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committee dropping a brand-new batch of key testimony and for the first time we are now seeing interview transcripts from 19 additional witnesses and they include some of the closest people inside former president trump's inner circle. his son, donald trump jr., former fox news anchor kirsten gillibrand as w-- kimberly guile so let's get right to cnn's sara murray looking through all of these documents. sara, thousands of pages of transcripts. some we've seen through the january 6th committee hearings and you've been reading through donald trump jr.'s transcripts. what are you findin...

The hub, i think, or the funnel for so much of this including the efforts to communicate with him, the president, on that day. can i focus, abby, on another -- following up on another aspect of the trump jr. deposition that i think is really critical because as you know, i mean, i don't know, i don't recall, i don't remember, if you take those words out you might reduce it from 105 pages to 5. but there is one critical thing, there is one critical thing that he acknowledges and, you know, in the report the first mention of the idea of having state republican control state legislators throw out...

Races have now taken on additional significance, and initial importance? >> considering these governors races the new frontline, right? yes, what matters in congress is important. but when you take republican control state legislators putting for this buffet of bans against abortion, even before this draft leaked, that's what's being set up for governors to be in control, to sign an act into law, or reject. and so, i'm looking at states like texas, where -- six points of abbott and he's mobilizing voters. or stacey abrams, who's the present democratic nominee down in georgia, we directing her ...

Legislatures have the power. but the vp has power to. and quote. the power to do what? we can get the power to overturn the election results. the power to reject the will of the voters. and days later, a violent mob tried to get vice president pence to do that. we'd like to ask mr. meadows about that. >> congressman pete aguilar from the january six investigation they're citing text messages between trump's white house chief of staff, mark meadows and a member of congress. messages that appeared to be about how to throw out the election results. state legislatures and the vice president, that ...

Working on, is they're trying to avoid any accountability for the stuff they're doing. but there is one little sliver of what i guess you'd call, accountability, that seems to have punctured the haze tonight. just as we were getting on the air, that i wanna tell you about. i mentioned jeff clark, justice department official who appears to have, cooked up this scheme with trump. where in the u.s. justice department would declare publicly that the election was corrupt. that serious voter fraud was being investigated by the justice department. when in fact, the election wasn't corrupt and they we...