we want people like shaye moss and her mom to be election officials. are the root of our democracy. >> i think shaye and her more put the human toll in front of the american people. the human toll of donald trump's efforts to overturn the will of the american people. to me it was the most compelling, now, rusty bowers was very powerful. >> did you notice that trump was so freaked out about rusty bowers and what he was going to testify, to he felt the need to lie about him immediately before the hearing. >> that's right. >> which i thought was a real tell that trump knows these hearings are powerful in the presentation of evidence, so i -- i think that shaye and her mother will go down in history. she got the profile in courage award this year from the kennedy institute. she deserved it. i think they will go down in history as examples of the abuse of power and the painful result of that in people's lives that are merely doing the right thing. >> yeah. >> it was really -- it was powerful stuff. >> it was powerful stuff. >> i don't know if we played the

more from gary tuchman. >> reporter: this is shaye moss last month, receiving the john f.me for a little case of the nerves. i'm not used to giving speeches. not used to being in the spotlight, either. okay. what i'm used to is quietly doing my job. >> reporter: and that's exactly why she was being honored, for quietly doing his job as an election worker in fulton county, georgia. she handled voter applications and helped process votes. it's a job she started in 2017 and held until just after the presidential election in 2020. >> it all changed for me overnight. ever since december 2020, my family has been under attack. attacked because people have spread terrible lies -- i'm sorry. lies about me and my mother, simply because we were doing our job. >> reporter: in december 2020, the trump campaign published a video and falsely claimed the edited clip shows shaye moss and her mother ruby freeman, also an election worker, pulling fraudulent ballots from a suitcase in order to help joe biden win the state of georgia. the claim was immediately debunked by election officials in

shaye moss and her mother are america at its best.ccarthy probably feels ashamed today. >> i think it's clear adam kinzinger, liz cheney and all these republicans that they brought in front of this committee today who we saw, they were the ones who stood in the breach. without them, who knows what might have happened. and, you know, we've talked about how this could have at so many different points could have easily gone the other way. and i think the committee has been illuminating new and more creative ways it could have gone the wrong way, starting in senator ron johnson's office. props to the pence staffer who wrote back in this text message, don't do that. we don't want them. >> it seems that the pence staff has more honor than lots of elected officials in this town. john, i wanted to get your response in the exchange between the arizona republican speaker of the house -- again, this guy is super conservative and was a big trump supporter. an exchange between him and congressman adam schiff. >> at some point, did one of them make

these are not people who have huge resources. >> and shaye moss, who said her grandmother, that theyming 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 january 6th on the capitol, which you have prosecuted a lot, so take a look at this, justice department, and understand how this went. and how could you not prosecute. >> and also, george, it wasn't just ron johnson. it was this representative andy biggs who does not come out as a profile in courage.

. >> one of the most compelling witnesses was shaye moss. she was a worker during the election.e the center of conspiracy see her theory and a direct and racist attack by president trump and her testimony yesterday illustrated how anybody, regular people doing their job, can become victims of election lies. this one did. more to come. >> reporter: this is shaye moss last month receiving the profile in courage award . >> a case of the nerves. my fellow honorees, i'm not used to giving speeches and being in the spotlight. what i'm used to is quietly doing my job. >> reporter: that's exactly why she was being honored for quietly doing her job as an election worker in georgia. she had of voter applications, absentee ballot requests and helped process votes. it's a job she started in 2017 and held until after the presidential election in 2020. >> it all happened overnight. ever since december 2020. my family has been under attack. attacked because people have spread terrible lies. lies about me and my mother. simply because we were doing our job. >> reporter: in december 2020, the tr

but when shaye moss started speaking, my phone exploded.t even follow a lot of news, and who -- were really checked into her. i mean, we know, we know shaye moss. we know lady ruby freeman. lady ruby is every older black lady at every polling place that i used when i was living in new york, when i was living in florida. it's always the same women, black women, usually older black women, who are at that, sitting there with their laptops, figuring it out, figuring out your signature. when my kids were in new york, and they newly turned 18, they said hey, baby, you can vote now. you're ready to vote? and they would encourage you. they give you a sticker. for those women, for people like shaye and lady ruby to no longer feel safe to do that job, to be menaced, i don't know claire mccaskill reminded me there earlier, not only did they deal with that. lady ruby freeman had kanye west publicist show up at her house and threatened her and say, if you don't admit to the election fraud, if you don't admit you did it, commit a crime, you're gonna be a

shaye moss. ms. s worked in the department of registration and elections in fulton county, georgia from 2017 until 2022. in that job, ms. moss handled voter applications and absentee ballot requests and also helped to process the vote count for several elections. in december 2020, ms. moss and her mother, miss ruby freeman, became the target of nasty lies spread by president trump and his allies as they sought to overturn the election results in georgia. ms. moss and her mother, ms. freeman, are two of the unsung heros in this country doing the hard work of keeping our democracy functioning for every american. ms. moss, welcome. thank you for your service and i thank you for being here today. i will now swear you in. please stand. do you swear or affirm under penalty of perjury that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? thank you. please be seated. let the record reflect that the witness answered in the affirmative. ms. moss, thank

. >> today's final and perhaps most powerful and really disturbing witness was shaye moss.as a georgia election worker falsely accused of being part of a voter fraud scream. she endured a relentless harassment and death threats. her and ruby, also claims of fraud. the last about shaye and ruby, was the president at the time, these two poll workers, went after this young woman, and her mother. president and his lawyer giuliani. >> early in the day, ruby freeman and shaye freeman moss, and one other gentlemen, quite obviously served, passing around usb ports as if they are viles of heroin or cocaine. they are engaged in surreptitious illegal activity. >> how did you wear that mr. giuliani, presidents lawyer, was accusing you and your mother of a crime? >> i went to the facebook app, and i'm just kind of panicking at this point. it was just a lot of horrible things there. wishing death upon me. telling me that i will be in jail with my mother, and saying things like, be glad it's 2020 and not 1920. a lot of them were racist, a lot of them were just hateful. >> miss moss, i und

ruby freeman, and her daughter, shaye moss, told their stories to the january 6th committee. >> thereo you know how it feels to have the president of the united states to target you? the president of the united states is supposed to represent every american. not to target one. but he targeted me, lady ruby, a small business owner, a mother, a proud american citizen, who is standing up to help fulton county run an election in the middle of a pandemic. >> i don't want to go anywhere. i second guess everything that i do. it has affected my life in a major way. in every way. it's all because the lies, for me doing my job, the same thing i've been doing forever. >> joining us now with arizona secretary of state katie hobbs. she is running as a democrat to be the next governor of arizona. secretary hobbs, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i know you have been threatened also by the trump mob, because of your work in overseeing the election in arizona. but you ran for office. you knew you were running to a life of public criticism at times, not supposed to be violent, not supposed

and georgia election worker shaye moss, who worked several elections, she recruited her mother, ruby freeman, in 2020. the president and rudy giuliani and others publishing a video and circulating a theory that she and her mother were involved in wrongdoing with some of the ballots, but that simply was not true. and then what happened to their lives afterward. her mother's words, the last testimony of the day, now saying, "there's nowhere i feel safe." and asking, isn't the president of the united states supposed to protect us? all of us? our chief washington correspondent jonathan karl leading us off. >> reporter: today, the january 6th committee showed how donald trump tried to pressure state officials to overturn the 2020 election, including staunch trump supporters. exhibit a, rusty bowers, arizona's republican speaker of the house, who had been a solid trump supporter. trump himself even calling bowers, putting rudy giuliani on the phone, who claimed to have evidence of fraud. >> you're asking me to do something against my oath and i will not break my oath. >> reporter: trump an

they talked about shaye moss' grandmother whose house was broken into by trump's mignons looking for illing. it's just some of the examples. rusty bowers, we heard earlier today, from arizona, talking about his terminally ill daughter who would hear people outside of their home threatening them >> she died of a terminal illness that month, january 2021. >> brad raffensperger's widowed daughter-in-law at home alone with her two children, with people outside of their home. this was a campaign of terror that came straight from the top. >> it really is. it's he beyond comprehension, but i want to go back to shaye and her mother lady ruby because it's not just plain old terror with the two of them. it was racist terror. the kind of language that people, including the former president were using about her, it wasn't even thinly veiled. >> he called them hustlers. >> hustlers. >> rudy giuliani compared the votes that they allegedly were hiding to drugs. >> yeah. and let's be clear, these are people, and you heard at the beginning of her testimony, who were doing this because they believed th

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shaye moss and her mother ruby freeman worked in georgia state and ruby freeman spoke of how mr trump'snt had affected her. do you know how it feels to have the president of the united states target you? the president of the united states is supposed to represent every american, not target one, but he targeted me, lady ruby, a small business owner, a mother, a proud american citizen who stood up to help fulton county run an election in the middle of a pandemic. the secretary of state for georgia, brad raffensperger, also detailed a series of false claims made by the trump campaign. our north america editor, sarah smith has this report. onjanuary 6, donald trump was still repeating what he knew to be lies about the election. the mysterious vote dump of up to 100,000 votes forjoe biden. almost none for trump — oh, that sounds fair! committee members today heard from an official that trump had called days before, alleging fraud in georgia. we found two dead people, when i wrote my letter to congress, that's dated january 6th, and subsequent to that, we found two more, that's four people, n

shaye moss who works as a dedicated election official for over a decade on her, her mother, her grandmother, the personal impact of this. there's just thousands of people like ms. moss across the country who have been impacted by these lies and this pressure. >> bringing to life the reality for an election worker whose child was home alone when trump supporters, mobs of supporters descended on their homes really did i think refocus everyone on what this climate was like for election workers. but there's a through line. we asked congressman pete aguilar after the last hearing, if the president's indifference to hang mike pence was about an intended consequence or indifference to violence, and i have the same question about showcasing all the violence put into motion by donald trump's words and deeds and lack of deeds, by never condemning the violence. what is your sense on the violence that trump ins gates as a theme in these public hearings. >> i think it's the human element of the human toll and the visceral nature of the violence. we're familiar with the violence that happened here at the

. >> shaye moss, an election worker in fulton county, georgia, talking about the threats she and herl wiser join us live, two people who have seen the threat to democracy first-hand and have heard their share of threats themselves. attorney general nestle, let me start with you, the left leaning brennan center did a poll in early february asking 600 local election officials about their jobs. they found nearly 1 in 3 election workers know at least one colleague who quit their job in part or entirely because of safety concerns. are you worried about michigan having a shortage of election workers in 2022 or 2024? >> well, we're doing everything we can to try to avoid that. i know that, you know, all around this state, there's recruiting under way to make sure that we get new poll workers and that they're properly trained. but the other thing that we're doing is that my department, our hate crimes and domestic terrorism unit is aggressively prosecuting those who threaten election workers. we want people to know we take that very seriously, and that if you do engage in that kind of conduc

we know that shaye moss was given a john f. kennedy profile in courage award, and rightly so, because she was doing the business of democracy in helping our elections to do what they have done now for centuries and expanding that. >> but she's afraid to go to the grocery store or have her name spoken out loud. >> that's exactly it. the human toll. people like shaye moss, ruby freeman, the family members of rusty bowers, brad raffensperger, they didn't sign up for this. they didn't sign up for political violence, you know, in the name of claims of a rigged election that wasn't true. and now people who were defending freedom on the front lines of democracy now feel less free and less fair in that democracy. what do we owe those people? where are they supposed to go from here? and who is going to be held accountable for what happened to them? >> yeah. and will people who watch this believe it? tim, after all this was laid out yesterday, one example was wisconsin senator ron johnson was trying to dodge reporter questions, apparentl

. >> reporter: the committee then called a georgia election worker, shaye moss, who along with her mothercused of election tampering by donald trump and rudy giuliani. >> ruby freeman and shaye freeman moss and one other gentleman quite obviously surreptitiously passing around usb ports as if they're viles of heroin or cocaine. >> what was your mom handing you on that video? >> a ginger mint. >> reporter: the accusations were bogus, but they triggered an avalanche of threats from trump supporters. >> a lot of threats wishing death upon me. telling me that i'll be in jail with my mother. saying things like, be glad it's 2020 and not 1920. >> reporter: moss' mother, ruby, sat behind her at the hearing. donald trump attacked her by name some 18 times in a single phone call with georgia's top election official. >> ruby freeman, she's a vote scammer, a professional vote scammer and hustler. >> reporter: videotaped testimony, freeman describes the toll that took on her life. >> my community in georgia where i was born and lived my whole life, knew me as lady ruby. i wore a shirt that proudly pr

and it was just -- i mean the remarkable contrast between rusty bowers and shaye moss and ruby freemanoing their jobs, fulfilling their oaths, and then having these people lie about them and cause physical threats to them, you know, all because of donald trump. i mean the contrast was just -- it was emotionally jarring. and i'm a lawyer. i want to tick off all the different ways donald trump was told he lost legally and factually, and that's important. but this had much more impact emotionally. >> the president of the united states reaching out by name, selecting some american citizens who are doing their jobs as workers in the election process and not only attacking them, attacking them in racist ways, calling them -- one of them a hustler. >> suggesting that they were handing out heroin and cocaine, they were handing out ginger mints to one another. there were so many moments that were unconscionable as described. but this was an important day because up until now we were thinking about what happened on january 6th. the committee talking about what happened on january 6th. this is wh

ruby freeman and her daughter shaye moss did nothing wrong.s just one last thing, i think this is also important heading into this part of the investigation that we are going to see tomorrow. you know, there has been all of this talk -- i participated in some of the this stop. there is been a lot of discussion and commentary and speculation about what the intersection is by this january six investigation that we are seeing all these hearings from. and prosecution, the possible criminal prosecution of people who tried to pull off the scheme. that whole question just looms really large over all of these hearings, over everything the january six investigators have been revealing for the findings at these hearings. what we are going to see tomorrow, at tomorrow's hearing, this is the part where that is no longer a hypothetical discussion. this georgia stuff, the threats to the workers, the threats to the state officials they needed to make fake fraud, claims change the election results. that is already definitely under criminal investigation. we d

ruby freeman >> tape earlier in the day of ruby freeman and shaye freeman moss and one other gentlemanbviously, surreptitiously passing around usb ports as if they are vials of heroin and cocaine. i mean, it's -- it's obvious to anyone who's a criminal investigator or prosecutor they are engaged in surreptitious, illegal activity again that day and that's a week ago. and they're still walking around georgia. why? should have been -- they should have been questioned already their places of work, their homes should have been searched for evidence of ballots, trailers, evidence of usb ports. for evidence of voter fraud. >> seth: i mean, this guy really is out of his [ bleep ] mind i mean, how much -- how much scotch can one man drink i'm starting to think that wasn't hair dye leaking out of his head it was johnnie walker jet black. [ laughter ] of course, rudy ended up being the one whose home and office were searched for actual evidence of potential crimes by the fbi. i'm going to guess there was nary a usb port to be found at rudy's place in fact, if they found anything, i bet it was a

have a listen to this. >> ruby freeman and shaye moss and one other gentleman surreptitiously passing around usb ports as if they were vials of heroin and cocaine. >> we had at least 18,000 that is on tape, we had them counted very painstakingly, 18,000 voters having to do with ruby freeman. she is a vote scammer. a professional vote scammer. and hustler. >> and it wasn't just poll workers that were targeted by trump and his aides. the committee also heard from two top election officials the threats they received for not helping trump overturn the election. >> there was one gentleman that had the three bars on his chest and he had a pistol and was threatening of my neighbor. not with the pistol, but just vocally. when i saw the gun, i knew i had to guess close. >> eventually my wife started getting the texts and hers typically came in as sexualized which were disgusting. some people broke into my daughter-in-law's home. and my son has passed and she's a widow, and has two kids. so we're very concerned about her safety also. >> the committee heard testimony about the pressure campaign

. >> reporter: the committee then called a georgia election worker, shaye moss, who, along with her mother ruby freeman, was falsely accused of election tampering by donald trump and rudy giuliani. >> ruby freeman and shaye freeman moss and one other gentleman, quite obviously passing around usb ports as if they are vials of heroin or cocaine. i mean, it's obvious to anyone who is a criminal investigator or prosecutor they are engaged in surreptitious, illegal behavior. >> in one of the videos, mr. giuliani accused you and your mother of passing some sort of usb drive to each other. what was your mom actually handing you on that video? >> a ginger mint. >> reporter: the accusations were bogus, but they triggered an avalanche of threats form trump supporters. >> a lot of threats, wishing death upon me, telling me that i'll be in jail with my mother and saying things like, be glad it's 2020 and not 1920. >> reporter: moss's mother, ruby, sat behind her at the hearing. donald trump attacked her by name some 18 times in a single phone call with georgia's top election official. >> ruby freeman.

amy: deposition videof ruby freeman, mother of shaye moss, both former georgia state election workersestimony was heard tuesday by the house select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capitol. ruby was sitting behind her daughter during shaye's testimony. to see all four public hearings in full, you can go to democracynow.org. we are also livestreaming the fifth hearing on thursday at 1:00 p.m. eastern at democracynow.org. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013.■oÑÑcÑc (sophie fouron) we're very far from the all-inclusive hotels here. we're in the heart of cuba and it's very hard to sum up this island. cuba feels frozen in time. of course, the old 1950's cars, and there are no billboards on the highways, except the ones that are propaganda. there are no restaurant chains. horses are everywhere. people use them to get around. but yet, even if it feels like we're in the 1960's sometimes, pe

amy: deposition video ruby freeman, mother of shaye moss, both former georgia state election workers,stimony was heard tuesday by the house select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capitol. ruby was sitting behind her daughter during shaye's testimony. to see all four public hearings in full, you can go to democracynow.org. we are also livestreaming the fifth hearing on thursday at 1:00 p.m. eastern at democracynow.org. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013.ÑcÑcÑcc ♪ >>> hello there and welcome to nhk "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in new york. >>> russian troops have inched closer and closer to a pair of targets in eastern ukraine. they've rolled through defensive positions. now they're trying to encircle fighters in twin cities they believe would allow them to complete their conquest of the region. the russians have captured three villages near lysychansk and

then, you will hear from shaye moss who was an election worker in georgia. she describes in graphic detail the threats that really she and her entire family have come under because of these specific lies being told by not only the former president, where people around him, people said there were suitcases full of votes being taken into a voting center in atlanta. i will just redo just a part of her statement. we have her prepared remarks from tomorrow's hearing. here is what she says. i have to live with these lies every single day, before december 2020, i was never scared of people knowing my name. she says i did not realize how much i loved my job until it was taken away from me by a few people who decided that their lie was more important than my life. this is a woman, shaye moss, she is somebody who is a third- generation, who's worked as an election, a poll worker. she says the result of what the president, the former president did at the end of 2020 election has really upended her life and the lives of these other officials who will be testifying tomor

. >> reporter: shaye moss testifying about the threats she, her mother and son received because of donald trump's persistent lies. >> like be glad it's 2020 and not 1920. i just feel like it was my fault for putting my family in this situation. >> reporter: her mother saying her life was in danger. >> the fbi informed me i needed to leave my home for safety. i was homeless. i felt i can't believe this person has caused this much damage to me and my family. >> reporter: i just caught up with senator ron johnson, the wisconsin republican, who revealed one of his aides on the morning of january 6th reached out to vice president mike pence's office and said the senator wanted to deliver those fake electors from michigan and wisconsin to the vice president on january 6th. pence's aide said do not deliver that to the vice president's office. johnson just revealed that he was aware that something had come to his office on january 6th. he told me i was aware that we got this package and that the -- somebody wanted us to deliver it so we reached out to vice president mike pence's office. i asked w

and yesterday's testimony, shaye moss, it was absolutely bone-chilling. >> and shaye moss and her mother ruby freeman. moss is an election worker, a mothe her mother, a volunteer. she's just trying to do a small part to move forward democracy. they had her life turns upside down, her life a living hell because of threats of violence. and, john heilemann, the threats of violence of donald trump and maga republicans did not end on january 6th. we saw the evidence there about the violence at the capitol cost officers their lives. the threat is only intensified. law enforcement worried about election security this fall. even more so in 2024. just a couple days ago, we had a missouri senate candidate eric greitens run an ad hooch he threatened to kill his fellow republicans brandishing firearms. where is this going? >> very disturbing, truly one of the most disturbing eras of the trump era is increasing tolerance folder and political violence as joe properly defined. and it was illustrated yesterday, political violence is not just a punch thrown or a flag pole -- a hit -- used to hit somebody

. >> former georgia election worker shaye moss recounting the effects of former president trump's personalher and her mother, as he worked to reverse the 2020 election. it comes as the january 6th committee says new evidence could necessitate additional hearings. congressman jamie raskin is a member of the select committee. you had detailed testimony this week with a trump department of justice official saying trump directly told the doj to just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. pretty clear what direction you're going here. >> well, we saw a series of successive shakedowns of the election officials, of secretaries of state like brad raffensperger in georgia, a state legislative officials and we saw lot of heroes, people who hung tough like shaye moss and weren't willing to be detered from doing their public duties. and from the department of justice, those were trump's own appointees telling him they could not do what he was asking them to do. they can't claim there was fraud and corruption in the election when there wasn't. all of it is

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 says that they have gone their separate ways over the last year. rhiannon. >> faith, thank you so much for that. our live coverage of today's hearing begins at 1:00 p.m. eastern. >>> president biden says he could decide this week whether to suspend the federal gas tax. the move, which would still need approval from congress, would save drivers about 18 cents per gallon. critics point out funding from the gas tax helped pay for bridge and road repairs. >>> if you're flying instead of driving, a new warning about air traffic control st

shaye moss. miss moss worked in a department of elections and registrations in fulton county georgia, from 2017 until 2022. and that job, miss moss handled voter applications and absentee ballot requests, and also help to process the vote count for several elections. in december 2020, miss moss and her mother, miss ruby freeman, became the target of nasty lies spread by president trump and his allies as they sought to overturn the election results in georgia. miss moss and her mother, miss freeman, are two of the unsung heroes in this country, doing the hard work of keeping our democracy functioning for every american. miss moss, welcome. thank you for your service and i thank you for being here today. i will now swear you in, please stand. do you swear, on the penalty of perjury, that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? thank you, please be seated. let the record reflect that the witness answered in the affirmative. miss

georgia election worker shaye moss and her mother ruby freeman were falsely accused of election tampering by trump and rudy giuliani. >> a lot of threats, wishing death upon me, saying things like, be glad it's 2020 and 1920. >> the president of the united states is supposed to represent every american, not to target one, but he targeted me. >> reporter: rusty bowers, arizona's republican speaker of the house, testified that trump and his allies including his lawyer john eastman asked him to convene a special session of the arizona legislature to throw out the electoral votes joe biden had won and replace them with a phony state of pro-trump electors. >> and 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, and that's going to be good enough with me? that i would put us through that, my state, that i swore to uphold both in constitution and in law? no, sir. >> reporter: the committee also revealed text messages on january 6th from an aide for wisconsin senator r

one of the most heartbreaking witnesses of the day was georgia election worker wandrea shaye moss, wholy and unfairly attacked by the former president and his goons. in a web video, giuliani accused moss and her mother of a variety of falsehoods. and, of course, there was a normal, sober explanation. >> in one of the videos we just watched, mr. giuliani accused you and your mother of passing some sort of u.s.b. drive to each other. what was your mom actually handing you on that video? >> a ginger mint. ( laughter ) >> stephen: that might explain why rudy never produced any evidence. he kept jamming altoids into his u.s.b. port. ( as rudy ) "this isn't working. hand me a ricola!" "damn you, swiss!" the committee-- ( applause ) the committee also played some truly moving footage of moss's mother, who goes by the name "lady ruby," explaining what it was like as an everyday citizen being attacked by the most powerful person in the world. >> do you know how it feels to have the president of the united states to target you? the president of the united states is supposed to represent every am

we'll also hear from shaye moss, a former georgia elections worker. she and her mother were targeted in a deebunked voter fraud conspiracy pushed by giuliani and others. >> this is an important lineup when you look at these people. obviously, the secretary of state and his assistant were two republicans who came out with guns blazing. before anybody else, saying, these guys are trying to steal the election. we're not going to let them do it. look at rusty bowers. say what it is in arizona right now. arizona's republican party has been taken over by the biggest fringe element. they're a bunch of lunatics, crazy people. you have the maricopa board that were counting the votes that, time and time again, pushed back against the conspiracy theories. i mean, it's really -- i mean, these people have done such a great service for america. i would say the same thing for democrats who, of course, did the right thing. like al gore, for instance, conceding the election when he conceded the election, when he could have kept fighting that for months and months. the

there were people like shaye moss and ruby, who refused to be intimidated and brow beaten into not doing their jobs. and then ultimately, there was mike pence, who also stood up to the pressure and intimidation. i mean, donald trump was like a steamroller who was seeing who he could stampede, essentially, to do his well. but these people stood up and the capitol officer stood up and defended us for multiple hours when, you know, the domestic violent extremist groups could've gotten and, and they could've killed enough democrats to switch control of the house of representatives from the democrats the republicans. so, it was the courage of a lot of people. there was some luck in it, and some fortune. ultimately, i think that there is so much more passion for democracy in the country than there is support for insurrection and coups but on the other hand, we're still in the fight of our lives here and as we can see from the escalating violent threats against colleagues like liz cheney and adam kinzinger, and these election officials, and so on, we are not out of the danger zone at all. becau

perhaps tuesday's most powerful witness testimony came from shaye moss, a georgia election worker who was falsely accused of participating in a voter fraud scheme. the lies against her were magnified by trump and rudy giuliani. she described suffering from relentless harassment. >> a lot of threats wishing death upon me, telling me that i'll be in jail with my mother and saying things like be glad it's 2020 and not 1920. >> were a lot of these threats and vile comments racist in nature? >> a lot of them were racist. a lot of them were just hateful. >> how has this experience of being targeted by the former president and his allies affected your life? >> it's turned my life upside down. i no longer give out my business card. i don't transfer calls. i don't want anyone knowing my name. i don't want to go anywhere with my mom because she might yell my name out over the grocery aisle or something. i don't go to the grocery store at all. i haven't been anywhere at all. i've gained about 60 pounds. i just don't do nothing anymore. >> this is such a tragedy where you have donald trump lying

. >> reporter: the committee also called an election worker from georgia, shaye moss, who along with mother, ruby freeman, was falsely accused of election tampering by donald trump and rudy giuliani. >> ruby freeman and shaye moss and one other gentleman quite obviously surreptitiously passing around usb ports as if they're vials of heroin or cocaine. >> in one of videos we just watched, mr. giuliani accused you and your mother of passing some sort of usb drive to each other. what was your mom actually handing you on that video? >> a ginger mint. >> reporter: the accusations were bogus but they triggered an avalanche of threats from trump supporters. >> a lot of threats wishing death upon me. telling me, you know, i'll be in jail with my mother and saying things like be glad it's 2020 and not 1920. >> reporter: moss' mother ruby sat behind her at the hearing and donald trump attacked her by name 18 times in a single phone call with georgia's top election official. in videotaped testimony freeman describes the toll that took on her life. >> there is nowhere i feel safe, nowhere. >> re

along with shaye moss, a georgia election worker who got personal death threats and harassment, and was falsely accused of manipulating votes. she was just an election worker, helping to count votes in the hours after the election. she got death threats. committee aides say the hearing will also show that trump knew the pressure campaign could in fact become violent, and he pushed it anyway. >> we'll be showing some of the evidence of the presidents role in this whole scheme of pressuring state legislatures. donald trump lost these states. we will explore the role that was played by the president, by his campaign, by his lawyers. >> aides also tell nbc news that trump's then chief of staff, mark meadows, who played a key role in the fake elector scheme. in the washington post, new reporting that trump's advisers knew the fake elector plan had absolutely no legal basis, but they pushed it anyway. meanwhile, at this point, more americans, not democrats, more americans think trump deserves to face consequences for the insurrection. an abc news poll shows 58% of americans say the former pre

his fellow awar dees were zelenskyy, liz cheney, jocelyn benson, shaye moss.uary 6th committee, the former president attacked him again in a statement, calling him a rhino. playing along with the unselect committee. and claiming that bowers had credited trump with the election and he told me the election was rigged and that i won arizona. rusty bowers refuted that and told his story again at the hearing on tv and in front of a worldwide audience. >> and i said, look, you're asking me to do something that is counter to my oath when i swore to the constitution to uphold it. and i also swore to the constitution and the laws of the state of arizona. and this is totally foreign as an idea or a theory, to me. and i would never do anything of such magnitude without deep consultation with qualified attorneys. i said i have some good attorneys. and i'm going to give you their names. but you're asking me to do something against my oath. i will not break my oath. >> many watched and said, hey, stand up guy. doing the right thing. he also described to the committee the th

shaye moss, a georgia election worker who counted ballots on election night and received death threatsring the results. in her opening statement claiming, people showed up at my grandmother's home trying to bust the door down and conduct a citizen's arrest of my mom and me. and that election worker, shaye moss, says her life was turned completely upside down because of false claims about the 2020 election. we're told today the committee will try to make the case that trump knew his words and actions could incite violence and pushed forward anyway. george? >> rachel scott, thanks. >>> let's bring in chief legal analyst dan abrams. dan, clearly the committee -- one goal of the committee is building a case for criminal prosecution of president trump on federal charges but that's a high bar. >> it is a high bar and first, let's start with the difference between what could be a crime and what the department of justice actually will move forward with as a possible crime. there are a lot of arguments that people could make about potential crimes. but i think for the department of justice to a

anyway, the idea that shaye moss and lady ruby need to become supreme court justices before this congressoffensive to me! 30 of brett kavanaugh's neighbors had a cocktail party outside of his house and mitch mcconnell clocked so many plurals that he needed a couch. congress immediately started acting to try to protect at the supreme court justices! these women were attacked 18 months ago and we still do not have a bill from mitch mcconnell, jim jordan, ted cruz, saying that election workers. people who make the wheels of democracy go, that these people deserve protection from the insurrectionists that people like kevin mccarthy and ted cruz gave voice and comfort to. that is ridiculous. at the very least, these women need to be protected. future election workers need to be protected from the white insurrection is that we have running around this country. >> i don't know what justice looks like for these two women. their lives have been permanently impacted. we are running out of time. we do not even get to the fact that ryan johnson was an integral part. the only person standing between a

that many of election officials who had worked in fulton county elections like ruby freeman and shaye moss no longer work just because of the onslaught of threats and intimidation that were part of this pressure campaign launched by trump to overturn the results of the 2020 election. they are attempting to show in the committee hearings that not only did trump's campaign hurt public trust in elections and spread misinformation and conspiracy theories about the legitimacy of the 2020 vote, but also that they are now hurting the basic infrastructure of how we decide our own elections and our own lawmakers in this country. >> we also heard from three republicans yesterday, rusty bowers, brad raffensperger and gabe sterling, all by the way people who supported the former president and bowers going as far as to tell the a.p. that if it was a choice between biden and trump, he would still choose trump, which is amazing given that he was up there crying yesterday. but they testified without reservation that trump and his allies were asking -- what they were asking was just wrong legally and moral