Fake elector helped pro-Trump operatives access election office

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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CNN obtained a new video showing a fraudulent Trump elector escorting operatives into an elections office on the same day a voting machine at that very office was breached. Authorities are now investigating whether this is yet another coordinated effort to subvert the democratic process. Plus, explosive wildfires out west, major flooding on the east coast, and fear of blackouts due to record heat. 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	The door was held wide open for one potential threat to democracy. I mean that literally.
0:07.0	The lead starts right now.
0:09.0	CNN obtains new video showing a fraudulent Trump elector
0:13.8	escorting operatives into a very real election's office on the same day of
0:19.3	voting machine at that very office was breached.
0:22.1	Authorities now investigating
0:23.4	whether this is yet another coordinated effort to subvert the
0:27.0	democratic process. Plus, living at the extreme
0:30.7	major flooding on the East Coast, explosive wildfires out west, and fears of
0:35.1	blackouts due to record heat and stress on the power grids. And companies call
0:41.6	on employees to return to the office after Labor Day, but that's not what many workers want.
0:47.0	Might their push to work from home motivate your own conversation with your boss. Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper when we begin this hour on Democracy Watch and our politics lead monitoring the latest evidence of the pernicious and
1:04.2	growing threat against the American experiment itself. Former President Trump
1:08.7	continuing to endorse and help election liars win Republican primaries for offices that are relevant to your
1:16.3	votes integrity.
1:18.3	Trump's pick for the Republican primary in Massachusetts today is someone who falsely said that the
1:23.3	2020 election was quote rigged and who will Trump says quote rule with an
1:28.5	iron fist. Trump is also talking about pardoning those who violently attacked the capital on January 6, 2021 in an effort to stop the counting of electoral votes.
1:39.0	Trump in addition gave a speaking slot over the weekend at a rally in Pennsylvania to a woman who was
1:45.4	pleading for justice for her nephew. Her nephew a convicted January 6th
1:50.0	rider. This is him. He's an admirer of Adolf Hitler and a judge was so worried that his
1:56.2	neo-Nazi rhetoric would become neo-Nazi violence. The judge has kept that
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