I dont even know how to explain 2020. It was a crazy, crazy year bad things happened in philadelphia. Former Vice President joe biden to become the 46th president of the united states. I had no idea what we would be in for. I thought my friends were messing with me. A philadelphia Landscaping Company has been thrust into the national spotlight. The entire thing was supposed to be anonymous. It put me in shock to see my name on the president s twitter. We probably got thousands of calls. You have 950 new messages. We had a lot of haters. I remember asking, did we make a mistake . There were just way too many trees. Heres the other thing, and i think well discuss this with the board when we have zoom. My name is marie ziravo, im 65. Im the president at four seasons total landscaping in northeast philadelphia. We do Grounds Maintenance and irrigation, seeding, flowers, snow removal. Its kind of boring. I think the most challenging part of starting the business and being in business was being womanowned. Nobody took you serious. You own the property. You have cameras. My other maintenance men, on other properties, they cannot assess. We help them, they help us. If i had 1 for every time i got asked did i have a husband. I have a wonderful husband he just had his business and i had mine. This is my life. Other than my family, this is my entire life. We want to make sure that if we do purchase this, its meeting our needs, and that we dont now also need another building. I have three boys. Michael is the youngest. Mike took on the General Manager role. I had to let go a little bit, because i want my hands in everything. How many people get the chance to go to work every day with their mother . The first thing we do is fix everything with food. This is part of our italian culture. Some days are like, phenomenal. And some days, she cant figure out how to use the printer, and its frustrating. Mike i need some help we have some days when our horns lock, and he forgets im still his boss, but i try not to use that card, because i need him to learn everything that is in my head. I started from the very bottom, being a laborer, Learning Everything to working underneath the supervisor and shadowing him. So i pretty much work from the ground up to where i am now. Get it, ground up . Other than that, thats not scheduled work, so like basically, mike and shawn, they run the daily operations. I really do depend on mike. We are partners with his mother in this business. Sean and i met when we were in college. I looked up to him as a role model. He was almost like a big brother to me. Mike and i have been through a lot together, both personally and professionally. We are both in recovery, which is a big thing we have in common. If you could do it with Somebody Else who has the same goals as you do, to become a better person on a daily basis, it makes it easier. Theyre like two old souls. They Work Together so well. I know they both have the companys best interests at heart. Sometimes it takes a little i just got to let him be him and back up. He comes around. So is this what people want to hear about in this documentary . The race to the white house has been now confusing President Trump is still leading in that state by about 108,000 votes. For days after the election, there was not a clue. It just left everybody worried and stressed. Philadelphia became kind of ground zero for the election battle. The Convention Center in the center of town is where all the votes were being counted. Crowds started gathering outside. You had Trump Supporters gathered outside and you had biden supporters. They were facing off against each other across the street. People were dressing up as a constitution. People were dressing up as mailboxes. Theyre Holding Signs saying, we the people. Progressive, conservative america, in one place. Literally, these two streets outside the philly Convention Center. Trumps legal team composed of turned up at the philly Convention Center the count every votes protest just across the street turned up the music really really loud. So you cannot hear a word that pam says, because its completely overwhelmed by the sound of the music. Everybody was biting at each other. Every post and tweet and instagram you saw, people were arguing. It just was very uneasy. And then, the phone call. My phone rang around 8 45 am. I was in a mens bible study in doylestown, pennsylvania. Hello . I did not answer it. Then my phone immediately ran again. I excused myself and walk outside. It was a trump staffer. They were asking if we would be amenable to them having a Press Conference at four seasons total landscaping. I just thought, why not . 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Trump deletes the second tweet. A third tweet comes in. And it says, Big Press Conference in philadelphia, four seasons total landscaping. Why would the president s lawyers hold a conference at a Landscaping Company . The story starts with donald trump tweeting that there would be a Press Conference on saturday morning at The Four Seasons in philadelphia. No, not the hotel, but The Four Seasons total landscape. It remains unclear whether the Trump Campaign booked the whole thing in error or not . Why did you pick this place . It was just a head scratcher. This was just the beginning of how surreal this was was. Its not prominent. Why is it here . You had more questions than you could possibly have answered. With trump, it was always difficult to get answers about the truth. Sometimes, it was because people didnt know the answers. Often, it was because they were lying. I spent weeks and weeks interviewing everybody i could. And hitting dead end after dead end after dead end. Nobody really knew how they ended up at the landscaping place, in a part of town that is normally not where campaigns host these things. I said i will try to answer what i thought was a simple question. Whats the hell happened . And the longer that i dug into it, the crazier it was. Mistake or not, they held their Press Conference at the loading dock of the landscaper. Heres what it looked like. That is quite an image. Projects power. Obviously, they screwed up. They got the wrong place. They said lets just go with it. We are on an Industrial Strip with a crematorium across the street and an adult video and bookstore up the street. There was a level of excitement among our staff that we would be hosting the president s Campaign Staff here. But that was quickly followed by dread. An Obvious Screwup in booking, but they all played along and pretended that was the master plan. There are two different theories, really. That i had. That other people had as well. One, i thought that maybe they had someone that thought they could book the Four Seasons Hotel. Someone on the campaign made the president think that it was a possibility that it would be held there, and that once he tweeted that, they googled around and found that the closest thing called four seasons to The Four Seasons philadelphia happened to be this landscaping place. The other theory was this perfect storm of Minor Screw Ups from various people at various levels at the campaign. And somehow through a connection or an accident, they ended up here. I met the Campaign Staff here at about 9 30. It was a pretty quick set up obviously. You saw what was on tv. Im pretty proud of the space that we were able to curate in such a small amount of time. I mean, it was a Landscape Construction yard. Normally, you might have Police Outside of the perimeter, but it was just private security, and they asked us to put our News Organizations down on a clipboard, and they would call us in, and they made it look like it might be exclusive, like we might not all get called in. Every time they called a news organization, the 6 to 8 Trump Supporters would boo. We request a republican. The Information Media i think the biggest part for me was seeing giuliani, like, pull up in two black suburbans. I thought i was dreaming. Nobody famous has ever been here. It was almost like in slow motion. Like him walking into the office. I actually wasnt going to come here. And i got a phone call from my son anthony, he said mom. This is bigger than we think. And he sends me a picture while im talking to him. And rudy is sitting at my desk, and the plaque in front of my desk says boss lady. I looked at my husband, i said, we better get over there. We demand a Fair Election i demand you shut the hell up we demand a Fair Election we demand a Fair Election there was a crowd of people, the biden and Trump Supporters were there, they were going back and forth with each other. And then the cops showed up and the entire front row was shut down. Thats when it kind of got like, very Nerve Wracking for me. It was just overwhelming, so i just looked around, i looked at everybody, i tried to figure out who everybody was. The Press Conference was about to start. I stood on top of the trailer so i could see. And i just watched. In the final weeks, officials told me keeping rudy busy became a fulltime job. They had to devise places to send him. Specific aides to keep with him. That would make it so he was not running wild, creating whackamole problems for them. Rudy giuliani is undermining confidence in the American Election system. And therefore undermining our national security. Rudy giuliani was considered to be a great force of law and order. He was one of the heroes of 9 11. I think thats part of why it was so disturbing to watch him unravel. And to watch him kind of debase himself in support of this guy who they thought he was better than. By the way, do you have any idea that the State Department do you know the lie . Shut up. You dont know where youre talking about. You dont know what youre talking about, idiot. He was kind of a mess, but he was always around. And he was always loyal, and that was the only thing that seem to matter to the president. He is a great guy, he knows its a witch hunt, thats what he knows. Rudy followed his Press Coverage very closely. And he was very aware of whats the view of him was in mainstream circles. He was nothing but respectful to us when he was here. Shook our hands, took pictures with us. Greeted all the cops, but i think going on tv i dont know if something changes. He once told me my view of my legacy is, quote, fuck it. What a beautiful day. Thank you. Im here on behalf of the Trump Campaign, as an attorney for the president , to describe to you the first part of a situation that is extremely, extremely troubling. Rudy comes out and launches into this speech about how the election was stolen and how there are very Grave Allegations of fraud. He has witnesses behind him. People who have seen alleged fraud, people who will be testifying in lawsuits. He presents this guy darrell brooks. We later learned hes exposed himself to children under age. It became clear pretty quickly that nothing was there. There was no revelation. He wasnt exposing a big fraud that took place in philadelphia. The election wasnt stolen. While rudy was speaking i was off to the side with mike and marie. We looked at each other, and we are in awe of how long this was going on. And i know, i know you wont accept it because of your hateful biases. But see if you can try to think rationally. Put some of those ballots that were manufactured in advance by the democrat machine of philadelphia. Wouldnt be the first time they did it. I didnt think anyone took this real serious. How can i possibly tell you . Theres fraud or no fraud. You just said and somebody says, yells out, do you know they have called the election for biden . Who was it called by . Oh my goodness. All the networks wow all the networks all the networks when have the networks decided the election . And were all thinking all the time. Networks called the elections all the time. You can see this ripple among the crowd of journalists as they try to find out what to do. I am trying to figure out the same thing, do i listen to Rudy Giuliani or go back to philadelphia, where people will be celebrating the election . Then you see people starting to pack up their stuff. Many of them had to leave. Because the primary story wasnt that Rudy Giuliani was challenging the Election Results. The story was that biden has just won the presidency. If somebody asked me, where were you when they called the election for joe biden . Id say well, i was in the parking lot of four seasons total landscaping. The president s lawyer left as the news came in that joe biden had been declared the victor. Perhaps this is why they chose the industrial estate. They wouldnt be heard or welcome here in downtown philadelphia. [applause] a city in a state which delivered donald trump the white house four years ago, pennsylvania is now the state which pushed joe biden over the line. I just thought, sure, we said yeah. And it was going to be over. Period. We would have done this for either Political Campaign. We just wanted to be helpful. And we just had no idea what we were in for. Did you see my Press Conference today, it was at The Four Seasons, fancy. Yeah, it sounds fancy. But it was at a Landscaping Company called four seasons. Was that a mistake . [laughs] what . No we heard from all different types of media outlets, and people wanting to know more about what happened. I got calls from the washington post. Chicago times. New york times. Usa today. Yahoo news. Netflix. Hulu. Business insider. Nbc. Fox. Cnn. In the bbc. I started seeing that this was going further. And it was going into europe. German newspapers, irish newspapers, you name it, they were all calling. My emails have not stopped. Are you getting emails . Nonstop. Are you . Yeah, its insane. I thought this would be anonymous. Thats why i said yes. Otherwise, if i thought it was turning into this, i would have thought twice. On the day after the Press Conference it was nothing but chaos. We couldnt even use the office phone for two weeks. Because it just never stopped ringing. You couldnt even get a thought process, let alone answer them. You have 1010 new messages, of which three are urgent. [inaudible] i understood that there is a special on bullshit this week. Hi, do you provide Services Like dismantling our democracy . Deleted. You are a traitor. Deleted, new message, 39. The things they are saying about us is like, amazing. I just cant even believe this. Okay guys, wait till you hear this one. There is a big conspiracy theory. We are burning ballots across the street at the crem