purview of a clear direction in science and he hasn t stuck to it. how harmful are these reticular comments? very harmful. is the florida state surgeon general and he has a platform and when you have a platform, people listen but consistently he s been on the wrong side of issues related to masks and vaccines and has been a purveyor of covid vaccine myths, this seems to be more sort of a phenomenon of right and left, and as they say when you mix politics with science, you get politics and i think that is what has happened here. you think this is all just politics. we should point out, he was appointed by governor desantis, ultimately it was pretty controversial because of his views. can you talk more about that, how you think politics are
staff including rararranging th call between between president trump and georgia secretary of state. everybody is on the line. i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have. because we won the state. reporter: raffensperger also took the stand saying that first tried to resist the call and testifying that there was no federal role in certifying georgia s election. when prosecutors questioned what federal role meadows was fulfilling in post election calls with trump and another purveyor of election falsehoods, his personal attorney rudy giuliani we can not allow these crooks, because that is what they are, to steal an election from the american people. they elected donald trump. they didn t elect joe biden. reporter: meadows said that he was acting as a gatekeeper and insisted that there was a federal interest in accurate and fair elections. meadows also claimed that he
mr. president, everybody is on the line and this is mark meadows, chief of staff. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. because we won the state. reporter: when prosecutors questioned what federal role meadow was fulfilling in calls with trump and another purveyor of election falsehoods, rudy giuliani we cannot allow these crooks because that is what they are to steal an election from the american people. they elected donald trump. they didn t elect joe biden. reporter: meadows said he was acting as a gate keeper andin sistered there was a federal interest in accurate elections. meadows claimed he wasn t the driving force in pushing bogus claims of election fraud but then when bill barr dismissed the fraud claims. i made it clear i did not agree with the idea that the election was stolen and putting
election. when prosecutors questioned what federal role meadows was fulfilling in post election calls with trump and another purveyor of election falsehoods, his personal attorney, rudy giuliani we cannot allow these crooks, because that s what they are, to steal an election from the american people. they elected donald trump. they didn t elect joe biden. reporter: meadows said he was acting as a gatekeeper and insisted there was a federal interest inaccurate and fair elections. meadows claimed he wasn t the driving force of pushing bogus claims of election fraud. when bill barr dismissed the fraud claims i maid it clear i did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff which i told the president was bullshit. reporter: meadows said he felt further investigation was warranted. the hearing has wrapped up. in the closing statements, meadows attorney argued the
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