January 6th certification process. The electors plot is one of the schemes that spans from trumps early efforts in the states to Wider National efforts to create confusion about the results, and it went all the way up to mike pence, all the way up to an attempted, ultimately thwarted pretext that was going to be presented by pence to help stage a coup on jan 6th. In essence it involved Fraudulent Electors or getting states to appoint Trump Electors in the states that biden won or was winning and try to send those to congress. Unlike some of the other plots that weve covered, this ones already at the center of three different cases, including indictments by dojs jack smith, plus the probes in michigan and now georgia, where d. A. Fani willis just charged several Trump Lawyers and aides for these types of plots as part of the larger rico conspiracy. That is why tonights scoop, this video, may be of interest in the two big cases led by these tough prosecutors who mean business. The defend
steve bannon to testify publicly on the eve of his federal criminal contempt trial for refusing to honor the committee s subpoenas. among those scheduled tomorrow, a former spokesman for the oath keepers which played a central role in the coordination and execution of the capitol insurrection. just moments ago, president biden was joined by gun safety advocates at a white house event celebrating bipartisan legislation signed last month. while the administration is struggling with the grim reality, on the cover of today s new york times about how many in the president s own party as well as independents are souring on him. and hundreds of firefighters in california are in a desperate battle to protect 3,000-year-old historic sequoia trees from the wildfires. we begin with the january 6th insurrection. joining me now ali vitali, jeremy peters. and tim miller, author of why we did it. ali, take us through what we can expect this week from the hearings and how they might
expect tomorrow. cnn has learned that january six committee is planning to zero in on a key link. the extremist groups ties to trump associates, roger stone and michael flynn. the hearing comes as another key trump ally, steve bannon, is changing his tune. telling the committee, he would be willing to testify but only in a live public setting. it s a move prosecutors believe as a stunt to try and wiggle out from his criminal contempt charges but a federal judge on monday declined his request to postpone his trial for next week. i expect we ll be hearing from him and there are many questions that we have for him. the committee has already revealed a bevy of new information. among the biggest headlines, that trump and his allies were made fully aware that there was no evidence the election was stolen. i don t think it was happening was honest or professional. trump knew he lost election but kept telling the supporters he won. without evidence to back it up. that the c
reporter: cnn has learned that the january 6th committee is planning to zero in on a healing. extremist groups that are tied to roger stone and michael flynn. the hearing comes as another trump ally, steve bennett, changes his tomb. telling the committee he would be willing to testify in a live setting. they believe it is a stunt to try to wiggle out of his criminal contempt charges. a judge on monday declined to postpone his. the committee has already revealed a bevy of information. trump and his allies were made fully aware that there was no evidence the election was still interested in i didn t say what was happening was necessarily reporter: trump new he lost the election but kept telling his supporters that he won. the will of the voters extended all the way to the states where trump personally pressured. he knew that his supporters were armed and planning to be feminine. he directed them to the capital, anyway. stephen i don t care that they have weapons. take t
if he knew violence was planned for january 6th. it s a couple of different. thanks the contempt proceeding who s just with respect to not showing up in the documents. this is if he knew about violence. this december 18th your hearing about and you are talking about and the last document. where there are a number of people meeting in trump s immediate orbit. there is this question of the extent to which the president knew there would be violence the next. a and close advisers, like steve bannon, might have been aware of it. they might ve pass it information on the committee. the genesis committee has sort of tease that they are going to draw some of that likely tomorrow. so maybe that is what might come out. but one would have to know that there is going to be violence and participate in encourage it to be charged with a crime. evan perez, so bannon was part of that war room group. while putting the election conspiracy theories for a few weeks. explain his role leading up to the in