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i'm stephanie ruhle. it is a critical question, as important today as it was 50 years ago. what did the president know, and when did he know it? today, and its second public hearing, the january six committee tried to answer that very question. the panel laid out how donald trump embraced election lies, and ignored his own top aides, as they repeatedly debunked his false claims in the days, weeks and even months leading up to the attack. >> after the election, as of november 7th, in your judgment, what were the chances of president trump winning the election? >> after that point? >> ...

his campaign knows he lost. his administration knows he lost. and nevertheless, he tells the country, i won. >> we have much more evidence to show the american people on this point than we can reasonably show in one hearing. and today, we will begin. >> tonight, new testimony from the very top of trump's own campaign team, that his claims of election fraud were just lies. >> but they were proposing, that was nuts. >> the mayor was definitely intoxicated. law firms were not comfortable making the arguments that rudy giuliani was making publicly. >> evidence today that former president...

says the president should call it quits after one term. let's go "outfront." good evening, i'm erin burnett, "outfront" tonight, mentally gone, detached from reality or just a liar. put star witness of today's january 6th committee hearing was trump's attorney general, bill bar who says in no uncertain terms that he made it clear to trump that the lies about a stolen election were exactly that -- lies. but according to barr, and many other trump aides who testified, trump didn't care. >> there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were. there was somewhat demor...

we told him, the group that went over there outlined, you know, my belief in chances for success at this point. my belief was that it was very, very -- 5% to 10% is not a good optimistic outlook. >> the committee then showed how former president trump continued to embrace allegations of fraud, going against his white house lawyers, who told him that accusations were baseless were not substantial enough to make a difference in the election outcome. the justice department even told him there was no there-there as trump kept holding onto wild conspiracies. >> there were so many allegati...

election defense fund that never existed and how he repeated his own top officials, even as they investigated one wild fraud allegation after another and found nothing. >> he said dead people are voting, indians are getting paid to vote and he meant people on native american reservations. he said there's lots of fraud going on here. >> there were instances where the president would say people are telling me this or i heard this or i saw on television this impropriety in atlanta and we were in a position to say people already looked at that, you're getting bad information, that's not ...