joining us now to talk about the fight back is jeffrey mandell, the president and lead counsel of law. mr. mandell, thank you for joining us tonight. appreciate you being here. >> thank you for having me, rachel. >> so we've been watching these dynamics play out in wisconsin from afar. let me ask you if i've screwed any of this up in the telling or gotten any of it the wrong way around. >> no. you've gotten it right, rachel, and you did something super important, which is you've connected the dots. because the two things in your intro that struck me the hardest were the concept that this is metastasizing and things in wisconsin are appreciably crazy. and both of those things are exactly right. what's happening in wisconsin is we're having lots of individual issues that people are treating as individual issues, but they're not. they're all connected. so you connecting those dots is incredibly helpful because it shows how profound the danger to our democracy in wisconsin is. >> tell me about the decision that you and the group you're part of made back in february to ask milwaukee county

attorney jeffrey mandel, with wisconsin legal group law forward, he wrote to the state election commission in wisconsin, and also to the milwaukee county district attorney, the prosecutor there. referring those ten fake electors, who forged that paperwork, referring them for potential prosecution. quote, following the november 2020 election, ten individuals impersonating the legally selected unauthorized presidential electors of the state, flouted the will of the people as expressed at the ballot box. and fraudulently attempted to misappropriate wisconsin's participation in selecting the next president of the united states. we want you to request your insistence and investigating these events, determining if they violate long-standing wisconsin law, and helping deter others from ever attempting such a grave and brazen offense against our democracy. well governor tony evers and other electors were convening in the state capital on december 14th, a separate group of individuals gathered elsewhere in the state capital, they executed a competing set of documents, reporting to cast wisconsin's