conversation in november, 2020, in which he claims that you told him that the election was rigged and that he had won arizona. to quote the former president, during the conversation he told me the conversation he told me the election was rigged and i won arizona, quote. did you have such a conversation with the president? i did have a conversation with the president, that certainly isn t it. there are parts of it that are true, but parts that are not, sir. the part that i read you. is that false? anywhere, anyone, any time has said that i said the election is rigged that would not be true. and when the former president in a statement today claimed that you told him that he won arizona, is that also false? that is also false. mr. bowers, i understand that after the election. i don t know if this is a conversation the former president is referring to, but after the election you received a phone call from president trump and rudy giuliani, in which they discussed the
by rmt union. it has meant trains going out of service and millions of passengers going nowhere. my daughter s doing her gcses. i ve got to get her to and from school, so it s a right pain in the neck. i understand they want a pay rise and things change, i get that, but it s not fair for all the commuters. we are going to primarily focus on the two stories this hour, the rail strike in the uk and the hearing in washington, which is where we are going to begin. we start in washington, where the committee investigating the storming of the capitol onjanuary 6 is holding another public hearing. today s focus is on pressure by former president donald trump and his team for individual us states to overturn the election results. central to this are two battleground states arizona and georgia. joe biden won both by a razor thin margin and president trump has kept pushing false claims of electoral fraud. in opening statements, we heard from the republican vice chair liz cheney.
electors. presumably designed to create so much confusion the congress would kick the matter back to republican-led state legislators as to overturn joe biden s win in the states. it will explore the broader pressure campaign aimed at subverting the will of the american people. the first witness is the arizona state house speaker. aides say bowers will share critical new details about trump s demands and even harassment as the president sought to decertify biden s legitimate and legal win and republican-led arizona. the georgia secretary of state will also testify live. he famously went public with a phone call from trump. trump asking him to, quote, find enough votes to take away joe biden s legal and legitimate win in georgia and concoct an illegitimate trump win. another georgia election official will appear before the committee. you might remember sterling on december 1st, 2020. he publicly pleaded with trump to stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence.
the georgia electors from joe biden, and show them. the observations about how this dark world of republican so-called legal scholarship works, and way that eastman letter, how it all moved from eastman to the justice department to the white house. i was thinking about that wall squinting today at the visual exhibit that the committee released as part of the hearing, when they talked about the man that they had put at the justice department working with jeff clarke, getting the eastman plan effectuated, making it look like it was the justice department s work, and that was circulated among some congressional staffers, but also some very famous names from republican legal circles on that email, talking about the man on the inside, and what he was going to get done, and how they could brief the white they ve been talking about that for a very long time in terms of how the network works. we re going to get to that, thank you rachel, not legally available, that s what donal
trump electors. we are going to hear from four witnesses this afternoon, including the secretary of state for georgia, brad raffensperger and his chief operating officer, gabriel sterling, big public figures in the wake of the november election in 2020. the committee says it s going to show evidence that former president trump put undue pressure on legislatures to try to put forward alternative slates and electors. for president trump, the strategy did not work, legislatures did not go along with it. you see betty thompson taking it there, much of the questioning will be handled by california congressman adam schiff as he questions the witnesses and makes the majority of the presentation. liz cheney there seated to betty thompson s left-hand side, adam schiff on the right-hand side. we expect the hearing will last at least a couple of hours. let s pause now while chairman thompson gavels in today s hearing. the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the u