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Particularly at a high level, the words have very carefully chosen and scrutinized. certainly when you hear them coming from the deputy attorney general herself, i have no doubt that the intention and the plan to do than was probably went up to the attorney general and certainly the office of the attorney general. and it's careful -- it's very carefully. there are two things i see in there. one, prosecutors are looking at it. s to me is they are examining the allegations, looking at federal law, seeing where the evidence falls and doesn't fall. and the second thing, the last point is she says ...

Keilar. major news this morning in a story that cnn broke overnight. for the first time, the department of justice is public acknowledging that it is looking into a specific aspect of the plot from high-level donald trump allies to overturn the 2020 election. this was a cnn exclusive. we learned that federal prosecutors are reviewing the fake electoral college certifications from 2020 that falsely declared former president trump the winner of seven states, states that he lost. this is the deputy attorney general lisa monaco. >> on the issue you raised in terms of fraudulent elector certificati...

And those charges were the first coming out of that task force, but they will not be the last. >> reporter: brianna, john, you heard her there. it won't be the last. that's one of the things that i think you will hear from merrick garland, the attorney general, is this is seen as a broader effort to try to protect people against these types of threats. . >> evan, big developments. thank you for breaking that story. evan perez. >> joining us now is former fbi director peter strzok. his book is now out in paperback. the deputy director, lisa m monaco, carefully chosen words. how do you read it? ...

Michigan and new mexico. they said they were gratified because there could be some federal crime. we don't know if the justice department will ever get to that point. but one of the things that has happened as a result of these false claims of vote fraud, it is driving a lot of threats that are being made against election workers around the country. and it's making it hard to recruit people to do a job that is a key part of our democracy. lisa monaco, the deputy attorney general, talked a little bit about those threats and the concerns they raise. >> i'm concerned about the really disturbing n...

Conduct of any kind and at any level that is part of an assault on our democracy. >> the fake electoral certifications were signed by trump allies, who false lip claimed to be the rightful electors in nevada, arizona, new mexico, pennsylvania, michigan, georgia, wisconsin. evan perez broke the story. he is in washington with more. evan, tell us the latest here. >> reporter: well, brianna, this is an important acknowledgment by the justice department. as you know, they normally don't talk about what they're doing. they don't even tell us when they're looking at these types of allegations. so it...