CNN CNN Newsroom Live November 23, 2021 08:27:00
>> reporter: this ultimately, though, is about connecting dots. there were obviously three layers to all this, right? there was the peddling of the election lie first. there was the effort to bring people here to washington. then the final step would be convincing people to come into the capitol on that day to try and interrupt the democratic process. at this point the committee has not shown direct evidence that those three stages have a direct connection and that those connections lead back to someone like donald trump, but that's clearly the role or the goal that they have throughout this p...