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Made. you will hear testimony today from a renowned republican election litigation lawyer who explained the normal process by which candidates challenge an election. rather than accept the results of the election and the decisions of the courts, mr. trump pursued a different strategy. he tried to convince the american people the election had been stolen. many of his supporters believed him, and many still believe him today. the attack on january 6th was a direct and predictable result of mr. trump's decision to use false claims of election fraud to overturn the election and to cling to power. ...

They did dumps. they call them dumps. big massive dumps, in michigan, in pennsylvania, and all over. how the fbi and department of justice -- i don't know, maybe they are involved. but how people are allowed to get away from this -- with this stuff is unbelievable. >> now, spurred by what he saw, barr told the "associated press" on december 1st that there was no evidence of election fraud and immediately after attorney general barr's statement went public, mr. trump berated and he anotherly fired barr. but barr persisted in telling the president that there was no evidence to support the fraud ...

Far flung conspiracies with the deceased venezuela communist allegedly pulling the strings. this was, quote, complete nonsense as bill barr said. president trump's own campaign advisors, his department of justice, and his cybersecurity experts all told him the same thing. here, for example, is white house lawyer eric herschmann. his view was shared by many of the trump team who we interviewed. >> i thought the dominion stuff was -- i never saw any evidence to sustain those allegations whatsoever. >> and third, as mike pence's staff started to get a sense for what donald trump had planned for j...

>> without objection we recognize ms. lofgren. >> thank you, mr. chairman. last week we presented the testimony of former attorney general bill barr, who testified before this committee. today we present additional evidence, including his testimony that former president trump started making claims of election fraud immediately after the election and that barr concluded the claims were untrue. now due to the length of attorney general barr's testimony we'll only include relevant portions at the hearing today. so let's play the video. >> the department, in fact, when we received specific and cre...

That he's becoming more realistic and knows that there is a limit to how far he can take this. and then jared you said, yeah, we are working on this, we are working on it. >> each after his attorney general told him his claims of election fraud were false, president trump continued to promote these claims. >> i felt that things continued to deteriorate between the 23rd and the weekend of the 29th and then on november 29th, he appeared on maria barred romo's show, sunday futures, i believe it was. and he said that the department was missing in action. >> well, know, we had glitches where they m...