ready for broadcast with hearing after he suddenly dropped out as a life witness. but within just moments, on explaining his absence, there was the campaign manager on tape, in a video presentation, that got together somewhat shocking testimony about what happened at the trump white house that night of the election. watch. i want to start by showing a video that tells the story of what was going on in the trump white house, on election night in november of 2020. do you remember where you were on the night of the election, november the 3rd? i was at the white house. can you describe the atmosphere, what were people expecting that night, when you got to the white house? i think that there was, typically for people who show up there, on election night. it s going to be a self select, more positive environment. i think people were a little bit nervous not knowing what s gonna happen with the right way,
look at west virginia. mailmen selling the ballots. they re being sold and dumped in river. this is a horrible thing for our country. this is not going to end well. mr. trump decided even before the election that regardless of the facts and the truth, if he lost the election he would claim it was rigged. mr. trump was right about one thing, it did not end well. on election night mr. trump claimed even before the votes were counted that his loss was the result of fraud. thursday we had testimony from attorney general barr about the department of justice investigation of mr. trump s fraud claims. barr told trump directly that his claims were b.s. yet after hearing the truth and that warning when the a.g., mr. trump continued to pedal the false claims of fraud.
the republicans say to a doctor oz and david mccormack is too close to call. everyone s all a twitter about that and all kind of figuring out what they re going to do there. what s your take of that race? and the potential opportunities there? michael, we ve known each other since before either of us was in politics. so let s admit that. for the record. but on this one, it ain t over till it s over. to quote yoga. and there are lawyers over this thing, the votes have been counted. i would count each side to say it wasn t fair. but we will know ultimately if it is fair. and it s sort of caught, brings back my own the memories of my first reelection in 1994 where on election night, i was down 250 votes. and then the late absentee votes, 10,000 of them, i know it s smaller than pennsylvania recounted and with lawyers observing and i won by 111 votes out of 225,000.
the equal rights of gay americans and others. the poll has her tied with dr. oz who got a trump endorsement and million-on nary businessman dave mccormick. over now in idaho, the republican number two in the state, the lieutenant governor is now trying to become number one, the fworcher of that state. for democrats there are eyes on the senate race. john fetterman had a commanding polling lead. then this is the action even is watching. how do results here show where the republican party is going amid-calls to overthrough entirely, amidst a litmus test, and the question of whether this party can get anymore maga. let s get right to it as promised with the person you want to hear from on election night. the raging cajun himself, james
house chief of staff mark meadows. this next revealed by cnn hasn t been revealed publicly before. it s in the possession of the january 6th select committee. in a statement to cnn trump jr. s lawyers says, kwoetd, after the election don received numerous reports from others. meadows attorney declined to comment. on election night president trump was already laying the ground work to claim the election was stolen. to me it s a very sad moment, and we will win this. and as far as i m concerned we already have won it. reporter: behind the scenes his son and advisor don jr. was sharing ideas with meadows how to subvert inelectoral college process. leveraging the republican majorities in the senate and swing status lachers. state assemblies can step in, the text message from days after the election ticks on questionable legal theories many of which would be employed from