let s start with the twice-impeached pathologically duplicitous former president on the truth social platform that his passports were seized by the fbi. there s one caveat to that, nbc has not independently claimed if it is true and it could be a significant detail in what s become a stream of revelations. the washington post out with new details on the early stages of the probe when officials at the national archives suggested that trump had documents in his possession even after they retrieved 15 boxes from mar-a-lago. at first archives officials believed that the fbi wasn t taking the documents issued seriously and they grew frustrated according to people familiar with the document dispute and agents interviewed trump s current and former advisors asking what material was in them and who was responsible for the packing and what might still be at the florida club according to a person who was questioned, quote, they interviewed almost everyone who worked for him, a trump
and he wanted it to be true that his hand-picked attorney general would come out publicly and say that there was widespread voter fraud that would ultimately overturn the election results. and he wanted it to be true that rudy giuliani s wild suggestion that he proclaimed victory before all the votes were even counted would not be challenged by his campaign manager or any of his advisers. a group we learned today was on something called team normal. and he wanted it to be true that someone stole a second term from him, not that he just lost the election. now, these are things that he wanted to be true. but, as i said, there s a difference between believing something and wanting it to be true. now, the committee today set out to try to show the american electorate that trump couldn t possibly have actually believed any of the things he wanted to be true, not when adviser after campaign manager after campaign lawyer after deputy attorney general after attorney general after s
critical and methodical testimony at the second hearing. testimony from donald trump s own attorney general, william barr, as well as former top officials of trump s 2020 re-election campaign on how the former president refused to admit that he lost the election to joe biden, and he pushed his big lie of election fraud on the american people. now, i want you to pay close attention to the former attorney general bill barr telling the committee that trump had become detached from reality. the claims of fraud were bullshit, and, you know, he was indignant about that. and i reiterated that they d wasted a whole month on these claims on the dominion voting machines, and they were idiotic claims. and i specifically raised the dominion voting machines, which i found to be among the most disturbing allegations, disturbing in the sense that i saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations, but they were made in such a sensational way that they obviously were influencing a lot of peop
thanks for watching. i will be back tomorrow night. don lemon start right now. see you in an hour here. i have questions for you. i can t wait. i ll see you then. i wanted to get to this quickly because we have so much we want you to hear. you may not have heard of a lot of it today and we will play it for you. today s hearing, i want to make this very clear. it was on about democrats taking trump down. okay? you may hear that another places but that is not with this is about. this is about trump s inner circle. the people who are closest to the former president. they were the ones providing all of the evidence here. all of the evidence in the hearings. people in the center circle. critical and methodical testimony at the second public hearing at the house committee investigating the january 6 and direction. testimony from the former attorney general as well as someone with the campaign. he pushed his big life election fraud on the american people. what you play close
Dont miss out on our fastest speed plans yet switch to Comcast Business and get started for 49. 99 a month. Plus, ask how to get up to an 800 prepaid card. Call today of course Andrew Weissmann told a great story during the commercial break, the 11th hour starts right now. Tonight, the star witness giving the Defense A Run for their money, the Tents Cross Examination of Stormy Daniels and what happens when Trumps Team Asked again, for a mistrial. Plus, blowback from bidens warning to israel. The defiant comments today, from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about a Ground Invasion of rafah. And guesses back, as trump and biden fight for her voters, nikki haley is coming out of the sidelines as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. Good evening we are now 180 days out from the election and 14 days into Donald Trumps criminal trial. Today, adult film star Stormy Daniels returned to the Witness Stand and faced off against trumps defense team in a very interesting crossexamin