one-man professional firing squad targeting lifelong republican chris krebs. krebs, of course, declared the election, quote, the most secure in american history that will cost him his job. the firing of the top expert has reportedly come under scrutiny by special counsel jack smith as he investigating every piece of the trump coup plot. and the new york times reports, the team led is asking witnesses about the events surrounding the firing of chris krebs. he was the top official in the 2020 election. mr. krebs selection that the election was secure with the assertion that it was, quote, a fraud on the american people. the special counsel reportedly issud subpoenas two weeks ago to staff members in the trump white house. a key focus for jack smith according to the times. the investigators appear focused on trump s state of mind around the firing of mr. krebs. as well as on establishing a time line of events leading up to the attack on the capitol by a pro-trump mob on janu
reporting, which reveals that the doj prosecutors questioned former white house aide, william russell, about his then-president trump s state of mind both during and after the 2020 election. to talk more about this nbc s justin reporter ryan reilly joins me now. he s also the author of the upcoming book, sedition hunters. how january six broke the justice system. ryan, good to see you. so, let s there is our own and the new scene is reporting on trump aide william, russell being questioned about trump s state of mind. what could this mean for this probe? , it was a really interesting moment this week because thursday, stanley woodward, who is representing william russell as well as representing another january 6th defendant, who was on trial, was actually a member of the trump administration, a trump political appointee, who physically stormed the capitol on january 6th. he was set to get his verdict handed down at two pm, but his lawyer was actually at this hearing before the grand j
that remedy, was a top priority for dhs which, of course that priority was carried out during the trump administration. the irony here, of course, that project framed by krebs as a trump political appointee resulted in so many of trump s laughable and outrageous claims about election security being debunkable. there was now so much more paper evidence, so much more documentation of election results than there would have been. and the overwhelming unanimous response to the allegations that trump made, in part, the response that was burnished by the changes that sisa helped bring forward was that those lies about the election outcome, while trump and his allies were in fact lies there s two things really important when you talk about election security that dhs folks will tell you, first, the elections have to be
an inspector general s investigation that began after we reported in july that comey and mccabe had been audited. that investigation to our knowledge has not been completed. nothing has been released about that. the irs commissioner at the time of both audits was a trump political appointee. he has since his term at the irs has expired. biden has not reappointed him, did not reappoint him to be there. this investigation, this i.g. s investigation is ongoing. there were some statements off of the hill today from members of congress, you know, senator wyden saying that he was going to try and reach out to general kelly to look into this further. so that s sort of what we know. the problem one of the greatest problems that donald trump has had is that there s a reason why the president of the united states should not talk publicly or privately about any
there have appointed to run one of these shambolic fake audits of the 2020 presidential election results. he is a former judge in wisconsin. last year he spoke at a stop the steal rally about how the election was stolen from trump. mr. gableman has refused to say who is working with him on this so-called audit with the exception of one person, also a trump appointee, a trump white house lawyer who last year said online the presidential election was stolen fair and square. these are the two guys wisconsin republicans have picked to run their, you know, impartial investigation into whether or not joe biden won wisconsin in 2020. it s trump white house lawyer and a trump political appointee. i m sure they ll be completely fair, though. as we have covered extensively on the show, this audit thus far has been doing a bangup job, if you take the meaning of bangup