it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. thank you for sticking with me. i m sara sidner. we re now get a look at even more witness transcripts from the january 6th investigation, 19 to be exact. the january 6th committee released key interviews from members of former president donald trump s family and staff, and conversations with people involved in the state level effort to overturn the 2020 election. in one interview, donald trump jr. gave more context around texts that he sent to mark meadows about plans to keep his father in office days after the election that he lost, and trump lawyer christina baub detailed something with lindsey graham in which he pledged to become a, quote, champion of election fraud claims. sara murray with me now. i know there s a lot to go through, and there s a team of people going through them, but what else stands out to you? reporter: there is a team that is diligently going through these transcripts, but the don jr. transcript is tfasc
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was really notable from this don jr. transcript, obviously he wanted his father to condemn the violence of the capitol that day. there was a whole lot that don jr. could not remember that the committee asked about, you know, when it came to his conversations directly with his father. a lot of i do not recall or i don t exactly remember. it it s interesting because you heard from cassidy hutchinson in her testimony that the lawyer that she had was telling her to do just that, say, like, maybe just, you know, i don t remember, that sort of thing. i wonder what happened there, or if it s really he didn t remember. the testimony from christina baub about lindsey graham seemed to stand out. what more did she say? reporter: she makes the south carolina republican out as somebody who wanted to help the trump team parrot these claims of voter fraud. she s recalling conversations she had with a senator, and he s saying, you know, give me an example of what he calls illegal
lawyer christina baub detailed something with lindsey graham in which he pledged to become a, quote, champion of election fraud claims. sara murray with me now. i know there s a lot to go through, and there s a team of people going through them, but what else stands out to you? reporter: there is a team that is diligently going through these transcripts, but the don jr. transcript is tfascinating because he s the son of the former president and he lays out a little bit more about his text messages with mark meadows as the riot was unfolding. at one point, he texted meadows saying he has to condemn this. he said, he has to condemn this asap. condemn what, he said, and he said, the violence that s going on. i think i made it pretty clear in my speech we can do this peacefully. use your first amendment rights, do it that way, but violence has no place in this situation. you know, the other thing that
voting. give me a snapshot that i can take and champion. just give me five dead voters. lindsey graham essentially saying to her, give me anything. give me any examples of fraud that i can take and talk about publicly. you know, lindsey graham would go on and speak in the chamber and say, you know, enough is enough. he would vote to certify the election after the riot had unfolded, but earlier on in this process, it was very clear that he was on team trump, and of course, we know since then, he remains a close ally, sara. i remember him saying, trump has not lost. it was a moment. the january 6th committee withdrawing its subpoena of former president trump? what does that mean? reporter: yeah. this is something that donald trump is claiming is a victory. in reality, it s a little bit more like housekeeping. we ve seen the committee drop a number of their subpoenas now that their work is winding down. last night chairman of the committee, bennie thompson notified trump s attorneys t
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