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thank you forjoining us. a day after he was found liable by a new york jury for sexual abuse and defamation, donald trump has faced questions in a live town hall in the us state of new hampshire. the frontrunner for the 2024 republican nomination for the presidency demeaned his accuser, ejean carroll, reiterated his position the 2020 election was rigged, and if he returned to the white house, mr trump said would he pardon many of his supporters who have been jailed for taking part in the january 6 attack on the us capitol. just after the town hall, i spoke to hannah muldavin, who was the spokesperson for the house january 6 committee, and bryan lanza, who served as director of communications for mr trump s transition team. it is great to see you both. right off the bat i want to ask you what you thought about what you what you thought about what you saw. hannah, let s start with you. you saw. hannah, let s start with vow you saw. hannah, let s start with ou. a , with y ....
The former president was asked about his role in the january 6 attack. this is what he said: ido i do think podas care about 6 january anymore. i do think podas care about 6 january anymore. you get the olls, it january anymore. you get the polls. it is january anymore. you get the polls. it is a january anymore. you get the polls, it is a top january anymore. you get the polls, it is a top ten january anymore. you get the polls, it is a top ten issue. . january anymore. you get the polls, it is a top ten issue. i l polls, it is a top ten issue. i think polls, it is a top ten issue. i think a polls, it is a top ten issue. i thinka certain polls, it is a top ten issue. i think a certain segment of voters. think a certain segment of voters, primarily democrat liberal voters, primarily democrat liberal voters talk about 6 january. liberal voters talk about 6 january, think the general conversation of this election is going conversation of this election is going to be t ....
He couldn t answer that. that is frightening. i think that when we look at the difference between donald trump and, say, someone likejoe biden it is the difference between democracy and freedom and i think we should make it very clear that we support ukraine and we want ukraine to win the war. this is an issue that s going to trickle down and has trickle down to other republicans as well. if this is going to be the leader, the nominee for the republicans, the next presidential race, he should be held accountable for that and i think all americans to be very concerned not only about democracy here, but democracy abroad if donald trump is at the helm. bill trump is at the helm. all riaht, trump is at the helm. all right. that trump is at the helm. all right, that is trump is at the helm. all right, that is all - trump is at the helm. all right, that is all we have time for. hannah and bryan, thank you for your insides, breaking down the hour long tunnel session, i m sure we will have ....
I think when we look at what has happened today i m nervous about our democracy if donald trump is re elected. irate about our democracy if donald trump is re-elected. trump is re-elected. we are auoin trump is re-elected. we are going to trump is re-elected. we are going to talk trump is re-elected. we are going to talk a trump is re-elected. we are going to talk a little - trump is re-elected. we are going to talk a little bit - trump is re-elected. we are | going to talk a little bit more about 6january, but i want to get bryan s take about this town hall. what did you think? i thought it was a win for the present, i thought it was a win for the present, he went for a platform nobody present, he went for a platform nobody thought he would appear on, nobody thought he would appear on. i nobody thought he would appear on. i don t nobody thought he would appear on, i don t think he had been on, i don t think he had been on cnn on, i don t think he had been on cnn doing ....
Witnesses, hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, and we came to the conclusion that we should refer donald trump on four counts to the doj, two which were an insurrection and the second was conspiracy to make a false statement. and i think what you saw tonight, which is one of the first times we have heard from the former president since our investigation we showed our evidence to the american people, is that he is still lying. as you mentioned, he said, continuously, that the election was stolen and rigged and he repeated those claims. i had to take notes because there were a few things he said. he said 6january was an unbelievable and beautiful day, he said he would pardon 6 january writers, he said he doesn t know mike pence an apology, that mike pence should have returned some of the electoral votes to the states. this was only a few days after four proud boys were convicted by a federal court for seditious conspiracy, a charge thatis seditious conspiracy, a charge that is n ....