the scheme going anyway. a former georgia election official telling the panel she and her family paid a horrible price for trump s lies, their lives threatened after the president falsely accused her of ballot fraud. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight the american people have gotten a deeper look into donald trump s attack on democracy through the testimony of state level officials who defied him and wound up actually fearing for their own lives. let s get to all the testimony from the january 6th investigation. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju reports. you re a tyrant. you re a felon reporter: tonight the january 6th committee laying out in stark terms intimidation and pressure campaign from then president donald trump and his allies against state officials attempting to uphold democracy in states where joe biden won. what are we going to do, besides k
that hide behind phony claims of privilege or hide because they feel that they can get away with it i think will be damned by history. we re ready to face threats of russian aggression because quite frankly, there is no choice. in light of the log progress the progress we ve together, we support them joining nato. pretty big win for president biden saying the enlargement of that i to is exactly the opposite of what president putin wanted to see. we begin with a remarkable string of revelations in washington. the committee investigating the january 6 riots has presented new damning testimony offering crucial details about president trump s actions in the lead up to and during the attack on the capitol. cassidy hutchinson, a former aide to mark meadows gave her account of the conversations inside the trump white house that day describing just how much trump and his aides knew about the riots and what trump did or didn t do to stop the violence unfolding that day. ryan n
personally went to the state of georgia as part of the efforts to flip the election results. quite a journey from meadows time as an obscure tea party conservative in the house, a seat he won in 2012. not so much thought of as a policy genius or someone who had a prospective agenda, but someone who was there to derail the jaenagenda of democrats, to throw bombs. reporter: what led from that to his time with trump? one says pure ambition. we ve learned that mark med compani meadows was untruthful, that he was a very willing hatchet man for donald trump. that he was willing to jettison parts of his ideology that didn t fit with donald trump and that he was almost willing do anything to keep donald trump in
quite a journey from his team as a tea party conservative in the house, a seat he won in 2012. not so much thought of as a policy genius or somebody with a prospective agenda but someone there to derail the agenda of democrats, to throw bombs. what led meadows from that to his position at trump s side? one analyst says pure ambition. what mattered to him is he wanted to exercise power. once he got in the white house and got that top position, he wanted to consolidate power around him. reporter: now ironically, mark meadows, the man who helped push the election fraud theories for trump is now the subject of a probe by the north carolina state bureau of investigation for allegedly registering to vote in a state where he never resided. a spokesperson declined to comment. brian todd on capitol hill,