Fail. Good evening, welcome to washington. I am bret baier. The most expensive statement from President Trump since the November Ballot in usually a speech like this. The president called, as he heard, likely one of the most important of his presidency would be covered by the White House Press pool covered live or on tape and play back with an editorial presence in the room. This was not done like that. The White House Press pool was not invited in. This is a white house edited video. There was no option to take it live. It was posted on facebook and a little piece on twitter about an hour ago. Also tonight, a hearing at this hour in michigan with president ial lawyer Rudy Giuliani. To testify state lawmakers about alleged election fraud. We will go there live shortly. But we begin tonight with his speech and with Kristin Fisher live on the north line of the white house. Good evening, kristen. Good evening, bret. This was a 45 minute long video was to directly to twitter and facebook by the white house. Ththe White House Press pool was not notified. President trump said this may be the most important speech that he has ever delivered, even though most of what he said is at odds with what his own attorney general said yesterday. I want to provide an update on our ongoing efforts to expose the tremendous voter fraud and irregularities which took place during the ridiculously long november 3rd election. We used to have what was called election day. Now we have election days, weeks, and months. And lots of bad things happened during this ridiculous period of time. Especially when you have to prove almost nothing to exercise our greatest privilege, the right to vote. As president , i have no higher duty than to defend the laws and the constitution of the United States. That is why i am determined to protect our election system which is now under coordinated assault and seizure. Under coordinated assault and seizure. Quite the claim from the president of the states, especially when you take into consideration what the farmer Trump AdministrationCyber Security election official that was fired by the president for saying he believed that the selection, the 2020 election, was the most secure in u. S. History. You also have to consider what the attorney general, bill barr, said just yesterday. He said, and i quote, today we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in this election. Now, little bit later on in this video, President Trump continued to take aim at dominion Voting Systems that accompanied so many electronic Voting Machines across the country. On top of everything else, we have a company that is very suspect. Its name is dominion. With the turn of a dial or change of a chip, you can press a button for trump and the vote goes to biden. What kind of a system is this . We have to go to paper. Maybe it takes longer, but the only secure a systems. Now, the attorney general also said yesterday that the department of justice and the department of Homeland Security looked into these claims specifically about voting irregularities with these dominion Voting Machines and the attorney general said that they saw nothing to substantiate these claims. He also have the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency putting out a statement a few weeks ago saying that there is no evidence that any Voting System deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised. Finally, and this is a long 45 minute address by the president so im trying to consolidate it, but the other entity or people that the president attacked in this video where the judges who were hearing so many cases, so many different lawsuits that have been brought forward by the Trump Campaign. Listen here. It was about to many other things. But above all, and it about fraud. This election was rigged. Everybody knows it. I dont mind if i lose an election, but i want to lose an election fair and square. What i dont want to do is have it stolen from the american people. That is what we are fighting for, and we have no choice to be doing that. We arty have the proof, we arty have the evidence. And it is very clear. Many people in the media and even judges so far have refused to accept it. They know it is true. They know it is there. They know who won the election. But they refuse to say you are right. Our country needs somebody to say youre right. Ultimately, im prepared to accept any election result and im hoping joe biden is as well. But we arty have the proof, we arty have tens of thousands of ballots, more than we need, to overturn all of these states that we are talking about. This is an election for the highest office in the greatest country in the history of the world. Lets go back to that one line from President Trump where he said the judges have refused to accept it. Refused to accept the evidence that his campaign has presented in court. I cant go casebycase again because there are so many lawsuits and so many states, but lets just take that really big case in pennsylvania. Which was tossed out by the Third Circuit court of appeals. Those three judges, those three judges on that Appeals Court they were all appointed by republican president s. And the judge that wrote that opinion, who said the Trump Campaign have brought forward that lawsuit, that those claims had no merit whatsoever, that judge was appointed by President Trump himself. But brett, tonight President Trump is making it clear in this 45 minute video that he is not giving up this fight and appears no closer to conceding. Bret kristin, great job. Consolidate a knot in a very short time. Not knowing it was coming to begin with. We appreciate that. We will have more with a panel which will you will bring up to the front of the show on this. Breaking right now, you can see here, president ial lawyer Rudy Giuliani testifying this hour before state lawmakers in michigan about what the Trump Campaign contends as voter fraud there in last months election. Voter fraud, they say, that could change the outcome of that states results. Correspondent mark merediths life tonight. Good evening, mark. Good evening, bret. Rudy giuliani claims there were multiple instances of fraud especially when it came to mailin ballots during last months election. Heat thats what is the exit exd when he comes in, looks like its coming in right now. Joe biden is going to get the state electoral votes, likely thats not going to change. But giuliani said late today he remains undeterred. The president does not intend to give up. The president has seen more than enough evidence that this was a massive fraud all over the country. We are going to prove it. We are going to prove it to the state legislature, we are going to prove it to the courts. Giuliani wont be the only one speaking tonight. Hes expected to invite other people who claim to be eyewitnesses to suspicious behavior around polling locations, especially out in detroit. The republican chairman of the Committee Told us today, this is not about taking back bidens win. To speak of the goal of this is not to overturn the election. The goal of this is to find new laws that will help restore trust in elections in michigan. Also, our goal today is to allow people who have witnessed fraud to bring their case forward. But democrats say this is all a waste of time, they tweeted covid19 is surging in michigan and state republicans are too busy trying to soothe trumps e ego. Republicans insist they can focus on on more than one thingt a time. Look at the crowd excited to see Rudy Giuliani. It almost seems like a mini trump rally that we used to see back on the campaign trail. Bret, lipsey with the night brings. Bret that is exactly right. We will follow mark live in lansing, michigan. We have new information tonight about some of those alleged ballots irregularities in last months election looking into a lot of them we have since the very beginning. Kevin corke looks at some of the claims that on whether they hold up against the facts. A barrage of tweets and a cacophony of charges. All stemming from an intense Election Integrity debate. This evidence demands investigation. This evidence demands answers. Speak of latest limitations from the conservative leading project of the thomas more society which is provided testimony from whistleblowers that accused tossing out ballots out of the election. Hav people have been destroyd ballots. One of the other claims being made across the country, many through sworn affidavit. Bill barrs yesterday said that the doj hadnt concluded its investigation during the selection. It concerns abound. Take the popular came that theclaim thatthere were numeroun election night. Yes, there was a massive increase of biden votes reported overnight. Even kentucky senator rand paul wondered about that. The fact is, many state Officials Say the surge was merely a reflection of large city and county votes coming in late. And more early votes being tallied. Another claim voted from the grave. A claim that is still being investigated. Michigan state Officials Say its important to remember that people do die after casting absentee or mailin ballots and sometimes people who appear to be voting while dead simply share a deceased persons name and birthday. Pennsylvania officials said for some, placeholder dates of birth on voter rolls like a januar january 1st 1800 are intentionally lifted that way to protect the identity of victims of domestic violence. Thats not proof of a ballot harvesting conspiracy. For the record, the president himself burned an excessive 11 million more votes than he did back in 2016. Dominion Voting Systems have also come under intense scrutiny. And while fox news has been unable to prove widespread fraud by dominion, the program was widely reported long before the 2020 election. Those concerns, bret, were rekindled after a clerk error in michigan gave joe biden thousands of votes which later had to be returned to the trump tally. As for the almost odd projects, i want to tell you this. That group claim says that as many as 288,000 ballots were disappeared and vanished. Additionally, the project says it has obtained a sworn testimony that suggests over 300,000 ballots are an issue in arizona, more than a halfmillion a michigan. 200,000 plus in georgia and another 121,000 in pennsylvania. Again, not an exhaustive look at all the allegations of fraud, but they look. Bret. Bret we will continue that look and we will continue to digest the speech tonight by the president , kevin, thank you. You bet. Its important to know the problems with mail and balloting. Pennsylvania, michigan, nevada, georgia, arizona, and most other states allowed anyone to get an absentee ballot and cast their vote without showing any i. D. The voting took place entirely through the honor system. No identification of any kind was required. Most americans would also be shocked to learn that those i in this is a national disgrace. Upon top of everything else, we have a company that is very suspect. Its name is dominion. With the turn of a dial, or the change of a chip, you can press a button for trump and the vote goes to biden. What kind of a system is this . We have to go to paper. Maybe it takes longer. But the only secure system is paper. Not these systems that nobody understands including, in many cases, the people that run them. Although unfortunately, i think they understand them far too well. Bret again, the president of the United States in the white house 46 minutes that speech. A white house video. I did it and produced there. Again, posted on facebook about an hour ago. We are going to bring in our panel early. Susan riccio, correspondent for maggie, let me start with you. First of all, the president , if you thought he was ready to throw in the towel here 46 minutes tells you he is not. He also clearly makes the case in these 46 minutes that if he does not prevail in his efforts, he is going to run again in 2024. Thats right, at bret. I think the political implications of the speech are much more significant than the legal ones. I think its interesting to note the media in which the speech was released. It was not a televised address. It went over social media accounts. And of course, that the direct feed to his most loyal supporters. The president also has, i think, a very political tightrope to walk here. He made one reference and his speech to the georgia runoff elections in january which will be held the day before but Congress Needs to certify the Electoral College vote. So there is a real risk here that as he continues to challenge the election, he will also delegitimize the electoral process. And that is possibly handing the senate to joe biden and kamala harris. Bret the speech was pretty detailed that parts where he went to do specific allegations from specific people that they have affidavits from around the country. He went into specifics about how he is disappointed about the durham reports not out before the election and but who knows if its going to come out before he leaves office. This is a president that is still fighting to the end. Kristin fisher laid out the attorney generals comments, chris grabs and others that have a point other way. Yeah, i dont think he is fighting until the end. I think he is flailing until the end. Look, his speech it wasnt airing of grievances. But the problem is most of these grievances werent true. Look, if i was a trump supporter, i would be very frustrated right now. He keeps saying there is allegations about evidence of fraud. He didnt bring it to the attorney general who has said there isnt any. He didnt bring them to court. In fact, judges, many of whom were appointed by him, several who were appointed by him said that there is no fraud here and if, in fact, asked Rudy Giuliani and others from the president s legal team are you alleging fraud. Under oath, they said no. So whatever the theatrics whatever these theatrical productions, under oath they are saying no. So if i was a trump supporter i would be very frustrated by all this. Matthews point is really, really important. What the president is doing is undermining the credibility of the electoral process just as he is trying to mobilize his supporters to participate in a special election. He is supposed to go down to georgia. Whats he going to do when he goes down there to campaign . Will he talk about the republican candidates or will he use it as another platform to talk about how the election was rigged and turn his voters off from participating in the process . Hes doing a lot of damage here to the country and to his own party. Bret yeah, malcolm i want to take you love to michigan. We have Rudy Giuliani sitting down ready to do his presentation in front of the state lawmakers there. Its something we saw similar to what happened in arizona where we brought you sound bites from that. Sometimes the president has called into these presentations live. Id made some statements for that as well. Susan, just to clarify what mo said. To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election. In other words, its not that he hasnt seen fraud, its that he hasnt seen it on the scale that could determine the election. With the white house said today is that it hasnt gone through his desk and maybe they are splitting hairs here, but thats what Kayleigh Mcenany said from the briefing room. Wright, the anecdotal stuff is really concerning. The things that the president on Rudy Giuliani are talking about should be looked into. There is always some form of election fraud. I think the case that the president is making is that there was a mass coordinated effort to overturn the selection and hand it to joe biden and to steal it from him. He bases it on the fact that on november 3rd it looked like he was headed to a win. Then the next day, all the boats shifted towards biden. Of course, that has a lot to do with the way the votes are counted in the different types of votes that came in. Malin, early voting, absentee, all of that. Every state has its own process. What President Trump has done is really undermined bidens win for his base. They will see biden as a illegitimate president much the way that democrats saw the president as a illegitimate president because they believed he coordinated with the russians to win office. Its more bipartisan back and forth, electoral process. Then you have bill barr saying i dont see anything here at this point. I think thats probably where hes going to end up ultimately. Bret right, i want to bring you Briar I Byron york. If you are trying to get this message to the most people out there, why not bring the White House Press pool and with the life capabilities . I mean, fox would have taken it live. Other channels probably wouldnt have, but we would have. Why not do that . The first thing is he wouldnt really want to answer questions about this. It was anonymousli thinkthat th. Time is just running out here. Its been quite a while since the election in 12 days the Electoral College will meet the major estates. They have certified the results of their election in georgia. There has been a hand recount and a machine recount. He would need to overturn the results and not one, not to you, two, but three states. They are concerned mostly about winning those two senate seats in georgia and not