think it was the right thing to do to delete a bunch of -- million files the day before the audit? >> that was roundly debunked. not by the press but by the maricopa county recorders office. >> okay. well, you are buying into everything they say. these are the same people...

>> reporter: a longtime former phoenix television anchor who quit her job. lake has built a name i.d. and a dedicated following like the students who insisted on gathering around her. >> you have a crowd. >> hi, everyone. >> reporter: as she agreed to speak with cnn. >> are you going to win? >> i believe we will. yeah. >> reporter: a cornerstone of lakes campaign? baseless fraud claims raised by the republican-led sham review of maricopa countys 2020 presidential election. >> the system is corru...

Black the blue, urging members to vote no on holding steve bannon in contempt of congress because he refuses to testify about his role in the attack on their workplace. given that along with flavor of politics you saw before the break, tonight is a good night to step back and take a look where it might lead. joining us is tom friedman, he is best-selling author of more books than we can list including this one. thank you for being late, an optimists guide to thriving in the age of accelerations....

Investigation has the expresident and his allies i suppose hope will some day, somehow overburn president joe bidens clear and sizable decisive win in the 2020 election. even before the findings of the arizona audit were released, republicans in several states have already gotten ahead of it, doing trumps bidding by launching more election probes. the latest is texas. texas won texas by more than five points. it is unclear what they are looking for there. thetimes tries to explain eight and a ha...

That frankly, especially those in states that trump won by more than 20 points. i mean, they are democrats but they are there because they have always campaigned as somebody who was more moderate than the democratic party. so we have this horrible conflict of trying to get to 51 on things or trying to reform the filibuster to get at this. thats why its so important and by the way, even doing this stuff in washington doesnt necessarily take care of the state and local level. >> for real. >> so ta...

County recorder during the last cycle. >> is there as much energy and motivation by folks on the other side? to run and make sure that those folks trying to undermine democracy dont prevail? >> i sure hope so. >> me too. >> at the end of the day, what we saw in the cast vote file here in maricopa county that had emerged out there in the ether from this was that what we saw was 59,000 maricopa county voters voted for president biden and senator kelly, and then they went republican state down the ...