supporters in the white house. they were telling him, using many different kinds of words, that what he was saying was a lie. he lied in an effort to stop the counting of ballots on election night and to later cast doubt on their validity. and allegedly he lied in pursuit of a quarter billion dollars in campaign donations to a fund he lied about the very existence of, an election defense fund that did not exist. those are the elements of the case the january 6th committee is building against donald trump, and today in the second installment of televised hearings, it was testimony from some of the former president s most senior advisers at the time who actually made that case, including his campaign manager, bill stepien, and the sitting attorney general of the united states at the time, bill barr. as you ll hear and this is from the other or this is the other takeaway from today s proceedings, much of what they had to say to the former president at the time and more recen
this election. frankly, we did win this election. reporter: donald trump s false claim that he won the election before all the votes were counted, a lie he continues to peddle but one the january 6th committee didn t believe, like his attorney general. he had become attached from reality if he really believes this stuff. reporter: his campaign manager. i didn t think what was happening was necessarily i remember tell being him i didn t believe the dominion allegations. what they were proposing i thought was nuts. the theory was also completely nuts. reporter: trump s assertion that he won the election is at the core of the committee s argument that he purposely and criminally worked to prevent the i told him that the claims of fraud wiere bullshit. bill stepien was supposed to testify live but when his went into labor, he bowed out. did anybody who was a part of that conversation disagree with your message? yes. who was that? the president disagr
good evening, any fair minded person who has followed the lafayette and presidency of donald j. trump knows he lies and lies a lot. what we learned today from the sworn testimony of those who worked closely with then president trump is they knew he lied just as much as we thought he did. the former president of the united states lied about nonexistent election fraud before, during and after the 2020 election. he lied despite being told again and again and again that it was not existent, that there was no widespread election fraud by the people around him, his supporters in the white house. they were telling him using many different kinds of words that what he was saying was a lie. he lied in an effort to stop the counting of ballots on election night and to later cast doubt on their validity. and allegedly he lied in pursuit of a quarter billion dollars in campaign donations to a fund he lied about the very existence of, an election defense fund that did not exist. as you ll
Washington d. C. Anyone wondering whether bill barrs message to the president was a set up. The message would be shhh. Mr. President. Im doing what you want, dont say the quiet part out loud. Whats happening now just might give you the answer. On the same day the doj announces its dropping the criminal investigation of former fbi director mccabe. Barr has ordered a u. S. Attorney to take a second look at some very sensitive cases. Cases including the case of extrump National Security advise ir Michael Flynn. Coincidence . Mccabe now a contributor has been under the shadow of the investigation over a leaked reporter to two years now. I talked to him a while ago and asked him was it worth it . It was absolutely the right thing to do then. And i would do it again tomorrow. If i was in the same situation. And looking at the same facts. What we had seen through the multiple investigations so far all of the work of the ig looking at everything. Each one of us did the decisions we made. The c
William Hyde allegedly left two threatening voicemails on the phone of a Maricopa County official involved in certifying the results of a contentious election