With Ivanka Trump tape, panel argues Trump was aware he lost
Using taped testimony from Trump officials including Attorney General Bill Barr and campaign attorney Alex Cannon, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., argued that Trump and his team were well aware that he lost the election but still carried out a plot to stay in power.
"In our second hearing, you will see that Donald Trump and his advisers knew that he had in fact lost the election," Cheney said, explaining how the committee will lay out its case. "But despite this, President Trump engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information to convince huge portions of the U.S. population that fraud had stolen the election from him."
In a video clip from an interview with Barr, Trump's attorney general said he "repeatedly told the president, in no uncertain terms, that I did not see evidence of fraud and -- you know, that would have affected the outcome of the election."
The committee also aired a taped interview with Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump commenting on Barr's statement that the Justice Department found no fraud sufficient to overturn the election.
"It affected my perspective," Ivanka said of Barr's assessment. "I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying."
![PHOTO: Former White House Senior Adviser Ivanka Trump is seen on a video screen during the public hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 9, 2022.](https://s.abcnews.com/images/Politics/ivanka-trump-jan-6-committee-rt-jt-220609_1654821565722_hpMain.jpg)