FBI raids Georgia elections office as Trump administration seeks voter data from states
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the News Hour. The FBI executed a search warrant at an election center in Fulton County, Georgia today, seeking records related to the 2020 election. |
| 0:10.5 | Federal agents were seen entering the office outside of Atlanta this afternoon. |
| 0:15.1 | Baseless claims of voter fraud in Fulton County have been a focus of President Trump since he lost the 2020 election. |
| 0:21.6 | Our White House correspondent Liz Landers has been following all of this and she joins us now. |
| 0:25.6 | So Liz, this search is a remarkable escalation of the president's unfounded claims about the 2020 election. |
| 0:31.6 | What do we know about what happened? |
| 0:32.6 | The FBI confirming to us this afternoon that they are conducting what they say is a court-authorized law enforcement action at that Fulton County Election Center. |
| 0:42.1 | And just moments before we got on the air, we obtained the search warrant that they have there in Georgia. |
| 0:49.1 | It was signed today by a federal judge. |
| 0:51.7 | And in it, it gives us some more information about what the FBI is seeking. |
| 0:55.3 | It says they're looking for physical ballots from the 2020 election, envelopes, provisional ballots, |
| 1:01.3 | ballot images, and voter rolls, Omna. So I spoke earlier with David Becker, who's an elections attorney |
| 1:07.4 | and former Department of Justice civil rights attorney. And he said that the ballots in |
| 1:11.6 | Fulton County have been counted many times. They've been counted three times, actually, and one of |
| 1:17.1 | those times was by hand. So the idea that the FBI may find something new here is unlikely. But |
| 1:24.4 | as you mentioned, this remains a fixture for the president. He continues to lie |
| 1:28.3 | about the 2020 election results, and in particular in Georgia. Remember, he had that phone call |
| 1:33.4 | with the Secretary of State in 2021, Brad Raffensberger, where he asked him to find basically |
| 1:38.6 | the vote margin that would push him over the edge to win the state of Georgia there. Just last |
| 1:44.0 | week, the president said in a speech, |
| 1:46.4 | people will soon be prosecuted for what they did in the 2020 election. Omna, he talks about this |
| 1:51.9 | on almost a daily basis. Let's, we're at the beginning of another election year. How does what we |
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