days before republicans assume the majority in the house and likely dissolve the january 6th committee, members released a new batch of testimony involving efforts of those closest to the former president and their attempts to overturn the election. i m pamela brown in for anderson tonight. and included in the new transcripts is testimony by donald trump jr. and remarks about what he believed was a, quote, sophisticated legal rationale to overturn the election, as in overturn the will of the people. one nearly identical to what his fathers allies would soon attempt. and there is also some rather unflattering testimony involving first lady melania trump s opinion of trump jr. and others in her husband s inner circle. also tonight, new details of a purported conversation involving senator lindsey graham who said he would become a champion of these baseless election fraud claims if the president s allies could, quote, just give me five dead voters. it is a lot to unpack. let s s
transcripts his testimony by donald trump jr.. and remarks about what he believed was a, quote, sophisticated legal rationale to overturn the election. as an overturn the will of the people. one nearly identical to what his father s allies would soon attempt. and there is also some rather unflattering testimony involving first lady millennia trump s opinion of trump junior and others in her husband s inner circle. also tonight, new details of a reported conversation involving senator lindsey graham who said he would become a champion of the most baseless are election fraud claims if the presidents allies could, quote, just give me five dead voters. it is a lot to unpack, so let s start with cnn political correspondent sara murray who has been digging through these transcripts all week for us. sarah, what more can you tell us about these new details from donald trump jr. s testimony to the committee? well, pam, i mean this is interesting because we have of course previously
the fake elector scheme. then there is the foam pillow guy, mike. for lindell, pillow talk involves subverting democracy and subverting the will of the american people. like other trump associates in the weeks following don t trump s boston 2020 election, he crisscrossed the country spreading the big lie and other this information. just days after the violent insurrection at the capitol, he was spotted coming out of the white house holding a stack of notes about martial law. like his fellows, his anti-democratic claims are all fluff, no substance. this week, he revealed while in line at a harvey s drive-through fbi agents served him a warrant and seized his phone as a part of its investigation. here is why you should sleep on the story, the last primaries took place on tuesday, which means november s general elections are now set. this november, election deniers will be on the ballot in 27 states with dozens running for top positions like secretary of state, attorney general,
i ll go out and talk about it. i think later in that system it appears lindsey graham said hey, there is no proof here. i m not going forward. i never did anything with it. there is no there there. there is a lot of testimony to read here. if the viewers tonight are looking to spend the next couple of weeks reading through things, sara is doing yeoman s job reading through all the transcripts. but there are hundreds and hundreds of pages. i was reading through some of them today. it s very interesting. there is acknowledgment on the capitol police epic failures. ray epps deposition, a guy who is kind of an fbi plant. lots of interesting things to read in there. but i think cassidy hutchinson was high point of this whole hearings. should have done a mike job after she testified. i want to go back to what we learned today in this testimony because, david, you re saying, look, he was just trying to say give me something credible that i can go out. but five, you know, dead voters
president and his allies were obsessed with finding voter fraud. but now we are learning more about what it was conspiring behind the scenes with a sitting senator, lindsey graham. saying, according to this testimony, give me five dead voters that i can go out and champion. your reaction? yeah, what i think lindsey graham is saying is give me something credible, give me something possible that i can go out and take to people, not just some hearsay, not some scattered rain and, you know, notions that are being flown around the internet. lindsey graham is looking for proof. whether people were looking for to. can be some proof and i will go out and talk about it. and i think later in that testimony it appears that lindsay khoramabad is said, hey, there is no proof here, i m not going, for an average of anything with it. there was no there there. so there is a lot of testimony to read here. if you are tonight looking to spend the next couple of weeks reading through things, there is doi