gaza, civilians swarming a relief truck in search the food and water. this as we re getting new reaction to video that appears to show men and young boys detained by the israeli military and stripped to their underwear. an idf spokesperson will join us live. welcome. wolf blitzer is off day. i m kaitlan collins, and you are in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we do begin with the breaking news this hour as there s new revelations on how far trump operatives went from the frantic final push to keep their boss in the white house and overturn president biden s legitimate 2020 election victory. cnn s marshall cohen is part of the team that broke this exclusive report. marshall, what are we hearing and learning in these recordings about how deep and clearly fracturic that scheme was? we ve known bits and pieces, but now we re getting a full picture, coming from ken che chesebro, which was in many ways an architect of the plot. cnn has obtained re
say, listen, listen to what we re going to tell you. in addition to what we told you in the previous handful of hearings. listen to what we re going to tell you. watch what we re going to show you today. after he was told by officials on the federal level, inside the white house, on the state level, anybody who he could listen to, who actually knew what was going on, who had the evidence. especially bill barr, he just looked for people who would tell him what he wanted to hear. and then what today showed was that when he didn t get those people to help him, he turned to the people he knew would listen, his twitter followers, oath keepers. just to underline what we re seeing now, we re seeing, if you put the pictures back up, we re seeing images of some of the police officers that have already testified and specifically the one in the middle there, sergeant acalino. staff sergeant, a former u.s. army sergeant, iraq war veteran, who was so gravely wounded defending the capito
the key meetings. we had seen some rebuttals of cassidy hutchinson s testimony by saying she was quoting second-hand information or things she cipollone was actual lot of these meeting. he was able to flesh out these moments talking about the insane meeting in mid-december at the white house and what not. but also, there were moments where he went out of his way it seems almost to needle former president trump when it came to how his reaction is going to be watching the clips. it was a moment where pat s cipollone was talking about the role that vice president pence played that day by not doing what trump had suggested he do, and it unprompted, cipollone stopped the part of his testimony, part of his interview, and said he wanted to say something about pence, and this is what he said, jake. i thought that the vice president did not have the authority to do what was being suggested under a proper reading of the law. i conveyed that. and i think i actually
the democrats lost an election which they should have been able to win because the electoral college is for democrats more than republicans. we won way a lot. that was a well fought that was a well fought battle. we did a great job. it was at if someone accused him of losing the popular vote. there you had it unprompted. president trump choosing to relitigate his victory. in an unusual show of defiance. several republicans are krit sizing what they saw, some calling out trump by name led by arizona senator john mccain, a frequent critic.
there you had it unprompted. president trump choosing to relitigate his victory. in an unusual show of defiance. several republicans are krit sizing what they saw, some calling out trump by name led by arizona senator john mccain, a frequent critic. today s press conference in he will sibky cause one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory. the damage inflict bid president trump s knife stay egotism and hard to measure. host of the best-name podcast on the market, man of teal and kimberly at kins is with us, chief washington reporter for