york times" reports, the team led is asking witnesses about the events surrounding the firing of chris krebs was the top official in the 2020 election. mr. krebs selection that the election was secure with the assertion that it was, quote, a fraud on the american people. the special counsel reportedly issud subpoenas two weeks ago to staff members in the trump white house. a key focus for jack smith according to the "times." the investigators appear focused on trump's state of mind around the firing of mr. krebs. as well as on establishing a time line of events leading up to the attack on the capitol by a pro-trump mob on january 6. and trump being fashioned by tweet, of course, is a key chapter in the campaign to overturn his defeat. he was fired just two weeks after election day. in hindsight now looks clearly like an early indication that the ex-president and his allies would make the big lie a litmus test of loyalty to the ex-president. and that they would be willing to get rid of, to purge, anyone who stood in the way of peddling the election fraud conspiracies that would serve as a bas

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prosecutor jennifer rodgers, so, jennifer, what legal issues could be at play surrounding the firing of chris krebs are a couple of things, john. one, of course, is the state of mind of former president trump as you try to put a case together, you always have to prove the defendant's state of mind. all of the evidence that trump actually knew because his advisers were telling him that the election was secure and no voting machine problems and all of that was relevant and this is even more important than that because as we heard in the january 6th committee's work and i think jack smith is trying to put together a similar case. this is a multi-pronged conspiracy and one of the first prons was the former president lying about what happened and the spreading of disinformation about the election results in 2020. so anyone like christopher krebs who was a trump appointee, leading a government office coming out and saying this election was secure, was there no fraud here and then that person was fired that's an important piece of evidence in terms of proving that prong of the conspiracy, the disinformati