good evening, any fair minded person who has followed the lafayette and presidency of donald j. trump knows he lies and lies a lot. what we learned today from the sworn testimony of those who worked closely with then president trump is they knew he lied just as much as we thought he did. the former president of the united states lied about nonexistent election fraud before, during and after the 2020 election. he lied despite being told again and again and again that it was not existent, that there was no widespread election fraud by the people around him, his supporters in the white house. they were telling him using many different kinds of words that what he was saying was a lie. he lied in an effort to stop the counting of ballots on election night and to later cast doubt on their validity. and allegedly he lied in pursuit of a quarter billion dollars in campaign donations to a fund he lied about the very existence of, an election defense fund that did not exist. as you ll
the county was home to the leader of the aryan nations, who had worldwide gath rerings here until the town decided to fight back. their fight to remove racist hate from their town resulted in some of the toughest state hate crime laws in the country. we re not going back to the days of the aryan nations. sara sidner joins us now. is it clear whether this group wanted to cause violence and actually hurt people physically or sow chaos and disruption? they were all loaded into a u-haul with shields, and it doesn t look good. reporter: yeah. i mean there were no guns, but there were things that could be used as weapons. police said there was at least one smoke bomb there as well. those aren t generally things you do when you re protesting peacefully. but the police are pretty clear that what they had with them, all dressed in similar outfits, that their plan was to create some sort of chaos. whether or not it was going to be violent or not, that remains to be seen. but certainly they