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it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. thank you for sticking with me. i m sara sidner. we re now get a look at even more witness transcripts from the january 6th investigation, 19 to be exact. the january 6th committee released key interviews from members of former president donald trump s family and staff, and conversations with people involved in the state level effort to overturn the 2020 election. in one interview, donald trump jr. gave more context around texts that he sent to mark meadows about plans to keep his father in office days after the election that he lost, and trump lawyer christina baub detailed something with lindsey graham in which he pledged to become a, quote, champion of election fraud claims. sara murray with me now. i know there s a lot to go through, and there s a team of people going through them, but what else stands out to you? reporter: there is a team that is diligently going through these transcripts, but the don jr. transcript is ....
Couldn t text his father. he had to text on november 5th, the chief of staff, and what was remarkable to me in reading the transcript of this is that he said, well, these weren t his ideas, but he considered these ideas what he called the most sophi sophisticated, and the ideas that, quote, sounded plausible. so this is the son of the president of the united states texting ideas to keep his father illegally in office because they sounded plausible, and what he was talking about was what the trump people ended up doing, of course, which was filing lawsuits and advocating for recounts, and on and on and on, but right after the election, the notion was stay in office at all costs. harry, i want to talk to you quickly and gloria about mark meadows. it seems that, you know, all roads seem to lead at least through him, which i suppose ....
On and on. going to georgia and getting involved in that whole issue with the question of fake electors and where can they find the votes, et cetera, et cetera. so i think he s everywhere, and if harry says, you know, i don t know what the special counsel is thinking. i don t know what prosecutors in georgia are thinking, but mark meadows name comes up all the time. yeah. seems like he is the name in everyone s mouth. yep. thank you both, gloria borger and harry litman, and stay with us. i think we ll be coming back to you in a bit with all these new details. embattled congressman-elect jarge santos is facing scrutiny over his finances. after waving a face of criticism about lying about everything from his work history, heritage, and education, federal prosecutors in new york have looking into claims that include loans totaling more than $700,000 that he made to his own ....
Congressman. to allow george santos to be seated as a member of congress would be a further knife in the heart of this community. yeah. yes. and i am urging congressional republican leadership to stop that from happening while investigations are ongoing. reporter: it s still been complete silence from republican leaders on capitol hill as santos tries to push ahead and he is scheduled to be sworn into congress next week. sunlen, thank you for putting it all back together for us again. harry and gloria are back with me. i want to start with you, gloria because you heard the demand that republicans have him resigned, but that s not going to happen, is it? no, no, no, no. it is not going to happen. first of all, you have an election for speaker coming up early next week. ....
Mccarthy, kevin mccarthy who wants to be the speaker needs his vote. if he would, we re not going to seat him, then you would have a special election. that s a swing district. santos flipped a seat for them, you know? turned it republican. so they re just not going to do that right now. what they might do is eventually refer this to the ethics committee. it s not even clear what the jurisdiction of the ethics committee would be. so this is a total mess, but the reason you re not hearing from mccarthy is because he doesn t want to say anything before this election. maybe not even after. this is sort of politics over the many lies. yeah. harry, we now know that the local district attorney in nassau county who is a republican herself has come out and said, this has to be looked into. there s federal investigation now looking into santos finances. is that the place where the lies meet the law? ....