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Erin Burnett OutFront

Jan 6 committee providing DOJ with information on Trump team's fake electors plan

Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN

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4.4706 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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New details about the Justice Department's investigation into former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the election. Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the January 6 committee, tells CNN his committee is providing the DOJ with witness transcripts related to the effort to put up fraudulent electors from battleground states that Trump lost. And, Vincent Salazar, the father of Layla Salazar who was one of the children killed in the Uvalde school shooting, on his reaction to the released school surveillance video of law enforcement's response. 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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Out front next, fake electors. New details tonight about the Department of Justice's investigation

0:36.5

into Trump's plot to overturn the election.

0:39.4

Is Merrick Garland closer to a criminal indictment?

0:42.0

Plus Obama, in his own words, reprimanding the former White House doctor, his former White House doctor, Ronnie Jackson.

0:48.0

What did he say? And why did he lose his pool?

0:50.7

And it is the most closely watched Senate race of the year.

1:02.4

One candidate has been off the trail for two months and another is accused of spending more time in a neighboring state. What is going on? Let's go out front.

1:11.3

And good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett. Out front tonight, will Merrick Garland indict Donald Trump? Tonight a major clue into what Garland's investigators are focusing on, and that is Trump team's fake electors, those slates of

1:16.6

electors, fake electors from contested states. Benny Thompson, the chairman of the January

1:21.8

6th committee, telling CNN that his committee is providing the DOJ with witness transcripts

1:26.8

related to the effort to put up

1:29.0

those fraudulent electors from battleground states that Trump lost. Now, this, of course, was central

1:34.6

to Trump's scheme to overturn the 2020 election. And the committee has shown how wide-ranging the

1:39.9

actual plot was. They've even included testimony from the chairwoman of the Republican National

1:44.4

Committee describing a call that she received from the former president and his attorney, John

1:49.5

Eastman. He turned the call over to Mr. Eastman, who then proceeded to talk about the importance

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