AZ Official at Center of Trump Pressure Campaign Speaks Out

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🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Michael Smerconish guest hosts and discusses the Trump White House's calls to Arizona election officials with Maricopa County Supervisor Clint Hickman, the Surfside condo collapse recovery efforts with Rick De La Guardia, and the increase of ransomware cyber-attacks with Dmitri Alperovitch. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you, John Berman.
0:01.0	I am Michael Smerchanisch, in for Chris Cuomo.
0:03.8	Welcome to a special holiday edition of Primetime.
0:06.3	Hope you had a great Independence Day weekend.
0:08.8	Now tonight we have a central figure on the other end of that apparent pressure campaign
0:13.1	by Team Trump to change the outcome of the 2020 election in the key battleground state
0:18.4	of Arizona.
0:20.0	I emphasize Arizona because similar pressure was also applied on election officials in
0:24.5	Georgia in the run up to January 6th.
0:28.1	This just came to light on Friday night and we played you the voice mails that surfaced
0:33.3	from a freedom of information request made by the Arizona Republic.
0:37.4	These were calls left by Arizona's GOP chair and Rudy Giuliani on behalf of Donald Trump
0:42.7	to those overseeing election results in the state's most populous county, Maricopa,
0:48.6	a county that president Biden won by about 45,000 votes.
0:52.5	I want you to hear it again, by the way the music underneath that was part of the Arizona
0:56.5	Republic's online post.
0:58.2	Hey Clint, it's Rudy Giuliani.
1:02.2	I was very happy to see this.
1:05.2	It's going to be forensic audit of the machines.
1:08.2	I really wanted to talk to you about it.
1:10.4	It's President want to give you a call.
1:12.2	All right.
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