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listen to this portion when he told francis watson about a very important date going with a very important day. an important date, of course, was the joint session of congress, where george's electoral votes would be counted for joe biden, a little a little over a week after this call to francis watson. the president was finally able to speak with you secretary reference burger baron mind. as we discussed this call to day that by this point in time, early january, the election and georgia had already been certified. but perhaps more important. the president of the united states had already been told repeatedly by his own top justice department officials, that the claims he was about to make to about master fraud and georgia were completely false. mister secretary, the call between you and the present lasted at 67 minutes over an hour. we obviously can't listen to the entire recording here to day, although it is available on the select committees website will listen to selected excerpts of it now. so that we can get your insights. let's begin with the president, raising the thoroughly debun

third, the day after meadows' georgia visit set up a call between president trump and francis watson.e called between president trump and francis watson, the former president continued to push the false claim that he had won the state of georgia. let's listen to that part of the conversation. >> just the most important job in the country right now. if we win georgia, first of all, if we win -- they are not going to win, they are down. because the people of georgia are so angry at what happened to me, they know i won, by hundreds of thousands of votes, it was not close. >> the next clip, told the state law enforcement official she would be praised if she found the right answer. >> when the right answer comes out you'll be praised. i mean, i don't know why they made it so hard. there will be praise, people will say great because that's what it's about the ability to make it right. because everyone knows it's wrong. there's just no way. >> mr. raffensperger, i know you were not on this call but that you have listened to it. president trump did not win by hundreds of thousands of votes in

, who was supervising that audit process and then donald trump called francis watson and triedo influence her. joining us now is stacey abrams, democratic nominee from for governor of georgia. thank you very much for joining us tonight. georgia, your state, essential to this investigation, with donald trump thinking about sending jeffrey clark there, making the phone call to the secretary of state. what has happened in georgia since all of that. that can give us more confidence that that couldn't happen again. >> unfortunately, georgia remains in the center of conversations about voter protection and voter integrity, in part because, while we had two leaders who did the right thing for one day on the issue of certifying that election, brian kemp and brad raffensperger had been part of the dog whistle approach to amplifying those very same challenges. the passages of espy 202 was a direct response to january 6th. it bought into the notion that there was a lack of integrity in our elections and us something had to be done. and their decision was to suppress the very voters in 202

i focus on the phone call to francis watson, the chief investigator for the georgia secretary of statet's not so much what he said but what has to be inferred from what he said that is tantamount to a threat. he tells her you'll be praised when the right answer comes out. what is the flip side of that? what is the flip side of what happens to you, what must you infer escapable if the president of the united states is saying you'll be praised if the right thing -- the right answer comes out? of course the only conclusion, the only inference to be drawn there is that really bad things are going to happen if you don't give that president what he wants. that is tantamount to a threat. >> isn't there even a more specific threat to all of you, a more specific threat earlier that you will be criminally charged? didn't that also happen to raffensperger? >> indeed it did. there's implied -- not only implied but now we know it was believed you're violating some mysterious criminal violation here. i think all packaged as saying this is part of a strategy and an indication that he knew or he belie

third, the day after he set up a meeting between francis watson and president trump. during that meeting, the former president continued to push the false claim that he had won the state of georgia. let's listen to that part of the conversation. >> you know, it's just you have the most important job in the country right now, because if we win georgia, first of all, if we win, you're going to have to winds. they're not going to win right now, you know. they are down because the people of georgia are so angry at what happened to me. they know i won. one by hundreds of thousands of votes. it wasn't close. and in this next clip he told a state law enforcement official that she would be praised if she found the right answer. >> hopefully, you know, when the right answer comes out, you will be praised. i mean, i don't know why, you know, they've made it so hard. they will be praised. people will say great! because that's what it's about, that ability to check and to make it right. because everyone knows it's wrong, there's just no way. >> mr. raffensperger, i know you weren

watson. >> but whatever you couldt do, francis, it is a great thing, it's an important thing for the country, so important. you have no idea it's it so important. i very much appreciate it. >> whatever you can do, francis. this is the president of united states calling an investigator looking into the election which he is a candidate and asked her to do whatever you can do. mr. secretary, you place this call to your chief investigator in september 23, 2020. we received text messages and getting mark meadows wanted to send some of the investigators in her office and the words of one white house aide shit load of potus stuff including coins, actual autograph maga hats, soda. why housestaff intervened to make sure that didn't happen. it was clear at the time of this call that the former president had his sights set on january 6. listen to this portion when he told frances watson about a very important date. >> be working after christmas, keep it going because -- it's a very important d date. >> that important date of course was a joint session of congress wereno georgia's electoral vote

on the call between president trump and georgia investigator francis watson, the former president continuedpush the false claim that he won the state of georgia. let's listen to that part of the conversation. >> you know, it's just we have the most important job in the country right now, because if we win georgia, first of all, if we win, you're gonna have two wins. they're not gonna win right now. they're down because the people of georgia are so angry at what happened to me. they know i want, won by hundreds of thousands of votes, it wasn't close. >> in this next clip, you told state law enforcement officials that she'll be praised if she found the right answer. >> but hopefully, when the right answer comes out, you'll be praised. i mean, i don't know why you know, they've made it so hard. they will be praised. people will say great! because that's what it's about, the ability to check and to make it right. because everyone knows it's wrong, there's just no way. >> joining us now is former the sick attorney for the cal county, georgia. thank you very much for joining us tonight, to give u

heard the day after meadows georgia visit he had a call between president trump and francis watson.son, the former president continued to push the false claim that he won the state of georgia. let's listen to that part of the conversation. >> you had the most important job of the country right now. if we win georgia, first of all, if we win, they won't win right now, they are down. the people of georgia are so angry. we won by hundreds of thousands of votes. >> and in this next clip he told the state law enforcement official that she would be praised if she found the right answer. >> i hope -- when the right answer comes out you will be praised. i don't know why -- they make it so hard. they will be praised. the people will say great because that's what it's about, to make it right because everyone knows it's wrong. there's just no way. >> mr. raffensperger i know you weren't on this call that you have listened to it. president trump didn't win by hundreds of thousands of votes in georgia, did he? >> no he did not. i have been traveling through the state of georgia for a year now an