Its title, its just how thought and dangerous it is, the period for the country. Surrounding the 2020 election and immediately thereafter. And in the broadest possible structure, we know was fraught and dangerous. We had our national company come under attack. But the thing that is so bracing and nerve wracking, an important about this new. Book is what it reveals about how much worse it was and we knew. How much closer we came to real disaster than we have known before now. So again this comes out next week. We have obtained a copy of it. This is how the book starts. Quote, two days after the January 2021 Violent assault on the united States Capitol by supporters of president donald trump, general Mark Milley, the nation senior military Officer And Chairman of joint Chief Of Staff, placed an urgent call on a Top Secret back Channel Line at 7 03 am, to his chinese counterpart, generally, chief of the joint chief, excuse me chief of the joint staff liberation army. General milley knew from extensive reports that lee and the chinese leadership were stunned and disoriented by the televised images of the unprecedented attack on the american legislature. We fired off questions to milley, was the american superpower . Unstable was a . Collapsing what was going . On was the u. S. Military going to do something . Milley said in response, things may look unsteady. Milley was trying to calmly, who we are known for five years, but thats the nature of democracy, generally. We are 100 steady, everything is fine. But democracy can be sloppy sometimes. It took an hour and a half, 45 minutes of substance, excuse, me it took an hour and a half, 45 minutes of substance due to the necessary use of interpreters, to try and ensure him. When milley hung up, he was convinced the situation was grave, lee remained unusually rattled, putting the two nations on the Knife Edge of disaster. General milley had witnessed up close how trump was routinely impulsive and unpredictable. Making matters even more, Dire Milley was certain trumpet gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election, with trump now all but manic, screaming at officials and constructing his own alternate reality, about endless election conspiracies. Milley had missed lead generally when he claimed that the united states was 100 steady, and the January 6th riot was just an example of sloppy democracy. To the contrary milley believe january six was a planned, coordinated, synchronized attack on the very heart of american democracy. Designed to overturn the government to prevent the constitutional certification of a legitimate election won by Joe Biden. Merely could not rule out that the January 6th assault so an imagined and, savage could be a Dress Rehearsal for something larger as trump publicly and privately cling to his belief that the election had been rigged for Joe Biden and stolen from. When that is how, that is the start of the new. Book so first of all the January 6th attack on the capital, freaked out the Chinese Military. Who believe that trump might start a war, or something that would lead to a war, in order for china to cling to power. Bob woodward and Robert Costa reported that it freaked a trial, and lots of foreign powers. And the united states top Military Officer felt like the chinese were so freaked out, he had to conduct his own secret Back Channel Cooldown chat with the head of the Chinese Military. Even though chairman of the joint chief Mark Milley did not fully believe himself that everything was okay. He lied and said it was. He felt like you better tell the Chinese Military that things were fine, to make sure that nothing bad happened. The chinese believe that they were an intimate risk of an unprovoked american attack. By an unstable american president who needed to do that to save his own skin. What might they do to fend off that attack . Or to gain an advantage . Whats more, the new Book Peril reports, this was not even the first time General Milley decided he had to do. That he put in a call to that Scene Chinese general a few days before the election as well. To talk them down. Top the chinese down from fears that President Trump was about to launch an attack on china to help themself win the election. That is a call, i got him several days before the election, that he did not tell President Trump about. For us an americans its one thing to learn, that the chinese cited, with their intelligence that the american president was unstable enough to watch a Military Strike to simply help himself when the election. Its one thing for us to know that the chinese thought that. Something interesting to tell you, the chinese intelligence improved just us in the world, but is quite another thing when the u. S. Chairman of the joint chief decides he needs to call him secretly, that he the chairman, will let them know is that threat ever becomes. Real hell let them know in advance he promises it wont be a surprise. But the fears about what President Trump might do with this military powers around the election, and around the attacked on the capitol, those were not limited just to other countries, we know for example how Speaker Nancy Pelosi called General Milley, chairman of the direct, chief two days after the January 6th attack, to discuss her fears that President Trump was so erratic at that. Moment he might launch a military moment including a new Color Strike of some kind. Bob woodward and Robert Costa obtained a transcript of that Phone Call which is fascinating in itself. I dont know where they got the transcript from. Im very curious. But this is a portion of that transcript as printed in this new Book Peril. Quote pelosi what precautions are available to prevent an unstable president from initiating military hostilities, or from accessing the Launch Cold and ordering a new color. Start milley this is one of those moments Madam Speaker where youre going to trust me on this, i guarantee it im, giving you my. Word I Cant see any of this publicly because i dont have the authorities and it would be misconstrued in a 50 different, directions but i can assure you that the United States Military study as a rock, were not gonna do anything illegal immoral or unethical with the use of force. We will not do. It pelosi who knows what he might do. Hes crazy. You know hes crazy. Hes been crazy for a long time. So dont say you dont know what the State Of Mind is hes crazy and what he did yesterday, its four, on january, six is further evidence of his. Craziness but anyway i appreciate what you said. Madam speaker i agree with you on everything. And heres whats Bob Woodward and Robert Costa said about the Chairman Chief in the aftermath of that Phone Call. Quote pulling a singer was what he needed to do to contain strung and maintain the tight as possible control of the lines of military Communication And Command authority. The move was a reference to needed a former Secretary Of Defense james slush or to military leaders in august 74. To not follow orders that came from directly president nixon, who was facing. Impeachment or from the White House without first checking with Secretary Of Defense james slush under, and his joint Chief Of Staff george brown. Listener and george brown, fear that mixing might go around the Chain Of Command and independently contact officers or a military unit, to order strike, putting the country and the world in jeopardy. They had been unwilling to take that risk. Milley saw alarming parallels between nixon and trump. In 1970, for nixon had grown increasingly irrational and isolated, drinking heavily, and, in despair, pounding the carpet in prayer with ten Secretary Of State henry kissinger. Milley decided to act. Immediately summoned senior officers to the national this is the War Room the pentagon used for communicating Emergency Acting Orders from the national command authorities the president s or his successors for militaries or use of action. Military said he wanted to go over the procedures for launching new color up since. Only the president could give the orders, he said, but then he meeker that he, chairman of the Drug Chief of staff, must be directly. Involved quote any doubt and any irregularities first call me directly and immediately. Do not act until you. Do he pointed to himself, anyone on the, room asking each officer for confirmation that they understood, looking each in the. I got it . Got it he asked an other . Yes sir . Got it yesterday merely considered it an oath to be clear the oath hes asking them to take their, the chairman of the joint chief of Staff Isnt in the Chain Of Command for new killer struck. The chairman of the joint Chief Of Staff doesnt have the authority to call a nuclear Strike Or Block one. The chairman of the joint Chief Of Staff, advises the president , hes not in the military Chain Of Command, he said it himself with Nancy Pelosi that we now mississippi have a transcript of he said i really dont have the authority. No one not the chairman of the joint chief, nobody can just make a new rule dont listen to the president , only listen to me. Thats not a thing in terms of military order. But there is a very practical reason that Secretary Of Defense, never got in trouble for having done that in 1970. Four and theres the same practical reason, that he is unlikely to get in trouble for now. Because they were and are, and will be perceived as trying to stop a much greater evil. By essentially inserting themselves into the Chain Of Command in order to prevent literally catastrophe. And there were clearly a number of people in the united states government, in january of this year, including the chief Military Officer, who felt we were much closer to catastrophe than i think most of us realize that the time. And speaking of that theres this one of the revelation in this new book again, from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa that i think is worth pulling out. Former Vice President Mike Pence is these days credited, brightly, with what he did on january six with plowing ahead and doing his constitutional duty on January 6th, despite the mob of trump supporters attacking the capitol. Because they said they wanted to hang him. It was his job as president of the senate, to oversee the count of the electoral votes, for president and thereby certify the election of Joe Biden, for the next president of the united states, and he did that. Despite that he should do Something Else that he should somehow use that job that he had, use that role he has, president of the senate to throw the election to trump or at least to render the election unsettled. Despite all that pressure, despite trump supporters roaming the hall, looking for him to kill him, to stop him from doing his job, pence did his job. But in this new book, one of the things that Bob Woodward and Robert Costa report. Is that Mike Pence is far more reluctant to do his job, far more reluctant to do is constitutional duty, that the public has suggested. And Bottom Line Vice President pence did not ultimately exceed to trump solutions, to block to leave trump in power or under the election powers honorable, but it was not apparently for a lack of him trying to find a way to do that. This is from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa in late December Pence phoned former Vice President Dan Quail, at 70 for the ones boyish looking quail was living the private Gulf Playing life he loved in arizona. The two men shared a unique profile, Indiana Republicans who have become. Vice President Pence wanted advice, despite the Electoral College casting its ballot for biden on december 14th, trump was convinced that pence could throw the election to trump on january, six when congress certified the final count. Pence explained Tos Fellow in, Dan Quail, that trump was pressuring him to intervene to ensure biden would not secured the need 270 vote during the certification, and push the election to a vote in the house of representation. If thrown to the, house there was a choice. And trump was fixated on the twins, pence said. It was the provision that, theoretically at, least could keep trump in power. While the democrats held the current house majority, the 12th Amendment of the constitution stated that the vote on a contested election could not be done by a simple majority in the. House instead the amendment says that the election votes could be counted in blocks of state delegations, with one vote percy. Republicans controlled more delegations in the House Of Representatives, meaning trump would likely win if the house chambers, and it up deciding the victor. Based on the prescriptive that amendment. Former Vice President Dan Quail thought Trump Suggestion was Profile Interest and dangerous. Trumps effort to control pence was a dark rude goldberg like fantasy, and could participate a constitutional crisis, quell told Mike Pence like you have no flexibility on this, none. Zero. Forget it. Put it away. Pence said in reply i know thats what ive been trying to tell, trump but he really thinks he can, and theres other guessing of got this power. Ive quill interrupted him you dont just stop and he said. Pence pressed against it was easy for quail to make a Blanket Statement from political winter. He wanted to know victim veep. Whether there was even a glimmer of, like to legally constitutionally, to perhaps put a pause on the certification if there were ongoing Court Cases and legal challenges. Quail repeated forget it. Pence finally agreed acting to overturn the election would be at the the call to his traditional view of conservatism. One man could not effectively throw the election to the House Of Representatives. Quilt told pence to let it go mike dont even talk about it he said. Pence paused you dont know the position im in he said. Even if youre someone like Mike Pence, whos very invested in publicly assuaging, and play getting your boss. If youre really committed in the rule of law, not letting trump overturn the election, but youre just trying to make trump less matter you, its not going to help to call Dan Quail, right . And ask Dan Quail for his advice on how to do a trump. Says you dont call Dan Quail just to appease trump even though you never had any intention of doing with trump want to do. But is didi described in this new book is the action of a man who really genuinely is searching for a way, he can do what trump wants. In that conversation later we counted with Dan Quail, with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa raises the prospect that there were real problems in the Vote Count in arizona. As maybe that was enough of a pretext. To justify not certifying the entire election, and thereby setting the stage to throw to the House Of Representatives and republicans in the house to ensure that trump held on to power despite losing to Joe Biden. This new books makes clear that pence was far closer than we had previously realized to doing some version of what trump wanted him to do, and with more than half the entire Republic Caucus in the house, ultimately voting to reject the Election Results. Mike pence was the guy who stopped that from happening. But it was close we were there. And the right has honestly made no progress in widening the distance from how close we were in the month since. The problem here is that this history, this newlydisturbing flights of our history which were learning from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa in this new book, this history isnt. And this only happened a few months ago and since then in the intervening eight months on the right, in republican politics, its not like this stuff has gotten better, its not like this matter has been settled and put away is sort of storage curiosity. A moment of madness that everybody will deny they were ever caught up in at the time, the 2020 reElection Results are still not a settled matter for the republican party, actively. Tonight. Tonight for example here in this show, we will be talking about a key Election Official from wisconsin where republicans in the legislature there have just started there own bizarre Partisan Review of the 2020 election, a sort of Copycat Audit of what republicans are doing with the president ial Election Results and all the Voting Equipment in arizona. Wisconsin republicans just yesterday started sending out their demands, to local Election Officials around wisconsin, local officials who frankly have no idea what theyre supposed to do with their secure Equipment And Election records, now that republicans State Legislatures are telling them to hand those things over to republican activists and their crazy Conspiracy Theories. Republicans are doing this in multiple states now. Now. Not months ago. Now. They started doing it yesterday in wisconsin. This upcoming weekend in washington d. C. Theyre preparing for the Trump Rally in support of the January 6th rioters, who attacked the u. S. Capital to try to stop the certification of the president ial Election Results. The Tonight'>Washington Post Tonight Rana Feature and these flyers that are going up all over d. C. Starting today. To prepare local residents for what to do if the pro January 6th Attacks Rally on saturday turns out to be as violent as some of the chatter on line around it suggests. These flyers, as of today are going up all over downtown d. C. They say quote, if you see someone with a firearm, immediately call 911, if you see a gun, immediately call 911. Capitol Police And D. C. Metropolitan police are fully activated for, saturday every officer on the force will be on duty, and the local police forces have been asked to be on standby in case more help is needed to defend the capital. And its not even just that republicans are still looking backward to last novembers elections, still promoting their efforts from january, to stop the certification of the election by force. Its not just that theyre still backward looking toward 2020, its also the Recall Election thats happening right now as we speak Tonight in california. In california the leading republican candidate in the race, was as of yesterday, predeclaring that he has lost the race today. And preblaming his loss on some sort of fraud, even before the election actually happened. And with that being the Lead Republican messaging heading into that election, its not a surprise that the local headlines in california look like this. From the l. A. Times, Election Fraud Conspiracy theories ahead of recall. Raise fears of violence. We this is not history, this is now. Whats the way around it . What is the way out of this mess . Over the august break, nine u. S. Senators got together to try to do something, something substantive and forwardlooking. To try to take the heat off this issue, or at least to sap it of some of its ongoing destructive power, after republican senators in June Block the big Voting Rights, bill called for the people, like these nine senators went back to the drawing board, to try to find Something Else. Some other approach that could potentially get around the republican opposition, while also bolstering stirring Voting Rates for real. Right now, these republican fantasies about elections, are being treated as pretext enough, to nuke Voting Rights and to nuke the professional nonpartisan ministration of election all around the country. The Freedom To Vote Act, released today, for the first time, is 592 pages of compromise legislation, that would establish national minimum standards for early voting, and vote by mail and national minimum standards for Non Partisan map making. For drawing congressional districts in federal standards for handling equipment and records, including cybersecurity around those things. Its a lot. Its 600 pages its a lot. Democrats say, every senator will support it. Crucially, they have put democratic senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia in charge of scaring up ten republican senators, to vote for this measure. So it can survive another inevitable republican filibuster. That, said the Lead Republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell, already promised today within hours of the bill being, announced that that wont happen. That republicans quote, will not be supporting the bill. So what happens next year . This seems quite warranted. All the more so every day. But what is the path of getting it done . Joining us now is Senator Raphael Warnock of georgia. Hes the cosponsor of the Freedom To Vote Act that was introduced this morning. Senator, its a pleasure to have you with us Tonight. Thank you rachel its great to be back with you. Ive put this, i recognize in an alarming context. In terms of some of the very dire threats, and some of the very high cliffs that we got very close to as a country over these last few months and these myths about stolen elections have really taken hold. It seems to me. And tell me if im wrong here, that the Freedom To Vote Act that you have played such a key role in introducing here today, is an effort to try to provide light and not heat, to try to cool down this issue, to try to be constructive and move forward in a way, that can attract very mainstream in widespread support. Thats absolutely right, rachel our democracy is in a 911 emergency, and while there are a number of important items for us to address in this congress, and we did so for the american rescue plan, through the Infrastructure Work thats happening right now, the most important thing we can do right now, is Pass Voting rights, to secure the future of our democracy, we failed to do that, and i think we will have failed to rise in a defining moment, in our american democracy. Which is why in june, when the republicans blocked our ability i think thats important for your viewers to know that so blocked june. You durability to have a debate about Voting Rights just months after a violent Insurrectionists Attempt on the capitol, after seeing this regime of Voter Suppression bills sprout all over the country, and it seems that folks that to infrastructure, i insisted we can work on infrastructure and our democracy at the same time i approached leadership and said we cant allow this to slip away from us. Im so happy that nine of us have been in the room, Senator Manchin in myself, Senator Klobuchar and others, crafting this bill that was introduced today, to make sure that we protect the voices of the people who sent us here in the first place. I feel like the more time i spent time with the bill and look at its provisions, and the more i hear from you and your colleagues who have taken a role in crafting it, the more i understand about your intent, and why you think this is the right path forward. I have to ask you about the nittygritty. About how it gets done. We do now have Leader Mcconnell making this public declaration, that just as he said, no republican senators would support the for the people, act even supporting to debate on it. He also said that republican senators will not support this. And i tend to think that Leader Mcconnell, whether you agree with him or disagree with, him he tends to say what he means, he tends to mean what he says and tends to be able to count votes on his side pretty well. Do you think hes wrong . Do you think his mind can be changed on that . Or, does it now turn to procedural efforts because the ten republican votes are gonna be there . The good thing about democracy is that each of us, who serves on this senate, serves on the house, we were sent by the folks who voted for us. So whether or not this gets republican support, is up to each individual senator. And it seems to me that Voting Rights ought to be a bipartisan issue. There was a time it was passed on a bipartisan basis, so we got together over the summer, we put together a bill that is intended to give broad support. It does things like ensures that Theres Access to the ballot. Who can be against that . To make sure that eligible americans can vote. Whether its too early Voting Vote by mail weekend voting, it ensures that states will have same day registration, the kinds of things that just make it makes voting a sense assessable to the average person. In addition to that, we are addressing these Voter Suppression laws that were seeing all across our country. That are intended to turn democracy on its head so that instead of voters picking the politicians the politicians get to select their own voters. It addresses the issues of partisan and racial gerrymandering. Yet another way of squeezing the voices of ordinary people out of their democracy. And it protects the integrity of our democracy by dealing with issues around cybersecurity and it ensures that states like georgia they have voter i. D. Laws, that those laws are intended to make sure that eligible people can vote, theyre not used to Cherry Pick certain voters. The bill provides a baseline for voting. So that you have access to that basic american right, no matter where you live. Its the most american thing we can do. Its the most important thing we can do in this congress. And i think, as important as other issues, are if we fail to do it, we will have failed the people who sent us here in the first. Place to debate about all of these issues. I think that history will rightly judge us harshly. If we fail to address Voting Rights in this defining. Moment among them, nine of you that worked on this, did you talk about procedural matters . If senate republicans dont come along . You make a great case on the merits. You make a great case in terms of the nonpartisan appeal of this. The all american appeal of. This and i know Senator Manchin is working as hard as he possibly can to get republicans on board, but if they fit say full stop, no. Did you, among the nine of, your work on the Legislation Talk about a procedural way to get their . By finding a way around the filibuster . By carving out some rule, some space in that Senate Rule so it can pass . Even against uniform republican opposition . Ive been very clear from Day One that we must Pass Voting rights no matter what. And nothing is more important. Certainly not a Senate Rule. Will cross that bridge when we get to it. I think for us to not do the work that Senator Manchin is attempting to do in reaching out to others i think it lets him off the hook to easily. But at the end of the day we have to protect the votes and the voices of the people of georgia and of the american people. And thats what i intend to do. 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Because Joe Biden won the State Of Wisconsin, and given the opportunity wisconsin republicans would make it like to seem like Theres Something wrong with that result, so it must be carefully checked. This new effort in wisconsin is a copycat of what republicans have been doing for months now, with their hilarious cyber Ninjas Audit in arizona. That has in fact been hilarious at times, but from a Security Standpoint that audit in arizona has been a disaster from the very beginning. Observers of the audit say they routinely found the security gates left wide open at the facility where they were counting all the ballots, they said confidential manuals, were left unattended, Quality Control measures were completely ignored. Arizona republicans bungled their handling of election machines, election equipment, and actual ballots, so badly, that the state will now spend millions of dollars replacing all of the Voting Machines, that they tampered with during this audit. Because they took no measures to keep them secure, and they cant be recertified to use them in any sort of certified election. With that backdrop, then we broke all the Voting Machines doing this Election Audit backdrop, consider Dane County wisconsin. Dane county is wisconsins second most populous county, thats your medicine. Is Joe Biden won by more than 50 points, in 2020, in right now id like you to use your imagination for a second. Pretend that you are the County Clerk and Dane County wisconsin, you are in charge of safely and in Mid String Elections in that county. That said, republicans in your state are now jiming up one of these fake arizonastyle ninja audits. In with that, in mind, imagine you the Dane County clerk just got this email. Over the chance no warning. The email says, please see the attach Preservation Notice, regards, Special Counsel, Wisconsin Assembly. This is Michael Gableman, hes a former judge in wisconsin, the republicans in the State Assembly picked him to run the arizonastyle audit, after he spoke in november at a stop to steal rally, alleging that the election had been stolen from donald trump. What this email appears to look like is an email from the guy running the Risk Ounce and audit, asking the clerk to preserve records, this is the pdf that was attached to that email, the header says from the office of the Special Counsel in wisconsin State Assembly, it looks like its kind of just screen kept off the web maybe. It doesnt really look like official letterhead. The letter starts off quote, gentle persons, recently i was appointed Special Counsel by this Wisconsin Assembly to investigate the election, i hereby request that you and your office preserve any and all records and evidence relating to the November 3rd election. Including not all Voting Machines. Such information includes but is not limited to, you metadata, Router Information and or access logs. Please take all necessary steps to comply with this request, including notifying all legions, and custodians of records. It is signed, his name is on it. This is the Guy Republicans put in charge to run this Arizona Style Audit in wisconsin. But, look at the email again, with this Preservation Notice came from. His name is on the bottom of, at the email has his name at the bottle. But look at the Email Address it was sun from. It was sent from John Delta, all lower case, John Delta, from a Gmail Address. Who is john dealt . So why is he sending an important highly sensitive, highly confidential Records Request County Clerks, from a Gmail Address. Does the real Michael Gableman know about . This is this the real Michael Gableman . Is there a mr. Delta . Is that a reference to a Scifi Movie i havent seen yet because im an old person now . Thats not the only thing he knew about this, go back to the letter. Look at that seal on the top of, it really does look like a Screen Cap of the state seal. That was copied off the web in plopped on to this document. This is not real letterhead. And while were at, it lets peek behind the hood of this document. You just look at the metadata for this pdf, this letter with this bogus letterhead on the top, demanding the preservation of records from the County Clerks. It shows that this pdf was author not by John Delta, and not by michael, but by somebody named andrew cluster, whos in your closet, or why did he write this . Maybe its this andrew claster, hes a lawyer that used to work in the trump administration. Is he the author of this letter . To the County Clerks of wisconsin . We dont know the associate press asked for comment and he did not respond. Meanwhile public reporting around the audience suggests the guy in charge of the audit, the disembodied void of John Delta who knows, the guy running the audience as been consulting with a former political candidate whos been spreading Conspiracy Theories about the 2020 election, one of his theories is that, and every single state in 2020, donald trumps share of the vote, was reduced by exactly 4. 2 . Why, where did he get that . From how do you arrive at this theory . He arrived at this theory based on his close Textualist Reading of the Science Fiction novel, the Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy. Because in that, Science Fiction satire, the answer to the biggest question in the universe, is 42 and look, 4. 2 sure why not. Thats the new consultant for the Wisconsin Election audit, that taxpayers are paying for. This would all be hilarious if this was not going to influence the actual Election Infrastructure of an actual swing state. 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But in wisconsin, undaunted, republicans there are pursuing the same sort of course, as of right now, County Clerks all over wisconsin, yesterday received a letter, honestly it was a sort of strange email from a random gmail account. Telling them that they needed to preserve records from elections equipment, used in the 2020 election. In Dame County wisconsin, the County Clerk there, immediately forwarded that random gmail request, to his i. T. Security department. This is how they replied. Quote, scott, as this email came from a gmail. Com address, i cannot confirm the authenticity of its origin. I would strongly recommend against replying to it with any information. If these actions are in official capacity, i would expect it to come from an Email Account with an official wisconsin. Gov Email Address. We also have no verification of any operational Security Practices from the Special Counsel. And at this time, i would not recommend any disclosure of sensitive information, until official channels of communication have been established, and verified. Joining us now is scott mcdonald, the County Clerk in dane wisconsin, mr. Mcdonalds a real pleasure to have you with us Tonight. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me appreciate it. Do you know if all the County Clerks in wisconsin receive the same sort of Gmail Notice that you did . Its not clear, i think theres an attempt to send its all the county, clerks i know some received, it is someone straight to their spam folder, so they read the News Reporting and then started looking for. Besides this missive, which was strange in a lot of, ways it is from a random image Email Address, ahead a pdf attached to it, that the metadata suggests was written by potentially a former trump administrative official, whos not known to be attached to, this it didnt seem to be on real letterhead, the name on the Gmail Address did not match the address on the Email Address, at a different name, a name John Delta if thats even a thing. A lot of Obvious Red Flags here. Was this actually the first reported official Communication Uris Eve about this audit . Or have they been in touch with you before this in some a more official way . No this was the first communication i got, about it. Assuming it was from him. Yes, there are a lot of red flags on the email, as you pointed out. And its sort of fishing 1 01, you dont open a Fake Gmail account, you dont send something to that, the name didnt match. Where the address was from in so this is the person who supposedly in charge of checking to make sure that our election was honest in in fair, it is pretty scary. I know deep into the letter, whoever wrote this letter to you, if it is from the person whos running the audit for the republicans, the writer asks you, to pass this request on to the municipal clerks. To the town clerks. Throughout Dane County and presumably all the other clerks were asked to pass it on to all the town colors to preserve all of their records and all of their information as well. I have to imagine that youre not comfortable doing, that given the kind of advice you got security wise, about even responding to yourself. Well right, the thing is, they dont really ask for anything, and honestly, the things that he was sort of saying we should preserve, the municipal courts dont have, all those records reside at the county. He first made this request to the Wisconsin Election commission, thinking they have this data, and they said oh no, this is at the county level. Then he sends an email, apparently, to the County Clerk saying so he really needs to spend more time or hire some people to know how elections are run in the state. It sounds like even the questions hes asking in this supposed information and records hes asking for, betray a fundamental lack of understanding about how elections or run in the state. Is that fair . Right, he references preserving the Voting Machines, the Voting Machines really are down terminals. They dont have any information on them. When we code an election media, basically a thumb, drive that goes into those see us to hundreds, and thats what has the information on the election, all the data is than uploaded into that stick and brought back to our office. Theres nothing on those machines. He couldve asked someone and found that out. In auspicious beginning for what i imagine is going to become an even more as Budget Project as time goes. And Scott Macdonald County Clerk for Dane County wisconsin, which is one of my favorite places in the whole country. Thank you so much for your work, and im sorry for this additional hassle you have to deal. And thanks for being with us Tonight. Thank you rachel. Well be right back, stay with. Well be right back, stay with us do you struggle to fall asleep and stay asleep . Qunol Sleep Formula combines 5 key nutrients that can help you fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and wake up refreshed. The brand i trust is qunol. All right Steve Kornacki in New York the attempt to recall Gavin Newsom as governor of bc new. Has predicted that it has failed, and as you can see by the numbers here it has failed decisively. About two thirds of the vote is now in statewide in california. Its a 2 to 1 margin, no, no on the recall of Gavin Newsom. Its crushing yes in this election. Here weve got voting all across the state here, a very good sampling across the state. And you can see the pattern in this is just. Where its orange county, San Diego can tee, these of all becoming a very democratic area. Just in recent years they are holding as democratic areas nuisance areas, anti recall areas. Tonight the Bay Area Tonight, Gavin Newsoms home area, remember he used to be the mayor of san francisco, delivering overwhelming margins against the recall here. Again what is most striking is there are still more votes to be counted, there are still more vote, so these numbers will change some. But what is most striking as you look at this map, and when you look at the pattern. Here is how similar it is to what happened in california. Just last year in the california election, just fix your eyes in this, map that the Eye Doctor does. Im going to flip this map and show you the red blue map. Keep in mind here, no, yes. Now check out the Trump Biden Map in the state, identical. Same county that one for trump, are going for this recall. And the same counties that one for biden, are going against this recall. And the margins of bidens, is going just as lopsided. Look down in orange county, no 57 . What did biden get here. 54 of the vote. Right now know is actually outpacing biden in these places. So the Bottom Line is either a couple of weeks ago, there were some polls in california that suggested this recall might be close, race got a lot of national attention, the president was just in yesterday forgiven newsom to save him in this race, but In The End it was a late momentum in the pole and clearly on Gavin Newsom side. We were all asking coming into into, It Chances the polar wrong in this thing. If anything the pole undercounted, underestimated, the opposition of the recall in the and the support for Gavin Newsom. Gavin newsom survives. 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