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you're live in the cnn newsroom, i'm ryan nobles in washington. jim acosta is off today. and we're less than a week away from the january 6th committee's last planned hearing and new developments are coming fast and furious. on friday, the former ceo of overstock testified behind closed doors for nearly eight hours. he was part of that chaotic december 18th white house meeting in which outside advisers urged then president trump to seize voting machines. but those weren't the only outside advisers pushing extreme measures. new today, "the new york times" reports that a little known c...

the january 6th committee. that house committee is still at work. one of "the washington post" reporters behind the latest january 6th scoop will join us. plus, for the first time we're learning of the secret scramble on the day of the insurrection, prompted by something president trump said and something the house committee is now investigating. also, the race to lead the country's second biggest city going down to the wire, a billionaire businessman up against someone who at one point was reportedly on the short list for president biden's vp. we have a lot to get to. i want to ...

Take us through your reporting. >> this was an email that we obtained that was sent by a top staffer for the campaign in georgia to the people who had agreed to serve as electors for donald trump should he have been elected in the state. of course he was not elected in the state, but this was an email asking them to go ahead and go to the state capitol on the appointed day to act as electors and declare themselves as duly appointed. what was interesting about the email is how strongly it stressed in several different places a need for total secrecy and total discretion. it even instructed them...

Here it is. >> georgia republican party chair david shaeffer says they cast the votes just in case president trump's fulton county lawsuit contesting the election results prevails. >> in order for that lawsuit to remain viable, we were required to hold this meeting to preserve his rights. >> worth reiterating president biden won georgia by more than 10,000 votes legitimately. what else do we know about this effort? >> yeah, so this happened in seven different swing states where trump electors showed up, even though joe biden had won. we now know that this was absolutely directed by the campaig...

The following story was updated to reflect the cancellation of testing on Dec. 22 and 29. By Randi Pierce Staff Writer Despite logging fewer new cases in the last week than in weeks past, Archuleta County’s cumulative incidence rate is still “very, very high,” according to San Juan Basin Public Health’s (SJBPH) Brian Devine. As of Wednesday afternoon, Archuleta County had a total of 421 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 among permanent residents, according to SJBPH, with that count beginning in late March. On Dec. 1, 259 total cases had been reported. No COVID-related deaths have been i...