brad raffensperger, gabe sterling, we will hear from them. brad in particular has said a lot publically. i interviewed him. >> he wrote a book. >> he wrote a book. he has spoke n to the fulton county grand jury. what are you anticipating new that we may hear from secretary raffensperger, or is this more about the committee looking to create a story line that they think will be compelling? >> i think you are right about that. i think it's about creating that narrative, that story line. i talked to some of raffensperger's aides who indicate he has month bombshell to drop. he wrote a book about it. millions of people have listened to the phone call. he is in the middle of a re-election campaign. he talked about it on campaign trail. there's not much more there there that he can discuss. we will hear probably from the investigators about the events that led up to that phone call, about his feelings, his emotions as he got the call, whether he felt coerced, whether he felt bullied. perhaps we will hear from other trump allies, whether senator grah

and when you're talking about brad raffensperger's daughter who's a widow at home with her kids, then having somebody invaded home. you're talking about shaye moss grandmother, have people beat down harder, and say we are making a citizens arrest. in georgia, a black woman, that sounds like a lynching party. i mean, it was shocking to hear the level of violence that trump was willing to meet out from all the way to pence, all the way down to shaye moss. he wanted violence, anything. this is called fascism. >> well and to that point, one of the occurring things we signed the last, hearing and was on this, hearing i thought you're interim there about pressure campaign was really athlete done. that you keep having these interactions where the people on the receiving end of the trump arguments are like, these are bad arguments. people on the trump and, we are not really making arguments. and there they fundamentally keeping like, well sir, i looked at that fact and it doesn't matter. we'll set that argument doesn't scan. that there doesn't work. again, and again, these lawyers saying this

here's arizona house speaker rusty bowers and georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger. >> so for me to do that because somebody just asked me to, it's foreign to my very being. i will not do it. i took an oath for me to take that, to do what you do, would be counter to my oath. >> i think sometimes moments require you to stand up and just take the shots. you're doing your job. that's all we did. just followed the law, followed the constitution. and at the end of the day, president trump came up short, but i had to be faithful to the constitution, and that's what i swore an oath to do. >> he detailed how trump and his team pressured those and other state workers to declare fraud when there was no fraud and when the ex-president found out these officials woulded not declare fake fraud, would not go against the will of their states' voters, he and his lawyers pushed forward to organize alternate fake electors. it's a scheme, conspiracy, that proved ultimately unsuccessful when the former vice president certified the real, the legitimate electoral vote count on january 6th. the h

we are going to hear from brad raffensperger and gabriel sterling, two georgia officials. let's go back to the hearing. >> that the former president had a particular obsession with georgia. here is the president on the afternoon of january 6th after his own attorney general warned him that the claims you are about to hear are patently false. >> should find those votes. they should absolutely find that. just over 11,000 votes or so, they defrauded us out of a win in georgia. and we are not going to forget it. >> so the state of georgia is where we will turn our attention to next. i want to emphasize that our investigation into these issues is still ongoing. as i stated in our last hearing, if you have relevant information or documentary evidence to share with the select committee, we welcome your cooperation. but we will share some of our findings with you today. secretary raffensperger, thank you for being here today. you've been a public servant in georgia since 2015, serving first as a member of the georgia house of representatives, and then since january 2019 as georgia

brad raffensperger won his re-election as though there was no clue there was a sign there's daylight. >> that's a great sign. >> thank you. tonight is not your only example. >> don't you think that. it may be different than south carolina, especially considering brad raffensperger in atlanta and the huge -- no? >> no question. they're different states. they're fundamentally different states. >> but raffensperger win was a huge rebuke to donald trump. >> the 1/6 committee teasing saying the white house lawyer talks about the conversation he had with conservative attorney john eastman the day after january 6th. watch that. >> he started to ask me about something dealing with georgia, preserving something potentially for appeal. and i said to him, are you out of your effin' mind? he said i only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth right now, orderly transition. he said i don't want to hear any more effin' words out of your municipal court other than orderly transition. eventually he said orderly transition. he said, good, john, now i'm going to give you the best free legal adv

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brad raffensperger, rusty bowers, others. and character at the end of the day counts. >> so, charles, there's a lot of emotion on this hearing yesterday from mr. bowers, i thought from shaye moss and we heard from her mother ruby freeman in video clips. to mike's point, crime syndicate. there's an idea that a crime was committed. what have you seen from the hearings, on a number of them, on the aspects, runup to january 6th and the day itself have they been put on display for the attorney general to charge donald trump with legal crimes? >> well, jon, you asked me question, i'm going to address it but i don't want to gloss over yesterday. that's arguably one of the most compelling witnesses we've seen take the stage and testify. one of the reasons for that, we've been having obviously the conversation about politics. we've been having the discussion about the criminal element about what's been going on with respect to the january 6th investigation and hearings and everything else coming out. but the human element has been ove

remember brad raffensperger, the guy in georgia who trump pressured to find extra votes for him? he was on the other end of this infamous phone call. >> i just want to find, uh, 11,780 votes >> seth: "votes. [ laughter ] that's a terrifying moment, despite the fact that trump turns into professor frink at the end of that sentence "i need to find 11,780 votes they might be in the glavin! [ laughter ] all "simpsons" references aside, that's the former president asking brad raffensperger to do a crime, and raffensperger has still not ruled out voting for trump in 2024. brad, what's your motto? "fool me once, and we're off to a good start"? [ laughter ] how are these hearings supposed to change people's minds when they can't even change the minds of people in the hearing i'm not -- i'll tell you i'll tell you who's not gonna vote for trump in 2024 lady ruby. you don't get two chances with anybody named lady ruby. you're lucky if lady ruby gives you one chance [ laughter ] this has been whatever it was. ♪ >> this has been "hey, what the hell i feel like i'm going crazy. [ cheers and

bowers will join georgia's election officials, republican secretary of state brad raffensperger and gabe sterling, who is his deputy. they also plan to testify. now bowers supported trump's re-election bid in 2020, but he refused to bow to intimidation and attempts to get him to back efforts in the legislature to decertify biden's election in arizona, and he previously described how trump and then president trump's lawyer rudy giuliani called him after the 2020 election to convince him to somehow involve the legislature in the state's certification process before sending its presidential electors to congress. we're also going to hear, as i said, from raffensperger, who, of course, if you remember, was part of that now infamous january 2021 call where trump pressured him to, quote, find the votes so that he could win georgia, kristin and boris. it's going to be very, very interesting to hear from these three on the panel tomorrow as they tell their stories of what they went through, of course, during the 2020 election and the pressure they received from trump. >> yeah, daniella diaz, than

that would include people like georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. he will be testifying on tuesday. he's the one who received that phone call from the president in early january asking him to, quote, find votes in georgia. there is also rusty bowers from arizona. he is set to testify. he received a similar call from trump and others about his state using republican electors who would back trump as a way to supplant biden's electoral college votes there. this hearing won't be about the maneuvering in the states we know the trump campaign and many lawyers were taking part in. it will focus on donald trump himself and his role. here is what committee member adam schiff said about that sunday on cnn. >> it will show evidence of the president's involvement in this scheme. it will also again show evidence about what his own lawyers came to think about this scheme. and we'll show courageous state officials who stood up and said they wouldn't go along with this plan to either call legislatures back into session or de-certify the results for joe biden. the s

brad raffensperger testified for that committee, that special grand jury hearing, as well. but that might be the best case for prosecutors in the nation who hook to prosecute, to charge donald trump with election fraud or his allies with election fraud. >> greg, this is gene robinson. with georgia being the center of the political universe now, you know georgia politics as well as anybody does, what are you seeing as we approach the midterms? senator warnock is up for re-election. you know, the governor's office is up in the middle of all this turmoil in georgia. how are things shaping up? >> we're the most closely divided political state in the nation, in my view. 11,000, 12,000 votes divided joe biden and donald trump two years ago, and we're still closely divided. but the dynamics are leaning toward republicans right now with the inflation, with joe biden's struggling approval ratings here, and the fact that republicans, like brian kemp, the governor, like brad rechbs raffensperger, they beat back the trump-backed challengers. to a certain block of voters, they seem a lo

georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger is reportedly in talks with the committee to testify publicly as well. we also just found out tonight, public hearing number three is now officially on the books for next wednesday at 10:00 a.m. and while the panel is gearing up for these hearing, republicans are teasing some of their own counter attacks which do absolutely nothing to inform us about what happened on that day. >> it is a smear campaign against president donald trump, against republican members of congress, and against trump voters across this country. >> it has been a year and five months sinceve that awful attac happened. let's just take a moment to remember some of what this country experienced and what the world saw. >> chanting "hang mike pence," destroying nancy pelosi's office, beating police officers, it was an attack on our democracy, it was not a normal tourist day. the committee is still gathering evidence a year and five months later. a federal judge ordered the trump lawyer john eastman to turn over documents to investigators and as a reminder eastman is the

. >> and our team has just learned that georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger and his deputy, they will both testify tuesday at the next hearing. that's when the committee will focus on trump's efforts to pressure officials in key battleground states to change the election results. in the meantime, "the new york times" is also reporting that the committee actually could start sharing transcripts of witness interviews with the justice department as soon as next month. jake. >> all right, jessica schneider, thanks so much. with us is zoe lofgren of california, a member of the january 6th committee. congresswoman, thanks for joining us. your committee chairman bennie thompson says he's sent a letter to ginni thomas to testify. she told the daily caller she would like to testify to clear up misconceptions. have you heard from her directly that she will meet with the committee? >> well, i haven't personally talked to her, but we sent a letter, it was privately sent, and she made a decision to disclose it publicly. and to say publicly that she will meet with us. so i'm glad for that

state election officials, brad raffensperger in georgia, to find the votes. donald trump told them found -- find me 11,000 votes. that is all i need. that wasn't donald trump trying to stop election fraud, that was donald trump trying to commit election fraud. then they moved on to other plans, including a plan involved to get the military to seize the election machinery and rerun the election so all of it came down to january 6. explosive political consequence for our country. >> who is they? rep. raskin: that will also become clear. the different players who were involved. it was not one person. these hearings are very different from what took place in the second impeachment of donald trump. about one person and one crime. here, we have been tasked with determining a company into answer of facts. >> what about one of mark meadows aides who had become critical in the community it seems? how important has she went -- has she rinsed to finding out what happened inside the white house on january 6? rep. raskin: i don't want to discuss particulars in respect to

i want to ask you about brad raffensperger. he won by quite a bit in georgia. what does it say he's willing to come take the stand and what information that he offer that we don't already know? >> i think it could be a very interesting, katy. one because he is himself a republican. i think it kind of debunks this idea that this is all just a democratic hoax and a political ploy. i think that gives him instant credibility the other thing that i think is really important is we all heard that telephone conversation, the recording, where donald trump is urging raffensperger to find him 11,000 votes. what we lack is the context for that conversation. what happened before that call, what happened after that call? we know that mark meadows went down and met with him in person. was it his perception that it was an effort by donald trump to create fraud or to hand him an election he had rightfully won? that's a really critical difference between the motive on that phone call and i think brad raffensperger might be able to tell us the motive. >> and a man was arrested ru

they wiretap of donald trump calling brad raffensperger's, just could not be more clear. >> it's like you wrote in your diary, commit crime now, with brad, randi, ryan -- like, commit crime, and make sure that recorders, and it's over an hour of the crime. and it's clear as day, and it's been public. and criminal investigators are already looking at both the federal and state levels, so this is a sort of a special part of the january 6th investigation. we are into the part of this investigation, both for the pressure campaign on state officials, and for the fake electors. we are in the part where we know that prosecutors are already looking at this as criminal matter, so this has sort of a different flavor tomorrow, than some of the other stuff that we've seen, where it's still an open question as to whether or not prosecutors will act. in these cases, they already have. so, it's gonna be a doozy. >> it's not like the merrick garland situation, it's like, it's not going well. what's the district attorney going to do with this? well, she's presenting it to a grand jury right now. >> as

. >> election officials from georgia, brad raffensperger, set to testify at the hearing along with house speaker rusty bowers. bowers was able to block a bill that would have given the state legislature the power to reject election results. let's give you more in-depth preview of what we can expect from tuesday's hearing. we are joined live from capitol hill. why does the committee want to hear from these specific individuals? >> reporter: boris, congresswoman zoe lofgren summarized it, these are republican officials who supported donald trump in the 2020 election who refused to bow to his pressure to overturn the election results in the states they represent that were key battleground states that trump needed to win the 2020 election. now you said, of course, that rusty bowers, that republican who is also the arizona house state speaker, he will testify and that he has his own personal experiences. for example, he refused to bow to intimidation and attempts to get bowers to back efforts in the legislature to decertify biden's victory in arizona. there's also, of course, brad raffensperg

georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger denied trump's request to, quote, find the exact number of votes he needed to win the state, spoke about the lengths he went to investigate claims made by the former president that thousands of dead people voted in georgia. >> in their lawsuits they allege 10,350 dead people. we found two dead people when i wrote my letter to congress dated january 6th and subsequent to that we found two more. that's one, two, three, four people, not 4,000 but just total of four. the numbers are the numbers. the numbers don't loi. we had many allegations and we investigated every single one of them. in fact, i challenged my team did we miss anything? every single allegation we checked we ran down the rabbit trail to make sure that our numbers were accurate. >> even trump's attorney general told the former president that there was no proof of fraud in georgia. >> we took a hard look at this ourselves. and based on our review of it, including the interviews of the key witnesses, the fulton county allegations had no merit. >> and, i told him that the stuff th

among them georgia's republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger, remember he was the one on the other end of the phone call from president trump. >> so, look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have because we won the state. >> he did not win the state. let's bring in former federal prosecutor michael zeldin. michael, nice to have you. a lot going on. we know that it will zero in on the former president's involvement pressuring the state officials, submitting fake slates of electors. one thing that mazes me, there are a lot of republicans. >> a lot of republican witnesses who are stepping up and telling the truth which is really goodm are a lot of republicans. >> a lot of republican witnesses who are stepping up and telling the truth which is really good from a tactical standpoint because the democrats are no longer susceptible to you are just bringing ideologues to testify against him in a political witch hunt. these are his own people elected in some cases and appointed in other cases. >> so the testimony from the secretary of

tuesday's hearing will feature testimony from brad raffensperger, the georgia secretary of state. his top deputy, gabe sterling. they were involved with conversations at the white house in the aftermath of the 2020 election as trump was ratcheting up that pressure campaign including a conversation in which trump told raffensperger to quote, find the votes, and essentially overturn the election. but it won't just focus on georgia. we're told several other states will also be part of the testimony on tuesday. now, in thursday's hearing, we expect to hear from jeffrey rosen, the acting attorney general under trump in those final days of the trump administration. also rich donahue, former acting attorney general. they actually stood up and resisted trump's pressure campaign, but we'll hear from them about how that played out behind the scenes. we will not hear from one individual who was also important as part of those talks. that was the former white house counsel. he is not going to appear, we're told, but he has participated privately in those closed depositions and we expect to he

one of the witnesses testified live was the republican georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. the january 6 committee member congressman adam schiff refers to a call between trump and georgia investigator frances watson and his questioning of raffensperger. >> i know you were not on this call but you have listened to it. president trump did not win by hundreds of thousands of votes in georgia, did he? >> know, he did not. i have been traveling through the state of georgia for a year now and simply put in a nutshell, what happened in the fall of 2020 is 28,000 georgians skipped the presidential race and yet they voted down ballot and other races. and republican congressman ended up getting 33,000 more votes than president trump. that is why president trump came up short. coax thank you, mr. secretary. let's listen to another part of the conversation between president trump and ms. watson. pres. trump: whatever you can do, frances, it is a great come it is an important thing for the country. i very much appreciate it. >> whatever you can do, frances. this is the president callin

georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger is scheduled to testify before the committee, along with his top deputy, gabe sterling. some new poll numbers are revealing what americans now think about former president trump since the january 6th public hearings first began. the abc news ipsos poll late last week finds 58% of those surveyed should be charged with a crime for the january 6th insurrection. that includes 91% of democrats and 19% of republicans. >> we talked about this before, jonathan lemire, a lot of people very concerned the overwhelming majority of americans still don't think donald trump bears responsibility for what happened on january 6th. but another way to look at this again in a closely divided electorate, especially when you get to the general election, you look at the 2016 race, the 2020 race, you see how things have gotten tighter every year. when you have one in five republicans thinking that their last president should be sent to jail, that's pretty significant. >> we're in an electoral right now where basically every vote counts we saw how slim the mar begin

we all know this hearing with brad raffensperger is going to include that infamous tape of trump talking about those votes, but i guess the difference between this tape and the nixon watergate tapes, for example, is that it seems that republicans in congress this time around are unwilling to hold this president to account, outside of liz cheney and adam kinzinger and much of this whole saga can be summed up by that question. do you need anything more than trump saying find me 11,780 votes? i mean, that's kind of the whole ball game right there. >> well, jim, if i was prosecuting this case, that would be the very first words that the jury would hear. that recording is really interesting because i actually went back and listened to this whole thing. it's 62 minutes long. it's an incredibly long phone call, and i think the defense you would hear -- there's always going to be a defense -- well, donald trump doesn't always choose his words precisely, and really, what he wanted was r raffensperger to just do a full and thorough recount. when you listen to that full tape, that full recording in

it's taking longer than we thought it would as brad raffensperger gave testimony at the january 6 hearing. we're waiting for andrea moss. the chairman is introducing her now. >> andrea shea moss. mrs. moss works in a department of administration and elections in fulton county georgia. in that job, mrs. moss handled voter applications and absentee ballot requests and helped to process the vote count for several elections. in december 2020, mrs. moss and her mother, ruby freeman, became the target of nasty lies spread by president trump and his allies as they sought to overturn the election results in georgia. mrs. moss and her mother, mrs. freeman, are two of the unsung heros in this country doing the hard work of keeping our democracy functioning for every american. mrs. moss, welcome. thank you for your service and i thank you for being here today. i will now swear you in. please stand. do you swear or affirm under penalty of perjury that the testimony you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? thank you. please be seated. let the record

this includes georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger, republican who resisted trump's effort to pressure him to, you'll remember the quote, find the votes necessary for the then president to win georgia. in this, now infamous january 2021 phone call. have a listen. >> so, look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. >> joining me now is former federal prosecutor and cnn legal analyst jennifer rogers. jennifer, let's begin with the first witnesses, rusty bowers, the republican speaker of the arizona house of representatives who in so many ways was blocking illegal things from happening. he withstood this pressure campaign from trump, giuliani, ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, he's expected to talk about stopping republican-backed bills that would have allowed the state legislature to overturn the results of the 2020 election. he got phone calls from trump. he got phone calls from giuliani. he got emails from ginni thomas. look at all that incoming he took and yet he b

georgia elections officials brad raffensperger and gabe sterling are expected to testify about that pressure campaign. along with arizona house speaker rusty bowers. the committee is also promising to reveal new evidence that shows trump's involvement in the scheme to overturn biden's win in battleground states. >> we'll show evidence of the president's involvement in this scheme. we'll also show evidence about what his own lawyers came to think about this scheme. and we'll show courageous state officials who stood up and said they wouldn't go along with this plan to either call legislators back into session or decertify the results for joe biden. >> cnn's senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz is with us now. so, what else should we expect? >> well, victor, tuesday this public hearing is going to be all about the states, specifically the battleground states that donald trump lost. we know, as you mentioned, there is going to be three people lined up to testify publicly, they would be representing the trump campaign, trump white house and donald trump's efforts himself in arizona,

ins case of brad raffensperger, there's that recording where trump says he just wants to find the 11,780 votes he needs, one more than joe biden to actually win in that state. that's what they're going to detail. again, katie, we've seen the ebb and flow of these hearings, using both the witnesses in person, as well as people inside trump's own orbit who talk about what those conversations were at the time. we'll continue to see that as they introduce all of these different ideas and plots while keeping the focus on the former president and what he was doing, thinking and trying to accomplish here. >> what do we expect in terms of audio from this interview of was a raffensperger? we've heard it. any indication the committee has more? >> what they believe is in presenting this in a compelling way, using their own people, whether it be trump aides, raffensperger himself, a number of others involved in that episode is better than putting it in their words. what they've done pretty effectively, at least according to my sources in trump world is frustrate the president with the audio and vide

georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger also test filed would the harassment and the threats he faced for refusing to go along with trump's question to find 11,780 votesfiled would the harassment and the threats he faced for refusing to go along with trump's question to find 11,780 votes and overturn the will of the people. >> why didn't you just quit and walk away in. >> because i noknew that we had followed the law, followed the constitution. and i think sometimes moments require you to stand up and just take the shots. you're doing your job. and that is all we did. but i had to be faithful to the constitution and that is what i swore an oath to do. >> let's bring in matthew brown from the "washington post." thanks for getting up for us. one of the more powerful parts of the hearing is showing how this strategy, trump's election lies, hurt public servants. we heard from two yesterday including an election poll worker ruby freeman. >> i lost my name and i've lost my reputation. i've lost my sense of security. all because a group of people starting with number 45 and his ally ru

today we'll hear from brad raffensperger, target of that infamous phone

among today's witnesses, georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger who faced relentless pressure campaign from trump and his aides. adam schiff will lead today's hearing and gave cnn a preview of what we can expect to hear. >> we will show evidence of the president's involvement in this scheme, and also show evidence about what his own lawyers came to think about this scheme. and we'll show courageous state officials who stood up and said they wouldn't go along with this plan to call legislatures back into session. >> let's begin with manu raju who is live this morning on capitol hill. so manmanu, walk us through whoe we expecting to hear from today. >> reporter: we expect to hear from four witnesses who will talk about the intense pressure campaign launched by donald trump and his allies to overturn the electoral results, the pressure they withstood re rejecting those efforts. and also the real life consequences, particularly facing a georgia election worker, former georgia election worker who will testify later today about the real threats to her personal safety, to her family'

georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger will be at tuesday's hearing with his deputy. >> all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. >> reporter: they'll testify about trump's efforts to pressure them to change the results. the committee wants to talk to ginny thomas the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas about her talks with john eastman. he devised the scheme to pressure mike pence to block the 2020 electoral win. >> appears to be regular in form in authentic. >> reporter: something pence ultimately refused to do. >> we have sent ms. thomas a letter asking her to come and talk to the committee. we look forward to her coming. >> you need to follow -- >> reporter: she issued a short response to the committee via the daily caller she can't wait to clear up misconceptions. i look forward to talking to them. eastman denying he ever discussed election with thomas or clearance thomas. eastman writing we never engaged in such discussions, would not engage in such discussions and did not do so in december 2020 or any time else

georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger and his deputy gabe sterling are expected to testify. >> that was gaynor hall reporting for us tonight. meanwhile, we are continuing to learn new details about the horrific mass shooting at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. it happened almost a month ago already. and once again, the story police initially told about what happened is changing. a gunman killed 19 children and 2 teachers at that school. >> a source now says surveillance video shows police never tried to open the door to a classroom where the gunman killed those. 21 people also uvalde city officials are now using a legal loophole to prevent the release of police records related to the shooting. it's called the dead suspect loophole. it enables officials to deny the release of information because the suspect died in police custody. >> now to the latest on the war in ukraine. it's been almost 4 months of war in the country. and today the leader of nato warned it could last for years. nato secretary general jens stoltenberg's comments come as the war continues to impact

tomorrow's hearing will feature georgia election officials brad raffensperger and gabe sterling. raffensperger is the georgia secretary of state who trump reportedly pressured to find some 11,000 votes so trump could falsely climb he won the state. we're also hear from the arizona house speaker rusty bowers who rudy giuliani allegedly pressured to let the state's legislature approve the electors instead of the arizona voters. one committee member is telling cnn there are several other high profile people they still want to talk to, including former vice president mike pence. >> three republicans will be the focus of the january 6th committee's next public hearing. all expected to testify about how trump pressured them to overturn trump's loss at the polls in their states. georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger will talk about this phone call with the former president just days before january 6th. >> all i want to do is this y just want to find 11,780 votes. which is one more than we have. >> raffensperger's deputy, gabe sterling, will also appear. from arizona, the repub

scheduled to appear as a witness on tuesday's georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. in the early 2021, raffensperger was thrust into the spotlight with audio and phone call between him and then president trump was released. remember, during that call, trump asked raffensperger and other georgia election administration officials to find some more votes for him. >> all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes. which is one more than we have. because we won the state. so we're gonna do to get those? i only 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. >> the call was made just four days before the insurrection of the capital. a few weeks ago, raffensperger also appeared before a special grand jury investigating possible election interference conducted by trump, and his associates. the former president has not changed his to about the -- or the insurrection. here's what he had to say on friday during his first on camera remarks since the january six hearings began. >> as to what happened on january 6th, it was a simple protests that got out of

we all know that this call that donald trump placed to brad raffensperger in which he said the most famous quote, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have because we won the state. it's an hour and 2 minutes long. if you listen to it. trump is brow beating raffensperger. theory after theory, raffensperger calmly but politely refuses him. he says at one point, sir, the problem you have is your date did is wrong. we also hear from raffensperger's deputy republican, gabrielle sterling. give his guy a lot of credit. he stood up in early december as the fraud election lie was taking hole. he got behind the microphone and said this, mr. president, you have not condemned these actions or this language. senators you have not condemned this language or these actions. someone's going to get hurt. someone's going to get shot. someone's going to get killed unfortunately, he turned out right. worth mentions he said he voted for trump and wanted trump to win. and we'll hear from andrea, she's an election worker in georgia. she somehow became the target fo

state election officials, brad raffensperger in georgia, to find the votes. donald trump told them found -- find me 11,000 votes. that is all i need. that wasn't donald trump trying to stop election fraud, that was donald trump trying to commit election fraud. then they moved on to other plans, including a plan involved to get the military to seize the election machinery and rerun the election so all of it came down to january 6. explosive political consequence for our country. >> who is they? rep. raskin: that will also become clear. the different players who were involved. it was not one person. these hearings are very different from what took place in the second impeachment of donald trump. about one person and one crime. here, we have been tasked with determining a company into answer of facts. >> what about one of mark meadows aides who had become critical in the community it seems? how important has she went -- has she rinsed to finding out what happened inside the white house on january 6? rep. raskin: i don't want to discuss particulars in respect to

. >> reporter: we expect georgia's secretary of state, brad raffensperger, and his top deputy, gabe sterling, who were on the other end of that call with trump, to testify this week. we're also expecting a second hearing focused on what was happening at the justice department. the committee says trump was looking for people there who would elevate these conspiracy theories around the election after he lost. maryalice parks, abc news, capitol hill. >> maryalice, thank you. >>> members of the uvalde, texas, police department could testify as soon as today before a panel of state lawmakers who are investigating the school massacre. their testimony would follow a report in the "san antonio express news" and confirmed by abc news, which says surveillance video shows police never tried to open the door to the two classrooms where the gunman killed 19 students and 2 teachers. officers are said to have had access to a tool which could have been used to open the doors. >>> senators working on a bipartisan gun safety bill wrapped up another day of negotiations without finalizing the text. sources say

there is no there there according to bill barr and brad raffensperger. we're talking about people today who will testify that because he posts on his own facebook page a video that was spliced and diced, not accurate, he put people in peril. gateway pundit is being sued by someone we'll hear from today, because it endangered their lives by suggesting that they were involved in irregularities. which, again, there was no there, there. >> let's back up a little bit. what was really at stake here, i checked it out this morning. there were more than 3.3 million votes cast in arizona by americans, more for biden than trump, but 3.3 million americans participated. there were almost 5 million votes cast in georgia, and basically what trump and his cohort were doing was they were basically saying throw out all those. forget about all the americans who went to the polls and voted early or went to the polls on election day. and let's leave it up to the -- to the secretary of state in georgia. find me 11,780 votes or to the speaker of the house in arizona, find me t

when trump called georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger and told him that he needed to overturn the biden win in georgia, when trump's lawyer rudy giuliani went to that republican-led legislature in georgia and told them, they needed to overturn the election. that claim that these guys were making about supposed fraud in georgia, that would justify those radical steps, all centered on a video clip that trump and company insisted, showed the elections being stolen, right there on tape. and said, they had video of election workers in atlanta, black election workers, naturally, african american election workers, they said the video showed them stuffing suitcases full of illicit ballots. and they accuse those election workers, by name, of stealing the election, committing crimes. on that call with georgia secretary of state, raffensperger, trump brought up one particular election worker, by name, 18 times. he used her name 18 times on that call. trump called her a professional vote scammer, and a hustler. he kept talking about the supposed suitcases. the clip that showed all the fra

attorney when he had his infamous phone call with brad raffensperger. he spent six years in the georgia ledge is. it wasn't that pack said he had investigated the election and found no fraud. he said there wasn't even sufficient indish of mismanagement or misconduct of the election to open an investigation and he was fired for doing that. so i think that feeds into the big line there in a very significant way. trump knew that was his u.s. attorney on the spot believed but continued ahead with the big lie. also, pack and his family were subjected to threats of violence after trump attacked him. we think commonly violence didn't take place until january 6th when we saw the mob rush the capitol, but in reality, these threats were going to build earlier and pack may well testify to some of that. >> so, michael schmidt, i want to get your response to adam schiff who said he believes that by the time these hearings have concluded, there would be enough evidence to have a criminal charge filed against former president trump. what would it take for that to actu

trump had enough of brian kemp and brad raffensperger and you know what they have right now? jobs. he doesn't. maria teresa kumar, michael steele, thanks for joining tonight, i love meeting with you both. >> all right. >> coming up, a whole lot of finger pointing about the very high price of gas. the problem is, are they being pointed in the right direction? we are going to get into all of that when the 11th hour continues. continues. , plus seals out 5x more food particles. fear no food. new poligrip power hold and seal. - common percy! - yeah let's go! on a trip. book with priceline. you save more, so you can “woooo” more. - wooo. - wooo. wooooo!!!!! woohooooo!!!! w-o-o-o-o-o... yeah, feel the savings. priceline. every trip is a big deal. (driver) conventional thinking would say verizon has the largest and fastest 5g network.l the savings. priceline. but, they don't. they only cover select cities with 5g. and with coverage of over 96% of interstate highway miles, they've got us covered. power e*trade gives you an award-winning mobile app with powerful, easy-to-use tools, and

such as the brad raffenspergers of the world and gabriel sterling and rusty bowers. i don't know how you can see that this is a witchhunt when it is republicans coming forward to tell the truth about the extent of the lie and of the illegal actions that were being taken by the trump administration and his team. laura: and we have got lots of theories, we just don't have the evidence, that is what we heard today that the president's former lawyer rudy giuliani apparently said. that is pretty damning, isn't it? guest: it is clear, they were told that the election were secure and fair and they had lost. all of this is very damning to trump, giuliani, especially to john eastman and the crimes they committed and wanted others to commit for them. and it is these individuals saying that i am taking that responsibility to honor my mama to the constitution and i will not reply. laura: do you think these hearings will give the ability to make parents, who you work for, to stand up to donald trump and run against him for the nomination of the republican party in 2024? guest: mi