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transcripts his testimony by donald trump jr.. and remarks about what he believed was a, quote, sophisticated legal rationale to overturn the election. as an overturn the will of the people. one nearly identical to what his father s allies would soon attempt. and there is also some rather unflattering testimony involving first lady millennia trump s opinion of trump junior and others in her husband s inner circle. also tonight, new details of a reported conversation involving senator lindsey graham who said he would become a champion of the most baseless are election fraud claims if the presidents allies could, quote, just give me five dead voters. it is a lot to unpack, so let s start with cnn political correspondent sara murray who has been digging through these transcripts all week for us. sarah, what more can you tell us about these new details from donald trump jr. s testimony to the committee? well, pam, i mean this is interesting because we have of course previ ....
These. so that is one of the reasons we have so much. they were able, and we gotta quietly. no one saw witnesses scraping in and out of executive sessions for all of this. so i think what is coming together is how much support they have. and it is largely republican testimony for the report, which i am plowing through the 820 some pages of it. and it is extremely well documented. so i am now reading the documentation as well. yeah, it is. and think goodness for sara for highlighting some of the key parts. it is a lot to absorb. but it s important to absorb, to get the context. david, i know you ve been reading through it as well. as you take a step back i want to know what your observation is of all of this. because you used to advise the former president. i mean, what is your reaction? yeah, my takeaway is not surprisingly that the center of all of this kind of surrounds mark meadows, the chief of staff to the president of the ....
This really gives us an indication of how much he wanted to be out there supporting donald trump as he was trying to challenge the election. this is his transcript in an interview with christina bobb who was a member of trump s legal team at the time. she is rounding a conversation she had with the senator. and the senator says, you know, just give me five dead votes, give me an example of a legal voting. just give me a very small snapshot that i can take and champion. this is of course interesting because you didn t need five votes to overturn the election, you need a whole lot more votes for donald trump to be the victor in this. but what lindsey graham is essentially saying is, you know, give me something symbolic that i can go out there and talk about and houston donald trump s favor. yeah, so i can continue to sow doubt about the election results. all, right sarah murray, stay with us, i m gonna bring in cnn contributor john dean, former white house counsel for president nixon. ....
But there are hundreds and hundreds of pages. i was going through some of it today and it is very interesting. there is acknowledgment on the capitol police as far as african televisions failures. i mean, things that i think a lot of viewers the guy who was kind of an fbi plant, allegedly. so lots of interesting things to read in their. but i think cassidy hutchinson was high point of this whole, you know, hearings. should i know my trump she testified. right, but i want to go back to what we learned today in this testimony. because, you know, david, you are saying, look, he was just trying to, say give me something credible that i can go out and but, five dead voters? it is not enough to go out and celebrate if they found that. no, no. he wasn t asking to find voter fraud on the scale that would impact the election results he was it appears, according to this testimony from christian and bob, that he wanted to be able to use that to sow doubt about the election results. i ....