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Trump testing waters for 'stealing the 2026 election_ Jason Johnson blasts DHS 'voter fraud' probe · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Tell us about that in this hunt, this hunt for
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  Speaker 1: the mysterious votes that probably weren't cast.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Michael, this is sort of the type of
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  Speaker 2: a granular election meeting that I don't think that we
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  Speaker 2: have covered in decades past. But here we are an
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  Speaker 2: hour and a half outside of Atlanta, here at this
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  Speaker 2: February meeting, And the reason we're here is that three
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  Speaker 2: of the five members on the Georgia State Election Board
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  Speaker 2: are individuals who have expressed conspiracy theories about the twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty election. They are Donald Trump allies, and with three
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  Speaker 2: out of five votes, that's the majority, and effectively they
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  Speaker 2: could file emotion and effectively take control of Fulton County's
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  Speaker 2: administration of its elections, which just in the last hour
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  Speaker 2: they put forward to motion to subpoena Brad Raffensberger, the
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  Speaker 2: Secretary of State. He is going to have to be
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  Speaker 2: arriving here at their next meeting. But the big question
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  Speaker 2: going into tomorrow morning is whether they will put forward
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  Speaker 2: to motion to do just that and essentially take state control,
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  Speaker 2: put in their own person to run Fulton County's elections,
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  Speaker 2: the most populous and diverse county in the state, and
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  Speaker 2: effectively make the rules as they see fit in Fulton County.
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  Speaker 2: That could change potentially early voting timeline, the weekend voting timeline,
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  Speaker 2: where dropboxes are, how voter registration is conducted. There's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of serious concerns here in Georgia, understanding that there
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  Speaker 2: is a widespread indictment just two years ago against a
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  Speaker 2: lot of state officials here in Georgia over alleged efforts
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  Speaker 2: to overturn the twenty twenty election.
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  Speaker 3: It is important to note that Brad Rathensberger is currently
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  Speaker 3: a candidate in the Republican primary from governor in Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: Georgia is not a side player, if you will, in
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  Speaker 3: this year's upcoming midterm elections. They are holding elections themselves
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  Speaker 3: for the governor's mansion, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and notably
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  Speaker 3: also in United States, Sennac John Assop most vulnerable member,
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  Speaker 3: one could argue, of the Democrats that is up for
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  Speaker 3: reelection this year. I want to read from some reporting
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  Speaker 3: that has a byline of Vaughan Laura Baron Lopez and
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  Speaker 3: Carol Lennox. This is ms NOW reporting. This memo shows
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  Speaker 3: White House directing DHS to hunt for voter fraud by
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  Speaker 3: naturalized citizens ms NOW has also learned that senior DHS
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  Speaker 3: Barmer Homeland Security and Justice Department appointees have held a
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  Speaker 3: series of meetings to discuss sending law enforcement of polling
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  Speaker 3: places to secure elections. Jason Johnson, what people may not
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  Speaker 3: know about you, or maybe they do because they watch
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  Speaker 3: the show, is that at one point you were an
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  Speaker 3: election observer.
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  Speaker 1: Yes for the UN, not for the Unitedations, but in Mexico,
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  Speaker 1: in Mexico and in South Africa.
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  Speaker 3: Does this sound like something that that this is.
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  Speaker 1: Supposed to be happening in a function, I know not
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  Speaker 1: at all. In fact, this is the kind of thing
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  Speaker 1: that if you were an international election observer, you would
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  Speaker 1: be reporting back to your home country saying this is
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  Speaker 1: a mess, this is a problem. This is what you
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  Speaker 1: see in Venezuela. This is what you see in China
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  Speaker 1: to the degree that they let people vote, This is
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  Speaker 1: what you see in Russia. And here's the things about
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  Speaker 1: None of this is about election fraud. We all know this.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about the election fraud. No one cares about
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  Speaker 1: election fraud. Election fraud doesn't really happen. It's always been
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous to think that somebody who comes to this country illegally,
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  Speaker 1: with all the dangers and risks that go with that.
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  Speaker 1: Just being pulled off the street is like, but I
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  Speaker 1: gotta go vote right as someone.
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  Speaker 4: Who is on the brink of becoming a US citizen.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. It never made any sense one way or another.
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  Speaker 1: But this is all a pretest for stealing the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six mid terms. If you have a state takeover
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  Speaker 1: of Fulton County, which is again the most populous county,
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  Speaker 1: is the most diverse county, it's also the most democratic
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  Speaker 1: county in the state, you don't have to steal the
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  Speaker 1: entire election. You just got to shave off some numbers.
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  Speaker 1: John Ossoff and Rafael Warnut did not win by large margins.
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  Speaker 1: And even if this is a bad year for Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: and it appears to be, but it's February, so who
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  Speaker 1: knows what things could be like by November. All they
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  Speaker 1: have to do keep a few hundred thousand people from voting,
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  Speaker 1: keep a few hundred thousand people home. And here's the thing,
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  Speaker 1: it's not just taking over the Republicans. When they went
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  Speaker 1: and used the FBI to go and take over Fulton County,
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  Speaker 1: they took voter roles, They took voter rolls, and they're
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  Speaker 1: going to use that to hunt down and harassed individuals
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  Speaker 1: should be able to vote this fall.
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  Speaker 4: Here's a thing that I learned in your reporting, Von, yours, Carl's,
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  Speaker 4: and Laura's reporting, which is, inasmuch as this is about
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  Speaker 4: elections and destabilizing elections, there is what you could describe
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  Speaker 4: as the side project of Stephen Miller's deportation machine. Let
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  Speaker 4: me read you some of your own reporting. The driving
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  Speaker 4: force behind the sweeping HSI investigations is White House Deputy
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  Speaker 4: Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. According to three people relaying
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  Speaker 4: concerns about the program, his office has held weekly meetings
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  Speaker 4: on the launch of the plan in recent weeks with
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  Speaker 4: both DHS and Justice Department leadership. That people said, part
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  Speaker 4: of this, Vaughan, is about elections and democracy, but part
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  Speaker 4: of this also is about Stephen Miller's project to expel
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  Speaker 4: people from this country.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that the part about this is when
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  Speaker 2: you're looking at the idea of the great Replacement theory,
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  Speaker 2: it has been used to essentially try to galvanize Republican
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  Speaker 2: voters on the country and especially the twenty eighteen midterms,
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  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty two midterms, and that's the idea that
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  Speaker 2: Democrats want immigrants to come into the country so that
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  Speaker 2: they can vote, and there is just a reality that
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  Speaker 2: there is no evidence of widespread or even significant or
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  Speaker 2: even minuscule voting by undocumented individuals in the country in
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  Speaker 2: American history. And I think that this is sort of
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  Speaker 2: you know, it reminds me of Also, there was this
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  Speaker 2: big investigation by the Republican Attorney General out in Arizona
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  Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty two in which there were allegations conspiracy,
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  Speaker 2: theories of dead people voting, and he did everything he could.
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  Speaker 2: It was an ally of Donald Trump, and essentially he
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  Speaker 2: came up with nothing and had to put that forward
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  Speaker 2: and was ridiculed by Republicans. And they think that this
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  Speaker 2: is another example of the ways in which six years
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  Speaker 2: into this they are struggling to find new conspiracies or
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  Speaker 2: new claims and allegations of fraud to justify the way
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  Speaker 2: in which Donald Trump lost a twenty twenty election. And
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  Speaker 2: I think it's important that there are still individuals within
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  Speaker 2: the White House, Stephen Miller, but also at the local level,
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  Speaker 2: like one of the state election board members here in
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  Speaker 2: the state of Georgia who just about an hour and
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  Speaker 2: a half ago. The words that she said were, quote,
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  Speaker 2: we want free and fair elections in Georgia, because right
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  Speaker 2: now we do not. That is one of the individuals that,
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  Speaker 2: in real time here in the state of Georgia, just
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  Speaker 2: seven months from the midterm, is help shaping election administration
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  Speaker 2: policy here in this pivotal, pivotal state,