Schmidt was commissioner of philadelphia. bjpak resigned after refusing to claim voter fraud in georgia. those three will be grouped together. also taking part, chris starewalt, fired after the2020 election, he ll be joined with bill stepien, who is reportedly appearing under subpoena and is currently an adviser to the trump-endorsed primary challenger to the committee chair vice chair liz cheney. the sometimes reports the january 6th committee suggested in a letter sent to mr. stepien that it had evidence that he was aware that the trump campaign was raising money by making false claims about election fraud. today s hearing is expected to last about two hours but could
Good at. reporter: when you look at this race, senator warnock hasn t done a whole lot of campaigning in the primaries, because he doesn t have a viable primary challenger. and the republican side is so crowded, that he s been able to sit back as republicans have gone after each other, the closest candidate to herschel walker, and walker is 58 points above him at this point in time, is gary black, the former agricultural commissioner here. he s raised a lot of questions about herschel walker, about past allegations of domestic violence, some that walker denied but others said he admitted to, but said he was struggling withmental health issues. but you had gary black going after walker, saying he isn t sure if he would vote for him in the general election, because in his words, he did not feel some of those questions and concerns he has, have been appropriately answered so far. he said he had not earned his
Ellison, first off to you, give us the state of play in georgia right now. reporter: it s fascinating to watch this senate race in particular. on the democratic side you really don t have a viable primary challenger. the incumbent is expected to kind of ease away with this. because of this, we really haven t seen him on the campaign trail too much. he and his team said he s been focused on governing, not on the campaign. when you look on the polls and what s happening on the republican side from a campaign standpoint, that approach makes a lot of sense. you have herschel walker on the republican side very much leading the field. his closest competitor gary black is a whopping 58 points behind him in the latest poll in this state. so he s kind of been able to sit back and sort of watch republicans go after each other. gary black in particular has been a very strong, vocal critic