anyone following this issue the last two years. the spokesman went on to say that this issue was in the rearview mirror, and that it was, quote, time to move on. so he also said that the governor has not heard from the special counsel on this issue, paula. a lot of people forgot about that infamous hail to the chief moment. jeremy, what was the consequence for him when he didn t go along? reporter: the governor stood by certified the results. he really faced a harsh backlash from president trump. he s one of several republican officials in states that biden won. these were states like arizona, like georgia. they were controlled by republican governors, and trump wanted them to help. when they didn t, he basically cut them off. trump s allies in the state in arizona, they went forward and continued to push these claims of fraud. this is how we ended up with an audit led by a private firm that, you know, that ultimately found that trump still lost the state, paula.
audit as a quote autopsy without the benefit of death. and the odds of being selected for that audit in any given year are roughly one out of 30,600. now, in the end, these audits didn t finds anything. mccabe told the new york times he and his wife owed the government a small amount of money which they paid, comey and his wife actually overpaid their taxes and this audit led them to getting a refund. but it cost $5,000 in accounting fees and comey had to turn over personal information and bank statements and had to turn over a christmas card to prove that he had the children he claimed as dependents. how did two of president trump s top perceived enemies end up facing that kind audit? the kind of audit that seems designed to dig up dirt. how does that happen? a spokesperson for president trump said he had no knowledge to this but in a statement in
0 soaking the priorities of viewers, and then that s the mindset of primetime it really ignores the real issues and basically provides red meat to viewers. that s an interesting term. soaking the priors. and thank you for joining us today. my pleasure. that is all in on this good evening. chris, good evening to you. have a great night. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we had an entirely different show planned for tonight but a big news story just broke in the new york times. the former fbi director james comey and his former deputy, andrew mccabe, both of whom president trump saw as enemies, well both of them faced rare supposedly random but highly intensive irs audits. you may remember back when the then fbi director james comey oversaw the early stages of the fbi s investigation into ties between the trump campaign and russia, in the summer of 2016. with questions swirling about those ties as trump took office, comey dropped a public bombshel
former white house counsel, senior adviser to president biden s campaign, now law professor at nyu. nice to see you. thanks for making time. a pleasure to be here. thank you. what s the relationship between this now apparently indefinitely extended review, this partisan revision that republicans are doing in wisconsin, and the kinds of threats to election workers that you and mr. ginsburg have set about trying to help people defend themselves from? yes, the audit is one of the tools in the current tool kit for intimidating and harassing election officials. these are not professional audits. in wisconsin, the asumbly directed audit led by a former supreme court justice, whose name appeared on your screen, this mr. gableman has acknowledged he doesn t know anything about running an election. however, he did come into the audit with a view that the 2020 election had resulted in theft. it was fraudulent. voters had been stolen from. so he knows nothing about
workers who as one of the consequences of this election revision they re doing in that state, election workers are facing now what bauer calls, quote, baseless personal attacks for doing their jobs. joining us now is bob bauer, former white house counsel, senior adviser to president biden s campaign, now law professor at nyu. nice to see you. thanks for making time. a pleasure to be here. thank you. what s the relationship between this now apparently indefinitely extended review, this partisan revision that republicans are doing in wisconsin, and the kinds of threats to election workers that you and mr. ginsburg have set about trying to help people defend themselves from? yes, the audit is one of the tools in the current tool kit for intimidating and harassing election officials. these are not professional audits. in wisconsin, the asumbly directed audit led by a former supreme court justice, whose name appeared on your screen,