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plagiarism? what we are learning today from harvard insiders. plus, the deadly airport runway inferno. two lanes collide, five on one jet nearly killed, 400 escaped alive. how did the planes and up on the runway in the first place? and the senior member of hamas assassinated at an explosion in beirut. is the situation in the middle east about to get even worse? happy new year, and welcome to the lead. im jake tapper, and we start out with raking news. harvard universitys claudine gay i...

trump electors. we are going to hear from four witnesses this afternoon, including the secretary of state for georgia, brad raffensperger and his chief operating officer, gabriel sterling, big public figures in the wake of the november election in 2020. the committee says its going to show evidence that former president trump put undue pressure on legislatures to try to put forward alternative slates and electors. for president trump, the strategy did not work, legislatures did not go ...

Circus, i called it a circus, had been brewing with lots of demonstrations, both at the counting center, at the capitol and other places, and i didnt want to have that in the house. i did not feel that the evidence, granted in its absence, merited a hearing and i did not want to be used as a pawn if there was some other need that the committee hearing would fulfill. so that was the first ask that we hold an official committee hearing. >> and what was his second ask? >> i said to what end, to wha...