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
gram interview because he wasn t particularly cooperative, and this wasn t really a session. this is hearsay that we re dealing with. somebody that was called to give much more detailed testimony. that s why we re emphasizing this was testimony given by someone else. but i will say it also corroborates what i m told by sources that many republicans on both sides on the house and in the senate, they were trying to they were asking trump s team, look, give us something to verify the claims that you re making publicly. now, their motivations for doing so, they could have scattered. but that was certainly in line with what was going on behind the scenes. we also learned former first lady melania trump didn t trust the people in her husband s circle and what more can you tell us about that? this is interesting. again, it s not testimony from melania trump, but it is