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days before republicans assume the majority in the house and likely dissolve the january 6th committee, members released a new batch of testimony involving efforts of those closest to the former president and their attempts to overturn the election. im pamela brown in for anderson tonight. and included in the new transcripts is testimony by donald trump jr. and remarks about what he believed was a, quote, sophisticated legal rationale to overturn the election, as in overturn the will o...

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His interview with the committee that he thought this was a copy and paste job. he was not the one who wrote it. and thats what his attorney had told cnn originally when we reported on the mark meadows text. >> youre also learning about senator lindsey grahams offer to support then president trumps election fraud claims. >> we know the south carolina senator, a republican has been a close ally of the former president. this really gives us an indication of how much he wanted to be out there suppo...

Dead voters. it is a lot to unpack. lets start with sara murray, who has been digging through these transcripts all week for us. sara, what more can you tell us about the new details from donald trump jr.s testimony to the committee? >> pam, this is interesting because we have of course previously reported on the mark meadows text, the former trump white house chief of staff who was so important to this investigation. and donald trumps testimony really digs into those. we previously reported tha...

For summary judgment filed by the committee. that case is coming to a head, where a judge in that case is going to permit the ruling either allowing him to quash the subpoena or telling him hes got to go testify. and that could be a critical point in the litigation that the justice department is waiting for, and it seems like thats likely to happen in a matter of days. >> lets talk about the leaky leaky house, first it was mark meadows text, then it was the recordings of kevin mccarthy kyle, tak...

Essentially the premise wall pence, all by himself, could stand in the way of the certification of the electoral votes. meadows received this text from jim jordan on january 5th, the day before the certification process took place. his office did confirm he forwarded that text, but they tried to make is seem as if jordan warrant endorsing this plan. this was a statement from his staff to us, that said, quote, mr. jordan forwarded the text to mr. meadows, and mr. meadow certainly knew it was a fo...

Couldnt overturn 86,000 votes for joe biden. whereas the jim jordan text is really sharing a conspiracy theory. i dont know that it necessarily shows involvement. >> any thoughts on that, jen? >> we know that sending the mob to the capitol to actually physically stop that from happening and thereby putting physical pressure on mike pence and others to just throw over the whole thing, that didnt work. that is a different ball game. youre still going to have to show that link of they knew it could...

The president condemn this at all times. >> were you texting mark meadows that day, alyssa, because you thought he was with the president? were they in the same room when this was all unfolding? >> i wasnt aware if he was or wasnt. it was my hope that he could get the message or the counsel to president trump. i used the white house signal system to reach the president because i also hoped to counsel him as well. i just thought anyone who had a platform or a voice to condemn the violence while i...

Farah-griffin, the former white house director of strategic communications under trump. ladies, agreed to see you. ahissa, i want to start with you. you texted mark meadows on that day, trying to get him to do the right thing, as so many people were, and just want to read your text to him. you guys have to say something, even if the president is not willing to put out a same, go and and, of course, alyssa pointed out that came true, sadly. did you hear back from mark meadows after that text? >> ...

Monday night during the business meeting the select committee held. this text revealed a legal strategy that jim jordan forwarded on to mark meadows suggesting that vice president mike pence had the ability to decide which leele electors vot legally. it said mike opponents as president of the senate could call ought owl electoral votes he believes and no at all. that was the only portion read monday night. this is the rest of it. in accordance with guidance from founding father alexander hamilto...