4th January 6 hearing focuses on Trump’s intimidation of state officials

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

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The January 6 House Select Committee’s fourth hearing focused on how former President Trump tried to intimidate state officials to change the 2020 election results in Georgia and Arizona. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger testified that he “had to be faithful to the Constitution” and that “there were no votes to find” like Trump wanted. Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan joins AC360 to discuss what stood out to him from today’s testimony. Plus, The New York Times is reporting that the former President’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, told a documentary film crew in December 2020 that her father should “continue to fight until every legal remedy is exhausted” because people were questioning “the sanctity of our elections.” This contradicts what she told the committee, in the portion of her deposition that has been made public so far, when she said she “accepted” what Attorney General Bill Barr said about there being no voter fraud. New York Times Washington Correspondent Maggie Haberman tells AC360 the committee is expected to interview the filmmaker this week and it’s “unclear” what else is on their tapes that were turned over to the panel. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, I'm Anderson Cooper, along with my colleague, Jake Tapper.
0:10.3	Tonight we are going inside one of the most riveting days of testimony in the four days
0:14.4	of hearing so far.
0:15.7	The fourth hearing by the January 6th committee, there's just no other way to describe
0:19.7	what we saw today.
0:20.7	A series of Republican state officials put in country ahead of party, testifying the intense
0:25.5	pressure they were under by the former president and his allies help overturn the 2020 election.
0:30.8	This is also a deeply emotional day as well for many of these witnesses, some having to collect
0:35.3	themselves as they spoke about the toll their decisions have taken on themselves as well
0:40.8	as on their families having to withstand the demonstrations and threats of violence of
0:46.1	those inspired by the former president who are often quite literally outside their doors.
0:52.7	Some of those personal and damning testimony were heard today came from Arizona's Republican
0:56.8	Speaker of the House, Rusty Bauer's, his name.
0:59.3	He was one of those officials who was pressured directly by the former president's legal
1:03.2	advisors.
1:04.2	The officers offered more evidence today that they all knew their scheme was illegal.
1:09.3	He spoke of his refusal to help not only in terms of law, but also his faith.
1:13.9	Up to that time, it is a tenet of my faith that the Constitution is divinely inspired of
1:28.0	my most basic foundational beliefs.
1:32.0	And so for me to do that because somebody just asked me to is foreign to my very being,
1:39.7	I will not do it.
1:44.4	There was also a key moment of testimony during today's hearing that for the first time
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