arizona house leader said the idea would undermine undermine the rule of law. the campaign against -- president trump invited that delegations from michigan and pennsylvania to the white house. >> if you make a point to the president you are not going to do anything that violated michigan law. >> i believe it. whether or not those exact words were used. i think the words i'd likely use if we are going to follow the law. >> nevertheless pressure continued. the next day president trump tweeted,, quote hopefully the courts and or legislature will have the courage to do what has to be done. he posted multiple messages on facebook listing the contact information for state officials, urging his supporters to contact them to, quote, we demand a vote on the certification. in one of those polls, president trump disclose your personal phone number to his millions of followers. >> all i remember is receiving over just shy of 4000 text messages in a short period of time. calling to take action. there was a loud noise, a consistent cadence. we hear the trump folks are callin

arizona in 2020. yes, sir. thank you. but so it affects him 5 c 8 of house resolution 503. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california with the ship for questions . speak a bowers. thank you for being with us today. before we begin with the questions that i have prepared for you, i want to ask you about a statement that former president trump issued out which i received just prior to the hearing. i have you had a chance to review that statement. i my counsel called from arizona and read it to me. yes sir. in that statement i will read it in its entirety of former president. trump begins, i call you a rhino republican, the name only. he then references a conversation in november 2020 in which he claims that you told him that the election was rigged and that he had won arizona. but to quote, to the former president, during the conversation, he told me the election was rigged and that i won arizona, unquote. did you have such a conversation with the president? i didn't have a conversation with the president. i'm. that certainly isn't it. that there were parts of it that

. >> we heard from republican arizona house speaker, rusty bowers, as talked about resistant pressurelp overturn the 2020 election. bowers told the committee he supported trump, but today, he said something very different about supporting trump. he said this about his conversation that he had with the former president. >> to quote the former president during the conversation, you told me that the election was rigged, and that i won arizona. unquote. did you have such a conversation with the president? >> i did have a conversation with the president. that certainly isn't it. there were parts of it that are true. but there are parts that are not, sir. >> anywhere, anyone, any time, has said that i said that the election was rigged. that would not be true. >> and when the former president in his statement today claimed that you told him that he wants arizona, is that also false? >> that is also false. >> trump put out two false statements just before we heard from bowers. he also told the committee about a phone call that he had with, and giuliani, after the election. >> mr. giuliani cam

about that would be just as upset about people who are enforcing the law as the speaker of the arizona house secretary of state in georgia or shaye moss, and say anybody that goes to their houses or threatens them, that it's just as contemptible. >> rud ruby freeman had to leavr house for months. these are not people who have huge resources. >> and shaye moss, who said her grandmother, that they were coming to the house and attacking her. >> and she felt responsibility for all of that, and you can understand that. but i think this was also all of these personal stories about how when the guardrails come off, was also aimed at the justice department. the justice department, a lot of people on this committee believe, have been slow walking a lot of things. they have also prosecuted over 800 people, because of january 6th. and if you look at these stories, and you say, look at the harm, look at the harm that was done by the lies that trump and his allies were peddling to decent, honest people, trying to do their jobs. look at the result, and you can see it as leading up to what happened to janu

amy: republican arizona house speaker rusty bowers, longtime trump supporter.his daughter casey bowers died january 20 8, 20 20, a few weeks after the january 6 insurrection. we come back, we will hear more testimony from the public hearing, including the black election worker and her mother in georgia whose lives were forever changed president trump claimed the women helped rig the vote when he lost georgia. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "mother i sober" by kendrick lamar. this is democracy now! i'm amy goodman. during tuesday's hearing of the house select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capitol, members laid out the argument that then-president trump and his campaign "were directly involved in advancing and coordinating the plot to replace biden electors with fake electors not chosen the voters." this is a video presented as evidence that features casey lucier, an investigative counsel for the committee, outlining details of the plan to organize fake electors for ump in states that he had lost. it includes comments fro

bowers began his prime minister, president trump launched an attack against him saying arizona speaker of the house bowers is the latest rino to play along with the unselect committee. november 2020, bowers thanked me for getting him elected, he told me the election was rigged and i won arizona. bowers disputed that saying that is not the conversation he had with him at all. and you can tell through bowers entire testimony he believed he was asked to do something illegal and said he was absolutely not going to do it despite the fact he was a big president trump supporter and wanted the president to win re-election. >> bret: exactly, good afternoon. i think this is compelling system from a republican who is the leader of the house of representatives in the state of arizona, who was being asked by trump officials, including rudy giuliani and jenna ellis and others, in a conversation he asked for specific evidence from rudy giuliani, rudy giuliani said there were thousands of dead people who voted in arizona, bowers wanted names. he said hundreds of thousands of illegals in arizona and he wanted the e

just heard from the republican speaker of the house of arizona, rusty bowers. still to give testimony today officials from george including secretary of state brad raffensperger. if you missed any of the units we will be showing it again this evening at 9 p.m. eastern on c-span. members have been focusing on how former president trump pressured georgia and arizona officials to influence the outcome of the vote in those states. again the hearing expected to resume shortly. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the genuine six committee is in a short break. memb

the gripping testimony from the republican house speaker in arizona. who was a staunch supporter of the former president's, then standing up to him, telling trump and rudy giuliani, "what you want me to do has never been done in u.s. history." what then happened to him and his family. and the elections workers, a daughter who always worked elections, recruiting her mother, ruby freeman, to work, too. their names used over and over by giuliani and the former president. what happened to their lives. the former president using ruby's name 18 times on one call. they never did anything but count the votes. >> do you know how it feels to have the president of the united states to target you? >> jonathan karl standing by tonight. >>> also breaking tonight, the scathing new details revealed after the uvalde school shooting. authorities calling the response a failure, saying armed officers inside the school could have stopped the gunman three minutes after it began. they were waiting to unlock a classroom door, authorities say, that wasn't even locked. mireya v

republican arizona house speaker described how painful it was to have friends turn on him "with such rancor" after he refused to overturn bidens win and how a pistol toting man threatened his neighbor during protests outside of the home. form a majority election worker testified about the racist threats and death wishes she received after becoming the focus of a trump conspiracy theory. they write -- former congress -- adam schiff called the election results -- we will hear from the testimony this hour for those who testified yesterday. first to comment some adam schiff as the hearing got underway. >> the president's lie was and is a dangerous cancer on the body politic. if you can convince americans that they cannot trust their own elections and any time they lose it is somehow illegitimate, than what is left but violence to determine who should govern. this brings us to the focus of today's hearing. when state elections officials refused to stop the count, donald trump and his campaign tried to put pressure on them. state executive officials refused to certify him the winner of sta

committee has heard testimony from georgia sector of state, as well as arizona's state leadership, arizona's house speaker russell bowers. a long time republican has spoken about a phone call with president trump after the election. he says, trump pushed for his team to be allowed into the state capitol to present what they called evidence a vote of fraud. but he refused. up to that time the, the circus i called with the circus, had been brewing with lots of demonstrations. both of the counting cetera at the capital and other places. and i didn't want to have that in the house. i did not feel that the ovens granted in its absence, merited a hearing and i didn't want to be used as a paul. i didn't know castro has more from capitol hill. what's notable is kind of the lopsided balance of power. here you had the president of the united states personally calling these election officials who are republican in the swing states that had gone to joe biden. and we heard from that top election official in georgia, brad rapids, burger describing this phone call from trump, in which trump deliberately asked fo

the republican speaker of the arizona house of representatives. you will tell us about his conversations with the president, rudy giuliani and john eastman and what the president's team asked of him and how his oath of office would not permit it. you will then hear from brad reference burger, the republican secretary of state of georgia, who trump directed to quote, find 11780 votes that did not exist, but just the exact number of votes needed to overtake joe biden. you will also hear from gabriel sterling, the chief operating officer, his chief operating officer about this various claims of fraud in the elections in georgia. and who responding to a cascading set of threats to his elections team warned the president to stop that someone was going to get killed. and you will hear from one drea, one dreyer's seamus, a former local elections worker in fulton county, georgia about. busy how all of the lies about the election impacted the lives of real people who administer our elections. and still do, you will hear what they experienced when the most

one of them was the speaker of the arizona house of representatives, rusty bowers.ve various groups come by, and they have had video panel trucks with videos of me, proclaiming me to be a paedophile and a pervert, and a corrupt politician. and blaring loudspeakers in my neighbourhood, and leaving literature both on my property and arguing and threatening with neighbours, and with myself. one gentleman that had the three bars on his chest, and he had a pistol and was threatening my neighbour — not with the pistol, but just vocally — when i saw the gun, i knew i had to get close. we had a daughter who was gravely ill, who was upset by what was happening outside. and my wife's a valiant person, very strong, quiet, a very strong woman. that was rusty bowers. the hearing also heard from election workers, who said they had been falsely accused of carrying out a fake ballot scheme to skew the vote, which had led to them facing intimidation and death threats. shaye moss and her mother ruby freeman worked in georgia state and ruby freeman spoke of how mr trump's involvement

the first witness is the arizona state house speaker. aides say bowers will share critical new details about trump's demands and even harassment as the president sought to decertify biden's legitimate and legal win and republican-led arizona. the georgia secretary of state will also testify live. he famously went public with a phone call from trump. trump asking him to, quote, find enough votes to take away joe biden's legal and legitimate win in georgia and concoct an illegitimate trump win. another georgia election official will appear before the committee. you might remember sterling on december 1st, 2020. he publicly pleaded with trump to stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence. someone is going to get hurt, someone is going to get killed, end quote. all three of the witnesses are conservative republicans who supported trump's election, but also support the constitution and would not help trump subvert it. shane moss will testify she and her family were targeted with death threats after trump and his allies falsely

testified to the house committee investigations 4th hearing into last year's capitol hill. riot. arizona's house speaker says trump pushed for his team to be allowed into the state capitol to present what they called evidence of voter fraud. that he refused. up to that time the, the circus i called with the circus, had been brewing with lots of demonstrations, both at the counting center at the capital and other places. and i didn't want to have that in the house. i did not feel that the evans granted in its absence, merited a hearing and i didn't want to be used as a pon, idaho, castro has more on the test made from capitol hill. we're seeing these republican state election officials, i described the many times that they were called, they said at our all hours of the night by president trump's aids pressuring them sometimes by president trump, himself, up pressuring them to either decertify their state election result. they had gone to joe biden or to open investigations into a quote unquote voter fraud when there was no evidence of it. ministers in israel's outgoing government to avow to preve

of the most compelling testimony came from a man named rusty bowers who is the sitting arizona speaker of the house. arizona, of course one of the few states that decided the election going for joe biden by about 10,000 votes. yesterday speaker bowers described extraordinary campaign he was subjected to, trying to coerce him into overthrowing the result. it began shortly after the election, a phone call from donald trump and rudy giuliani, claiming proof of fraud in arizona. they wanted speaker bowers to hold a hearing on this alleged evidence. >> the ones i remember were first that we would hold, but i would allow an official committee at the capitol, so that they could hear this evidence and that we could take action thereafter. and i refused. i said, after that time, the circus, i call it a circus, had been brewing. with lots of demonstration, both the county center, the capital, and other places. and i did not want to have that in the house. i did not feel that the evidence, its absence, merited a hearing. and i did not want to be used as a pawn. >> of course none of that evidence ever turned u

testified to the house committee investigations 4th hearing into last year's capitol hill, riot. arizona's house speaker says trump pushed for his team to be allowed into the state capitol to present what they called evidence of voter fraud. but he refused. up to that time the, the circus i called with the circus, had been brewing with lots of demonstrations. both of the counting center of the capital and other places. and i didn't want to have it in the house. i did not feel that the ovens granted in its absence, merited a hearing and i didn't want to be used as a pon. i didn't, castro has more on the testimonies from capitol hill where seeing these republican state election officials, i described the many times that they were called, they said at our all hours of the night by president trump's aids pressuring them sometimes by president trump. himself, are pressuring them to either decertify their state election result. they had gone to joe biden or to open investigations into a quote unquote voter fraud. when there was no evidence of it. ministers in israel's outgoing government to have out t

house. >> here is what and who to watch for 60 minutes from now. state republican officials from arizona, the house speaker, and from georgia, the secretary of state brad raffensperger and his deputy who faced pressure from former president trump and his inner circle of election deniers in the week after joe biden was rightfully declared the winner of the 2020 race. the committee is going to introduce the country to the woman you see on the right, a georgia elections worker who along with her mother faced down threats to her safety after being accused of being part of a conspiracy theory involving fake ballots, debunked, by the way. >> most of the discussion heading into today's hearing surrounds brad raffensperger who won a primary earlier this month. raffensperger was facing deep discontent from some trump supporters for pushing back on donald trump in the days before the january 6 insurrection, refusing the former president's request to, quote, find the votes trump needed to win that state. >> i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state.

this is the arizona house speaker rusty bowers testifying in front of congress last week issue in any was rigid. that would not be true. there was no -- no evidence being presented of any strength, evidence can be hearsay evidence, it's still evidence but it's still hearsay. but strong judicial quality evidence, anything that would say to me you have a doubt, deny your oath. i will not do that. >> bret: is he a republican. he is a trump supporter. and that's what he said. >> is he a rino. and he hopefully will be defeated. he is an absolute rino. karen fan admits there were issues with the election it can't be certified. here what happens we have 740,000 ballot that have no chain of custody. they cannot be authenticked and they should not have been counted. 34,000 ballots that were counted two, three and four times. people who moved still voted in our election. there is a mountain of evidence and i wish that the corporate media would start covering it instead of putting their head in the sand and acting like it didn't happen. we know what happened here. just because we have a r ino sa

today the committee will hear from four witnesses, russell bowers, speaker of the arizona house of representatives, brad raffensperger, georgia secretary of state, gabriel sterling, ceo of the georgia secretary of state's office, all republicans. and a former georgia elections department employee who served in a nonpartisan position. today's coverage of the january six committee and all of c-span's programming is brought to you as a public service by the cable industry. and, these television companies including verizon, comcast, and charter communications. and a reminder if you need to step away from your tv you can follow all of today's hearing on the go with c-span now. congressional sessions and speeches, conferences and hearings, all on your phone with c-span now. our free video app. as witnesses are gathered just waiting for the january six committee just artist next hearing, today focusing on efforts to pressure officials from georgia and arizona to help president trump change election results. california congressman adam schiff will lead the questioning for the committee today. witnesses in

republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger and just in to cnn, a source telling cnn that arizona's house speaker will testify. this is a republican who supported donald trump's 2020 run but refused to go along with the scheme to reverse biden's win in arizona. joining me now is a member of the january 6th committee. democratic congresswoman zoe lof ag gren. great to have you on. thank you so much. i'm guessing we'll hear more than just the audio of trump saying find me 11870 votes. what are you hoping to hear from him? >> we want to hear about the entire pressure campaign. it was georgia, but it went -- was in other states as well. and we will get information about this broad effort to illegally seize the election, even though he -- seize the presidency even though he lost the election. as you can tell from the first hearings, there are different w ways he tried to do that, by pressuring the vice president and failing and now we'll hear about his pressures on the states to replace the electors chosen by the voters with trump non-elected e heclectors. >> i noticed throughout the hearings

that one was arizona house speaker rusty bowers during the house collect committee gathering. of 2020 amid the pressure from donald trump and his allies. joining us now white house editor for politico, our friend sam stein. sam, you brought some new polls for us, which we appreciate. >> right. >> as the january 6th committee hearings continue, 69% say the attack on the u.s. capitol impact third world view. tell us what that means and how significant it might be. >> well, it's a pretty big number, obviously, for an event that happened a year and a half ago. down a little bit since we tested it a little while ago but still fairly high. i would just caution, though, if you look at it broken down a little more by party, you get a more nuanced sense of what's happening here. at least because of the election, democrats are paying more attention than republicans. in terms how much did you hear. 50% heard about the hearing. 56% of them are democrats, 25% are republicans. some that may be that the first hearing was not carried by fox news live, at least. but you see it across the board

andy biggs, the conservative republican congressman from arizona, and rusty bowers, the arizona house speaker and asked him to decertify the election. something bowers stood up against, the donald trump pressure campaign, saying he would try to overturn the will of the electorate that voted for joe biden in his state and reach andy biggs about this yesterday and he would not comment. ron johnson, wisconsin republican senator, a different situation involving him. his top aide on the morning of january 6th, 2021, urged, how johnson could deliver a package to pence that would have essentially electors from the states of michigan and wisconsin, two states that joe biden won, essentially overturn the electoral results when this scheme went into effect. when i caught up with johnson yesterday, downplayed this and said it was a non-story and saying he didn't know who actually pushed them and asked them to deliver this information to mike pence. listen. >> offer without even vetting it. >> we got handed, the vice president, so we called out to vice president. he didn't want it. we didn't deli

arizona's house speaker has spoken about a phone call with president trump election. he says trump pushed for his team to be allowed into the state capitol to present what they called evidence of voter fraud but he refused. >> i called this the circus. it had been brewing with lots of demonstrations at the capitol and other places. i did not want to have that in the house. >> castro has more from capitol hill. >> this is the lopsided balance of power here. you have the president of the united states personally calling these election officials who are republican in the swing states who have gone to joe biden. we heard from that top election official in georgia, brad raffensperger describing this phone call in which trump deliberately asked for one more vote than what joe biden had in georgia. i asked for his response to that. he said he followed the law and it was simply no votes to be found despite the pressure to find those boats by president trump and he suffered personal consequences to that. he says his wife was harassed and his daughter-in-law had broken into. a

georgia and his deputy are expected to testify, as well as arizona's house speaker.e will have live coverage at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span three. you can stream the hearing on the three -- free video app or online at c-span.org. >> wednesday, federal reserve chair jerome pyle -- powell will testify on the nation's economy. watch live coverage 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span free or online at c-span.org. we take you live now to the u.s. capitol, where the houses is about to gavel in for general speeches. later today, members are expected to consider 11 bills, including a measure to create an amber alert like system for active shooter event. live coverage of the u.s. house, here on c-span. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker.

today, we'll be hearing from arizona house speaker rusty bowers who resisted the pressure from trumpd his allies and georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger who trump tried to push to find votes just days after the attack on the capitol. moments ago nbc news learned that the committee subpoenaed alex holder who had access to the former president before and after january 6th this comes a day after abc news/ipsos poll shows 6 in 10 voters feel trump should be charged with the attack. and two people familiar with the matter, "rolling stone" trump has told people close to him that he sees no reason to publicly defend john eastman. and trump and rolling stone did not respond to the comment. joining us ali vitali. "the new york times" katie vetter and haley weinstein, a former prosecutor in new york. both are contributors. ali, what does the committee hope to learn from alex holder? >> reporter: our sources are confirming to us in just the last few minutes that alex holder, a documentarian, who went time with trump in days before the insurrection as well as after has been subpoenaed

. >> reporter: rusty bowers, the republican arizona house speaker testified that trump, rudy giuliani, congressman andy biggs and others pressured him to decertify biden's win in his state. biggs ignored cnn's question about it. bowers said giuliani never provided evidence of their conspiracy theories, even admitting there was none. >> what exactly did he say and how did that come up? >> my recollection, he said we've got lots of theories, we just don't have the evidence. i don't know if that was a gaff or if he didn't think through what he said. afterwards we kind of laughed about it. but i do not take this current situation in a light manner, a fearful manner or avengeful manner. i do want to be a winner by cheating. >> reporter: trump's lawyer don eastman allegedly told bowers to just replace the electors even if he did not have the authority. >> he said just do it and let the courts sort it out. i said you're asking me to do something that's never been done in history, the history of the united states, and i'm going to put my state through that without sufficient proof? >> reporte

we learned in the fourth january 6 hearing. >> this is a tragic parody. >> reporter: that's how arizona houseer rusty bowers described efforts by former president trump and his allies to pressure him to overturn the 2020 election, which he ultimately resisted. >> you're asking me to do something against my oath, and i will not break my oath. >> reporter: bowers, a lifelong republican, who voted for trump, described least two phone calls from the former president and his attorney rudy giuliani, asking him to review fraudulent claims of undocument immigrants and dead people voting. >> do you have names? yes. "will you give them to me?" "yes." the president interrupted and said, "give the man what he needs." >> did you ever receive from him that evidence. >> never. >> reporter: he faced additional pressure to set up a session to decertify the state electors. >> when you learned the electors had met and sent their electoral votes to washington, what did you think? >> i thought of the book "the gang that couldn't shoot straight." >> reporter: even some of trump's own campaign team refused to go al

i worked with rusty bowers when i was a spokesperson for the arizona house of representatives. he is a man of integrity and great honesty. and you can count on exactly what he said as being true which is why the former president tried to undermine him. and second, while i agree that giuliani and jenna ellis and that whole cabal of lawyers were doing the deeds, president trump would have known. nobody did anything without his knowledge because you were too afraid to try and move without his knowledge and his go ahead. i think that's something to consider, as well. >> all right. certainly will. next hearing is tomorrow. stephanie, renata, thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> so a mixed bag when it comes to the latest primaries. while alabama embraced former president trump's picks, georgia opted out and backed his candidate's opponents instead. so the fallout of all that, what it means next. three times the electorlytes and half the sugar. ♪ pedialyte powder packs. feel better fast. before treating your chronic migraine— 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hour

right. arizona's house speaker says trump pushed for his team to be allowed into the state capitol to present what they called evidence of voter fraud. and he refused. not up to that time the, the circus i called with the circus had been brewing with lots of demonstrations. both of the counting center at the capital and other places. and i didn't want to have that in the house. i did not feel that the evidence granted in its absence, merited a hearing and i didn't want to be used as a pon. how did your castro has more on the testimonies from capitol hill? where seeing these republican state election officials describe the many times that they were called, they said at our all hours of the night by president trump's aids pressuring them sometimes by president trump, himself, up pressuring them to either decertify their state election results. i had gone to joe biden or to open investigations into a quote unquote voter fraud when there was no evidence of it. and you could see in the responses of these election officials, he's was these republicans what a difficult position that put them

. >> reporter: the speaker of the arizona house of representatives testified to a pressure campaign byrump and giuliani to call a special session to overturn the election results. representative rusty bowers testified he was never provided with any evidence of these claims despite asking repeatedly. still, eastman called bowers again in january asking him to decertify the results. >> i said you're asking me to do something that's never been done in history, the history of the united states, and i'm going to put my state through that? without sufficient proof? no, sir. he said, well, that's -- my suggestion would be just do it and let the courts figure it all out. >> reporter: the committee unveiling never before seen text messages from an aide to republican senator ron johnson. >> this staffer stated that senator johnson wished to hand deliver to the vice president the fake electors votes from michigan and wisconsin. the vice president's aide unambiguously instructed them not to deliver the fake votes to the vice president. >> i had no involvement in a slate of electors, i had no idea

january 6th hearing about a pressure campaign by president trump and rudy giuliani starting with arizona housety bowers who disputed a statement by the form president that bowers had told him the state's election was rigged. >> -- anyone, anytime has said that i said the election was with rigged, that would not be true. howard: sorry, we started, let's go to president biden speaking at the g7 in germany. >> managing global energy needs, taking on the climate crisis, dealing with the spread of diseases. and the choices we make now, in my view, are going to set a direction of our world for several generations to come. these challenges are hard for all of us, even nations with resources of the g7. but developing countries often lack the essential infrastructure to help navigate global shocks like a pandemic. so they feel the impact more acutely, and they have a harder time recovering. and our deeply connected world that's not just a humanitarian concern, it's an economic and a security concern for all of us. that's why one year ago when this group of leaders met in cornwall, we made a commitment.

among key witnesses, arizona house speaker, rusty bowers, who says president trump asked him to change the state's law to choose different electors. bowers also received an email from supreme court justice clarence thomas' wife, ginni, asking to reverse mr. trump's election loss, according to "the washington post." the committee has requested an interview with her. >> she said publicly she looks forward to coming in and talking to us so i take her at her word that she intends to come in. >> reporter: georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger will testify about, among other things, the now infamous phone call he received from the president. >> i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. >> reporter: four witnesses are scheduled to testify later today. that testimony is expected to include death threats they received due to false claims of fraud by former president trump. facing pressure to file charges against the former president and some of his staff, the u.s. district attorney and justice department say they are watching the hearings. mr. trump's actions in

republican arizona house speaker rusty bowers choking up today when describing to the committee why he wouldn't go along with the scheme saying to do so would be foreign to my very being. bowers and other witnesses including a georgia election worker vilified by some trump supporters recounting the lies, threats and backlash they faced. that's where we start tonight with garrett haake. >> reporter: the january 6th committee today outlining a scheme they say began well before the attack on the capitol. pressuring key state officials to find trump votes or send fake pro-trump electors to washington from states joe biden won. >> anyone who got in the way of donald trump's continued hold on power after he lost the election was the subject of a dangerous and escalating campaign of pressure. >> reporter: republican officials in pennsylvania and michigan describing the aggressive push from trump allies to intervene. >> all of my personal information was dumped online. >> all i remember is receiving just shy of 4,000 text messages over a short period of time calling to take action. >> reporter

2020 election. >> i will not break my oath. >> reporter: rusty bowers, republican speaker of the arizona house, told the panel that mr. trump's attorney, rudy giuliani, could not present him any proof of voter fraud but wanted him to decertify the state's electors anyway. >> he said, we've got lots of theories, we just don't have the evidence. i don't know if that was a gaffe. >> reporter: in georgia trump called various officials to see if they could change the results in his favor. >> i just want to find 11,780 votes -- anyway, whatever you can do, frances, it's a gre t. it's an important thing for the country. >> reporter: california temperature adam schiff says then-chief of staff mark meadows wanted to send trump memorabilia to election investigators. >> coins, actual autographed hats et cetera. white house staff intervened to make sure that didn't happen. >> reporter: committee members say the pressure campaign ultimately led to the violence at the capitol on january 6th. >> donald trump did not care about the threats of violence. he did not condemn them. he made no effort to stop them.

it's a nation of conspiracy theories and thug violence, like the threats against arizona house speaker rusty bowers who refused to play along with the plan to decertify his state's election results, only to be harassed by protesters outside his home, calling him a pervert and a pedophile. even his gravely ill daughter, harassed. >> it is a tenet of my faith that the constitution is divinely inspired. one of my most basic foundational beliefs. so for me to do that because somebody just asked me to, is foreign to my very being. i will not do it. >> thug politics, like the attacks on georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger who refused the then-president's demand that he find 11,780 votes. >> eventually my wife started getting a text and hers typically were issexualized in nature. some people broke into my daughter's home. she has two kids so we're concerned about her safety also. >> conservative, trump-supporting republicans standing up for what is right, refusing to break the law or betray their oaths. shea moss and her mother, ruby freely, two women of integrity who testified in s

week you have a number of republican officials from state and local governments coming, including arizona houseaker rusty bowers, who said he had been pressured by the former president's attorney, rudy giuliani, and by the former president himself, to retroactively change arizona row, to choose a different slate of presidential electors. and he said he received e-mails from jenny thomas to reverse trump's loss. she is the wife of clarence thomas. will you ask barris about that link to thomas? >> i'm not going to step on the committee's lines for the hearing, but, obviously, as you know, we have invited jenny thomas to come in and visit the committee and answer our questions. and we've received, actually, additional information when we got evidence from the eastman e-mails that have now been ordered released by judge carter in california. so we have questions for her. and we may have questions for him as well. >> brennan: will jenny thomas appear? do you, indeed you need to subp? will her husband appear? >> we have asked her to appear. it was a private letter, and she decided to disclose it, whi

. >> reporter: and later claiming ass claim -- arizona's house speaker agreed it was rigged. >> anyone that said that i said the election was rigged, that would not be true. >> we cannot let america become a nation of conspiracy theories and thug violence. >> reporter: targets of those conspiracy theories described the harm it caused to public servants and their families. >> a lot of threats, um, wishing death upon me. >> reporter: committee members say it was those false claims and failed attempts to overturn election results that turned into a call for action for trump's supporters to storm the capitol. the next public hearing is scheduled for thursday and is going to focus on efforts to force top officials to investigate voter fraud. >>> house democrats investigating the trump administration's covid response are weighing in tonight. some senior officials pushed a controversial herd immunity theory that led to many preventable deaths they said. the theory was widespread immunity could be achieved if the virus was able to spread through a large part of population. in a new report, the

. >> reporter: republican arizona house speaker rusty bowers and two georgia election officials including secretary of state brad raffensperger set to testify. >> of course, he was the secretary of state of georgia that donald trump famously called on january 2nd saying, go out and find me 11,780 votes. just happened to be precisely the number of votes that he would would have needed to have won georgia. >> all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes. >> reporter: today the committee also expected to spotlight the, quote, heroes in the story who remained true to their oaths like former georgia election worker shaye moss. moss writing in her opening statement that she's been harassed and threatened all because trump and his allies, quote, refused to accept the outcome of the election. the people responsible for the lies need to be held accountable. in a new interview with fox news former vice president mike pence called january 6th a tragic day while blasting democrats for the he also revealed that he and former president trump parted very amicably. that's a quote, and he sa