from the senator to lobby for this ten-day delay that they were considering or trying to push. whereby pence would not certify biden s win on january six, and instead it gave the more time to investigate. so, lindell said that he was surprised because two dozen people showed up and he didn t know any of them weren t. and to them or other u.s., one of them was another u.s. senator and a third u.s. senator just said, on the phone. so, this is just an open mic situation, or you come and give your bit on why you think that the election was stolen to actually sitting u.s. senators? well, what we understand about the meeting is that there was talk of foreign interference and allegations of china and venezuela meddling in the 2020 presidential election. and let s just be clear, there s no evidence that any into the election of 2020 to
story about the effort keeping trump in power. today s before the january 6th around direction michael lindell was pushing all kinds of truly cracked thought there is about election fraud. organized a meeting at where else, the trump international hotel. dozens of people showed up including not just any one republican senators kevin kramer of noth dakota, cynthia lewis of wyoming. they were there in person. and ron johnson joined remotely. three republican senators. let me just tell you getting three senators in a row, they were days away from voting on biden certification in their meeting with a bunch of election conspiracy theories behind closed doors. we re only finding that would happen at this meeting thanks to new reporting by the washington post. quote, what the senators heard from a handful of presenters where some of the most fantastical claims among those alleging the election had been stolen. including, according to senator
mind. investigative reporter amara brown was part of the washington post scene that broke that story. and she joins me now. emma, maybe set the scene a little bit about who could put together this meeting? among whom and for what a sensible purpose? well, as you said, chris, this was two days before the january six session of congress. at the trump international hotel, right by the white house here in washington. mike lindell the ceo of my pillow had organized it. he had invited his friend to log, and kevin kramer, the center that you mentioned earlier. he wanted the senator to hear this evidence of fraud. and the way that mr. lindell described this to me was that people were just sending him evidence. so called evidence of election fraud over the transom- so he just said, show up at this meeting so we can get this in front of the senator. the way that he described it was that he wanted to get the evidence, the alleged evidence