they oversaw the sham audit in arizona's maricopa county is completely closing down.ts audit. 6 million. but they are now closing down shop completely. everyone's been let go because they say he they are in debt. so, they spent that plus more. it comes as maricopa county officials have released a 93-page report debunking, in detail, claims made by the cyber ninjas that raised doubts about the election. sara murray is out front. and sara, i know you have been covering this and this company was touted multiple times by former-president trump. finished the so-called audit despite sustained criticism from republicans in the state, as well as democrats. but they are only shutting down now. why? >> that's right. does not begin to describe this company or audit. as you point out, they have faced criticism for months over the shoddy prak its of the so-called audit, of its partisan roots and thijs have gotten even worse for the country this week. as you pointed out, maricopa county officials put out a report where they essentially refute the big report that came from the cyber

>> maricopa county was notorious for not treating all of our voters equally until we got into office,million more voters and we had 600 more ballots casts between 2016 and 2020 here in arizona. we opened up access to all voters and citizens who were eligible to vote and we did it effectively and in a global pandemic. we had a killer team out there, a bipartisan team that folks trusted and trusted well. i know there's plenty of republicans and independents who understand the work that we did and i'm confident that we will see all of the folks come together again as we move forward. we just have to present that solid front of fact knowing americans and people that just don't believe in the big lie. that's the majority of us and we have to stick together behind the reliable leadership. >> saturday arizona's democratic party censured kyrsten sinema for her vote against changing the filibuster for voting rights. do you support that move? >> absolutely. i was calling for the end of the filibuster particularly as to voting rights when i stood with a lot of veterans out -- my fellow veterans

. >> nowadays he's the vice chair of the maricopa county board of supervisors, the governing board foramong the board's responsibilities, running elections. >> this election was run well. there was no fraud involved in this. no corruption. why do i feel confident about that? because this has been the most scrutinized election we've ever run. my job was to make sure that there wasn't anything improper or fraudulent that was going on. >> you weren't discounting anything. >> no. my job is to investigate what was being brought to me, and so i followed up on those with our elections officials. >> and? >> and there was nothing to it. >> hey, ken. >> good morning, sir. >> for gates and his colleagues, the madness began in the hours after the polls closed. >> as far as i'm concerned, we already have won. >> before the tally was finished, supporters who believed then-president trump when he said he won arizona began flocking to the counting site. [ chants ] >> it was a circus. i mean, it really was lollapalooza for the alt-right. they were outside of the elections center which is -- i mean, rea

he said the truth is the maricopa county 2020 election was not stolen from donald trump.etrates into the consciousness of trump supporters that you spoke with. >> reporter: yeah, i mean, that republican election official is an example of somebody that many trump supporters and trump himself of course wants to get rid of. i did think what was quite notable about this trip to arizona, for so much of the past year we have heard outlandish and really crazy conspiracy theories about voting, whether hugo chavez voting machines swaying the election for donald trump and pieces of paper from china, somebody changing votes. a lot of that stuff seemed to die down at least based on the people we had spoken to. they were back talking about more generally the election being stolen and talking more along the lines of the restrictive voting measures that are being brought in by republicans at a state level. and so the conspiracy theories seem to have -- the more fringe conspiracy theories i guess have eased a bit and now the talking points have really begun to align with these restrictiv

the cyber ninjas, the fake audits in maricopa county, it was never about the truth.idence even more. and i think that what we are seeing is the big lie getting bigger. that's then used to suppress the vote, attack institutions and attack confidence in elections. so that the next time a presidential candidate loses who doesn't like the outcome of the race, it will be easier to contest the validity of the election. so that's why we really need folks to be paying attention because there are things that the u.s. senate could do, states could do and american voters could do to make sure that democracy survives and this country remains the great united states of america for decades and centuries to come. >> appreciate it. thank you very much. >> thank you so. >>> coming up, more on texas senator ted cruz rewriting his own history about his view of the january 6th insurrection, not to mention surrendering whatever dignity he had under pressure from tucker carlson. we will talk to jonathan karl about the latest example of fealty before facts in today's gop next. try this rob

i met him twoonths previously in arizona outside the maricopa county count where trump supporters wereting the results. the story he told me seemed at that time so crazy that i decided not to get an interview on camera. the story was essentially the qanon conspiracy theory about this cabal of satanic pedophiles who they believed had raped and stolen the election. two months later it turned out that story had made its way into the heart of american democracy. i set out to find the origin of that story and how it made its way into the american psyche. you could go as far back as you like. we had to take a frame. they believe that hillary clinton is at the center of this so-called cabal. we decided to begin in the 1990's and looks at some of the spirit see theories that had arisen in the early days of the internet. we discovered a sort of ecosystem of chat rooms, right wing talk radio that was deliberately spreading conspiracy. in that sphere that then bubbled up to the surface for about two decades and erupted again as hillary clinton ran for the presidency. this was the spark that led t

and then, further, we conducted our own audits in maricopa county that established there were no issueshere was no malware placed on them. those machines were never connected to the internet. there was simply no basis for this claim. but, unfortunately, all of this led really, all of this that was sort of sewing these doubts at this time that were articulated in this executive order laid the predicate for the so-called audit here in arizona. >> right, right. so-called, of course, the bottom line, right? i mean, it was not a real audit. even though its conclusion was that biden's margin was bigger than what had been reported. i appreciate your time. i thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> next, what's happening in the uk is bizarre. another huge employee to prime minister boris johnson. we are finding out about these parties, multiple, plural, being looked at by police during covid. >>> and at the australian open in the form of these t-shirts. and he gets one-on-one coaching when he needs it. so ben is feeling pretty zen. that's the planning effect from fidelity if you have advanced non-s

it has been disproved over and over and very recently, the beginning of january, the maricopa countyction jurisdictions in the country came out with a point by point refutation of 75 or so claims made by senate republicans election review. it's a very important document and when it comes to new election laws it will likely weigh heavily on the minds of just a few republicans in the state legislature and those few republicans are all that you would need to block any new election laws. remember, our republican legislature, the house and the senate, each chamber has just a one-vote majority of republicans. so it's not that easy to pass new election laws here and the maricopa county board which oversees the elections says they are ready. >> once again, a fascinating state to watch. bram, thank you for getting up early for us, vaughn hillyard, appreciate your great reporting as well. >>> coming up, djokovic out. the tennis superstar booted from australia, but could his unvaccinated status keep him from the next major as well? that's next. t major as well? t major as well? that's next. ♪ t

. >> reporter: those falsehoods were on display in full color in maricopa county, arizona, where thestate senate sponsored a so-called election audit last may. it concluded mr. biden actually won with more votes than originally indicated. >> i pledge allegiance -- >> reporter: a summer symposium on 2020 election fraud conducted by the ceo of mypillow yielded no evidence. even so, 2021 saw 19 states -- most led by republicans -- tighten election laws. one irony of all this? the conservative-leaning heritage foundation found four of the states president trump most vociferously contested had some of the nation's most secure voting procedures. helen butler is serd on the board of >> if you reconstitute the board with a lot of members that are made up by one political party and the political line that party is that you have to change the outcome of the election to keep someone in power. this is the way to do it. >> reporter: meaning, as the old saying goes, it doesn't matter as much who votes, it matters more who counts. >> i see it as we didn't get it done this time. but next time, i'm g

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guest: i was at the release of the audit in arizona, looked at the maricopa county ballot in 2020. i went to election integrity events in the state of michigan and a gop county fundraiser outside of detroit in lansing. i went to the trump rally in perry, georgia. i went to other events in atlanta around this issue. i met a bunch of these people including many of the people running for office either for secretary of state or governor or other state offices. host: that's where you learned the sentiments you initially thought would subside strengthened over the course of time. guest: absolutely. at the trump rally in georgia there were tens of thousands of people there. the former president spends a good chunk of his speech bashing immigrants, bashing refugees from afghanistan saying they will ruin the country, bashing the media, bashing so-called radical left marxist democrats and then he spends a lot of time bashing so-called rinos and blaming members of his own party for helping to conspire to steal the election in 2020. he spent a long time talking about these elaborate election c

the associated press reports a maricopa county superior judge said he would impose the fine until theials released a report rebutting almost every claim in the ballot review concluding that nearly 80 claims made by cyber ninjas were misleading or false. >> misleading and false and still -- and still -- they found more votes for joe biden. >> you know, what can i say? >> well, there's nothing to say. it's pure idiocy. >> florida governor ron desantis said up to 1 million covid-19 tests held by the state expired last month without use. the batch of rapid tests expired between december 26 and december 30. the administration claims the stockpile was never given out because there was no demand for the tests at the time. this despite a spike of cases in florida that has led to hours long lines at testing sites and difficulty finding at-home kits. i can tell you we would have liked a couple of those tests in florida. we're looking for them. couldn't get them. >> leading up to the holiday. >> the confirmation the tests expired comes after the desantis administration mocked candidate nikki fri

>> i was at the release in arizona look at the maricopa county ballot. i've been at election integrity events in thent state of michig, at a gop county fundraiser outside of detroit in lansing in front of state house in lansing. i went to the trump rally in georgia. i went to other events in atlanta around this issue. i have been tois a bunch of thee events and met a bunch of these people including many of the people who are running for office on this issue either for secretary of state or governor or other state offices, many of them with the endorsement of former president trump. >> that's what you learned the sentiments that you initially thought would subside were actually strengthened during the course of time? >> absolutely. at the trump rally in georgia there were tens of thousands of people there. then former president spends a good chunk of his speech bashing immigrants, bashing refugees from afghanistan saying they're going to ruin the country, bashing the media, bashing so-called radical left marxists, democrats.di then he spent d a lot of tim

in maricopa county in arizona. >> we've never seen a private company be able to come in and take command of live ballots. >> in idaho, where the secretary of state's office recently hand-recounted ballots to refute claims of vote flipping. >> after reviewing almost 10,000 ballots over three different counties, officials found a margin of error of less than 1%. >> and in oklahoma, state officials there opened an investigation to counter allegations of hacked voting machines. similar cries of fraud from governors and state legislators have gone on and continue to go on in nearly 40 states. >> the fact is, election fraud does occur. >> charges of widespread fraud have all been proven false. but the claims have succeeded in one critical way. they have shattered trust in the election system. a poll published in november found that only 33% of republicans said that they would trust the results of the 2024 election if their candidate didn't win. that compares to 82% of democrats. >> there will be no faith whatsoever in election results. >> there's 70 million people who do not believe this. >> s

wednesday's report concluding there was no election fraud in maricopa county is just the latest blow investigation. back in october republican investigators found the audit intentionally missed thousands of ballots and biden actually won more votes than initially reported. and yet we continue to hear about republicans in other states trying to replicate the arizona audit, in between states trump won. you saw the whole thing first hand. what do you think is going on? >> well, we've known from the beginning that this was just a grift. and i think the cyber ninjas shutting their doors is further confirmation of that. this was never real to begin with. it was all a grift. but it is concerning that we're seeing this so-called arizona-style audit trying to be attempted in other states because what this does is nothing but further undermine the public's confidence and trust in our election systems. nothing that they did during this whole exercise was a reliable or valid election audit procedure, and so it's no surprise that the results they came up with are not valid results. >> former pres

they sent a maricopa county sheriff's deputy to check on them. >> they used a ladder.o see through an upstairs window, and they immediately recognized that there was a gentleman inside that appeared to have been shot. they forced entry, and upon doing so, found another victim, a woman, who had also been shot, and both were deceased. >> my guts just absolutely dropped when i heard this news. >> scott wightman was the tennis coach of one of the victims, mary simmons. >> she competed like nobody else. everybody wanted to play with mary. >> and one of her occasional playing partners was dwight jones. police believe, that for reasons yet unknown, dwight murdered mary and her boyfriend, bryon thomas, in their home. remember that .22 police observed dwight tossing? police later learned it belonged to the fountain hills couple. mary and bryon had been killed with their own weapon. there were now six dead, and dwight jones was still not in custody. but investigators had a good idea where to find him. >>> coming up -- finally, a killer surrounded. >> they carefully and quietly s

it's kind of hard running as a democrat in this environment in west virginia, maricopa county.w, we have nine months until a midterm election, then two more years until 2024 when they're both up. we've got to really focus on the problems we have right now. i disagree with them fundamentally on how their thinking we should meet this crisis with voter suppression. but they are friends of mine. they've been incredible partners in the american rescue plan, bipartisan infrastructure plan. they voted with biden more than 96% of the time. so my focus right now is meeting the crises of the moment from the expenses going up as you guys have been covering to frankly the reality in america right now, where states like georgia and texas, latinos, blacks are having to wait four, five, ten times longer in lines to vote that folks that live in wealthier, predominantly white communities. that's crisis in this country. you have to find a way to be who we say we are, a nation where everyone has equal access to polls. >> i'm wondering what your thought is about this bipartisan effort to pass the

in fact, the weirdly named florida-based firm that conducted that highly partisan review of maricopa county for the arizona republican party recently folded after a scathing report from government officials. it's also being fined $50,000 a day for refusing to turn over documents of its so-called audit in a public records request. look, we probably didn't even get to all of the ways that arizona republicans are trying to crack down on voting rights in that state. but, hey, we're only an hour-long show. arizona, as the experts say, is ground zero for the republican war on democracy. and so you'd think that the senior senator from arizona, a democrat, would be doing everything they could to stop it. then again, the senior senator from arizona is kyrsten sinema. yes, today sinema's state party voted to censure her. her colleague, vermont senator bernie sanders, said this morning that it was the right thing to do. >> you have 19 republican states that are moving very aggressively into voter suppression, into extreme gerrymandering. some of these states are doing away with the powers of independe

that conducted the so-called fraudit of the 2020 election announced it was shutting down after maricopa countyed their partisan review of the election and a judge imposed a $50,000 a day fine on the company until it handed over documents as part of a public records request by the arizona republic. even though the cyberninjas were a partisan sham and lucrative griff. they have demonstrated that they have done their part in perpetuating this big lie. last thursday, representative liz cheney accompanied by her father dick cheney were the only republicans present on the house floor to mark the first anniversary of the insurrection. it's a stark reminder of the pathetic state of the republican party today. republicans largely remained silent and absent this january 6th including the former vice president mike pence, one of the mob's targets during last year's insurrection. however, pence may be compelled to speak soon. last night betty thompson chairman of the january 6th committee told npr that pence could be asked to cooperate in its investigation as soon as this month. meanwhile other figures fr

the chairman of the maricopa county board of republicans saying simply, we're done.s is the end of the 2020 election. but much of the republican party refuses to be done with former president trump. much of the gop spent the past year rewriting history about what really happened january 6. and still to this day, too many push his big lie for their own political survival. >> yes, the attempt one year ago to overturn the will of the people failed thankfully. but the lies of the 2020 election, the lies that fueled that violent mob in the beginning of 2021, remain a lasting threat in 2022. a point president biden will make when he speaks in just about four hours on the capitol this morning. >>> cnn's daniela diaz is live for us this morning. daniela, you were there that day, forced to hide like so many others. what is the mood one year later? >> reporter: laura, today is a day of remembrance. i was here when one year ago trump supporters stormed the capitol. and as a result -- they stormed the capitol as a result of trump's repeated big lie that the election was stolen f

after that so-called quote, unquote not really an audit in maricopa county to undercover significanthat joe biden won the state. cyber ninja has since shut down and faces fines. i want to bring in senior reporter jane tim watching this. some of the changes seem based on the things that just are conspiracy theories for example or not true. >> yeah. more than two dozen bills and most at least seem to be focused on finding or preventing fraud with a bureau of elections to investigate, hand counting ballots as you said and experts say we have machines to do that because they're accurate and some things that seem like they're rooted in the theories of the last election. infrared things, special inks that change with heat or light. making the ballots more high-tech. sounds like things with printing money or super bowl tickets i would say and this is all because it's popular amongst the arizona republican with the so-called audit to do election legislation. most are keen on passing new laws and said when they orchestrating this review to do it to write new legislation. >> there's a particul

defector from the republican state senate here, they would have called for the jailing of the maricopa countyr certifying the 2020 election. >> a couple of those trump endorsed candidates spoke at the rally. what did you hear from them and what's central to their lies about the campaign? >> reporter: just about everything. from that four plus hour event, you had a series of speakers, candidates and current office holders who almost solely concentrated the entirety of their own speeches on the 2020 election and this idea of election integrity. essentially the former president is commanding loyalty from these individuals and demanding they have fidelity to the big lie, these 2020 conspiracies. state senator wendy rogers was going off on tangents about rigged machines. of course there's no merit behind that. callie townsend, another state senator, was leading the chants to bring on indictments. kari lake saying that election officials should be jailed. these are individuals who hold legitimate office in the state of arizona. the attorney general of arizona was not here but he's running for the u

power of canvassers or the arizona legislature may usurp the authority of election officials in maricopa county. i don't know what could be done on a federal level on that front. states are the ones that run their elections, so you're not wrong there, and that's a case where the court could correctly be following the constitution and give us an undemocratic result. >> and especially because there is a declining confidence in this court in whether or not it is politicized because precedent after 50 years doesn't seem to mean anything even to those who testified when they're being confirmed. >> in this fractured environment we're in, i know we have this conversation all the time. we were having it a moment ago with all the different outlets where you can find your information from legitimate news outlets to your friend on facebook. is it possible? is it possible to come to a consensus? is it possible any longer in this country to share a set of facts? and if it's not, is there anything that can be done about it? >> it is possible if people in elected leadership do their job and actually realize t

the rinos on the maricopa county board dec-- they are horrible. >> that's what is coming from the top yeah. and i hope people appreciate that their rhetoric has consequences. and those consequences involve threats to civil servants, the people who are responsible for running elections in america. those consequences result in what we saw on january 6th. where, by the way, many hundreds of people are being held accountable. and those -- and that rhetoric, also, results in a lack of faith in our democracy. >> so, laura, when you consider the graphic death threats this man in texas made against election workers in georgia, what are we talking about in terms of punishment? will he face a punishment that sends a message to others that this is a thing you cannot do? a redline you cannot cross? >> well, if they are able to prove their case we are talking up to five years in prison and we are not talking about a state or local charge. we are talking about a federal charge here and that sends a very strong message about how we view the sbeg tri of our elections and those who try to not only, um

progressively latino populations coming out of phoenix and the urban areas out by the maricopa -- within maricopa countylity to particular voters, she's abdicating responsibility to democrats and to the country by failing to support the filibuster carve-out. >> vaughn, thank you as always. i love when we get to introduce you as a native arizonan. are you sticking with me. >>> next, another setback for texas abortion providers. the six-week ban stand for now, but advocates say the fight is far from over. >>> plus, the growing concern over russia's potential invasion of ukraine. i'm going to ask a former cia operative what vladimir putin's end goal is here. that's coming up in the next hour. d goal is here that's coming up in the next that's coming up in the next hourt products for nutrition, sleep, immune systems and energy, cvs can help them happen a little less. these are the faces of listerine. the face of millions of germs zapped in seconds. the face of clean. the face of whoa! some are of intensity, others joy. all are of... various: ahhh... listerine. feel the whoa! woman: i have moderate to severe

on legal votes, so the results as i believe them to be based on the 83,000 unlawful ballots in maricopa county,000 unlawful bollball lots in wisconsin, the tens of thousands of unlawful ballots in georgia and the same in pennsylvania, i believe the lawful results are that president trump 20 election. in terms of january 6th, the process of the account act, there was absolutely a plan and a process for there to be challenges to the electoral vote. >> is that a yes? >> can i -- >> is that a yes? >> no. you asked a question. i'm answering a question. >> is that a yes? that's important because we may run down this in a future election. is that a yes -- >> i'm answer the question. >> you're going to get time. that is a yes, boris, that's what you and bannon were talking about, you would use the so-called account act. >> what do you mean so-called? it's an act. >> you would then try to veto the house and have trump declared the winner, is that correct? >> after the election of 1876, the account act was passed in 1876. it lays out a process to challenge electoral votes. >> okay. and you're on record

. >> the maricopa county, arizona, elections came out with a 93-page report saying there was no fraudnetwork stephanie grisham was working for melania trump on january 6, reported that she saw with her own eyes the president was watching for the white house dining room, quote, gleefully as the events were unfolding. she described rewinding the dvr saying look at all these people fighting for me. you had some reporting again this morning and in your book, of course, about the pressure donald trump that day was putting on mike pence. some of the phone calls he made to mike pence saying you're not going to wimp out, are you? turning up the heat for mike pence to do his part in overturning joe biden's election. >> think about pence on this morning, one year ago. he does not go to the white house. he stays at the naval observatory. his residence, calls in a conservative retired judge. he doesn't even want to go to the white house. he goes straight from home to the capitol. he talks to the president around 10:00 a.m. and says he's not going to budge and trump is extremely unhappy and this s

and just this week, just this week, the election department of maricopa county, the largest county in arizona, headed by a republican, with released a 90-page document delivering a point-by-point refusal of claims of voter fraud. their conclusion? the november 2020 election in arizona was administered with integrity, and the results were accurate and reliable. this has been proven throughout statutorily required accuracy tests, court tests, hand counts performed by political parties, and postelection audits. no fraud in arizona. let's turn to georgia. the secretary of state in georgia published an op-ed in "the washington post" last year to defend his state's results. he wrote, georgia's voting system has never been more secure or trustworthy. they had multiple recounts in georgia, importuned by trump supporters. they had a hand recount. the result was the same every time. no voter fraud in georgia. in pennsylvania, one pennsylvania republican legislator said the following about his own party's efforts to conduct a tsao so-called -- a so-called forensic audit, the attempt runs head lo

guest: i was at the release of the audit in arizona, looked at the maricopa county ballot in 2020. nt to election integrity events in the state of michigan and a gop county fundraiser outside of detroit in lansing. i went to the trump rally in perry, georgia. i went to other events in atlanta around this issue. i met a bunch of these people including many of the people running for office either for secretary of state or governor or other state offices. host: that's where you learned the sentiments you initially thought would subside strengthened over the course of time. guest: absolutely. at the trump rally in georgia there were tens of thousands of people there. the former president spends a good chunk of his speech bashing immigrants, bashing refugees from afghanistan saying they will ruin the country, bashing the media, bashing so-called radical left marxist democrats and then he spends a lot of time bashing so-called rinos and blaming members of his own party for helping to conspire to steal the election in 2020. he spent a long time talking about these elaborate election conspi

the democratic party for not being able to make a senator from west virginia and a senator from maricopa countyhat democratic party is deeply divided. it's not. joe biden has had remarkable party unity, 48 democratic senators, you do not hear a peep out of them and on the house side they are quite united. that's really in stark contrast to jimmy carter who had a full revolt in the 1980s. while there are similarities and they are both facing inflation, in some way it's apples and oranges comparison because people are comparing carter's last year as president, 1980 with biden's first year as president. actually biden is a lot less popular than jimmy carter was at the end of his first year when he was way over 50%. things really went south for carter and ended up what i call a political failure and even visionary success as president. that's the part on the substance that we hope joe biden achieves. >> well, jonathan, i was going to say for president's timing is everything. you look at ronald reagan at this point and reagan's first year, reagan was just at the bottom of the barrel, republicans got

propublica found the number of precinct committee members in the largest county, maricopa, surged after bannon issued the call for the far right take over of that area as a republican party. yes, maricopa is where that bonkers cyber ninja audit was held that ultimately wasted everybody's time because it concluded once again biden soundly defeated trump there. of course this big lie nuttiness is not playing out just in arizona. wait until you hear the twisted tale from nevada gop politics. you're about to hear first-hand from a witness what happened in his back ward yard, this latest episode of a trump tsunami, a former gaap chair of nevada's crucial clark county where he says party leaders have been inviting the proud boys, yes, the proud boys into the tent until he wasn't able to stop it. but first let's turn to one of the lead reporters on this massive propublica piece. isaac, thanks so much for joining us. this all sounds like a sneak preview of coming attractions, insurrection 2, the sequel. at its core what's the plan? >> the plan is exactly like you said, jim, take over the republ

some were registered in maricopa county without voter registration deadline after the deadline had passed a federal judge basically in that case cited the impact of the covid-19 pandemic, and there were 20,000 ballots that basically were registered after october 5. the court legally extended that deadline because of covid-19. so the notion that these were all illegal, you may not have liked the court decision -- i know the former president does not like the court decision, but this is what the court decided in these cases. these are what voters decided, what states decided. he just doesn't like the outcome of the system. and the reason why we're here today on the john lewis voting rights act and to try to pass these laws is because our country based on a democracy knows that enfranchisement, voter enfranchisement is something that we have to constantly be working for. i talked about a couple of companies earlier. i'd like to talk about a few more if i could. the reason i'm saying this is because right now we need to unite the free press, the business community, the general public, everybo

citing the maricopa study, which was a study so scientifically flawed it would never be published in any -- >> laura: so bad! >> they had more schools in the study then there are in the countyfrom the beginning, we have been saying. of the influenza study, the ovel observational study of all different studies done on influenza virus that was on the cdc website starting in 2020, they just completely discounted that. this entire exercise has been just ridiculous, and our kids are getting hurt. but dr. makary, we look forward to seeing how this blows out here. this looks like it is going to have to go to litigation at some point, and we are going to be following this very closely. we appreciate your input tonight. speaking of masking kids, it's not just ineffective, it is stopping the spread of covid, it is harmful to the children's development. my next guest is a palm beach speech pathologist and says at the end of last year, she saw 306 he 4% in referrals for todds with speech delays. many parents have taken to calling this condition just covid-delayed. joining me now is a speech language pathologist and director at the speech learning and so institute in north palm beach. j

citing the maricopa study which was a study so b scientifically flawed it would never be published in any medical bag. they actually they had more schools in the study than there are in the county now from the beginning we have been saying this that their influenza studies, dy the overall observational study of all the different studies done o o on influenza virus that was on the cdc website starting in twenty twenty , they just completely discounted that . so this entire exercise has been just ridiculous and our kidss, are getting hurt.k but dr. makary, we look forwardw to seeing how thiss blows out here, but this looks like it's going to go to have to go toe litigation at some point and we're going tocl be followig this very closely. but we appreciate your input tonight . and speaking of mafeking kids, s it's nototnot as ineffective at stoppingng the spread of covid. it's harmful to the children's development. my next guest is a palm beach speech pathologist and says that at the end of last year she saw a three hundred 4% sixty four percent increase in referrals for babies and toddlers with speech delays. but many parents have taken to calling this condition just cova delayed