Election law expert on 2 Dan Sullivans in Alaska, DOJ bid to force California to set aside ballots
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[0:00] Big development in the race for Senate
[0:01] in Alaska. States's governor there is
[0:03] launching an investigation into the
[0:05] Democrat's reported involvement in that
[0:07] Dan Sullivan controversy. The New York
[0:09] Times reports that Democrat Mary Pelah's
[0:11] campaign was behind an effort to recruit
[0:14] a man named Dan Sullivan as a spoiler
[0:16] against her opponent, incumbent
[0:17] Republican Senator Dan Sullivan. The
[0:20] paper also says Pelah knew about it.
[0:22] President Trump railed against Pelah
[0:24] yesterday. Mary Pelah should resign from
[0:28] the race. There was a plot by the
[0:31] Democrat party and frankly they should
[0:33] be uh I think they should be prosecuted.
[0:36] To me that's voter fraud at the highest
[0:38] level.
[0:40] >> All right. CBS News congressional
[0:41] reporter Torian Smalls is in Anchorage,
[0:44] Alaska for us this morning. Uh so the
[0:47] president can say it's prosecutable but
[0:49] what happened in Alaska? What is
[0:51] happening there Torian isn't against the
[0:53] law. Uh, how's Pelo responding?
[0:57] >> Yeah, so there's two tracks running
[0:59] here, Vlad. From the campaign side, we
[1:02] saw a complete denial. They said in a
[1:03] statement to CBS News that they had no
[1:05] involvement in the inclusion of Dan J.
[1:07] Sullivan on the ballot uh and is just
[1:10] completely washing their hands of this.
[1:12] Uh Mary Pollah herself uh at an event
[1:15] yesterday said that she believes this is
[1:17] more of a distract