pennsylvania. well dana, first there are republicans on this committee. liz cheney will probably likely could pay a very high political cost for this. the idea this committee is politically beneficial is not necessarily true in the mid-terms. you can t have people sitting on the committee when they re part of the people being investigated. members of congress, we know, because of the committee s work texting with the white house, actively promoting the big lie and asking the white house to keep promoting it as well trying to find a legal path quite frankly where there wasn t one, dana. and so i think there are two republicans on this committee and i think that s important going forward. there are a lot of questions this committee will answer. of course, january 6th did not happen in a vacuum. that s why so much of this history, what did donald trump know on election night? when was he told in those days
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.
let s show clip eight, video clip eight. the trajectory of the race on election night, trump ahead in many states and as the week wore on as the 4th and 5th and vote by mail votes were tabulated trump s lead grew more narrow and then in some places biden surpassed trump into the vote totals so as the week wore on, as we paid attention to those numbers, multiple times a day internally, you know, i was feeling less confident for sure. what was your view of the state of the election at that point? you know, very, very, very bleak. we told him, the group that
recognizes the gentlewoman from california, ms. lofgren. thank you, mr. chairman. last week, we presented the testimony of former attorney general bill barr, who testified before this committee. today, we present additional evidence, including his testimony that former president trump started making claims of election fraud immediately after the election and that barr concluded the claims were untrue. now, due to the length of attorney general barr s testimony we are only going to include relevant portions at the hearing today. so let s play the video. the department, in fact, when we received specific and credible allegations of fraud, made an effort to look into these to satisfy ourselves that they were without merit. and i was in the posture of
was to say that votes were still being counted, it s too early to to del, too early to call the race. but, you know, we are proud of the race we ran, and we, you know, think we re think we re in good position and we will have more to say about this, you know, the next day, or the next day, whenever we had something to say. and did anybody who was a part of that conversation, disagree with your message? yes. who was that? the president disagreed with that. i don t recall the particular words. he thought i was wrong. he told me so. and, you know, that they were going to, you know, going to you know, he was going to go in a different direction. this is a fraud on the american public.