dirty deeld. a congressional correspondent for the new york times helped break this story. we ve previously heard about some of these proposals that were floating around. what s new here? what do we need to know? right. good morning. so, in the weeks after the election, allies of donald trump had pushed to seize voting machines, part of a sort of bad conspiracy theory they were involved in sort of foreign governments taking them over and flipping votes for joe biden and wild claims like that. what s new is donald trump took concrete steps to try to explore whether those they could seize voting machines through two different federal agencies. one, he directly raised the issue with attorney general bill barr to see whether the department of justice would be willing to seize the machines. second, he directed his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, to reach out to homeland security to see whether they would be willing to seize the machines.