Records Show Trump's White House Tried to Call Maricopa County Election Official After Loss

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🗓️ 3 July 2021

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Michael Smerconish guest hosts for Chris and discusses the Trump White House's efforts to win Maricopa County, AZ with Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, preparations for a January 6th select committee meeting with Ron Brownstein and Charlie Dent, and the impact the July 4th holiday weekend will have on the spread of covid cases. 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	Thank you for that, John.
0:02.1	I am Michael Smerchanish, Info Chris Cuomo.
0:05.4	You remember Donald Trump's call to the Secretary of State in Georgia to find him votes?
0:10.6	Well, apparently he was trying to do the same thing in Arizona.
0:15.4	There's new evidence surfacing tonight of more reported behind the scenes efforts by Trump
0:20.2	and his allies to pressure state election officials to help him retain the presidency.
0:25.6	This was all back in the weeks after the 2020 election.
0:29.0	Do you remember this in Georgia?
0:32.1	I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more that we have because we won the
0:43.4	state.
0:46.1	The Arizona Republic has now obtained new records via a public information request that
0:51.4	show how Trump, his former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, and Arizona's state GOP
0:56.8	chair tried to pressure Maricopa County supervisors overseeing the election results.
1:03.1	Maricopa is Arizona's most populous county.
1:05.7	County supervisors there reportedly got texts and phone calls as votes were being counted
1:11.2	and also later as the votes were being contested.
1:14.4	Here are two of those voicemails from Rudy Giuliani, one to Clint Hickman, who was the
1:18.4	chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors at the time and another to Supervisor Bill Gates.
1:24.4	Please note that the music you'll hear underneath the call was added by the Arizona Republic
1:28.8	in their online story.
1:29.8	Hey Clint, it's Rudy Giuliani.
1:32.8	I'm very happy to see this.
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