hello, everyone. this is don lemon tonight. thanks so much for joining. if i actually wrote all of this for hbo max, you would say, no! no way. that didn t happen. you almost have to remind yourself that actually happened. that a president of the united states, right? refused to accept the results of our free and fair election. tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power that makes us a democracy. try to hold on to power for himself. they ignored the will of the people. you will set to remind yourself that it actually happened. it did. today, we learned a lot more about how it actually happened. the testimony from witness after witness after witness about the shameful episodes in our history, a lot of it, never before seen. i m going to play with what they play with the people to hear. i m gonna play it for you. the biggest bombshell came the last few minutes. this is what liz cheney had to say. after our last hearing, president trump tried to call a witness in our investi
maga forces are determined to take this country backwards. backwards to an america where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. not every republican, not even the majority of republicans are maga republicans, but there s no question that the republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans, and that is a threat to this country. history tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence is fatal to democracy. i will not the will of the american people be overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless evidence claims of fraud. i will not stand by and watch elections in this country stolen by people who simply refuse to accept that they lost. democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election, either they win or they were cheated. and that s where the maga republicans
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. at this hour, two former lawyers for donald trump are facing the subpoena power of georgia s special grand jury looking into trump s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in that state. right now, rudy giuliani is testifying before that grand jury after learning he is the target of their investigation. in the meantime, conservative lawyer john eastman is trying to avoid the grand jury. he has a hearing right now in new mexico to fight that subpoena. both men along with other trump advisers who have been summoned echoed election fallacies that trump votes were somehow stolen. cnn s sara murray is outside the fulton courthouse where giuliani has been, what is it, six hours now? reporter: he s been back there for a while. 9:00 a.m. is when they got rolling. before he went in, his attorney was pretty clear that if these prosecutors thought they were going to ask rudy giuliani anything about his conversation
her testimony. he does not have the courage she showed and is refusing to tell the committee what he knows. men like mark meadows who are openly defying the subpoena to testify and avoiding us as well. we d love to talk to him not under oath, but he s shown no willingness to even face questions from reporters. house minority leader mccarthy is seeking to cast doubt on miss hutchinson s testimony and the work of the committee. this is just the continuation. they re obsessed with trump and this is all they want to do, but this here say would never be allowed in the court of law. we should point out, nothing would be here say if mr. meadows or pat cipollone would testify under oath. all they need to do is tell the truth. say what they said. then everything would be clear. hutchinson is also being attacked be i the former president himself. here s some of what he told news max yesterday for an interview that aired today. this lady yesterday, there s something wrong with her
we begin tonight with the effort to discredit cassidy hutchinson s testimony before the house january 6th select committee and effort to destroy the credibility of a 26-year-old woman who had the courage to do what the former white house counsel and president s own chief of staff do not have to courage to do. two days after telling the committee that the former president of the united states sent a mob of people, some of who he knew to be armed to the capitol, she is being attacked by the president and his defenders. men like jim jordan whose republican members are attacking her testimony. he does not have the courage she showed and is refusing to tell the committee what he knows. men like her former boss, then chief of staff mark meadows who are openly defying the subpoena and testify and avoiding us, as well. we d love to talk to him not under oath, but he s shown no willingness to even face questions from reporters. house minority leader kevin mccarthy is seeking to cast d