i m jake tapper. aides say this second hearing will drill down on evidence that president trump knew he lost the election but spread false claims of fraud anyway, ignoring court rulings, ignoring the will of the american people. lead-off witness, bill stepien, who has firsthand knowledge about what trump knew about the election numbers. stepien tells cnn he is appearing under subpoena. also testifying today, former fox digital content director chris stirewalt. he was fired after his accurate call of arizona for joe biden. we ll hear directly from republicans who investigated and rejected claims of election fraud in the key states of georgia and pennsylvania, and felt trump s anger for it, former u.s. attorney bijay . . ak and al schmidt and ben ginsburg will testify there was no widespread fraud in 2020 and discuss the trump team s failed challenge to the election results. the select house committee is aiming to connect more dots between the insurrection and its allegation
a sitting united states senator was on talk radio calling for my firing over the arizona call. and you didn t think that this would be the kind of guy who would be calling for your firing on the radio. so, that was my first tell like, hmm, okay, something is weird here. and it got really weird, right? and the conspiracy theorizing starts going. people were sending what people were saying on social media. it was this sort of, you know, psychotic, murderous rage about us. and we don t do anything. we re just the weatherman. chris stirewalt from the news operation there at fox, fired, i think i can speak for everybody, that we all respect him, he calls balls and strikes, his favorite metaphor, weatherman. he doesn t tell you if the hurricane is good, just that it s coming. it s remarkable that basically he got fired after doing his job correctly. there s a whole conversation to be had about fox and their