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trump s tenure in the run up to january 6th, particularly a meeting that occurred on december 18th, 2020, roughly six weeks after election and a few weeks below before january 6th in the oval office between donald trump and his most conspiracy obsessed outside advisers lawyers. it was just one of trump s last-ditch efforts to cling to power and overturn the election. on friday, december 18th, this team of outside advisers paid him a surprise visit in the white house that would quickly become the stuff of legend. the meeting has been called unhinged, not normal, in the craziest meeting of the trump presidency. they brought to the white house a draft executive order that they re prepared for president trump to further his ends, specifically they propose the immediate mask seizure of state election machines by the u.s. military. take a second to think about how that would ve gone over. the immediate massacre of u.s. voting machines by the military. what would that mean ....
pressure arizona governor juicy to overturn the presidential election results. saying that if enough fraudulent votes could be found, it would overcome trump s narrow loss in arizona. we are learning about the content of this conversation for the first time. to already know trump and doocy spoke after the 2020 election. fact. trump tried to call doocy while he was certifying the election for biden on official government livestream. on november 20th, 30 30 2020, d.c. was signing papers to end the election as he did in front of the press. you have to listen closely, you can hear hail to chief as he reaches into the pocket to silence the call. the ring town is spectacular. do you see did eventually speak to trump, didn t recorded the call. we have some idea what it might sound like because trump, we ll, made a lot of calls in multiple states. trying to overturn the results of this election. for example, here s a recording of trump calling georgia s then chief investigato ....
election, we re still uncovering more attempts by donald trump to overturn results. according to a new report in the washington post, president trump tried to pressure doug ducey to overturn the election results, saying if now fraudulent votes could be found, it could overcome trump s narrow loss in arizona. we re learning about the content of this conversation for the first time. we already knew trump and ducey spoke after the 2020 election. trump tried to call ducey while he was certifying the election for biden on an official government live stream. on 2020, ducey was literally signing the papers to end the election, seated in front of the press. but you have to listen carefully. you can make out hail to the chief as ducey reaches into his pocket to silence the call. the ring tone is just spectacular. ducey did eventually speak to trump. did not record the call. but we have some idea what it might sound like because trump made a lot of calls in multiple states ....
Enters talks about pay. You are watching bbc news. Now our north america correspondent Anthony Zurcher takes a look at the long awaited Senate Report into the storming of the us capitol back injanuary. There are flashing images in this report. Its going to happen. Somethings going to happen. Chanting whose streets . Our streets if mike pence does the right thing, we win the election. On january sixth 2020, thousands of donald Trump Supporters on january sixth 2021, thousands of donald Trump Supporters stormed the us capitol building, intent on disrupting the certification of the 2020 election results. Hundreds of Police Officers were injured. 0ne, brian sicknick, would later die. Ashli babbitt, a protester ....
those are the headlines on bbc world news. and now on bbc news chaos on capitol hill: the verdict, and a warning that this programme contains flashing images. it s going to happen. something s going to happen. chanting: whose streets? our streets! if mike pence does the right thing, we win the election. on january sixth 2020, thousands of donald trump supporters stormed the us capitol building, intent on disrupting the certification of the 2020 election results. hundreds of police officers were injured. one, brian sicknick, would later die. ashli babbitt, a protester, would be fatally shot by law enforcement during the attack. by law enforcement during the attack. another rioter would die in the throng of people pushing into the building. the crowd that gathered at the capitol that day ransacked the offices of congressional leaders, and posed for photographs in the senate chamber itself. a year and a half later, legislators who were trapped in the capitol complex th ....