"Jay Clayton versus simple questions about who won the 2020 election”
Deadline: White House
Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW
4.5 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. One of the defining missions of Donald |
| 0:11.4 | Trump's second term as president has been to do whatever he can think of to erase the |
| 0:18.0 | humiliation of his defeat in 2020 to President Joe Biden. Donald Trump has made it |
| 0:23.8 | abundantly clear what he wants in that regard from the nation's director of national intelligence |
| 0:29.5 | in helping him pursue that mission. But, you know, that is the person who heads the nation's |
| 0:35.1 | 18 intelligence agencies. That job is created after 9-11 to keep us safe. |
| 0:40.4 | And that is someone who, in Trump's view, should not just indulge his election conspiracies, |
| 0:45.8 | but help him act them out and relitigate the 2020 presidential election. Today, in his confirmation |
| 0:51.9 | hearing to be the next director of national intelligence on a |
| 0:55.1 | permanent basis, Jay Clayton did just that. He was repeatedly given opportunities to differentiate |
| 1:00.2 | himself from former DNI Tulsi Gabbard and current acting DNI Bill Pulte when it comes to their |
| 1:06.7 | attachment to Donald Trump's election delusions, and he could not answer the simple question |
| 1:11.1 | about whether Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Watch. Do you deny that Joe Biden won the 2020 |
| 1:19.2 | election? Senator, I'm not an election to deny a joke. Joe Biden was certified as the |
| 1:25.7 | president of the United States. Can you tell me why Joe Biden was certified as the president of the United States. Can you tell me why Joe Biden was |
| 1:32.2 | certified as the winner of the 2020 election? I really, I'm going back to my constitutional law here, |
| 1:43.1 | but I don't want to continue to have a debate |
| 1:45.3 | about this, but I believe he had the most electoral votes. |
| 1:49.3 | So he won the election. |
| 1:50.9 | He followed our process, had the most of electoral votes, was declared the winner, and |
| 1:56.2 | who has the most electoral votes? |
| 1:58.7 | Is it the person that wins or the person that loses? |
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