on january the 6th, i remember speaking to peaceful protesters who had a fundamental belief that the election had been stolen despite the absence of any evidence. i believe we re in big trouble there. i do. i believe that this election has made a lot of people think, why bother? you know, if it s going to be rigged or there s going to be results that don t come out to be true. there s a reason that trump is so upset. i haven t seen any hard evidence of any flat out deception or fraud, but there s a reason that man is so upset and it ain t just because he didn t win the election. that belief was inspired by people like representative jim jordan. the difference now is that mr jordan occupies one of the most powerful positions in the house of representatives. yes, representative jim jordan has this committee that s called
they re all for biden? how does that happen? it s statistically impossible. itjust can t have happened. things happen. do you think do you think 23,000 ballots, one whole batch of ballots shows up and there s not one single vote for president trump? one of the lawsuits is about 53 votes, isn t it? well, i mean, iwant every legitimate ballot counted. i think every single american wants every legitimate ballot counted. what we don t want is illegitimate illegal votes, illegal ballots counted, because that undermines the integrity of our election system, plain and simple. get out. despite dozens of court cases, investigations by election officials and donald trump s own attorney general, no evidence has been found indicating any fraud or irregularities that would have changed the result in any state, still less of the presidential election as a whole. nevertheless, jim jordan, like former president trump, still thinks there are important unanswered questions about the election.
the question is can you come back? and i have always seen him be able to do that. but this could be a knockdown from which there is no comeback. mr mccarthy is a polarising figure and not universally popular in his party, and that was obvious when the voting started. round after round, three times he failed to win the majority needed to be declared the new speaker. it was down to a small group on the right of the party who voted instead for jimjordan, who had earlier said kevin mccarthy was the right person for thejob. he was opposed by 19 members during the first two rounds, and then 20 in the third round. no persons having received a majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. it leaves the house in disarray, unable to move on with the business of running the country. but differences in political ideology also lie at the centre of this impasse with disagreement over the future direction of the republicans. there had been indications that
explained he had not asked anyone to join him in the january to sixth effort, because in his view, only citizens can exert the necessary influence on congressmen to join the fight against massive voter fraud. at this point you may also record testimony given in an earlier hearing by acting attorney general, richard donohue, who said the president asked the department of justice to just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. according to white house visitor logs obtained by the committee, members of congress are present at the white house on december the 21st included congressman brian barden, andy biggs, matt gaetz. louis go ma. paul goes, andy harris, jody heiss, jimjordan and paul goes, andy harris, jody heiss, jim jordan and scott terry. and then congresswoman elect marjorie taylor green was also there. we had testimony in an earlier hearing that a pardon was requested by