not his words, but there is fraud that was committed. there was an attempt to overthrow the election. and just because they weren t successful doesn t mean they shouldn t be held accountable. the reality is, if this were arson if you had somebody would matches, gasoline and tinder, but they were unable to get the flame going. you wouldn t continue to let them keep doing this, right? months later, years later, in the case of this where they re continuing to try to build a case to overturn the next election. it s important for each and every one of these electors and frankly in the case of congressman fitzgerald that everyone who is part about this is held accountable to the full extent of the law. whether that be federally, through the investigation, through the justice department, or whether it be through state laws as well. wisconsin state senator, chris larson. senator larson, thank you for you today, i appreciate you helping us find out more about the story that we didn t otherwis
ten votes in the electoral college would be cast by electors for president biden. yeah, there was real work happening on the capitol this day. how are we too busy to squeeze in a crime here? do we have the nice really could give him for that? so that was december 14th, just a couple of weeks later, january 3rd, congressman fitzgerald was sworn in to the u.s. congress. his first act, i should tell you as a congressman, was to cast his own vote against certifying the election for joe biden. trying to block the electoral votes from being counted from states that biden won. democratic state senator chris larsson, who got these emails, said today quote, if congressman fitzgerald did indeed provide the meeting space in our state capital where ten partisans conspired to defraud our democracy, he must explain why he did so. i should tell you, we have reached out to congressman fitzgerald for comment tonight, we have not yet heard back. joining us now is democratic wisconsin state senator, chri
elected fitzgerald, he was ending his term as the republican leader in the wisconsin state senate. thanks to an open records request, we now know that, the staff of now congressman fitzgerald reserved meeting space inside the state capital for the wisconsin republican party. at the same date and time that those fraudulent electors convened in those rooms. here s the email requests that senator larson, senator chris larsson, filed here, is the email that his office released today. this is from the senate quote, sent thursday december 10th, 2020, 1:30 pm. subject, booking parlor an extra hearing room for monday. monday december 14th. importance high. quote, dan from fitzgerald s office called and would like to book the parlor in another hearing room monday december 14th from 10 to 2, it s an outside group called quote, republican party for dan. can you please check on this for him and let him know, the parlor looked open to me but i don t know if it anything else
more fit for what s happening at the federal level because it is a larger scope kind of into an with what the michigan attorney general is doing. and so, this is something that is very clear that there was, at least from my perspective, not his words, but there is fraud that was committed. there was an attempt to overthrow the election. and just because they weren t successful doesn t mean they shouldn t should not be held accountable. the reality is, if this were arson if you had somebody would matches, gasoline and tinder, but they were unable to get the flame going. you wouldn t continue to let them keep doing this, right? months later, years later, in the case of this where they re continuing to try to build a case to overturn the next election. it s important for each and every one of these electors and frankly in the case of congressman fitzgerald and everyone who is part about this is held accountable to the full extent of the law. whether that be federally, through the investig
they reserved this hearing room inside the capitol, and also this grand ceremonial room, the wisconsin state parlor room. which served as a pretty fancy backdrop for forging election documents. how did that group of fake electors get to meet inside the wisconsin state capital at a time when the capital was closed to the public because of covid? at a time when only official business was being allowed inside the capitol. at a time when meeting space inside the capitol could only be requested by wisconsin state lawmakers. well, in this case, it appears that the fraudulent electors were able to get official meeting space inside the wisconsin state capital at the request of this man. who is now u.s. congressman, scott fitzgerald. at the time, he was congressman elected fitzgerald, he was ending his term as the republican leader in the wisconsin state senate. thanks to an open records request, we now know that, the staff of now congressman