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capitol hill. you are right there in washington where this is going down. good evening to you. the stakes were incredibly high for the first hearing. what did the select committee accomplish tonight? >> reporter: what the committee hoped to do was essentially create a road map for a thesis that they have that donald trump is principally responsible for a plot to subvert the will of the voters and stand in the way of the peaceful transfer of power. they didn't give us all the information, but they set the stage for what is going to be a seven-part argument toward that end. the way the...

General milley of course, and i thought former attorney general barr. very, very effective for the committee to be able to puncture this myth that trump for some reason actually thought that the election had been stolen. they did that effectively by putting people up like the former attorney general, like ivanka trump, all of whom said we knew there was no evidence to indicate that there was a significant amount of fraud. multiple people told the president that. there's essential no reason why trump should have continued perpetuating the big lie. >> representative jamie raskin a select committ...