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Hey, good morning, playbookers on Rugu-Movalon. It's Monday. We'll tell you what to expect from

day two of the January 6th committee hearing. It's your Politico Playbook Daily briefing.

Just before 2.30 a.m. on November 4th, 2020, then President Donald Trump went before a group of supporters at the White House and prematurely declared victory over Joe Biden in an election he ultimately lost.

Today at 10 a.m., that moment, and the avalanche of lies about the election that followed, will be front and center as the House committee investigating the January 6 attack.

One, highlights the origins of the big lie about the 2020 election.

Two, shows how it spread.

And three, attempts to prove that in the weeks and months following election day,

even as Trump continued to falsely claim that he'd actually won, he privately knew he'd lost,

and that his public insistence otherwise led to the insurrection.

Here's what'll go down in today's big hearing. First up, the logistics.

Chair Betty Thompson will helm the hearing, though Representative Zill Lofgren will play a, quote,

key role in presentations per committee aids. Unlike what we saw Thursday night,

today will be a more traditional congressional

hearing with two separate panels of witnesses testifying. The first panel has just two witnesses.

Bill Steppian, Trump's 2020 campaign manager, whose participation was a surprise when announced

Sunday, and two, Chris Steyerwald, the former political editor at Fox News, who defended the network's

decision to call Arizona for Biden before its competitors did and was fired by the company

in January 2021.

Foxes maintained that his dismissal was part of a corporate restructuring.

The two big questions here.

It's Stepion a friendly or hostile witness.

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