citizen s arrest. hearing number four the attack on the capitol marked by testimony of violence and threats against elected officials who refused to help donald trump overturn the election as well as against election workers targeted in the former president s big lie. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday it snot monday. it is wednesday, june 22nd. i m jonathan lemire. it s been a long week. we re glad you re here. the fourth public hearing into the january 6th capitol attack examined what s described as former president s donald trump personal and direct role in pressuring state officials to help overturn the to 2020 presidential election. the committee demonstrated how trump and his team leaned on state officials to throw out biden votes, find trump votes or to replace biden electors with fake trump electors. rnc chairwoman mcconnell, mark meadows, senator ron johnson and congressman andy biggs were also mentioned with helping with this scheme.
line you want the american people to know? there was a very sophisticated multi part plan overseen by donald trump. you can t ever accept when they steal and rig and rob. to attempt to stay in power. as the longest, largest investigation into donald trump s attempt to stay president comes to a close, we put it all together. i ve got three men walking down the street in fatigues and carrying ar-15s. the explosive testimony. i heard the president saying something to the effect, i don t care if they have weapons, let my people in. new insight from witnesses. i said, you want me to take my state, 3.2 million voters, and just throw them out the window? was he asking you to commit a crime? it gets back to the criminal intent issue. i don t know what he believed. hang mike pence! and what might lie ahead. the former president and his allies represent a clear and present danger to democracy. not because of what they did on january 6th. you better run, co
Case, but the different indictments that the former president is facing. can you walk people through ruby freeman s reel here and why it is a central piece of the indictments? absolutely. ruby freeman and her daughter shea moss were two election workers in 2020 during the elections. and there was video, surveillance video taken of the vote counting process. and at certain point during the evening, the owe election workers were told by the state office to stop counting and go home. but he changed his mind. that was caught on video. they began to count the votes again. but that video then game the subject of conspiracy theories here in georgia and the
Aftermaths the elections, including run by rudy giuliani and donald trump, they both named ruby freeman and shea moss and they say that this has mostly been destroyed by this process. i think it goes to the fact that these were not victimless crimes. this was not just about paperwork. it wasn t just about an election. they are just are just two of the election workers in georgia of that been harassed, intimidated and the subject of some of these indictments. former president trump on that famous call to the secretary of georgia, he called her a scammer and hustler. and then rudy giuliani had
Something to say. ruby freeman and shea freeman moss and one other gentlemen started passing around us about ports saying they were vials of heroin or cocaine. it is obvious they are involves in illegal activity that day. as of a week ago, they re still walking around georgia lying. they should have been questioned already. they re places of work and homes should have been searched. he is accusing them of crime. the words are used to charge him with the crime. as they should be. words have consequences and conduct has consequences. and when you have someone who propagating a narrative that knows that it is false and they re doing in conjunction with the criminal enterprise with other people surrounded by them, all engaged in a