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first it seemed very simple. >> yeah. if you're the district attorney and you need two days to present your case to the grand jury, there's a lot there to talk about. sara mentioned that infamous phone call with donald trump and brad raffensperger, that's what got this investigation started, but there was so much more. donald trump got on the phone with the governor of georgia brian kemp trying to pressure him into meddling with the vote count, changing the totals. e phone with the attorney general of georgia and wanted to keep him away from a lawsuit that was trying to overturn the results. he sent allies like rudy giuliani and mark meadows to go to georgia. rudy giuliani presented bogus claims of fraud to the state senate and the state house. that has been a part of this investigation as well. mark meadows was on the ground
it seems feasible the vote count can be conducted so that at no point will trump be behind in the electoral vote count unless and until biden can obtain a favorable decision from the supreme court. in other words, a scheme to declare trump the winner over the will of the people and to force biden to claw back his legitimate small d democratic victory via the 63 trump supreme court. so that's one document we got today. but it's not all we got today. we also get a newly unsealed legal filing from the january 6th case, revealing that the special counsel successfully gained access to the ex president twitter account earlier this year. but not without a fight from the company's new right-wing owner, elon musk. back in may it was first reported that smith's team was feuding with a major tech company in some capacity. the details of the fight were unclear based on the court records at the time.
could be counted on january six, if donald trump managed to win his legal challenges mounted in court in those states. but the newly-revealed december six memo shows that mr. chesebro changed his strategy to simply try to obstruct the account of the electoral votes on january -- he quoted professor tribe to support the legitimacy of his argument. in december six, 23 memo, mr. chesebro writes, i believe the white can be achieved on january six is not simply to keep biden below 270 electoral votes, it seems feasible that the vote count can be conducted so that at no point will trump be behind in the electoral vote count unless and until biden can obtain a favorable decision from the supreme court upholding the electoral count
mentioned in the indictment. it expands on the so-called fake electors scheme and the efforts to pressure mike pence to hand the election to twang. quote, i believe that what could be achieved on january 6th is not simply to keep biden below 270 electoral votes. it seems feasible the vote count can be conducted so that at no point will trump be behind in the electoral vote count unless and until biden can obtain a favorable decision from the supreme court. in other words, a scheme to declare trump the winner over the will of the people and to force biden to claw back his legitimate small d democratic victory via the 63 trump supreme court. so that's one document we got today. but it's not all we got today. we also get a newly unsealed legal filing from the january 6th case, revealing that the special counsel successfully gained access to the ex president twitter account earlier this year. but not without a fight from the company's new right-wing owner, elon musk.
in december six, 2020 memo, mr. chesebro writes, i believe what can be achieved on january six is not simply to keep biden below 270 electoral votes, it seems feasible that the vote count can be conducted so that at no point will trump be behind in the electoral vote count unless and until biden can obtain a favorable decision from the supreme court upholding the electoral count act as constitutional or otherwise recognizing the power of congress or not the president of the senate to count the votes. that's a memo said it was all up to mike pence, quote, vice president pence presiding over the joint session takes the position that it is his constitutional power duty alone as president of the senate to both open and count the votes and that anything in the electoral count act to the contrary is unconstitutional. chesebro admits that what he calls a bold controversial strategy would not be supported
losses, what's next? and so chesebro was helping eastman and donald trump to come up with a plan. one thing would be to say there were fake electors and chesboro says this is probably going to fail at the supreme court level, there are courts that won't allow this. but he's cognizant of not winning legally but politically in the minds of the public. then he talks about things like, but, this could help us to convince people that there was fraud. this could help us to create a scenario in which donald trump is never in the vote count and it always looked like he won. even if you get to the point where the supreme court says this isn't real, this is wrong, at that point in done, what he could have done is undermine the
of election fraud and no power in the person of the vice president to interfere with that vote count and all the other things we know that are in this indictment. the fact that we have someone who's deeply conservative, tied to the right in the waybill o'reilly is i i think, ari, is exactly the point, which is more a that trump base republican leader voice comes out, says what is true, frankly the more people might start to say, hmm, maybe i shouldn't believe that conspiracy theory. hmm, maybe it really was an okay election despite the fact that i have been ignoring all the evidence that the election was lawful. and it does matter. messengers matter. people trust certain people. you've got an audience and i know it because when i walk down the street in brooklyn, ari, all i get is, i love that ari. it's not that they don't love me, they love you. >> respect. we hear good things about you.
the first stating, quote, the november 3rd, 2020, election was chaotic and the results cannot be trusted. >> that basically regurgitated a lot of those conspiracy theories and half truths about the vote count in georgia without actually investigating any of those claims. and that report in turn ended up being cited by the trump campaign and many others in their pushes to invalidate election results elsewhere. >> reporter: so the report comes out. what kind of weight did that carry? >> it had none. but again, that really wasn't the point. >> you get all of the legitimacy that all the imprimatur of the georgia state senate, right? all of it. and they got that close. they got that close. >> reporter: coming up -- >> so you follow him. >> reporter: a secret meeting at the capitol.
how many back, and pretzel twist people will try to simply avoid acknowledging the truth and acknowledging what any american, certainly any american leaders obligation this moment. and that's where the voters come in. it is our responsibility, as voters, to have this truth, to hold people who don't tell the truth accountable at the ballot box. >> that's what people been telling me, whatever you think is gonna come of the trial, whatever you hope is gonna come out of this trial, the election is actually where the american people speak. you still have the vote in this country, protect it. use it. jocelyn benson, we thank you as always for the work you have done and defending our right to vote and to have a vote count. secretary jocelyn benson as the michigan secretary of state. the biggest school district in texas, making some alarming changes, including turning libraries and in school detention centers. one part is not allowing her child's education to be sabotaged without a fight. houston parent activists, laura nationally, directly addressed the new state appointed
campaign attorneys conceded and lost the vote count in arizona. on that day, the indictment says trump turned to someone listed only as conspirator one, this person would spearhead the results to challenge the election. this is rudy giuliani, a one-time political star whose reputation has fallen far for the man once known as america's mayor. randi kaye has more on the rise and fall of rudy giuliani. >> what happened to there's no black america, there's no white america, there is just america? what happened to it? >> reporter: rudy giuliani, at the 2016 republican national convention. this was not the kid from brooklyn that america had come to know. giuliani had earned a reputation for being tough on a crime as a young assistant u.s. attorney. at 39 he was appointed u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, zeroing in on organized crime and white collar criminals.