an ongoing threat to our democracy today. washington post is out with new reporting that an election official in a rural georgia county threw open the doors to a stop the steal activist who was looking to probe election results there, looking for fraud, fraud that we all know now simply does not exist. that activist later claimed to have arranged for investigators to fly down to that georgia county to copy data from voting equipment. from the post reporting, quote, trump had carried the conservative county by 40 points but election supervisor misty hampton said she remained suspicious of joe biden s win in georgia. hampton made a video that went viral soon after the election, claim to go show that dom i don t know voting systems machines, the ones used in her county, could be manipulated. she said in interviews that she hoped the georgia businessman who visited later, scott hall and others who accompanied him could help identify vulnerabilities and prove, quote, that this e
door. she hired people who were involved in the arizona audit. she brought in allies of mike lin dell, and eventually people close to donald trump on this kind of wild goose chase looking for vote fraud in a very safe democratic district. and so she has embraced these, you know, falsehoods, and lies about nonexistent voter fraud in american elections since well before she announced her candidacy for senate, and it s clearly animating, i think, with the base, and it s part of how she s made key alliances. one of her earliest and big endorsers is doug mastriano running for governor, he s the front runner on the governor side, and trump s biggest ally in pennsylvania in pushing his effort to overturn the election, and chartered buss to d.c. on january 6th, and held hearings in the state legislature, invited rudy giuliani in, promoted a lot of the falsehoods
among the things lev is said to have lied to prosecutors about include a $1 million wire transfer payment that was sent to him in september, a month before he was charged, while he was busy working on this scheme with rudy giuliani. that $1 million payment was sent to him, according to prosecutors, from a bank account in russia. joining us now is joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of the great state of alabama. joyce, thank you so much for being here to help us sort through this filing. glad to be with you, rachel. so, originally, prosecutors did not seem bothered by the prospect that lev parnas was going to be on house arrest with an ankle monitor. to those of us that aren t lawyers, that seemed a little crazy, given with the way they arrested him, he was on a jetway on a oplane with a one-way tickt out of the country. now they re saying, oops, we were wrong. and among other things he had
as the house marks up the impeachment articles against president trump tonight, we re following a bit of thunderbolt development in the criminal case that prosecutors are pursuing in the southern district of new york against some key participants in the ukraine scheme for which the president is being impeached. it relates to the case of lev parnas, who was apparently working with rudy giuliani, the president s personal lawyer, to enact this scheme in ukraine. tonight, prosecutors have sent this to the federal judge in his case, quote, the government respectfully writes in opposition to defendant parnas motion seeking modification of the terms of his pretrial release. the government opposes parnas request to lighten up his bail conditions because, quote, parnas made materially misleading and false statements regarding his assets and income. quote, there is no set of conditions that will reasonably ensure his appearance and compliance with the terms of his release. the government now m
as the house marks up the impeachment articles against president trump tonight we re following a bit of thunderbolt development in the criminal case that prosecutors are pursuing in the southern district of new york against some key participants in the ukraine scheme for which the president is being impeached. it relates to the case of lev parnas who was apparently working with rudy giuliani, the president s personal lawyer, to enact this scheme in ukraine. tonight prosecutors have sent this to the federal judge in his case. quote, the government respectfully writes in opposition to defendant parnas motion seeking modification of the terms of his pretrial release. the government opposes parnas request to lighten up his bail conditions because, quote, parnas made materially misleading and false statements regarding his assets and income. coat, there is no set of conditions that will reasonably ensure his compliance with the terms of his release. the government now moves to