and rudy giuliani were subpoenaed to testify by the fulton county district attorney in georgia. about their involvement in trump s scheme to overturn the election results in that state. the da also subpoenaed three other lawyers, whose names you may remember from the january six hearings, jenna alice, clara mitchell, and kenneth chesebro, all of them appear before the special grand jury in fulton county. at the same, time those subpoenas also subpoenaed senator lindsey graham. again, related to his involvement in that scheme. for context, ten days after the 2020 election senator graham placed a phone call to georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger. the georgia secretary of state told the washington post at the time, he was stunned by graham s request to toss out huge swath of legally cast ballots. but a few days later, senator graham denied he d ever said such a thing, instead he said that he wanted to talk about the process for future elections. did you or did yo
and we did chili on the were subpoenaed to testify by the fulton county district attorney in georgia, about their involvement in trump s scheme to overturn the election results in that state. the da also subpoenaed three other lawyers whose names you may remember from the january 6th hearings. journalistically, -dimensional, and kenneth just burrow. all of them appeared before the special grand jury in fulton county. at the same time, those subpoenas went out, the fulton county da also subpoenaed senator lindsey graham. again, related to his involvement in that scheme. for context, ten days after the 2020 election senator graham placed a phone call to georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger. the georgia secretary of state told the washington post at the time, he was stunned by graham s request to toss out huge swath of legally cast ballots. but a few days later, senator graham denied he d ever said such a thing, instead he said that he wanted to talk about the process
that it was right as he was contesting the states election results. they met, trump and those officials for nearly an hour. despite that pressure, the two legislators left the meeting promising to follow the law. and follow the normal process regarding michigan s electors. the attempt to subvert the will of michigan s voters did not end there. on december 14th 2020 signed on to their own certificate to michigan 16 electoral college votes. they actually try to break into the state house to deliver their electoral votes. just trying to blow past security. ultimately, law enforcement block them. those fake entering michigan s capitol the night before. and hiding out overnight. if you ensure they d be inside the state senate chambers on the 14th to deliver those fake votes. in the end, joe biden certify the winner by a little more than 154,000 votes. though trump didn t make a call to the michigan secretary of
night before. and hiding out overnight. if you ensure they d be inside the state senate chambers on the 14th to deliver those fake votes. in the end, joe biden certify the winner by a little more than 154,000 votes. though trump didn t make a call to the michigan secretary of state to find another 154,000 votes that we know of. the brazenness of his attempt to steal the election in that state it rivals the scheme in georgia. which is perhaps why attorney general dana nessel open investigation into the michigan fake electors scheme. and referred to the u.s. attorney s office for the west district of january of 2022. and last bat, she reopened her criminal probe into the electors scheme saying quite candidly,, yes for reopening our investigation, we don t know what the federal government plans to do. meanwhile, the claims of election fraud didn t end there even though it s the year 2023.
everybody was in the loop. everybody knew about this. and the other testimony also revealed that though trump didn t say explicitly that he wasn t going to visit the ukrainians or give military aid to the ukrainians unless they announced this investigation, actions speak louder than words. because the military aid was being withheld but not one national security official agreed with that. so we learned a lot of these things about the quid pro quo to further trump s personal interest. meantime, the white house hasn t done that much to counter all of the testimony. it s not offered up a defense. do you think that will change once if this goes to the senate? i think they re just going to carry on trying to distract, trying to put the focus on the bidens, put the focus on the fact that we never got a chance to talk to the whistle-blower. also one of the key republican