good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. explosive and emotional revelations on capitol hill today, as of january six committee had its fourth hearing. the committee argued that donald trump played a key role in the plot to put forward slates, a fake pro trump electors in states joe biden won. senator state officials and one election worker described the intense pressure campaign and the violent threats they faced as trump and his allies spread lies about election fraud. these public servants wouldn t go along with donald trump s scheme. and when they wouldn t embrace the big lie, and substitute the will of the voters with donald trump s will to remain in power, donald trump worked to ensure they would face the consequences. donald trump had a direct and personal role in this effort. the president s lie was and is a dangerous cancer on the body politic. we heard from republican arizona house speaker, rusty bowers, as talked about resistant pressure to help over
good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. explosive and emotional revelations on capitol hill today, as of january six committee had its fourth hearing. the committee argued that donald trump played a key role in the plot to put forward slates, a fake pro trump electors in states joe biden won. senator state officials and one election worker described the intense pressure campaign and the violent threats they faced as trump and his allies spread lies about election fraud. these public servants wouldn t go along with donald trump s scheme. and when they wouldn t embrace the big lie, and substitute the will of the voters with donald trump s will to remain in power, donald trump worked to ensure they would face the consequences. donald trump had a direct and personal role in this effort. the president s lie was and
you heard today for the first time, direct evidence that tied donald trump to that scheme where he proactively calls the rnc, and puts john eastman, conservative lawyer, pushing this plan, on the throne with him to further this plan. the second thing the committee has done each hearing is they underscored the victims of donald trump s plans. you saw capitol police officer at the first hearing talk about her dramatic brain injury. you saw mike pence fleeing from the mob. and today, i think you heard some of the most dramatic testimony yet from these election workers. just average folks who were, had their lives destroyed because of lies and defamation. you see that clip of rudy giuliani, and then later the president singling out average folks by name. and turning internet mobs against them.
time between him acting as a useful idiots, and him getting called down by the committee. you know he works for secretary of state brad raffensperger s office now. in a unique twist, he is actually the one who was hired to rebut a lot of the pro trump claims that were coming into the office. because he is so close to all of this, and he is kind of had this awakening now that he realizes the last, for all the time of the trump campaign, he was promoting those lies. now he is trying to refute them. an awakening, or a new opportunity. luke, we heard a lot about fake electors, our friend jackie allen many, tweeted this earlier today. rnc chair ronna mcdaniel, implicates trump in an ultra net electors scheme. really refuting trump, remember two weeks ago, at our tried to put on us boy that ivanka and jared really flipping on trump. they weren t. is ronna? i don t think she thinks
tonight. really just how premeditated it all was. how it s tied it with a big lie that the president was told over and over again by his attorney general, deputy, by his u.s. attorney in georgia, by others, was a big lie, but that didn t matter. did today help us understand more of what led up to january six? because let s be honest, we heard that phone call between raffensperger and trump 17 months ago, and we have seen little to no consequences. yeah, i think what the committee has done with each of these hearings, and that again today, is one, they have demonstrated president trump s criminal exposure. each time, each hearing had a new avenue, which frankly, could be investigated and potentially charged if a prosecutor chose to do so. this time, it was about the fake elector scheme. we know the justice department is investigating that scheme, we know subpoenas have gone out, naming some of trump s lawyers.