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Colorado official rips Trump over 2020 election investigations his trying to grab onto power · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: The Trump administration's search for evidence in the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: election has reached another state. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports
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  Speaker 1: an FBI agent interviewed a high ranking Wisconsin election official
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  Speaker 1: this week to discuss how elections are carried out in
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  Speaker 1: these state and various election theories. Robert Keyhoe, the Elections
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  Speaker 1: Commission's deputy administrator, debunked false claims and clarified how elections work,
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  Speaker 1: according to the Journal Sentinels sources. Meanwhile, the federal government
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  Speaker 1: is also expanding its investigative powers in Georgia after seizing
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty ballots from Fulton County. Now the DOJ is
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  Speaker 1: demanding the names of election workers who worked the polls
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  Speaker 1: there in twenty twenty, according to court documents obtained by
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  Speaker 1: The New York Times. Joining me now, Jenni Griswold, Colorado
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State and candidate for Attorney General. Welcome, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Good to see you so, Secretary, election workers and public
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  Speaker 1: election officials. I don't have to tell you they are
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  Speaker 1: under the microscope big time.
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  Speaker 2: But why now?
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  Speaker 1: What is it that federal investigators are looking to achieve?
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  Speaker 2: Well for self? Thanks for having me, Happy Mothers Day
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  Speaker 2: and the thank you, the bigger question is what is
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  Speaker 2: Trump hoping to achieve. He has weaponized the entire administration
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  Speaker 2: into continually trying to prove his twenty twenty big wives
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  Speaker 2: in the conspiracy about elections. Courts have debunked these conspiracies
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  Speaker 2: over and over and over again, but Trump is dead
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  Speaker 2: set on them. Why to try to lay the groundwork
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  Speaker 2: for rejecting election results. That's what all of this is about.
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  Speaker 2: I think we can count on it that if MAGA
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  Speaker 2: loses in twenty twenty six, Trump and his allies will
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  Speaker 2: point to the conspiracies that they themselves are creating to
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  Speaker 2: try to reject the results. And that is highly dangerous
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  Speaker 2: for democracy.
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  Speaker 1: So this is not about Donald Trump not living comfortably
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  Speaker 1: with the moniker loser in twenty twenty. And when you
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  Speaker 1: think there is almost a sinister intent behind them.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I can't speak directly to every situation that
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  Speaker 2: he is seeking his DOJ on right, I have as
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  Speaker 2: much public information as you, but I think that is
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  Speaker 2: absolutely the big picture. He tried to steal the presidency
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty, and he is attacking the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: six elections from weaponizing the DOJ to go after anyone
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  Speaker 2: who doesn't agree with him to having the DOJ to
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  Speaker 2: try to collect sensitive voter data, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: alex I refuse to hand over. They're suing me and
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  Speaker 2: many other secretaries of state right now to his push
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  Speaker 2: to suppress the vote, to the corrupt redistricting they're trying
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  Speaker 2: to do across the country. Trump is trying to grab
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  Speaker 2: onto power, and he is laying the groundwork to failing
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  Speaker 2: at his attempt. So what I think we need to
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  Speaker 2: do is just remain steadfast, fight any effort to suppress
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  Speaker 2: the vote, push back on these conspiracies, and urge Americans
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  Speaker 2: to make a plan to vote. He is afraid of
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  Speaker 2: the power of the American people. That's why we're seeing
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  Speaker 2: these attempts escalate.
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  Speaker 1: So that lawsuit that you are facing, do you have
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  Speaker 1: any concern that it could be something you would lose
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  Speaker 1: or do you strongly believe and know for a fact
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  Speaker 1: that you're the law on your side.
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  Speaker 2: We are very confident in the lawsuit. And to be clear,
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  Speaker 2: Trump has asked his DOJ has demanded various states hand
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  Speaker 2: over sensitive voter data. So we're talking about driver's license
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  Speaker 2: or last four of social security numbers. We do not
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  Speaker 2: believe that they have the right to this information. So
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  Speaker 2: we're fighting back. But Trump has been trying to get
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  Speaker 2: this information in various ways. It's been part of his
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  Speaker 2: failed legislative attempts in Congress. He also issued an executive
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  Speaker 2: order on elections various states are now fighting in court
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  Speaker 2: that would direct his administration to compile a list of
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  Speaker 2: voters who are acceptable in his eyes to receive a
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  Speaker 2: male ballot. Again, big picture, he is trying to suppress
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  Speaker 2: the vote. He is trying to grab onto authority that
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  Speaker 2: he does not have. And I am confident that we
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  Speaker 2: are going to win the lawsuits, but more than that,
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  Speaker 2: win the fight for the soul of this country, and
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  Speaker 2: that is a representative democracy and free and fair elections.
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  Speaker 1: So the Supreme Court decision, though effectively gutting the Voting
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  Speaker 1: Rights Act, has resulted in an election and redistricting mess.
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana delay its primaries even though tens of thousands of
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  Speaker 1: early ballots had been mailed in. You have states moving
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  Speaker 1: to redraw maps days and weeks before primaries are set
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  Speaker 1: to begin. Is this the disruption in the interest of
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  Speaker 1: achieving a fair voting system or is this a political
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  Speaker 1: race to the bottom.
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  Speaker 2: Decision by the Supreme Court is devastating for the Voting
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  Speaker 2: Rights Act, and we'll roll back decades of progress on
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  Speaker 2: a more equal representative government and basically makes it easier
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  Speaker 2: for states to eliminate representation of communities of color. And
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  Speaker 2: we know that Trump and MAGA had already been redistricting
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  Speaker 2: roughly to try to take control of Congress. This decision
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  Speaker 2: makes it even easier. Various states after this decision was
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  Speaker 2: issued by the Supreme Court already have begun to work
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  Speaker 2: to eliminate districts congressional districts that represent majority black voters
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  Speaker 2: to dilute their power. So again we are seeing various
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  Speaker 2: attacks on democracy from all different levels of government, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's state government, the federal government, the presidency, and in
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  Speaker 2: this case, the Supreme Court weakening protections. But we still
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  Speaker 2: have to remain hopeful. The American people absolutely we can
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  Speaker 2: save democracy again. That's why Trump and NAGA are growing
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  Speaker 2: so extreme. Republicans are afraid of their voters. Republicans are
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  Speaker 2: afraid of American voters. That's why they're trying to redistrict.
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  Speaker 2: And I am so optimistic that their corrupt plans will fail.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we love that optimism. Thank you very much for
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  Speaker 1: spending time with us, especially on a mother's Day. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that