medical reason for the death. so we have to wait for the toxicology report. there s other information that the coroner needs to assemble to complete the autopsy report. the case is going to come to a close. the information will be there, but i think most likely they will have a cause of death, and we ll know that pretty soon. all right. lawrence, thank you very much. jim, thank you very much. thank you. next, will some democrats, including joe manchin, and alexandria ocasio-cortez scuttle president biden s entire domestic agenda? nancy pelosi sounds the alarm, saying it comes down to the next 48 hours. and the united states drops travel restrictions for international flyers who are fully vaccinated. the ceo of airbnb is outfront. why he thinks we re on the cusp of a travel revolution in the midst of the pandemic. my credit card debt. i needed just one simple way to pay it all off. it was an easy decision to apply with sofi loans, just based on the interest rate and how much i w
43,000 absentee ballot votes counted in dekalb county that violated the chain of custody rules, making them invalid. now, he s referring, of course, as you know, to a report from a pro-trump website which does not question the voters or the ballots themselves, right? but they actually their questioning is on how fast the ballots were actually transported. well, exactly. go ahead. tell me your response. as soon as we were notified of that, we began an investigation several weeks ago and coming out of it, the first thing that you notice is that the dekalb county election official took an extended leave of absence. but we have an ongoing investigation of that. but to your point, the ballots themselves were approved and are lawful ballots. but where process is violated, that s what we re investigating right now. that will come before the state election board. why do you think trump sent this letter now? i mean as opposed to you know, he s had 11 months, and obviously he s been
went through in standing up to trump for the facts on the vote. his book is called integrity counts. secretary raffensperger, i appreciate your time talking to you about this. this the first time you re commenting on this new letter from the president, in which he refers to joe biden as an illegitimate president. what was your initial reaction when you read the letter? good evening, erin. thanks for having me. well, i m a lifelong republican. at the end of the day, i have to always put, you know, my duty to the constitution and to our country above all. at the end of the day, we ve done audits. we ve done vinvestigations and some of those are still ongoing, so i can t comment on those. but vice president biden did carry the state of georgia. so let me ask you about the timing here. you got this letter three days ago. the election was 321 days ago. were you even given what he said to you on the phone, even given the things he said before, were
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.
senate doesn t first pass a sweeping plan on party lines that would increase spending on everything from education to health care to climate and other things as well. of course you ve got other democrats like joe manchin who that is a complete non-starter for them. there you are, killed by fire from your own. manu raju is outfront from capitol hill. this is a pretty incredible moment, right? speaker pelosi said the next 48 hours are crucial. you just spoke to her. what did she say? reporter: she told me now it s just a question of finalizing some of the key final details here. yeah, you mentioned it. behind closed doors, i am told she told her leadership team the next 48 hours are critical here. big decisions need to be made about health care, about taxes, about the scope of the bill, major issues that have divided the senate and house, democratic caucuses for weeks and raised questions about whether they can pass this massive $3.5 trillion plan. this is so critical, erin, because no