releasing this statement. the state senate president and cyberninja as dragtd our state and country through months of partisan political theater culminating in a report reinforcing what elections experts have been is a saying all look the exercise was a scam. the parts review was never about affirming the election instead a attack on the democratic process stoked violence against election worker a political stunt with massive security risks, costs millions of dollars and has shaken faith in free and fair elections. joining us now is katie hobbs, secretary of state of the great state of arizona. also running for governor of the great state of arizona. madam stekt thank for making time i know this is a bewildering day. thanks for having me, rachel. great to be here. i say bewildering, because i don t even know what to ask in terms of your feelings and reaction now that this is done. do you have a sense of relief? do you have a sense of dread as
he going to tell the truth or is he going to risk perjury and going to prison in order to claim that donald trump actually won the presidential election in arizona where the cyberninjas just finished what they called an audit of the election? and the time for the cyberninja in chief to begin to begin asking himself that question was actually on july 14th when the house committee on oversight and reform sent the first letter to douglas logan. andsfers letter requested nine categories of documents remoted to cyberninja ace audit procedures, funding sources, communications with outside parties regarding the audit that may exert improper influence on the company. well, those documents if turned over to congress could create very, very big problems for douglas logan. and so the douglas logan did not
you spoke very passionately about this today. you said what republicans were doing with audits across the country. indeed in your county now you said it s the strategy of one party to burn it all to the ground when their candidate doesn t win. now that you re up against that, and that is about that is that s your county in which you are the highest elected official, what is what does fighting that look like? what does standing up to that look like? weaver been talking about not underestimating the corrosive impact of these things and not apiecing people wanting to go along with these things when people go along with them what does confrontation and fight going looks like? there are different pieces to it. first seeing this for what it is. we heard about the cyberninja audit in arizona, this similar thing is happening in pennsylvania and wisconsin. now here. so recognizing that trend, recognizing in the state of texas it s not just this audit. the state just passed
real variation. i mean, this tiny little number difference between, you know, the official count and their count. and i think it actually started i think we were headed toward this outcome starting in july, because of a bunch of things surrounding the cyberninjas and the cyberninja in chief, the guy running the whole thing. so. well, now i want to get out of your way i want to hear you say that goo here we go right now thank you rachel. thank you. yesterday, the cyberninja in chief, a man named daulgs logan received a letter from the united states house of represent he was committee on overstigt and reform requesting his testimony as a hearing on october 7th. he is probably not showing up for the hearing because it was a request and not a subpoena. but if and when it gets to the subpoena stage he has to show up for a hearing in the house of representatives. the cyberninja in chief would then have had to ask himself, is
all the concerns those observers had as the audit chugd along. it was in and out a short list. ultimately after consulting with real election securities and technology experts and federal department of homeland security secretary of state katie hobbs moved to decertify all the voting machines saying she had no choice. arizona republicans handed the machines over to the unaccredited cyber ninja company. nobody can say what they did to them. the security of the machines couldn t be guaranteed. maricopa county has to decommission all voting machines, having to spend millions to buy new ones. in the midst of this, secretary of state katie hobbs had to be assigned extra personal security protection because she was getting so many death threats. at one point chased down the street by a man screaming at her arizona accusing her of trying to shut down the cyberninja audit. today with the audit over, secretary hobbs said her piece,