campaign team, that his claims of election fraud were just lies. but they were proposing, that was nuts. the mayor was definitely intoxicated. law firms were not comfortable making the arguments that rudy giuliani was making publicly. evidence today that former president trump knew he lost, and kept telling lies about it. the president accepted that. he said, okay, fine, but what about the others? i told them that it was it was crazy stuff, and i was doing great, doing service for the country. and why the investigation now involves fundraising off claims that were notably false? not only was there the big lie, it was the big group off. tonight, committee member zoe lofgren, republican election lawyer and witness from today s hearing, ben ginsberg. plus, nicole wallace, joy reid, chris hayes lawrence o donnell, ari melber, in our special primetime coverage of the second day of the january 6th hearings. good evening and thank you for being with us toni
his campaign knows he lost. his administration knows he lost. and nevertheless, he tells the country, i won. we have much more evidence to show the american people on this point than we can reasonably show in one hearing. and today, we will begin. tonight, new testimony from the very top of trump s own campaign team, that his claims of election fraud were just lies. but they were proposing, that was nuts. the mayor was definitely intoxicated. law firms were not comfortable making the arguments that rudy giuliani was making publicly. evidence today that former president trump knew he lost, and kept telling lies about it. the president accepted that. he said, okay, fine, but what about the others? i told them that it was it was crazy stuff, and i was doing great, doing service for the country. and why the investigation now involves fundraising off claims that were notably false? not only was there the big lie, it was the big rip off. tonight, committee mem
of election fraud were just lies. what they were proposing, that was nuts. the mayor was definitely intoxicated. law firms were not comfortable making the arguments that rudy giuliani was making publicly. evidence today that former president trump knew he lost, and kept telling lies about it. the president accepted that. he said, okay, fine, but what about the others? i told them that it was it was crazy stuff, and i was doing great, doing service for the country. and why the investigation now involves fundraising off claims that were notably false? not only was there the big lie, it was the big group off. tonight, committee member zoe lofgren, republican election lawyer and witness from today s hearing, ben ginsberg. plus, nicole wallace, joy reid, chris hayes lawrence o donnell, ari melber, in our special primetime coverage of the second day of the january 6th hearings. good evening and thank you for being with us tonight. i m rachel maddow here at
certain spell over the judgment and values of many people who i ve known over the years, who i always believed and still believe are people of great principle. i think that there is something to the clinging to power that is sort of underlying all of this that just seems wrong. the other part of my question is that what you testified today makes it clear that a successful recount donald trump lost by thousands in multiple states. he was looking for a recount. he was looking for a nullification. what are the ramifications of that? they notification is obviously the antithesis of a democracy and peoples right to vote being the decision-maker on who gets to sit in office. i think he was looking for the recounts, he is using the contest procedures to make his, what turned out to be his
is sort of underlying all of this that just seems wrong. the other part of my question is that what you testified today makes it clear that a successful recount donald trump lost by thousands in multiple states. he wasnt looking for a recount. he was looking for a nullification. what are the ramifications of that? the nullification is obviously the antithesis of a democracy and peoples right to vote being the decision-maker on who gets to sit in office. i think he was looking for the recounts, he is using the contest procedures to make his, what turned out to be his evidence-free allegations of fraud and rigged elections. the important point about all the cases that he brought is that he never came anywhere close to showing evidence, actual evidence of fraud in