the scheme going anyway. a former georgia election official telling the panel she and her family paid a horrible price for trump s lies, their lives threatened after the president falsely accused her of ballot fraud. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight the american people have gotten a deeper look into donald trump s attack on democracy through the testimony of state level officials who defied him and wound up actually fearing for their own lives. let s get to all the testimony from the january 6th investigation. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju reports. you re a tyrant. you re a felon reporter: tonight the january 6th committee laying out in stark terms intimidation and pressure campaign from then president donald trump and his allies against state officials attempting to uphold democracy in states where joe biden won. what are we going to do, besides k
federal offenses, obviously the state did not and that explains how determination in this case. we re also on veterdict watc in texas. jurors are deliberating how much alex jones should pay the 6-year-old sandy hook victim for pushing his lies after the massacre of 20 first graders and six adults did not happen. the judge in the case denied jones request for a mistrial after it was revealed that his lawyer mistakenly sent two years of jones cell phone records and text messages to the parents legal team. the parents lawyer said multiple lawmaker groups are seeking those texts including the january 6 committee. i am under request from various federal agencies and lawmaker to provide that. absent a ruling from you saying can you not do that, mr. banks, i intend to do so immediately following this hearing. i believe there is nothing, nothing that he has done to fulfill his obligations to prevent his client from preventing him there doing that. who are you turning it ove
previous reluctant witnesses. one is the secret service. according to new cnn reporting, investigators have identified potential missing text messages on the phones of ten agents. messages from on and around january 6th. committee vice chair liz cheney calls the developments regarding the agency deeply troubling. i have just tremendous respect and admiration and real affection for members of the secret service, particularly those who were with my family on 9/11 and in the aftermath of 9/11. but i also know that what we saw in terms of what s happened over the course, what we ve become aware of over the course of the last several weeks is deeply troubling. we will get to the bottom of it. cheney also tells cnn the panel is still interested in speaking with steve bannon, who was convicted on two counts of contempt of congress for defying the committee s subpoena. we ll join steve bannon s attorney for his first interview. they say they could also subpoena begiginni thomas.
will include, quote, evidence of pardons. according to jamie raskin the panel is sorting through a deluge of new evidence and it s enough to postpone next week s hearings until next month. some of that evidence comes from a tip line and some of it from a british made documentary featuring ivanka trump who told a crew in mid-december 2020 that donald trump should continue to fight until every legal remedy is exhausted because, she said, people were questioning the sanctity of our elections. now, that sounds a little bit different from what she said in testimony revealed this month. in april this year ivanka said she believed attorney general bill barr s clonclusion that there was no evidence of widespread election fraud. how did that affect your perspective of the election when attorney general barr made that statement? it affected my perspective. i respect attorney general barr, so i accepted what he was saying. barr made his view public on december 1, 2020. a few days
some of that evidence comes from a tip line and some of it from a british made documentary featuring ivanka trump who told a crew in mid-december 2020 that donald trump should continue to fight until every legal remedy is exhausted because, she said, people were questioning the sanctity of our elections. now, that sounds a little bit different from what she said in testimony revealed this month. in april this year ivanka said she believed attorney general bill barr s conclusion that there was no evidence of widespread election fraud. how did that affect your perspective of the election when attorney general barr made that statement? it affected my perspective. i respect attorney general barr, so i accepted what he was saying. barr made his view public on december 1, 2020. a few days before ivanka spoke to the documentary crew. we should mention that the documentary by british filmmaker alex holder is now owned by discovery plus, a division of cnn s parent company, warne