I'm very concerned of what's going to happen in the next election, absolutely.

Well, I've been thinking about it more in terms of what needs to be done based on what we saw happen last time.

I think a thing that all of us can do is support election workers and election officials.

The last time around, we saw that those people

stood firm, and they were, in many cases, the difference. It's clear to me, anyways, that where

I've seen publicly, that those people are going to be put under great pressure.

Hi again, everybody. It's now 5 o'clock in the east, a sounding of the alarm from the man who investigated Donald Trump's last attempt to overturn an election in 2020.

Things he warns next time could get worse, and we need to all be extra diligent in trying to protect those who administer our elections.

Because when it comes to Donald Trump,

it seems like no affront to American democracy is off limits.

Take the latest stunning new body of reporting in the New York Times

that the Trump administration is splitting not just the lives of election workers at risk,

but the lives of all Americans at risk.

Because now if states don't

comply with their demands, they will take action on this latest effort by Trump that essentially

amounts to extortion. The Trump administration is requiring states to change the way they conduct

elections or risk losing tens of millions of federal terrorism prevention funds in its

latest move that would make voting harder and undermine trust in results that don't go President

Trump's way. That effort would force states to transition to paper ballots, verify citizenship

of voters, and make other changes to election procedures

according to federal emergency management agency documents.

FEMA, a part of Homeland Security, has told states that it would withhold 20%

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