and again. even worse than he thought. for months, the former president has claimed that the sham partisan audit in arizona s maricopa county would reverse the results and somehow declare him the victor. a draft report of the so-called air quotes audit by a group calling itself the cyber ninjas found not only did donald trump lose but he lost by even more than he realized. he is an even bigger loser than the first time around. the news isn t what proves joe biden was the legitimate winner of arizona. it already was. he didn t need affirmation or confirmation by the cyber ninjas. the ruts of which, and maybe the goal all along was to raise doubt, to make people believe something might have been stolen when it was not. and that quest continues. donald trump demanded that texas, a state he won, investigate its election. overnight, just eight and a half hours after getting his marching orders from his leader, governor greg abbott complied with his leader. the state will now audit
votes for donald trump, the thinking was among some people it would be the cyber ninjas. didn t happen. . at least not in one part of the report. you re talking about the draft report, john. and the headline you re talking about is in regards to the hand count. now, that hand count found that joe biden increased his lead. he picked up 99 votes. and donald trump lost 261. it is negligible. it didn t impact anything. we need to view the entire report with healthy skepticism. having been there, having seen this process go through, it has been riddled with problems despite that skepticism. we are seeing the republicans in maricopa county, who have been questioning this process the entire time, the ones who oversaw the county election jump on this data set. and we are seeing from jack sellers, chairman of the maricopa county board of supervisors releasing this statement saying, quote, this means the tabulation equipment counted the ballots as they were designed to do and the res
we ll have more on that in a moment. prop gaganda and it works. the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection issued its first round of subpoenas for documents and testimony. they want to hear from four of trump s closest advisers. mark meadows, dan scavino, steve bannon and kash patel. all called to testify before lawmakers beginning next month. members of the committee say they want to know what trump s inner circle knew about the planning, leading up to the capitol attack and how they made decisions as the violence unfolded that day. let s begin on capitol hill with cnn capitol hill reporter melanie zanonis. what do we know about what the committee is hoping to learn from them and, i mean, are they going to challenge the subpoenas? yeah, well, the select committee is definitely kicking this investigation into high gear. these subpoenas are targeting some of the highest ranking staffers in the white house during trump s time in office. you have m
kelly, 20 years ago, also joins us and a long road to a verdict. first i have to start with breaking news in arizona and texas. in arizona maricopa county officials revealed that a draft report from the group running that so called audit of that county s ballots, cyber ninjas, that was the company they brought in, well, now cyber ninjas has confirmed president biden won. and by an even wider margin than originally predicted. but that has not deterred officials down in texas, now they are on board. 325 days after the presidential election governor greg abbott announced they would do an audit in four separate counties, three of those counties won by president biden and won by former president trump. keep in mind this is a state that former president trump won by 600,000 votes. we are all over this story. also with us political strategist and someone who knows texas politics better than anyone, matthew dowd. jane, this audit in arizona cost their taxpayers over 400,000 bucks.
fraud, it actually found that joe biden won arizona by even more votes than we thought. that s according to a draft report obtained by multiple news organizations and confirmed by maricopa county officials. but trump is out with a statement that says the media is lying about the results, phantom voters and fraudulent balance on the ballots. arizona is just one of several states including pennsylvania, texas, florida, and wisconsin where the former president is pushing for similar audits to uncover massive fraud that doesn t exist. meantime the investigation into those false claims and the insurrection that resulted on january 6 has taken a dramatic turn today. house investigators have issued subpoenas to four trump insiders who very likely know what donald trump was doing behind the scenes in the days leading up to and on january 6. joining me right now is nbc news national political reporter on capitol hill, white house bureau chief ashley parker, and nbc legal analyst cyn