Development linking trumps legal team to a Voting System breach in a rural georgia county. Zach, what can you tell us . Reporter fred, coffee county, georgia is heavily republican where trump won over 70 of the vote there. But after the 2020 election, allies of donald trump and his attorneys tried to get access to a Voting System there and ultimately were successful in that. And these new Text Messages are in the possession of prosecutors now lay out that plan and connect trumps attorneys like sydney powell, Rudy Giuliani to this Planning Process and effort to get access to Voting Systems. It lays out how in the days before the breach, even before 2021, the attorneys were trying to get written information from a local official there. Connecting some of the dots showing this was more of a topdown effort to get access from machines rather than just a sporadic random oneoff. Trumps attorneys now more connected to this breach than we knew previously. So how are spinks expected to play out
two months after the attack in which he defended the capitol rioters. and video of then vice president mike pence reacting in realtime to congressional calls for him to invoke the 25th amendment to remove donald trump from office just days after the insurrection. also featured interviews with ivanka trump and jared kushner including the first daughter claiming that her father s goal was to have every vote counted, even as he was trying to do the exact opposite, trying to overturn the e results of the 2020 election and throw out votes from people who might not have voted for him. alex holder had extensive access to the 2020 trump campaign for this documentary that s going to air later this summer on the streaming service discovery plus which we should know shares the same parent company as cnn. discovery provided the clips to cnn. let s look now at the first clip from alex holder s documentary. you re going to see part of an interview with then vice president mike pence on jan
Cnns Breaking News welcome to the lead. Im Phil Mattingly in for jake tapper today and we are live outside the new york courthouse where today one of dahman ill trumps most loyal aids in the first four, Trump White House employee to testify, took the stand in the hush money cover up trial. Hope hicks acknowledged to the jury she was nervous to testify at times she giggled in one instance, actually cried on the stand leading to a brief delay in the trial now hits describes starting to work for the Trump Organization weve 14 before becoming the Trump Campaign spokeswoman in the 2016 race. And ultimately, the White House Communications director. Now she testified about the campaigns panic behind the scenes when they learned of the now infamous this access Hollywood Tape that donald trump was upset when he heard the news and staffers agreed that this was a crisis. Picks one on the testify that showing learn about Karen Mcdougal, who alleged aid nearly yearlong affair with donald trump when
development linking trump s legal team to a voting system breach in a rural georgia county. zach, what can you tell us? reporter: fred, coffee county, georgia is heavily republican where trump won over 70% of the vote there. but after the 2020 election, allies of donald trump and his attorneys tried to get access to a voting system there and ultimately were successful in that. and these new text messages are in the possession of prosecutors now lay out that plan and connect trump s attorneys like sydney powell, rudy giuliani to this planning process and effort to get access to voting systems. it lays out how in the days before the breach, even before 2021, the attorneys were trying to get written information from a local official there. connecting some of the dots showing this was more of a top-down effort to get access
electors, and find a way for trump to remain in power. and so clark was willing to do that. there was this extraordinary meet agent the justice department on a sunday. january 3rd, a couple days before january 6th. where jeffrey clark and jeffrey rosen who was the acting attorney general at the time essentially were in the white house for hours as trump sort of lorded over this apprentice style competition between jeffrey clark and jeffrey rosen. who was going to be the attorney general at the end of that day. it wasn t until several of the officials including the people you re going to hear from today, richard donahue, the deputy attorney general at the time. steve engle who was the head of the office of legal counsel, they said to the former president, look, you re going to have mass resignation. everyone is going to resign. no one is going to stay in office and work under jeffrey