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And i said, that s a new one to me. i have never, ever heard of that. and so now you re asking me to do something that s against my oath, and i m not i m not going to do that. jake tapper: but bower says he told giuliani he had good lawyers and would be happy to put the former mayor in touch with them. rusty bowers: i don t do anything of this magnitude without having strong legal counsel and proof. and the president says, rudy, you got the proof? he said, yeah, i got the proof. i said, i want the proof. i didn t get it when he said he d do it. he never called my attorneys. jake tapper: but the asks did not stop with giuliani. bowers would later get a call from another trump attorney, john eastman john eastman: we know there was fraud jake tapper: whom the january 6 committee sees as a key player in this grand plan to undo the legitimate results of the 2020 ....
Rusty bowers: so i take the call and donetta steps out goes in the house. i sat there in my little prius and had a chat with the president with bad phone reception and backed out in front of the house where i d get better reception. jake tapper: rudy giuliani was on the line too, and bowers says it was giuliani who began making crazy claims about voter fraud in arizona. rusty bowers: i can t give you the exact numbers, but i ll throw out numbers, but they re kind of the audacious numbers like 200,000 illegal aliens voted, 6,000 military ballots were stolen and used. jake tapper: bower says giuliani wanted him to hold an official arizona house hearing to air these claims publicly. rusty bowers: and then i said, but what s the whole purpose of this? what are you trying to achieve? and they said, well, we ve heard that there s an arcane law in arizona that if you have sufficient cause, that you can throw out the biden electors and put in trump electors. ....
Goes in the house. i sat there in my little prius and had a chat with the president with bad phone reception and backed out in front of the house where i d get better reception. jake tapper: rudy giuliani was on the line too, and bowers says it was giuliani who began making crazy claims about voter fraud in arizona. rusty bowers: i can t give you the exact numbers, but i ll throw out numbers, but they re kind of the audacious numbers like 200,000 illegal aliens voted, 6,000 military ballots were stolen and used. jake tapper: bower says giuliani wanted him to hold an official arizona house hearing to air these claims publicly. rusty bowers: and then i said, but what s the whole purpose of this? what are you trying to achieve? and they said, well, we ve heard that there s an arcane law in arizona that if you have sufficient cause, that you can throw out the biden electors and put in trump electors. ....
And i said, that s a new one to me. i have never, ever heard of that. and so now you re asking me to do something that s against my oath, and i m not i m not going to do that. jake tapper: but bower says he told giuliani he had good lawyers and would be happy to put the former mayor in touch with them. rusty bowers: i don t do anything of this magnitude without having strong legal counsel and proof. and the president says, rudy, you got the proof? he said, yeah, i got the proof. i said, i want the proof. i didn t get it when he said he d do it. he never called my attorneys. jake tapper: but the asks did not stop with giuliani. bowers would later get a call from another trump attorney, john eastman john eastman: we know there was fraud jake tapper: whom the january 6 committee sees as a key player in this grand plan to undo the legitimate results of the 2020 ....
Ballots from china. rusty bowers: they came out that mr. biden won by a larger margin than previously and mr. trump lost a number of votes. jake tapper: bowers and his colleagues in arizona were not the only state officials to feel the heat from trump and/or giuliani. material discovered by the january 6 committee showed it happened over and over across the swing states that biden won. rudydy giuliani:i: mr. speake, this is rudy giuliani and jenna ellis. jake tapper: in pennsylvania, bower s counterpart republican house speaker bryan cutler got the calls. jenna ellis: hello, mr. speaker, this is jenna ellis, and i m here with mayor giuliani. rudy giuliani: hey, brian. it s rudy. i really have something important to call to your attention that i think really changes things. jake tapper: the january 6 committee says cutler thought the calls were inappropriate and had his lawyers tell giuliani to stop them. rudy giuliani: i understand that you don t want to talk to me now. i just want to ....