The FBI raid last month on a Georgia elections office, seizing more than 700 boxes of ballots,

was fueled by an investigation into so-called deficiencies in the 2020 election.

That is according to an unsealed FBI agent's affidavit filed by the DOJ in federal court today.

White House correspondent Liz Landers has been following the updates from this case

and joins me now. So Liz, what more are we learning from that latest legal filing about the raid

and why the federal government sees those election documents? This 22-page affidavit that was

unsealed this afternoon gives us a glimpse into what the federal government's argument is here

about why they conducted

this raid a few weeks ago. And they say that this is based on belief that there is probable

cause, that there is violation of the retention and preservation of election records in

Fulton County and also deprivation of a fair election. So the way that they conducted the election

there apparently was not fair. This is according to some of fair election. So the way that they conducted the election there apparently was not fair.

This is according to some of this document. So the main FBI agent who wrote this affidavit has been at the agency for five years now.

And he goes through some of the issues, some of the deficiencies that the government is saying occurred.

He said that they did not have, the county did not have scanned

images of all 528,000 ballots. They are making the allegation that some of the ballots were

scanned multiple times, that the hand count did not match the actual count. I would add that a hand

count almost always is inaccurate because of human error, and that total votes were 17,000

votes fewer than the original count. Many of these claims have already been out in the public

before. Some of these have been addressed by Fulton County and by the Secretary of State's office.

But this is the compilation and the affidavit, which was signed off by a magistrate judge there.

And one other detail in here. The FBI says that this investigation originated with a

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