Welcome to the news hour. The legal fallout for alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election

continued in Arizona today. Rudy Giuliani and 11 other allies of former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty

to charges that include conspiracy, fraud, and forgery.

It's connected to the plot to install fake electors to back Trump despite President Biden winning the state in the 2020

election.

Following all of this closely is Ned Foley.

He's an election law expert at the Ohio State University.

Thanks so much for being with us.

Good to be with you.

And it's worth noting that Arizona prosecutors spent weeks

trying to find Rudy Giuliani.

They ultimately located him based on some of his podcasts and he was served

a summons while he was leaving his 80th birthday party in Palm Beach, Florida. Other defendants

in this case include former Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelly Ward, former White House

Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis, remind us of how this

scheme worked and what they were trying to accomplish.

Right. Well, I guess the good news is that it didn't work.

It was trying to undo the election based on claims that had no factual credibility whatsoever.

As many people may remember, there was a lot of litigation over the 2020 presidential election after the networks all declared that Biden had won.

And Trump went to court with Giuliani as his lawyer and these other defendants were part of that conspiracy really to try to

subvert the outcome and for a while they used ordinary legal process to do it even though they didn't have any legitimate claims and the courts all rejected it and then they went beyond normal legal means to concoct this scheme of alternative electors.

Arizona is one of seven states that Trump lost in 2020 where his allies tried to put forward

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