joining us now is reporter lindsey hold and she's been covering the story of elections official tommy gong in california, miss holding it is a real pleasure to have you here tonight, thank you for taking the time. >> thank you for having me, rachel. >> so i've been following this story largely through your reporting and through the work of your paper and some of their news outlets, as far as i can tell this in that tommy gong is accused of, a from the racist stuff which is a separate matter is that we, the trump folks were demanding that he approve an audit, essentially a recount of results in the county but they demanded that he do it well after the window, the legal window, after which he could've even ordered that himself, legally, if he'd wanted to. am i right that they were demanding something of him that he wasn't even legally capable of granting them? >> yes. absolutely.