kim wyman is current secretary of state in washington state. she has been in that job since 2013.is expected to be named president biden's choice to be the election security lead at homeland security. now, the really interesting news here is that kim wyman is a republican, but as a republican secretary of state, she has publicly pushed back against donald trump's false election fraud claims about 2020. she's also been very critical of the weird partisan cyber ninjas election thing in arizona. but this is an interesting twist. biden puts a sane republican in charge of national election security. hmm. watch this space. >>> all right. that is going to do it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. just think, he'll be driving for real soon. every new chevy equinox comes standard with chevy safety assist, including automatic emergency braking. find new peace of mind. find new roads. chevrolet. get pumped fans, because basketball's back! and our league pass lineup is totally stacked. forty games a week, all season long, on all your devices, so you'll never go wrong. watch your f

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tonight that the administration is expecting to name cnn's reporting tonight to that, job one named kim wymant secretary of state, in washington state. she has been in that job since 2013. she is expecting to be named president biden's choice to be the next security agent of homeland security. the really interesting news here, is that kim wyman is a republican. but as a republican secretary of state, she has publicly pushed back to against donald trump's false election fraud claims about 2020. she's also been very critical of the partisan cyber ninjas election thing in arizona. this is an interesting, twist biden puts a republican in charge of natural election security. . watch this space. watch this space watch this space they customize my car insurance, so i only pay for what i need. how about a throwback? ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ the new sensodyne repair and protect with deep repair has the science to show that the toothpaste goes deep inside the exposed dentin to help repair sensitive teeth. my patients are a

washington state secretary of state kim wyman has repeatedly denounced trump's lies and this comes aste and local election officials and their families are intimidated, threatened, as well as terrorized. sara murray explains. >> i am a mother and i think you should be -- >> reporter: that message for arizona's democratic secretary of state katy hubs just one of several threatening vitriolic voice mails shared exclusively with cnn. >> i would like to say katy hobbs' pain is coming. there's no place to hide. your elections were a fraud. >> reporter: nearly a year after the 2020 presidential contest, election officials accustomed to the bureaucratic and largely uncontroversial task of administering elections are still grappling with hateful messages. and in some cases, even death threats. >> these are things like, i see -- i'm watching you sleep. i know where you live. posting my address, telling me repeatedly how they're going to kill me. so, yes, this is not policy disagreements. >> reporter: most of the threats aimed at democrat jenna griswold, the colorado secretary of state, posted

that's kim wyman. she's from washington state. you might recognize her.al times and out in public pushing back on the former president's claims of election fraud which of course we know did not happen. it was affirmed by his own administration. she was someone who weighed in several months ago saying that particular audit that was happening in arizona she found unnerving given of course that it prompted several others like it in other states in the wake of that election, pushing back on those claims from donald trump, of course. >> very interesting, indeed. thank you very much. over at the white house. let's get more on all of this. joining us now are kirsten powers and our chief political correspondent, dana bash. the president's facing a lot of dead deadlines. he's got to get it done this week, right? >> well, no, but they're hoping that the deadline that is on the calendar, the fact that the president is going abroad for a foreign trip, will help. because you've seen this time and time again. very few things happen here in washington without a deadline

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a look at what our sources are saying and this one involves republican secretary of state named kim wyman. the only statewide elected republican. you might know her name or face from her fight against donald trump's baseless conspiracy theories after 2020. she says she's committed to protecting the committee of elections and is working closely with election officials to bolster this pillar of our democracy. let me bring in ken. kind of an interesting pick. talk to us about why the president, the white house picked her for this job. >> fascinating pick. sources say they want to send the message that election security is bipartisan and wyman is not just a republican. she's a nationally renowned elections expert, particularly many the area of mail in voting. and she criticized donald trump way back in 2016 before that election when trump was saying if he didn't win, it was going to be rigged. so she has a strong record of taking it to trump. after trump began claiming that the 2020 election was stolen, she was very up front. let me read you one of her remarks. she said every time the preside

but secretary of state la rose, michael adams, kim wyman, these folks are going toe to toe with the democrats in their states but also going toe to toe with the democrats out here in washington, d.c. house administration committee, would you ever think the smallest committee would be where democrats try to jam 800-page electoral reform bills through? i didn't either until we were in the minority, until i had to sit through hour upon hour watching with a straight face acting like hr-1 was progress. i run the smallest committee in congress. we have three republicans. we're small but we're tenacious. my subcommittee on highways and transit has 59 members. it goes to tell you where the priorities are for republicans versus democrats. democrats have turned our committee into a committee that is their leadership's authorizing xhi and tried to jab hr-1 through and we're going to fight hard and continue to fight hard. all of you have been a great resource. i'm here to talk about bolstering voters' confidence in our election systems and outcomes. i launched the faith in elections project to bring toge

her name is kim wyman and is washington state's top election official.p to former president trump slamming trump's big lie rhetoric saying it undermines u.s. democracy and later criticizing that sham arizona audit as, quote, political theater. sean lingis was first to report the pick and joins us now. what does this tell us about the biden administration's efforts to secure elections? >> it tells us they're trying to go about it in a nonpartisan way. kim wynman is respected on both sides of the aisle for telling truth to power for her election security experience on the ground in washington, for nearly a decade, and thurston county. it says they're trying to get someone who understands how elections work and doesn't care about politics and wants to be able to work with both republicans and democrats to ramp up election security efforts. >> and how are other election officials reacting? >> there's been praise from a number of officials. the national association of state election directors praised the pick as nonpartisan and interested in getting the facts