Stopping the Steal (2024)

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crowd (chanting): Stop

the steal! Stop the steal!

Stop the steal! Stop the steal!

Stop the steal!

(chanting continues)

Donald J. Trump:

This election was rigged,

and we can't let it happen.

Can't let it happen.

Can't let it happen!

Bill Barr: Before the

election, obviously,

I wanted Trump to win.

I supported Trump.



But after the election,

he started spewing out

all these allegations

of voting fraud.

This was a massive fraud.

So, I felt I had to get

on top of the main claims

that were being made.

Stephanie Grisham:

I was close to him.

Very, very close

to Mrs. Trump.

I really liked them.

I kind of felt like

they were family to me.

We were getting ready to

win this election.

Frankly,

we did win this election.

(crowd cheering)

Grisham: I guarantee anybody

who was around him at the time,

despite what they

were thinking inside,

they were saying,

"Oh, it was stolen, sir."



Marc Short: It was weeks

of a pressure campaign

to overturn election results.

The vice president was loyally

standing by his side.

I stand with

President Donald Trump!

But at the same time,

we were on a collision course

between the president

and the vice president.

And I hope Mike is gonna do

the right thing. I hope so.

Because if Mike Pence

does the right thing,

we win the election.



Mark Brnovich: President

Trump did a great job.

I was right there with him.

He called me and said,

"Hey, you'll be the most

popular guy in America!

"You'll, you'll be able to

run for President!

All you gotta do is say there's

fraud or find some fraud."

I could have been

a f*cking hero.

Trump (on phone):

Look, ultimately I win.

So, what are we going

to do here, folks?

I need 11,000 votes.

Give me a break.

I was for Trump the whole time.

I walked for him.

I campaigned for him.

It was fun.

Everyone is saying,

"Wow, the evidence

is overwhelming."

And then it started.

The steal.



(plane whirring)

crowd (chanting): Four

more years! Four more years!

Four more years!

Four more years!



Trump: Get out and

vote, and I love you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

(crowd cheering)

Alyssa Farah Griffin: One

of the greatest honors I have

is getting to

travel the country,

meeting with real Americans

with President Trump.

I joined the West Wing

under Trump in April of 2020.

I felt emotionally invested

in him winning.

(crowd cheering)

Some of these rallies you'll be

in a stadium-like seating,

and those can be

overwhelming and feel like,

"Wow, this is so many people."

And I remember thinking,

he's going to pull it off.

Who, who else can bring and

command this kind of a crowd?

(forklift whirring)

But we had no shortage

of chaos and crises

in that six-plus month period.

officer (megaphone):

Leave the area immediately.

- (g*nshots)

- (people shouting)

There was sort of a

perfect storm of conditions.



By late summer,

President Trump starts

to kind of grease the wheels

for excuses if he lost.

These elections

will be fraudulent,

they'll be fixed,

they'll be rigged,

and everyone's looking at it.



Griffin: I was sitting in

the Oval Office with him.

No one in the West Wing team

was talking

like losing was a reality.

Barr:

Up until the election,

you could always appeal

to his self-interest.

"Mr. President,

this was a bad idea for you.

This will hurt you."

And that would work,

if you appealed

to his self-interest.

And that is what helped keep

things within the guardrails.

- (plane idling)

- Leading up to the election,

all he had to do was temper

his behavior a little bit,

and I think he would have

easily won re-election.

And people were telling him

this for months,

but he was very self-indulgent.

Let's vote for Sleepy Joe,

he's fallen asleep.

Joe... Joe, oh...

He ignored all the advice

he was getting.

And he ran this election that,

that was self-destructive.

The only way we're gonna lose

this election

is if the election is rigged,

remember that.

It's the only way we're going

to lose this election.



Ronald Hansen:

In 2020, Arizona,

really for the first time

in a long time,

emerged as one of the key

swing states

for the presidential race.

- (marching band playing)

- (singing)

Arizona has had a change

in its population.

You have

an immigrant population.

You also have a fair number

of retirees coming in.

And it all adds up to a churn

in Arizona's population

that helps redefine the state's

political inclinations.

crowd: Get out and

vote! Get out and vote!



Clint Hickman: Welcome

to the Board of Supervisors.

2020 is going to be

a very interesting year.

We have elections to run.

It's an honor to serve as Chairman

of the Board of Supervisors.

In November 2020, I was Chairman

of the Maricopa County

Board of Supervisors.

My role is to run an election.

The integrity and success

of our elections

is my number-one priority.

Maricopa County is the

second largest voting district

in the United States because

there's just so much population

that exists in this one county.

Moving on. Number four

is the pet showcase.

John Reynolds is here from

Animal Care and Control.

Uh, we believe her to be maybe

a Parsons Russell terrier

and poodle mix.

Bill Gates: We are in 50

different lines of business,

but many of them sort of

off the front pages. Right?

You know, animal care

and control, air quality,

transportation.

So, important but sort of

a more low-profile role.

Until all of this happened.

- We are adjourned.

- (bangs gavel)

(plane roaring)

(tires screech)

President Trump was

in this community

three, four, five times with

large rallies. I was at one.

Six days, can you believe this?

- Six days from now...

- (crowd cheering)

...we are going to win Arizona,

and we are going to win

four more years in our

great beautiful White House.

Hickman:

I was a Republican Chairman.

I had something to do with him

being there that day.

I was thanked.

Maricopa County Supervisor

Clint Hickman.

- (crowd cheering)

- Hickman: I felt really happy.

He was our Republican president.

Thank you, Clint.

Good job, Clint.



(applause)

Trump: I think if anything,

we're going to do very well.

Winning is easy.

Losing is never easy.

Not for me, it's not.

reporter: Let's bring in Alyssa

Farah from the White House,

the White House

Communications Director.

The president is in

a great mood. We're energetic.

The vibe in the West Wing is

we're excited.

The early results

were coming in,

and it looked like

Trump might pull it off.

So, people were

a little bit excited

and started making

their way over

to the East Wing for the party.

Grisham: There was music

playing in the background.

There were two bars open.

You know, people were chatting,

taking pictures.

I think... And it was kind of a,

"Let's take pictures

"of us winning again, you know,

and this time,

we're winning

in the White House."

And so, it was really

jolly and jovial

and everyone was really happy.

Honestly, I don't even know that

people were paying

that close of attention

because we were gonna win.

And then very shortly after,

the Arizona call came in.

(fountain splashing)

The Fox News decision desk is

calling Arizona for Joe Biden.

That is a big get

for the Biden campaign.

It's a significant victory for,

for Joe Biden.

As I say,

the first flip of the night.

Hansen: Fox News calling

Arizona for Joe Biden.

This started to set

the dominoes tumbling.

It had outsized repercussions

for the tenor

of the national race.

Grisham:

We were all in the residence,

I think it was like,

two in the morning,

three in the morning

at that point,

as we watched stuff come in,

and then as it was looking like

Biden was going to accept

that he had won.

I'm here to tell you tonight

we believe we're on track

to win this election!

(crowd cheering)

I'm optimistic

about this outcome!

The President was standing

in this middle of this...

this crowd of people.

And it was just chaos.

Everyone's yelling.

Trump's waving a piece of paper

in his hand.

He's very angry.

And when he's pissed,

you don't want to even

get in his line of vision.

And then all of a sudden,

abruptly,

it was like a light switch

went off.

It was like somebody

just turned the light off

'cause everybody just

started heading downstairs,

um, for him to speak.

crowd: We love Trump! We

love Trump! We love Trump!

("Hail to the Chief" playing)

(crowd cheering)

Trump: Well,

thank you very much.

Grisham: And then he

just walked on stage.

The man took the stage

and no one knew

what was going to come

out of his mouth.

I don't know if

he's gonna concede.

I don't know

what he's going to say.

This is, without question,

the latest news conference

I've ever had.

- (laughter) - supporters: We love you!

We love you! Yeah!

Thank you, thank you.

(cheering)

This is a 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.

(applause, cheering)

Grisham: When he started down

that road of, "Frankly, we won,"

I just was devastated.

I was so disappointed

in my president,

and I thought, "How can you,

like, do this to the country

and leave everybody

hanging like this?"

And, um, yeah,

I started to just cry.

I was pissed.

Trump:

Mr. Vice President,

say a few words, please.

Please.

(applause, cheering)

Greg Jacob: Whereas President

Trump talked a lot about fraud

and that he thought

he had won the election,

I think the vice president

was cognizant

that he didn't want

to make allegations

that he didn't know

were supported.

It wasn't necessarily that

he knew one way or the other.

You're in the very early days,

you just can't know.

We're waiting to see

what evidence

gets developed over time.

I truly do believe, as you do,

that we are on the road

to victory

and we will make

America great again, again.

Short: For many of us,

we felt it would probably be

a contentious few weeks,

but that ultimately,

if there ended up

not being evidence

to support fraud or theft,

that ultimately there would be

some level of concession.

- (applause)

- Thank you very much.

Grisham: He came off the stage,

I thought, "Holy sh*t."

You know, I knew him for so long

and he never goes backwards.

If anything, he goes forwards

and he doubles and triples down.

He will never back down now.

There's no walking this back.

(band fades out)

Barr: At two in the

morning, for him to go out

and claim that fraud

was underway was,

was very dangerous.

You know, I started worrying

a lot from then on.

(distant police siren wails)

reporter: President Trump's

supporters are ramping up

their voices in the Valley,

gathering outside

of the Maricopa

County Elections Office.

protesters: Let them in!

Let them in! Let them in!

We started getting some protests

outside of

the tabulation center.

It got, uh, pretty ugly,

pretty quick.

protesters:

Let them in! Let them in!

Shame on Fox! Shame on Fox!

Adrian Fontes: I mean, it's all

theater except for they've got

as*ault weapons

and they're armed,

and at any moment

they could have come in

and mounted an armed as*ault

against our warehouse,

where the ballots were held.

protesters: Where are the

votes? Where are the votes?

Fontes: Some elected

officials even showed up,

Congressman Gosar

was one of them.

(Paul Gosar chanting)

Hickman: These are publicly

elected officials

coming to charge up a crowd.

That was a sign of

things to come

about some

Republican colleagues.

All of these people,

with Trump flags,

wearing their AR-15s.

It enraged me.

(camera shutters

snapping rapidly)



Thank you very much.

Thank you.

This is a case where they're

trying to steal an election.

They're trying

to rig an election.

Hickman:

President Trump was making sure

that there was talk

about rigging of elections

or bashing people

across the United States.

Trump: The officials

overseeing the counting

are all part of

a corrupt Democrat machine.

Today, we're on track

to win Arizona.

crowd: Four more

years! Four more years!

If you count the legal votes,

I easily win.

protester (on megaphone):

Count the legal votes!

protester (on megaphone):

We are watching you!

reporter 1: Mr. President, are

you going to accept the outcome

of the election, sir,

if you lose?

- Mr. President!

- reporter 2: Are you being a sore loser?

protester: Trump said, "Hey,

if you count all the legal votes,

I won this election."

reporter: When you

say count the legal votes,

which ill*gal votes are...

is the group referring to?

Uh...

Just emp...

Like, empty ba-ballots

that liberals

working the elections

have filled in on their own.

Wolf Blitzer: After four long,

tense days, we've reached

a historic moment

in this election.

We can now project the winner

of the presidential race.

(news jingle playing)

Barr: One of the reasons I

have a high degree of confidence

that the election

was not stolen by fraud

was because when you actually

look at the votes,

there's no mystery

as to why he lost in 2020.

He lost where people

were telling him

for months and months

he was gonna lose.

The problem all along was that

his way of going about

energizing his base

drove away a lot

of suburban professionals.

That's where the fatal gap

was for him.

It was in the suburbs.

So, it's no mystery

as to why he lost.

- (cars honking)

- (crowd shouting)

Griffin: The race was

ultimately called for Joe Biden.

And in the neighborhood

I lived in in DC,

like, there were

cheers in the streets.

People were very excited.

supporters (singing):

We are the champions

No time for losers

Griffin: And I kind of

accepted it and, you know,

knew I was going to go back

into work to do my job

because win or lose,

we still had, like,

two and a half months in office.



It's a very odd time in history

when a sitting president

loses a re-election.

And then add to it, a president

who has chosen not to concede.

And my office is just

right around the corner

from the Oval Office.

And I remember

popping my head in,

and he's watching Fox News,

um, and Joe Biden's on

and he says,

"Can you believe I lost

to this effing guy?"



Grisham: He knows he

lost, but he's a narcissist,

and his ego

will not accept defeat.

And when you have people

who will so willingly

come around you and tell you

you didn't lose and the things

that you want to hear,

which he's a master at.

He's a master at finding these

people who will say whatever.

And so that enables him to

double down and triple down.



Barr:

He had lost the election.

He had sort of nothing to lose.

And that's when he started

shutting down communication

with the people who were

actually in advisory positions,

in the government

and started listening almost

exclusively to this cabal

on the outside.

Joining us this evening

is Rudy Giuliani,

the president's attorney,

former mayor of New York City...

Barr: The President then

rolled out his legal team.

Wow, what a beautiful day.

Thank you.

Barr: Obviously, Rudy

played a big role, you know,

in this very excited

conspiracy theory type of way.

Joe Frazier

is still voting here.

Kinda hard since he died

five years ago.

Also, Will Smith's father has

voted here twice since he died.

I'm joined right now

by Jenna Ellis

who is the president's

legal advisor...

Griffin: In came, one day,

Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell,

who was an attorney herself,

but was known as,

frankly, kooky,

in the West Wing.

We're fixing to overturn

the results of the election

in multiple states.

And President Trump won

by not just hundreds

of thousands of votes,

but by millions of votes.

And suddenly, you would see them

sitting in sort of the,

the West Wing lobby.

It was almost like this

bar-room scene from "Star Wars,"

you know, of people

hanging around the Oval Office,

these people from the outside.

I've been a prosecutor for,

on and off, 50 years of my life.

Prosecuted a lot more dangerous

criminals than these morons,

and, uh, and the evidence

is overwhelming.

President Trump won, fairly,

and genuinely by a landslide,

and we intend to prove that.

Sidney Powell:

Well, I can hardly wait

to put forth all the evidence

we have collected,

and I'm going to release

the Kraken.

Griffin: And that was

sort of the beginning

of a even darker period of

the campaign fraud nonsense

that was pushed.

That's when sh*t

really hit the fan.

(shutters snapping rapidly)

Good afternoon.

Griffin:

They all show up on stage,

at the Republican National

Committee headquarters.

- (reporters yelling)

- Nope, nope, nope! (stammers)

You've got Rudy Giuliani

who's sweating off his hair dye

down his face,

and the whole thing was chaotic.

We let this happen,

we're going to become Venezuela.

We cannot let this happen to us.

We cannot allow these crooks,

'cause that's what they are,

to steal an election

from the American people.

They elected Donald Trump.

Jacob:

I made my entire legal staff

watch the Rudy Giuliani

press conference

'cause that was supposed

to be the big reveal.

Now, you know, we've been

hearing these allegations,

now we're supposed to hear

all of the evidence.

And so, we all sat and watched

it together and were...

uh, underwhelmed.

You can't say...

I mean,

you're just lying

to the American people

when you say

there's no evidence.

Jacob: It was really

shocking to me how

untethered to evidence and facts

a lot of what he seemed to be

saying and putting forward were.

I know crimes, I can smell 'em.

You don't have to

smell this one.

I can prove it to you

18 different ways.

Barr: Their public statements

kept on citing fraud,

but there was just

not evidence of that.

Especially on a scale

that would have affected

the outcome of the election.

So, excuse me, we're not

at the questions at this point.

My name is Jenna Ellis,

and I'm the senior

legal advisor.

You have Jenna Ellis, you know,

giving her best sort of,

"We've got to stand and fight

for the American people."

This is an elite

strike force team

that is working on behalf of

the president and the campaign

to make sure that

our Constitution is protected.

We are a nation of rules.

You have Sidney Powell

espousing bizarre theories.

What we are really

dealing with here

and uncovering more by the day

is the massive influence

of communist money

through Venezuela,

Cuba, and likely China

in the interference

with our elections here

in the United States.

What I don't think enough of us

were thinking that day is,

this is incredibly dangerous.

We'd later find out that

it was incredibly dangerous.

We are going to take

this country back.

We are not going to

be intimidated.

- (cheering) - Jacob Chansley:

We are taking the nation back.

We will not allow communism

in the United States.

Here in Arizona, I went down to

the Election Center every day,

seven days a week.

Then, we moved from

the Election Center

over to the Capitol building.

We will not accept corruption in

Arizona or in the United States!

We're bringing down

the New World Order!

Nobody voted for Biden, dude.

Not here in Arizona.

There's something wrong

with our elections.

It's plain and simple.



- Pray for our President. Pray...

- (crowd murmuring)

Big business, big tech,

and big media

all colluded together

to keep Donald Trump

from being re-elected.

It's that simple.

They're trying to take away

your dream of four more years!

- Are you gonna let them do that?

- crowd: No!

Brnovich: As the attorney

general, there was nothing more

that I would have wanted to do

than to prosecute a bunch of,

you know, left-wing Democrats

for, you know,

injecting thousands of votes

illegally into

the Arizona system.

I mean, I didn't

want Joe Biden to win.

Donald Trump loves America!

(crowd cheering)

Brnovich: Here in Arizona,

a majority of Republicans

thought the election was stolen.

Part of the reason

why they believed it

is because they kept hearing it.

President Trump at that time

was talking about,

you know, that if he didn't win,

the election was rigged.

And you get it out there,

and then people believe it,

and then, you know,

there's a certain

confirmation bias, right?

Once somebody

believes something,

they see everything

through that prism.

Sharpiegate here in Arizona.

Remember I talked to you

about this Sharpie...

They were handing

out Sharpies...

So, they were using Sharpies...

Sharpiegate...

There was a huge issue

related to Sharpies

and whether Sharpies had

affected the way people voted.

Folks were claiming that

the Sharpie pens

were causing a bleed-through

on the piece of paper.

So, if someone voted,

you know, on one side,

'cause we have

the two-sided ballots,

that the bleed-through of

the pen marks to the other side

would lead

to inaccurate results.

Yeah, everybody's

a little pissed.

Marko Trickovic:

All across Arizona,

the chaos really kinda came,

like, on Election Day, right?

So, what they're doing is

they're telling people to use

- the Sharpies, that way...

- Yes.

- Trickovic: ...those votes aren't counted.

- Yes.

- Trickovic: That's exactly what's happening?

- Yes.

Trickovic:

You know, I shot that video

that ultimately ended up

turning into Sharpiegate.

They're saying my vote

didn't count.

So, people are coming here

to vote for Donald Trump,

and those votes

are all getting invalidated.

Welcome to the

new America, people.

That's what's going on.

Do I believe that

the election was stolen?

Absolutely, 100% I do.

And yes, the other side,

the officials that were involved

in that process,

they're gonna tell you

everything was on the up and up

because they have to.

It's organized crime

at that point.

People were talking

about the Sharpies.

Why did we use Sharpies?

Well, I know we made videos,

you know, six months before,

saying don't worry about it.

Please use Sharpies.

(energetic music playing)

narrator: Did you know you can

use a black or blue pen or Sharpie

to fill out your ballot

in Maricopa County?

So, bleed-throughs

are not a problem.

So, as people were saying,

"Hey, there's something here.

It's not counting my vote."

It's like, no, I'm good.

Certainly, we were

noticing irregularities.

Things that didn't quite add up.

Because the Sharpies will indeed

bleed through the paper.

You know,

there... we're...

there's enough there

to question,

to be a skeptic.

(indistinct chatter)

Brnovich: My immediate reaction

was that we would look into

the use of Sharpies

and whether that affected

the vote in 2020.

We just want to make sure

that no one can ever say

that this election

wasn't done properly.

My goodness, I had every motive

and reason to find

some sort of massive fraud.

And we...

it just wasn't there.

supporter (on megaphone):

Trump is gonna stay our president...

Brnovich:

We were able to systematically

and methodically lay to rest

so many conspiracy theories

and people that still maintained

that the election was stolen,

they moved on to other things.

All the fraud didn't happen

with Sharpies, right?

That was just a small piece

to a massive problem.

There were votes for people

that were dead.

Here in Arizona!

(people cheering)

1.8 million people,

dead people voting...

You've got people out there,

this group saying that thousands

of dead people voted.

You've got former president

saying that

it affected the election.

But we were systematically

able to go through

and disprove that.

- (crowd chatter)

- (horn blowing)

We spent hundreds,

if not thousands of hours

as an office with lawyers,

investigators

but some sort of

massive conspiracy

that would have changed

the outcome of the election?

I haven't seen it.

The reality is, right now,

it does appear

that Joe Biden will win Arizona.

I admire your nerves of steel,

and a backbone to match.

I just wish you well on this

'cause a lot of people

are not gonna digest

this very nicely.

I'm the f*cking Republican

statewide-elected

attorney general,

and people are

jumping up and going,

"Get some ba*ls! Why don't you

prosecute anybody about 20..."

And, like, people are

beatin' the sh*t out of me.

protesters:

We want Trump! We want Trump!

We want Trump!

We want Trump!

We want Trump...

They cheated!

They're cheaters!

- (drumming)

- (bell rings)

That was just a harbinger

of what was to come.

Sharpies kind of died away

to a next theory

and a next theory.

Basically, from our research,

we were able to discover

that the actual theft of

the United States election

occurred in Italy...

Italian satellites,

uh, German servers...

The server holding all

of our votes in Germany

has been obtained.

It was like playing Whac-A-Mole.

One day,

there was a claim de jure

that everyone was talking about,

and once that was slapped down,

the next day,

another one would pop up.

The company Dominion

is a far-left, radical company.

Dominion, Dominion,

nobody even knows who owns it.

These machines

are controlling our country.

Barr: One of the ones

that I thought was damaging

to the public's confidence

in the outcome

was allegations about

the Dominion voting machines.

Dominion is a joke.

Sidney Powell is

leading the charge.

You're saying

that the CIA is behind

the Dominion

voting software as well?

The machines can be hacked.

There's no question about that.

Their machines can be hacked.

Hickman: The big theory

was that Dominion equipment

was hooked up to the internet

that they could swing voters.

We have evidence of how

they flipped the votes,

how it was designed

to flip the votes.

They're not capable

of doing that,

so there's no internet.



Gates: So, this is very

important that people understand,

that these tabulation machines

are not connected

to the internet in any way.

Because people said,

"Well, what about Wi-Fi?"

Well, there's no routers

in these tabulation machines.

So, outside actors are not able

to control

the machines remotely.

Then, in addition to that,

if they wanted

to physically access these,

they would have to break in,

to some of the additional

security features

that we've put in there.

So, it is because of these

various layers of security

that I'm confident that

these machines

have not been manipulated

by outside actors.

And that's been confirmed time

and time again by experts,

as well as in a court of law,

in many courts of law in fact.

This is supposed to be

a secure system. It was not.

So, to make the claim

that there was no off-site

computer communications,

totally a lie.

Totally a falsehood.

Somebody's trying to

cover something up.

It's hard when

people are saying,

"Don't believe the county.

Whatever you do,

don't believe the county."

And it becomes almost like

a battle at that point.

"I know what I know.

You might know what you know,

but I'm now not trusting

what you're saying."

It's like, I don't know.

At this point,

I don't know how to get

around that.

And we have a machine,

the Dominion machine,

that's as filled with holes

as Swiss cheese

and, uh, was developed

to steal elections.

They spent a lot of energy

and time on those allegations.

So, I set up

two extensive meetings

with the experts over at

Department of Homeland Security,

as well as the FBI experts,

and I concluded that these

allegations were bogus.

(quiet crowd chatter)



(distant siren wailing)

Hickman: Okay.

Welcome, everybody.

Gates:

So, you have Election Day.

It takes many days

to get the final results.

Once that is completed,

then the elections department

puts together a canvass.

And then that canvass

is presented

to the Board of Supervisors,

the five of us,

and we have

the final say by voting

to certify that canvass.

Welcome to the Board

of Supervisors,

November 20th special meeting...

Hickman: President

Trump ran out of votes.

By the time the final vote

was counted,

he didn't quite catch up.

The board is required by law

to canvass

the November 3rd election.

caller (on voicemail):

Hello, Mr. Hickman.

When we come to lynch

your stupid, lying, commie a*s,

you piece of sh*t,

you're going to die,

you piece of sh*t.

We're going to hang you!

Hickman:

During the certification,

the death threats

were already happening.

There were threats

to r*pe our daughters.

Just some of the most vile

things you can imagine.

Hickman:

We were in our auditorium,

but people were just outside

of the auditorium.

- protester (on megaphone): Trump 2020!

- crowd: Trump 2020!

protester (on megaphone):

Trump 2020!

crowd:

Trump 2020!

Hickman:

People were banging drums

and banging on the doors.

- protester: Stop the steal!

- crowd: Stop the steal!

This is where we meet to do

the people's business.

Gates: That's when I

was contacted by people

within President Trump's orbit.

Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of

the Arizona Republican Party.

I was sent numerous

text messages

pleading with me not vote

to certify the election.

(text chimes)

She was putting some stress

on apparently all of us

through texts

or maybe phone calls.

Kelli Ward (on voicemail):

We have to continue to pressure

that board of supervisors

- to do the right thing.

- crowd: We do!

We have got to continue!

Gates: The pressure by the

president and his many surrogates

was all part of an effort

to overturn the election.

Now, looking back on it,

it really is chilling

that that's what we were

in the middle of.

We're here, taking a hard look

at the Maricopa County

election of 2020.

People didn't want us

to certify the vote,

and I didn't know how my

colleagues were gonna vote.

Supervisor Gallardo?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I was fearful that my board,

that I serve on, would decide

not to canvass the election.

What happens in those cases?

The pressure was so great,

that I felt

my colleagues would buckle.

I listened to and considered

all theories

about what might have happened.

But, let me be clear.

There is no evidence of fraud

or misconduct or malfunction

in Maricopa County,

and that is with a big zero.

It's time to dial back

the rhetoric, conspiracies,

and false claims.

In a free democracy,

elections result in some

people's candidate losing.

I'm not going to violate the law

or deviate

from my own moral compass,

as some have pushed me to do,

and some have probably

pushed others to do here.

I'm like...

I'm like this.

It was... It...

It was probably

the most pressure-packed...

night of my life.

I will now entertain a

motion to canvass

the November 3rd election...

I mean, I had no idea exactly

if we would have three votes.

We needed three votes.

The results are accurate

and complete,

and it's time to move forward.

Thank you,

Vice Chairman Sellers.

- Do I have a second?

- Second.

Second. Thank you,

Supervisor Gates.

- All in favor, say "aye."

- officials: "Aye."

Any opposed? Hearing none,

motion carries unanimously.

I knew they were all under

a severe amount of pressure

and to be a unified vote,

I was gratified.

We all have run, um,

our elections,

and they're,

and they're over with.

And I will tell, uh,

the group loud and clear

that voted for me

and voted for my colleagues,

you voted for people that serve

with integrity and honor.

I'm very proud

to serve with you.

- We are adjourned.

- (bangs gavel)

- Don't get me emotional again!

- (producer chuckles)

Because it was,

it was an emotional time,

and I, when I reflect on it,

I still get emotional.

(scoffs)

Gates:

After the vote,

we soon learned

that this groundswell

was not going to abate.

In some ways,

this was just beginning.

(indistinct chanting)

We'd had been doxxed

by this point.

So, they would

come to our houses

and sort of try

and do a citizen's arrest.

officer: This is... Guys,

this is a personal residence.

Please! Pl-Please, listen...

protester:

If we can move through this,

- we'll be gone really quick.

- officer: Please.

This is my house, man.

And my family.

(indistinct chatter)

I don't know

who these people are.

And if someone tries

to come in this house,

you better hit the deck.

- I'm firing.

- (camera beeping)

officer: Please, please

get him to stop. Please?

- I'm being as cool as I can.

- (police radio chatter)

You know? Like, I appreciate

what you guys are trying...

Gates:

I was doing my job.

My colleagues

were doing their jobs,

and yet we had become

the focus of, of hatred.

But you know, as...

in elected office,

we're just supposed

to not be human, right?

We're just supposed

to do our jobs

and just let all this stuff

bounce off of you,

but I realized it was too much.

That was... I really

struggled with that.

- (cars honking)

- (crowd chatter)

(indistinct speech)

Hansen: In Arizona, we knew

that there was a willingness

to entertain

conspiracy thinking.

What we didn't understand

at that point

was just how connected it

was to the Trump campaign.

It was being engineered

from the very highest levels

and seeking foot soldiers

in Arizona

to carry something out.

We later found out

that Trump himself

was reaching out to people

in Arizona to try

and engineer an outcome

more to his liking.

It's been my pleasure

to have served

in and around the legislature

since first being

elected in 1992.

Hansen: The most memorable

of those encounters is with,

then,

House Speaker Rusty Bowers.

Arizona House Speaker,

Rusty Bowers.

I was for Trump the whole time.

I walked for him.

I campaigned for him.

Stand up on the stage,

and he would glad-hand us all

and tell everybody

what great people we are

and blah blah blah.

It was fun.

(crowd cheering)

But I do not like bullies.

22nd November,

pulled in the driveway

in my magnificent little Prius,

and the phone, "White House."

"The president

will be right on."

And then,

the president comes on.

"Mr. Speaker, you're doing

a great job out there,"

and he glad-hand,

you know, pat the back.

"We've heard so many

great things about you,

but we got some problems

we'd like to talk to you about."

I said, sure, whatever.

He was saying, "We got fraud

all the way across the country."

I'm saying, okay,

gear it up, Rusty.

Here we go.

And then Rudy comes on and says

"14,000 dead people voted

and a couple hundred thousand

ill*gal aliens voted."

You got names? "Yeah."

You've got names of

the 14,000 dead people? "Yes."

You got names of the 200,000

ill*gal aliens who voted?

"Yes."

You can bring those

and put those on my desk?

"Yes."

Rudy, I got to have proof.

You got the proof?

"Yes."

And the president says,

"Give him the proof, Rudy."

I said, Rudy,

what's the ask out of all this?

And he said, "Well,

we would like to have

"a committee hearing

to review this evidence

"before a committee

in the legislature.

"There's an arcane Arizona law

that allows you to evaluate

"whether or not you can remove

Biden's electors

and replace them

with Trump's electors."

And he says, "Well,

this is some Arizona law."

I said, "I've never heard

of that law, Rudy."

(applause)

Hansen:

It was fairly startling.

The Trump team

tried to impress on Rusty

that the legislature had,

within its powers,

the ability to just change who

the state electoral votes go to.

What they are proposing

is something that sounds

fantastical in some ways,

ill*gal in others.

I'm going to throw out

Biden's electors

and put in Trump's electors?

"Yeah. That's what we're gonna...

That's our ask."



The dude is just

straight-up asking you

to throw the election.

I mean, that's clearly

what he had wanted me to do.

So, I said, "Look,

"I need proof.

When you bring me the proof,

we talk.

But no proof, no talk."

The Founding Fathers figured out

where to point the finger

of responsibility,

and the buck stops with

the state legislatures.

It's gonna have to go

to the state legislatures

to be decided, Jeanine.

Trump: Hopefully our

legislatures will step forward

- and save our country.

- (cheering)

It's going all over the country.

And it's kind of a national

effort to throw the election.



This is essentially a coup.

They are setting aside

the election results

based on allegations

with no substance behind them.

It was about trying

to get to an outcome

that would have kept

Donald Trump in office.

The president came

and put the thumb on me.

If it's alright for me

to throw an election

because somebody asked me,

and I was afraid to say no...

You just step down

towards anarchy.

speaker:

We are at w*r.

(indistinct shouting)

(quiet chatter)

- (scattered cheering)

- supporter: Thank you!

(indistinct chatter)

Patricia Murphy: The

atmosphere in Georgia remained

not just charged,

but supercharged.

Sort of a crescendo of that

was this rally

at the Georgia State Capitol.

protesters:

Stop the steal! Stop the steal!

Stop the steal!



- (cars honking)

- (cheering)

Murphy: There were

three recounts in Georgia,

which is really

quite unprecedented.

There was no question over the

result of the Georgia election

after all of these recounts,

in most people's minds.

Except for

Donald Trump's supporters,

as he continued to say,

"The election was stolen."

Trump: You know we won

Georgia, just so you understand.

(crowd cheering)

You gotta make sure

your secretary of state knows

- what the hell he's doing.

- (cheering)

As secretary of state,

I believe that the numbers

that we have presented today

are correct.

The secretary of state

is in charge of monitoring

and overseeing the elections.

I'm a passionate conservative,

and, as I've said before,

I'm a proud Trump supporter.

Murphy: It's a typically

low-profile office

and that changed in a big way

for Brad Raffensperger in 2020.

He was being

absolutely annihilated

by Donald Trump on social media.

Brad Raffensperger: From

there, it just accelerated.

It was like a rocket ship

flying higher and faster

with more and more

vitriol and anger.

Georgia became the focal point.

Now, when all these allegations

were made,

did I ask my team,

"Have we checked this out?

Have we checked that?"

I'm an engineer.

Absolutely, we checked it out.

I went back,

closed all the loops

to make sure

that we verified it.

There was one candidate

who came up short.

One candidate who did not want

to concede that he had lost.

So, you think Donald Trump,

no matter how many counts

we go through,

still lost the state of Georgia?

I don't see how we could come

to any other conclusion.

We told, uh, the campaign

if they find instances

of voter fraud,

we will check it out.

We have not seen widespread

systemic voter fraud

that would overturn

the results of the people.



Trump: We are looking at

things that are so bad in Georgia.

But I understand this

secretary of state,

who is really...

he's an enemy of the people,

this secretary of state.

And whether he's

a Republican or not...

Gabriel Sterling: He called

Brad, "This enemy of the people,

this Raffensperger."

I'm like...

Wow. I mean,

it was just sort of...

That was probably one of

the more weird things to see

a president,

of his own party,

calling any elected official

an enemy of the people.

But this was so specific

and so directed.

The numbers are corrupt.

It was a rigged election,

100%, and people know it.

That's why you have people

marching all over

the United States right now.

They know it was

a rigged election.

In Georgia, I was the Voting

System Implementation Manager.

No one should know

who the hell I am.

The only reason you do

is because something

went terribly wrong somewhere.

And look at what's happening

in Georgia.

A lot of things are

being found in Georgia.

With all these claims,

it was Whac-A-Mole.

We'd knock one down and it would

come up three days later,

knock it down again.

But it was out there,

and the president was saying it.

And it didn't matter. It just...

"The president said it,

it's fact."

You have Dominion,

which is very, very suspect

to start off with.

You can press "Trump,"

and the vote goes to Biden.

All you have to do is

play with the chip.

"The Dominion machines

flipped these votes

and we caught 'em,

and they flipped it back."

"It's an algorithm."

The world "algorithm"

became like this catch-all.

"The algorithm did it."

"What'd it do?"

"It stole the election."

"Well, how did it

steal the election?"

"Well, it-it

changed out votes."

Like, that can't happen.

- They're trying to... Look, between you people...

- (reporter yells)

Don't answer...

Don't talk to me that way.

You're just a...

You're just a lightweight.

Don't talk to me that...

Don't talk to...

I'm the president

of the United States.

Don't ever talk

to the president that way.

Sterling: I was a Republican before

Donald Trump was a Republican.

I'll be a Republican

after he's gone.

There's tens of millions

of Americans

who saw him do good things.

Here's the thing.

I saw him do good things.

I love the judges.

I love the tax cuts.

I love the deregulation.

But the problem is you can do

all those great things

and your actions,

your personality,

can undercut all of it.

And this thing at the end,

these claims

of the stolen election,

it's not based on anything real.

We want to take you straight

to the Georgia State Capitol...

Sterling: That's when I started

doing the press conferences.

I mean, it was really just

the blocking and tackling.

This is where we are...

Because we were trying to be as

transparent as we could.

We know the system

counted properly.

We know the ballots

that were there

were counted properly

and correctly. We know that.

I never had a doubt about

having the election stolen.

Because to do this would require

a high degree of competence,

a high degree of coordination,

a high degree of, of loyalty,

internally, to a conspiracy

to actually happen.



Barr: I hadn't been

over to see the president.

It was getting late in November

that I finally went over

to talk to him.

I told him that I was

disappointed in the outcome,

and he said, "No,

I won the election by a lot."

And-And I explained to him

that I thought that, uh,

he was listening

to people around him,

like Giuliani and others,

his, sort of these sycophants,

and that this was a disservice

to him and the country.

He wouldn't, uh,

pause to address

whatever counterpoint you made.

He just ignored it.

reporter:

Hi, Alyssa.

(reporters chattering)

I was pretty done with my role

in the West Wing,

um, mentally and emotionally.

But, there had been a

letter circulated,

essentially threatening

to fire any staffer

who was seen passing

along their resume

or searching for the next

opportunity and therefore

acknowledging that Trump lost.

Grisham: It's a matter

of survival at that point.

Think about it.

There's these people now

in this limbo

in the White House,

leaving the Trump White House,

especially after he's lost.

You're not gonna find

any jobs anywhere.

You're not gonna be well-liked.

And I do know for a fact that

people were looking for jobs,

but nobody talked about it

because that was a sign of

you don't think he won.

You are disloyal.

And you pretended like

you were gonna work there

for the next four years.

protesters:

Stop the steal! Stop the steal!



Hansen: In Arizona, when

you get to the end of November,

you really see an escalation

on the claims of fraud.

The only cards left to play

were the legislature.

They needed the State House

and the State Senate

to sort of change the trajectory

of the election.



protesters:

Rudy! Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!

(indistinct chatter)

Trickovic: Eventually

towards the end of November,

it led to, you know,

the Giuliani hearing

with some of our legislators

so that there was some hope of

maybe they can do something.

Distinguished senators

and representatives,

thank you very much for giving

us this opportunity to be heard.

It's been difficult getting

an opportunity to be heard.

There was a hearing

that was done

about elections integrity,

uh, sponsored by Mark Finchem.

We are caught between the desire

to trust the process

and the suspicion that it has

failed the people of Arizona.

The purpose of the hearing

was to seek truth,

take testimony, take evidence.

We knew that there was

something to this.

It wasn't a nothing burger.

It was, "Okay,

so let's continue

to go down this path."

The goal of this hearing

is to provide an objective forum

for constituents to hear

testimony and see evidence.

Hickman:

It angered me.

These are

my Republican colleagues,

and they've decided to go

and air out theories.

They were all

pushing the, the steal.

I mean, to me,

that's just a, a farce.

But, Giuliani's there,

Jenna Ellis,

and they put on their show.

This election was a conspiracy

that was hatched

by the crooked leaders

of the Democratic Party.

Hansen:

In this day-long event,

you see clownishly

bad assertions by them.

At one point, Giuliani claimed

that there was, like,

five million ill*gal immigrant

voters in Arizona,

a state that only had seven

million people in it to begin with.

Let's say there were

five million

ill*gal aliens in Arizona.

It is, um...

it's beyond credulity

that a few hundred

thousand didn't vote.

Let me spend just one minute

on Dominion.

The whole situation

with the Dominion machine,

it's really

a national security problem.

The Dominion slur

just continues,

but it didn't match up

with any of the facts

as we understood them

in Arizona at that time,

or even on subsequent review.

Trump (on phone):

Well, thank you very much.

I've been watching the hearings

and they're fascinating,

- incredible...

- (crowd cheering)

Rusty Bowers:

We went from that

to the meeting with Rudy

at the Senate building.

"Rudy, you remember

when you told me

you were gonna bring me

some proof? Have you got it?"

"No, I don't. Jenna,

do you have the proof?"

She goes, "Yeah, yeah,

we've got the proof."

She had a satchel.

"I don't have it with me.

It's probably back

at the hotel."

"Okay, thanks for

letting me come. I'm gone."

I knew what he wanted,

I knew what he was asking,

and I told 'em they had

to bring me the proof.

They didn't bring it. So...

I wasn't gonna do anything.

And then suddenly, I get flooded

with thousands of emails.

"Not only will you not have

a future in Arizona,

"I will personally see to it

that no member of your family

sees a peaceful day

ever again."

Just the most vile.

And I thought many times,

this is my side.

It's not the Democrats.

They're just laughing.

My side is coming after me.



Barr: One of the things

that sticks in my craw,

throughout the country

at the state level,

people responsible

ultimately did

what they thought to be right

and what the facts showed,

and these were Republicans.

And they have been, you know,

raked over the coals by Trump

and should be drummed

out of the party

which is an attempt

to convert the party

into a cult of personality.

It was really a despicable

posture for the president.

protester: Rusty Bowers,

everybody.

Bowers: I didn't cheat for

Trump, and I didn't break the law.

And suddenly there's a bunch

of people at our house,

at the end of the driveway.

protester:

Resign, brother! Resign, Rusty!

Bowers: Don't come

over. Don't come over.

protester:

Time to resign, buddy.

Bowers:

Don't come over.

I'm giving you fair warning,

don't come over.

They'd shout that

I was a pedophile.

- protester 1: Pedophile! Total pedophile!

- protester 2: He's a pedophile!

- neighbor: Go home!

- protester 3: Rusty Bowers is a pedophile!

neighbor:

You go home!

protester:

Rusty Bowers is a pedophile!

Bowers: I mean, the

whole thing was sad to me.

The damage we did to ourselves.

It was...

it was bad.



Trump (on phone): You would think

if you're in the Department of Justice,

this is the biggest thing

you could be looking at.

Where are they?

I've not seen anything.

Barr: He had been taking shots

at the Department of Justice

as we went along,

suggesting that the department

hadn't been looking

at the evidence of fraud.

I said to the president

that we had, in fact,

been looking into

credible allegations of fraud

when they came in.

And they're bullshit.

They're bullshit.

You know, he, he, uh...

didn't like that.

Maria Bartiromo: Where is the DOJ

and the FBI in all of this, Mr. President?

Shouldn't this be something

that the FBI

is investigating?

Are they?

- Trump: Missing in action.

- Is the DOJ investigating?

Trump: Missing in action,

can't tell you where they are.

He said the department

was missing in action.

I felt it was time to,

to say something after that.

reporter: Barr told the

Associated Press today, quote,

"We have not seen fraud

on a scale that could have

effected a different outcome

in the election."

Directly contradicting

the president's claims

that the election was stolen.

Barr: I went down

to the Oval Office.

The president was as mad

as I've ever seen him.

He was, uh, flushed

and, uh, breathing heavily.

And he said, "Did you say this?"

And I said, "Yes."

And he said, "Why?" And I

said, "Because it's the truth."

And he said,

"Yeah, but you, you know,

"pulled the rug out from me. This

is k*lling me. You must hate me.

You must hate Trump,

you must hate Trump."

I said, "No, I don't hate you,

Mr. President."

I said, "Look, you only have

five or six weeks to challenge

"the outcome

of a presidential election,

"and you wheeled out

this clown car of lawyers,

"and it's been a joke.

"And you've wasted

five of your six weeks,

"most of your time

on this nonsense

"about the Dominion machines,

on this bullshit theory."

There is Chinese technology

in the Dominion software.

"Your people are just

shoveling this sh*t

out to the American people."

And, um...

he was very resentful of this.

(laughs)

reporter: President

Trump made it very clear

that he's disappointed

in his attorney general.

He hasn't done anything, so...

He hasn't looked.

When he looks, he'll see

the kind of evidence

that, right now,

you're seeing in Georgia.

protesters: Stop the steal!

Stop the steal! Stop the steal!



Sterling: We were having

multiple protests.

Actually, I was standing

at this window

and looked out

and saw a guy with an AR-15.

- (cars honking)

- (protesters chattering)

(cheering)

We had been under as*ault

for about three weeks.

Some of our local elections officials

were being, you know, harassed,

if not flat-out threatened.

The venom was

kind of increasing.

(indistinct chatter)

And at that heightened state

of fear and anxiety,

I got a call from Dominion.

And she says, "Yeah,

one of our young contractors

has been sort of targeted now."

And I remember I was scrolling

through, and I found one.

It says,

"You've committed treason.

May God have mercy

on your soul."

And there was a GIF of a noose

slowly twisting with a little

bit of sunlight behind it.

But at that point, I snapped.

- (putting down mask)

- (sighs)

It has all gone too far.

I lost my temper.

A 20-something tech

at Gwinnett County today

has death threats

and a noose put out,

saying he should be

hung for treason.

Mr. President,

you have not condemned

these actions or this language.

This is elections. This is

the backbone of democracy.

And all of you who have not said

a damn word

are complicit in this!

Mr. President,

it looks like you likely

lost the state of Georgia.

We're investigating, there's

always a possibility, I get it.

And you have the rights

to go through the courts.

What you don't have

the ability to do,

and you need to step up

and say this,

is stop inspiring people

to commit potential

acts of violence.

Someone's going to get hurt.

Someone's going to get shot.

Someone's going to get k*lled.

Be the bigger man here.

Step in. Tell your supporters,

"Don't be violent.

Don't intimidate."

It has to stop!

It seemed to have this momentary

blip of like, (gasps)

everything sort of stopped

for a second.

But, it didn't slow down

the other side.

Thank you.

This may be

the most important speech

I've ever made.

Trump released his, like, long

video of all the claims again.

We have a company

that's very suspect.

Its name is Dominion.

You can press a button

for Trump,

and the vote goes to Biden.

What kind of a system is this?

It was just weird because

literally everything he had said

had been stuff I had debunked,

or people in Arizona

had debunked,

but he's saying it all again

'cause I guess you keep on

saying the same thing

over and over again,

if nobody's pushing back,

eventually people

will believe you.

I go from winning by a lot,

to losing a tight race.

It's corrupt.

All over the country,

people are together

in holding up signs.

"Stop the steal."

This election was rigged.

Everybody knows it.

Many people in the media,

and even judges,

so far have refused

to accept it.

Barr: After that, the president

continued to challenge

the process and try to set up

these, you know,

meetings with state legislators

and all that kind of stuff.

reporter: Today in Georgia,

Rudy Giuliani questioned

the security

of Dominion voting machines

before a state Senate

Judiciary Subcommittee.



Senator Ligon: Thank you,

Senator Harper, Senator Anderson...

Murphy:

A State Senate subcommittee

announced that they would

be holding a hearing.

So, we had state senators

saying, we're happy to take

some kind of public action

to let Donald Trump know

that they were trying to fight

for him here in this state,

to stop the process of Joe Biden

going on to become president.

We really appreciate

the opportunity

to get these facts out.

We've had some difficulty

- getting a hearing.

- Sterling: In Georgia,

we had a Republican governor,

a Republican Senate.

"Here's a place where we can

exert some real influence

and get our Republicans

to do things for us."

Ignoring the law.

Rudy Giuliani:

It's your responsibility

if a false and fraudulent count

is submitted to

the United States government.

And it's clear that the count

you have right now is false.

Sterling: People have

asked me, "What do you think

they were trying to do?"

They were hoping for a miracle.

Just keep everything alive.

Does it have to make sense?

No!

Just keep enough questions

and doubts out there.

What we are presenting to you

today are facts. Facts.

2,506 felons voted

illegally in Georgia.

They said that there was

thousands and thousands

of felons.

We found less than 74, so there

weren't over 2,000 felons.

Less than 74.

It's things like that.

They said there's 2,423

non-registered voters.

At least 2,423 individuals

to vote who were not listed

as registered.

There was zero.

Everyone was registered to vote.

10,315 or more individuals

to vote

who were deceased

by the time of the election.

They said that there was 10,000

dead people that voted.

At the time, when we began our

investigations, we found two.

Subsequent to that,

two years later,

we found two more.

That's a total of four.

One, two, three, four.

Not 4,000. Just four.

In Georgia, look at this

new surveillance footage

we'll be showing you.

Mysterious suitcases,

potentially filled,

we believe, with ballots,

well, rolled out

from under a table

after partisan

election observers

were asked to leave the room.

Sterling:

They had these videotapes

and they took out

this one little section

where somebody, quote-unquote,

took out "suitcases of ballots"

after everybody had

been told to leave.

So, I'm Jacki Pick,

and I'm here as a volunteer,

and going to explain to you

the evidence

that we have in terms

of fraud or misrepresentation.

You're looking at

one big room here.

What you're going to see

happen at about 11 o'clock.

Once everyone is gone,

coast is clear.

So now, they're gonna start

pulling these ballots out

from under this table.

What are these ballots

doing there,

separate from all

the other ballots?

And why are they only

counting them

whenever the place is cleared

out with no witnesses?

But, we can tell you that it

appears to be an aberration

from how the other ballots

were handled.

Murphy:

In reality, what happened

that evening on election night,

state officials

called over and said,

"It's getting late. Why don't

we shut it down for the evening

"and let everybody go home?

We'll start again

in the morning."

That decision was reversed

very quickly,

and so you see election workers

taking those ballots out of

state-approved ballot containers

and then beginning to

count those ballots.

By Rudy Giuliani's telling,

that was two election workers

telling all of the monitors

to go home

and then secretly counting the

ballots once everybody was gone.

"They're doing

something surreptitious.

"They're stealing the election.

Throwing the election

illegally to Joe Biden."

That was completely false.

(inaudible)

Sterling: And then there's

another part of it, too,

where there's

one of the workers there.

"Well, she ran these things

through over and over again."

And I'm like, yes,

that's a standard practice.

There was a mis-scan.

The standard operating procedure

is you take

that stack of ballots,

delete the batch you just did,

and send it back through.

That's what you do.

There's nothing

weird about this.

If you see, you have

multiple machines there,

and they're there for two hours.

So, you do the math.

How many ballots went

through those machines

in those two hours

when there was no one there

to supervise?

Sterling:

When you watch this video,

and you see these people

doing their jobs,

this is not the

"Ocean's 11" crew

engaged in the biggest heist

in history.

This is just people

who are tired

and trying to do their work.

That's all it is.



Giuliani: And when you look

at what you saw on the video,

which, to me, was a smoking g*n,

powerful smoking g*n...

Sterling: All these things

came up around this

because it was sort of sexy.

"We got video.

We caught 'em in the act.

This right here

is a smoking g*n."

Anybody who was honest

could look at that

and see what was happening,

but no one was interested

in being honest at that point.

(quiet murmuring)

I believe that they knew

they were lying,

they did it intentionally,

trying to mislead

the State Senate

and the people of Georgia

and the American people,

that there was some kind of giant

conspiracy happening in Georgia.

It was not true

when they claimed it,

and it's not true today.

How about those suitcases that

were pulled out from the table?

host: It's pretty hard to dispute

that there's something going on

that needs some explanation.

Murphy: So, this was being

shown on live cable news,

all across the country,

and that absolutely unwound

Republican voters

all across the country.

So, suddenly, it wasn't

just a Georgia situation.

This was a national situation.

The footage appears to show

poll workers

pulling ballots

out of suitcases.

I mean, what the hell?!

Well, Mayor Giuliani

rightly described it

as the smoking g*n in this case.

Today revealed the smoking g*n

we've been looking for.

- crowd (chants): Rudy! Rudy!

- (cheering)

Barr: The allegations

about the video.

You know, I asked the

US attorney down there,

BJay Pak,

to take a look at that.

BJay Pak: It was a

bombshell of an allegation.

So our independent investigation

into the facts of the case

showed that there was

no irregularity.



We debunked all the allegations.

There's nothing here.

The ballot boxes

were proper boxes,

there was no double counting,

and that this was

a "smoking g*n,"

was completely false.

There's overwhelming evidence

of fraud,

including now a smoking g*n

"bank robbery" videotape.

Pak: I don't know

what's in his mind,

but if anyone did

any kind of due diligence

about just watching

the whole video,

I think it would be very hard

to characterize that snippet

as something irregular going on.

I think that the public

was misled.

With me now is Georgia Secretary

of State Brad Raffensperger.

Now, you have been

on the receiving end

of a lot of gruff

from the president.

Raffensperger:

I went on Fox News.

"We followed the law,

we followed the Constitution,

and the president

came up short."

We did an audit of the race,

President Trump still lost,

then we did a full recount.

President Trump still lost.

I think that fired up

the president.

He wanted to have

a conversation with me.



Mark Meadows (on phone): Mr. President,

everybody is on the line, and just so...

This is Mark Meadows,

the chief of staff.

On the line

is secretary of state...

Murphy: He had the

White House chief of staff

on the line with him,

Mark Meadows.

The amount of pressure

that is implicit in a call

from the president

of the United States

to state officials,

under any circumstances,

is immense,

but when you throw in the fact

that he is calling

about the election

and telling them

that they got it wrong,

and that they know

they got it wrong,

that is something that has

never happened before.

Meadows: So, Mr. President,

now I'll turn it over to you.

Trump (on phone): Okay,

thank you very much. Hello, Brad.

If we could just go over

some of the numbers,

I think it's pretty clear

that we won very

substantially, uh, Georgia.

Although, I saw you

on television today,

and you said, uh,

that you found nothing wrong.

I mean, you know.

Raffensperger (on phone): Well,

Mr. President, the challenge that you have

is the data you have is wrong.

Some people didn't have

the political guts

just to tell President Trump

that he came up short.

Trump: They're going

around playing you

and laughing at you

behind your back, Brad,

whether you know it or not,

they're laughing at you.

There's no way I lost Georgia.

There's no way.

We won by hundreds

of thousands of votes.

You should want to have

an accurate election,

and you're a Republican.

Raffensperger: We believe that

we do have an accurate election.

Trump: No, you don't.

No, no you don't.

I think he was trying

to tell him,

"Put your thumb on the scale.

"Do something

to help us out here.

We're all Republicans here,

man. Come on."

But because it was so close,

and the margin was,

you know, 11,000-something.

Trump: Look, we need

only 11,000 votes.

Brad, what are we going to do?

We won the election,

and it's not fair to take it

away from us like this.

Raffensperger: We have

to stand by our numbers.

We believe our numbers

are right.

Trump:

Well, why do you say that?

Look, ultimately, I win, okay?

"Find me the votes. I don't care

who won the election,

make sure I won the election,

find me the votes."

Trump: So, what are we

going to do here, folks?

I only need 11,000 votes,

fellas. I need 11,000 votes.

Give me a break.

From my point of view,

he was putting pressure...

and the biggest part of it to me

was when he talked about

the legal jeopardy.

There was an

implicit threat there.

Trump: It's more ill*gal

for you than it is for them

because you know what they did

and you're not reporting it.

That's a, you know,

that's a criminal...

that's a criminal offense.

That's a big risk.

If they could have done

something in Georgia,

I understand that Arizona was

another focal point of theirs,

but I think that was...

If you get one to start rolling,

then you get dominoes.

The next one, the next one,

the next one.

But, at the end of the day,

we had to make sure

we stood firm on the facts.

We had to follow the law.

Follow the Constitution.

Was there pressure? Yes.

Was it uncomfortable? Yes.

Yes, it's Gabriel.

reporter: As some

have said, do you believe

that what happened

in that phone call

was an attack on democracy?

I'll leave other people to

make the decision on that.

I personally found it to be

something that was not normal,

out of place, and-and...

Nobody I know

who would be president

would do something like that

to a secretary of state.



(muffled cheering)

Bowers: Another thing

that's very important...

money.

For everybody

who's an election denier,

it's just like printing money.

Now, even though Election Day

has come and gone,

the Trump campaign

has continued to fundraise,

and Fox has just learned

that since Election Day,

the campaign, combined with the

Republican National Committee,

have raised $207 million

over the last 30 days,

just a huge number.

Those solicitations

and the poor folks who

they've got a hook

in their mouth

and they tug that hook

and out falls a few more coins

with Caesar's image on it.

I mean, it's...

It's... it's immoral.

It's... it's gross.

Trump: I just left Washington

to go to the Army-Navy game.

So, it was a rigged election.

reporter: When you look at

this fight, though,

you have 77% of Trump supporters

who believe you won

the election.

There's a rally right now

in Washington for that.

Trump: There are thousands

and thousands of people out there.

I had nothing to do with it.

I didn't kn... really know

they were forming.

They're forming.

The spirit, the liveliness,

the whole thing,

even the fundraising,

the money that's

pouring in to fight this.

reporter: Do you worry about

the country being divided?

Trump:

No, I worry about the country

having an illegitimate

president.

That's what I worry about.

They cheated like

nobody's cheated before.

They did things that

nobody has ever seen,

and we caught 'em.

But, you... but your guys have

been unable to prove it

- as of now, if something...

- Excuse me. Excuse me.

We've proven it.

Bill Barr, frankly,

did the wrong thing.

Bill Barr, I believe...

Not believe, I know,

had an obligation to set

the record straight.

I tendered my resignation

on December 14th,

the day the states

certified the election.

Today, Arizona's

11 presidential electors

are meeting to cast

their electoral college votes

for Joseph Biden.

Once the state

certifies the vote,

and the governor agrees with

that certification, that's it.

That really is the last

legal step in the process.

From my standpoint,

the election was over.

There was no way of undoing

the election results.

Happening today, the Electoral

College will cast their votes

to formally elect Joe Biden

to the presidency.

But President Donald Trump

is still insisting

he is not done fighting

to stay in office.

Barr: Then, it seemed

that he doubled down again.

That got me very concerned.

Are we gonna have

a constitutional crisis

where the president's

refusing to leave office?



Short: I'd say there were

a couple big moments

leading up to January 6.

It was weeks

of a pressure campaign

to overturn election results.

For many of the president

and his advisers,

it was sort of like throwing

spaghetti at the wall

and seeing whatever could hold.

The only last stop

on this particular excursion

was going to be January 6th.

Jacob: The vice

president presides over

the vote count on January 6th,

in the United States Congress,

but that vote count

is supposed to be a formality.

Short: Donald Trump,

he's not one who accepts loss.

Knowing that he would need to

find a scapegoat for that loss,

then it probably means looking

to pin it on the vice president.



Griffin:

Mike Pence, the reality was

he was a stabilizing force

throughout the Trump presidency.

If there was a fire

in the Trump administration,

you can be certain

that Mike Pence

was quietly behind the scenes

trying to put it out.

Barr: There couldn't have

been a loyaler vice president.

He was very conscientious

and wanted to do what was right

under the Constitution.

- (crowd cheering)

- crowd: Stop the steal! Stop the steal!

Stop the steal!

Stop the steal!

Stop the steal!

Stop the steal...



Short: January 4th, I receive

a call on Air Force Two

asking us to return

to the White House

and to take a meeting

with John Eastman, Greg Jacob,

the president,

the vice president, and myself.

At the meeting on the 4th

in the Oval Office,

John Eastman

was presented to us,

acting as an attorney

for the president.

I had one mission.

When the president called me

and asked me to represent him,

that was quite an honor.

It was a big deal.

Luckily, it wasn't the first

time I'd been in the Oval Office.

I'd been there in August 2019,

so it wasn't, you know,

looking around,

"Oh wow, look at this."

I was aware of Professor Eastman

as a constitutional law scholar,

uh, as well as one who was known

for taking aggressive positions

that might be

difficult to square

with constitutional

text and history.

That was my role, to give

the best constitutional counsel

that I could to the president

of the United States.

We have lots of

evidence of illegality

in the 2020 election.

That was all true.

We had, therefore,

an unconstitutional election.

The courts are not addressing

the unconstitutionality at all.

So, then we're looking at

are there any other

constitutional actors

who have some role that might

be able to address this?

By then, the only last

constitutional player

in the cycle that

could do something about it

was Vice President Pence.

Short: The purpose of the

meeting was going to be to explore

these novel legal theories

about the vice president's

role on January 6th.

The way it was offered,

it was to affirm

that the vice president

can unilaterally choose

which electors to accept

and which electors to throw out

from the various states.

Vice President Pence

has the authority

to determine the validity

of the electoral votes.

The circumstances then,

in my view,

warranted him exercising

the full scope of his power

to get this thing right.

We knew, at that point,

that the president's team

was presenting a lie

about what the vice president's

authority was.

It was almost like this, "Well,

nobody's ever tried this before.

So, why don't we try it?"

Jacob: The vice president

really played the role

during that meeting

of pushing back against

the invented theories

of Professor Eastman.

Greg Jacob, I think,

was an honest guy.

I think he, maybe,

genuinely believes

that the Founders would not

have assigned this power

to the vice president.

I think he's wrong about that.

(gavel bangs)

- (banging)

- (indistinct chatter)

(banging)

Jacob: When you see that

not a single vice president,

in our entire history,

has ever exercised an authority

to reject an electoral vote.

It would be very strange for us,

200 years into this project

of a republic,

to suddenly discover in 2020

that, oh, all along, it should

have been the vice president

who got to decide these things.

And that, essentially,

was the idea

that was ultimately being

pitched to us.

John Eastman shows up

on January 4th,

and that night, President Trump

takes the stage in Georgia

and says, "Boy, I sure hope

our vice president

comes through for us."

And I hope Mike Pence

comes through for us,

- I have to tell you.

- (cheering)

I hope that our great vice

president comes through for us.

Of course,

if he doesn't come through,

- I won't like him quite as much.

- (laughter)

It appeared that they eventually

came to the conclusion

that there was some avenue

by which

they could force the election

into Congress.

That was a rigged election,

but we're still fighting it,

and you'll see what's going to

happen. We'll talk about it...

Barr: Now, it's one thing

if there's strong evidence

the election was stolen,

but they felt that they didn't

really need the evidence.

You know, they could just

BS their way through it.

So, their endgame was foolish.

crowd: Fight for Trump! Fight

for Trump! Fight for Trump!

Hey, you know, it really is,

it's fight for our country.

It's really fight for our

country, not fight for Trump.

It's fight for our country

'cause that's what

we're fighting for.

Short: The president's and the

vice president's conversations,

while cordial,

became a little more terse.

That raised

a new level of anxiety,

knowing that we were

on a collision course

between the president

and the vice president.

At that point, it's like, okay,

this is where we're

gonna end up.

crowd: f*ck Antifa! f*ck

Antifa! f*ck Antifa! f*ck Antifa!

(indistinct yelling)



Jacob: The next

morning, January 5th,

there were a number

of unpleasant surprises.

Around 11:09,

President Trump tweets,

"The Vice President has power

to reject electors."

There was a degree of

increasing frustration

and bewilderment

at the situation

that we found ourselves in.

crowd:

Stop the steal! Stop the steal!

Probably more contentious,

was the evening of the 5th.

The president's team

had put out a statement

professing that

the vice president

sees this exactly

the same way as the president.

It was an outright lie.

It had no bearing in truth,

no bearing in reality

whatsoever.

But, I think it created

an expectation,

for a lot of Americans,

of something was gonna happen

on January 6th

that we knew

never was going to happen.

- (crowd cheering) - speaker (on megaphone):

We are the majority!

And Trump won! Trump won!

Short:

There was, sadly, a belief

that, uh, one is

above the rule of law.

In fact, at one point,

leading up to January 6th,

the night of the 5th,

the president opened the door

to hear the people

cheering outside.

(crowd cheering)

And said,

"Mike, you hear that?"

And said,

"Those people love us."

And the vice president's

response was,

"Those people also love the

Constitution, Mr. President."

I don't know how this

is going to end,

but if they want a fight,

they better believe

they've got one!

(crowd cheering)

We will prevail. Amen.

(cheering)

Jacob: Most people had no

idea prior to that point in time

that there even was

a January 6th vote count.

People stop paying attention

most of the time

after Election Day.

But now, there was going to be

this very public limelight

on things with people

raising questions

about whether that event

was being done properly.

crowd: Fight for Trump! Fight

for Trump! Fight for Trump!

- (overlapping yelling)

- (pepper spraying)



Freedom!

crowd:

Freedom!

Chansley:

Freedom!

(crowd cheering)

Let's have trial by combat.

John Eastman: Rudy and

I are brought up on stage.

Rudy's introduced,

and then he introduces me.

He's one of the pre-eminent

constitutional scholars

in the United States.

I remember the first kinda time

I saw it or paid attention

was when, um, John Eastman

took the stage.

America's Mayor. Wonderful.

(cheering)

I remember thinking, "You guys

sound just f*cking crazy."

- Hello, America! (chuckles)

- (crowd cheering)

The crowd's reaction,

they knew I was saying

something important,

so they cheered. You know?

All we are demanding

of Vice President Pence

is this afternoon, at 1 o'clock,

he let the legislatures of

the state look into this...

(applause)

(cheering)

Short:

At the end, under pressure,

Donald Trump's true character

came through.

I hope Mike is gonna do

the right thing.

- I hope so. I hope so.

- (crowd cheering)

Because if Mike Pence

does the right thing,

we win the election.

You're sworn to uphold

our Constitution.

Grisham: He doesn't

care about that stuff.

Certainly,

the Constitution to him

is like this old brown

piece of paper that's boring

and probably written funny.

He doesn't know or understand,

I think, most of it.

Trump: We're gonna walk

down, and I'll be there with you.

We're gonna walk down

to the Capitol.

Right when he said that,

I was like, "You f*ck."

Because I know him

and I knew he was not

gonna walk down there.

He is afraid of crowds.

He doesn't necessarily like

to be around his supporters,

despite what he says.

He's terrified of germs.

And, again, he knows

the power of his words

and I know his supporters,

by this chance,

the thought of their president

walking with them,

marching with them

to the Capitol

would be everything.

And so, right when

he said that I just, again,

was just pissed and disgusted.

Whatever was left in me broke,

and I resigned right then, yeah.

We will never give up.

We will never concede.

It doesn't happen.

You don't concede

when there's theft involved.

(crowd cheering)

And we fight.

We fight like hell.

And if you don't

fight like hell,

you're not gonna have

a country anymore.

Barr: I turned on the TV,

and I saw what was going on.

- I was completely outraged.

- (crowd cheering)

I felt he did precipitate

the whole affair,

and I thought

that was outrageous,

and his treatment of the

vice president was despicable.

(gavel bangs)

Madam Speaker,

members of Congress...

Jacob: Up until

the very last minute,

he hoped that he would be able

to persuade the president,

this time,

that he was just wrong.

That he couldn't overturn

the results of the election,

and that this meant that

they were going to have to

relinquish power, leave office,

uh, and think about the future.

(crowd chattering)

People had been sold an idea

that was not true,

and John Eastman,

he had had a causal effect

of helping to

convince those people

that the Capitol building

was a place worth going to

because that's a place

where there's a big decision

to be made this day.

protester:

We're coming for you!

I was, uh...

angry.

(crowd yelling)

crowd:

Hang Mike Pence!

Jacob: I actually

started drafting an email

to John Eastman saying,

"Thanks to your bullshit,

now we're under siege."

He said that, and I said,

"No, we're here

"because your boss wouldn't do

what was necessary

to let this thing

get aired out."

Uh, yeah, so...

- (glass breaking)

- (indistinct yelling)

speaker:

Mr. President, Senator.

Justice is comin', baby!

Freedom!

The vice president, he had been evacuated

off the Senate floor at that point.

The Secret Service

told the vice president

that we have a clear window

to escape right now.

The vice president said,

"You're not understanding.

I'm not leaving the Capitol.

We're gonna stay here."

2:30-ish,

we had seen the president's

tweet when he said,

"The Vice President didn't

have the courage

to do the right thing."

Part of me wonders

if he even cared

as long as he had

someone else to scapegoat

for his election loss.

Yeah!

Hey!

I cannot believe this guy

is standing there with a spear.

protester: This is our

Capitol. Let's be respectful to it.

Hickman:

Unbelievable.

I'm still...

I'm still shocked

with the images,

just to this day.

protesters:

Stop the steal!

protester 1:

Oh, my God.

(overlapping yelling)

protester 2:

There's a g*n! There's a g*n!

(yelling)

- (g*nsh*t)

- (echoing yelling)

Trump (on video over megaphone):

I know your pain. I know your hurt.

We had an election

that was stolen from us.

It was a landslide election.

Short:

It's important to have leaders

who believe in our rule of law.

Donald Trump has showed

that, uh, he fails that test.

Trump (on video): We love

you. You're very special.

But go home,

and go home in peace.

protester 1:

What's he saying?

protester 2:

He says go home.

Donald Trump has asked

everybody to go home.

Barr:

The President's behavior

was a betrayal

of his supporters,

and what he did was

irresponsible and shameful.

Mike Pence: Today was

a dark day in the history

of the United States Capitol.

- (crowd yelling)

- (flashbang pops)

The violence was quelled,

and the people's work continues.

The elected representatives of

the people of the United States

have assembled again

on the very same day,

to support and defend

the Constitution

of the United States.

At 8 o'clock

the Senate reconvened,

and we were going to do the work

of the people and get back to work.

Let's get back to work.

(applause)

(helicopter whirring)

reporter 1:

Former president Donald Trump

turned himself in

last night in Georgia

to face charges that he tried

to undermine the 2020 election.

Now, his mugshot joins

a gallery of images

taken of his alleged

co-conspirators.

reporter 2: Rudy Giuliani

facing a number of counts.

John Charles Eastman.

Jenna Ellis.

Sidney Katherine Powell.

Trump:

We did nothing wrong at all.

What has taken place here

is a travesty of justice.

We did nothing wrong.

I did nothing wrong.

Grisham:

Everybody's against him.

It's always, "Poor me, poor me,

I'm the victim."

And that is how I believe

he continues to

get through so much,

and he never gets "punished"

for a lot of the things

that happen.



I think that January 6th

is like a trailer to a movie.

That's the one thing with

Donald Trump I-I've learned.

You think he'll,

he'll just go this far

and there's not more.

There's always more.

He just takes it

as far as it will go.

We won in 2016,

and if you really remember,

and if you wanna

play it straight,

we also won in 2020.

(crowd cheering)

We are in a very dangerous place

heading into the next election.

If he loses, I don't think

that you can expect

that he's gonna

take it peacefully.

Of course, he's gonna

claim that it was stolen,

of course, he's gonna

say it was rigged,

and of course, he's going to

try to incite his followers

and his diehard loyalists

to the exact same kind

of actions as last time.

The notion that this time

he would, like,

take it like a champ

and admit he lost

is just ridiculous.

(crowd cheering)

Jacob:

In 2020, the line held.

You had people of character,

all of whom held the line,

and held to

constitutional principle.

crowd: f*ck Joe Biden!

f*ck Joe Biden!

Jacob:

Character matters.

The president

of the United States

is the most powerful office

under our Constitution,

and that is where character

is most important of all.

And you should never

put somebody into that office

that you don't have

trust and confidence

will follow the Constitution

and the law.

Because that could be the end

of the Republic.