nevada. bill: we ll try to get a fair debate here soon. we ll see what happens in nevada on tuesday. thanks. thanks. dana: house committee investigating the january 6 riot at the u.s. capitol will soon hold its second in a series of public hearings today. they plan to focus on president trump s claims of voter fraud and efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. good morning. bill: i m bill hemmer. that hearing delayed a bit as one witness, former trump campaign manager can t testify. he has a family emergency. won t testify today we should say. lawmakers plan to present evidence aimed at showing president trump spread false information to cast doubt on the election. what democrats are calling the big lie. protests take place outside the u.s. supreme court less than a week after the assassination attempt targeting justice brett kavanaugh. an event largely ignored by the networks. brit hume last hour w
chairman. last week as the chairman noted our committee began outlining a seven-part plan overseen by president trump to overturn the 2020 election. today we will begin looking at the initial part of that plan. president trump s effort to convince millions of americans that the election was stolen from him by overwhelming fraud. a federal court has already reviewed elements of the committee s evidence on this point and said this, quote, in the months following the election, numerous credible sources from the president s inner circle to agency leadership appeared statisticians informed president trump and dr. eastman that there was no evidence of election fraud, close quote. sufficient to overturn the 2020 presidential election. the court s opinion documents each of the principle reasons for that conclusion and i would urge all those watching to read
he testified to this committee about his concerns given the claims that mr. giuliani and ms. powell and their team were making publicly. let s play clip 15. okay. it was important for you to pull back just for your own professional reputation. you didn t want to be associated with some of what you were hearing from the giuliani team and others that this stepped in in the wake of your departure? i didn t mind being categorized. there were two groups. we called them my team and rudy s team. i didn t mind as being characterized as team normal as reporters started to do at that point in time. i said hours ago early on that i ve been doing this for a long time. 25 years and i ve span
6th capitol hill riot. welcome back to our coverage. we watch the committee room in washington, d.c. i m bill hemmer. thank you for joining us. dana: i m dana perino. right now multiple public hearings will take place over the course of the next few weeks. today the hearing will focus on claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. beginning on election day and then culminating with the riot on january 6. bill: we anticipate previously unseen documents. perhaps some video and audio. earlier this we ll hear from four witnesses we believe through the course of this hearing which should last two hours. dana: here you have the chair of the committee going to kick this off here and follow close behind is liz cheney from wyoming. she has been stalwart in her opinions from the beginning and now she is going to work with bennie thompson on this and get it going. chris stirewalt is the first
actually prove in terms of what was promised with these new hearings? dana: martha, to that point, this is not something that is a surprise. this is an actual conversation going on since the election, since november of 2020. going into march january of 2021 and your leading up to january 6th. we heard from the committee when they had their prime time hearing last week they showed the testimony of bill barr the former attorney general and the president s daughter ivanka trump saying they believed the election was not stolen and i think the committee will try to drive that home this morning? i think that s right, dana. i think that they will continue to show that they believe that the president was lying about something that he knew and that that misinformation was used to stimulate and foment what we saw on january 6th. the question is whether or not they can make that link. you can also go back and break