his attempt to overturn the election. someone who knew what he was doing. according to congresswoman liz cheney, he had every reason to know that what he was doing was wrong. the argument seems to be the president trump was manipulated by others outside the administration. that he was persuaded to ignore his closest advisors and that he was incapable of telling right from wrong. this, of course, is nonsense. president trump is a 76-year- old man. he is not an impressionable child. the first time the public were shown testimony from pat cipollone, who spoke to the panel friday. going to start by asking you if you agree with all of the individuals that there is no evidence of no election fraud sufficient to change the outcome ? yes, i believe that. did you believe that the president should concede once you made determination based on the. did you form the believe that the president should see the election loss of a certain point after the election. well, yeah. i w
rhetoric. he said katrina, yes it was. the communities we have come to expect close with a surprise. liz cheney said the former president tried to call a prospective witness and that the justice department had been notified of that attempt. on nights like these, there is certainly a lot to cover. two hours ahead. first up, democratic congressman adam schiff. spoke to him just moments before we talked. what is your biggest take away from today s hearing? my biggest take away is on december 18th, the president meets with these outside i don t know what to call them. advisors, allies. and they want to seize voting machines. they want some kind of special counsel. that proposal is essentially rejected by the president s own people. hours later in the early morning hours of the following day, trump summons the mob and sends out the tweet saying it s going to be wild.
evidence to know that, you know, that part of it was criminal intent. that trump knew that the far right militia groups were coming because of what he said. you know what i mean? there is a lot of circumstantial evidence about it. i completely agree. we know that it was the proud boys acting as security guards. oath keepers for roger stone. in general, the committee has under promise and over delivered. this was one hearing where they said there was going to be a link with trump, but i didn t see it. see you all again shortly. the former president s reaction to all of this, especially the civil any testimony. let s turn to cnn chief white house correspondent kayla collins who is in jerusalem tonight covering president biden s trip there. what are you hearing about donald trump s reaction to today s testimony? particularly, what pat cipollone he had to say to the
that were described with mike flynn. i thought that was very dramatic. there were other things going back and forth. trump was in and out. he was almost a nonfactor in descriptions of that meeting. that is a problem. he was a factor. he was asking lots of questions and making lots of points. at least one person was in tears of frustration because of all the screaming and yelling and they were, frankly, exhausted because as the meeting you heard earlier today, it went on for over six hours. sidney powell? i do not believe it was, no. somebody else. for context, when that meeting took place, it was four days after the electoral college had met. it was a done deal. the election was over. mitch mcconnell comes out. one of the last establishment republicans came out. he was given trump as much time as possible for the lawsuits. he waits for the electoral college meeting and says, congratulations joe biden president-elect. you heard pat cipollone in his deposition saying that was the
his attempt to overturn the election. someone who knew what he was doing. according to congresswoman liz cheney, he had every reason to know that what he was doing was wrong. the argument seems to be the president trump was manipulated by others outside the administration. that he was persuaded to ignore his closest advisors and that he was incapable of telling right from wrong. this, of course, is nonsense. president trump is a 76-year- old man. he is not an impressionable child. the first time the public were shown testimony from pat cipollone, who spoke to the panel friday. going to start by asking you if you agree with all of the individuals that there is no evidence of no election fraud sufficient to change the outcome ? yes, i believe that.