president trump started a commission to look for that in 2017. they could find nothing. they disbanded before ll they could even file a report. reporter: in 2020 mail-in ballots, which were going to be more prevalent because of the pandemic, became a perfect new foil for trump s old claim. voting by mail is wrought with fraud and abuse. when you do all mail-in voting ballots, you re asking for fraud. reporter: alissa farah griffin was the white house communications director for then president trump from april through december 2020. we actually had to pull together a meeting in the oval to remind him that many of or voters, particularly senior citizens, were going to vote by mail and that we were deterring people from turning out and from voting in the way that they would. reporter: all this caught the attention of congresswoman liz cheney. a rock-ribbed conservative and
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president trump continued his pressure campaign. your governor could stop it very easily if he knew what the hell he was doing. he could stop it. just days later he publicly excoriated georgia republicans such as governor brian kemp for not helping him overturn the election, something kemp could not legally do and had no grounds to do. so far we haven t been able to find the people with the courage to do the right thing. and here he was calling us into question only because we wouldn t lie in front of a national audience for donald trump. and trump leaned on the state s chief elections investigator. the people of georgia are so angry at what happened to me. they know i won, i won by hundreds of thousands of votes. it wasn t close. whatever you could do, frances, it s a great thing, it s an important thing for the country. the surprising part to me is how granular of a level donald trump was actually personally engaged in trying to overturn the election in georgia. certain
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the whole notion behind it was trump and his supporters saying don t worry about it, we re going to make it up. don t pay attention to the facts, don t pay attention to the law. we re just going to make it up and forge ahead. trump continued to press rosen on the call saying, quote, this was an illegal corrupt election. and according to acting deputy attorney general richard donoghue s notes from the conversation, trump told rosen the doj was failing to respond to reports of crime. rosen stood firm on this call saying that there s not much the justice department could do. trump also plotted with another justice department official, jeffrey clark, to oust the acting attorney general after rosen s repeated refusals to go along with trump s fraudulent allegations. but that scheme imploded at the dramatic white house showdown on january 3, 2021. this is a scene straight out of apprentice. trump has rosen and clark vie
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daughter of former vice president dick cheney. at the time she was number 3 in house republican leadership. the conference chair. it concerned me because we wanted to r.people to be able t votes republicans. i was kerntd about it from a constitutional perspective at all. those concerns clearly came later on. there are going to be millions of missing ballots rbi. reporter: cheney s constitutional concerns came about five weeks before election day. then president trump was asked if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power. win, lose or draw in this election, will you commit here today for a peaceful traveler of power after the election? we re going to have to see what happens. you know that. i ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots. and the ballots are a disaster. you tweeted a response to that. you wrote, the peaceful transfer of power is enshrined in our constitution and fundamental to the survival of our republic. america s leaders swear an oath to t
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