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stockton credited with one of the folks who organized the january 6th rally. listen to this. ari covered a ton of ground. the ellipse really supposed to be like the opening argument, if you will. supposed to present hard evidence that was kind of the hook, and then inside the capitol when the split happened, green bay sweep started and objections started, there was supposed to be more evidence presented. what the green bay sweep was all about. all mike pence was supposed to do on capitol hill was send the results back to six battleground states we ve spoken about that and reporting about the attempt to seat fraudulent electors. is in a something you ever worked on, for example, in michigan? so funny. not fraudulent elech trirts, ari. ultimate. yes, part of the process to make sure there were alternate electors for when as we hoped challenges to the seat electors heard and successful.
phony certificates sent by registered mail to of 2020, all part of a plan to block the certification of biden s victory on january 6th. at the time, trump aides spoke openly about the effort. an alternate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote and we re going to send those results up to congress. reporter: the committee says the documents may be evidence of a crime orchestrated by some of trump s advisors. when you falsify a document, in most instances, that s a criminal act. reporter: it s not just the january 6th committee that s looking into this. the justice department recently said that it, too, is investigating what the deputy attorney general called fraudulent electors. so, david, a criminal investigation as well as the investigation by the committee. jon karl here on a friday night, thank you. a lot more ahead tonight. when we come back, the parents
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with the fraudulent electors plot. what did those hundred members of congress that were supposedly in on this, what were they in on? did they know this would intersect voter fraud? we had over 100 congressmen and senators on capitol hill ready to implement the sweep. we believe that if the votes were sent back to the battleground states that most or all of those states would decertify the election. senator ted cruz and gosar, a representative, started the green bay sweep beautifully. do you realize you are describing a coup? no. we were following the constitution. the issue you raised in terms of fraudulent elector certifications, our prosecutors are looking at those. that last line is recent. the deputy attorney general