republicans gathered as well, including in the state of georgia. democratic party electors met right up there in the senate chambers. they are official, they are certified and they voted for joe biden. but georgia republicans, they met as exactly the same time, right behind those closed doors. they are not official, not certified, they still met and chose donald trump. even as democratic party electors were meeting in the georgia state senate for the first time in 28 years to select a democratic vice president and vice president, one floor below, at the state capital, georgia republicans were meeting for their own meeting to select republican electors for donald trump. those fake republican electors signed forged certificates, purporting to be the real electoral college votes and, in other words, asserting that in fact donald trump had won georgia. those fake certificates were actually mailed to the national archives as though they were official. and it s not like they
through this process that they will schedule hearings should the investigation warrant. the investigation goes on and we have some anticipation that we were closer to the investigation right now. but the fact is, witnesses continue to come forward. so we are reserving the right to do more hearings as these but nurses come forward, and i think hopefully we will have a lot of work remaining to do. one of those witnesses s patrick burn, the former ceo of overstocked.com. he testified before the committee earlier today after his name come up at tuesday s hearing. witnesses for the committee testified that he was at an unhinged oval office meeting in december 2020, along with rudy giuliani, sydney powell and michael flynn. what is a former furniture ceo have to do with january 6th. here s what former white house counsel pat cipollone told the committee on tuesday. [inaudible] and i walked in and i saw sydney powell looking there and i was not happy to see the people in the o
knew he lost the 2020 election and that their scheme to overturn the results was illegal. and yet, they attempted it anyway. president trump rejected the advice of his campaign experts on election night. and instead, followed the chorus recommended by apparently inebriated rudy giuliani. to just claim he won. and insist that the vote counting stop. to falsely claim everything was fraudulent. and there are an lies the true nature of these hearings. to truly hold trump and his fellow coup plotters accountable. the committee has already uncovered evidence that trump may have committed serious federal crimes. but it s up to the justice department to bring criminal charges. as neil cocktail argues in the opinion page of the new york times today, attorney general merrick garland could bring a charge of conspiracy to defraud the united states even if trump truly believed in what he was saying. and it wasn t just democracy at stake, but lives as well. vice president mike pence fa
the committee is also expected to take a deeper drive dive into the lies that led to supporters violently storming the capitol. we are by the president of the united states! he personally asked for us to come to d.c. that day. and i thought, for everything he is done for us, the only thing that he is asking me is it is hard to know right now just how much east trumpy detail we heard on thursday moved the needle among the 20 million americans who tuned in, according to nielsen s rating data. whether it was learning that former attorney general bill barr thought that trump s elections were quote, bs, or whether ivanka trump agreed. or that trump reportedly told his staff that vice president, quote, deserve to be assassinated. or even the never before seen footage of just how violent trump s riders were. the full impact of the hearings has gets to play itself out. still. congresswoman liz cheney had a stark warning for recalcitrant republican politicians who continue
unprovoked invasion of ukraine. we ll hear from three of the brave women reporting from the war zone, as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we ve got a lot to cover tonight, so let s get smarter. there are several competing headlines on this friday night, involving the january six investigation and 100 days of war in ukraine. but this nation is also still reeling from a string of devastating massacres carried out with guns. and on this national gun violence awareness day, many of us are wearing orange, including the white house, to honor gun victims and survivors. over the last few weeks, mask shootings have taken dozens of lives, and injured so many others. the demand for new legislation grew even louder this week. do something! do something! do something! do something! we will. we will. don t have all of these on locked back doors. let s have an assault weapons ban. mental illness. mitch mcconn