and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, we ve got a lot of theories, just don t have the evidence. that s the stunning admission from rudy giuliani about the baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election. now giuliani, you know, you remember him, right? you know, the stuff coming down his face. he was the center piece of a lot of this, one of the loudest voices in trump s ear, one of the biggest mega-phonies out there , mega-phones out there. giuliani knew the conspiracy theories were not true. at some point, one of them made a comment that they didn t have evidence but had a lot of theories. that was mr. giuliani. what exactly did he say, how did that come up? my recollection, he said we got lots of theories, we just don t have the evidence. okay, not having the evidence of any of this stuff did not stop the relentless pressure campaign to overturn the election. the scheme spanned several states and trump s attempts to draw in republican officials from