I'm Laura Cote and this is CNN Tonight.

You know, when it comes to persuading your jury, here's what every prosecutor knows.

You tell them what you're going to tell them.

You tell them that and then you told them what you told them.

But beware, the jury is going to have to keep you honest and they will hold you accountable.

That's why for so many, you under promise and then you over deliver, which leads you right

to that moment when you have more than satisfied your burden of proof.

There's no room for any reasonable doubt.

Well, last night's hearing was that tell them what you're going to tell them, part.

Now, there were moments where they teased the actual telling, the testimony of prominent

figures who were relevant, not just because of their proximity to then President Trump,

but also maybe for the role they played within the government, maybe as a member of Congress

or a White House aide or maybe they were playing the role of lawyer in a courtroom trying

to convince the judge of a big lie.

I wonder if it surprised any of you to see testimony as part of that tell-em-part from one

time Trump loyalists like former Attorney General Bill Barr, calling Trump stolen election

like, quote, bullshit, unquote.

With it surprising to hear, say Ivanka Trump, even saying that she believed Barr, saying

that she respected him.

Over her own father, she believed, and when it came to his unsubstantiated claims of mass

voter fraud, it altered her perspective, I believe she said.

Did it further surprise you that to see her own father pushing back at her testimony today

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