Here are 7 takeaways from Monday's Jan. 6 hearing

you were on the night of the election november the third, I was at the White House, you know where specifically, over the course of that night you spent your time within the White House. There was an event that was organized in the residents. So I moved between um the residents *** room sort of off the residents um where some family members were. I took it, the president was upstairs in the residence, he was upstairs. I was, we were kind of on the first floor, so not upstairs with with uh mostly with Ivanka and her brothers and and *** couple other people who would be coming in and out. Can you just describe the atmosphere? What were people expecting that night when you got to the White House? I think that there was typically for people who show up there um on election night, it's going to self select, more positive environment. I think people were *** little bit nervous not knowing what was gonna happen with the red wave or the red mirage as the debate was being carried out. The Fox news decision desk is calling Arizona for joe biden. That is *** big get for the biden campaign. Arizona is called. Do you remember that? I do. What do you remember happening where you were when Arizona was called? I uh there was *** surprise at the call who was surprised most most everyone in the room. Were you being one of them? Yes. Did that shift the atmosphere? The attitude in the White House completely. How so can you describe that? Because Fox 온라인 바카라 게임 was the first one to go out and say that. So was it anger kind of directed towards Fox 온라인 바카라 게임 for making *** call more so than disappointment that maybe the campaign lost Arizona all the above until both anger and disappointment. Both disappointed with Fox and concerned that maybe our data or our numbers weren't accurate. Were you in the White House residents during the sort of past midnight into the early morning hours of november 4th? Yes. So sure it went over beyond midnight. Yes. Do you remember Rudy Giuliani being at the White House on election night and into the early hours the next morning? I do. What do you remember about when he came? Um he he was there were I had heard that he was upstairs, you know in that aforementioned reception area and he was looking to talk to the President and it was suggested instead that he'd come talk uh to several of us. Um Down off the map. You said that Mr you have heard that Mr Giuliani wanted to talk to the President and then he was directed your way, did you end up talking to Mr Giuliani when he was directed? I did. What was that conversation? *** lot of conversations were directed my way. *** few of us myself, Jason miller Justin clark and Mark Meadows gathered um in *** room off the map room uh to to listen uh to to whatever Rudy presumably wanted to say to the President. Was there anyone in that conversation? Who in your observation had had had too much to drink. Uh like Mayor Giuliani, tell me more about that. What was your observation about his potential intoxication during that that discussion about what the president should say when he addressed the nation on election night in the mirror was definitely intoxicated. But I do not um no his level of intoxication when he spoke with the President, for example, part of any discussions with the people I mentioned, Mr Stepien, Mr Meadows or anyone else about whether the president should make any sort of speech on election night? I mean I I spoke to the President, they may have been present, but President spoke to the president several times that night. There are suggestions. Bye I believe was Mayor Giuliani to go and declare victory and say that we want it outright. It was far too early to be making any calls like that. Um, ballots, ballots were still being counted, ballots were still gonna be accounted for days. Um and it was far too early to be making any propagation like that. Remember saying that to the best of my memory and I was saying that we should not go and declare victory until we had *** better sense of the numbers. Okay, can you be more specific about that conversation in particular what Mayor Giuliani said, your response and then anybody else in the rooms response? I think effectively Mayor Giuliani was saying, we want it, they're stealing it from us where all the votes come from. We need to go say that we won. And essentially, that anyone who didn't agree with that position was being weak. What was your view at the time as to what he should or shouldn't say? I don't know that I had *** firm view, um, as to what he should say in that circumstance, the results were still being counted. Um, it was becoming clear that the race would not be called um, on election night. My belief, my recommendation was to say that votes were still being counted. It's too early to, to, to tell, um, too early to call the race. But, um, you know, we, uh, proud of the race we run, we ran. Um, and we, you know, think we're think we're in *** good position. Um, and we'll have more to say about this, you know, the next day or the next day whenever we had something to say. And did anybody who was *** part of that conversation disagree with your message? Yes. Who is that? The President disagreed with that? I don't recall the particular words. He thought I was wrong. He told me so, and, you know, that they were going to, you know, go into in ***, you know, he was going to going in different directions. This is *** fraud on the american public. This is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election, frankly, we did win this election.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol detailed Monday how those around then-President Donald Trump told him he lost the 2020 election 바카라 게임 웹사이트� but he refused to listen, turning instead to his attorney Rudy Giuliani to embrace false claims that the election was stolen.The hearing Monday was one witness short from what was planned, but the panel heard testimony from a former Fox 온라인 바카라 게임 digital politics editor, a conservative lawyer, a U.S. attorney and a Republican election official 바카라 게임 웹사이트� who all said it was clear President Joe Biden won the election and Trump's claims of fraud were nonsense.Video above: Witnesses describe election night in the White HouseHere are the key takeaways from the panel's second hearing this month about Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the violence in the Capitol on Jan. 6.Stepien surprise sets off a scramble 바카라 게임 웹사이트� but committee quickly adapts The committee surprised many observers Sunday when it announced that Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien would be testifying in-person at Monday's hearing. But Stepien had a surprise of his own on Monday morning when he found out that his wife went into labor, so he pulled out of the hearing.This whirlwind of events forced the committee to scramble 바카라 게임 웹사이트� and they handled it deftly, albeit after a 45-minute delay.Lawmakers and committee staff were obviously prepared with video clips from Stepien's private deposition. And they played a lot of footage from his testimony Monday, which revealed new details about his conversations with Trump and how he advised the president not to prematurely declare victory on election night.In some ways, the outcome gave the Democratic-run committee more power to control what the public heard from Stepien. He wasn't in the room to say his piece, which could have included some defenses of Trump and some pushback against the committee. Instead, the panel could pick and choose which deposition clips it played, and they focused like a laser on the most damaging material for Trump.Lengthy depositions take place of witness testimonyStepien's testimony wasn't the committee's only use of depositions on Monday. The panel played lengthy portions of former Attorney General William Barr's deposition with the committee, where he described in detail why Trump's fraud claims were "bogus" and why he has seen nothing since to convince him there was fraud."There was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were," Barr said in a video of his deposition played Monday. "I was somewhat demoralized, because I thought, 'Boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has lost contact with -- he's become detached from reality if he really believes this stuff.' "The committee did not invite Barr to testify publicly for Monday's hearing, but the minutes of his deposition that played made it feel at times as though he was there.The video depositions have also given the committee the chance to show testimony from others in Trump's inner circle 바카라 게임 웹사이트� including Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner 바카라 게임 웹사이트� without having to bring them in to testify. And by just showing video depositions, the committee controls which soundbites are aired.The hearing is illustrating the key role played by Barr in setting the tone for "Team Normal," the group of campaign and White House officials who were trying to advise Trump the fraud claims were bogus.It's not for a lack of trying to find fraud. Barr had issued a controversial memo weeks earlier that allows prosecutors to look at election crime claims even before certification of the vote. Barr's move had prompted a top public integrity official at the Justice Department to resign. Barr looked for fraud and didn't find it.Barr becomes debunker-in-chief Democrats reviled Barr when he was in office 바카라 게임 웹사이트� accusing him of wielding the powers of the Justice Department to do Trump's bidding, undermining the Russia investigation and pushing right-wing conspiracy theories. But over the last two weeks, Barr has become a new hero of sorts for liberals, for aggressively debunking and condemning Trump's lies about the 2020 election.The Democratic-run committee has featured clips from Barr's deposition more than any other witness so far, and they interviewed more than 1,000 people as part of their yearlong investigation. These clips have established Barr as the highest-ranking Trump administration official to affirm the legitimacy of the election results and disavow Trump's relentless effort to claim that the election was tainted by fraud.During Monday's hearing, Barr dismantled specific Trump-backed claims about illegal "vote dumps" in Detroit, nationwide vote-rigging by Dominion with its election machines, and other conspiracy theories.Unprompted, Barr even went out of his way to criticize "2,000 Mules," the film created by right-wing activist Dinesh D'Souza, a convicted felon who claims that the 2020 election was stolen. (In a deposition clip played Monday, Barr laughed off the film and said it was "completely lacking" in evidence.)Barr said the theories Trump supported were "idiotic" and "amateurish" and "detached from reality." This rhetoric is strikingly close to what top Democrats have said all along about Trump's fraud claims.To be clear, Barr is still a hardline conservative. Just a few weeks ago, he made several false claims in a Fox 온라인 바카라 게임 interview about the Trump-Russia investigation and backed up Trump's baseless assertions that the entire probe was a fabricated "hoax" perpetrated by Democratic operatives and the FBI.Video below: Jan. 6 witnesses discuss so-called 'red mirage' Committee argues Trump peddled fraud claims in bad faith after he was personally told were not legitimateOne of the primary areas of focus of Monday's hearing was to underscore the idea that Trump and some of his allies continued to peddle false claims of election fraud after they were personally told those claims were not legitimate.The committee made the argument that Trump was repeatedly told by his own top officials, including Barr and Stepien, that the myriad of fraud claims he was pushing were groundless and were certainly not evidence that the election was stolen."I specifically raised the Dominion voting machines, which I found to be among the most disturbing allegations -- disturbing in the sense that I saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations, but they were made in such a sensational way that they obviously were influencing a lot of people, members of the public," Barr said during his deposition, according to a video played Monday.Yet, Trump and some of his allies continued to push these false claims all the way through January in what the committee attempted to show was a bad faith effort to overturn the election despite consistently being told those claims were not valid.During their December 2020 Oval Office confrontation, Barr said that Trump gave him a report that claimed "absolute proof" the Dominion voting machines had been rigged. Barr said that the report "looked very amateurish to me," and he "didn't see any supporting information" for the fraud claims.Barr would resign in December 2020 shortly after his last meeting with Trump and was replaced by acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, who also faced a similar barrage of pressure from the former president to investigate the same unfounded election fraud claims that Barr had warned him were baseless.Ultimately, Trump considered replacing Rosen with a relatively obscure environmental lawyer, Jeffrey Clark, who had demonstrated a willingness to pursue the fraud claims that other senior DOJ officials would not.Clark drafted a "Proof of Concept memo" for overturning the 2020 election and sent it to top Justice Department officials on December 28, 2020, two weeks after Barr's resignation. That memo relied heavily on many of the same debunked fraud claims that Trump had already been told had no merit.At the same time, Trump's allies were pushing the Justice Department to take Trump's false stolen election claims to the Supreme Court in an effort to prevent the outcome from several key swing states from being counted. The brief sent to Rosen and other top DOJ officials by Trump's personal assistant at the White House cited the same report on Michigan voting machine irregularities Barr had told Trump was "amateurish" and failed to include any supporting information.Committee focuses on 'Team Normal' vs Rudy standoff The committee focused on testimony Monday that distinguished between two groups advising Trump in the days after the election: "Team Normal" and those who were with Rudy Giuliani pushing baseless claims of voter fraud."We called them kind of my team and Rudy's team," Stepien said in a deposition video played by the committee. "I didn't mind being characterized as being part of Team Normal."The committee traced back the divide to election night, when Stepien and others were telling Trump it was too early to call the race, while Giuliani told him to declare victory."The president disagreed with that. I don't recall the particular words. He thought I was wrong. He told me so," Stepien said of a conversation with Trump on election night. "And that he was going to go in a different direction."The committee worked to undercut the wild claims Giuliani and Sidney Powell were making about votes being changed and foreign countries being involved 바카라 게임 웹사이트� all of which were untrue. They showed video from depositions Giuliani and Powell juxtaposed with officials like Barr and Stepien saying the claims were simply nonsense.The committee even took a dig at Giuliani and his state of mind on Election Night, playing video from Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller's deposition where he said that Giuliani "had too much to drink.""I mean, the mayor was definitely intoxicated," Miller said. "But I did not know his level of toxic intoxication when he spoke with the president, for example."Video below: Georgia native, Capitol police officer testifies to Jan. 6 committeeCommittee reveals details of investigation into campaign's financesOne of the key details the Jan. 6 committee revealed during Monday's hearing was how Trump's lies about the election turned into millions of dollars in fundraising for Trump's campaign and the political action committee he created after the election.The panel made the case that Trump's false claims about voter fraud dovetailed with his campaign's fundraising effort -- resulting in $250 million being donated to Trump and his allies, including solicited requests for an "official election defense fund," that did not exist."The 'Big Lie' was also a big rip-off," Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, said during Monday's hearing.During the committee's investigation, went to court to try to pry loose financial documents like bank records that were connected to Jan. 6. Monday's hearing was the first indication of how the panel plans to use those records in its hearings.Still, the committee didn't show a ton of detail about what financial documents it had obtained, and more could be unveiled in the hearings to come.Committee connects fraud to the violenceAfter a two-hour hearing focused on debunking Trump's lies about the election, the committee ended its second hearing by returning to the violence that occurred at the Capitol on Jan. 6.Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson introduced a video showing that those who went to Washington on Jan. 6 and breached the Capitol did so believing the election lies."We know they were there because of Donald Trump. Now we hear some of the things they believed," Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, said.In the video, Trump's supporters said they believed that the baseless claims about Dominion software and about how Trump's votes were not counted."I voted early, it went well except for you can't really trust the software, Dominion software all over," one person said.The return to the violence at the Capitol is a theme that's likely to continue through the opening series of hearings detailing how Trump tried to overturn his election loss in the lead-up to Jan. 6, including hearings planned for this week about Trump's pressure campaign against the Justice Department and his Vice President Mike Pence.

The hearing Monday was one witness short from what was planned, but the panel heard testimony from a former Fox 온라인 바카라 게임 digital politics editor, a conservative lawyer, a U.S. attorney and a Republican election official 바카라 게임 웹사이트� who all said it was clear President Joe Biden won the election and Trump's claims of fraud were nonsense.

Video above: Witnesses describe election night in the White House

Here are the key takeaways from the panel's second hearing this month about Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the violence in the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Stepien surprise sets off a scramble 바카라 게임 웹사이트� but committee quickly adapts

The committee surprised many observers Sunday when it announced that Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien would be testifying in-person at Monday's hearing. But Stepien had a surprise of his own on Monday morning when he found out that his wife went into labor, so he pulled out of the hearing.

This whirlwind of events forced the committee to scramble 바카라 게임 웹사이트� and they handled it deftly, albeit after a 45-minute delay.

Lawmakers and committee staff were obviously prepared with video clips from Stepien's private deposition. And they played a lot of footage from his testimony Monday, which revealed new details about his conversations with Trump and how he advised the president not to prematurely declare victory on election night.

In some ways, the outcome gave the Democratic-run committee more power to control what the public heard from Stepien. He wasn't in the room to say his piece, which could have included some defenses of Trump and some pushback against the committee. Instead, the panel could pick and choose which deposition clips it played, and they focused like a laser on the most damaging material for Trump.

Lengthy depositions take place of witness testimony

Stepien's testimony wasn't the committee's only use of depositions on Monday. The panel played lengthy portions of former Attorney General William Barr's deposition with the committee, where he described in detail why Trump's fraud claims were "bogus" and why he has seen nothing since to convince him there was fraud.

"There was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were," Barr said in a video of his deposition played Monday. "I was somewhat demoralized, because I thought, 'Boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has lost contact with -- he's become detached from reality if he really believes this stuff.' "

The committee did not invite Barr to testify publicly for Monday's hearing, but the minutes of his deposition that played made it feel at times as though he was there.

The video depositions have also given the committee the chance to show testimony from others in Trump's inner circle 바카라 게임 웹사이트� including Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner 바카라 게임 웹사이트� without having to bring them in to testify. And by just showing video depositions, the committee controls which soundbites are aired.

The hearing is illustrating the key role played by Barr in setting the tone for "Team Normal," the group of campaign and White House officials who were trying to advise Trump the fraud claims were bogus.

It's not for a lack of trying to find fraud. Barr had issued a controversial memo weeks earlier that allows prosecutors to look at election crime claims even before certification of the vote. Barr's move had prompted a top public integrity official at the Justice Department to resign. Barr looked for fraud and didn't find it.

Barr becomes debunker-in-chief

Democrats reviled Barr when he was in office 바카라 게임 웹사이트� accusing him of wielding the powers of the Justice Department to do Trump's bidding, undermining the Russia investigation and pushing right-wing conspiracy theories. But over the last two weeks, Barr has become a new hero of sorts for liberals, for aggressively debunking and condemning Trump's lies about the 2020 election.

The Democratic-run committee has featured clips from Barr's deposition more than any other witness so far, and they interviewed more than 1,000 people as part of their yearlong investigation. These clips have established Barr as the highest-ranking Trump administration official to affirm the legitimacy of the election results and disavow Trump's relentless effort to claim that the election was tainted by fraud.

During Monday's hearing, Barr dismantled specific Trump-backed claims about illegal "vote dumps" in Detroit, nationwide vote-rigging by Dominion with its election machines, and other conspiracy theories.

Unprompted, Barr even went out of his way to criticize "," the film created by right-wing activist Dinesh D'Souza, a convicted felon who claims that the 2020 election was stolen. (In a deposition clip played Monday, Barr laughed off the film and said it was "completely lacking" in evidence.)

Barr said the theories Trump supported were "idiotic" and "amateurish" and "detached from reality." This rhetoric is strikingly close to what top Democrats have said all along about Trump's fraud claims.

To be clear, Barr is still a hardline conservative. Just a few weeks ago, he made several false claims in a Fox 온라인 바카라 게임 interview about the Trump-Russia investigation and backed up Trump's baseless assertions that the entire probe was a fabricated "hoax" perpetrated by Democratic operatives and the FBI.

Video below: Jan. 6 witnesses discuss so-called 'red mirage'

Committee argues Trump peddled fraud claims in bad faith after he was personally told were not legitimate

One of the primary areas of focus of Monday's hearing was to underscore the idea that Trump and some of his allies continued to peddle false claims of election fraud after they were personally told those claims were not legitimate.

The committee made the argument that Trump was repeatedly told by his own top officials, including Barr and Stepien, that the myriad of fraud claims he was pushing were groundless and were certainly not evidence that the election was stolen.

"I specifically raised the Dominion voting machines, which I found to be among the most disturbing allegations -- disturbing in the sense that I saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations, but they were made in such a sensational way that they obviously were influencing a lot of people, members of the public," Barr said during his deposition, according to a video played Monday.

Yet, Trump and some of his allies continued to push these false claims all the way through January in what the committee attempted to show was a bad faith effort to overturn the election despite consistently being told those claims were not valid.

During their December 2020 Oval Office confrontation, Barr said that Trump gave him a report that claimed "absolute proof" the Dominion voting machines had been rigged. Barr said that the report "looked very amateurish to me," and he "didn't see any supporting information" for the fraud claims.

Barr would resign in December 2020 shortly after his last meeting with Trump and was replaced by acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, who also faced a similar barrage of pressure from the former president to investigate the same unfounded election fraud claims that Barr had warned him were baseless.

Ultimately, Trump considered replacing Rosen with a relatively obscure environmental lawyer, Jeffrey Clark, who had demonstrated a willingness to pursue the fraud claims that other senior DOJ officials would not.

Clark drafted a "Proof of Concept memo" for overturning the 2020 election and sent it to top Justice Department officials on December 28, 2020, two weeks after Barr's resignation. That memo relied heavily on many of the same debunked fraud claims that Trump had already been told had no merit.

At the same time, Trump's allies were pushing the Justice Department to take Trump's false stolen election claims to the Supreme Court in an effort to prevent the outcome from several key swing states from being counted. The brief sent to Rosen and other top DOJ officials by Trump's personal assistant at the White House cited the same report on Michigan voting machine irregularities Barr had told Trump was "amateurish" and failed to include any supporting information.

Committee focuses on 'Team Normal' vs Rudy standoff

The committee focused on testimony Monday that distinguished between two groups advising Trump in the days after the election: "Team Normal" and those who were with Rudy Giuliani pushing baseless claims of voter fraud.

"We called them kind of my team and Rudy's team," Stepien said in a deposition video played by the committee. "I didn't mind being characterized as being part of Team Normal."

The committee traced back the divide to election night, when Stepien and others were telling Trump it was too early to call the race, while Giuliani told him to declare victory.

"The president disagreed with that. I don't recall the particular words. He thought I was wrong. He told me so," Stepien said of a conversation with Trump on election night. "And that he was going to go in a different direction."

The committee worked to undercut the wild claims Giuliani and Sidney Powell were making about votes being changed and foreign countries being involved 바카라 게임 웹사이트� all of which were untrue. They showed video from depositions Giuliani and Powell juxtaposed with officials like Barr and Stepien saying the claims were simply nonsense.

The committee even took a dig at Giuliani and his state of mind on Election Night, playing video from Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller's deposition where he said that Giuliani "had too much to drink."

"I mean, the mayor was definitely intoxicated," Miller said. "But I did not know his level of toxic intoxication when he spoke with the president, for example."

Video below: Georgia native, Capitol police officer testifies to Jan. 6 committee

Committee reveals details of investigation into campaign's finances

One of the key details the Jan. 6 committee revealed during Monday's hearing was how Trump's lies about the election turned into millions of dollars in fundraising for Trump's campaign and the political action committee he created after the election.

The panel made the case that Trump's false claims about voter fraud dovetailed with his campaign's fundraising effort -- resulting in $250 million being donated to Trump and his allies, including solicited requests for an "official election defense fund," that did not exist.

"The 'Big Lie' was also a big rip-off," Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, said during Monday's hearing.

During the committee's investigation, went to court to try to pry loose financial documents like bank records that were connected to Jan. 6. Monday's hearing was the first indication of how the panel plans to use those records in its hearings.

Still, the committee didn't show a ton of detail about what financial documents it had obtained, and more could be unveiled in the hearings to come.

Committee connects fraud to the violence

After a two-hour hearing focused on debunking Trump's lies about the election, the committee ended its second hearing by returning to the violence that occurred at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson introduced a video showing that those who went to Washington on Jan. 6 and breached the Capitol did so believing the election lies.

"We know they were there because of Donald Trump. Now we hear some of the things they believed," Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, said.

In the video, Trump's supporters said they believed that the baseless claims about Dominion software and about how Trump's votes were not counted.

"I voted early, it went well except for you can't really trust the software, Dominion software all over," one person said.

The return to the violence at the Capitol is a theme that's likely to continue through the opening series of hearings detailing how Trump tried to overturn his election loss in the lead-up to Jan. 6, including hearings planned for this week about Trump's pressure campaign against the Justice Department and his Vice President Mike Pence.

Here are 7 takeaways from Monday's Jan. 6 hearing

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Stepien surprise sets off a scramble 바카라 게임 웹사이트� but committee quickly adapts

Lengthy depositions take place of witness testimony

Barr becomes debunker-in-chief

Committee argues Trump peddled fraud claims in bad faith after he was personally told were not legitimate

Committee focuses on 'Team Normal' vs Rudy standoff

Committee reveals details of investigation into campaign's finances

Committee connects fraud to the violence

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