coast. we have a new special report for you right now, focusing on the specific plans for the bloodless coup during the postelection period after trump lost in 2020, as president elect biden prepar to take power, few people knew then how this coup plot wa working. the new report details a comprehensive effort, much o it unseen by an unknown to the general public to overturn the votes. the idea was to do it throug politicians, not violence. and that trump would attempt t stay in power in a way tha might have worked. had enough officials gone alon with the plot. winning candidates don t nee to change results when the have a victory trump and his team had a loss. this report is new testimony from trump s campaign manage or - as the ap called the race fo biden, i think some surroundin the president looking for thes different avenues to pursue. that s when he remembered th first time the concept o having to overturn - came up. a white house aide was pushing a truly bananas plan
and are there now and some who were also in russia. deborah haynes is sky news defence and security editor. nic robertson is international diplomatic editor at cnn, we have a freelance journalist and so too is olga tokariuk. and francis scarr is here from bbc monitoring. welcome to you all and thank you so much for coming on the media show. olga, if we just start with you, where are you and what is the atmosphere like in ukraine today? you ve been tweeting about our prime minister, boris johnson s visit to kyiv. i know that. yeah, well, hi, everyone. and thank you for having me on this show. i m currently in western ukraine in the town of chernitsi. and i apologise for the background because i m speaking to you from a basement because we ve had already four raid alerts today. and since i m working from home, ijust decided to stay in the basement for the show so that, you know, i don t get interrupted by another air raid alert. radio viewers won t see that, but our tv viewers
facing multiple ongoing investigations, in multiple jurisdictions about a multitude of alleged wrongdoings. and, the picture emerging out of those many other investigations is that of someone who inflates the true value of his wealth, his power, even the square footage of his properties. in order to inflate his own ego. at the expense of banks, the government, and the american people. the shull as we unravel trump s big lie, or the coup, the committee will hold its next one final public hearing final in the air. they have also announced it will interview ginni thomas, the wife of the supreme court justice clarence thomas implicated in the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, and although trump has continued to spread debunked claims of election fraud or the january 6th insurrection, the new york times is reporting that his lawyers are working behind the scenes, to limit the scope of a federal grand jury probe, as well as to limit what the former
assassination attempt. another hour of velshi begins right now. ght now. good morning, saturday august 20th. not am in the 6 am in the west, i m ali bell. she hardly a day passes without a development in the investigation that is somewhat connected to donald. trump that is because there are no fewer than four current and ongoing criminal investigations. related to the president himself, relative to have ever set of inquiries across multiple states. it all culminated in an fbi search of his private awaits us in palm beach florida. let s go to, new york where trump spent the vast majority of his life and career before he became president. he is facing a pair of inquiries into his company s business practices. when is a civil case which is headed by the new york, state attorney general letitia james. he was looking into whether the trump organization lied about the value of its assets, either to receive loans from the bank or to avoid paying its fair share of taxes. trump appear