my view of the world and my understanding of foreign policy through a relationship that spanned six decades. with their similar backgrounds and shared ideals, my father and mother and madeleine quickly became the closest of friends. from that point on our families would be intertwined forever. from the west wing dr. albright would go on to georgetown university of school of foreign service as director of its women and foreign service program. then in 1993 she was appointed ambassador to the united nations by president bill clinton. on december 5th, 1996, madeleine korbel albright was nominated to be the 64th and first woman secretary of state by president clinton. i, madeleine korbel albright. confirmed just over a month later in the u.s. senate with a vote of 99-0 she served in the position for four years. a transatlantic groundbreaker,
quote, now that the signature matching has been attacked, again and again with no evidence, i feel we are need to take steps to restore confidence in our elections. of course the audit didn t find anything nefarious. but that did not stop then white house chief of staff mark meadows from traveling to georgia to oversee it. and it is unclear exactly what expertise meadows would bring to an operation like that other than lending these wild conspiracy theories legitimacy of the white house which was the real objective. an objective that was also on display when trump personally called georgia s republican governor, brian kemp, on december 5th of last year. trump wanted to pressure him to call a special legislative session to override the results of the election in his state. think about that. just throw out the votes of the voters of georgia, appoint new electors that would keep trump in office despite the fact the voters of georgia voted to not do that. and then when that did not work,
that donald trump previously tried to overthrow the election in just the state where this took place, just one state, georgia. let s just focus on that. so first there was the audit of ballot signatures in cobb county which came after immense pressure from donald trump. in fact, in the press conference announcing that audit, georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger conceded it was in direct response to trump s ongoing bogus claims of fraud. quote, now that the signature matching has been attacked again and again with no evidence, i feel we need to take steps to restore confidence in our elections. of course the audit didn t find anything nefarious. but that did not stop then white house chief of staff mark meadows from traveling to georgia to oversee it. and it is unclear exactly what expertise meadows would bring to an operation like that other than lending these wild conspiracy theories legitimacy of the white house, which of course was the real objective. an objective that wa
in atlanta were pulling ballots out of suitcases and committing election fraud when, in fact, the suitcases were just standard ballot containers with wheels. the allegation had already been debunked by the time trump mentioned it at a rally in december, on december 5th, leading the justice department official in charge of the unit that investigates voter fraud to push back against an attempt by the fbi to investigate. according to politico , the head of the public integrity section, corey eamonson, wrote in an e-mail, quote, secretary of state investigators have already conducted recorded interviews of the individuals at issue and such interviews reportedly revealed nothing to suggest nefarious activity with regard to the integrity of the election. the fbi re-interviewing those individuals at this point and under the current circumstances risks great damage to the department s reputation, including the possible appearance of being motivated
did the investigators even ask any of the people who were there that day, ask them. i m going to go to second example. statements that undermined lindsey boylan s claims were ignored in this report. on december 5th, and this is where this all started with tweets from lindsey boylan. on december 5th, she tweeted, now, this is two weeks, you have to consider the timing of when these tweets started. she had announced about two weeks earlier that she was running to be the manhattan borough president. so she knew that her tweets at