BE JOINED BY THE ARIZONA
SECRETARY OF STATE SOUNDING THE
ALARMS KATIE HOBBS.
WE HAVE KOFCOVERED ALL OF YOUR
COMMENTS AND WARNINGS ABOUT THIS
PROCESS AND I THINK WE ARE EAGER
TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING
AND WHAT ELSE CAN BE DONE TO
MAKE SURE THAT IT DOESN’T BECOME
PART OF THIS REALLY TOXIC STREAM
OF DISINFORMATION.
>> YEAH.
I’M GLAD YOU CHARACTERIZED THIS
AS ALARMING BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT
IT IS.
IT IS DESIGNED TO CONTINUE
PROMOTING THE BIG LIE THAT THE
ELECTION IN 2020 WAS STOLEN.
WE KNOW THAT THAT IS NOT THE
CASE.
WE KNOW THAT THIS WAS THE MOST
SECURE AND HISTORICALLY
PARTICIPATED IN ELECTION WE HAVE
HAD AND SO THIS IS NOTHING MORE
THAN A FISHING EXPEDITION
DESIGNED TO CONTINUE TO
UNDERMINE VOTERS’ CONFIDENCE IN
THE DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS.
>> AND, MADAME SECRETARY, THE
ELECTION OFFICIALS ON BOTH SIDES
OF THE AISLE HAVE YOUR VIEW.
THAT IS THE STATEMENT FROM A
FIRST REPUBLICAN TO SOUND THE
ALARM ABOUT THE DANGER TO
VIOLENCE, THAT DONALD TRUMP’S
LIES ABOUT FRAUD WOULD CAUSE.
THIS IS WHAT HE TWEETED THIS
AUDIT IN ARIZONA IS ANOTHER STEP
IN UNDERMINING CONFIDENCE IN
ELECTIONS.
THIS PROCESS IS NEITHER
TRANSPARENT NOR LIKELY LEGAL.
ANY FIMPBDINGS WILL BE HIGHLY
SUSPECT NOW THAT CHAIN OF KURSDY
IS VIOLATED.
HOW DID WE GET TO THE POINT
WHERE THIS FIRM HAS THE HANDS ON
2.1 MILLION BALLOTS?
>> WELL RNGS, THAT’S A REALLY GR
QUESTION AND I DON’T KNOW
BECAUSE WHEN THE SUBPOENA WAS
ISSUED AND SUBSEQUENTLY RULED
VALID BY A JUDGE THE SENATE
DIDN’T HAVE A FIRM IN PLACE TO
CONDUCT THE EXERCISES THAT WE
ARE SEEING NOW AND SO THEY HAVE
NOT BEEN FORTHCOMING ABOUT THE
PROCESS USED TO SELECT THIS FIRM
AND WE DID FIND OUT THAT THEY
DID RECEIVE SOME BIDS, CYBER
NINJA DID NOT BID AND I WANT TO
MAKE IT REALLY CLEAR.
THIS FIRM IS NOT AN AUDITING
FIRM AND THEY ARE NOT AN
ELECTION FIRM AND DON’T HAVE AN
EXPERTISE IN WHAT IT IS THEY’RE
DOING RIPGTGHT NOW AND THAT IS V
CONCERNING.
>> MADAME SECRETARY, I WANT TO
READ FROM THE BRENNAN CENTER
MORE ABOUT THIS FIRM AND ASK YOU
IF I READ THIS IF YOU THINK THE
CONSTITUENTS HAVE THIS
INFORMATION OR KNOW THIS IS THE
FOLKS HANDLING THEIR BALLOTS AND
THEIR VOTES.
THIS IS FROM VICE NEWS REPORTING
THAT LINWOOD HELPED RAISE MONEY
TO PAY FOR THE AUDIT AND TOLD
TALKING POINTS MEMO LAST WEEK
THAT HE HOSTED CYBER NINJA
KROEMT DOUG LOGAN AT HIS HOUSE
WORKING ON THE INVESTIGATION
INTO ELECTION FRAUD AND POSTED
ON HIS SINCE DEACTIVATED TWITTER
ACCOUNT PROMOTING THE STOP THE
STEAL CONSPIRACY AND SAYING HE
WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUCH PORTS TRUMP
AND DENIED THE PERSONAL VIEWS
HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE
AUDIT ATTEMPTING TO PROVE THE
ELECTION WAS STOLEN.
LIN WOOD WAS PEDDLING THE LIES
THAT LED TO MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR
LAWSUITS AGAINST SOME OF THE
PROPAGANDISTS THAT CLAIMED THAT
THE MACHINES WERE RIGGED AND NOW
HE IS BACKING FINANCIALLY AT
LEAST AND POLITICALLY THE PERSON
WHO HAS IN HIS HANDS THE BALLOTS
OF ARIZONANS AND I WONDER IF
THERE’S ANY BIPARTISAN SORT OF
CONCERN GROWING ACT THEBOUT THE
OF PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE AUDIT
AND IT WAS THE REPUBLICAN
GOVERNOR WHO CERTIFIED THE
COUNT.
>> RIGHT, RIGHT.
OUR COUNT WAS CERTIFIED BY BOTH
THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR, THE
REPUBLICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL AND
THE REPUBLICAN CHIEF JUSTICE OF
THE SUPREME COURT.
SO YEAH.
MY OFFICE IS HEARING EVERY DAY
FROM CONSTITUENTS ACROSS ARIZONA
BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE THAT ARE
EXTREMELY CONCERNED ABOUT THE
LACK OF QUALIFICATIONS OF THIS
FIRM AND THE CLEAR BIAS THAT THE
FOLKS INVOLVED WITH THIS PROCESS
ARE BRINGING INTO THE PROCESS.
SO YOU KNOW, IT IS REALLY CLEAR
THAT THIS IS NOT AN INDEPENDENT
AUDIT DESIGNED TO MAKE SURE THE
SYSTEM’S WORKING THE WAY THEY’RE
SUPPOSED TO.
THIS IS A FISHING EXPEDITION LED
BY PARTISANS WITH AN AGENDA TO
CONTINUE TO UNDERMINE THE
ELECTION FROM 2020.
>> I’VE READ A LOT OF THE LOCAL
REPORTING ABOUT WHAT THE CLIMATE
WAS LIKE WHEN THIS SUBPOENA WAS
PUSHED AND THERE WERE THREATS OF
VIOLENCE, EXTRA SECURITY AT
PEOPLE’S HOMES.
I WONDER HAS THAT TAMPED DOWN.
DO YOU FEEL SAFE?
>> WELL, YEAH.
THERE WAS IN PARTICULAR A
REPUBLICAN LEGISLATOR WHO VOTED
AGAINST SANCTIONING THE MARICOPA
COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OVER
THIS SUBPOENA AND TAR GETTED AND
THREATENED THE SAME WAY THAT
MYSELF AND OTHER FOLKS WERE IN
THE ELECTION.
THAT HAD DIED DOWN A LITTLE BIT.
IT IS CERTAINLY RAMPING UP AGAIN
WITH THIS PROCESS IN PLACE AND
WE ARE CERTAINLY ON HIGH ALERT
IN MY OFFICE.
>> WHAT ARE THE SCENARIOS FOR
HOW THIS ENDS, MADAME SECRETARY?
>> YOU KNOW, I WISH I KNEW THE
ANSWER TO THAT.
I DON’T THINK IT ENDS WELL.
YOU KNOW, THESE FOLKS ARE ON A
FISHING EXPEDITION.
WE KNOW THAT THROUGH ALL OF THE
AUDITS THAT HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED
AND ALL CLEAR IN TERMS OF THE
RESULTS, THAT THIS ELECTION WAS
FREE OF FRAUD AND THIS EXERCISE
IS DESIGNED TO JUST REFUTE THAT.
AND CONTINUE TO PROMOTE THE BIG
LIE AND SO WHATEVER THEIR
FINDINGS ARE I THINK THEY’RE
GOING TO CONTINUE TO UTILIZE