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His cell phone. the subpoena to john eastman describes what's he told some members of the georgia legislator. at that hearing, john eastman provided testimony which he advised lawmakers that they had both lawful authority and a duty to replace the democratic party's state slate of presidential electors, who have been certified as the duly appointed electors for the state of georgia, after the november 2020 election, due to unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud within the state. also included in the trump lawyer group, targeted with subpoenas today, our, attorney cleo mitchell, and join do...

January six to sign a letter to decertify the state slate of electors who would back joe biden. meanwhile, the committee also said that they were people with ties to the capitol riots at local protests that took place around the country. >> the select committee has uncovered evidence in the course of our investigation that is not this at its capital across the country, they were in individuals to ties to the groups and parties involved in the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. one of those encourages took place in the arizona house of representatives building, as you can see in this foota...

Said it to and what kind of pressure was applied. again, like we've seen, people stand up and do the right thing, not cave to that pressure, say i'm going to follow the laws of this state and of our nation, and we're not going to throw out the electors and the popular vote of our state. we're not going to take the state slate of electors. today even more implicated in this. we have a member of congress, a senator, others who were cited by our witnesses as having participated in this plot. >> the evidence that was provided today that was perhaps most -- for those of us who follow this every day...

To be focused primarily on two different topics. the pressure that the trump campaign, the trump administration, and the former president himself was putting on the state of georgia and the top officials there. brad raffensperger case and point. and then the alternate slate of electors and his scheme that the campaign is also trying to implement and execute, in battleground straits states that the former president lost, in order to bring in a new state slate of electors. but i think from brad raffensperger, he also fits into the scheme and theme that we have seen reoccurring. one of the people...

Secure a decisive advantage for their party? >> absolutely. look, this is a unique law in the sense that you are looking forward with a lot of unknowables. you don't know who the vice president will be, what the margins in congress will be, how great the differences will be between candidates in the states. this is an example, one of the rare examples where it makes sense for both parties to have clear rules in what is a really contentious situation. >> it makes sense for a democracy to have really clear rules here. the idea of everyone going forward, unprecedented at one time in 2020 but can ...