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Made. you will hear testimony today from a renowned republican election litigation lawyer who explained the normal process by which candidates challenge an election. rather than accept the results of the election and the decisions of the courts, mr. trump pursued a different strategy. he tried to convince the american people the election had been stolen. many of his supporters believed him, and many still believe him today. the attack on january 6th was a direct and predictable result of mr. tru...

They did dumps. they call them dumps. big massive dumps, in michigan, in pennsylvania, and all over. how the fbi and department of justice -- i dont know, maybe they are involved. but how people are allowed to get away from this -- with this stuff is unbelievable. >> now, spurred by what he saw, barr told the "associated press" on december 1st that there was no evidence of election fraud and immediately after attorney general barrs statement went public, mr. trump berated and he anotherly fired ...

Far flung conspiracies with the deceased venezuela communist allegedly pulling the strings. this was, quote, complete nonsense as bill barr said. president trumps own campaign advisors, his department of justice, and his cybersecurity experts all told him the same thing. here, for example, is white house lawyer eric herschmann. his view was shared by many of the trump team who we interviewed. >> i thought the dominion stuff was -- i never saw any evidence to sustain those allegations whatsoever....

>> without objection we recognize ms. lofgren. >> thank you, mr. 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 claims were untrue. now due to the length of attorney general barrs testimony well only include relevant portions at the hea...

That hes becoming more realistic and knows that there is a limit to how far he can take this. and then jared you said, yeah, we are working on this, we are working on it. >> each after his attorney general told him his claims of election fraud were false, president trump continued to promote these claims. >> i felt that things continued to deteriorate between the 23rd and the weekend of the 29th and then on november 29th, he appeared on maria barred romos show, sunday futures, i believe it was. ...

Far-flung conspiracies with a deceased venezuelan communist allegedly pulling the strings. this was, quote, complete none sense, as bill barr said. president trumps own campaigned a vie visors department of justice and cybersecurity experts all told him the same thing. here is eric hirschman, he was a member of the trump team who we interviewed. >> i thought the dominion stuff was -- i never saw any evidence to sustain those allegations. >> and third, as mike pences staff started to get a sense ...

They call them dumps. big massive dumps in michigan and pennsylvania and all over. how the f.b.i. and the department of justice, i dont know, maybe they are involved. but how people are allowed to get away with this stuff a unbelievable. >> now spurred by what he saw, barr told the associated press on december 1st that there was no evidence of election fraud and immediately after attorney general barrs statement went public mr. trump berated and nearly fired barr but barr persisted in telling th...

Hearings. but today, we examine the false narrative that the 2020 election was, quote, stolen. former president trumps plan to overturn the election relied on a sustained effort to deceive millions of americans with knowingly false claims of election fraud, all elements of the plot relied on convincing his supporters about these false claims. today, well demonstrate the 2020 election was not stolen. the american people elected president joe biden. well present evidence that mr. trumps claims of ...

It. today we will begin to show the american people some of our evidence. today you will hear much more from a former attorney general bill barrs recorded testimony. and you will hear in greater detail what others in 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 also concluded his fraud claims could not be supported. let me focus on just three points now. first, you will hear first...

Opening statement she cares to offer. >> thank you very much. last week as the chairman noted, our committee began outlining a seven-part plan 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 oftrumps eff convince millions of americans that the election was stole .from him by overwhelming fraud a. federal court has already reviewed elements of the committees evidence on this point and sai...