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forward. >> what do republicans have to say? >> the republicans offered a bit of a muted response. many not defending donald trump's actions, not yet criticizing what the justice department is doing, taking a wait and see approach. one of those republicans, lindsey graham of south carolina, who told me earlier today that he does not think that trump should be prosecuted. >> that's just ridiculous for me to comment over what some grand jury may be looking at. i don't see anything to prosecute him over. >> now, graham himself has come under scrutiny for phone calls he made to the georg...

electors. presumably designed to create so much confusion the congress would kick the matter back to republican-led state legislators as to overturn joe biden's win in the states. it will explore the broader pressure campaign aimed at subverting the will of the american people. the first witness is the arizona state house speaker. aides say bowers will share critical new details about trump's demands and even harassment as the president sought to decertify biden's legitimate and legal win and republican-led arizona. the georgia secretary of state will also testify live. he famously w...

trump electors. we are going to hear from four witnesses this afternoon, including the secretary of state for georgia, brad raffensperger and his chief operating officer, gabriel sterling, big public figures in the wake of the november election in 2020. the committee says it's going to show evidence that former president trump put undue pressure on legislatures to try to put forward alternative slates and electors. for president trump, the strategy did not work, legislatures did not go along with it. you see betty thompson taking it there, much of the questioning will be handled by c...

threats to her safety after being accused of being part of a conspiracy theory involving fake ballots, debunked, by the way. >> most of the discussion heading into today's hearing surrounds brad raffensperger who won a primary earlier this month. raffensperger was facing deep discontent from some trump supporters for pushing back on donald trump in the days before the january 6 insurrection, refusing the former president's request to, quote, find the votes trump needed to win that state. >> i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. fl...

>> the idea of mike pence, as his staff, gets into cars, pence says we're not leaving here, we are going to stay, and i'm going to do my constitutional duty as vice president of the united states. get out of the cars, get back into the capitol. i mean, that's a very moving scene. and good for mike pence. and to see those pictures of him at this loading dock, wherever that was. you mean, this was a moment in american history that could have gone either way. i think that's, you know, so reinforced. i mean, there could have been a lot more deaths. there could have been a constitutional ...