i m jake tapper. aides say this second hearing will drill down on evidence that president trump knew he lost the election but spread false claims of fraud anyway, ignoring court rulings, ignoring the will of the american people. lead-off witness, bill stepien, who has firsthand knowledge about what trump knew about the election numbers. stepien tells cnn he is appearing under subpoena. also testifying today, former fox digital content director chris stirewalt. he was fired after his accurate call of arizona for joe biden. we ll hear directly from republicans who investigated and rejected claims of election fraud in the key states of georgia and pennsylvania, and felt trump s anger for it, former u.s. attorney bijay . . ak and al schmidt and ben ginsburg will testify there was no widespread fraud in 2020 and discuss the trump team s failed challenge to the election results. the select house committee is aiming to connect more dots between the insurrection and its allegation
confirmed that stepien was scheduled to appear under subpoena today. he did go onto say that stepien was just going to confirm what he already knew. he said he s one of the finest political consultants in the country and that we re going to hear he followed the numbers, followed the data and advised the president as to what he saw. an interesting side note is that marino has been seen inside the hearing room in a pretty lengthy conservation for the chief counsel. this had required some add adjustments. the hearing was supposed to start at 10:00 eastern. they are hoping to start in next three or four minutes. the committee add justing their plans. we expect to hear from morino on behalf of stepien. he s expected to read a statement on behalf of his client and then as we already reported, the committee does plan to use some of the closed
r rigorously and that s why their plans went haywire at the end of the day. every election there is some fraud, some incon sistencincons. it s always happens. you re dealing with human beings, fallibilities. there s a number of pennsylvania republican who is have gotten in trouble for voting on behalf of dead spouses. that happened in florida as well. it does happen. is there enough of it to change an election? the answer almost always is no. this is why bill ginsberg is so important. changing demographics.