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🗓️ 17 May 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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0:00.0 | Earlier this week, Florida political reporter Gary Findout got a call from the governor's |
0:08.9 | office saying, come on down to Tallahassee, we're going to have a press conference. |
0:13.8 | Well, well, the whole thing was very last minute. |
0:17.3 | It was, they gave us no indication what it was about. |
0:20.7 | And I got a call and I was just told you will want to be there. |
0:27.0 | So we get there and then he starts talking about a US News and World Report about higher |
0:33.0 | education and how Florida schools were identified as number one. |
0:37.1 | And I'm thinking, okay, well, that's interesting. |
0:40.0 | I don't know why everyone was, you know, we had this huge press conference here for this. |
0:46.3 | But then he talks about that for 30 seconds and then he starts and I was briefed by the |
0:51.9 | FBI and then we were off and running. |
0:58.0 | Gary knew that the governor, Ron DeSantis, had been trying to get this meeting with the FBI. |
1:03.8 | He was looking for more information about a paragraph deep inside the Mueller report, alleging |
1:09.1 | that back in 2016, some part of Florida's election system had been hacked. |
1:14.6 | Now, I want to make it clear, when the report came out, special counsel's report, |
1:20.6 | it mentioned one county, at least one, when he started talking, he said there's two. |
1:27.5 | So that immediately was like, wait, we only thought there was one. |
1:30.8 | Now there's two breaking at five governor, Ron DeSantis confirms that Russian hackers gained |
1:36.0 | access to voter databases in two Florida counties. |
1:39.2 | And in fact, he just held a news conference regarding this matter. |
1:42.2 | But get this, the governor isn't saying which two counties previously he had said, I want |
1:47.7 | to know who the counties are. |
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