detail the schemes to state legislators involved in overturning the election don s favor. here is what the committee s vice chair liz cheney said at the end of thursday s hearing. over the course of our next hearings, you will see information about president trump suffers john eastman s efforts, the trump legal team s efforts to apply pressure to republican state legislatures, state officials and others. and we will examine the trump team s determination to transmit materially false electoral slates for multiple states to officials of the executive and legislative branches of our government. now, tuesday s hearing will revisit one of the most infamous moments from the last days of donald trump s presidency. scheduled to appear as a witness is georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. now, on january 2nd, 2021, raffensperger received a call from trump during which the former president asked georgia s election administrator to simply find him some more votes in his fav
analyst. thank you both for joining us. some of the best in the business. katie, let s start with you, i want to dig into the pressure campaign placed on state legislatures. you ve reported that the justice department is investigating the team of lawyers involved in the alternate electoral scheme. so who are they pursuing, would kind of trouble might they find themselves in right now? just a small part of clarification. i wouldn t say the justice department is pursuing these lawyers but we do know is other justice department stephen beaufort formation, pertain to them. we do not yet know that there are technically targets of the investigation. one of the people of interest of course this john eastman, he s made a large, a big appearance of the hearings. we see that he was involved in a lot of the various schemes to keep donald trump in power. and we also saw that he knew in the background, he never said publicly but he knew when he was having conversation with others that a lot of th