morning. i asked her to be civil. why can t she be civil toward a colleague? not my proudest moment but i ve been bullied at different points in my life and you have to show a bully you re not afraid of them. meantime, the committee investigating the january 6th riot is about to get its hands on a trove of new information regarding president trump s actions that day. the white house says president biden will not block donald trump s records from being released to the committee. plus more than now ten months after the 2020 election, the republican-led audit in arizona has officially come to an end. the report from the partisan cyber ninjas group not only reaffirming joe biden won in arizona s largest county and therefore the state but also saying biden actually added 360 votes to the official election count. let s go right to msnbc s steve patterson with more on that story. steve, another welcome to you. are the republicans who backed this audit satisfied with the results? repor
thinking, forgetting that there are likely tens of thousands of trump supporters that were told by trump that there would be some evidence of a rigged election from this audit. there obviously was none, and in fact, it came out that biden had a net positive of votes from those findings. but if you are thinking more strategically about this being maybe a sense of performance art meant to cast more doubt on the electoral process, then you may be applauding, and that performance art was capped off yesterday in essentially a three-hour sermon of findings with an array of unsubstantiated claims ranging from votes that weren t verified, files that were deleted in the 11th hour, equipment that wasn t properly hooked up to the internet and other general cybersecurity fears that were elaborated on. i want to play for you some sound from a guy named ben cotton. he worked alongside cyber ninjas, is part of a firm that was part of this forensic audit or so-called forensic audit. listen to the verb
i mean, the truth came out, but they re spinning it in a way that makes people doubt, like, okay, we don t know the full, 100% story. they re framing it as, well, we did the best we could to find the fraud that we know is out there but until we find that fraud that we know is out there, we cannot trust these elections and i think that s what really terrifying here. on the one hand, i applaud doug logan of cyber ninjas. they have made a lot of money, which was their goal. there are two different things happening here. on the one hand, there s the heavy amount of grift that has occurred, taking people taking people s money who fully believe that donald trump won the 2020 election, and taking it for themselves. on the other hand, you have the voter suppression justification angle that i m sure republicans around the country are looking at and thinking, yes, this is a model. so, texas, let s get to that because they just announced their intentions to perform their own audit.
overstock ceo patrick byrne to subpoena voting machines across the country. days before the deadly insurrection, a logan written documented filled with election fraud claims is given to paul as a bid to pressure u.s. senators for vice president pence to delay certifying the election overall. and then by early february, logan again talking to the republican state senate president karen fann a month before she ordered the audit and said logan s cyber ninjas firm would lead it. outfront now the reporter behind all of this reporting, the arizona republic s jen fiefield. so for months there s been questions about doug logan, the cyber ninjas group. who is he? how did this come about because they ve never done an audit before and have no experience at all in auditing. so you looked into it. how connected is doug logan to trump allies? first, thank you so much for having me. this is really important work. and as you said, it s been the question for six months now.