The Special Council is asking about yet another Oval Office meeting involving Donald Trump.

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A new CNN exclusive, what did Donald Trump say behind closed doors?

The Oval Office meeting about election security that has the attention of the Special Council.

The brand-new reporting you'll see only on CNN.

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We start today in our law and justice lead with the CNN exclusive.

We've learned Special Council Jack Smith is scrutinizing yet another Oval Office meeting as part of his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Sources tell CNN prosecutors have asked former U.S. officials about a February 2020 meeting in which former President Donald Trump

praised the work done to secure the upcoming presidential election and the expansion of the use of paper ballots and security around vote tallies.

Now, that's a stark contrast to the voter conspiracy theories Trump publicly promoted just weeks later and more aggressively in the run-up to the November election.

I don't want to see a crooked election. This election will be the most rigged election in history.

They know it's going to be fraudulent. It's going to be fraud all over the place.

I've been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots or it's disaster.

The revelation of this meeting comes as the investigation appears to be in its final stages with the DC Grand Jury schedule to meet this week.

So let's bring in the team with the exclusive reporting CNN's Sean Lingas and Evan Perez.

Sean, let's start with you. What happened at this February 2020 meeting?

There was a lot that happened. It was an election security briefing. U.S. officials walked through the ways in which the election system was secure in telling Trump about mail-in ballots, security audits for voting and a range of ways in which the election would be protected.

And Trump, according to our sources, even suggested he was so impressed by the work done to secure the elections that he even suggested doing a press conference where he could take credit for that work.

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