she. reporter: she told us she did not misuse campaign funds and then i asked her about specific charges from the 2008 senate campaign were used for her personal expenses. rent, food, even a bowling outing. mrs. o donnell, would you talk about the specific question on the $20,000? no truth to it. over overly a statement. no truth to it, i assure you, brian. reporter: those allegations come from the watchdog group citizens for ethics in washington which filed a complaint in state and federal officials about o donnell s expenses. they scite information from a former campaign aid. she has broken the law and needs to account for it. reporter: the punch comes from new campaign counsel cleeta wilson and she says that o donnell spent that money on personal items a at time last
bowling outing, and that she did it at a time last year and early this year when she didn t even have a campaign. i asked christine o donnell about that at a campaign event. listen. ms. o donnell, would you be able to talk about the specific question on the $20,000? no truth to it. i ll release a statement. i ll release a statement. no truth to it, though, i assure you, brian. reporter: we have since gotten some more specifics from christine o donnell s new campaign counsel. i spoke with cleata mitchell not too long ago today. she said she had a campaign at that time that these expenses were proper, that she didn t do anything wrong and that they re looking into all of these charges. they re going to come out with specific counter arguments later but essentially denying the central charges that she misused campaign money. so this group is a watchdog group. they re asking for a federal prosecutor to open an investigation and wants the fec
christine o donnell is adamantly denying allegations she misused funds from a past race. they are addressing the controversy and so her brand new campaign counsel who gave an exclusive interview to cnn. brian todd is joining us live from wilmington, delaware, with the latest. brian? wolf, christine o donnell has recruited this high pf h-powere lawyer to deal with the issue of misusing campaign funds. he is counterpunching hard right now while o donnell is taking the high road. reporter: swarmed bied a misers, christine o donnell chastised reporters who want to know about the finances, and she says she will address that on one occasion. if you will back up and let me talk to the voters i came to
as for election officials, some certainly went into the election pretty confident. i could set one of these machines in the middle of red square in moscow and the russians couldn t hack it. that s our tom foreman reporting. let s talk to political anchor errol lewis and eugene scott. thanks for getting up so early on a sunday. good morning. always appreciate you being here. good morning. let s talk about first of all the clinton campaign making it very clear that they don t expect any results to change necessarily. the campaign counsel writes this, we have quietly taken a number of steps in the last two weeks to rule in or out any possibility of outside interference in the vote tally in these critical battleground states because we have not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology, we hadn t planned to exercise this option ourselves, but now that a recount has been initiated in wisconsin, we intend to participate.
he was christie s campaign counsel during his run for governor and then led his transition team. on inauguration day in 2010, samson was there. my name is david samson. over the past two weeks, served as governor-elect transition committee. he made him his top appointee. samson continued his work for his law firm and he and christie stayed close. when christie had a walk-through of the rnc in 2012, samson was there. when christie was campaigning last year, samson was there. when bridgegate broke, christie stood by his man. i sat and met for two hours yesterday with mr. samson. general samson. and i m confident that he had no knowledge of this. two months after christie made those comments, the allegations of samson s conflicts of interests just keep rolling in.