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thrown into chaos has gop candidates simply act like trump and refuse to admit defeat. the warning lights are blinking red that this could happen. right now the trump-owned party, as i like to call it, is executing a strategy to seize control of the t.o.p. from the bottom up and reshape america s elections. it s been doubbed the precinct strategy, and guess who s the svengali driving this hostile takeover. we re tacking action, and that action is we re taking over school boards. we re taking over the republican party from the precinct committee strategy. we re taking over all the elections. we re going to take over the election apparatus. american citizens that are volunteering, they are now going to volunteer to go to become a precinct committeeman. they re going to swvolunteer to become an election official. they re going to run for county clerk and overthrow these county clerks. they re going to take over the secretary of states. we re going to take this back villa ....
they are about female empowerment. they are making a lot of great strides. but there is always room for improvement, especially when you re making comment for kids. thank you both very much. and new day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is wednesday, january 26th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. breaking overnight, a cnn exclusive. the justice department confirming that prosecutors are looking into a specific event from the plot to overturn the 2020 election. deputy attorney general lisa monaco tells cnn that federal prosecutors are reviewing the fake electoral college certifications from 2020 that falsely declared former president trump the winner of seven states that he lost. on the issue you raised in terms of fraudulent elector certifications has been reported. we ve received those referrals. our prosecutors are looking at those. and i can t say anything more in ongoing investigations. but more ....
, laura coates. cnn broke this yesterday. lisa monaco confirming there is an investigation, an active investigation into these fake electoral college certificates, which were something we know that rudy giuliani and others, senior players in trump world, were involved with. so how significant is the fact that we now know such an investigation exists? this is extremely significant. and one that should actually be happening. remember, it is not just the hypothetical conversations happening in some back room or war room about i wonder what it would look like if you tried to overturn an election or derail a certification process. you would actual steps, actual overt steps in the action and trying to create the perception that the lawful, the real legitimate slate of electors were not actually that. and so you had but for the actions and decision of the then vice president mike pence to not follow the advice, not to go through this, even having him on the floor that day, ....
plot to install fake electors to declare donald trump the winner of these seven states, we show, all of which president biden won in the 2020 election. many were sent weeks after the election to state party officials. until now the justice department has never acknowledged investigating any significant part of the plot by the former president to overturn the election. evan perez, tell us more about what you ve learned. well, kate, as you said, this is the first acknowledgment we ve had from the justice department, which is to say that they are looking into these referrals from a number of state prosecutors who believe that perhaps a federal law was broken when these fake electors sent these certificates to the national archives. some of these electors were smart enough to change the language that was presented to them by trump allies to sort of cover themselves legally, others did not. so i asked the deputy attorney general lisa monaco about this aspect of the investi ....