by rmt union. it has meant trains going out of service and millions of passengers going nowhere. my daughter s doing her gcses. i ve got to get her to and from school, so it s a right pain in the neck. i understand they want a pay rise and things change, i get that, but it s not fair for all the commuters. we are going to primarily focus on the two stories this hour, the rail strike in the uk and the hearing in washington, which is where we are going to begin. we start in washington, where the committee investigating the storming of the capitol onjanuary 6 is holding another public hearing. today s focus is on pressure by former president donald trump and his team for individual us states to overturn the election results. central to this are two battleground states arizona and georgia. joe biden won both by a razor thin margin and president trump has kept pushing false claims of electoral fraud. in opening statements, we heard from the republican vice chair liz cheney.
their desk. the man in the middle in their desk. the man in the middle in the red tie, mr raffensperger, he is georgia s top election official. that is relevant because donald trump spoke to him after the election was complete, encouraging him to alter the result, which projected joe biden as the winner of the state of georgia in the election, encouraging them to find more votes, and he has become a crucialfigure in the more votes, and he has become a crucial figure in the story of how donald trump promoted false claims about how the election was stolen and attempted to insert pressure on and attempted to insert pressure on a range of ways, on people who may or may not have been able to influence that result. georgia is particularly relevant because, like a number of other states, it is a close opting in the us president election. there are some states we always know where it will go california is always going to go with the democratic candidate but in the case of arizona and georg