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we won every single state house. we won congress. >> mr. trump repeated 30 times that he won the election. he said he could still win georgia if he would play along. >> look. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes. >> what was the president asking you to do? >> he was asking us to recall congratulate i believe it was. recall congratulate. but i am an engineer. anyone that is good with numbers, calculate all you want. >> what are we going to do here. i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. >> the word used by the president and the president's chief of staff, give me a break. cooperate. compromise. were they asking you to join
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them in a conspiracy? >> i guess maybe they were just trying to intimidate me into something. it wasn't going to happen. >> we have learned that the call, january 2nd was not mr. trump's first attempt. sources tell us that last month the president himself phoned one of the georgia secretary of state's investigators. a person briefed on the calls said mr. trump told the investigator they would be a national hero if they found evidence of fraud. but no evidence was found that could change the outcome of the election. still on the call with the georgia secretary of state, mr. trump badgered him with fantasies of criminality. >> the other thing, the dead people. so, dead people voted. and i think the number is close to 5,000 people. >> the president said that in the call 5,000 georgiians voted
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in the name of dead people. >> right. well, it was two. >> 2,000? >> no. two. >> a total of two. >> two people, right here. two dead people. not thousands. not hundreds. two people. >> how do you know that? >> because we went back and searched all of the death records. we had two people that passed away. we will investigate to see who the people were that fraudulent lie voted for those two dead people. >> that is one of dozens of investigations that were launched after the election by the georgia secretary of state. >> how would you describe the president's claims of vote frauds in georgia. >> fantastical. reasonable lacking of any factual reality. >> gabriel sterling, also a republican and trump voter is the chief operating officer for the secretary of state.
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>> you can seealked us through surveisurv surveillance video. >> there is no response. none. >> here giuliani is explaining to georgia state senators his selectively edited version of the video. >> when you look at what you saw on the video, which to me was a smoking gun. a powerful smoking gun. don't have to be a genius to figure out what happened. i don't have to be a genius to figure out those votes are not legitimate votes. >> the trumpampaws just a cp of veo that reveals cases filled with ballots being removed from under a table. >> america deserves an honest election. this is what they got. suitcases of ballots added in secret in georgia. >> gabriel sterling showed us that rudy giuliani was right.
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you don't have to be a genius to figure out what happened when you look at all of the video. sterling said the election workers were told before 10:00 election night they would be going home and would finish the count the next day. >> it is before 10:00. observers in the room are still there. >> republican and democratic observers visible on the video, the still uncounted ballots were placed in official boxes which were labeled locked with tamper-proof seals and stored below the table. >> they are packing up because they think they are going home. they are packing them up so nobody could mess with the ballots. >> less than an hour after the boxes were stored, sterling was told the staff had to keep counting through the night. the ballots were pulled out and counted. president trump's team always had the entire unedited video.
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>> from my point of view they misled the state senators and people of the united states about this to cause the conspiracy theory to keep going and keep the disinformation going which caused the environment we are seeing today. >> are you saying they lied? >> look them in the eye and lied. >> rudy giuliani knows that. he also, i believe, he has some ethical standards as a member of the bar and knows what he said wasn't true. but our state senate didn't ask us to come in there to rebut what they said and it was left as the gospel truth and it wasn't. it was fabricated. >> in the call president trump slanders one of the election workers in the video. a woman who georgia officials say is not expected of tampering with anyone. >> ruby freeman. she is a vote scammer. a professional vote scammer. hstler.
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ruby freeman. that is the name shown all over the world. >> the president claim freeman put the ballots hidden in suitcases through the counter three times resulting in 54,000 bogus votes. >> why did they put the votes in three times? >> mr. president they did not. we did monitor that and proved c conclusively they were not scammed three times. >> ruby freeman is in hiding because of death threats. >> i saw one that said a young man's name. you are a traitor. may god have mercy on your soul and a gif of a noose swinging. >> five weeks ago gabriel sterling addressed this directly to the president.>> what yave
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the first first lady to hold a job outside of the white house. >> it will make the first lady so much more like the rest of american women. now there will be someone who is living something so much closer to our lives. >> reporter: does it surprise you we are just now taking this step? >> sometimes we take baby steps as a nation to change things. >> reporter: anita mcbride was former chief of staff to laura bush and says throughout history each first lady defined her role, and many have broken the mold. >> human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights. >> reporter: taking on policy issues, sometimes to deal with current problems, and using their experience to create new initiatives. >> it has become harder and not easier to raise healthy kids in the country. >> each person changes it a little bit more.
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during the pandemic job losses, social distancing and stay at home orders have a lot of people consuming more alcohol than normal. many started 2021 with a resolution to stop drinking, at least for a month.
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>> after welcoming a new year, many people are now saying good-bye to alcohol. the try january challenge, including douglas waters. he just opened the alcohol-free bottle shop spirited away. >> i wanted to create a place for people that wanted to say that i don't want to be drinking as much as i am. >> reporter: alcohol use has surged during the pandemic. people are feeling more drink t the end of the workday at home. research from the and corporation released this fall found americans were drinking 14% more in 2020 compared to the previous year and heavy drinking
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among women for this study considered four or more drinks within two hours rose 41%. >> so, working from home has it obstacles ones it own. when the bar is at home there is less of a challenge to find a drink. >> there are so many benefits with a dry january. clearer skin, better sleep and elevated mood. >> reporter: a path to a healthier new year and a different kind of bu. >> that is the overnight news for this thursday. follow us online any time at cbsnews.com.
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it's thursday, january 14th, 2021. >> reporter: this is the "cbs morning news." historic rebuke. the house impeaches president trump for a second time. the latest message and what happens next. capitol security. the national guard arrives in the wake of possible violence. how president-elect joe biden is changing his plans ahead of inauguration day. covid ground zero. global scientists land in wuhan, china, overnight, to investigate how the deadly outbreak started. good morning, good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well president trump is now the only president i

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