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the january 6th committee kicking off its next public hearing just hours from now, and were told that theyre going to focus on the former presidents efforts to pressure mike pence to overturn the election and how it, quote, directly contributed to the insurrection. this coming as were getting new video of a capitol tour led by a republican congressman right before the riot. cnns ryan nobles has the latest now. >> reporter: theres no escape, pelosi, schumer. >> reporter: new video relea...

Years on the senate side to figure out how to lock in some of these wins because its going to take probably about that amount of time to really move things more in the direction of the purple state territory. >> alyssa, this is not a binary choice. im asking for what is the primary driver of the outcome in this question. is this more about what warnock and democrats did or about what walker and republicans did not do in this campaign? >> its a little bit of both. so governor kemp, to abbys point...

Whos in atlanta. lets look at the numbers. rafael warnock winning reelection, will head back to washington. what did we see play out overnight? >> reporter: if you look at those numbers, erica, warnock won 95,000 more votes than what walker has. what we saw here in the runoff was warnock expanding the lead from the 37,000-vote lead he had in november. also, the turnout was quite impressive. 1.6 million georgians turned out to vote. according to the georgia secretary of state, thats the highest e...

First, teams covering both the campaigns in georgia tonight, eva is with warnock, jeff zeleny is what walker. i want to start with you, eva. what has the mood been like in the final minutes here before the polls close? >> reporter: well, erin, i will have to say it seems to me from my reporting on the ground that senator warnock, we actually just saw him walk through here in the ballroom area just a few minutes ago and the campaign just seems swagger and enthusiasm going into the runoff than i w...

Happened between the two of them back in 2005. >> and he had his hand on my throat, and my chest, and then he leaned back to throw a punch. >> neither walker nor his campaign have responded to multiple requests for comment on these allegations and it is unclear how much effect they will have on the second round of voting which again is tomorrow. so for the sake of joe manchin, lets get you up to speed. joining me from atlanta, vaughn hillyard, and trymain lee. >> vaughn, you have this exclusive....

It should be a voice of reality, that this is exactly where we are as a party and where we need to go to reach out to those independents and expand the base of the party and move beyond the trump era. >> governor, after five people were killed at an lgbtq nightclub in colorado last week, you urged your fellow republicans to tone down the rhetoric, particularly towards the trans community. just days after that shooting, georgia republican senator candidate herschel walker debuted this ad i want t...

>> paul? >> theres 580,000 college athletes in america. 50 are trans. its not a problem. by the way, georgia has already banned it. what walker is doing is revealing himself as a bully. the kind of bully whos been accused of holding a gun to his wifes head and accused of trying to coerce a woman who got pregnant was not his wife to have an abortion. he is a bully. and i dont think georgia is gonna fall for it. i think reverend warnock showed a very different kind of leadership, the sort of leade...

Allow it itself and be a stark leader. thats what well see with senator warnock. its not just the implication that it has on georgia, i also think his voice and leadership will be critical, the gender to push america forward. >> i have about 30 seconds left. i want to ask you outside, they dominated in statewide races. i wonder what you make of that? >> yeah, when you look at what walker did, walker actually came under. there are a lot of under votes. there are lot of under votes for walker. in ...

Afterwards asking them that same question. i did not get a direct answer from the campaign either. instead what i got was a copy of the press release they sent out with a transcript of what walker had said at that event, the sound that you just played. its been interesting to see how this is playing out amongst walkers supporters. the event we were at this morning in coupling, georgia, its a weekday. usually you dont have large crowds at political events during the week. were about 12 days from ...

Of homes hes owned, et cetera. that was not something fetterman was able to do with much success last night. but i also think this is something, all voters do not watch debates. i ran into several voters here today, i didnt watch the debate. ill catch up with it in the coming days. so its an opportunity for both sides to reengage, but this race seems as close as ever and its one of the most important if not the most important senate race in the country. >> lets turn to georgia right now. ian joi...