donald trump got beat by joe biden. handily. there s no way we lost georgia. that was a rigged election. he went on a warpath like a scolded child to do anything he possibly could to overturn that election. they defrauded us out of a win in georgia. and we re not going to forget it. i underestimated his willingness to push the envelope as far as he did, to just boldfaced lie again and again and again. three months after the election the district attorney in fulton county, georgia, fani willis, officially opened an investigation into former president donald trump s efforts to overturn the state s presidential election results. this is a criminal investigation. we re not here playing a game. i plan to use the power of the law. because i sit here in this jurisdiction it s my responsibility. fani willis is known as a prosecutor s prosecutor. she s known as a tough cookie
frankly i think you have a duty to do that, to protect the integrity of the election here in georgia. he didn t have a clue what he was talking about. i m like, he s wrong. part of what he is accused of doing is trying to persuade members of the legislative branch in georgia using false information, using outright lies, to try to get them to act against the interests of the people and the voters of georgia. it s a very serious charge. reporter: the december 3rd hearing wouldn t be the only appearance by giuliani and other trump allies in the peach state. giuliani appeared at two other hearings in front of the georgia legislature, in december 2020, where he continued to push the debunked claims of fraud. there are ten ways to demonstrate that this election was stolen, that the votes were phony, that there were a lot of them.
fight for trump! after nine weeks of countless misleading comments, half truths and flat out lies a violent deadly insurrection exploded at the nation s capitol. it s over! treason! in the midst of the riot, then lieutenant governor of georgia geoff duncan begged residents of his state involved to stand down. i want to speak directly to georgians. every georgian that can hear my voice. put down your differences. put down your partisanship. more than 20 georgia residents would go on to face charges stemming from their actions in washington, d.c. on january 6th, according to a cnn tally. donald trump stopped caring about this country the moment he started lying about that election, the conspiracy theories that literally seeded the beginnings and endings of
doing. he could stop it very easily. donald trump was intimately involved in every process around trying to overturn this election. i mean, this was a granular ground game of epic proportion. this was somebody obsessed with overturning that election at all costs. reporter: up next why are you flying down from d.c. on december 3rd to the georgia state capitol for some nothing subcommittee hearing? dead people, felons reporter: rudy giuliani hijacks the georgia legislature. phoney mail-in ballots. so he lied? yeah. of remote coral reefs. that can be analyzed by ai in real time. so researchers can identify which areas are at risk. and help life underwater flourish.
a number of advisers, including chief of staff mark meadows and conservative attorney coletta mitchell. if we could just go over some of the numbers, i think it s pretty clear that we won. we won very substantially georgia. reporter: at the time of the election, gabriel sterling was the voting systems implementation manager. when did you learn that that call was taking place? about 60 seconds before the call took place. and what was your thought when you learned he was about to be on the phone with the president at the time? i was kind of irritated i wasn t on the call. and then i heard the call the next day. i m like, i m so thankful i was not on that call. it was an hour, of which 55 minutes the president spoke. and it was the greatest hits of all the stuff we d been debunking for two months. giving oxygen to this continued disinformation is leading to a continuing erosion of people s belief in our elections. reporter: trump appeared to threaten the secretary of state.