Hey everyone, it's 4 o'clock here in New York. I'm Alicia Menendez in for Nicole Wallace.

A scandal is unfolding in plain sight. Donald Trump and his aides and allies appear to be making an election power grab.

Adding to the suspicions, the fears, and the many questions around what the administration is doing

after seizing ballots from an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia.

The fact that Donald Trump cannot get his story straight,

especially when it comes to the question of what the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was doing there.

Here's what Trump said just this morning.

We have our director of national and international intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who's doing a great

job with Tulsa.

She took a lot of heat two days ago because she went in at Pam's insistence.

She went in and she looked at votes that want to be checked out from Georgia.

They say, why is she doing it?

Right, Pam?

Why is she doing it? Because Pam wanted her to do it.

Okay.

So he says Gabbard was there at Attorney General Pam Bondi's insistence.

That's not what he said, though, last night in an interview with NBC News.

Watch.

Why is Tulsi Gabbard there?

I don't know, but, you know, a lot of the cheating comes from, it's international cheating. As for Gabbard herself, she told Congress in a letter

that Trump, quote, specifically directed my observance of the execution of the Fulton County search

warrant.

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