virginia thomas texted donald trump's last chief of staff mark meadows at the white house while rudy giuliani was speaking and what the herd high was flowing. and she said, tears are flowing at what rudy is doing right now! ! ! i! ? ? ? the mark meadows seemed a bit confused maybe by the question marks -- were those tears of joy, tears of embarrassment? what did she mean? tears of rudy giuliani destroying any tiny shred of credibility he had left. mark meadows replied neutrally, clad to help? to which ginni thomas replied whoa? ? heroes? ? so while rudy giuliani was coming apart on tv in the most humiliating way, ginni thomas thought he was a hero and she was crying in admiration of that hero. tears are flowing she said. what was the thomas dinner table like that night? were the tears still flowing? after going through an emotional day like that to ginni thomas tell her husband about rudy giuliani's heroism. to ginni thomas tell her husband the supreme court justice about what she went through emotionally that day, about the tears that were flowing. did ginni thomas tell her husband that she

>> rudy giuliani was working on another story and he had trouble getting into the media.is lawyer and said try miranda and they sent me a bunch of text messages and material from the laptop which i thought was pretty compelling and then interview them for several days until my editors and then it was all systems go and the story was a riproaring and my great colleagues and others did their due diligence. we knew we had a story that was ready to go. >> a massive story right before the election you did not time it this way this is when you got the hard drive information it would have been journalistic malpractice if you sat on it. speaking of that the new york post you break the story not only the journalists synonymous go to individuals ignore democratic tax to condemn it through former 51 officials national security officials obviously put together by somebody at the direction of somebody still determined to downplay with the russian disinformation and of course twitter covered it up. so really as the mean media source did twitter ever contact you and ask you how you coul

this book is about rudy giuliani's and fall. i mean i've been covering rudy giuliani 30 years. i started out as the giuliani reporter new york one news and as you said wrote a book about him in 2000. i was with him. september 11th and wrote more about that afterwards. and i've been writing about him ever, ever since. and when giuliani joined trump's orbit and started making news, it was just obvious that there was another part of this story. right. and so simon schuster me to write another biography this time again instead of just the rise, kind of where he is right now. how how is experience been different this time it was last time in terms of your thoughts about him looking a little bit more into how you judged him, but your thoughts, your researching, you approach that he's a much different figure than he was when he was america's mayor. i totally yeah, totally. i mean, when i started covering, he i mean, he's this is one of the most epic and fall stories of our lifetimes. i mean, he was arguably the most the transformative prosecutor of the 1980s, the most transformative m

this book is about rudy giuliani's and fall. i mean i've been covering rudy giuliani 30 years. i started out as the giuliani reporter new york one news and as you said wrote a book about him in 2000. i was with him. september 11th and wrote more about that afterwards. and i've been writing about him ever, ever since. and when giuliani joined trump's orbit and started making news, it was just obvious that there was another part of this story. right. and so simon schuster me to write another biography this time again instead of just the rise, kind of where he is right now. how how is experience been different this time it was last time in terms of your thoughts about him looking a little bit more into how you judged him, but your thoughts, your researching, you approach that he's a much different figure than he was when he was america's mayor. i totally yeah, totally. i mean, when i started covering, he i mean, he's this is one of the most epic and fall stories of our lifetimes. i mean, he was arguably the most the transformative prosecutor of the 1980s, the most transformative m

when you look at that time tha rudy giuliani was standing there.he election was stolen. just as the networks wer calling the election for joe biden. it almost seemed comical and you want to laugh at wha you were seeing there. but given how this has now resonated among republicans, what does that moment in tim mean for what we are as country? >> one way you could look at it, i wouldn't say a break wit reality. when people talk about, they would talk about the wheel being off of the trump white house. i would always say, there were wheels so four seasons was not breaking point because thing had been insane if the electio had been all about conspiracies for a long time. the administration had bee about conspiracies, donald trump's entire political caree was about conspiracies but it was this kind of formal moment where they officially made conspiracies and insanity thei strategy going forward and what's what followed tha was the insurrection so even though this was this hilariously weird historic event. this landscaping company b mistake or for planni

they were spying on rudy giuliani.y giuliani contacted miranda devine and it became clear the post was about to get this story. they were doing table top exercises on what would happen should this be released over at the aspen institute with twitter. >> rachel: let's get this clear. the fbi has the laptop for a year. >> brian: 2019. >> rachel: for a year. they knew it was real. >> steve: if they looked at it. >> rachel: of course they looked at it. they were spying on. enough to you are saying incompetent? i don't buy that at all. they had 80 people on this case of twitter and that's just twitter. we don't know how many they had on other social media platforms. they had for a year. they were spying on rudy giuliani by the way rudy giuliani and the "new york post" have all been vindicated in this story. then they spent millions of dollars. i mean, this might as well have been inkind donation from the fbi. to the biden campaign because if this -- if, you know, donald trump jr. had done what hunter biden had done, that wo

so although this may not have been the best of taste, you know, rudy giuliani had a great line after michaels asked him could we go back to being funny and rudy nailed it and said why start now. so -- [laughter] maria: that was funny. that was funny. >> it's just unfortunate that such a great franchise has gone so far down. maria: i know. okay. here's a question for you guys. okay. is sam bankman-fried about to testify to the very people he gave money to? what a grows. disgraced ftx founder sam bankman-fried said he will testify before the house. we have the latest from the fallout, what it means for crypto and this collapse that continues taking prisoners, next. ♪ one bourbon, one scotch, one beer. ♪ well, i ain't seen my baby since i don't know when. ♪ i've been drinking bourbon, whiskey, scotch and gin. ons, whl bank differently with chase. leon's saving up for his first set of wheels... nice try. really? this leon's paying for his paint job on the spot... and this leon, as a chase private client, he's in the south of france, taking out cash with no atm fees. that's because this f

what did rudy giuliani, jared kushner and ginni thomas tell the committee. >>> donald trump's tax returns are finally public. this is what we're watching. >>> hi, everyone, i'm amara walker in today for kate bolduan. we begin with breaking news. police have made an arrest in connection to the murders investigation of four college students in idaho. two federal law enforcement sources tell cnn that the fbi took a suspect into custody in northeastern pennsylvania. the arrest comes nearly seven weeks after the students were found stabbed to death in a home near the university of idaho campus. police in moscow, idaho, will hold a news conference later this afternoon and cnn's veronica miracle is live in moscow, idaho, with the very latest. veronica. >> reporter: well, amara, as you said, those federal sources telling our cnn's josh campbell and mark morales an arrest has been made. we understand that at this point it is a man in his 20s but beyond that there are very few details coming out at this hour. i did speak with police this morning where they said there is going to be that news confer

rudy giuliani, donald trump's former legal mouth piece who helped lead some efforts to undo the 2020 election. jared kushner and jason miller a top campaign visser and ginni thomas who also attended stop the steal rallies. cnn is reading through all of this right now and we'll bring you details as soon as we get them. >>> also this hour, a never before seen look at donald trump's taxes. how democrats making six years of the former president's financials public this morning. and entering them into the congressional record and capping a dramatic legal fight. what we know already, the returns cover 2015 through 2020. and the irs violated its own rules by not auditing trump each year while he was president. trump paid no income tax in his final full year in office. and trump and his wife paid little or no income tax in several of the years between 2015 and 2020. let's get started with -- in washington with cnn kristin holmes. walk us through what are the headlines here. >> so we're looking at hundreds and hundreds of pages of documents which we're still coming through. but i'm able to co

we know the fbi has been spilled on —- spying over rudy giuliani despite violations and had access toails he was receiving from the whistleblower at the computer repair shop guy who had hunter biden's laptop and it was abandoned and concerned he contacted the fbi already in 2019 and had almost one year before the election. he was concerned about national security issues to do with payments from ukraine and china to the biden family. that's why he took it to the fbi. now we know they buried it from the fbi whistleblowers. so listening to giuliani and looking at his e-mail and spying on the text message they saw the e-mail august 2020 so they knew the cat was out of the bag. and then they had access to my messages with rudy giuliani so they knew exactly when the post would be publishing in october so they bumped the story with twitter and we can only assume with faith —- with facebook as well because zuckerberg said they gave information. >> everyone needs to check out your story tomorrow. it was plush in the first at getting the accountability is the information out there. we wil as a

>> i say that rudy giuliani, like many of us have started to face the music. ied to, obviously, make a pretty spacious argument that we know was not factually correct. but, look, rudy's, brand he should've stopped after being americas mayor. i mean he did -- he did a great job, he was at the top. he should've stopped then. because it has been his brand has continued to diminish over the years. , and this is just another very sad case of someone who, you, know has really let his career go by the ways of, it followers donald trump were talking about who does donald trump take down with. the this is one of those votes. >> well, not just the eagle legacy aspect of it. to the idea that the arguments that he was making that some voters still buy into this day, even though there has not been the proof in the court of law, there's the court of public opinion, and some people still, think no, what they said was. right and the election was stolen. you are a -- focus on this a great deal, does this still ring true? even despite his actions in the proceedings? >> it brings

and leak operations and hunter knew the story was going to come out and had the laptop and knew rudy giuliani had it. >> that's right, sean, and this is a story of the federal government with all of his vast power. >> here's what's very clear. the fbi had the hunter biden laptop story in 2019. say sat on it and the integrity guy at twitter in a sworn affidavit said in the meetings there was something about hunter biden in the story. connect all the dots and this was a backdoor way to affect censorship and advising them on their hack and leak -- or hack policy ought to be and you also have the same guy, jim baker who was general counsel of fbi in 2016 and in general council of twitter in the fall of 2020 and clear of elon musk here in the twitter file and he was the one saying put the breaks on this and the fbi was very involved in this and concerning for the republic and we believe in free speech and the first amendment is the beating heart of the constitution and federal government in law enforcement acting in this way, it's shocking. >> sean: so, this guy yoel roth is twitter's former head

we know the doj has been looking into mark meadows and rudy giuliani.o what does the committee sending a referral do other than look political? >> well, look, we have been far-out ahead in most respects of the justice department in conducting our investigation. i think they have made use of the evidence that we have presented in open hearings. i think they'll make use of the evidence we present in our report to further their investigations. and i think it makes an important statement, not a political one but a statement about the evidence of an attack on the institutions for our democracy and the peaceful transfer of power that congress examining an attack on itself is willing to report criminality. so i think it's an important decision in its own right if we go forward with it and one that the department ought to give due consideration to. >> chairman schiff, thank you for your time today. >> thank you. >> jamie diamond is the ceo of america's largest bank, jp morgan chase, and he's been a pillar of wall street for decades. we caught up with him a few

have been spying on rudy giuliani throughout 2020. they would have had access to the email that came through from the computer repair shop owner to rudy giuliani, pressing his concerns about the laptop material on it pertaining particularly to ukraine and millions of dollars paid to hunter biden, which he was concerned would have compromised candidate joe biden. so the f.b.i. had access to that. they had access to messages between me and rudy giuliani in october which would have alerted them to the fact the "new york post" was about to public. and they lied to twitter and told them that this was going to be a russian hacking operation. and that was why twitter on the morning that we published immediately censored us using their hacked materials policy. >> bill: miranda, one last question here. republicans will take over the house in the new year. we've seen investigations in congress. sometimes they go nowhere. where do you expect this story to go in the new year? >> look, i think that this time the republicans have an enormous trove

rudy giuliani took the stand today over a d. c. over his part of the 2020 election scheme. it's one thing for rudy, a 78 year old guy who accidentally wore two watches to court today. it's one thing for a guy like him to lose his law license. but could he be in trouble beyond that? >> it's interesting stephanie because anything he says in this hearing could be used against him and the department of justice or anyone else -- he doesn't say things that could incriminate him in that way. this is a serious matter allen losing his law license is one, thing but i think holding him accountable is a very important. he reminds me a bit of him in the eastern district of michigan against the king powell where sanctions were imposed against her over things that she said about the election results here. and the judge said that it was clear that those allegations were made not for the purpose of where winning a lawsuit but for the purpose of undermining public confidence in the outcome of the election. so similarly, i think it's important that t

>> i say rudy giuliani, like many of us, have to face the music. and tried to make a pretty suspicious argument that we know was not actually correct. he should have stopped after being america's mayor. i was living in new york and 9/11, he did a great job. he was at the top, he should have stopped then. it has been come his brand has continued to diminish over the years. this is just another sad case of someone who has really let his career go by the wayside as he follows donald trump. we talked earlier about who does donald trump take down with him? this is one of those folks. >> not just the ego legacy, the idea and the arguments that he was making that some voters still buy into this day, even though there has not been approved in a court of law, there is a court of public opinion that some people still think what they said was right. and election was stolen. you are -- you focus on this a great deal. does this ring true even despite his actions? >> it rings true to about 30% of the republican electorate. so, 50% of the population. nothing is g

and he told rudy giuliani exactly what he had found on it particularly to do with burisma.worried about national security. he included screen shots. the fbi would have had access to all of that back in august of 2020 -- will: right. >> -- and then also would have had access to my text messages with rudy giuliani if about exactly when "the new york post" was going to parish. -- publish. rachel: miranda, this is so disturbing. it's so big. and it's interesting, the fbi should be protecting us from joe biden -- [laughter] and his son and the martial security threat -- national security threat they are to our country, and yet they were involved in suppressing it and altering an election in the process. but more importantly, putting our country in danger. i mean, the reverse of what they're supposed to do. because now joe biden is the president, and he is probably compromised because of these dirty deals that he do did with the chinese, with ukraine and with the russians. >> yes. i mean, we don't know if he is compromised, but certainly it's logical to ask that question because

kind of do a double take at the fact that we're learning that trump's campaign manager thought rudy giulianie last final days that he locked giuliani out of his office, testifying i had my assistant lock the door and giuliani still tried to get in my office, trying to order her to unlock the door, which she wouldn't do. now, that doesn't mean anyone is going to jail over that detail, but it shows you the state of play. usually once your lawyer is involved in things, here they're being locked out with the assumption they'll try to break in, which according to stepien, giuliani did. now, as for the priorities, there's over 900 indictments so far from the federal probe. there's over 500 convictions. and that may deter others from doing what we saw on the ground. but none of it hit trump's inner circle. if you remember one thing, ari did the reading, he shared some details, there was a lot. if you remember one thing, remember this. because it may or may not save our democracy. the key difference tonight between this january 6 committee and the garland justice department is the committee leaders

and bonnie willis has informed the 16 fake electors they're targets of her probe along with rudy giuliania long list of trump allies have testified, despite trying not to, including lindsey graham, rudy giuliani and michael flynn. in georgia, special grand jurys do not have the authority to issue indictments but they make recommendations. so it's up to willis and a new grand jury to decide whether or not they're going forward on legal charges. experts have said that case would not be a slam dunk but it's still a significant step. listen to what the former u.s. attorney in georgia told cnn just yesterday. >> i think it's likely you'll see a recommendation come out from the special grand jury to pursue or at least to recommend criminal charges against people involved. i think you'll likely see trump in that because he's essentially given a confession on tape. >>> well, new this morning the democratic mayor of el paso declaring a state of emergency, migrants are setting up camp waiting for title 42 to expand, that's a policy that allows agents to expel migrants at the border. now they're bra

but she was repeatedly invited back on fox networks, as was the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani, who all also wove a false narrative about smartmatic, an election tech company which is now suing giuliani, fox news and others >> smartmatic is a company that was formed by three venezuelans who were very close to, very close to dictator chavez of venezuela. and it was formed in order to fix elections. that is the company that owns dominion >> does smartmatic own dominion? >> no. we do have a relationship. we are competitors. >> late hugo chavez? >> absolutely not. >> do use of venezuelan company software that has been used to -- >> absolutely not. anderson, i can cut all of this short. we were founded in toronto, which is where my family was from. and there is nothing to do with venezuela. >> can you flip votes in the computer system, can you add vote that did not exist? >> absolutely not. >> president trump first mentioned dominion in a tweet november 12th, and recorded this video a few weeks later, which was posted on facebook. >> we have a company that is very suspect. its name

rudy giuliani, rudy giuliani basely fraud claims and john eastman considering architect of plans to pushto refuse to certify the election. something mike pence refused to do. the committee also is weighing a criminal referral of jeffrey clark a top official at doj. also pushed those false election fraud claims. guys, any of these referrals that the committee makes to doj is in no way legally binding. really carries no legal weight. so the justice department is not compelled to charge anyone after a congressional referral that we're expecting. largely symbolic here, guys. still significant, but the justice department does not need to act on any criminal prosecution as a result of what this committee says. still looking out for it one week from wednesday. bianna and victor? >> their own special counsel-led investigation. jessica schneider, thank you for being with us. >>> special counsel jack smith has been on the job for just a few weeks but already speeding ahead on two criminal probes involving donald trump. >> sources tell cnn the probes are focused on the former president's state of m

he finds rudy giuliani who is willing to do and john eastman who he says is a brilliant guy. he's going to get me what i need. and then there is this part of the executive summary that says whatever then happened, he wanted to be a part of it. the committee principle concern was that the president intended to participate personally in the january 6th efforts at the capitol, leading the attempt to overturn the election, either from inside the house chamber, from a stage outside the capitol, or otherwise. no question from all the evident assembled that trump did have that intent. so he wants to go and supervise or sort of preside over the chaos that is taking place there. what does that tell you and what do you think doj does with that? >> it certainly tells you, one, that donald trump is responsible for what we saw on january 6th. that it's critically important we hold him accountable and the question for doj is, do they have enough for that particular charge. i mean, because look, here's the thing. and i think barbara is absolutely right. there is evidence here, and a lot of

we showed him a press conference two days after his firing where rudy giuliani, sydney powell and othersmachines. >> it can set and run an algorithm that probably ran all over the country to take a certain percentage of votes from president trump and flip them to president biden. >> do you remember watching that? >> yeah. i tweeted about it immediately afterwards. i said that was the most insane and dangerous 45 minutes of tv in, you know, american history effectively. >> how secure was the 2020 election? >> let me put it this way. it was the most litigated. it was the most scrutinized. it was the most audited. this election was put through the ringer from so many different directions. and what i tend to say is don't listen to me. listen to bill barr. bill barr said it. he was then the attorney general of the united states. >> this is what bill barr later said to the january 6th committee. >> these claims on the dominion voting machines, and they were idiotic claims, i saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations, but they were made in such a sensational way that they obviously were inf

i don't know if that was an inebriated rudy giuliani or steve benin, but, that was a road map for what they ended up trying to do. >> yeah, there is no question about that, and the really interesting about that to me, alison, is that it clearly shows on that day, donald trump jr. thought his father lost the election. you don't hear anything in there about voter fraud, the fact that these lawsuits may be successful because they have great evidence. he clearly thought the election was done and over, and they had not even called it yet. again, i am with you. i don't think that is his language, which i think is clearly a set state of affairs when you had to copy and paste, plagiarize something to try to pretend to be smarter than you are, but that is the way it is these. this >> absolutely, and through sheer force of will and trickery, they thought that this would work, this is what will do. >> no question. >> the thing about it is that it was not possible, and it would not have been to anybody with rudimentary understanding of the u.s. constitution and the electoral process, but with dona

lawyer john eastman, former justice department official jeffrey clark, and former trump attorney rudy giulianill cnn. >> we want to make sure no one slips through the cracks. we want to make sure that the key organizers and movers of this attack don't escape the scrutiny of the justice system. >> reporter: there's still no final decisions on who to refer to the justice department and for what offenses. but the committee hopes to make those decisions in a meeting on sunday. >> do you expect to make a decision about who would be on the list of criminal referrals at this sunday meeting? >> that's the plan. yes. >> reporter: cnn previously reported the committee is also weighing a referral for former president trump. >> even though what we're doing is just making a referral of our views, we want to take it very seriously. >> reporter: the committee aiming to release its final report and its list of criminal referrals on december 21st. >> there will be some kind of a public-facing event. we've not decided exactly what that would look like. >> reporter: as the committee wraps up its work, former pre

rudy giuliani has had his law lrns license suspended.ind much of this effort, and mark meadows was by donald trump's side as his chief of staff throughout this process. there is no surprise this is who the committee is focusing on and they are aiming high here. >> katelyn, on your excellent reporting that the justice department now wants trump held in contempt as far as the classified documents investigation is under consideration, that subpoena was issued months and months ago. how has all this escalated in these past few weeks? >> well, wolf, things had moved very quickly since the appointment of special counsel jack smith to take over this investigation into the mar-a-lago documents. and one of the things that has been happening here is trump has tried to delay. there is this tug-of-war over these documents that's been ongoing for all these months, as you mentioned, and now it's getting to the point where the justice department is saying, okay, we do think that you are in contempt of court. we've gone back and forth with you. we've be

a story we followed for some time. >>> today another story, rudy giuliani potentially one step closerd.c. said thursday that giuliani should be liable for professional sanctions after making repeated false election fraud claims while representing the former president trump, his campaign in 2020, as well as his efforts to overturn the election. that ruling is nonbinding, but a significant step that could eventually lead to giuliani being disbarred. the ethics charges are focused on a lawsuit by the trump campaign in pennsylvania that sought to throw out hundreds of thousands of votes in the state. joining me now to discuss elie honig former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. good to have you on. >> hey, jim. >> so this took place, of course, january 6, we are coming up on two years now and it was very public, his comments in court and elsewhere. it seems like a slow process to get to where we are, but is that normal, one? and what do you expect the final outcome to be here? >> it is normal, jim. these processes to potentially disbar a lawyer tend to take tim

for example, on the slates of fake electors, rudy giuliani has a lot of exposure there.the shenanigans at the justice department. it's almost like this is a who's who of the different strains of the conspiracy. they are almost picking one or two from each of these separate plots. i think they are all in jeopardy. it just depends on what they've been able to uncover. that's one of the things i'm really anxious to see when the report comes out. how they assimilate all this information, including the evidence we have not seen. >> jennifer, is an incredible to think that this guy, jeffrey clark, who was angling to take over the justice department would actually be charged by the justice department? >> it is. it's extraordinary. it's almost extremely equally extraordinary to think about how he got there in the first place with extreme views he was willing to go to these lengths. creating this document that had all sorts of falsehoods in it and wanting to send it out as a department of justice communication, it's extraordinary that he was there, unbelievable what he did. we wi

it was turned over to rudy giuliani and steve bannon i believe was involved.o the key question that the insert in, or the question they got in that article is with president biden himself had any knowledge or any involvement in hunter biden's business. there were emails to suggest that he did know, he was introduced to these people and he had said on the campaign trail that he had nothing to do with this business dealings. they freelanced the decision. i think that's the more interesting piece of this. they were referring to twitter, internal policy about how to deal with packing materials. there's a difference between the first amendment and twitter policy, right? obviously you would hope twitter policy guided by the first amendment that they are a private company. what you saw in this conversation was it seemed like there was this intent to suppress information and how did that intent fit into their policy? that's what they kind of freelanced. they found out that, hey, this probably isn't hacked material. this could actually be a legitimate laptop that was o

eastman, maybe rudy giuliani, other, you know, sort of, telling mr. trump that he could contest the election, that he had not lost, that there was a path for vice president pence to declare him the victor. that's all to be left for trial. and that's precisely the type of thing that the department of justice has to analyze. what did mr. trump know, not to be too cliche and when did he mow it. >> there is also testimony, significant testimony, thats he was aware that all of those judges, according to nominated judges, had rejected all of those claims. >> that's also correct. there are five dozen-some-odd cases that were litigated in state and federal courts around the country, and mr. trump, as far as i know, lost every one of those. maybe with one minor exception on one minor point. and that goes on the other side of the ledger. that is more evidence that he knew that his press to overturn the election, to impede the electoral count of the congress, to deny mr. biden the presidency, was all a sham. it was part of a scheme. it was a conspiracy. but this

plump continued to call his lawyer rudy giuliani. both president trump and mr.sional leaders, even after the violence had begun, to encourage them to continue delaying the session. approximately three hours after being informed of the violence at the capitol, hours during which as our evidence has shown donald trump sat in his dining room and watched the violence on television, the president released a video statement in which he again repeated that the election was stolen, told his supporters at the capitol that he loved them and ultimately suggested that they disperse. the statement had an immediate impact on elements of the crowd, many of whom who have testified led them to depart the cap to. at 6:01 p.m. president trump september his last tweet of the day. he did not condemn the violence. instead, he attempted to justify it. these are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away, he wrote. remember this day forever. there's no doubt that president trump thought that the actions o

how the hell did they know that because the fbi had been secretly spying on rudy giuliani who is given the hunter biden laptop and working with miranda devine to get the content especially the shocking evidence of his corruption in the open the fbi's all text messages between rudy giuliani and miranda and knew when they were planning to publish the bomb self story but here's the most damning factor of all. the fbi had had the laptop for over a year, it was given to them by the by at the computer compare shop, the fbi knew the laptop was real they knew the contests were not hacked but still they told twitter and facebook to be on the lookout for hacked materials. the only way they could get twitter and facebook to justify censorship under the terms of service, hacked materials, involving hunter biden that would drop in october 2020 is part of russian disinformation campaign. they cook the whole thing up. the fbi, that is election interference, that is unconstitutional. it is illegal and it exposes a new dark reality that big tech, the social media and other platforms through their aggre

people like mark meadow, and rudy giuliani have to be reading chapter three about the fake electors, and thinking, oh, god, i really need counsel because there's so much proof about their involvement in the scheme, and those are the people the department will look to prosecute. really different situation both in terms of sort of the media savvy of the committees and also now the department's ability to bring actual charges. >> yeah, and by the way, as a public service announcement, the dwindling number of trumpers, my christmas present to you all, right? before you use the term russian hoax. go ahead and go back and read the mueller report because you look like an idiot when you do that, when you write it in your op-eds because history is really clear on donald trump and what he did and what he actually continues to in apologizing for vladimir putin. i'm sorry, i just, that's one of my pet peeves as we move into the holiday season and the new year that so many people skimmed over the report, the mueller report, and i do hope, as andrew said, the january 6th report will be different.

campaign of the fbi just happened to be surveilling rudy giuliani's communication. that could have been what led to the aspen institute planning that led to the suppression of the hunter biden laptop story of "the new york post" two weeks before the election. this is outrageous what they've done here, house republicans in january have to get to the bottom of this. >> laura: miranda, i know your communications were swept up in this because you are communicating with giuliani at the time. i want to fast-forward into the next year. as we approach 2024. should we presume that the intel community is completely working against the interests of the american people in key regards, given what we've learned about this? any indication they are stopping this kind of activity? >> none at all. and they are continuing on. they pretend that what they are doing is somehow against maligned foreign actors. this is what the fbi said this week. one statement, did defend itself, it pretended that what it was doing was protecting the american people from russian disinformation. unfortunat

they sat on it and then he took the laptop to rudy giuliani and rudy giuliani gave it to the new york post. look, all of those years when we were reporting truth, i was reporting every day that the russia collusion story was a lie and i'm getting attacked and i'm thinking, well, these are really maniacs on twitter, so much hate on twitter to think that it all goes back to the fbi and the fbi pressuring social media to suppress truth and amplify lies. dagen: indeed, and so the -- the gist of it with the republicans coming in to the house, so elvis chan, fbi special agent is going to get called for these investigations along with people within twitter to uncover what was going on. elvis chan sent 10 documents to twitter's then head of site through one-way communication channel from the fbi to twitter and we don't even know what was in those documents. so that will be a central focus of the republicans trying to get to the bottom of what was going on there. but also -- maria: yeah. >> the fbi was paying twitter for their assistance, correct? maria: i don't know -- i don't know that, but

john eastman, rudy giuliani and former department of justice official, jeffrey clark.so far, chairman thompson has not been ready to publicly name names. >> we have not made a decision as to who, but we have made decisions that criminal referrals will happen. i wish i could tell you one, two, three, four, but all of that is still being discussed. the committee continues its work to hold accountable the people who tried to overthrow the american democracy ungenerous sucks, 2021. we see examples from around the world, just the last 24 hours, about how fragile democracy can be and how seriously these other countries are taking threats to the democratic order. in germany, for example, police launched a series of raids at dawn yesterday sorting an alleged far-right plot to violently attack parliament. the group, german officials say, was inspired by american extremists and the storming of the american capitol nearly two years ago. they're also influenced by qanon conspiracy theories from everything from vaccines to the so-called deep state that married some of the same lang

bush, and rudy giuliani. well, that's obviously fake. longer afford $8 a month. ( laughter ) ( applause ) the policy-- dancin' with that chicken! ♪ ♪ ♪ here he goes! look at him go! the policy began to have real- world impact on some of our most important persons: corporations. a fake check-marked pepsi account tweeted, "coke is better." ( laughter ) i said they're fake accounts, not wrong accounts. ( laughter ) and, but, in return-- in return, a fake coca-cola account said, "if this gets 1,000 retweets, we will put cocaine back in coca cola." ( cheers and applause ) and immediately got 1,000 retweets from @donjr. ( laughter ) i'm sure it's a fake account. but perhaps the most damaging tweet from a fake account happened to pharmaceutical giant eli lilly, when an account in lilly's name announced that "insulin is free now," and company stock fell 4.37%, causing the company to lose billions in market cap. i can't believe wall street fell for that. they should have known something was up when a pharmaceutical company offered to help anyone.

>> rudy giuliani was well aware that there was no evidence to support the bogus claims of fraud, andare of what the president was intending to do on january 6 in terms of the conversation with cassie hutchinson for example. and making unsupported false claims of fraud, he saw the testimony that he gave in georgia, and so he was deeply involved in an effort to defraud a conspiracy to defraud as well as the conspiracy to make false statements and interfere with the joint session of congress. and so i think there is evidence along those lines as well. >> congressman adam schiff, we appreciate your time tonight, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. >>> this might be the last january 6 committee hearing but managed to deliver new details. we will show you some of what we only learned today after this. you definitely know. when he wants your attention, he makes it clear. when he wants to be left alone, he makes it obvious. but if your cat has oa pain, also known as osteoarthritis pain, he may be saying “ow” in different ways. it's a long-lasting condition that makes it painfu