trump to the writers themselves and are sorting through more than 35,000 documents. the so-called green team is following the money trail connected to trump s efforts to promote the baseless assertion that he was the rightful winner of the election, including whether any groups defrauded contributors with false statements about fraud. the gold team is scrutining plans to try to overturn the election in his pressure campaign on local, state, and justice department officials to try to keep himself in power. domestic extremist groups are the focus of the purple team. a fourth, the red team, is digging into the stop the steal movement. together, the teams are trying to answer some of the major remaining questions about the insurrection, including whether extremist groups had any tie to trump world and who knew about the possibility of violence. one group under intense scrutiny, the first amendment tra torians. from the new york times reporting on they will, quote, known in shor
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more reporting on the trump critic s future plans. up first though, house speaker nancy pelosi wants a vote on the biden social safety net, yes, tonight and then a vote on infrastructure tomorrow. this act quickly moved by the reaction to the voter rebuke of president biden and his party. spooky pelosi offering her take on the virginia loss and the near loss up in new jersey. any sign of progress is always good for the public when they understand what it is, and i think they understand infrastructure pretty well, so it would have been better if we had. it was not a good night. let s get straight to the white house and our senior white house correspondent mille mattingly. urgent talk and urgent tone does not guarantee actual votes. what do we know. reporter: in you listen to what the speaker saying it tracks with what white house officials are saying over the course of the last 24 hours, that while they won t take the blame for the loss in virginia and not necessarily at
democratic governor phil murphy, he does have a narrow lead right now over the republican challenger. right now he stands at 5700 ahead of phil murphy. that is what separates these two men, joe manchin won by two points a year ago. but in virginia, republican businessman glenn youngkin is now the governor-elect after defeating former governor terry mcauliffe. youngkin s playbook are one republicans are hoping to replicate. across the country, voters offered mix messages of what directions they want their cities to take. but history was also made. let s start with that still undecided race in new jersey this hour, cnn s john berman. he has the very latest. he is joining me now. thank you for sticking around to do this. i appreciate it. where are things right now in new jersey? already. 7100 votes, that s what separates the democratic incumbent phil murphy from jack citterelli. where is most of the remaining vote? well, we think largely from the blue counties. let s take a lo
legislatures are trying to stop that participation. what might it mean for future elections? do you believe that the 2020 election here in georgia was free and fair? i believe that a lot of georgians have concerns that there were issues with it. trump is now even warning republicans won t vote until laws that protected against his election conspiracies are changed. our democracy is in danger. we are in peril right now. my fear is that 2020 was not the low point for democracy but a dress rehearsal for things to come. now a cnn special report. stop the vote: the big lie s assault on democracy. conspiracies about voting in 2020 are not just a hangover from the last presidential election. the lies are being used by gop legislators and governors to justify voting changes for the next election. across the country republicans are passing election laws that make it harder to vote. threatening election workers with criminal penalties and tearing down guardrails in key st