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they got him. and got more including the deadline from the review well past. today having gotten what they wanted they were called onto do something theyve notably not done in any court filing or proceedings so far, namely back up what their clients and allies are suggesting saying these documents were declassified. for the governments part today they signaled their willingness to take this all the way to the supreme court. jessica schneider starts us off and joins us now. lets talk ab...

response to that ultimatum from the special master. when he said he might have no choice but to accept the governments claims that 100 of those documents are classified, if trumps team doesnt step up with the proof that the former president declassified them. and thats really something that trumps legal team has resisted repeatedly asserting both in person and in court and in legal filings. so we saw a filing last night and they said that they might have to save any evidence of declass...

The letter from free speech for people continues quote, less media and public attention have been focused on the fact that the testimony also includes references to a parallel plan for non-governmental individuals and entities to access voting systems. the stated goal of this effort to gain access to software and electronic data was to help construct narratives that would support overturning the election the plan did proceed, and after a few failed attempts was executed to successfully obtain co...

Anderson. the voting system software, the ballots, how these machines worked. what they were planning to do with it, we dont know. what they were looking for we sort of know. they were looking for any evidence that in this small, rural, mostly republican county they were looking for any discrepancy in the vote so they could challenge the entire state of georgias votes. they obviously didnt find it. the woman who let them in probably sympathetic was that kathy lathem. shes the republican county c...

Andrew griffin joins us now. do we know what kind of data may have been compromised and what these people may have done with it? >> we dont know what theyve done with it, we do know it was compromised. in that is as they said in that report and what weve heard from various depositions, they scanned everything, anderson. the voting system software, the ballots, how these machines work, what they were planning to do with it we dont know, what they were looking for, we sort of know. they were looki...

Colorado secretary of state jena griswold, peters refused to comply with a list of election security items that griswold gave her ahead of the midterms. the terms say peters needed a chaperone whenever she gets near a mesa county voting equipment. peters must retract statements where she indicated a quote willingness to compromise her countys equipment. you might be asking how did a local chief elections official get barred from going anywhere near election equipment without supervision? last ye...

Then there was the real fun, one were copies of election management system software is from bowls mason county and interim county, got passed around. to the public. passed around to actors, and invited guests like mike lynn the pillow guy from the conference last month, who was supposed to be the launching pad for donald trumps -- the ap talk to one of the hackers who got a copy of that stolen stuff, and reported quote, the release gives hackers a practice environment to pro for vulnerabilities ...