primetime hearing. it got off to a bit of an unexpectedly late start after one of the key witnesses we for the campaign manager skipped a hearing. it turned out as the washington post noted it was another witness who turned out to be the star witness of the headline from the washington post. as the hearings star witness, william barr says trump was obsessed with broad notions. this is some of the testimony from the former attorney general of the united states. it got under my skin but i also felt it was time for me to say something. i had set up a launch with the ap reporter and i told him at lunch and made the statement that today we had not seen fraud on the scale to affect a different outcome in the election. i had a later meeting scheduled at the white house at 3:00 with meadows. this was previously scheduled, i knew this was going to come up and i went over there. i told my secretary i thought i would probably be fired and to go home. not to go back to my office. i sai
hearings star witness, william barr says trump was obsessed with fraud notions. this is some of the testimony from the former attorney general of the united states. it got under my skin but i also felt it was time for me to say something. i had set up a launch with the ap reporter and i told him at lunch and made the statement that today we had not seen fraud on the scale to affect a different outcome in the election. i had a later meeting scheduled at the white house at 3:00 with meadows. this was previously scheduled, i knew this was going to come up and i went over there. i told my secretary i thought i would probably be fired and to go home. not to go back to my office. i said you might have to pack up for me. so when i got over there i met with the chief of staff. he said the president was angry, he did not really get into the issue of the fraud. and then i went up to pat office and we were talking with each other. and they word came down that he wanted us both to go
critical and methodical testimony at the second hearing. testimony from donald trump s own attorney general, william barr, as well as former top officials of trump s 2020 re-election campaign on how the former president refused to admit that he lost the election to joe biden, and he pushed his big lie of election fraud on the american people. now, i want you to pay close attention to the former attorney general bill barr telling the committee that trump had become detached from reality. the claims of fraud were bullshit, and, you know, he was indignant about that. and i reiterated that they d wasted a whole month on these claims on the dominion voting machines, and they were idiotic claims. and i specifically raised the dominion voting machines, which i found to be among the most disturbing allegations, disturbing in the sense that i saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations, but they were made in such a sensational way that they obviously were influencing a lot of peop
hearing takes new turns. the january 6 committee accusing donald trump of scamming his supporters out of $250 million. laying 0 out the case that trump solicited money from backers by using lies as a fundraising tool. adding that he sent up to 25 emails a day, soliciting donations for illegal funds that simply didn t exist. but is it potentially criminal and will attorney general merrick garland pursue or prosecute it as such? those are the key questions emerging from the hearings overall. and there seems to be a new rift emerging from the january 6 committee itself on the very subject. whether they will make a specific criminal referral to the justice department. as for witnesses, some of the most stark testimony is coming from trump s former attorney general william barr who offered a line-by-line debunking of some of trump s ongoing lies about fraud. and he calls trump detached from reality after the election. cnn is live with the new reporting, trump s supporters, kai
president, for example. how would trump know giuliani was drunk? i mean, does this seem like a drunk person to you? tony blinken or how is that guy a general? all the networks, wow. all the networks. whew. i know prince andrew is very questionable now. i never went out with him. ever. never had a drink with him. never was with a woman or a young girl with him. no, i m a functioning i m probably shut up. you are a [ bleep ]! all right, rudy, hold that thought. right? how do you know? what s the steering wheel? what is that? please let the story speak for itself. what was he doing? willie, i don t what was that? should have arrested him for a dui for that move, just all over the road. good lord. [ laughter ] it is one of those how did i miss these clips? the story will speak for itself, joe. yeah, but it s not like you can just sit there and go, bitcoin took a 15% i mean, willie, that s crazy, crazy stuff. when you see it all in one place,