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"the washington post" and abc news obtained a series of recordings from the parts of the statements made by four of the defendants as part of their plea deals from fulton county district attorney fani willis. former pro-trump lawyer kenneth chesebro, sidney powell and jenna ellis and scott hall. remember, this case stems from efforts to overturn georgia's 2020 election results. 19 people were charged, including donald trump. revolutions today including the post report that kenneth chesebro behind the plot to put forward slates of fake electors admitted that he played a role transporting documents signed by fake electors from wisconsin to capitol hill. those bogus electors were i intended as part of a plan to throw our democracy into chaos so trump and his team could steal democracy from you. it gets worse. trump attorney general thatlis said in late december weeks after the election was called for joe bidennd a trump ran out of legal ks as, she said dan scavino was unfazed. why would he be unfazed? the answer, according to ellis, well, it's quite chilling. >> i emphasized to him i thought that the claims and the ability to challenge the election results was essentially over because of the dismissal of the texas v. pennsylvania case from the united states supreme court, and he said to me ain an excite tone, we don't care and we are not going to leave. i said, what do you mean? he said the boss, meaning president trump. everyone understood the boss, that's what we called him. he said the boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. we are just going to stay in power. and i said to him, well. >> it doesn't quite work that way, you realize? he said, we don't care. >> we don't care. the boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. we are just going to stay in power. those are quotes. good lord. here is how trump's attorney responded. the only salient fact is that president trump left the white house on january 20, 2021, and returned to mar-a-lago in palm beach, florida. >> this is the nonsense line of inquiry, one more reason this political travesty must be dismissed. i am not an attorney. but plans to be a squatter in the white house while preparing a plan that ultimately uses violence to prevent the counting of electoral votes, it seems like to me that could be a salient and telling fact. again, i am not an attorney. and then there is sidney powell, an attorney, on video. she tells prosecutors that trump believed that he had won. >> he knew he had been -- he was -- all his instincts told him he had been defrauded, that the election was a big fraud. >> when you say his instincts, did he ever describe that in any way? did he ever point to any kind of proof or evidence or anything he was getting from his other attorneys or experts? >> well, he talked about, you know, seeing the vote totals rolled backwards on the tv. >> yeah. see, that's not evidence. and he didn't see that because that didn't happen. like so many claims trump makes about the election. he didn't see vote totals roll back on the tv. that's in somebody's mind maybe. not fact. it's actually provably false. powell divulges she pressed donald trump to appoint her and if he had done so, she says she would have tried to seize election equipment. she even said she had considered using the military to get that equipment. tellingly, powell admits she had never even practiced election law before. when prosecutors asked her why trump would rely on her for legal advice on election law when she had never worked in election law before, she responded, quote, because we were the only ones willing to support his effort to sustain the white house. i mean, everybody else was he telling him to pack up and go, unquote. hmm. i wonder why? at this point, trump's attorney general and his white house attorneys who did have experience in election law, they were telling him he had lost the election. just to get an idea how tense things were in the office at that time, listen to this. >> do you remember the december 21st meeting with phil waldren and mark meadows and rudy giuliani that you went to? >> oh, yeah. >> will you tell us about that? >> yeah. that's the one where rudy got really ugly. there was a big shouting match in which rescued called me every name in the book and i was the worst lawyer he had ever seen in his life. there were no circumstances under which he would work with me on anything. he called me a [ bleep ]. >> and then we got this clip of georgia bail bondsman scott hall. he tried to claim he was a political tourist on january 7, 2021, when the voting systems were breached. it was a $10,000 charter flight. prosecutors asked if he was reimbursed. >> i did. pardon my french, but i [ bleep ] this whole thing. >> you and the whole country, pal. >> kaitlan collins, these videos were leaked to the "washington post" and abc news, now fulton county, georgia, district attorney fani willis wants an emergency protective order. what do these videos tell you about the case fa fani willis has been building against trump? >> she is not happy they came out. she denied they came from the district attorney's office because her concern and what they said in this emergency request for a motion to seal is that they are worried it could lead to intimidation of the witnesses or harassment of the people that you see there. people clearly lick general dla ellis. and has a lot to potentially offer to prosecutors in this case. but i think what we pick up from the videos and what you see in the interviews is the roadmap that prosecutors are going down with each of these witnesses much maybe not surprising, but we are seeing what they are confirming to them for the first time. and we have seen fani willis do this before, jake, with other rico cases where a lot of people have been indicted. a lot of people have gotten plea deals. often those plea deals in the past led to potentially incriminating information that could be used to bolster her case against the remaining defendants. so we don't though that that's going to happen in this case, but it clearly appears to be the direction she is headed with these witnesses and these co-defendants squho have taken guilty pleas. >> another slip of sidney powell obtained by abc news. >> what was president trump's reaction when the cadre ofv advisors said, you lost? >> it was like, well, they would say that and then walk out. he would go, see, this is what i deal with all the time. >> this is what i deal with all the time, all these realty-based people. it shows that he was told repeatedly he lost the election. >> yeah, he was listening to his instincts. he was not listening to the attorneys inside the white house and other senior advisors who were telling him that he had not. and i think it goes to the point of this. and this could be something that helps trump where she says she believed that trump thought he had won the election. that's a question of whether or not that is something that trump's attorneys tried to use as part of their defense here because the question is, is anything that these co-defendants are coming in and saying now that they have taken guilty pleas something that directly implicates trump himself. and i think that is a the path that you are seeing them pursue. sidney powell, that's why he was listening to crazy attorneys and that december meeting she was asked about team crazy and team normal because they were listening to them because they were telling him what he wanted to hear, which is he had won the election, which he had not. >> ellis' claim of what dan scavino told her, he was not leaving the white house, you were the white house correspondent for cnn at the time. do you think he was going to squat, stay there forever? >> i think some people certainly feared that. i mean, when you listen to -- alyssa fair griffin made this point. he is someone who is a golf caddy for trump. he became a manager of his social media. that's what he was known for, became kind of this brain like trump when it came to tweeting. also a deputy chief hurricane hilary staff in the white house and had a high-ranking position inside the west wing and he was someone who was making that comment at a christmas party at the white house, i jenna ellis says. regardless, making that comment representing him. and so i think that there was a lot of fear inside the white house and trepidation about what exactly what was going to happen that day and that was alleviated when he actually got on marine one and left washington hours before biden's inauguration. >> thank you. i want to turn to kevin madden and democratic strategist karen finney. kevin, when prosecutors asked sidney powell why trump would use her for legal advice when she never practiced election law before, good question, she said because they were the only ones willing to support his effort to sustain the white house. listen to this clip obtained by abc news. >> i was the most experienced practitioner of the group. didn't know anything about election law. >> what does that clip tell you about who would be in a trump administration if he gets back in the white house in a second term? >> anybody who is experienced and qualified would not be in good favor with donald trump. i think what he always has done is surround himself with enablers, folks who will provide him all of the leeway he needs to operate just as he sees fit. the only thing he cares about is donald trump. he has a contempt for the law. he has a contempt for protocols. he is always focused on what's good for donald trump. and if you think about what the advice he got from people like scavino and jenna ellis and others, that was in line with what donald trump wanted to hear. so that's i think what's jarring about some of this video is that we're finally seeing all of these enablers when they are faced with, you know, under oath having to deal with the truth that they come in contact with, you know -- they come face to face with their own lies and it doesn't work out well. >> so, karen, sidney powell still seems pretty out there. i have to say. jenna ellis maybe less so. i want to read this from "the washington post." quote, powell told prosecutors she still believes election macn and believes many past elections have been flipped, too. quote, bush stole ohio in 2004, she said, but they pressed her on the issue asking how she could know that after admitting she doesn't personally understand how the machines work. >> mm-hmm. and she also said she doesn't know election law either. >> doesn't know how the machines work. doesn't know election law. >> yabout you just wants to go out there and say whatever. >> exactly. look, it shows -- i mean, there may be a legal reason why she is trying to continue to make the argument that that is what she truly believed and she believes that is what trump truly believed. obviously, not true. joe biden did win the election. but, you know -- >> and so did george w. bush. >> yes. however, i think the thing i what point out, it's all very jarring, but we have seen this movie before time and time again with the trump team. clearly, things are happening behind the scenes. he is saying something publicly that we know not to be true. later we find out even the people backing him up knew it wasn't true. in this case, you know, with the dan scavino comment and the comment from the trump team trying to walk it back, right? and i think it is a reminder to us that we have to take very seriously everything donald trump says, all of the threats, because clearly he meant it. >> yeah. we all take it seriously. you heard it. israel ambassador to the u.n. told me he assesses israel can end this phase of the war with hamas in a matter of weeks. the situation on the ground there now before that happenens. that's's ahead.. and resilience? >> yes, i can. i have been talking with the people involved every single day. i believe it's gonna happen. but i don't want to get into any detail. >> what's your message for the families? >> hang in there. we're coming. >> president biden expressing his optimism today about the potential release of hostages held by hamas in gaza. senior u.s. official tells cnn an agreement could see the release of dozens of women and children released in exchange for a sustained pause in fighting in israel. family members of the hostages held by hamas who have grown inpatient with the netanyahu government have begun a five-day march to tel aviv tobenjamin netanyahu's office. jeremy diamond is live in israel. jeremy, where do the negotiations stand at this hour? >> reporter: well, jake, you heard president biden expressing optimism about the prospects of a deal saying he believes it's going to happen. a senior u.s. official is telling cnn that israel and hamas are inching closer to a potential deal. and despite that optimism and the very real progress that is being made, that appears to be made in the negotiations, it's important to remember a few weeks ago we thought a deal was perhaps in hand and then the talks broke down again. important inject a little bit of skepticism here right off the top. but this deal that is being discussed, the parameters of them go effectively as follows. hamas would release somewhere between 50 to maybe 70 hostages. that is the number that they have put out as a possibility. israel would, in exchange, release some palestinian prisoners and also agree to a ceasefire that could last as long as five days. but some of the major questions here revolve around exactly how many hostages, exactly how many palestinian prisoners, and exactly how long that potential ceasefire would last. we saw today, jake, in tel aviv families of hostages beginning a give-day march to jerusalem trying to ramp up the pressure on the israeli government to reach some kind of deal to bring their loved ones home. >> and today the united nations says only one hospital in northern gaza remains operational. the situation in gaza is just so dire. >> reporter: absolutely. it has been deteriorating some time now. clearly, these hospitals are now on the brink of total collapse in northern gaza. we heard earlier today from a british palestinian doctor who is in the hospital, the last remaining functioning hospital in northern gaza, and the situation there, as he described it, is catastrophic. take a listen. >> pregnant women who -- today we were joined by an obstetrician gynecologist because we have a number of pregnant women who need cesarean-sections. we are doing extremely painful wound procedures with no anesthetic because we don't have any left. it's a very, very bleak and difficult situation. every raid we get more wounded and the hospital gets stacked up more and more with patients. >> reporter: now, of course, jake, there is huge concern around the situation at the al shifa hospital, gaza's largest hospital. as we know, there are hundreds of patients in the hospital which has run out of fuel supplies to power the hospital. it has run out of oxygen supplies in the neonatal unit. we saw that shocking video of premature babies being transferred from the unit where oxygen supplies ran out, huddled in foil, wrapds in blankets to survive. the military is looking to provide support when it comes to providing incubators and an evacuation route. but no details yet on what that evacuation route could look like. there have been calls for some time, but the situation around the hospital is unsafe as many doctors have said they are too afraid for their patients and civilians to leave the hospital. >> thank you to both of you. next, why there is so much hype around president biden's meeting tomorrow with chinese president xi jinping. stay with us. california this afternoon for a meeting among the heads of state of the countries that border the pacific ocean. the real highlight tomorrow when president biden sits down with chinese president xi jinping. they have met many times before, of course. >> this time will be different. u.s./china relations appear to be at the lowest point since they normalized relations in 1979. this year we have seen the chinese spy balloon drift over the u.s., extensive chinese saber-rattling, military exercises around taiwan and summit between xi and russia's vladimir putin and on and on and on. china's economy, however, is struggling in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. trump era tariffs are in place. biden likes them. pressure building for the u.s. to ban the popular chinese app tiktok. cnn's david culver joins us from san francisco with a preview. what exactly are biden and xi specifically meeting about? what do they hope to get out of this meeting? >> reporter: it's a bit overwhelming, jake, when you liston to the list you went through of the points of contention between these two countries. where do you begin? what do you prioritize? how do you start a meeting like this? for the u.s., that's generally where we start to see the messaging ahead of the meetings, where the transparency is and it seems to their focus is on maybe seeing a crackdown on fentanyl, perhaps reestablishing communications between the two countries' militaries, maybe something on climate. take a step back and say the bigger focus is just going to be stopping the freefall. the downward spiral that is u.s./china relations right now, bringing it to a level point and perhaps this meeting tonight is a start to that. >> both leaders have to say you need something of of a win here, don't they? both are in a weaker position than they were during the last year meeting, the last time they met in bali. >> reporter: so let's look at president biden first. he is in campaign mode. right? so he is hoping to stabilize u.s./china relations in this meeting. at the same time, he can't look soft on china. for president xi, it's different in his path to leadership and sustaining that path in china and he is coming off what was this time last year a securing of a near unprecedented third term, making him the undisputed ruler there. perhaps setting the groundwork for him to rule for life. that said, as you pointed out earlier, china needs help right now. they are struggling economically. they have a housing market in crisis, youth unemployment at record highs and businesses, particularly american and other international businesses, are hesitant to do business in china. so that is something that president xi is hoping to perhaps go on charm offensive and woo them back. >> even though biden and xi need each other in a way here, it also seems like they can't really concede a clear win to the other? >> reporter: domestic optics are going to be everything for president biden, it's in that same sense of campaign mode. the most popular sentiment even amidst a divided u.s. is perhaps being tough on china. h