of total ballots cast anna. pretty much dead on accurate. most academic studies show that out on a hand tell you have between one and 2%, but with these ballot marking devices with the voter intended is very clear and made a lot easier to connect the hand counting which showed none of that to be true. i understand that when you review these tapes into the analysis, they disproved this conspiracy theory. i understand you still had to take a lot of steps to make sure that everyone knew the truth about these allegations. you did frequent briefings with the press. let s take a look at one of those press briefings, mr. serling, that you had on december 7th to make the point that you tested today. oh move on to what i m going to call disinformation monday. out of the gate. many of y all saw the videotape at state farm arena. i spent hours with our investigators
conversation in november, 2020, in which he claims that you told him that the election was rigged and that he had won arizona. to quote the former president, during the conversation he told me the conversation he told me the election was rigged and i won arizona, quote. did you have such a conversation with the president? i did have a conversation with the president, that certainly isn t it. there are parts of it that are true, but parts that are not, sir. the part that i read you. is that false? anywhere, anyone, any time has said that i said the election is rigged that would not be true. and when the former president in a statement today claimed that you told him that he won arizona, is that also false? that is also false. mr. bowers, i understand that after the election.
they will spend hours with us going over the videos to explain people that what you saw, the secret suitcase, magic ballots, we re actually ballots that had been patched into those absentee ballot carriers in plain view of the monitors and press. what s really frustrating is that the president s attorneys had the same videotape. they saw the exact same moved the rest of us could see. they chose to mislead state senators and the public of what was on that video. i m quite sure that they will not characterize the video into evidence that cars that could lead to sanctions. it is obviously untrue. they knew it was untrue and continue to do things like this. mr. sterling, despite the efforts buyer office to combat this and misinformation by speaking out publicly and to local media, you were unable to match the reach of president trump s platform on social media megaphone spreading these false conspiracy theories.
not legally sound. let s play the following video, produced by the select committee. my name is casey lueck here, i am an investigative counsel for the house select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol. working with the russia memo arguing the trump campaign should are organized zone electors in swing states that president trump had lost. the select committee received testimony that those close to president trump began planning to organize fake electors for trump in states that biden won in the weeks after the election. who do you remember being involved in those early discussions around thanksgiving time regarding having alternate electors meet? mr. giuliani, several of mr. giuliani s associates, mr. meadows, member of congress
well the, i thought of the book, the gang that couldn t shoot straight. i just thought this is a tragic parity. mr. bowers, i understand that as you flew from phoenix to washington yesterday you reflected on some passages from a personal journal that you are keeping in december, 2020, when all this was taking place. with your permission i m wondering if you would be willing to share one passage in particular with us. thank you very much. it is painful to have friends who have been such a help to me turn on me with such rancor. i m a, in the eyes of man not hold correct opinions or act according to their vision or convictions. i do not take this current