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despite the lawful outcome of the 2020 election and in violation of his constitutional obligation to relinquish power. over multiple months donald trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated, seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power. there was also previously unseen video they played from trump s top advisors including former attorney general bill barr. he said in no uncertain terms that he told trump that his rigged election claims that they were a lie, calling it, quote, bullshit. the committee played video of the attack that even for people who lived it and even for people who have seen the playback from every angle, the video presentation was new and alarming and there was also this photograph of a makeshift noose and gallows with the capitol dome in the background. it says quite a lot about that day, and the committee s first witness, a u.s. capitol police officer who described the siege as a war scene ....
and we ll get a live reaction from the white house. but we begin with the house committee investigating the deadly january 6 capitol insurrection. holding its first in a series of highly-anticipated public hearings last night. the panel released previously unseen footage of the riot. and featured damning testimony to make the case that the january 6th attack was the direct result of then president donald trump s desperate attempts to cling to power. the chairman of the committee congressman bennie thompson said at tack was the culmination of a attempted coup coordinated by extremist groups like the proud boys and answering trump s call. ally, after ally, claim that the election was stolen from him were false. including testimony from his former senior campaign aide, his elder daughter, his former attorney general, we want to warn you, we did not bleep the curse word bill barr used in his deposition. i made it clear i did not agree with the idea of saying the election ....
Saying. i was in the oval office and at sp point in the conversation matt, who is the lead data person was brought on, and i remember he delivered to the president pretty blunt terms that he was going to lose. and that was based on, mr. miller, on mad and the data teams assessment of the sort of county by county, state by state results as reported? correct. i remember a call with mr. meadows where mr. meadows was asking me what i was finding and if i was finding anything. and i remember sharing with him that we weren t finding anything that would be sufficient to change the results in any of the key states. when was that conversation? probably in november, mid to ....