On the eve of the midterms , President Trump won't stop talking about voter fraud. Yet he has gone to extraordinary lengths for an election official convicted of helping breach the very voting system she swore to protect.

Tina Peters – once Mesa County, Colorado's top election official – used her office to pursue the president's claim, never backed by evidence, that rigged voting machines cost him the 2020 election.

A Colorado jury convicted her. A judge sentenced her to nine years. Mr. Trump wanted her freed. How he went about it, critics say, reveals how far he'll go to advance his agenda and punish those who stand in his way.

In Colorado, the cost of that punishment came into focus with a fire in August of 2025.

It was one of the worst wildfires in Colorado history , scorching nearly 138,000 acres. It left almost all of Kathleen Kelly's 2,000 acre ranch in ashes.

Bill Whitaker: Did you see it moving toward you?

Kathleen Kelly: Yeah.

Bill Whitaker: What's that like?…