doesn t mean that it wasn t a serious and consequential crime. because in both cases, it was really an effort to undermine an election. certainly in watergate it was, when they were trying to record the democratic national committee office conversations. it certainly is here, where they are trying to tamper with voting machine equipment. in watergate, the three plumbers, all were convicted of violating the civil rights of the psychiatry. and of course, hunt and the liddy, who oversaw it, were later convicted in watergate. for the burglary, what was important is that trying to hide the initial criminal action really led a lot to the cover-up. there s a cover-up here, with trump s efforts in overturning the 2020 election. you make a very important point. i m glad you did. we should not lose sight of the
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system that we can be confident in. you re talking about potential hacking and obviously there have been instances and obviously dnc e-mails were hacked, there were attempts to get into efforts to get into various voter databases. but the fbi has been investigating that, and i assume continues to investigate that, and even the clinton campaign, their counsel says they ve had lawyers and data analysts and programmers looking since the results and have not uncovered any actionable evidence. that s right, and what the people who watchdog the voting machine equipment, what they will be very quick to tell you is that this is something you cannot see unless you actually count the ballots. there is otherwise no standard against which to measure it. so unless we actually look, we will never know. when donald trump said that the election was rigged, he had a lot of resonance. maybe for different reasons than what he was talking about, when
before you create a backup system to be sure your airplane has a safety net, that it has built-in quality assurance. that s what we re calling for in this election and in all elections that we need to have a system that we can be confident in. you re talking about potential hacking and obviously there have been instances and obviously dnc e-mails were hacked, there were attempts to get into efforts to get into various voter databases. but the fbi has been investigating that, and i assume continues to investigate that, and even the clinton campaign, their counsel says they ve had lawyers and data analysts and programmers looking since the results and have not uncovered any actionable evidence. that s right, and what the people who watchdog the voting machine equipment, what they will be very quick will to tell you is that this is something you cannot see unless you actually count the ballots. there is otherwise no standard against which to measure it.
more than $6 million for the cause. here s some of what she had to say. you re talking about potential hacking. and obviously, there have been instances, and obviously, the dnc e-mails were hacked. there were attempts to get into and efforts to get into various voter databases. but the fbi has been investigating that, and i assume, continues to investigate that. and even the clinton campaign, their counsel says they ve had lawyers and data analysts and programmers looking since the results and have not recovered any actionable evidence. that s right. and what the people who watchdog the voting machine equipment, what they will be very quick to tell you is that this is something you cannot see, unless you actually count the ballots. there is otherwise no standard against which to measure it. so unless we actually look, we will never know. with me now is cnn senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. democratic strategist, paul begala, monica langley, kayleigh mcenany, senior political
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