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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...

Welcome back to our special coverage of the january 6th committee hearing. chairman thompson is expected to gavel down at 1:00 p.m. the hearing will include testimony from state officials pressured by donald trump and his allies to overturn donald trump's loss. with me are andrea mitchell and hallie jackson. joining us now, chuck rosenberg, there he is, former u.s. attorney joyce vance, former fbi assistant director for counterintelligence frank figueroa and political reporter greg bloomstein. the donald trump phone call to find the votes, that's direct evidence of him trying to find votes. yo...

Politics. most of them are not. i hate to -- i don't know what the outcome is going to be. >> it depends on how that ends up going down the line. someone can tell you exactly what happened and the truth, but that doesn't mean people are going to act on it. >> as far as anything happening to the person we are dealing with, i don't think it's going to weigh anything. >> you don't think there's accountability? >> no. >> reporter: people were eager to hear from the secretary of state. they, of course, know about the phone call. they remember, most people i spoke with, hearing it at the time. they ...

Dasha burns on the ground in georgia. we will start with you and what you are hearing from folks there. how much are they pay attention to what's going down? >> reporter: i talked to voters around the first hearing. i have a sense that people are not paying as much of attention, this isn't the same kind of grab your popcorn, silence your phones schedule that viewing type of television. they are paying attention with their secretary of state in the spotlight today. there are two things that i heard from my conversations with voters. truth and accountability. everyone i spoke with -- these were ...

>> the hearing room a moment ago or now, i should say, is filling up. we are about five minutes or so from 1:00, which is when we expect this hearing to begin. michael, stick with us. let's bring back our panel. ali, i want to begin with you. when i was on the capitol, i spoke to lindsey graham. he was going to dinner instead of watching and then denigrated the committee. now that 20 million people have watched these hearings, 6 in 10 americans say the president should be charged. is that changing the way that republicans on capitol hill are seeing this hearing? >> reporter: i think when you t...