that we now know to ask. question number one, was illegal? if the answer is, yes it was illegal, the next question is, did they know it was illegal? if the answer was yes they knew it was illegal, the next question is, did they try to pull it off anyway? if the answer to that is yes they try to pull it off anyway, my next personal question is always, well when they try to pull it off was it occasionally hilarious? [laughs] whether or not the answer that is yes, then next obvious question is, did they get caught? and then of course the final question is, will they get in trouble for it? that is pretty simply where we are. and sort of how we know how to orient ourselves in this ongoing saga which will be, you know, our generation story in american history. was illegal? did they know? did they do it anyway? was it ridiculous when they did? did they get caught? will they get in trouble? now, the answer to all the first five questions, we now know, is yes. it s only that last one
authority ten, the chair now says that the committee approval to release the deposition good morning, last week, the select committee laid out a preview of our initial findings about the conspiracy overseeing and directed by donald trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, it blocked the transfer of power, a scheme unprecedented in american history. my colleagues and i don t want to spend time talking about ourselves during these these hearings, but as someone who has run for office a few times, i can tell you that the end of a campaign, it all comes down to numbers. the numbers tell you the winner and loser. for the most part, the numbers don t lie, but if something does not add up with the numbers, you will go to court to get resolution. that is the end of the line. we accept those results. that s what it means to respect the rule of law. that s what it means to seek elected office in our democracy because those numbers are not just numbers, they ar
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