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Exit that way. >> you can get out, theres another exit? >> yes. yep. >> have you done drills? >> oh yeah. yeah. and then we are doing one when we -- we are doing one in another week where we evacuate this place on election night. so how do we keep it going on election night? because that would be an obvious thing to do. you know. >> how do you keep the vote going on? >> oh, we can do it, we can keep the vote going on. we can get out of here. >> jesus ... but where you exercising, like, you know,...

But they are just vague enough that nothing happens. >> do you worry about your safety? do you worry about the safety of your colleagues? >> it is more like russian roulette. because it seems like something has to happen it ties to this place. because i feel like one time the president tweeted about my office, but he didnt say anything negative. i felt like it felt like a click and miss in a chamber. like it just missed something happening. but then in another county or another place in the stat...

Motivator, part guy who blocks the door if they try to leave without a deal, close quote. can you take us inside that meeting? what were your main sticking points? >> yeah, it really was about keeping both sides in a conversation. this negotiation was going on for well over two years. the president had to appoint a presidential emergency board to come up with a framework that we worked off of yesterday. it really was about really three or four major issues. and what i suggested was we take one a...

Service tomorrow, even though some trains were still canceled tonight. remember, this was going to be the first impacts if a rail worker strike did ultimately happen. amtrak had planned to cancel all of its long distance routes, every corner of the country, as well as state sponsored trends on ten different lines. the issue was twofold. first, that many of the long distance routes take days to complete and would have overlapped with the start of a strike. also, that 97% of amtrak routes rely on ...

Discuss in detail what happens and as we do, im going to describe a few of the details now of some of the actions taken by a gentleman named kenneth shes burrow. after the electoral college mats and cast their votes on december 14th. the day before they met kenneth cheese for a sent a memo to rudy giuliani, the presidents lead outside counsel mr. cheese burrow roads to mayor giuliani that the vice president is charged with quote making judgments about what to do if there are conflicting votes, c...

Venezuelan communists allegedly pulling the strings. this was, quote, complete nonsense as bill barr said. president trumps own campaign advisers, his department of justice, and his cybersecurity experts all told him the same thing. here, for example,s white house lawyer, eric herschmann, his view was shared by many by the trump team who we interviewed. >> i thought that the dominion stuff, i never saw any evidence ever to sustain the allegations. >> third, as mike pences staff started to get a ...

>> i thank the witnesses for joining us today. the first panel is now dismissed. without objection, the chair recognizes the woman from california, miss lofgren. >> thank you, mister chairman. last week, we presented the testimony of former attorney general bill barr, who testified before this committee. today, we present additional evidence, including his testimony that former president trump started making claims of election fraud immediately after the election, and that barr concluded the cla...

The american people some of our evidence. today, you will hear much more from a former attorney general bill barrs recorded testimony. you will hear in greater detail while others and the department told president trump, that his claims of election fraud were nonsense. you will also hear much more from president trumps own campaign experts, who had also concluded that his fraud claims could not be supported. let me focus briefly on just three points now. first, you will hear firsthand testimony ...

Narrative that the 2020 election was, quote, stolen. for president trumps plan to overturn the election relied on a sustained effort to deceive millions of americans would knowingly false claims of election fraud, all elements of the plot relied on convincing supporters about these false claims. today, we will demonstrate the 2020 election was not stolen. the american people elected president joe biden. we will present evidence that mr. trumps claims of election fraud were false, that he and his...

Last week, as the chairman noted, our committee begin 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 trumps effort to convince millions of americans that the election was stolen from him by overwhelming fraud. the federal court has already reviewed elements of the committees evidence on this point and said this, quote, in the months following the election, numerous credible sources fr...