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. >> chris crebs said the election was secure. so i think that's all feeds why he's in there and there's a loyalty purge going on in the last month in the white house. >> in michigan, a couple republican election officials were trying to -- they refused first to certify the vote in wayne county. why wayne county? it went heavily for joe biden. he gave joy join michigan, and to let the voters be heard, for their votes to count. those election officials ultimately relented. >> well, the law is clear and the vote was overwhelming. joe biden won michigan by 14 times the number of votes that donald trump won michigan in 2016. we had a full, free fair and secure election. the will of the people will stand, and i think, you know, we have to go into this, of course, bracing ourselves for more shenanigans, but at the end of the gale, the will of the people will be respected. joe biden won michigan. >> now, there's also news today on the trump strategy in wisconsin. the trump campaign saying it will pay for a recount in two heavily democrat

scores and may fire more top officials in the coming days, including cia director gina haspell, chris crebs and fbi director christopher wray. other homeland security officials are already being forced out. he's lashing out at fox news tweeting very sad to watch this happen that they forgot what made them successful, what got them there. they forgot the golden goose. the president doesn't appear to be spending much time dealing with the coronavirus as more of his associates are contracting covid-19, including corey lewandowski, so much about his promise that media coverage will vanish. >> on november 4th you won't be hearing much about this. right now it's covid, covid, covid. >> reporter: as for the potential for president trump to fire cia director gina haspell i'm told by a close adviser she has been on, quote, thin ice, thin ice with mr. trump for months and could be in jeopardy as this lame duck session rides on. although the president is likely to wait until later this month to acknowledge the results, mr. trump could bail on those challenges sooner as he is telling aides and advisers

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president trump tweeted that chris crebs' statement last week calling the election the most secure inistory is highly inaccurate. the president announced that krebbs was being fired. a source tells nbc that krebs found out about it on twitter. and that he was upset, because he took his work seriously. krebs clashed with the white house over his agency's rumor control blog about fraud and hacking many of which his supporters have touted. and yesterday he tweeted honored to serve. we did it right. defense today, serve tomorrow. he also retweeted this post from mark hamill of "star wars" fame in which the actor says that krebs says he was fired for refusing to lie. richard burr tweeted his support, calling him a dedicated public servant who did his job during a challenging time. and said it should serve as a model for other government agencies. joining us now reporter for "the washington post," eugene scott. eugene, good morning. let's talk about the firing, we sort of new it was looming an krebbs was correct, by putting out on government letterhead saying this election was secure. the m