The day after the search of the Fulton County Elections Facility, Tulsi Gabbard facilitated a call between the president and the FBI team working on the investigation.

That's according to three people with knowledge of that meeting.

The Times writes this.

The president addressed the agents on speakerphone, asking them questions as well as praising and thanking them for their work on the inquiry.

In a letter to lawmakers who were pressing for more details, Gabbard did not. asking them questions as well as praising and thanking them for their work on the inquiry.

In a letter to lawmakers who were pressing for more details, Gabbert denied that Trump asked questions or issued directives during the call.

The paper also pointed to the unprecedented nature of the meeting.

Rather than going to senior department or FBI officials, Trump spoke directly to the frontline agents

doing the granular work of a politically sensitive investigation, which he has a large personal

stake. A White House spokesperson defended President's Georgia investigation on the whole,

saying he has pledged to secure America's elections. Those 20-20 elections were secure,

of course, but the Justice Department, the FBI, have declined to comment. Well, and it's worth

remembering that at least in a couple of these battleground states, the votes were run by

Republicans. Georgia was a Republican-run state. Arizona was a Republican-one state. And the Republican governors and

Secretary of State of those states said, yeah, you lost. And it didn't seem to stop him then.

So the idea that if Republicans run the elections somehow there won't be, you know, fraud.

And his mind is belied by the fact that the Republicans didn't have fraud and did run the elections.

And he lost.

And look, it's really, it's an important thing what he said yesterday because he told my colleagues in the New York Times in recent interview that he regretted not ordering the National Guard to seize voting machines in 2020 in states that he lost.

This is a proposal brought to him in the Oval Office by Mike Flynn, his former national security

advisor and some others, saying he should effectively declare martial law in some of these

states that he lost, seize the voting machines, and rerun the elections until he won, basically.

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