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bipartisan effort under way in congress now to protect future elections. we are covering all this from all angles. we have a team of reporters and analysts standing by. let's begin with manu raju on capitol hill. manu, tell us about this new legislation. >> reporter: this is the first direct response and most significant legislative response to the events of january 6th. a bipartisan group of senators just moments ago announced they have a deal to change how the so-called electoral count act, a law from 1887, works. essentially make it harder to overturn an election and what we saw d...

Suppose, that they were simply unwitting dupes. if so, they shouldn't be criminally liable. if that's the case and that's ultimately the way it turns out, who was behind all this? what were they told when they were enticed into becoming electors? there are a lot of open questions on this. above all, why did the prosecutor shift from being -- them being witnesses to them being possible defendants. >> is it standard procedure to send a letter to a witness who becomes a target? >> yes. in fact they're known as target letters. it usually warns them not to destroy documents. it also puts them on no...