days before republicans assume the majority in the house and likely dissolve the january 6th committee, members released a new batch of testimony involving efforts of those closest to the former president and their attempts to overturn the election. i m pamela brown in for anderson tonight. and included in the new transcripts is testimony by donald trump jr. and remarks about what he believed was a, quote, sophisticated legal rationale to overturn the election, as in overturn the will of the people. one nearly identical to what his fathers allies would soon attempt. and there is also some rather unflattering testimony involving first lady melania trump s opinion of trump jr. and others in her husband s inner circle. also tonight, new details of a purported conversation involving senator lindsey graham who said he would become a champion of these baseless election fraud claims if the president s allies could, quote, just give me five dead voters. it is a lot to unpack. let s s
transcripts his testimony by donald trump jr.. and remarks about what he believed was a, quote, sophisticated legal rationale to overturn the election. as an overturn the will of the people. one nearly identical to what his father s allies would soon attempt. and there is also some rather unflattering testimony involving first lady millennia trump s opinion of trump junior and others in her husband s inner circle. also tonight, new details of a reported conversation involving senator lindsey graham who said he would become a champion of the most baseless are election fraud claims if the presidents allies could, quote, just give me five dead voters. it is a lot to unpack, so let s start with cnn political correspondent sara murray who has been digging through these transcripts all week for us. sarah, what more can you tell us about these new details from donald trump jr. s testimony to the committee? well, pam, i mean this is interesting because we have of course previously
testimony from stephanie grisham, who was a top aide to melania trump while they were in the white house. and she was recounting that, you know, melania trump really sort of began to distrust advice that her husband was getting from donald trump jr., his son, kimberly guilfoyle, junior s fiancee, sidney powell, rudy giuliani. she just felt like her husband was not getting good advise. according to the stephanie grisham testimony, she was also getting a little peeved. people kept showing up in the residence at all hours. melania is up in the residence trying to live her life. at one point she might be in a robe and all of the sudden one of trump s advisers would show up totally unannounced. you could see why perhaps that would be a little bit annoying. can understand that. so john, when you put the latest piece of the puzzle in place along with other pieces we learned this week, like chief of staff mark meadows telling the white house staff to keep a, close hold on oval office meeting
by sources, many republicans on both sides of the house and the senate, they were trying, they were asking trump s team, look, give us something. to verify the claims you re making publicly. there were motivations for doing, so they could have varied. but that certainly is in line with what was going on behind the scenes. sarah, we also learned that former first lady melania trump didn t trust her husband s inner circle. and it was quite angry about the former president taking meetings at all hours, and the residents towards the end of his presidency. what more can you tell us about that? yeah, i mean this is interesting,, again does not testimony from melania trump. it is testimony from stephanie brigitte who is a top aide to melania trump while they were in the white house. and she was recounting that, you know, melania trump really sort of began to distrust advice that her husband was getting from donald trump junior, his, son kimberly guilfoyle, and donald trump jr. s fiancée sy