efforts to keep donald trump in office. recordings detailing how trump operatives scrambled to get fake elector ballots to washington in time for january 6th. also this hour, republican presidential candidate nikki haley trying to clarify her comments about the civil war after she failed to mention slavery as a cause for the conflict. the backlash to benight is grow as our republican opponents are pouncing. also tonight, paul whelan speaking exclusively with cnn as he marks five years of being wrongfully detained in russia. he s now pleading for the president to do more for his release as if he were the president s own son. i m kaitlan collins and you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. and i want to get right to the breaking news tonight because we have extraordinary behind the scenes details of the trump team s efforts to carry out a fake elector scheme as then president trump was trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat and hold on to the white
know, we, quite frankly, just were sick and tired of it. and we wanted to create something that addressed it. i think for a lot of people out there, they re going to be, you know, when you hear about this, confused by the banks, the incumbents who have managed these va loans, the benefit to our service men and women, why have they been allowed to provide such a dishonest path for people to get home ownership and the benefits that are rightfully theirs when they return? well, that s a good question. i think that, you know, well, just by program design, veterans are entitled to va home loan benefits. and the va actually guarantees the home loans on behalf of the veterans. but private lending institutions are actually the ones that provide the lending to the eligible beneficiary. and you know, because of that, there s a handoff process that created some gaps within the industry. and that s probably how that occurred. that allowed for the