were you part of any discussions with the people i mentioned, about whether the president should make any sort of speech on election night? i mean, i spoke to the president. they may have been president. but i spoke to the president several times that night. there are suggestions by i believe it was mayor giuliani to say we won it out right? it was far too early to be making any calls like that. ballots were still being counted. ballots would still be counted for days and it was far too early to be making any proposition like that. i remember saying that to the best of my memory i would say we should not go declare
chairman. last week as the chairman noted our committee began outlining a seven-part plan overseen by president trump to overturn the 2020 election. today we will begin looking at the initial part of that plan. president trump s effort to convince millions of americans that the election was stolen from him by overwhelming fraud. a federal court has already reviewed elements of the committee s evidence on this point and said this, quote, in the months following the election, numerous credible sources from the president s inner circle to agency leadership appeared statisticians informed president trump and dr. eastman that there was no evidence of election fraud, close quote. sufficient to overturn the 2020 presidential election. the court s opinion documents each of the principle reasons for that conclusion and i would urge all those watching to read
person. donald trump knew before the election that the counting of those mail-in ballots in several states would not begin until late in the day and would not be complete for multiple days. this was expected, reported, and widely known. you will also hear testimony that president trump rejected the advice of his campaign experts on election night and instead followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated rudy giuliani to just claim he won and insist that the vote counting stop. he falsely told the american people the election was not legitimate. in his words, a major fraud. millions of americans believed him. second, pay attention to what donald trump and his legal team said repeatedly about dominion voting machines.
and weeks between election night and january 6th that he lost? that s important context and important historical information to have. and finally to dan pfeifer s point it is an ongoing threat. we ve seen far right extremist groups arrested just this week trying to interrupt a pride parade in idaho. this groups, the same groups that attacked the capitol are trying to foment unrest across the country. on the republican side a number of now mainstream republican nominees for positions that are up this november, for example in pennsylvania, the gubernatorial nominee, they embraced the big lie and they go further than donald trump. you have republicans running across the country, dana, pledging to not adhere to the will of the voters in upcoming elections because of this big lie that started on election night and continued through january 6th. it is an ongoing threat. dana: just to be clear, the group that was arrested outside
fox news correspondent ed lawrence is at the white house. the president and secretary he talked to a dnc fundraising event friday saying we ll live with this inflation for a while. it is going to come down gradually but we ll live with it for a while. the expectations from the market is the federal reserve will raise interest rates more than expected. the commerce and former tresh rear secretaries from republican and democrat administrations are saying a recession could be unavoidable. what we hear out of the white house is stay the course and blame. president biden: we ve never seen anything like putin s tax on both food and gas. america should also understand our economy has unique strengths we can build on.