run their recount clown show in arizona. the cyber ninjas and this same cast of characters indulging this voter fraud fantasy thing. in addition to them messing with the ballots and what they're doing with the election results in arizona, they have been th pursuing a court case in michigan a county call antra county, michigan. and in the michigan instance they have also been alleging al these same bizarre conspiracies and fantasies about how trump secretly won re-election even though it looks like he lost because something, something, bamboo something, something communism, venezuela, mike flynn, buy my pillow, something, something. they have been pursuing this in, arizona with the recount, which is now completely split the republican party, as half the party is like we've got to stop doing this and the trump loyalists are persisting. in michigan, today, as republicans in arizona were throwing down the gauntlet demanding an end to the increasingly dangerous nonsense with arizona's ballots there, simultaneously today, the othe

watch arizona go over. first we reported on the show last night that i had seen, our staff had obtained and seen, a draft version of the arizona audit report. ahead of its formal release today. that and because those results were gonna be formally released today, we decided not to put those reported results of the draft on television. after all, a draft report could be revised substantially before the final results came out. we decided that nobody really believes what's gonna be in the audit anyway, we're gonna wait until the audit release. i did tell you last night that what we were seeing in the draft report showing that the results of the arizona audit where somewhat hilarious. well today, we got the final report. they released it to the public. and indeed, in fact, it matches with the draft that we saw last night. and hilarity did in fact ensue. after their five months of trying and searching for bamboo fibers and using uv lights and putting the ballots on lazy susan's hands putting them around, and a h

the democratic party in arizona filed a lawsuit yesterday to try to stop this from going forward in arizona. they said the whole enterprise was illegal. today the judge in the case agreed to pause the audit over the weekend while the merits of their lawsuit were considered but that pause came with an odd price tag. the judge told the arizona democratic party that if the audit was going to be paused, the democratic party in the state would have to pay $1 million to cover any costs associated with the delay. the cyber ninja ceo running the audit up until now has refused to say how much the audit will cost in total. the controversy of the audit is he's not only taking taxpayer money to do it, he's also taking private donations from undeclared sources to carry this out, which means trump supporters could be paying for this cyber ninjas company to run a recount on whether or not trump won the election. somehow the judge in this case decided that a delay would cost the cyber ninja company upwards of $1 million and arizona democrats had to indemnify them for that. the democrats refused to do that

, to audit the arizona election results. we reported last night that all 2 million plus ballots arrived in phoenix at the convention center worth are doing this as of yesterday. the official audit led by the cyber ninjas guy began today, the cyber ninjas say they hired a subcontractor to actually physically handled the ballots, the ceo of cyber ninjas, who again is the guy who is the proponent of the theory that u.s. army commandoes in germany stole the real election server and got in a war with the cia and the truth is out there. he says that the company he's hired to handle all of the ballots has drawn their employees for this purpose from a pool of retirees to perform the recount. who is actually going to be handling the ballots? he says don't worry they are retirees the says the retirees veterans, former law enforcements, no further details are available. no word on any trainee they may or may not have received to handle all of the actual ballots cast in the presidential election, but now they've got them. meanwhile jour

arizona republicans hired this guy and gave him two-thirds of the actual ballots cast by real arizona residents in the presidential race in november. he says he's going to do some sort of secret analysis of those ballots and then report what the real election results were in arizona. again, this effort is being led by a qanon guy who has supported all of the craziest stop the steal conspiracy theories about how trump didn't really lose the election. well, here's the news. until tonight, the only press allowed inside to report on this so-called audit is the whackadoo pro-trump news network which is called american news which has hyped conspiracy theories around the election and whose on-air personalities have raised money to conduct this so-called vote count in arizona. one of the real journalists who actually made it into the room to watch some of this audit was only able to get in because she signed up as a volunteer observer, and that allowed her to be in on the first day. she wasn't allowed in after that and no journalists have been allowed in since then. it's just the one news peo

he does seem to be taking pages right out of the arizona playbook. in arizona, the republican state senate leader used her subpoena power to force the board of elections to turn over ballots. this pennsylvania state senator also runs a committee that theoretically has subpoena power. in arizona, the state senate fronted $150,000 to pay for their so-called audit. the rest of the funding for it is coming from sources that nobody involved will disclose. this pennsylvania state senator is also trying to secure funding for an audit and has sought advice from a law firm about how to go about using money from a private non-profit organization to pay for vendors, consultants and anyone else. in arizona, all the republicans involved in the so-called audit have been claiming that it's not about overturning the 2020 election. it's about restoring integrity to the state's elections. right on cue in pennsylvania, a law firm tapped by the republican state senator said in a letter that the purpose of such an audit would be to -- hope you are sitting down -- develop

it starts in one county in arizona. then what? arizona doesn't do it. >> sure. if you talk to trump or if you look at his statements, he is focusing on the swing states. he is talking arizona, georgia, pennsylvania. where we have actually seen this bubbling up from local activists has been in small places. really, republican-controlled places. what appears to be the strategy is this is local people focusing on counties where they believe they might find friendly local officials. they are fixated on this false and disproven theory that dominion voting machines could have somehow flipped votes. they are focused on republican counties that used dominion machines with the goal it appears of trying to come up with some vulnerability or anomaly that they spotted in the dominion machines, even if places that voted for trump, that they can argue, my goodness, if this happened in a republican county in north michigan, it might have happened all over the country. >> it's an interesting strategy. do you see any other organizations like cyber ninja popping up anywhere else?

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into arizona. and it was stuffed into the box. and it came from, the southeast part of the world, asia. and what they're doing, is to find out if there is bamboo in the paper. that camera right there, that they take a picture of the ballot. >> they came over, from the southeast part of the world, and they put it in the box. there you go. trump is president. they are looking for bamboo, in the ballots. because trump is secretly president, because china, or maybe just asia, made bamboo ballots and flew them to arizona, and they can find them with a camera. so they have to use the camera, and all of the ballots. republican parties in the verge of kicking out some of their house leadership. because of insufficient loyalty, to donald trump. donald trump, is now the animated focus of the republican party right now. because of their absolute outrage that he is not being allowed back on social media, to keep promoting the idea, that he secretly won the election. he wants to promote the fact that arizona's recount is going to prove, that h

county or the arizona senate. we know there's been private dollars raised for this endeavor, one of the criticisms is they seem to be grifting off this exercise. we don't even where the money is coming from, how much it is or who is profiting off of it. that's where the costs should come from to replace the equipment but i don't know at the end of the day if that's what's going to happen. >> one more question for you, and that is this. how damaging really has this fake audit, this fraudulent audit, been for arizona voters? do you believe that lasting damage has been done to the legitimacy of the vote in arizona, in maricopa county? >> there is absolutely lasting damage that has been done. this is a group of folks who are being misled to continue to believe that the election was fraudulent and that joe biden isn't the actual winner. and as long as these folks continue to promote that mistruth, these folks are going to believe it. and that in the long run is harmful to not only arizona voters but we're seeing this a

he will also be in arizona. appearing at a new fun filled event full of pro trump qanon promoting, election fraud is broad conspiracy theories. also there tomorrow, will be the failed inventor and treasure hunter guy who secret vote fraud detecting technology is allegedly being used in the faith arizona audit. because he said artifacts are his specialty. the event will also be attended by the guy patrick byrne, who used to run oversaw come. you might remember him from the really dark days after the attack on the capital on january six, after the election. when he admitted that he was at a white house meeting, sat flash screaming match, in which the idea of seizing voting machines all over the country and declaring martial law in order to overturn the election, was the topic of discussion in the oval office. mr. burned claims that he's personally donated at least 1 million dollars to fund the recount slash audit in our zone. which if you think about it really, is a key part of the problem here. what is happening

this is from the arizona mirror. quote, jovan pulitzer, a favorite of election fraud conspiracy theorists who claims to have invented technology to detect fraudulent ballots will have a role in the arizona senate's audit of the 2020 election results. ken bennett, arizona's former secretary of state, who has been hired to be a spokesperson, et confirms his involvement, although he's unsure whether pulitzer himself will be involved or whether the audit team will only be using his technology, when pulitzer claims can detect fraudulent ballots. mr. bennett said the owner and t ceo of cyber ninjas told him he consulted with mr. pulitzer while designing the process used to test the ballots. pulitzer is an inventor, and inventor of cuecat. and author of dozens of books on treasure hunting. he does not appear to have any background in elections related work. it is unclear whether pulitzer's alleged technology has ever been used on ballots or whether anyone has confirmed it works. he's explained in an affidavit related to the

eyes and arizona trump elector. because he contended that arizona's trump electors should be counted. . because trump should be awarded the state votes in the electoral college. so, he was day that there that. the count, you may recall it was delayed that day by the mob attack on the capital which temporarily stopped the counting. but he was there in person, so arizona would have its electoral votes counted for trump. he was there, january 6th. and he's also now announced that he will be working on this recount of arizona votes that are starting today, organized by the arizona republican state senate. he and the sovereign in just a guy who promotes the secret server germany story. and you know, joe biden is president of the united states. whatever they do in arizona it is not going to make him not president of the united states. but, what they are doing in arizona, what has trump world electrified right now, all newly energized with the fantasy that trump world has yet to be reinstated as president, with a just orde

ground zero for arizona. >> reporter: yeah, this is right over my shoulders and this is where the arizona battle that are being fought and ballots being stored inside there and they are on the move this weekend. make no mistake about this. the battle may be here today, it is spreading across the country. >> reporter: you can connect the dots here. a right wing gubernatorial candidate in georgia. >> i find myself troubled by the recent findings in arizona. >> reporter: the exact words of arizona-style audit being thrown around. >> yes, we are hearing that. >> reporter: i am talking to you in a parking lot and you are saying what we are seeing here is also there. >> what we are seeing in arizona is this high-water mark. >> reporter: benson says arizona is the next chapter of the big lie is being written. that lie of the 2020 election was stolen from donald trump certa cer centers on what you are seeing. these trailers mhold 20 million ballots. while in store now, a so-called audit of these ballots run by the republican control arizona senate and little known contractor cyber ninjas will res

in the largest county in arizona. and arizona, a majority of voters live in just one county, maricopa county, where phoenix is. in november maricopa county and arizona as a whole voted for joe biden as president. as much as trump supporters may not like that, it's true. there's already been an audit by a federally accredited firm in maricopa county, a forensic audit of the vote. there was a hand recount overseen. there was a hand recount by four of which were republicans. they voted to certify that joe biden won the election. but not anymore. now in late april, the cyber ninja guy, the cyber ninja guy from the secret server in germany secret commando raid war conspiracy thing, arizona republicans sued to allow his company, him and his company, to have another look at what happened in arizona back in november. and they have actually turned over all of the real ballots, more than 2 million ballots cast in maricopa county, so the trump conspiracy theory guy, the qanon secret server war guy can see what he thinks happened

earlier this week, an arizona republican state representative introduced a bill that would give the arizona legislature the authority to override the secretary of state's certification of it electoral votes. they do not even need a reason. okay? this state law, the people of arizona. again, they could vote for whatever they want to be president. but they don't get to choose. the legislator will decide who gets the electoral votes. this is not an isolated situation. we've seen similar movements. not quite as frankly as anti-democratic as this but in wisconsin, republicans interested to reallocate the state's electoral votes by congressional district. something two states already do and if they've done that, would have made donald trump the winner of the majority of wisconsin's electoral votes if it had been in place in the last election. the guardian reports considering more than 100 bills to restrict voting rights because the lesson they learned after losing the presidential election and also the senate is not to broaden their appeal or to shun donald trump and the things he stood for or to

republicans for doing this to recount the vote in arizona. promising that this same thing, this same kind of audit is going to happen in all of the republican-controlled states where trump lost, wisconsin, michigan, georgia, new hampshire, pennsylvania. he called them all out by name, basically telling them all they need to do what arizona is doing. they need a republican-led private recount hiring just the right kind of firm to do this work with the real ballots. he says they're going to do this in all those states and overturn the results in all those states. yeah f you get just the right people in there to conduct this audit. sure it will go exactly the way you want it to. the firm run by the qanon trump conspiracy theory guy, the firm that's been given the contract recount in arizona, as i mentioned that firm is called cyber ninjas and that firm through their lawyer told a judge this weekend that they will not disclose the means by which they are conducting the audit, nor the processes they are using to handle the ballots or indeed recoun

so, you know, vote by mail is extremely popular in arizona. we've had it for years, no excuse absentee voting. and 75% of the electorate here are signed up to get their ballot for every single election they're eligible to vote in. so you mentioned looking inside themselves and responding to the electorate. and they're doing exactly the opposite by attacking these people's ability to vote. >> so there have got to be republicans in arizona who say this does not make sense. i want to be able to vote my mail. i want to be able to trust the outcome of the election. this just doesn't feel good. at what point -- how do you get this out of this stupid partisan realm and make everybody understand that our goal should be greater participation in elections? it's what we've been trying to do for a couple hundred years here, trying to get everybody to participate in elections. we haven't always done it well but that's the goal, not suppressing the vote. >> yeah, i think unfortunately those common sense folks aren't necessarily in the legislature. so, yeah,

this is out of arizona this week. after the election, the republican party in arizona filed a lawsuit saying that elections officials in arizona's largest county hadn't counted their votes properly, that if they would just recount the votes in a different way, they would find all of the fraud that allowed joe biden to falsely appear to win the election in arizona, when, really, donald trump must have won. and no matter how many audits the county did to prove that their vote totals were correct and joe biden won that county and won the state, the arizona republican party just kept pushing on with this lawsuit. well, here is how that lawsuit finally came to an end this week. this is from the judge's ruling in arizona this week. "the plaintiffs' lawsuit was groundless. there was no evidence at all of phantom voters or manipulated vote totals or any other wrongdoing. these were flimsy excuses for a lawsuit. the plaintiff -- the arizona republican party, the judge said -- is gaslighting. it evinces a lack of good faith. th

he is anything but, quite frankly. >> sean: do you think this helps her in arizona? >> here's the thing come in arizona, kyrsten sinema, it wouldn't exactly be wise to jump on the president's nonexistent coattails because he is at 38% approval in arizona -- >> sean: and she is way more popular than mark kelly who is probably going to be going up against the attorney general, a guy i like, and based on -- he's just basically, whatever chuck schumer and pelosi and biden tell him to do, he does. he has no identity at all whatsoever except to be a reliable "yes" every time for the radical socialist left. >> that seems to be the case at this point based on his voting record. that is actual data but the whole situation with sinema, "the new york times" perfectly encapsulates the hypocrisy, what is wrong with kyrsten sinema" there's a difference between being a maverick, john mccain, and a narcissist, kyrsten sinema. when the late john mccain bucked his party he was a maverick. he helped saved obamacare. that made him iconic and courageous. when kyrsten sinema boxer own par

i'm not going to continue doing this. >> you know, i was elected by the voters of arizona to do a job. i take an oath to uphold the constitution of the united states and the constitution and laws of arizona and i've done that and i'm going to continue to do the job that the voters of arizona elected me to do. i don't have another choice here. because if it wasn't me, who else would be here doing this? you know, this is the kind of thing that we have to continue to stand up to. it's why i'm running for governor because we need leaders who are going to stand up and protect our democracy and tell the truth about what our constituents need to hear, whether that's elections or the pandemic or whatever else. and so if folks want to join in, they can go to katy hobbs.org but i'll do the job voters of arizona elected me to do. >> there was more testimony at the hearing today from others who participated including a republican who election officials talked about the threats to his life that he has been subjected to and he's decided that's it. i'm not going to run for reelection. i'm not going

is happening in arizona. which i simply cannot bring myself to call an audit. that's a word that has meaning. i don't think that's what's going on there. katie hobbs his cold it a fraud it which i think is good. yeah, that works. right? >> i've been going with clown show which feels good but doesn't necessarily [interpreter] -- there's a lot of clown shows in politics right now but it doesn't narrow it down. that's both catchy and very specific. >> it does the job, he's gonna try us later and of course athlete since she last joined us on thursday night she has been suffering death threats to the point where the governor had to give her security to get her through this period, as i hope she gets through. >> incredible. well don my friend. well done. take it away. >> thank you rachel, thank you. well i began my day today at 7 am as a guest on morning joel in response to whether joe biden can get his legislative agenda through to congress, i said that president biden faces a challenge unlike any previous preside

judy: the widely discredited election review in arizona is over. but more than 10 months after the 2020 election, there is growing alarm about other efforts, launched with no credible justification, to sow doubt about elections past, present, and future. william brangham explains. william: it was republicans in the arizona state senate who commissioned this review of ballots in maricopa county, even though election officials in the state said there was no large-scale fraud in the 2020 election. but a partisan group called "cyber ninjas" undertook a controversial review of the vote, and they affirmed that joe biden won maricopa county and arizona. and here with us to look at the larger context is nate persily a scholar of election law at stanford university law school. great to see you back on the newshour. i hesitate to call this an actual audit, what this organization did in arizona, but they affirmed what we already knew, that joe biden won maricopa county and arizona. what do you see when you look at this process? nate: you are right to hesitate

joining me now for a reaction to all this, arizona attorney general, mark byrne of h. attorney general, thanks for joining us. this is an outright disaster, can, congrats on the big win. we have a place we can turn in our ballots, are you ready for? it's called a voting location. i know it's crazy, and it's worked for a long time. this is a huge win. explain what it means for the rest of the country where this is happening in other places. >> think you for having me on. it's quite frankly as simple as this, the democratic national committee and other left-wing groups have systematically tried to file lawsuits against the state and simply shortly before elections so they can use their organizations to manipulate the boat. they challenge arizona's limitations on out of precinct voting and about harvesting, they essentially said they were racist, unconstitutional and violated the voting rights act. we had a ten day trial, we defended those statutes, and we won. the ninth circuit overturned that -- i know, i'm going to get a complaint. the lefties are filing bar complaints

democrats in arizona calling the gop's audit useless and ridiculous. >> the arizona republican-controlled state senate has wasted taxpayer dollars perpetuating the consistently debunked false claims. >> reporter: the total cost of the so-called audit, $6 million. $150,000 in taxpayer money. the rest from private donors. but election officials in arizona and elsewhere say the cost in the corrosion of people's faith in the democracy, that's likely to be incalculable. >>> william shatner in the news tonight. the new big plan for him. >>> and then the race to save an american treasure tonight. am was too big? and you could fearlessly face the unknown. you still can. ♪ ♪ when you have a rock you can depend on for life you'll be unstoppable. like the millions of people who rely on prudential for financial planning and investing. who's your rock? hi, i'm steve and i live in austin, texas. i work as a personal assistant to the owner of a large manufacturing firm. i've got anywhere from 10 to 50 projects going at any given time. i absolutely have to be sharp. let me tell ya, i was struggling w

joining us now is arizona secretary of state katie hobbs, she is also running for governor of arizona. secretary hobbs, thank you for coming to the last word. you are off his head observers watching the audit. what do you expect to be in the report? >> well, nothing good is going to be in the report in terms of actual validating of the election results. and we know that based on the observations that were made and all of the information that we compiled to put together our report, that shows what a circus this really was. and it is characterized by security lapses, lack of transparency and just overall poor planning, and no use of best practices that you would see in a close election audit. >> steven records report shows that there's at least one reasonable republican in the leadership position in arizona. do you think most republicans buy into the big lie or are they staying staying silent? >> i think that for the most part, they are either on the side of the big lie or they are staying silent because they have too often seen the political consequences. and that's really unfortunate

why is arizona blue? did we just call it? did we make a call on arizona? let's see. there's a check mark. did our decision desk make it? >> yes. we can -- i believe. >> if that's the case then, guys, when we come back, we'll fill this in. >> in some moments that moment when fox news called arizona for joe biden it is possible that the trump presidency was over and multiple outlets reported after fox called arizona trump went ballistic because as "the new york times" appointmented out if the true arizona was lost it could call into doubt any claim in the election that trump could make. chris was fired last week, the day before joe biden was sworn into office and describes becoming a target of murderous rage from consumers who were furious of not having their views confirmed. he joins me. chris, it is great to have you on the program. thank you very much: take me through that night and what it was like in terms of, a, making the call and then what happened afterwards. >> well, first and foremost, i am not responsible. an awesome team of fabulous nerds -- >> correct. >>

arizona governor is here. florida governor ron desantis. south dakota governor and the governor of the great state of tennessee that is hosting all of us is governor bill lee. we are joined by a live audience. you are free to yell anything you want. >> [cheering]. >> [applauding]. >> tucker: with all of that said, i will be blunt and honest. i want to get the hell out of new york. i want to see which of you will offer me the best deal. >> [laughing]. >> sean: oh. >> we talked about this. i have my dmv on stand by. you will get a driver's license and we will register your vote quickly. >> sean: i also like mount rushmore and country music. i want to be a farmer. the only one who might lose out is arizona because the dry heat is awful. thank you all. governor, let's start with you. we have this mass migration from blue states with high taxes and regulation, draconian shutdowns and we have the republican governors that have very different models. let's talk about it generally. >> our model you can see out on broadway. it's open. our businesses

, for lack of better term, in arizona. audit run by state senate has been ripped apart by actual election officials as a scam and dangerous, sowing distrust. representative is not running it but a proponent of it and basing secretary of state campaign off that audit. sometimes phrases it as just asking questions, sometimes he says there was fraud in the 2020 election. but he's using this audit to launch his campaign to challenge democratic secretary of state katie hobbes. >> one thing we saw in the election, why these things are important, people tend not to pay a lot of attention to the bureaucratic procedure by which votes are transferred into a declaration of who won. but there's a lot of points in the process where an elected official acts in ministerial capacity to just vouch, stamp, the secretary of state certifying is one of them. just say we counted votes, this person won. got to ask what happens if secretary of state animated by conspiracy theories or partisan vitriol says no, we're not recognizing it. >> we don't

that's the point of the arizona audit. and it is the latest in a long line of disinformation coming from the right and particularly from donald trump. because given this, that is a man who understands the power of disinformation as well as anyone. it does not have to be provable. in fact, it's best if it's not. it's best if someone is just asking questions, if there's some kind of -- just past the horizon that will reveal all but that we never find, which is of course a trump specialty. >> i'm trying to find out, you know, where is the birth certificate? >> why did he spend millions of dollars on trying to stay away from this issue? why doesn't he give his birth certificate? what happened to hillary clinton's e-mails, 33,000 e-mails gone, just gone. russia if you're listening i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. you have groups that are wondering why the fbi never took the server. i still ask the fbi, where is the server? how come the fbi never got the server from the dnc? where is the server? i

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same thing in arizona. it made headlines across the country yesterday that maricopa county is now going to have to throw away millions of dollars worth of voting machines and tabulators because they let these cyber ninja guys tamper with them. they let these cyber ninja guys do something to the machines, nobody knows what. but now we know that that isn't the first time that's happened. the cyber ninjas have rendered the maricopa voting machines unusable and the subcontractor they're using to handle the ballots in arizona, that subcontractor rendered the voting machines unusable in a county in pennsylvania as well and that's their only previous elections experience. and, yes, all of this seems like disaster after disaster, right? which makes it all the more remarkable that the momentum is on their side. they're just getting started. tonight in arizona, congressman matt gaetz, who actually is under federal investigation for child sex trafficking, and congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, who was recently stri

but first, a new development in arizona that democrats and republicans are calling a sham. it comes from arizona secretary of state whose office has been documenting irregularities in the operation. >> reporter: it's been a mystery from the start. why the so-called audit workers all wear color-coded t-shirts. but two are in pink shirts, the nonpartisan observers, representing the arizona secretary of state's office told by the company leading the audit that they need to wear them. now secretary of state katie hobbs says she's figured it out. >> what we noticed is they are using these shirts to label our observers as pinko commies or transgender. i don't know what that means. >> reporter: so it's a joke? >> i think this whole thing is a joke. >> reporter: the pink shirts are one of the more eye-popping details in a summary report from hobbs' office, detailing slew of the ballots. observers noted more than a dozen serious problems from an unintended and open security gate, errors with the software update used to examine ballots, so problematic, they ditched it and went back t

can we defend president trump from arizona? >> you need to call your state senators. >> we definitely will, we can. >> stafford there, i think sensing something was amiss in that interaction but she was very for right. he saying yeah, we should do this in other states. , here are the states i think we should do it. so he's at one french, right? but then there is near unanimity and the republican party now. across as various fractures, right? despite all the fighting amongst them from brought roughing's burger, liz cheney all the way to paul gosar, in march taylor greene. they are united in their mission, again, to rewrite the rules to minute peel access to the ballot itself, control the electorate as much as possible in their favor. in fact, it really has become i think arguably the number one policy focus at the state level. and it's dangerous. and it's going to keep getting more dangerous. i want to bring in jonathan swan who interviewed congresswoman liz cheney for axios on the hbo. jonathan, i just want to say that that que

the so-called odd it in arizona continues apace. it's still anybody's guess as to when that will wrap up but state lawmakers are kicking around the idea of doing yet another election audit in arizona after this one auditing the same 2 million ballots being sham audited right now because what they're doing right now isn't enough. today the so-called audit had visitors. there's all these people in colored shirts who are part of the so-called audit, but those guys in suits, those are republican state lawmakers from the great state of pennsylvania. they today got a private tour of the ongoing arizona audit. the ceo of cyber ninjas, the firm that's running this bs audit, he squired them around the site himself today. when asked by a reporter whether he wants to do an arizona-style audit in pennsylvania, one of those republican lawmakers touring the site today responded, i do. i do. this kind of effort is spreading anywhere republicans have power. in wisconsin, republicans there have come up with a brand new way to cast doubt on the legit

. >> the arizona contagion spreads. >> a delegation from pennsylvania coming to arizona to meet with our legislature and hopefully we will see action in pennsylvania. >> arizona senator shrugs her shoulders. >> i have long been a supporter of the filibuster because it is a tool that protects the democracy of the nation. >> growing fears over the unchecked republican radicalization against american democracy and why president biden's direct shot at manchin and sinema is a big deal and protest organizers making the pilgrimage to mar-a-lago and my exclusive interview on president biden's new vaccination push and our responsibility to vaccinate the world. all in starts right now. graduation season is over in phoenix, arizona. guess what they are back up to. veterans memorial coliseum june 20th and 21st recounting ballots from last year's elections. republicans in the arizona state senate subpoenaed those ballots in december. maricopa is the diverse home of the state's capitol that flipped for democrats in november and state republicans targeted maricopa county for this equal parts clowni

analysis which the arizona secretary of state has called a fraud it. joining us now is arizona state senate minority leader, rebecca rio's, she represents maricopa county one. thank you for joining us senator rios. what are you expecting tomorrow? >> i think it's important to lay the groundwork, that this is basically a conspiracy driven process that has been funded to the tune of five point $7 million by trump supporters. this is a complete partisan audit that was done after numerous audits and hand counts show that there was literally no fraud in arizona. i don't have high expectations, though i fully expect for them to continue the grift. to continue the show. this is essentially throwing red meat to their base and it should be a full out clown show tomorrow. >> so it's a strange sounding presentation i am reading about. you would expect it to be, since the republicans in the senate, asked for it, you would expected to be asked for it in a hearing environment. but it's going to be a situation where, apparently, all of you are invited to attend, memb

>> to arizona. and it was stuffed into the box, okay. and it came from the southeast part of the world, asia, okay. and what they're doing is to find out if there's bamboo in the paper. that camera right there that they take a picture of the ballot. >> federal and state officials are now focusing on what could be the illegal aspects of conducting a fake recount. our next guest arizona secretary of state katie hobbs sent a six-page detailed letter to the senate stressing the failures of the procedure, which include the use of untested, uncertified systems, a failure to adequately protect the chain of custody of documents, a risk of commingling counted and uncounted ballots in a batch, leading to some ballots being double counted and others not being counted at all, and the fact that there were no procedures for qualified unbiased counters. writing former state representative anthony kern has been among those hired to count ballots. mr. kern's name is on the ballot not only as a state representative but as a presidential lector. mr. kern i

i'm not going to continue to do this. >> i was elected by the voters of arizona to do a job. i took an oath to uphold the constitution of the united states, in the constitution and laws of arizona, and i have done that. i am going to continue to do the job that the voters elected me to do, i don't have another choice here, because if it wasn't, me who else would be here doing this, and, this is the kind of thing we have to continue to stand up to, it's why i'm running for governor, we need leaders who are going to stand up and protect our democracy. and tell the truth about what our constituents need to, here whether it's elections, or the pandemic, or whatever else. if folks want to join in, they can go to katie hobbs dot org, but i'm going to keep doing the job that voters of arizona elected me to do. >> there is more testimony at the hearing today, from others who participated, including a republican, an election official who talked about the threats to his, life that he has been subjected to. and he has decided, that's, it i'm not going to run for reelection. i'm not goin