the capital in an attempt to o overturn the twenty twenty election results. for more , let s go to chief congressional correspondent chadress pergram. good afternoon. the committee aimed to tieye the riot to formerd president trump. the panel played new audioudpr and videotape of those close tof the president that included former attorney general bill barr who said there was no fraud in the election. y wyoming republican liz cheney invoked a painting in the capitol which shows president george washington resigning his military commission. p cheney says former president trump did all he could to stay in office with this noble act. washington sete the indispensible example of the peaceful transfer of power what president reagan called nothing less than a miracle the sacred obligation to defend this peaceful transfer of power has been honored by every american president except one . there was dramatic testimony from u.s. capitol police officer caroline edwards. she sustain
with the right now three hearings next week. but washingtonee democrat from eulogio paul doubts the committee will sway the gops . back to you. chad,wa thanks. and the republicans are hitting back , tearing into the highly publicizedhe hearings as a circs meant to divert attention away from the biden administration s numerous problems. all they re doing is trying to paint a new political narrative that voters need to think about n in novembr because the democrat agenda has failed. i think the country sees it as a partisan political committee that the american people are focused on a whole lot of other issuesea . lastri night s hearing was a prime time dud. nothing came out of we didn t know before and it didn t change anybody s minds. i went through throw donaldnd trump in jail. if they can t get that done, they want to prevent his name from appearing on the ballot. it s not about investigating january six . all right. well, i ll start with you. what about the claim thatla he just
officer caroline edwards. she sustained a traumatic brain injury defending the capitol. were officers on the ground ? youu know, they were bleeding. they were throwing up. y they were you know, they had i mean, i saw friends with blood all over theirin faces. op i wasle slipping in peopleo blood . house speakerd.d. nancy pelosi rejected the picks of house minority leader kevin mccarthymi to serve on the committee. so there are two gop members on the panel okayed by pelosi. republicans assert the panel lacks legitimacy. this iss their desperate attempt to try r and revive something that has been investigated by the senate. they didn t haveinhe anybody cog in to challenge why the speaker didn t take appropriateak security measures. > the panel wants to show the public that the formerf president tried to delay certification of the election
as a witness once knowwi no. when did she know it? we know she s in charge ofn security after all, she ultimately brought in the national guard. a she ultimately put in metal detectors, but not for that . so i ll get to answer that question. but i did reality. so i went my wife on reality tv. i was on the real world back on mtv. please don t pull up clips you want to know likable. relatable because tab i was nott is the bottom line is you, can actually edit anything you want and make people to believe what you want in the edit bay and so here you have nancy pelosi says i m going to edit this production and present itle to the american people. and by the way, the theory of my case, the theory of january is so weak that i can t allow jim jordan and jim banks republicans to sit on the committee and actually look for evidencerdan. we can t get the videotape fromn the from the congress that we don t know what involvement law enforcement had we re ever going to talk about that . donald trump