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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...

Point, right? whether americans see a causal relationship or a general feeling that president trump correlationally affected that. it's going to be critical whether they're going to change their voting actions come november. >> you know your way around a corner. do you lay everything out in your opening statements or opening remarks? or do you think there are surprises and then build along the way? >> prosecutors will typically lay out the basic framework of the argument that they're going to make. but there's always those gotcha, those aha moments where you really want the witness to be able ...

>> i think it's a very strong case, the case brought by the department of justice and the case that was just filed today by the naacp with wendy as one of the lawyers. both of those cases are very strong because the impact on voters of color is very harsh and there's strong suggestive evidence that it was intentional to keep voters of color out of the system. >> how do you prove that? >> there's a lot of circumstantial evidence that they took really unusual steps in order to get this voter id law through. this, the evidence is going to, you know, pile up over the course of the case, you know. ...

We haven't even started any of the discovery in the case. but, again, this is a state that has in the same legislative session have found to do other voting actions that were purposely done on the basis of race. we don't have to show motive in this case under the voting rights act, but it is clear that the motive was present already. >> that's going to be interesting how you develop that. texas not alone. north carolina approved a law that is even harsher than texas. it cuts early voting down by a week, it eliminates the ability for poll workers to issue provisional ballots for someone who sho...