the first stating, quote, the november 3rd, 2020, election was chaotic and the results cannot be trusted. that basically regurgitated a lot of those conspiracy theories and half truths about the vote count in georgia without actually investigating any of those claims. and that report in turn ended up being cited by the trump campaign and many others in their pushes to invalidate election results elsewhere. reporter: so the report comes out. what kind of weight did that carry? it had none. but again, that really wasn t the point. you get all of the legitimacy that all the imprimatur of the georgia state senate, right? all of it. and they got that close. they got that close. reporter: coming up so you follow him. reporter: a secret meeting at the capitol.
goes on, does it ever sort of feel like wow, this is bigger than even we realized at the time? i think when you start with the president of the united states saying the election was stolen nothing outside of that is going to be surprising at that point. at this point nothing is surprising to me. reporter: despite searching for evidence that would back up their theories of election fraud, there is no indication there were any voting irregularities discovered during the data breach. and to this day we don t know where the data lives and how exactly the trump supporters plan to use it. up next we re about to have the david and goliath fight. reporter: the extraordinary challenges of trying to indict a former president. if they indict him and they can t convict him, it will be an exoneration. in surance commerci, another aqua-aerobics scene. yup. most health insurance companies see us all the same: smiley seniors golfing, hiking. don t forget antiquing. that s why i chose human
integrity of the election here in georgia. he didn t have a clue what he was talking about. i m like, he s wrong. and anybody who can read, and especially somebody who purports to be some kind of constitutional, you know, expert, this is this does not feel like it s legit. 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. dead people, felons, phony ballots. reporter: and at the last hearing where giuliani appeared on december 30th, the senate subcommittee that state senator william ligon chaired released a report with their findings.
ongoing. did you have any sense this was tied to maybe other operatives in the trump campaign, that it was anything beyond sort of lower-level people in coffee county? not initially. but there are allegations, and as you dig down deep more is revealed, and then you realize that that wasn t truthful. sidney powell was the one who ended up commissioning the services of sullivan strickler. her involvement is really what exposes the broader trump team s involvement in coffee county. reporter: powell advocated seizing voting machines with an executive order from trump. at an explosive white house meeting in december 2020. another idea that was pitched during that meeting was raised by rudy giuliani, and he thought that they could coerce or convince local election officials to voluntarily give their investigators access to voting systems. reporter: in other words, exactly what happened in coffee county on january 7th, 2021. do you feel like the longer this
chilling in terms of, look at what they re doing. video doesn t lie. and when you look at what you saw on the video, which to me was a smoking gun the problem was is that the video had been selectively edited. reporter: what did you make when you saw what he was showing his video of what happened at state farm arena? they found their magical suitcase full of ballots. when i m looking at it i m like, that s a ballot carrier. those are sealed ballot carriers, which is a normal thing you d have in elections. but they sliced that thing down to this one little narrow thing. they intentionally misled the state senate in order to keep pushing this narrative and try to get the election thrown out. reporter: so he lied? yeah. i mean, they never backed off from it. reporter: the fbi and the department of justice also got involved in chasing the allegation. both came to the same conclusion as the secretary of state s office. my opinion then and my opinion now is that the electio