Rebecca Kaplan

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

Prior to the break, the committee played a video about the fake elector scheme. Among the revelations: Trump called RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, and then turned the phone over to Eastman. He said the RNC should help the campaign gather "contingent" electors. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@RepAndyBiggsAZ also called Bowers on the morning of 1/6 asking him to decertify Arizona's electors, which he refused to do. He keeps coming back to the fact that it would go against his oath of office. — PolitiTweet.org

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In a separate call, John Eastman urged Bowers to call AZ lawmakers back into session and decertify Arizona's electors for Biden. When Bowers pushed back, saying he didn't have the authority or evidence to do that, Eastman told him to do it and let the courts sort it out. — PolitiTweet.org

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Bowers testifies about asking Giuliani multiple times over multiple conversations about evidence of fraud. In one meeting, Giuliani and Ellis said they didn't bring it with them. But they never sent anything. — PolitiTweet.org

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Bowers follows up to say he has never said the election was rigged to anyone, and never told Trump he won AZ. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@RepAdamSchiff starts by asking AZ House Speaker Rusty Bowers about Trump's claim that he told Trump the election was rigged. "I did have a conversation with the president, and that certainly isn't it," Bowers says. — PolitiTweet.org

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Video shows multiple paper and video statements from state officials and lawmakers saying they could not do that. Michigan Senate majority leader Mike Shirkey recalled Trump giving out his personal cell phone number to get his supporters to inundate him with calls and texts. — PolitiTweet.org

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A prepared video from the committee shows evidence that Trump campaign lawyer Cleta Mitchell asked John Eastman to prepare a memo on changing the results in state legislatures. Giuliani and Ellis went to state legislatures to try to convince them to go along with this. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Anyone who got on the way of Donald Trump's continued hold on power after last election was the subject of a dangerous and escalating campaign of pressure," @RepAdamSchiff says in his opening remarks, including phone calls, texts, protests, intimidation, and threats of violence. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Don't be distracted by politics. This is serious. We cannot become a nation of conspiracy theories and thug violence," @RepLizCheney says as she finishes her opening statement. — PolitiTweet.org

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First deposition testimony is from Bill Barr talking about how theories of ballot fraud in Fulton County, GA, had no merit, and tape of former acting deputy AG Donoghue saying he told Trump the DOJ investigations yielded no evidence of election interference. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@RepLizCheney opens her remarks by saying that Trump, Giuliani and Eastman were all involved in the campaign to pressure states - the same team involved in pressuring Pence. — PolitiTweet.org

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"The lie hasn't gone away. It's corrupting our democratic institutions," @BennieGThompson says of people who cast doubt on election results, citing a case just days ago where a New Mexico county refused to certify results until the state forced them to. — PolitiTweet.org

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The fourth June hearing of the @January6thCmte is underway, with a focus on Trump's efforts to get state and local officials to overturn election results. Officials from Georgia and Arizona will testify. Follow along here: https://t.co/YHb3zIMDtg — PolitiTweet.org

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Committee then shows an email from Eastman to Giuliani a few days after 1/6 asking to be included in a pardon list (he was not). — PolitiTweet.org

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Jacob testifies (and the committee shows the email) that the night of 1/6, after the attack on the Capitol, Eastman emailed Jacob asking him once again to ask Pence to suspend certification of the electoral votes for 10 days and send it back to the states. — PolitiTweet.org

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Jacob testifies that Pence refused to get in his Secret Service car because he was worried about the visual of being evacuated from the Capitol. Most of his staff got in cars, but he did not. He also began calling government leaders to check on the safety of members of Congress. — PolitiTweet.org

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The committee is also displaying FBI affidavits from confidential informant inside the Proud Boys saying members of the group would have killed Pence and other leaders including Pelosi if they’d had the chance. — PolitiTweet.org

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Aguilar says the crowds inside and outside of the Capitol surged and began overwhelming law enforcement after Trump’s tweet the afternoon of 1/6 criticizing Pence. “It felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire,” former deputy WH press sec Sarah Matthews told the committee. — PolitiTweet.org

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After that, Marc Short, Pence’s chief of staff, warned Pence’s Secret Service detail that the president might lash out at Pence, he told the committee. — PolitiTweet.org

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Jason Miller said in his deposition that Trump dictated much of that statement himself. — PolitiTweet.org

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On the 1/5 Trump statement that he and Pence agreed Pence could overturn the election - contrary to what Pence had been saying - Jacob says, “We were shocked and disappointed because whoever put that statement out - it was categorically untrue.” — PolitiTweet.org

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And then on 1/5, Jacob said, he met with Eastman, who said he was asking for Pence to reject electors in certain states - despite saying the night before that was not the preferred tactic. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pence “never budged” from his view that he didn’t have the power to overturn the election, Jacob said. Eastman initially said he thought SCOTUS wouldn’t get involved in such a political debate, then the next morning told Jacob no judge would support his argument. — PolitiTweet.org

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Jacob says in an Oval Office mtg on 1/4, Eastman told Pence he could either reject certain electoral votes or suspend the counting for 10 days and send electoral vote counts back to the states. Eastman said he thought the “reject outright” theory was less politically palatable. — PolitiTweet.org

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Interesting (if ultimately unsurprising) detail for someone who was on the Paul Ryan beat for years: he called Pence to make sure Pence knew he didn’t have the authority to overturn the election on the 6th. — PolitiTweet.org

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“I would have laid by body across the road before I let the vice president overturn the 2020 election in the basis of that historical precedent,” Luttig says of the Eastman theory. — PolitiTweet.org

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Jacob says that Eastman admitted after a lengthy discussion on 1/5 that he would probably lose 9-0 at the Supreme Court with his legal theory. — PolitiTweet.org

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WH senior adviser and attorney Eric Herschmann says that he spoke with Rudy Giuliani the morning of 1/6 and Giuliani said he agreed with him that the VP couldn’t throw out electoral votes - but a few hours later Giuliani talked up Eastman’s theory at the Ellipse rally. — PolitiTweet.org

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“There was no historical precedent from the beginning of the founding in 1789 that…would support the possibility of the vice president of the United States ‘counting alternative electoral slates that had not been officially certified,’” Judge Luttig says of Eastman’s memo. — PolitiTweet.org