at the independent tom peck and former communications director for the trump campaign brian lanza. welcome to the programme. donald trump knew he had lost the 2020 election. he had been told repeatedly by those closest to him. his campaign manager, legal council for his campaign, his data analysts and his daughter had all had told him so. but the then attorney general bill barr told the committee in a videotaped session that after the election, he didn t seem to be listening . and that gets to a key issue in any criminal investigation that might follow of mr trump s actions, whether he understood the claims of fraud he was making were false. the vice chair of the committee, the republican liz cheney, believes he did know and that the lie he perpetuated lit the fuse on what followed onjanuary 6th. you will hear first hand testimony that the president s campaign advisers urged him to await the counting of votes and not to declare victory on election night. the president unde
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. the former attorney general bill barr told the january 6th hearing that president trump was detached from reality when it came to his baseless claims of election fraud. another witness, mr trump s former campaign manager, said there were two camps the loyalists who refused to accept they d lost and team normal who did. the uk government publishes its plans to override part of the brexit agreement involving trade rules for northern ireland, insisting it s not breaking international law. and hello, hal the ai system google developed that is so responsive, one of their own engineers believed it was sentient. tonight with the context, democratic strategist mary anne marsh, political sketch writer