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crowd (chanting):
Stop the steal!
Stop the steal!

Stop the steal! Stop the steal!
Stop the steal!

(chanting continues)

Donald J. Trump:
This election was rigged,

and we can't let it happen.

Can't let it happen.
Can't let it happen!

Bill Barr:
Before the election,
obviously,

I wanted Trump to win.
I supported Trump.

♪♪

But after the election,
he started spewing out

all these allegations
of voting fraud.

This was a massive fraud.

So, I felt I had to get
on top of the main claims

that were being made.

Stephanie Grisham:
I was close to him.

Very, very close
to Mrs. Trump.

I really liked them.

I kind of felt like
they were family to me.

We were getting ready to
win this election.

Frankly,
we did win this election.

(crowd cheering)

Grisham:
I guarantee anybody who was
around him at the time,

despite what they
were thinking inside,

they were saying,
"Oh, it was stolen, sir."

♪♪

Marc Short: It was weeks
of a pressure campaign

to overturn
election results.

The vice president was loyally
standing by his side.

I stand with
President Donald Trump!

But at the same time,
we were on a collision course

between the president
and the vice president.

And I hope Mike is gonna do
the right thing. I hope so.

Because if Mike Pence
does the right thing,

we win the election.

♪♪

Mark Brnovich:
President Trump
did a great job.

I was right there with him.
He called me and said,

"Hey, you'll be the most
popular guy in America!

"You'll, you'll be able to
run for President!

All you gotta do is say there's
fraud or find some fraud."

I could have been
a fucking hero.

Trump (on phone):
Look, ultimately I win.

So, what are we going
to do here, folks?

I need 11,000 votes.
Give me a break.

I was for Trump the whole time.

I walked for him.
I campaigned for him.

It was fun.

Everyone is saying,

"Wow, the evidence
is overwhelming."

And then it started.
The steal.

♪♪

(plane whirring)

crowd (chanting):
Four more years!
Four more years!

Four more years!
Four more years!

♪♪

Trump:
Get out and vote,
and I love you.

Thank you.
Thank you very much.

(crowd cheering)

Alyssa Farah Griffin:
One of the greatest
honors I have

is getting to
travel the country,

meeting with real Americans
with President Trump.

I joined the West Wing
under Trump in April of 2020.

I felt emotionally invested
in him winning.

(crowd cheering)

Some of these rallies you'll be
in a stadium-like seating,

and those can be
overwhelming and feel like,

"Wow, this is so many people."

And I remember thinking,
he's going to pull it off.

Who, who else can bring and
command this kind of a crowd?

(forklift whirring)

But we had no shortage
of chaos and crises

in that six-plus month period.

officer (megaphone):
Leave the area immediately.

-(gunshots)
-(people shouting)

There was sort of a
perfect storm of conditions.

♪♪

By late summer,
President Trump starts

to kind of grease the wheels
for excuses if he lost.

These elections
will be fraudulent,

they'll be fixed,
they'll be rigged,

and everyone's looking at it.

♪♪

Griffin: I was sitting in
the Oval Office with him.

No one in the West Wing team

was talking
like losing was a reality.

Barr:
Up until the election,

you could always appeal
to his self-interest.

"Mr. President,
this was a bad idea for you.

This will hurt you."

And that would work,

if you appealed
to his self-interest.

And that is what helped keep
things within the guardrails.

-(plane idling)
-Leading up to the election,

all he had to do was temper
his behavior a little bit,

and I think he would have
easily won re-election.

And people were telling him
this for months,

but he was very self-indulgent.

Let's vote for Sleepy Joe,
he's fallen asleep.

Joe... Joe, oh...

He ignored all the advice
he was getting.

And he ran this election that,
that was self-destructive.

The only way we're gonna lose
this election

is if the election is rigged,
remember that.

It's the only way we're going
to lose this election.

♪♪

Ronald Hansen:
In 2020, Arizona,

really for the first time
in a long time,

emerged as one of the key
swing states

for the presidential race.

-(marching band playing)
-(singing)

Arizona has had a change
in its population.

You have
an immigrant population.

You also have a fair number
of retirees coming in.

And it all adds up to a churn
in Arizona's population

that helps redefine the state's
political inclinations.

crowd:
Get out and vote!
Get out and vote!

♪♪

Clint Hickman:
Welcome to the Board
of Supervisors.

2020 is going to be
a very interesting year.

We have elections to run.

It's an honor to serve as
Chairman of the Board
of Supervisors.

In November 2020,
I was Chairman

of the Maricopa County
Board of Supervisors.

My role is to run an election.

The integrity and success
of our elections

is my number-one priority.

Maricopa County is the
second largest voting district

in the United States because
there's just so much population

that exists in this one county.

Moving on. Number four
is the pet showcase.

John Reynolds is here from
Animal Care and Control.

Uh, we believe her to be maybe
a Parsons Russell terrier

and poodle mix.

Bill Gates:
We are in 50 different lines
of business,

but many of them sort of
off the front pages. Right?

You know, animal care
and control, air quality,

transportation.

So, important but sort of
a more low-profile role.

Until all of this happened.

-We are adjourned.
-(bangs gavel)

(plane roaring)

(tires screech)

President Trump was
in this community

three, four, five times with
large rallies. I was at one.

Six days,
can you believe this?

-Six days from now...
-(crowd cheering)

...we are going to win Arizona,
and we are going to win

four more years in our
great beautiful White House.

Hickman:
I was a Republican Chairman.

I had something to do with him
being there that day.

I was thanked.

Maricopa County Supervisor
Clint Hickman.

-(crowd cheering)
-Hickman: I felt really happy.

He was our
Republican president.

Thank you, Clint.
Good job, Clint.

♪♪

(applause)

Trump: I think if anything,
we're going to do very well.

Winning is easy.

Losing is never easy.
Not for me, it's not.

reporter:
Let's bring in Alyssa Farah
from the White House,

the White House
Communications Director.

The president is in
a great mood. We're energetic.

The vibe in the West Wing is
we're excited.

The early results
were coming in,

and it looked like
Trump might pull it off.

So, people were
a little bit excited

and started making
their way over

to the East Wing
for the party.

Grisham:
There was music playing
in the background.

There were two bars open.

You know, people were chatting,
taking pictures.

I think-- And it was kind of a,
"Let's take pictures

"of us winning again, you know,
and this time,

we're winning
in the White House."

And so, it was really
jolly and jovial

and everyone was
really happy.

Honestly, I don't even know that
people were paying

that close of attention
because we were gonna win.

And then very shortly after,
the Arizona call came in.

(fountain splashing)

The Fox News decision desk is
calling Arizona for Joe Biden.

That is a big get
for the Biden campaign.

It's a significant victory for,
for Joe Biden.

As I say,
the first flip of the night.

Hansen:
Fox News calling Arizona
for Joe Biden.

This started to set
the dominoes tumbling.

It had outsized repercussions
for the tenor

of the national race.

Grisham:
We were all in the residence,

I think it was like,
two in the morning,

three in the morning
at that point,

as we watched stuff come in,

and then as it was looking like

Biden was going to accept
that he had won.

I'm here to tell you tonight

we believe we're on track
to win this election!

(crowd cheering)

I'm optimistic
about this outcome!

The President was standing
in this middle of this--

this crowd of people.
And it was just chaos.

Everyone's yelling.

Trump's waving a piece of paper
in his hand.

He's very angry.

And when he's pissed,

you don't want to even
get in his line of vision.

And then all of a sudden,
abruptly,

it was like a light switch
went off.

It was like somebody
just turned the light off

'cause everybody just
started heading downstairs,

um, for him to speak.

crowd:
We love Trump! We love Trump!
We love Trump!

("Hail to the Chief" playing)

(crowd cheering)

Trump: Well,
thank you very much.

Grisham:
And then he just
walked on stage.

The man took the stage
and no one knew

what was going to come
out of his mouth.

I don't know if
he's gonna concede.

I don't know
what he's going to say.

This is, without question,
the latest news conference

I've ever had.

-(laughter)
-supporters: We love you!
We love you! Yeah!

Thank you, thank you.

(cheering)

This is a fraud
on the American public.

This is an embarrassment
to our country.

We were getting ready
to win this election.

Frankly,
we did win this election.

(applause, cheering)

Grisham:
When he started down that
road of, "Frankly, we won,"

I just was devastated.

I was so disappointed
in my president,

and I thought, "How can you,
like, do this to the country

and leave everybody
hanging like this?"

And, um, yeah,
I started to just cry.

I was pissed.

Trump:
Mr. Vice President,

say a few words, please.
Please.

(applause, cheering)

Greg Jacob:
Whereas President Trump
talked a lot about fraud

and that he thought
he had won the election,

I think the vice president
was cognizant

that he didn't want
to make allegations

that he didn't know
were supported.

It wasn't necessarily that
he knew one way or the other.

You're in the very early days,
you just can't know.

We're waiting to see
what evidence

gets developed over time.

I truly do believe,
as you do,

that we are on the road
to victory

and we will make
America great again,
again.

Short: For many of us,
we felt it would probably be

a contentious few weeks,
but that ultimately,

if there ended up
not being evidence

to support fraud or theft,

that ultimately there would be
some level of concession.

-(applause)
-Thank you very much.

Grisham: He came off the stage,
I thought, "Holy shit."

You know, I knew him for so long
and he never goes backwards.

If anything, he goes forwards
and he doubles and triples down.

He will never back down now.
There's no walking this back.

(band fades out)

Barr:
At two in the morning,
for him to go out

and claim that fraud
was underway was,

was very dangerous.

You know, I started worrying
a lot from then on.

(distant police siren wails)

reporter:
President Trump's supporters
are ramping up

their voices in the Valley,
gathering outside

of the Maricopa
County Elections Office.

protesters:
Let them in! Let them in!
Let them in!

We started getting some protests

outside of
the tabulation center.

It got, uh, pretty ugly,
pretty quick.

protesters:
Let them in! Let them in!

Shame on Fox! Shame on Fox!

Adrian Fontes:
I mean, it's all theater
except for they've got

assault weapons
and they're armed,

and at any moment
they could have come in

and mounted an armed assault
against our warehouse,

where the ballots
were held.

protesters:
Where are the votes?
Where are the votes?

Fontes:
Some elected officials
even showed up,

Congressman Gosar
was one of them.

(Paul Gosar chanting)

Hickman: These are publicly
elected officials

coming to charge up a crowd.

That was a sign of
things to come

about some
Republican colleagues.

All of these people,

with Trump flags,
wearing their AR-15s.

It enraged me.

(camera shutters
snapping rapidly)

♪♪

Thank you very much.
Thank you.

This is a case where they're
trying to steal an election.

They're trying
to rig an election.

Hickman:
President Trump was making sure

that there was talk
about rigging of elections

or bashing people
across the United States.

Trump:
The officials overseeing
the counting

are all part of
a corrupt Democrat machine.

Today, we're on track
to win Arizona.

crowd:
Four more years!
Four more years!

If you count the legal votes,
I easily win.

protester (on megaphone):
Count the legal votes!

protester (on megaphone):
We are watching you!

reporter 1:
Mr. President, are you going
to accept the outcome

of the election, sir,
if you lose?

-Mr. President!
-reporter 2: Are you
being a sore loser?

protester:
Trump said, "Hey, if you
count all the legal votes,

I won this election."

reporter:
When you say count
the legal votes,

which illegal votes are--
is the group referring to?

Uh...

Just emp--

Like, empty ba-ballots

that liberals
working the elections

have filled in on their own.

Wolf Blitzer:
After four long, tense days,
we've reached

a historic moment
in this election.

We can now project the winner
of the presidential race.

(news jingle playing)

Barr:
One of the reasons I have
a high degree of confidence

that the election
was not stolen by fraud

was because when you actually
look at the votes,

there's no mystery
as to why he lost in 2020.

He lost where people
were telling him

for months and months
he was gonna lose.

The problem all along was that

his way of going about
energizing his base

drove away a lot
of suburban professionals.

That's where the fatal gap
was for him.

It was in the suburbs.

So, it's no mystery
as to why he lost.

-(cars honking)
-(crowd shouting)

Griffin:
The race was ultimately called
for Joe Biden.

And in the neighborhood
I lived in in DC,

like, there were
cheers in the streets.

People were very excited.

supporters (singing):
♪ We are the champions ♪

♪ No time for losers ♪

Griffin:
And I kind of accepted it
and, you know,

knew I was going to go back
into work to do my job

because win or lose,
we still had, like,

two and a half months
in office.

♪♪

It's a very
odd time in history

when a sitting president
loses a re-election.

And then add to it, a president
who has chosen not to concede.

And my office is just
right around the corner

from the Oval Office.

And I remember
popping my head in,

and he's watching Fox News,
um, and Joe Biden's on

and he says,

"Can you believe I lost
to this effing guy?"

♪♪

Grisham:
He knows he lost,
but he's a narcissist,

and his ego
will not accept defeat.

And when you have people
who will so willingly

come around you
and tell you

you didn't lose and the things
that you want to hear,

which he's a master at.

He's a master at finding these
people who will say whatever.

And so that enables him to
double down and triple down.

♪♪

Barr:
He had lost the election.

He had sort of
nothing to lose.

And that's when he started
shutting down communication

with the people who were
actually in advisory positions,

in the government

and started listening almost
exclusively to this cabal

on the outside.

Joining us this evening
is Rudy Giuliani,

the president's attorney,
former mayor of New York City...

Barr:
The President then rolled out
his legal team.

Wow, what a beautiful day.
Thank you.

Barr:
Obviously, Rudy played
a big role, you know,

in this very excited
conspiracy theory type of way.

Joe Frazier
is still voting here.

Kinda hard since he died
five years ago.

Also, Will Smith's father has
voted here twice since he died.

I'm joined right now
by Jenna Ellis

who is the president's
legal advisor...

Griffin:
In came, one day, Jenna Ellis
and Sidney Powell,

who was an attorney herself,
but was known as,

frankly, kooky,
in the West Wing.

We're fixing to overturn
the results of the election

in multiple states.
And President Trump won

by not just hundreds
of thousands of votes,

but by millions of votes.

And suddenly, you would see them
sitting in sort of the,

the West Wing lobby.

It was almost like this
bar-room scene from "Star Wars,"

you know, of people
hanging around the Oval Office,

these people from the outside.

I've been a prosecutor for,
on and off, 50 years of my life.

Prosecuted a lot more dangerous
criminals than these morons,

and, uh, and the evidence
is overwhelming.

President Trump won, fairly,
and genuinely by a landslide,

and we intend to prove that.

Sidney Powell:
Well, I can hardly wait

to put forth all the evidence
we have collected,

and I'm going to release
the Kraken.

Griffin:
And that was sort
of the beginning

of a even darker period of

the campaign fraud nonsense
that was pushed.

That's when shit
really hit the fan.

(shutters snapping rapidly)

Good afternoon.

Griffin:
They all show up on stage,

at the Republican National
Committee headquarters.

-(reporters yelling)
-Nope, nope, nope! (stammers)

You've got Rudy Giuliani
who's sweating off his hair dye

down his face,
and the whole thing was chaotic.

We let this happen,
we're going to become Venezuela.

We cannot let this happen to us.

We cannot allow these crooks,
'cause that's what they are,

to steal an election
from the American people.

They elected Donald Trump.

Jacob:
I made my entire legal staff

watch the Rudy Giuliani
press conference

'cause that was supposed
to be the big reveal.

Now, you know, we've been
hearing these allegations,

now we're supposed to hear
all of the evidence.

And so, we all sat and watched
it together and were...

uh, underwhelmed.

You can't say--
I mean,

you're just lying
to the American people

when you say
there's no evidence.

Jacob:
It was really shocking
to me how

untethered to evidence and facts

a lot of what he seemed to be
saying and putting forward were.

I know crimes, I can smell 'em.

You don't have to
smell this one.

I can prove it to you
18 different ways.

Barr:
Their public statements
kept on citing fraud,

but there was just
not evidence of that.

Especially on a scale
that would have affected

the outcome of the election.

So, excuse me, we're not
at the questions at this point.

My name is Jenna Ellis,

and I'm the senior
legal advisor.

You have Jenna Ellis, you know,
giving her best sort of,

"We've got to stand and fight
for the American people."

This is an elite
strike force team

that is working on behalf of
the president and the campaign

to make sure that
our Constitution is protected.

We are a nation of rules.

You have Sidney Powell
espousing bizarre theories.

What we are really
dealing with here

and uncovering more by the day

is the massive influence

of communist money
through Venezuela,

Cuba, and likely China
in the interference

with our elections here
in the United States.

What I don't think enough of us
were thinking that day is,

this is incredibly dangerous.

We'd later find out that
it was incredibly dangerous.

We are going to take
this country back.

We are not going to
be intimidated.

-(cheering)
-Jacob Chansley: We are taking
the nation back.

We will not allow communism
in the United States.

Here in Arizona, I went down to
the Election Center every day,

seven days a week.

Then, we moved from
the Election Center

over to the Capitol building.

We will not accept corruption in
Arizona or in the United States!

We're bringing down
the New World Order!

Nobody voted for Biden, dude.
Not here in Arizona.

There's something wrong
with our elections.

It's plain and simple.

♪♪

-Pray for our President. Pray...
-(crowd murmuring)

Big business, big tech,
and big media

all colluded together

to keep Donald Trump
from being re-elected.

It's that simple.

They're trying to take away
your dream of four more years!

-Are you gonna let them do that?
-crowd: No!

Brnovich:
As the attorney general,
there was nothing more

that I would have wanted to do

than to prosecute a bunch of,
you know, left-wing Democrats

for, you know,
injecting thousands of votes

illegally into
the Arizona system.

I mean, I didn't
want Joe Biden to win.

Donald Trump loves America!

(crowd cheering)

Brnovich:
Here in Arizona, a majority
of Republicans

thought the election
was stolen.

Part of the reason
why they believed it

is because they kept hearing it.

President Trump at that time
was talking about,

you know, that if he didn't win,
the election was rigged.

And you get it out there,
and then people believe it,

and then, you know,

there's a certain
confirmation bias, right?

Once somebody
believes something,

they see everything
through that prism.

Sharpiegate here in Arizona.

Remember I talked to you
about this Sharpie...

They were handing
out Sharpies...

So, they were using Sharpies...

Sharpiegate...

There was a huge issue
related to Sharpies

and whether Sharpies had
affected the way people voted.

Folks were claiming that
the Sharpie pens

were causing a bleed-through
on the piece of paper.

So, if someone voted,
you know, on one side,

'cause we have
the two-sided ballots,

that the bleed-through of
the pen marks to the other side

would lead
to inaccurate results.

Yeah, everybody's
a little pissed.

Marko Trickovic:
All across Arizona,

the chaos really kinda came,
like, on Election Day, right?

So, what they're doing is
they're telling people to use

-the Sharpies, that way...
-Yes.

-Trickovic:
...those votes aren't counted.
-Yes.

-Trickovic: That's
exactly what's happening?
-Yes.

Trickovic:
You know, I shot that video

that ultimately ended up
turning into Sharpiegate.

They're saying my vote
didn't count.

So, people are coming here
to vote for Donald Trump,

and those votes
are all getting invalidated.

Welcome to the
new America, people.

That's what's going on.

Do I believe that
the election was stolen?

Absolutely, 100% I do.

And yes, the other side,

the officials that were involved
in that process,

they're gonna tell you
everything was on the up and up

because they have to.

It's organized crime
at that point.

People were talking
about the Sharpies.

Why did we use Sharpies?

Well, I know we made videos,

you know, six months before,

saying don't worry about it.

Please use Sharpies.

(energetic music playing)

narrator:
Did you know you can use
a black or blue pen or Sharpie

to fill out your ballot
in Maricopa County?

So, bleed-throughs
are not a problem.

So, as people were saying,
"Hey, there's something here.

It's not counting my vote."

It's like, no, I'm good.

Certainly, we were
noticing irregularities.

Things that didn't quite add up.

Because the Sharpies will indeed
bleed through the paper.

You know,
there-- we're--

there's enough there
to question,

to be a skeptic.

(indistinct chatter)

Brnovich:
My immediate reaction was
that we would look into

the use of Sharpies

and whether that affected
the vote in 2020.

We just want to make sure
that no one can ever say

that this election
wasn't done properly.

My goodness, I had every motive
and reason to find

some sort of massive fraud.

And we--
it just wasn't there.

supporter (on megaphone):
Trump is gonna stay
our president...

Brnovich:
We were able to systematically

and methodically lay to rest

so many conspiracy theories

and people that still maintained
that the election was stolen,

they moved on to other things.

All the fraud didn't happen
with Sharpies, right?

That was just a small piece
to a massive problem.

There were votes for people
that were dead.

Here in Arizona!

(people cheering)

1.8 million people,
dead people voting...

You've got people out there,

this group saying that thousands
of dead people voted.

You've got former president

saying that
it affected the election.

But we were systematically
able to go through

and disprove that.

-(crowd chatter)
-(horn blowing)

We spent hundreds,
if not thousands of hours

as an office with lawyers,
investigators

but some sort of
massive conspiracy

that would have changed
the outcome of the election?

I haven't seen it.

The reality is, right now,
it does appear

that Joe Biden will win Arizona.

I admire your nerves of steel,
and a backbone to match.

I just wish you well on this
'cause a lot of people

are not gonna digest
this very nicely.

I'm the fucking Republican

statewide-elected
attorney general,

and people are
jumping up and going,

"Get some balls! Why don't you
prosecute anybody about 20--"

And, like, people are
beatin' the shit out of me.

protesters:
We want Trump! We want Trump!

We want Trump!

We want Trump!
We want Trump...

They cheated!
They're cheaters!

-(drumming)
-(bell rings)

That was just a harbinger
of what was to come.

Sharpies kind of died away

to a next theory
and a next theory.

Basically, from our research,
we were able to discover

that the actual theft of
the United States election

occurred in Italy...

Italian satellites,
uh, German servers...

The server holding all
of our votes in Germany

has been obtained.

It was like playing
Whac-A-Mole.

One day,
there was a claim de jure

that everyone was talking about,

and once that was slapped down,
the next day,

another one would pop up.

The company Dominion

is a far-left, radical company.

Dominion, Dominion,
nobody even knows who owns it.

These machines
are controlling our country.

Barr:
One of the ones that
I thought was damaging

to the public's confidence
in the outcome

was allegations about
the Dominion voting machines.

Dominion is a joke.

Sidney Powell is
leading the charge.

You're saying
that the CIA is behind

the Dominion
voting software as well?

The machines can be hacked.

There's no question about that.
Their machines can be hacked.

Hickman:
The big theory was that
Dominion equipment

was hooked up to the internet
that they could swing voters.

We have evidence of how
they flipped the votes,

how it was designed
to flip the votes.

They're not capable
of doing that,

so there's no internet.

♪♪

Gates:
So, this is very important
that people understand,

that these tabulation machines

are not connected
to the internet in any way.

Because people said,
"Well, what about Wi-Fi?"

Well, there's no routers
in these tabulation machines.

So, outside actors
are not able

to control
the machines remotely.

Then, in addition to that,

if they wanted
to physically access these,

they would have to break in,

to some of the additional
security features

that we've put in there.

So, it is because of these
various layers of security

that I'm confident that
these machines

have not been manipulated
by outside actors.

And that's been confirmed time
and time again by experts,

as well as in a court of law,
in many courts of law in fact.

This is supposed to be
a secure system. It was not.

So, to make the claim

that there was no off-site
computer communications,

totally a lie.

Totally a falsehood.

Somebody's trying to
cover something up.

It's hard when
people are saying,

"Don't believe the county.

Whatever you do,
don't believe the county."

And it becomes almost like
a battle at that point.

"I know what I know.
You might know what you know,

but I'm now not trusting
what you're saying."

It's like, I don't know.
At this point,

I don't know how to get
around that.

And we have a machine,
the Dominion machine,

that's as filled with holes
as Swiss cheese

and, uh, was developed
to steal elections.

They spent a lot of energy
and time on those allegations.

So, I set up
two extensive meetings

with the experts
over at Department of
Homeland Security,

as well as the FBI experts,

and I concluded that these
allegations were bogus.

(quiet crowd chatter)

♪♪

(distant siren wailing)

Hickman: Okay.
Welcome, everybody.

Gates:
So, you have Election Day.

It takes many days
to get the final results.

Once that is completed,

then the elections department
puts together a canvass.

And then that canvass
is presented

to the Board of Supervisors,
the five of us,

and we have
the final say by voting

to certify that canvass.

Welcome to the Board
of Supervisors,

November 20th special meeting...

Hickman:
President Trump
ran out of votes.

By the time the final vote
was counted,

he didn't quite catch up.

The board is required by law

to canvass
the November 3rd election.

caller (on voicemail):
Hello, Mr. Hickman.

When we come to lynch
your stupid, lying, commie ass,

you piece of shit,
you're going to die,

you piece of shit.
We're going to hang you!

Hickman:
During the certification,

the death threats
were already happening.

There were threats
to rape our daughters.

Just some of the most vile
things you can imagine.

Hickman:
We were in our auditorium,

but people were just outside
of the auditorium.

-protester (on megaphone):
Trump 2020!
-crowd: Trump 2020!

protester (on megaphone):
Trump 2020!

crowd:
Trump 2020!

Hickman:
People were banging drums

and banging on the doors.

-protester: Stop the steal!
-crowd: Stop the steal!

This is where we meet to do
the people's business.

Gates:
That's when I was contacted
by people

within President Trump's
orbit.

Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of
the Arizona Republican Party.

I was sent numerous
text messages

pleading with me not vote
to certify the election.

(text chimes)

She was putting some stress
on apparently all of us

through texts
or maybe phone calls.

Kelli Ward (on voicemail):

We have to continue to pressure
that board of supervisors

-to do the right thing.
-crowd: We do!

We have got to continue!

Gates:
The pressure by the president
and his many surrogates

was all part of an effort
to overturn the election.

Now, looking back on it,
it really is chilling

that that's what we were
in the middle of.

We're here,
taking a hard look

at the Maricopa County
election of 2020.

People didn't want us
to certify the vote,

and I didn't know how my
colleagues were gonna vote.

Supervisor Gallardo?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I was fearful that my board,

that I serve on, would decide
not to canvass the election.

What happens in those cases?

The pressure was so great,

that I felt
my colleagues would buckle.

I listened to and considered
all theories

about what might have happened.
But, let me be clear.

There is no evidence of fraud
or misconduct or malfunction

in Maricopa County,
and that is with a big zero.

It's time to dial back
the rhetoric, conspiracies,

and false claims.
In a free democracy,

elections result in some
people's candidate losing.

I'm not going
to violate the law

or deviate
from my own moral compass,

as some have pushed me to do,

and some have probably
pushed others to do here.

I'm like--
I'm like this.

It was-- It--

It was probably
the most pressure-packed...

night of my life.

I will now entertain a
motion to canvass

the November 3rd election...

I mean, I had no idea exactly
if we would have three votes.

We needed three votes.

The results are accurate
and complete,

and it's time to move forward.

Thank you,
Vice Chairman Sellers.

-Do I have a second?
-Second.

Second. Thank you,
Supervisor Gates.

-All in favor, say "aye."
-officials: "Aye."

Any opposed? Hearing none,
motion carries unanimously.

I knew they were all under
a severe amount of pressure

and to be a unified vote,
I was gratified.

We all have run, um,
our elections,

and they're,
and they're over with.

And I will tell, uh,
the group loud and clear

that voted for me
and voted for my colleagues,

you voted for people that serve
with integrity and honor.

I'm very proud
to serve with you.

-We are adjourned.
-(bangs gavel)

-Don't get me emotional again!
-(producer chuckles)

Because it was,
it was an emotional time,

and I, when I reflect on it,
I still get emotional.

(scoffs)

Gates:
After the vote,

we soon learned
that this groundswell

was not going to abate.

In some ways,
this was just beginning.

(indistinct chanting)

We'd had been doxxed
by this point.

So, they would
come to our houses

and sort of try
and do a citizen's arrest.

officer: This is-- Guys,
this is a personal residence.

Please! Pl-Please, listen--

protester:
If we can move through this,

-we'll be gone really quick.
-officer: Please.

This is my house, man.
And my family.

(indistinct chatter)

I don't know
who these people are.

And if someone tries
to come in this house,

you better hit the deck.

-I'm firing.
-(camera beeping)

officer:
Please, please get him
to stop. Please?

-I'm being as cool as I can.
-(police radio chatter)

You know? Like, I appreciate
what you guys are trying...

Gates:
I was doing my job.

My colleagues
were doing their jobs,

and yet we had become
the focus of, of hatred.

But you know, as--
in elected office,

we're just supposed
to not be human, right?

We're just supposed
to do our jobs

and just let all this stuff
bounce off of you,

but I realized it was too much.

That was-- I really
struggled with that.

-(cars honking)
-(crowd chatter)

(indistinct speech)

Hansen: In Arizona, we knew
that there was a willingness

to entertain
conspiracy thinking.

What we didn't understand
at that point

was just how connected it
was to the Trump campaign.

It was being engineered
from the very highest levels

and seeking foot soldiers
in Arizona

to carry something out.

We later found out
that Trump himself

was reaching out to people
in Arizona to try

and engineer an outcome
more to his liking.

It's been my pleasure
to have served

in and around the legislature

since first being
elected in 1992.

Hansen:
The most memorable of those
encounters is with,

then,
House Speaker Rusty Bowers.

Arizona House Speaker,
Rusty Bowers.

I was for Trump the whole time.

I walked for him.
I campaigned for him.

Stand up on the stage,

and he would glad-hand us all
and tell everybody

what great people we are
and blah blah blah.

It was fun.

(crowd cheering)

But I do not like bullies.

22nd November,

pulled in the driveway
in my magnificent little Prius,

and the phone, "White House."

"The president
will be right on."

And then,
the president comes on.

"Mr. Speaker, you're doing
a great job out there,"

and he glad-hand,
you know, pat the back.

"We've heard so many
great things about you,

but we got some problems
we'd like to talk to you about."

I said, sure, whatever.

He was saying,
"We got fraud all the way
across the country."

I'm saying, okay,

gear it up, Rusty.
Here we go.

And then Rudy comes on and says
"14,000 dead people voted

and a couple hundred thousand
illegal aliens voted."

You got names? "Yeah."

You've got names of
the 14,000 dead people? "Yes."

You got names of the 200,000
illegal aliens who voted?

"Yes."

You can bring those
and put those on my desk?

"Yes."

Rudy, I got to have proof.

You got the proof?
"Yes."

And the president says,
"Give him the proof, Rudy."

I said, Rudy,
what's the ask out of all this?

And he said, "Well,
we would like to have

"a committee hearing
to review this evidence

"before a committee
in the legislature.

"There's an arcane Arizona law
that allows you to evaluate

"whether or not you can remove
Biden's electors

and replace them
with Trump's electors."

And he says, "Well,
this is some Arizona law."

I said, "I've never heard
of that law, Rudy."

(applause)

Hansen:
It was fairly startling.

The Trump team
tried to impress on Rusty

that the legislature had,
within its powers,

the ability to just change who
the state electoral votes go to.

What they are proposing

is something that sounds
fantastical in some ways,

illegal in others.

I'm going to throw out
Biden's electors

and put in
Trump's electors?

"Yeah. That's what we're gonna--
That's our ask."

♪♪

The dude is just
straight-up asking you

to throw the election.

I mean, that's clearly
what he had wanted me to do.

So, I said, "Look,

"I need proof.
When you bring me the proof,

we talk.
But no proof, no talk."

The Founding Fathers figured out

where to point the finger
of responsibility,

and the buck stops with
the state legislatures.

It's gonna have to go
to the state legislatures

to be decided, Jeanine.

Trump:
Hopefully our legislatures
will step forward

-and save our country.
-(cheering)

It's going all over the country.

And it's kind of a national
effort to throw the election.

♪♪

This is essentially a coup.

They are setting aside
the election results

based on allegations
with no substance behind them.

It was about trying
to get to an outcome

that would have kept
Donald Trump in office.

The president came
and put the thumb on me.

If it's alright for me
to throw an election

because somebody asked me,
and I was afraid to say no...

You just step down
towards anarchy.

speaker:
We are at war.

(indistinct shouting)

(quiet chatter)

-(scattered cheering)
-supporter: Thank you!

(indistinct chatter)

Patricia Murphy:
The atmosphere
in Georgia remained

not just charged,
but supercharged.

Sort of a crescendo of that

was this rally
at the Georgia State Capitol.

protesters:
Stop the steal! Stop the steal!

Stop the steal!

♪♪

-(cars honking)
-(cheering)

Murphy:
There were three recounts
in Georgia,

which is really
quite unprecedented.

There was no question over the
result of the Georgia election

after all of these recounts,
in most people's minds.

Except for
Donald Trump's supporters,

as he continued to say,

"The election was stolen."

Trump:
You know we won Georgia,
just so you understand.

(crowd cheering)

You gotta make sure
your secretary of state knows

-what the hell he's doing.
-(cheering)

As secretary of state,
I believe that the numbers

that we have presented today
are correct.

The secretary of state
is in charge of monitoring

and overseeing the elections.

I'm a passionate conservative,
and, as I've said before,

I'm a proud Trump supporter.

Murphy:
It's a typically
low-profile office

and that changed in a big way
for Brad Raffensperger in 2020.

He was being
absolutely annihilated

by Donald Trump
on social media.

Brad Raffensperger:
From there,
it just accelerated.

It was like a rocket ship
flying higher and faster

with more and more
vitriol and anger.

Georgia became
the focal point.

Now, when all these allegations
were made,

did I ask my team,
"Have we checked this out?

Have we checked that?"
I'm an engineer.

Absolutely,
we checked it out.

I went back,
closed all the loops

to make sure
that we verified it.

There was one candidate
who came up short.

One candidate who did not want
to concede that he had lost.

So, you think Donald Trump,

no matter how many counts
we go through,

still lost the state of Georgia?

I don't see how we could come
to any other conclusion.

We told, uh, the campaign

if they find instances
of voter fraud,

we will check it out.

We have not seen widespread
systemic voter fraud

that would overturn
the results of the people.

♪♪

Trump:
We are looking at things
that are so bad in Georgia.

But I understand this
secretary of state,

who is really...

he's an enemy of the people,

this secretary of state.

And whether he's
a Republican or not...

Gabriel Sterling:
He called Brad,
"This enemy of the people,

this Raffensperger."
I'm like...

Wow. I mean,
it was just sort of--

That was probably one of
the more weird things to see

a president,

of his own party,

calling any elected official
an enemy of the people.

But this was so specific
and so directed.

The numbers are corrupt.

It was a rigged election,
100%, and people know it.

That's why you have people

marching all over
the United States right now.

They know it was
a rigged election.

In Georgia, I was the Voting
System Implementation Manager.

No one should know
who the hell I am.

The only reason you do

is because something
went terribly wrong somewhere.

And look at what's happening
in Georgia.

A lot of things are
being found in Georgia.

With all these claims,
it was Whac-A-Mole.

We'd knock one down and it would
come up three days later,

knock it down again.

But it was out there,
and the president was saying it.

And it didn't matter. It just--

"The president said it,
it's fact."

You have Dominion,
which is very, very suspect

to start off with.

You can press "Trump,"
and the vote goes to Biden.

All you have to do is
play with the chip.

"The Dominion machines
flipped these votes

and we caught 'em,
and they flipped it back."

"It's an algorithm."

The world "algorithm"
became like this catch-all.

"The algorithm did it."

"What'd it do?"
"It stole the election."

"Well, how did it
steal the election?"

"Well, it-it
changed out votes."

Like, that can't happen.

-They're trying to--
Look, between you people--
-(reporter yells)

Don't answer--
Don't talk to me that way.

You're just a--
You're just a lightweight.

Don't talk to me that--
Don't talk to--

I'm the president
of the United States.

Don't ever talk
to the president that way.

Sterling:
I was a Republican before
Donald Trump was a Republican.

I'll be a Republican
after he's gone.

There's tens of millions
of Americans

who saw him do good things.

Here's the thing.
I saw him do good things.

I love the judges.
I love the tax cuts.

I love the deregulation.

But the problem is you can do
all those great things

and your actions,

your personality,
can undercut all of it.

And this thing at the end,

these claims
of the stolen election,

it's not based on
anything real.

We want to take you straight
to the Georgia State Capitol...

Sterling:
That's when I started doing
the press conferences.

I mean, it was really just
the blocking and tackling.

This is where we are...

Because we were trying to be as
transparent as we could.

We know the system
counted properly.

We know the ballots
that were there

were counted properly
and correctly. We know that.

I never had a doubt about
having the election stolen.

Because to do this would require
a high degree of competence,

a high degree of coordination,
a high degree of, of loyalty,

internally, to a conspiracy
to actually happen.

♪♪

Barr:
I hadn't been over
to see the president.

It was getting late
in November

that I finally went over
to talk to him.

I told him that I was
disappointed in the outcome,

and he said, "No,
I won the election by a lot."

And-And I explained to him
that I thought that, uh,

he was listening
to people around him,

like Giuliani and others,
his, sort of these sycophants,

and that this was a disservice
to him and the country.

He wouldn't, uh,
pause to address

whatever counterpoint
you made.

He just ignored it.

reporter:
Hi, Alyssa.

(reporters chattering)

I was pretty done with my role
in the West Wing,

um, mentally and emotionally.

But, there had been a
letter circulated,

essentially threatening
to fire any staffer

who was seen passing
along their resume

or searching for the next
opportunity and therefore

acknowledging
that Trump lost.

Grisham:
It's a matter of survival
at that point.

Think about it.
There's these people now

in this limbo
in the White House,

leaving the Trump White House,
especially after he's lost.

You're not gonna find
any jobs anywhere.

You're not gonna be well-liked.

And I do know for a fact that
people were looking for jobs,

but nobody talked about it

because that was a sign of

you don't think he won.
You are disloyal.

And you pretended like
you were gonna work there

for the next four years.

protesters:
Stop the steal! Stop the steal!

♪♪

Hansen:
In Arizona, when you get
to the end of November,

you really see an escalation
on the claims of fraud.

The only cards left to play
were the legislature.

They needed the State House
and the State Senate

to sort of change the trajectory
of the election.

♪♪

protesters:
Rudy! Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!

(indistinct chatter)

Trickovic:
Eventually towards
the end of November,

it led to, you know,

the Giuliani hearing
with some of our legislators

so that there was some hope of
maybe they can do something.

Distinguished senators
and representatives,

thank you very much for giving
us this opportunity to be heard.

It's been difficult getting
an opportunity to be heard.

There was a hearing
that was done

about elections integrity,
uh, sponsored by Mark Finchem.

We are caught between the desire
to trust the process

and the suspicion that it has
failed the people of Arizona.

The purpose of the hearing
was to seek truth,

take testimony, take evidence.

We knew that there was
something to this.

It wasn't a nothing burger.
It was, "Okay,

so let's continue
to go down this path."

The goal of this hearing
is to provide an objective forum

for constituents to hear
testimony and see evidence.

Hickman:
It angered me.

These are
my Republican colleagues,

and they've decided to go
and air out theories.

They were all
pushing the, the steal.

I mean, to me,
that's just a, a farce.

But, Giuliani's there,
Jenna Ellis,

and they put on their show.

This election was a conspiracy
that was hatched

by the crooked leaders
of the Democratic Party.

Hansen:
In this day-long event,

you see clownishly
bad assertions by them.

At one point, Giuliani claimed
that there was, like,

five million illegal immigrant
voters in Arizona,

a state that only had
seven million people
in it to begin with.

Let's say there were
five million

illegal aliens in Arizona.

It is, um...

it's beyond credulity

that a few hundred
thousand didn't vote.

Let me spend just one minute
on Dominion.

The whole situation
with the Dominion machine,

it's really
a national security problem.

The Dominion slur
just continues,

but it didn't match up

with any of the facts
as we understood them

in Arizona at that time,
or even on subsequent review.

Trump (on phone):
Well, thank you very much.

I've been watching the hearings
and they're fascinating,

-incredible...
-(crowd cheering)

Rusty Bowers:
We went from that

to the meeting with Rudy
at the Senate building.

"Rudy, you remember
when you told me

you were gonna bring me
some proof? Have you got it?"

"No, I don't. Jenna,
do you have the proof?"

She goes, "Yeah, yeah,
we've got the proof."

She had a satchel.
"I don't have it with me.

It's probably back
at the hotel."

"Okay, thanks for
letting me come. I'm gone."

I knew what he wanted,
I knew what he was asking,

and I told 'em they had
to bring me the proof.

They didn't bring it. So...

I wasn't gonna do anything.

And then suddenly, I get flooded
with thousands of emails.

"Not only will you not have
a future in Arizona,

"I will personally see to it
that no member of your family

sees a peaceful day
ever again."

Just the most vile.

And I thought many times,

this is my side.

It's not the Democrats.
They're just laughing.

My side is coming after me.

♪♪

Barr:
One of the things
that sticks in my craw,

throughout the country
at the state level,

people responsible
ultimately did

what they thought to be right
and what the facts showed,

and these were Republicans.

And they have been, you know,
raked over the coals by Trump

and should be drummed
out of the party

which is an attempt
to convert the party

into a cult of personality.

It was really a despicable
posture for the president.

protester: Rusty Bowers,
everybody.

Bowers:
I didn't cheat for Trump,
and I didn't break the law.

And suddenly there's a bunch
of people at our house,

at the end of the driveway.

protester:
Resign, brother! Resign, Rusty!

Bowers:
Don't come over.
Don't come over.

protester:
Time to resign, buddy.

Bowers:
Don't come over.

I'm giving you fair warning,
don't come over.

They'd shout that
I was a pedophile.

-protester 1:
Pedophile! Total pedophile!
-protester 2: He's a pedophile!

-neighbor: Go home!
-protester 3: Rusty Bowers
is a pedophile!

neighbor:
You go home!

protester:
Rusty Bowers is a pedophile!

Bowers:
I mean, the whole thing
was sad to me.

The damage
we did to ourselves.

It was...

it was bad.

♪♪

Trump (on phone):
You would think if you're in
the Department of Justice,

this is the biggest thing
you could be looking at.

Where are they?
I've not seen anything.

Barr:
He had been taking shots
at the Department of Justice

as we went along,

suggesting that the department
hadn't been looking

at the evidence of fraud.

I said to the president
that we had, in fact,

been looking into
credible allegations of fraud

when they came in.
And they're bullshit.

They're bullshit.

You know, he, he, uh...
didn't like that.

Maria Bartiromo:
Where is the DOJ and the FBI
in all of this, Mr. President?

Shouldn't this be something
that the FBI

is investigating?
Are they?

-Trump: Missing in action.
-Is the DOJ investigating?

Trump: Missing in action,
can't tell you where they are.

He said the department
was missing in action.

I felt it was time to,
to say something after that.

reporter:
Barr told the Associated Press
today, quote,

"We have not seen fraud
on a scale that could have

effected a different outcome
in the election."

Directly contradicting
the president's claims

that the election
was stolen.

Barr: I went down
to the Oval Office.

The president was as mad
as I've ever seen him.

He was, uh, flushed
and, uh, breathing heavily.

And he said, "Did you say this?"
And I said, "Yes."

And he said, "Why?"
And I said,
"Because it's the truth."

And he said,
"Yeah, but you, you know,

"pulled the rug out from me.
This is killing me.
You must hate me.

You must hate Trump,
you must hate Trump."

I said, "No, I don't hate you,
Mr. President."

I said, "Look, you only have
five or six weeks to challenge

"the outcome
of a presidential election,

"and you wheeled out
this clown car of lawyers,

"and it's been a joke.

"And you've wasted
five of your six weeks,

"most of your time
on this nonsense

"about the Dominion machines,

on this bullshit theory."

There is Chinese technology
in the Dominion software.

"Your people are just
shoveling this shit

out to the American people."
And, um...

he was very resentful of this.
(laughs)

reporter:
President Trump
made it very clear

that he's disappointed
in his attorney general.

He hasn't done anything, so--
He hasn't looked.

When he looks, he'll see
the kind of evidence

that, right now,
you're seeing in Georgia.

protesters:
Stop the steal! Stop the steal!
Stop the steal!

♪♪

Sterling: We were having
multiple protests.

Actually, I was standing
at this window

and looked out
and saw a guy with an AR-15.

-(cars honking)
-(protesters chattering)

(cheering)

We had been under assault
for about three weeks.

Some of our local elections
officials were being,
you know, harassed,

if not flat-out threatened.

The venom was
kind of increasing.

(indistinct chatter)

And at that heightened state
of fear and anxiety,

I got a call from Dominion.

And she says, "Yeah,
one of our young contractors

has been sort of targeted now."

And I remember I was scrolling
through, and I found one.

It says,
"You've committed treason.

May God have mercy
on your soul."

And there was a GIF of a noose

slowly twisting with a little
bit of sunlight behind it.

But at that point, I snapped.

-(putting down mask)
-(sighs)

It has all gone too far.

I lost my temper.

A 20-something tech
at Gwinnett County today

has death threats
and a noose put out,

saying he should be
hung for treason.

Mr. President,

you have not condemned
these actions or this language.

This is elections. This is
the backbone of democracy.

And all of you who have not said
a damn word

are complicit in this!

Mr. President,

it looks like you likely
lost the state of Georgia.

We're investigating, there's
always a possibility, I get it.

And you have the rights
to go through the courts.

What you don't have
the ability to do,

and you need to step up
and say this,

is stop inspiring people

to commit potential
acts of violence.

Someone's going to get hurt.
Someone's going to get shot.

Someone's going to get killed.

Be the bigger man here.
Step in. Tell your supporters,

"Don't be violent.
Don't intimidate."

It has to stop!

It seemed to have this momentary
blip of like, (gasps)

everything sort of stopped
for a second.

But, it didn't slow down
the other side.

Thank you.
This may be

the most important speech
I've ever made.

Trump released his, like, long
video of all the claims again.

We have a company
that's very suspect.

Its name is
Dominion.

You can press a button
for Trump,

and the vote goes to Biden.

What kind of a system is this?

It was just weird because
literally everything he had said

had been stuff
I had debunked,

or people in Arizona
had debunked,

but he's saying it all again

'cause I guess you keep on
saying the same thing

over and over again,
if nobody's pushing back,

eventually people
will believe you.

I go from winning by a lot,

to losing a tight race.

It's corrupt.

All over the country,
people are together

in holding up signs.
"Stop the steal."

This election was rigged.
Everybody knows it.

Many people in the media,
and even judges,

so far have refused
to accept it.

Barr:
After that, the president
continued to challenge

the process and try to set up
these, you know,

meetings with state legislators
and all that kind of stuff.

reporter:
Today in Georgia,
Rudy Giuliani questioned

the security
of Dominion voting machines

before a state Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee.

♪♪

Senator Ligon:
Thank you, Senator Harper,
Senator Anderson...

Murphy:
A State Senate subcommittee

announced that they would
be holding a hearing.

So, we had state senators
saying, we're happy to take

some kind of public action
to let Donald Trump know

that they were trying to fight
for him here in this state,

to stop the process of Joe Biden
going on to become president.

We really appreciate
the opportunity

to get these facts out.
We've had some difficulty

-getting a hearing.
-Sterling: In Georgia,

we had a Republican governor,
a Republican Senate.

"Here's a place where we can
exert some real influence

and get our Republicans
to do things for us."

Ignoring the law.

Rudy Giuliani:
It's your responsibility

if a false and fraudulent count

is submitted to
the United States government.

And it's clear that the count
you have right now is false.

Sterling:
People have asked me,
"What do you think

they were trying to do?"
They were hoping for a miracle.

Just keep everything alive.

Does it have to make sense?
No!

Just keep enough questions
and doubts out there.

What we are presenting to you
today are facts. Facts.

2,506 felons voted
illegally in Georgia.

They said that there was

thousands and thousands
of felons.

We found less than 74, so there
weren't over 2,000 felons.

Less than 74.
It's things like that.

They said there's 2,423
non-registered voters.

At least 2,423 individuals

to vote who were not listed
as registered.

There was zero.
Everyone was registered to vote.

10,315 or more individuals
to vote

who were deceased
by the time of the election.

They said that there was 10,000
dead people that voted.

At the time, when we began our
investigations, we found two.

Subsequent to that,
two years later,

we found two more.

That's a total of four.
One, two, three, four.

Not 4,000. Just four.

In Georgia, look at this
new surveillance footage

we'll be showing you.
Mysterious suitcases,

potentially filled,
we believe, with ballots,

well, rolled out
from under a table

after partisan
election observers

were asked to leave the room.

Sterling:
They had these videotapes

and they took out
this one little section

where somebody, quote-unquote,
took out "suitcases of ballots"

after everybody had
been told to leave.

So, I'm Jacki Pick,
and I'm here as a volunteer,

and going to explain to you
the evidence

that we have in terms
of fraud or misrepresentation.

You're looking at
one big room here.

What you're going to see
happen at about 11 o'clock.

Once everyone is gone,
coast is clear.

So now, they're gonna start
pulling these ballots out

from under this table.

What are these ballots
doing there,

separate from all
the other ballots?

And why are they only
counting them

whenever the place is cleared
out with no witnesses?

But, we can tell you that it
appears to be an aberration

from how the other ballots
were handled.

Murphy:
In reality, what happened

that evening
on election night,

state officials
called over and said,

"It's getting late. Why don't
we shut it down for the evening

"and let everybody go home?

We'll start again
in the morning."

That decision was reversed
very quickly,

and so you see
election workers

taking those ballots out of

state-approved
ballot containers

and then beginning to
count those ballots.

By Rudy Giuliani's telling,
that was two election workers

telling all of the monitors
to go home

and then secretly counting the
ballots once everybody was gone.

"They're doing
something surreptitious.

"They're stealing the election.

Throwing the election
illegally to Joe Biden."

That was completely false.

(inaudible)

Sterling:
And then there's another
part of it, too,

where there's
one of the workers there.

"Well, she ran these things
through over and over again."

And I'm like, yes,
that's a standard practice.

There was a mis-scan.
The standard operating procedure

is you take
that stack of ballots,

delete the batch
you just did,

and send it back through.
That's what you do.

There's nothing
weird about this.

If you see, you have
multiple machines there,

and they're there
for two hours.

So, you do the math.

How many ballots went
through those machines

in those two hours

when there was no one there
to supervise?

Sterling:
When you watch this video,

and you see these people
doing their jobs,

this is not the
"Ocean's 11" crew

engaged in the biggest heist
in history.

This is just people
who are tired

and trying to do their work.
That's all it is.

♪♪

Giuliani:
And when you look at what
you saw on the video,

which, to me, was a smoking gun,
powerful smoking gun...

Sterling:
All these things came up
around this

because it was sort of sexy.

"We got video.
We caught 'em in the act.

This right here
is a smoking gun."

Anybody who was honest
could look at that

and see what was
happening,

but no one was interested
in being honest at that point.

(quiet murmuring)

I believe that they knew
they were lying,

they did it intentionally,

trying to mislead
the State Senate

and the people of Georgia
and the American people,

that there was some kind of
giant conspiracy
happening in Georgia.

It was not true
when they claimed it,

and it's not true today.

How about those suitcases that
were pulled out from the table?

host:
It's pretty hard to dispute
that there's something going on

that needs some explanation.

Murphy:
So, this was being shown
on live cable news,

all across the country,

and that absolutely unwound

Republican voters
all across the country.

So, suddenly, it wasn't
just a Georgia situation.

This was a national situation.

The footage appears to show
poll workers

pulling ballots
out of suitcases.

I mean, what the hell?!

Well, Mayor Giuliani
rightly described it

as the smoking gun in this case.

Today revealed the smoking gun
we've been looking for.

-crowd (chants): Rudy! Rudy!
-(cheering)

Barr:
The allegations
about the video.

You know, I asked the
US attorney down there,

BJay Pak,

to take a look at that.

BJay Pak:
It was a bombshell
of an allegation.

So our independent investigation
into the facts of the case

showed that there was
no irregularity.

♪♪

We debunked
all the allegations.

There's nothing here.

The ballot boxes
were proper boxes,

there was no double counting,

and that this was
a "smoking gun,"

was completely false.

There's overwhelming evidence
of fraud,

including now a smoking gun
"bank robbery" videotape.

Pak:
I don't know what's
in his mind,

but if anyone did
any kind of due diligence

about just watching
the whole video,

I think it would be very hard
to characterize that snippet

as something
irregular going on.

I think that the public
was misled.

With me now is Georgia Secretary
of State Brad Raffensperger.

Now, you have been
on the receiving end

of a lot of gruff
from the president.

Raffensperger:
I went on Fox News.

"We followed the law,
we followed the Constitution,

and the president
came up short."

We did an audit of the race,
President Trump still lost,

then we did a full recount.
President Trump still lost.

I think that fired up
the president.

He wanted to have
a conversation with me.

♪♪

Mark Meadows (on phone):
Mr. President, everybody
is on the line, and just so--

This is Mark Meadows,
the chief of staff.

On the line
is secretary of state...

Murphy:
He had the White House
chief of staff

on the line with him,
Mark Meadows.

The amount of pressure
that is implicit in a call

from the president
of the United States

to state officials,

under any circumstances,
is immense,

but when you throw
in the fact

that he is calling
about the election

and telling them
that they got it wrong,

and that they know
they got it wrong,

that is something that has
never happened before.

Meadows: So, Mr. President,
now I'll turn it over to you.

Trump (on phone):
Okay, thank you very much.
Hello, Brad.

If we could just go over
some of the numbers,

I think it's pretty clear

that we won very
substantially, uh, Georgia.

Although, I saw you
on television today,

and you said, uh,
that you found nothing wrong.

I mean, you know.

Raffensperger (on phone):
Well, Mr. President,
the challenge that you have

is the data
you have is wrong.

Some people didn't have
the political guts

just to tell President Trump
that he came up short.

Trump:
They're going around
playing you

and laughing at you
behind your back, Brad,

whether you know it or not,
they're laughing at you.

There's no way I lost Georgia.
There's no way.

We won by hundreds
of thousands of votes.

You should want to have
an accurate election,

and you're a Republican.

Raffensperger:
We believe that we do have
an accurate election.

Trump: No, you don't.
No, no you don't.

I think he was trying
to tell him,

"Put your thumb on the scale.

"Do something
to help us out here.

We're all Republicans here,
man. Come on."

But because it was so close,
and the margin was,

you know,
11,000-something.

Trump: Look, we need
only 11,000 votes.

Brad, what are we going to do?
We won the election,

and it's not fair to take it
away from us like this.

Raffensperger:
We have to stand by
our numbers.

We believe our numbers
are right.

Trump:
Well, why do you say that?

Look, ultimately, I win, okay?

"Find me the votes. I don't care
who won the election,

make sure I won the election,
find me the votes."

Trump:
So, what are we going
to do here, folks?

I only need
11,000 votes, fellas.
I need 11,000 votes.

Give me a break.

From my point of view,
he was putting pressure--

and the biggest
part of it to me

was when he talked about
the legal jeopardy.

There was an
implicit threat there.

Trump:
It's more illegal for you
than it is for them

because you know what they did
and you're not reporting it.

That's a, you know,
that's a criminal--

that's a criminal offense.

That's a big risk.

If they could have done
something in Georgia,

I understand that Arizona was
another focal point of theirs,

but I think that was--

If you get one to start rolling,
then you get dominoes.

The next one, the next one,
the next one.

But, at the end of the day,

we had to make sure
we stood firm on the facts.

We had to follow the law.
Follow the Constitution.

Was there pressure? Yes.
Was it uncomfortable? Yes.

Yes, it's Gabriel.

reporter:
As some have said,
do you believe

that what happened
in that phone call

was an attack on democracy?

I'll leave other people to
make the decision on that.

I personally found it to be
something that was not normal,

out of place, and-and...

Nobody I know
who would be president

would do something like that
to a secretary of state.

♪♪

(muffled cheering)

Bowers:
Another thing that's
very important...

money.

For everybody
who's an election denier,

it's just like
printing money.

Now, even though Election Day
has come and gone,

the Trump campaign
has continued to fundraise,

and Fox has just learned
that since Election Day,

the campaign, combined with the
Republican National Committee,

have raised $207 million

over the last 30 days,
just a huge number.

Those solicitations
and the poor folks who

they've got a hook
in their mouth

and they tug that hook
and out falls a few more coins

with Caesar's image on it.
I mean, it's--

It's... it's immoral.

It's... it's gross.

Trump:
I just left Washington to go
to the Army-Navy game.

So, it was a rigged election.

reporter: When you look at
this fight, though,

you have 77% of Trump supporters

who believe you won
the election.

There's a rally right now
in Washington for that.

Trump:
There are thousands and
thousands of people out there.

I had nothing to do with it.

I didn't kn-- really know
they were forming.

They're forming.
The spirit, the liveliness,

the whole thing,
even the fundraising,

the money that's
pouring in to fight this.

reporter:
Do you worry about the country
being divided?

Trump:
No, I worry about the country

having an illegitimate
president.

That's what I worry about.

They cheated like
nobody's cheated before.

They did things that

nobody has ever seen,
and we caught 'em.

But, you-- but your guys have
been unable to prove it

-as of now, if something--
-Excuse me. Excuse me.

We've proven it.

Bill Barr, frankly,
did the wrong thing.

Bill Barr, I believe--
Not believe, I know,

had an obligation to set
the record straight.

I tendered my resignation
on December 14th,

the day the states
certified the election.

Today, Arizona's
11 presidential electors

are meeting to cast
their electoral college votes

for Joseph Biden.

Once the state
certifies the vote,

and the governor agrees with
that certification, that's it.

That really is the last
legal step in the process.

From my standpoint,
the election was over.

There was no way of undoing
the election results.

Happening today, the Electoral
College will cast their votes

to formally elect Joe Biden
to the presidency.

But President Donald Trump
is still insisting

he is not done fighting
to stay in office.

Barr:
Then, it seemed that
he doubled down again.

That got me very concerned.

Are we gonna have
a constitutional crisis

where the president's
refusing to leave office?

♪♪

Short:
I'd say there were
a couple big moments

leading up to January 6.

It was weeks
of a pressure campaign

to overturn election results.

For many of the president
and his advisers,

it was sort of like throwing
spaghetti at the wall

and seeing whatever could hold.

The only last stop
on this particular excursion

was going to be January 6th.

Jacob:
The vice president
presides over

the vote count on January 6th,
in the United States Congress,

but that vote count
is supposed to be a formality.

Short: Donald Trump,
he's not one who accepts loss.

Knowing that he would need to
find a scapegoat for that loss,

then it probably means looking
to pin it on the vice president.

♪♪

Griffin:
Mike Pence, the reality was

he was a stabilizing force

throughout the
Trump presidency.

If there was a fire
in the Trump administration,

you can be certain
that Mike Pence

was quietly behind the scenes
trying to put it out.

Barr:
There couldn't have been
a loyaler vice president.

He was very conscientious
and wanted to do what was right

under the Constitution.

-(crowd cheering)
-crowd: Stop the steal!
Stop the steal!

Stop the steal!
Stop the steal!

Stop the steal!
Stop the steal...

♪♪

Short:
January 4th, I receive a call
on Air Force Two

asking us to return
to the White House

and to take a meeting
with John Eastman, Greg Jacob,

the president,
the vice president, and myself.

At the meeting on the 4th
in the Oval Office,

John Eastman
was presented to us,

acting as an attorney
for the president.

I had one mission.

When the president called me
and asked me to represent him,

that was quite an honor.
It was a big deal.

Luckily, it wasn't
the first time I'd been
in the Oval Office.

I'd been there in August 2019,
so it wasn't, you know,

looking around,
"Oh wow, look at this."

I was aware of Professor Eastman
as a constitutional law scholar,

uh, as well as one who was known
for taking aggressive positions

that might be
difficult to square

with constitutional
text and history.

That was my role, to give
the best constitutional counsel

that I could to the president
of the United States.

We have lots of
evidence of illegality

in the 2020 election.

That was all true.

We had, therefore,
an unconstitutional election.

The courts are not addressing
the unconstitutionality at all.

So, then we're looking at

are there any other
constitutional actors

who have some role that might
be able to address this?

By then, the only last
constitutional player

in the cycle that
could do something about it

was Vice President Pence.

Short:
The purpose of the meeting
was going to be to explore

these novel legal theories

about the vice president's
role on January 6th.

The way it was offered,
it was to affirm

that the vice president
can unilaterally choose

which electors to accept

and which electors to throw out
from the various states.

Vice President Pence
has the authority

to determine the validity
of the electoral votes.

The circumstances then,
in my view,

warranted him exercising

the full scope of his power
to get this thing right.

We knew, at that point,
that the president's team

was presenting a lie

about what the vice president's
authority was.

It was almost like this,
"Well,

nobody's ever tried this before.
So, why don't we try it?"

Jacob:
The vice president
really played the role

during that meeting
of pushing back against

the invented theories
of Professor Eastman.

Greg Jacob, I think,
was an honest guy.

I think he, maybe,

genuinely believes
that the Founders would not

have assigned this power
to the vice president.

I think he's wrong about that.

(gavel bangs)

-(banging)
-(indistinct chatter)

(banging)

Jacob:
When you see that not
a single vice president,

in our entire history,
has ever exercised an authority

to reject an electoral vote.

It would be very strange
for us,

200 years into this project
of a republic,

to suddenly discover in 2020

that, oh, all along, it should
have been the vice president

who got to decide these things.

And that, essentially,
was the idea

that was ultimately being
pitched to us.

John Eastman shows up
on January 4th,

and that night, President Trump
takes the stage in Georgia

and says, "Boy, I sure hope
our vice president

comes through for us."

And I hope Mike Pence
comes through for us,

-I have to tell you.
-(cheering)

I hope that our great
vice president
comes through for us.

Of course,
if he doesn't come through,

-I won't like him
quite as much.
-(laughter)

It appeared that they eventually
came to the conclusion

that there was some avenue
by which

they could force the election
into Congress.

That was a rigged election,
but we're still fighting it,

and you'll see what's going to
happen. We'll talk about it...

Barr:
Now, it's one thing if
there's strong evidence

the election was stolen,

but they felt that they didn't
really need the evidence.

You know, they could just
BS their way through it.

So, their endgame was foolish.

crowd:
Fight for Trump! Fight for
Trump! Fight for Trump!

Hey, you know, it really is,
it's fight for our country.

It's really fight for our
country, not fight for Trump.

It's fight for our country

'cause that's what
we're fighting for.

Short:
The president's and the
vice president's conversations,

while cordial,
became a little more terse.

That raised
a new level of anxiety,

knowing that we were
on a collision course

between the president
and the vice president.

At that point,
it's like, okay,

this is where we're
gonna end up.

crowd:
Fuck Antifa! Fuck Antifa!
Fuck Antifa! Fuck Antifa!

(indistinct yelling)

♪♪

Jacob:
The next morning,
January 5th,

there were a number
of unpleasant surprises.

Around 11:09,
President Trump tweets,

"The Vice President has power
to reject electors."

There was a degree of
increasing frustration

and bewilderment
at the situation

that we found ourselves in.

crowd:
Stop the steal! Stop the steal!

Probably more contentious,
was the evening of the 5th.

The president's team
had put out a statement

professing that
the vice president

sees this exactly
the same way as the president.

It was an outright lie.

It had no bearing in truth,

no bearing in reality
whatsoever.

But, I think it created
an expectation,

for a lot of Americans,
of something was gonna happen

on January 6th

that we knew
never was going to happen.

-(crowd cheering)
-speaker (on megaphone):
We are the majority!

And Trump won! Trump won!

Short:
There was, sadly, a belief

that, uh, one is
above the rule of law.

In fact, at one point,
leading up to January 6th,

the night of the 5th,
the president opened the door

to hear the people
cheering outside.

(crowd cheering)

And said,
"Mike, you hear that?"

And said,
"Those people love us."

And the vice president's
response was,

"Those people also
love the Constitution,
Mr. President."

I don't know how this
is going to end,

but if they want a fight,

they better believe
they've got one!

(crowd cheering)

We will prevail. Amen.

(cheering)

Jacob:
Most people had no idea
prior to that point in time

that there even was
a January 6th vote count.

People stop paying attention

most of the time
after Election Day.

But now, there was going to be
this very public limelight

on things with people
raising questions

about whether that event
was being done properly.

crowd:
Fight for Trump! Fight for
Trump! Fight for Trump!

-(overlapping yelling)
-(pepper spraying)

♪♪

Freedom!

crowd:
Freedom!

Chansley:
Freedom!

(crowd cheering)

Let's have trial by combat.

John Eastman:
Rudy and I are
brought up on stage.

Rudy's introduced,
and then he introduces me.

He's one of the pre-eminent
constitutional scholars

in the United States.

I remember the first kinda time
I saw it or paid attention

was when, um, John Eastman
took the stage.

America's Mayor. Wonderful.

(cheering)

I remember thinking, "You guys
sound just fucking crazy."

-Hello, America! (chuckles)
-(crowd cheering)

The crowd's reaction,
they knew I was saying

something important,
so they cheered. You know?

All we are demanding
of Vice President Pence

is this afternoon,
at 1 o'clock,

he let the legislatures of
the state look into this...

(applause)

(cheering)

Short:
At the end, under pressure,

Donald Trump's true character
came through.

I hope Mike is gonna do
the right thing.

-I hope so. I hope so.
-(crowd cheering)

Because if Mike Pence
does the right thing,

we win the election.

You're sworn to uphold
our Constitution.

Grisham:
He doesn't care
about that stuff.

Certainly,
the Constitution to him

is like this old brown
piece of paper that's boring

and probably written funny.

He doesn't know or understand,
I think, most of it.

Trump:
We're gonna walk down,
and I'll be there with you.

We're gonna walk down
to the Capitol.

Right when he said that,
I was like, "You fucker."

Because I know him

and I knew he was not
gonna walk down there.

He is afraid of crowds.

He doesn't necessarily like
to be around his supporters,

despite what he says.
He's terrified of germs.

And, again, he knows
the power of his words

and I know his supporters,
by this chance,

the thought of their president
walking with them,

marching with them
to the Capitol

would be everything.

And so, right when
he said that I just, again,

was just pissed and disgusted.

Whatever was left in me broke,
and I resigned right then, yeah.

We will never give up.

We will never concede.
It doesn't happen.

You don't concede
when there's theft involved.

(crowd cheering)

And we fight.
We fight like hell.

And if you don't
fight like hell,

you're not gonna have
a country anymore.

Barr: I turned on the TV,
and I saw what was going on.

-I was completely outraged.
-(crowd cheering)

I felt he did precipitate
the whole affair,

and I thought
that was outrageous,

and his treatment of the
vice president was despicable.

(gavel bangs)

Madam Speaker,
members of Congress...

Jacob: Up until
the very last minute,

he hoped that he would be able
to persuade the president,

this time,
that he was just wrong.

That he couldn't overturn
the results of the election,

and that this meant that
they were going to have to

relinquish power, leave office,

uh, and think about the future.

(crowd chattering)

People had been sold an idea

that was not true,

and John Eastman,
he had had a causal effect

of helping to
convince those people

that the Capitol building
was a place worth going to

because that's a place
where there's a big decision

to be made this day.

protester:
We're coming for you!

I was, uh...

angry.

(crowd yelling)

crowd:
Hang Mike Pence!

Jacob:
I actually started
drafting an email

to John Eastman saying,

"Thanks to your bullshit,
now we're under siege."

He said that, and I said,
"No, we're here

"because your boss wouldn't do
what was necessary

to let this thing
get aired out."

Uh, yeah, so...

-(glass breaking)
-(indistinct yelling)

speaker:
Mr. President, Senator.

Justice is comin', baby!

Freedom!

The vice president, he had been
evacuated off the Senate floor
at that point.

The Secret Service
told the vice president

that we have a clear window
to escape right now.

The vice president said,
"You're not understanding.

I'm not leaving the Capitol.
We're gonna stay here."

2:30-ish,

we had seen the president's
tweet when he said,

"The Vice President didn't
have the courage

to do the right thing."

Part of me wonders
if he even cared

as long as he had
someone else to scapegoat

for his election loss.

Yeah!

Hey!

I cannot believe this guy
is standing there with a spear.

protester:
This is our Capitol.
Let's be respectful to it.

Hickman:
Unbelievable.

I'm still--
I'm still shocked

with the images,
just to this day.

protesters:
Stop the steal!

protester 1:
Oh, my God.

(overlapping yelling)

protester 2:
There's a gun! There's a gun!

(yelling)

-(gunshot)
-(echoing yelling)

Trump (on video over megaphone):
I know your pain.
I know your hurt.

We had an election
that was stolen from us.

It was a landslide election.

Short:
It's important to have leaders

who believe in
our rule of law.

Donald Trump has showed
that, uh, he fails that test.

Trump (on video):
We love you.
You're very special.

But go home,
and go home in peace.

protester 1:
What's he saying?

protester 2:
He says go home.

Donald Trump has asked
everybody to go home.

Barr:
The President's behavior

was a betrayal
of his supporters,

and what he did was
irresponsible and shameful.

Mike Pence:
Today was a dark day
in the history

of the United States Capitol.

-(crowd yelling)
-(flashbang pops)

The violence was quelled,

and the people's work
continues.

The elected representatives of
the people of the United States

have assembled again
on the very same day,

to support and defend

the Constitution
of the United States.

At 8 o'clock
the Senate reconvened,

and we were going to do
the work of the people
and get back to work.

Let's get back to work.

(applause)

(helicopter whirring)

reporter 1:
Former president Donald Trump

turned himself in
last night in Georgia

to face charges that he tried
to undermine the 2020 election.

Now, his mugshot joins
a gallery of images

taken of his alleged
co-conspirators.

reporter 2:
Rudy Giuliani facing
a number of counts.

John Charles Eastman.
Jenna Ellis.

Sidney Katherine Powell.

Trump:
We did nothing wrong at all.

What has taken place here
is a travesty of justice.

We did nothing wrong.
I did nothing wrong.

Grisham:
Everybody's against him.

It's always, "Poor me, poor me,
I'm the victim."

And that is how I believe

he continues to
get through so much,

and he never gets "punished"

for a lot of the things
that happen.

♪♪

I think that January 6th
is like a trailer to a movie.

That's the one thing with
Donald Trump I-I've learned.

You think he'll,
he'll just go this far

and there's not more.

There's always more.

He just takes it
as far as it will go.

We won in 2016,
and if you really remember,

and if you wanna
play it straight,

we also won in 2020.

(crowd cheering)

We are in a very dangerous place
heading into the next election.

If he loses, I don't think
that you can expect

that he's gonna
take it peacefully.

Of course, he's gonna
claim that it was stolen,

of course, he's gonna
say it was rigged,

and of course, he's going to
try to incite his followers

and his diehard loyalists

to the exact same kind
of actions as last time.

The notion that this time

he would, like,
take it like a champ

and admit he lost
is just ridiculous.

(crowd cheering)

Jacob:
In 2020, the line held.

You had people of character,

all of whom held the line,

and held to
constitutional principle.

crowd: Fuck Joe Biden!
Fuck Joe Biden!

Jacob:
Character matters.

The president
of the United States

is the most powerful office
under our Constitution,

and that is where character
is most important of all.

And you should never
put somebody into that office

that you don't have
trust and confidence

will follow the Constitution
and the law.

Because that could be the end
of the Republic.

♪♪