have put their own personal ambitious ahead of what s right, they will ultimately have to answer the same questions that i had to answer after my decision in 2016. those questions don t ever leave. facts are really stubborn. they stay. former new jersey governor christie looked out at capitol hill on january 7th, 2021, and he hated what he saw. and he hated the role he felt he had played in it. and he feared that what might come next would be worse. i remember what benjamin franklin said when he was walking down the street in philadelphia after the constitutional convention and a woman approached him on the street and said, mr. franklin rngs what kind of government did you give us? he said to the woman, a republic, if you can keep it. can we?
their investigators access to voting systems. reporter: in other words, exactly what happened in coffee county on january 7th, 2021. i think when you start with the president of the united states saying the election was stolen, nothing is surprising to me. reporter: despite searching for evidence that would back up their theories of election fraud, there is no indication there were any voting irregularities discovered during the data breach. and to this day, we don t know where the data lives and how exactly the trump supporters planned to use it. up next we re about to have the david and goliath fight. reporter: the extraordinary challenges of trying to indict a former president. if they indict him and they can t convict him, it will be an exoneration. re energy in just t! uuuhhhh. here, i ll take that! woohoo! ensure max protein, 30 grams of protein, 1 gram of sugar. enter the $10,000 powered by protein max challenge.
would support some of his baseless conspiracy theories that he was pushing. and the idea was once you get a copy of the voting system you produce the evidence that there was we spread fraud. reporter: coffey county seen as a trump friendly area became a target for those looking to access voting systems. january 7th, 2021, the day they/t finally were allowed in e front doors. reporter: it was all caught on tape. technicians from the data services firm sullivan strickler were let into the elections office by kathy latham who at the time was the chairwoman of the republican party in the county and who a couple weeks earlier had served as one of the 16 fake electors in georgia. reporter: latham initially denied the election equipment had been accessed until security footage proved otherwise. and evidence now shows latham communicated directly with the then-elections supervisor in coffee county, misty hampton, about getting access to the
county, it s a rule area with a population about tray,000. in the 2020 election donald trump captured about 70% of the vote in this conservative county. it s also the site of a major data breach at the county s election offices. involving some of the most vocal customers theorists in the trump or bit. the story of coffee county is really under the radar. there is this effort of gaining access to the voting system. trump wanded to find bays for those conspiracy theorize that he was pushing, his idea is once you get a copy of the voting system then you produce the evidence that there was wide spread fraud. coffee county became a target for those looking to access voting systems. january 7th, 2021 was the day they were finally let in the front doors. and it was all caught on tape.
more importantly it connected the dots between coffee county and the white house. sydney poult was the one who ended up commissioning the services of sullivan strickler. her involvement is the one that exposes the broader trump team s involvement in coffee county. powell advocated seizing voting machines with an executive order from trump in december 2020. another idea during that meeting was raised by rudy giuliani and he thought they could coerce local election officials to give access to voting systems. in other words exactly what happened in coffee county on january 7th, 2021. i think when you start with the president of the united states saying the election is stolen nothing is surprising to me. despite their theorize of election fraud there is no indication there was any voting