>> Well, as most of us know, right wing disinformation outlets have been regurgitating
and repeating unfounded accusations of widespread voter fraud on their platforms, indicating that
Donald Trump had the election stolen from him by Joe Biden. But now it turns out that the software
company that's being accused of being involved in election fraud has decided to fight back.
Smartmatic is the software in question here. They've been accused of being the software
that's used on Dominion voting machines. And it allegedly has a backdoor that allows for
votes cast for Donald Trump to be switched to Joe Biden. No evidence of that. In fact,
Smartmatic wasn't even the software that was used in the election
in the battleground states that these Trump campaign lawyers have been talking about.
So as a result, Smartmatic realized, these ridiculous disinformation campaigns weren't
gonna stop and we need to sue. So again, let me reiterate, Smartmatic wasn't even used in the
contested states. The company, now a major global player with over 300 employees, pulled out of the
United States in 2007 after a controversy over it's founders Venezuelan roots, and it's only
involvement this November Was with a contract to help Los Angeles County run its elections.
Now lawyers representing Smartmatic sent scathing letters to the Fox News Channel,
Newsmax and OAN demanding that they immediately forcefully clear the company's name. And that they
retain documents for a planned defamation lawsuit. And so as a result, if you were
closely watching Fox News recently or some of these other right-wing disinformation outlets,
you'll notice them using very similar language in debunking what they had previously said
on their shows about Smartmatic and these voting machines.
Let's take a quick look at a compilation of what that look like.
>> There are lots of opinions about the integrity of the election,
the irregularities of mail in voting of election voting machines and voting software.
>> We've heard the concerns about both voting machines and voting software.
>> We have heard concerns about both voting machines
and voting software. >> One of the companies is Smartmatic
and we reached out to one of the leading authorities on open source software for elections,
Eddie Perez, for his insight and views. >> Specifically, a company called Smartmatic,
this week, we reached out to Eddie Perez for his insight.
>> Specifically a software company called Smartmatic. This week we reached out to
Eddie Perez for insight. >> Eddie is the global
director of technical development at the Open Source Election Technology Institute.
We asked him for his assessment of Smartmatic, and recent claims about the company.
>> We asked him what he knew about Smartmatic, and the claims some have made about that company.
>> We asked him what he knew about Smartmatic,
and the claims some have made about that company. >> So I don't know, Cenk, it appears that they're
just reading a script that was sent by lawyers in order to avoid paying the
consequences of what they've been engaging in for weeks now, which has been disinformation.
So they're worried about that defamation lawsuit and I love how they're not taking
personal responsibility. Some people, some people have said,
there've been differing opinions. But let's talk about what the truth is here. Some people have
been spreading false information. Yeah, it's you, guys. You're facing a lawsuit and now
you're debunking your own garbage on your air because you're forced to by lawyers.
>> All right, a couple of important parts of this. First, side note but important. That's why I call
them news actors and not news anchors. They're just given us script and they read it. The script
could be one for a lunatic like Lou Dobbs and then he goes, Smartmatic, it's fixing everything.
It's drinking everything right? And Glenn Beck, you remember how he used to walk
around the room when he was on Fox News and do the chalkboard and it looked so authentic?
I know for a fact that he rehearsed that all day long. It was a script. So they're all actors.
And the question is who's the director? So at CNN the director says, remember we're in favor of wall
corporate Republicans and corporate Democrats, but against anyone outside of that spectrum. At Fox
News, it's generally speaking, it used to be Roger Ailes. And he would literally write memos that got
uncovered, they were featured in outfox and many other places where he would tell them what to say
and the VPs of Fox News in the old days, old days as in like a year ago, or two years ago,
would say, call Obama Marxist, call him a communist call him a socialist.
And the news actors would get on and go, of course, as everybody knows,
people are saying that Obama's a Marxist, right? So in this case, who's directing? The lawyers are.
And the lawyer's told him, you morons, they're gonna sue the living hell out of us,
and then we're gonna have to fire all of you.
One, because we have less money. Two, because you just cost us a giant sum of money. What do
you think we're doing here? We're trying to make money. That's what Fox News is
about. I don't know if people are, and by the way, that's also what CNN is about.
So like, it's easy to beat up on the right wing. When you talk about the
establishment stuff, though they go, no, no, CNN is doing it out
of the goodness of their heart. >> So I do wanna also show what
the rest of the segment look like. And they all use the same person.
They even referenced him. In that compilation, we showed you Eddie Perez. So let's just take a
look at what the debunking look like. >> Have you seen any evidence that
Smartmatic software was used to flip votes anywhere in the US in this election?
>> I have not seen any evidence that Smartmatic software was used to delete, change, alter
anything related to vote tabulation.
>> What about Smartmatic and Dominion? Do you know if they're related whether one owns the other?
Whether Dominion uses Smartmatic software? >> Both Dominion and Smartmatic have
individually and respectively put out very clear statements from their corporate headquarters,
each of them indicating they are independent companies, they are not related to each other.
>> Have you seen any evidence of a connection
between George Soros and Smartmatic? >> I'm not aware of any direct connection
between George Soros and Smartmatic. >> Have you seen any evidence of
Smartmatic sending US votes to be tabulated in foreign countries?
>> No, I'm not aware of any evidence that Smartmatic is sending US votes to
be tabulated in foreign countries outside of one customer in Los Angeles County.
Smartmatic has no presence in the voting technology marketplace in the United States.
>> Well, that's it for me tonight. I'm Lisa Booth, filling in for
judging. Thank you so much for watching. >> So that is where we stand right now.
We will keep investigating. That'll do it for us.
>> Yeah, that's where they stand right now. Again, I mean, of course, this is due to the
lawsuit. And I should also note that Smartmatic, the software company,
is different from Dominion, which has the voting machines, but Dominion is
also suing. Dominion Voting Systems has hired another high-powered libel lawyer,
Tom Clare, who has threatened legal action against Sidney Powell and the Trump campaign.
Let me just give you a quick statement from Clare. He says, we are moving forward on the
basis that she will not retract those false statements and that it will be necessary for
Dominion to take aggressive legal action against Sidney Powell and many others who have enabled
and amplified her campaign of defamation by spreading damaging falsehoods about dominion.
And by the way, William Barr was pressured by Donald Trump's campaign to
sees dominion voting machine and he basically said, no, there's no reason to do that.
>> Okay, so the reason that you saw that really bizarre way of presenting in all those shows,
was there like someone saying, so Mar Matic are owned by George Soros, and then the guy answers,
is because they didn't want to humiliate their anchors by having
Dobbs-Bartiromo set or go out there, themselves ago.
We were lying the whole time. None of it is true. It's not owned by Soros. It didn't run
anywhere, other than LA County. We're unbelievable liars. So they did this package where they went,
was it true? And then, they bring a rando guy to go, no, it wasn't.
By the way, I didn't love the way he phrased it either.
I'm not aware of any direct evidence that is linked to George Soros.
No, it's not like the source at all. What do you mean? I don't care if you're aware or not
aware of it, and then there's no evidence not just direct evidence as Smartmatic.
Guys, look, if you wanna look at how we run these voting machines,
like when there isn't already an election, that's done, and you wanna talk about, hey,
future elections, before we know who won and lost, and I'm trying to rig it in reverse.
So we don't know who won for 2022, you wanna look at the machines.
Let's look at the machines. Let's see how they work. But you guys are cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
And you actually heard the effort to verify all the votes, because you're, Smartmatic, a Greek man
with Hugo Chavez and Soros. Do Smartmatic was only in LA County? Did they rig LA for Biden?
When you're that dumb, you really can't help the cause at all, even your own cause,
but the most important part here is bottom line, is that all these guys were wrong. And the fact
that they're airing that shows that fox made a calculation, no, we're not right about this.
If they sue, we'll lose. We must run this on air, that didn't make up for all the things
that they did. No, they've run that story 1,000 times and they did that correction,
in my opinion, a weak sauce correction only once. By the way, what was their audience reaction?
They were livid. They're like, this guy doesn't even know Hugo Chavez. Of course,
just go stricted, scaredy at what you put them on man. I'm gonna go watch Newsmax.
You know what happened in Newsmax today? They issued the same apology.