the lead in testifying against the former president in yesterday s hearing, including the speaker of arizona s house, who says he told trump in late december 2020 that he would not go along with the scheme to steal joe biden s win in his state. you re asking me to do something that s never been done in history, the history of the united states, and i m going to put my state through that without sufficient, and that s going to be good enough for me? i do not want to be a winner by cheating. incredibly powerful testimony. also new this morning, president biden aiming to help americans out, at least a little bit at the pump during the summer travel season. the white house expected today to call on congress to suspend the federal gas tax, three months. we have details on how much that would help reduce prices at the pump, and downsize to it as acknowledged by some members of the administration. more on that in just a bit. begin this morning with cnn s manu raju on the hil
detail the schemes to state legislators involved in overturning the election don s favor. here is what the committee s vice chair liz cheney said at the end of thursday s hearing. over the course of our next hearings, you will see information about president trump suffers john eastman s efforts, the trump legal team s efforts to apply pressure to republican state legislatures, state officials and others. and we will examine the trump team s determination to transmit materially false electoral slates for multiple states to officials of the executive and legislative branches of our government. now, tuesday s hearing will revisit one of the most infamous moments from the last days of donald trump s presidency. scheduled to appear as a witness is georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. now, on january 2nd, 2021, raffensperger received a call from trump during which the former president asked georgia s election administrator to simply find him some more votes in his fav
here he is unsparing in his rejection of trump and giuliani s election fraud delusions. i told them that the stuff that his people were shoveling out to the public was bull [ bleep ]. that the claims of fraud were bull [ bleep ], and you know, made a statement about that, but i reiterated that they wasted a whole month on these claims on the dominion voting machines and they were idiotic claims. i specifically raised a dominion voting machines which i found to be among the most disturbing allegations and 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 people, members of the public, that there was this systemic corruption in the system and that their votes didn t count and that these machines controlled by somebody else were actually determining it which was complete nonsense, and it was being laid out there, and i told him that it was that it was stuff
scheme. these things happen, at all levels of government. but, that wasn t what this was. this was something stranger. michigan township, part of a statewide investigation. sources tell news a, michigan state police raided irving township home, and berry county, this past friday. this, after someone was allegedly given improper access to voting machines. the investigation, starting here in roscommon county. michigan state police say, there, a third party, allegedly, was given unauthorized access to voter tabulation machines, and data drives. state police confirmed, the investigation has since spread to several other counties in the state, but would not, explicitly, confirm if irving township was on that list. they say this township in the hall, is part of the investigation. state police, rating the town hall, investigating whether someone was given unauthorized access to voting machines. the township supervisor, later confirming, a state police seized voting tabulator
lost. after the laughable landscaping company press conference. even after the attack on our nation s capital. no. instead it is escalating. that anti-democratic cancer is metastasizing. just look at pennsylvania today. the two high-profile races for the open and the governor s mansion and have huge implications for both the commonwealth and the nation at large. as they do every year. the editorial board of the philadelphia inquirer, one of the nation s biggest newspapers, in a crucial swing state wanted to endorse a republican candidate for those races. but they couldn t. they write that they sent every republican candidate in the senate race a survey to see where they stood on a number of issues. but the candidates felt the questions were quote, biased and unfair. what hard-hitting questions did the paper ask these candidates who want to represent the keystone state in congress? in their view, among the most problematic queries that we asked was: who won the 2020 presid