The FBI's move this week to execute a warrant at voting offices in Fulton County, Georgia to seize records from the 2020 election and the presence of National Security Director Tulsi Gabbard on the ground there has ignited a fierce debate over election security and federal authority. Joining us to discuss some of these issues is Rick Hassan,

Professor of Law and Political Science at UCLA,

and author of A Real... authority. Joining us to discuss some of these issues is Rick Hassan, professor of law and political

science at UCLA and author of a real right to vote. Rick, thanks for being with us. What legitimate

legal purpose could this raid serve at this stage more than five years after the election?

It's really hard to say. We have seen the search warrant. It does suggest

the potential for criminal charges, including for interfering with an election as well as for

destroying documents. It would appear that these claims would be beyond the statute of limitations.

It's not clear who's being investigated. This seems to be

potentially, and maybe this is the most optimistic reading, just trying to indulge in the president's

statements about him being concerned that the 2020 election was stolen and just perpetuating

the look by the government and by others into what happened in the election,

not even the last presidential election, but the one before this one.

And the president continues to suggest that prosecutions are coming,

stemming from what he says is fraud connected to the election,

based on what we know, how plausible are federal charges?

Well, with the statute of limitations likely having run, without knowing of any wrongdoing,

there's been a lot of investigation, not just of the 2020 election generally, but of Fulton County,

Georgia in particular. They've been investigated by the Secretary of State there,

who's a Republican, even though Fulton County is a Democratic county. It's hard to know who might

be implicated. I'm much more worried about the signal this sends to election administrators and

others for 2026 looking forward than I am about what might happen to those looking backward.

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