he wanted to hisomeone, new mexico secretary of state maggie toulouse oliver.the election apparatus system, as all secretaries of state duke in their states. your house personally was not shot at, though you into hiding last year? talk about what is going on here, this political violence at home. >> thank you for having as on to talk about this important topic. i have been an election administration in new mexico at the local and how the state level for the last 15 years and the last two years have been unprecedented in terms of the violent political rhetoric that we are all being exposed to as election oicials and now we can see with mr. peÑa, radicalized pro-trump supporter who not only took threats that he made toward me psonally and otr election officials, but obviously, into action against former commissioner o'malley and her other friends and colleagues. this is the topic i've been talking a lot about but -- that because of the big lie and because of the disinformation that has been spread throu a certain portion of the population so extensively over the

joining us now is new mexico secretary of state maggie oliver. thanks so much for being with us tonight. and i just want to first get your reaction to the pena news and understand what it is like for democratic lawmakers in the state of new mexico and how you are feeling tonight. >> thank you for having me. i'm grateful to be here to talk about this topic. and tonight i'm feeling and i know my colleagues especially my colleagues who experienced actual bullets through their house s are feeling released at the actions of the state police here in new mexico. but for me as somebody who has been on the front lines of dealing with threats and now we're seeing actual ab acts of violence against election officials particularly as a result of election denialism and the lies and misinformation that has pervaded our population the last couple of year, i'm deeply concerned because really we can see a through line now from the rhetoric that was leading up to the 2020 election all the way through december late in the year of 2022. and we're not just talking ab

here to discuss this is new mexico secretary of state, maggie oliver. joining us this evening. i want you to explain to our viewers if you can whether or not you see a trace, or a line between the rise in violence based on the political rhetoric, and the political action that we are seeing, and the political rhetoric that we are seeing come out of republicans, like the recent shootings that we saw in your home state. >> thank you for having me tonight. yes, i do. this is exactly the issue that i have been talking about for the last couple of years. the rhetoric that happens in the lead up to the 2020 election. the post-2020 issues that we saw at the january 6th insurrection, and then of course what we are seeing today in the form of this individual who decided to take up arms, and actually commit acts of violence, not just acts of political rhetoric against people that he disagrees with. >> you have been an election official for about 15 years or so. talk to us about how that has evolved. i think a lot of us in this country would have not necessarily kn

joining us now is new mexico secretary of state maggie toulouse oliver. madam secretary, thank you for being with us tonight. i just want to get your first reaction to the solomon pena news. just to understand what it has been like for democratic lawmakers in the state of new mexico and how you are feeling right now, tonight. we >> well, thank you, alex, for having me. i'm really grateful to be here to talk about this topic. i will tell you tonight i am feeling, and i know my colleagues especially my colleagues who experience actual bullets through their houses are feeling extremely relieved at the quick and decisive action of our local law enforcement officials, albuquerque police department, state police here in new mexico. but for me, as somebody who has been on the frontlines of dealing with threats and now we are seeing actual acts of violence against elected officials here in the state, particularly as a result of election denialism and the lies and the disinformation and myths that have provided a certain sector of our population over the last coup

new mexico secretary of state maggie oliver, thank so much for your time tonight. >> thank you.so >> that was part one of a bigger conversation about the state of maga republicans today and its relationship to election denialism and drifting and violence on both sides of the halls of power. part two is about election deniers and drifters in congress. just as conspiracy monger-ing congressman marjorie taylor greene today lands implement simon on the homeland security committee. but committees did serial fabricated george santos get? all those details are next. and coming up later, new reporting that the justice department's considerable ultimately decided against having fbi agents monitor president biden's advisers as they conducted their search for classified documents at his delaware home. how does it all factor in the calculations of merrick garland? i will be joined onset by former justice department prosecutor who just wrote a lengthy profile of the attorney general. all of that is just ahead. that is just ahead. - psst! susan! with paycom, employees do their own payroll. -

for that, we're joined by democratic secretary of state in new mexico, maggie toulouse oliver.ng with us. i want to ask you to expand on something you posted on twitter earlier about this case. you said this is precisely how dangerous rhetoric and conspiracy theories promote violence toward elected officials. tell me more about that, how you view the threat of violent political speech crossing over into the realm of violent political acts. sec. oliver: thank you for having me and giving me the opportunity to elaborate a little bit on this truly unfortunate and difficult topic. as many folks are aware, i as an election official, have been subjected to threats of political violence over the last couple of years, since the deeply troubling big lie came about in 2020. i think what we can see with the situation with mr. pena is a of the followthrough, a through-line to what can happen when you have folks that are frankly radicalized by these notions that elections have been rigged. of course, complete lies. but furthermore are encouraged by the folks that they identify with in the r

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joining us now is new mexico's democratic state maggie toulouse oliver. people." you're not particularly surprised by these shootings. >> i wish i could say that i were, but i do think what's really important is that we acknowledge that we have moved past the point of rhetoric, complaints, lies about the election process, you know, sort of fueling, you know, toxic behavior. and we have now come to a point obviously, january 6th, that was a huge demonstration of political violence, and now we're seeing it followed through into people at the local level who are so gripped and so bought into the concept that our elections are rigged, of course a total lie, totally fake. but they're willing to take action in the form of political violence. this is tremendously scary and it has to stop. >> mika, this is the second secretary of state we've had on the last hour with threats against their lives. >> yep. >> secretary griswold of colorado, jocelyn benson in michigan has had threats against her. it's happen across the country. >> what happened to gretchen whitmer, w