trump to seize voting machines. what was your reaction when you heard about that? liz cheney: i think most americans could never imagine those things would happen here and that order and many of the other things that we've learned through our hearings have been really stunning to me because repeatedly, i found myself in a situation thinking, my gosh, how could this happen here? and we really thought it couldn't, but it's just continued to emphasize, for all of us, that our institutions are fragile. jake tapper: the appointment of the special counsel was not hypothetical. trump wanted sidney powell, a prominent peddler of election lies, in the spot. sidney powell: he asked pat cipollone if he had the authority to name me special counsel, and he said yes. and then he asked him if he had the authority to give me whatever security clearance i needed, and pat cipollone said yes.