Line you want the American People to know . There was a very sophisticated multi part plan overseen by donald trump. You cant ever accept when they steal and rig and rob. To attempt to stay in power. As the longest, largest investigation into Donald Trumps attempt to stay president comes to a close, we put it all together. Ive got Three Men Walking Down The Street in fatigues and carrying ar15s. The explosive testimony. I heard the president saying something to the effect, i dont care if they have weapons, let my people in. New insight from witnesses. I said, you want me to take my state, 3. 2 million voters, and just throw them out the window . Was he asking you to commit a crime . It gets back to the criminal intent issue. I dont know what he believed. Hang mike pence and what might lie ahead. The former president and his allies represent a Clear And Present Danger to democracy. Not because of what they did On January 6th. You better run, cops its because of what they pledged to do i
and i said, that s a new one to me. i have never, ever heard of that. and so now you re asking me to do something that s against my oath, and i m not i m not going to do that. jake tapper: but bower says he told giuliani he had good lawyers and would be happy to put the former mayor in touch with them. rusty bowers: i don t do anything of this magnitude without having strong legal counsel and proof. and the president says, rudy, you got the proof? he said, yeah, i got the proof. i said, i want the proof. i didn t get it when he said he d do it. he never called my attorneys. jake tapper: but the asks did not stop with giuliani. bowers would later get a call from another trump attorney, john eastman john eastman: we know there was fraud jake tapper: whom the january 6 committee sees as a key player in this grand plan to undo the legitimate results of the 2020
and i m giving her security clearance and then shortly before we left was when cipollone and/or herschmann and whoever the other young man was said you can name her whatever you want to name her and no one s going to pay any attention to it. speaker: how did he respond? how did the president respond to that? sidney powell: something like, you see what i deal with? i deal with this all the time. jake tapper: the meeting was extremely heated with cipollone arguing against the special counsel idea and against seizure of voting machines. pat cipollone: that s how the federal government sees voting machines, that s a terrible idea. that s not how we do things in the united states. there s no legal authority to do that. the three of them were really, sort of, forcefully attacking me verbally.
trump to seize voting machines. what was your reaction when you heard about that? liz cheney: i think most americans could never imagine those things would happen here and that order and many of the other things that we ve learned through our hearings have been really stunning to me because repeatedly, i found myself in a situation thinking, my gosh, how could this happen here? and we really thought it couldn t, but it s just continued to emphasize, for all of us, that our institutions are fragile. jake tapper: the appointment of the special counsel was not hypothetical. trump wanted sidney powell, a prominent peddler of election lies, in the spot. sidney powell: he asked pat cipollone if he had the authority to name me special counsel, and he said yes. and then he asked him if he had the authority to give me whatever security clearance i needed, and pat cipollone said yes. and then the president, said, ok, i m naming her that,
either come over or sit your effing ass back down. rudy giuliani: i m going to categorically describe it as you guys are not tough enough. or maybe i put it another way. you re a bunch of pussies. excuse the expression, but that s i m almost certain the word was used. sidney powell: i mean, if it had been me sitting in his chair, i would have fired all of them that night and had them escorted out of the building. jake tapper: the january 6 committee discovered text messages sent during andnd following the meeting by cassidy hutchinson, the assistant to mark meadows who testified live before the committee hearing in june describing the meeting as unhinged. she also snapped this photograph of mark meadows escorting rudy giuliani from the white house to make sure he did not get back into the mansion. you tweeted, somehow the committee testimony featured