basically an agreement to share the waters out there next week. so everybody can do their jobs and no one will get hurt, we can all coexist. the fisherman said russia gave them a, quote, absolute guarantee that their fishing grounds would not be disrupted by russia s military exercises. the embassy even put up this photo the embassy put out a photo with the but the two fishermen with the ambassador. everyone s ambassador. getting along now, it s everything s fine. fine. yeah absolute an absolute guarantee. guarantee, but i mean here s these fishermen, right? why is it up to them to negotiate the terms of the russian navies military exercises? could the russian government really be dealing with these guys and good faith about this? expressing with the limits will be, with the buffers will, be the guarantee that they re giving them about not disrupting anything. i believe the fishermen when they say the ambassador gave them an absolute guarantee that the fishing grounds would not be di
laurie roberts writing this week for the arizona republic. quote, anyone waiting breathlessly for attorney general mark run of itch to launch an investigation into the fake trump electors who participated in the scheme to overturn arizona s vote should wait no longer. brnovich is a latest fund raising plea makes it abundantly clear that he has no intention of actually doing his job. and then she shows this recent fundraising gambit from the attorney general. are you really going to ignore president trump? we thought he could count on you, brnovich says in this fund-raiser making the rounds to republicans on facebook. quote, this is your last chance to help flip arizona and take back the senate! don t miss your chance to be on trump s team! lori roberts continues, quote, set aside for a second that this fundraising plea is a blatant misrepresentation of the truth. trump hasn t endorsed brnovich and arizona, and in fact, through a fund-raiser for one of brnovich s opponents. brnovich is
it was definitely worth spending nearly $15,000 and taxpayer funds to have that guy and his company conduct an audit of the election results in the county and trump carried over by 25 points. well, this week we learned from daily news, alam accord oh that the state auditor of new mexico has opened a new investigation into how the county awarded that contract , quote, it opened a new examination over the agreement in a terrell county to audit the results of the 2020 election asserting that the contract could violate state proof hearing loss. joining us now is new mexico state auditor, brian cologne looking into the contract in otero county. mr. cologne, thank you for joining us tonight. great to be with you, rachel. thank you for having me. did i get any of that wrong or is that any part of this that s important to the story that i left out? no, i think you gotta just exactly right.
for enforcement of the unearth arise do use of the state steel and other potential violations of state law. and indeed, they made that formal referral. here s the letter. arizona secretary of state writing to the person who sent in the fake electors documents saying, number one, stop using the state seal, it s illegal. and number two, we re referring you to the attorney generals office for potential prosecution. the following day, on december 23rd, we ve got the secretary of state making that formal criminal referral to the a.g. s office. and it s a very straightforward thing. we received these documents from the arizona residents, purporting to the official state documents using the official state seal. these were not real official documents, use of the state sealed by anybody not authorized to use it is a crime in arizona. here s all the material, this is a crime, please proceed mister attorney general. that formal criminal referral was made to the other zone attorney generals office
answer out of governor ron desantis s handpicked surgeon general for the state of florida. senator book and her democratic colleagues ultimately got up and walked out of that hearing, saying that they were fed up with a doctor ladapo s refusal to offer any answers to the questions. after that confirmation, the florida sun-sentinel published this response from the paper editorial board. quote, joseph latypov and his contrive a sees evenings i m married to data, ladapo told senators. the reality is that he is married to desantis s agenda to politicize the pandemic. the doctor does not deserve to be confirmed as surgeon general, especially now that he has shown that he has so little respect for the people of florida that he wouldn t give them straight answers through senators. i mean.