And Laura Coates and this is CNN Tonight.

Look, there's a difference between believing something and wanting it to be true.

See, Donald Trump wanted it to be true that he won the 2020 election.

And he wanted it to be true that Fox News had not called Arizona for Joe Biden.

And he wanted it to be true that his hand-picked attorney general would come out publicly

to say that there was widespread voter fraud that would ultimately overturn the election results.

And he wanted it to be true that Rudy Giuliani's wild suggestion that he

proclaimed victory before all the votes were even counted would not be challenged by his campaign

manager or any of his advisors. A group we learned today was apparently on something called

team normal. And he wanted it to be true that someone stole a second turn from him,

not that he just lost the election. Now these are things that he wanted to be true.

But as I said, there's a difference between believing something and wanting it to be true.

Now the committee today set out to try to show the American electorate that Trump couldn't

possibly have actually believed any of the things he wanted to be true, not with advisor,

after campaign manager, after campaign lawyer, after deputy attorney general, after attorney general,

after secretaries of state specifically told him that none of it was true and told him more than once.

And for months that the emperor had no clothes on. Now test away from some of the people closest

to the ex-president that builds a case that Trump was well aware that he lost the election.

But went ahead anyway with a sham to scam the American people. They walked us through

who had Trump's ear on election night and beyond and who he turned a deaf ear to.

In the mirror was definitely intoxicated. There were suggestions by

I believe it was marriage liani to go to declare victory and say that we'd won it outright.

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