at pnc private bank, we ll help you take care of the how. so tell us - what s your why? top of a brand new hour on cnn newsroom, good to have you. i m victor blackwell. we begin with the latest case from the january 6th house committee that donald trump held a key role in the insurrection at the capitol. at its second hearing, the committee kept pounding, the proof that trump refused to listen to the truth that he lost the 2020 election, and not from democrats but from his own people in the white house, and working on his campaign. his campaign manager, bill stepien recalled what he told trump about his prospects. this is just after the election. very very very bleak.
that s your why. it s your purpose, and we will work with you every step of the way to achieve it. during today s insurrection hearing, the house committee used video testimony of trump s family members including his daughter ivanka to illustration what election night in 2020 was like inside the white house. the committee also played clips from trump advisers who claimed drunk rudy giuliani urged trump to falsely declare victory. was there anyone in that conversation who in your observation had had too much to drink? mayor giuliani. tell me more about that, what was your observation about his potential intoxication during that discussion about what the
you know, we told him that the group that went over there outlined, you know, my belief and chances for success at this point. you know, my belief is that it was a very very 5 to 10%s, it s not a very good optimistic outlook. 5 to 10% there. well, then the committee showed how trump continued to embrace allegations of fraud, although white house lawyers told him the accusations were baseless or just weren t substantial enough to make a real difference, and the justice department, they told him there was no there there. but trump kept listening to the conspiracies and telling the same lies. gets back to the point that there was so many of these allegations that when you gave him a very direct answer on one of them, he wouldn t fight us on it, but he would move to another allegation. he said there s lots of fraud going on here. we told him flat out much of the information he s getting is false and/or just not supported