And is this election policy related to, oh, the post office shouldn't be doing its job and they should instead decide who gets to vote? Or is it about, you know, who gets to watch the polls and can we have police at the polls? What specifically are these election deniers trying to do to our elections?

Sure.

Great question.

Well, these election deniers had previously in their own kind of capacity been promoting ideas that, you know, how do we get rid of voting machines, right? This is something that we have seen increasingly take root as a theory across the Trump administration.

But there's a lot of folks who are, you know, working at the state and local level that themselves are thinking about theories to essentially promote the idea of getting rid of voting machines and moving to paper ballots.

And what they essentially were promoting was eliminating most mail voting, cutting down voting lines as little as a day.

They wanted the federal government to force changes about how state-run elections happen before the midterms.

And I wonder if you're involved in blunting those efforts.

Both have had significant immigration enforcement aspects to them.

All roads lead to immigration enforcement with this administration.

She says one thing her organization has been tracking is the way the administration has been using an anti-crime narrative.

This administration has used crime as a pretext for furthering and advancing its immigration enforcement agenda.

What are you trying to get? What is the core motherlode of documents and information, and why do you think that's important for the American people and for the senators considering his nomination to know?

W- well, first I, I wanna just give a little bit of background in, in why we're focused on the Jack Smith special counsel report.

American Oversight has been litigating in the Southern District of Florida since February 2025 when we sent FOIA requests for the release of the second, uh, r- second pa- part of the report that was not released by Judge Cannon.

We knew that the in- underlying investigation, um, had concluded.

We understood that the co-conspirators essentially had all, uh, charges against them dismissed.

So there shouldn't have been any live action or controversy that would bar the release of the report.

But even there, when we requested, uh, through FOIA the release of that report, we were denied.

Otherwise, y- we, you would not have even have known about it in order to e- to, uh, issue a Freedom of Information Act request, right?

Like talk about that.

That's exactly right.

What, what people need to understand about this particular case first, we are concerned not just because they're using Signal.

There are problems with that in and of itself.

We're concerned because what they were communicating about......

in a cavalier manner had the, uh, had the, uh, potential implication of, of jeopardizing the lives of our men and women in uniform.

People could have been killed if that information had been intercepted by our foreign adversaries.

What else, uh, is American Oversight doing? What else, what else are you guys working on?

Mm-hmm.

This isn't just about some obscure messaging application.

This is about protecting the lives of our men and women in uniform and the threat that having such sensitive in- uh, conversations in a messaging app has to their safety.

Uh, to be clear, the administration has acknowledged themselves that those communications were highly sensitive.

And we've had national security experts for generations perfecting the standards to keep such detailed sensitive information safe and secure to ensure that that information is not deleted.

And so that's why it's so important here to make sure that we move swiftly because the administration, the defendants in this case, have already conceded that they have been unable to recover all of the communications at issue.

And we know that that information is gonna be incredibly important to continue holding this administration accountable.

Can you talk me through, illustrate for me exactly what your concern is around the fact that these messages are set to auto-delete?