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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Jan 6 committee: Trump WH counsel should testify

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Today, revelation after revelation from the House select committee investigating the January 6th insurrection. The Arizona House Speaker, the Georgia Secretary of State, his top deputy, all conservative, all giving new insights into the multi-layered Trump intimidation campaign to subvert the 2020 election. Rep. Adam Schiff from the January 6th committee joins to provide further insight into the fourth hearing. 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

You're watching the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, today revelation after revelation from the

0:09.0

House Select Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection.

0:12.6

The Arizona House Speaker, the Georgia Secretary of State, his top deputy, all of them, conservative

0:18.6

Republicans, all of them giving new insights into the multi-layered Trump intimidation

0:24.2

campaign to subvert the 2020 election.

0:26.8

I want to start the show with CNN's Caitlin Collins and Caitlin.

0:29.8

You're hearing from people in Donald Trump's circle.

0:33.3

What are you hearing from them?

0:34.6

Well, Jake, that call that was on full display today during this hearing was, of course,

0:39.2

the hour-long phone call that then President Trump had in January with these election officials

0:44.5

in the state of Georgia, mainly the Secretary of State, Brad Raffinsberger, who you heard

0:48.6

from today.

0:49.6

And I'm told that despite what you saw today, which was the committee playing clips of

0:53.5

that call with claims from Trump saying thousands of ballots had been shredded or thousands

0:58.3

of dead people had voted and then flashing to Raffinsberger saying, that's not true.

1:03.1

We checked that out.

1:04.3

That's also not true.

1:05.8

Trump has continued to defend that call.

1:07.7

He has said it was a perfect call.

1:09.8

He has told people he assumed it was being recorded.

1:12.4

There were attorneys on the line as they were in this hour-long call where he alternated

1:16.7

between asking for Raffinsberger to find these votes, thinly veiled threatening them when

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