joining us is, yvonne sanchez, she's a washington post reporter in maricopa.'s there to watch the whole thing unfold. thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you. >> so, we watched a lot of the footage today from the public comment period and we pulled sound from people we felt showed some of the depth of feeling and the ragged edge of rhetoric in that room. can you tell us more about what it was like what the supervisors are sort of up against what it took this vote count? >> sure. i've been a political reporter here in arizona for 20 years. some of that time was solely dedicated to covering maricopa county during sheriff joe a pious tenure. there are a lot of these days during his time in office, and i can tell you not one of them had that auditorium has packed as it was today. one of the things that the cameras were not able to show where the sheriff's deputies who were lined up against the wall just sort of underscoring the potential security concerns that they have had. this is a state that has had a lot of threats in the last years since the 2020 e

joining us from arizona is yvonne sanchez. i appreciate you being here. >> thanks for having me. >> first of all, let me ask you if anything i've described about the situation in arizona is the wrong way around or if i said anything wrong and also let me just ask you to update us based on your reporting in terms of how people are responding to the results there. >> sure. i think you've conveyed everything exactly how it has played out. we are all very closely watching kari lake to see how she is going to maneuver her way through this. her entire campaign for the past year plus has been premised on the notion that an election was stolen from former president donald trump. she seems to be hearing from various voices, including the former president, about what her next move should be. she clearly thinks that this election was botched. she's citing -- officials have said no one was disenfranchised. she's trying to figure out is she going to go all in on the stop the steal notion? is she going to go all in on do not certify? is she