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electors. presumably designed to create so much confusion the congress would kick the matter back to republican-led state legislators as to overturn joe bidens win in the states. it will explore the broader pressure campaign aimed at subverting the will of the american people. the first witness is the arizona state house speaker. aides say bowers will share critical new details about trumps demands and even harassment as the president sought to decertify bidens legitimate and legal win...

trump electors. we are going to hear from four witnesses this afternoon, including the secretary of state for georgia, brad raffensperger and his chief operating officer, gabriel sterling, big public figures in the wake of the november election in 2020. the committee says its going to show evidence that former president trump put undue pressure on legislatures to try to put forward alternative slates and electors. for president trump, the strategy did not work, legislatures did not go ...

threats to her safety after being accused of being part of a conspiracy theory involving fake ballots, debunked, by the way. >> most of the discussion heading into todays hearing surrounds brad raffensperger who won a primary earlier this month. raffensperger was facing deep discontent from some trump supporters for pushing back on donald trump in the days before the january 6 insurrection, refusing the former presidents request to, quote, find the votes trump needed to win that state....

department if donald trump replaced rosen with jeffrey clark, that loyalist who was there to help him overturn the election. jeffrey clark, former justice department official, whose home was just searched by federal investigators. the committee says its going to take us inside a heated oval office meeting on january 3rd when todays witnesses confronted trump over his threat to put clark in charge of the justice department until trump eventually backed down. playing a leading role in to...

our democracy. joining me now is democratic congressman jim himes of connecticut. hes a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you so much for staying up late and being part of our special coverage tonight. let me broadly ask you sir if i can, your broad takeaways of this final hearing that we heard and overall the eight hearings that we witnessed? >> well thank you for having me a man. i think i was one of the last of the congressman out of the chambers on that...

>> good evening. earlier this week i received a positive covid diagnosis. pro cdc guidelines i have received the initial two shots and all of the boosters. thus far i have been blessed to experience very minimal symptoms. because i am still quarantined i cannot participate in person with my colleagues. i have asked vice chair miss cheney to preside over this evenings hearing, including maintaining order in the room and swearing in our witnesses. over the last month and a half, the sele...

imagine theres an attack and the president of the united states, the only person that you cant taunt with the phrase you and what army, stands by and does nothing or stands by and stands back. i mean, all the way back, back at the white house in the dining room for more than three hours watching it all unfold on tv. no calls to the military that he commands in chief, crickets. youd probably tell me its impossible. it would never happen. youd probably say, look, if that were a show id s...

americans a break. but tonight, lawmakers, including many democrats with serious reservations. cecilia vega at the white house. tonight, the new images, the moments that passenger plane landed in miami. the landing gear failing. the plane catching on fire and tonight, images from inside the plane. and how old was that plane? sitting in a new mexico desert for years, then brought back into service. gio benitez covers aviation. the dramatic rescue in ukraine. a u.s. nuclear scientist...

>> sandra: begin with house speaker nancy pelosi arriving in taiwan, it happened a short time ago for her trip there, raising concerns of how china could, and could still respond. and already beijing issuing a series of threats. hello, welcome, everyone. john, great to be with you. >> john: happy tuesday to you, im john roberts in new york. chinese fighter jets flew nearby, the speaker arriving safely but the u.s. and taiwan remain on high alert, as four u.s. warships have been reposit...

good afternoon. this is almost no idea more un-american then the notion that any one person could choose the american president, no idea more un-american. i agree with that. which is unusual because former vice president mike pence and i dont agree on much. these are his words spoken a few months ago about donald trumps attempt to pressure the former vice president pressure him into going along with an unlawful and unconstitutional scheme to overturn the 2020 and give dawn trump a seco...