woman.
>> Very shortly after the
election, we began this meeting
by returning to election night,
November 3, 2020.
As the chairman noted we
previously presented testimony
about how the election results
were expected to come in that
night.
Certain state ballots cast by
mail before election day would
be counted out -- only after the
polls closed that evening.
That meant election results
would not be known for some
time.
President trump's campaign
manager, house campaign leader,
and Jared Kushner advised Donald
Trump to encourage mail-in
voting by Republicans.
President trump did not do so.
>> You had people arguing that
we had a very robust get out and
vote effort.
That mail-in ballots could be a
good thing for us if we look at
it correctly.
>> There was one meeting that
was had.
In particular I invited Kevin
Mccarthy to join the meeting.
We made our case for why we
believed mail-in ballot in,
mail-in voting not to be a bad
thing for this campaign.
But, the president's mind was
made up.
>> It was expected before the
election that the initial count
in some states, those votes cast
on election day would be more
heavily Republican and this
would create the false
perception the lead for
president trump so-called red
barrage.
As a result of the absentee
ballots that there could be
trends towards vice president
Biden as those mail-in ballots
were counted.
On election night, Donald
Trump's advisors specifically
told him they did not have a
factional basis.
They should wait for the balance
to be counted.
Here is the campaign manager.
>> It was far too early to be
making any calls like that.
Ballots were going to be counted
four days.
I believe, my recommendation was
to say that votes were still
being counted.
It was too early to tell.
Too early to call the race.
>> President trump declared
victory.
Not only did he declare victory,
he called for the ongoing count
of votes to stop.
That would violate both federal
and state laws and also
disenchant eyes --
disenfranchise voters who
lawfully counted the vote.
Here is what he said.
President trump: This is 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.
We won -- we want all voting to
stop.
>> We now know more about
president trump's attention for
election night.
We know his victory speech was
planned well in advance before
any vote had been counted.
It was a premeditated plan by
the president to declare victory
no matter what the actual result
was.
He made a plan to stay in office
before election day.
The vice president staff was
concerned with what Donald Trump
might do on election night.
They took steps to ensure he
would not echo a false victory
announcement.
Here is what the vice
president's counsel told us
about his preparations with the
vice president's chief of staff.
>> Mark indicated to me that
there was a possibility there
would be a declaration of
victory
this is prior to the election
results being known.
He was trying to figure out a
way of avoiding the vice
president being thrust into --
leaving the climb on that when
he might not have information to
do so.
>> Following this conversation,
Mr. Jacobs drafted a memo to Mr.
Schwartz.
The memo was sent on November 3,
election day.
Advised it is essential that the
vice president not be perceived
by the public as having decided
questions concerning disputed
electoral votes prior to the
full development of all relevant
tasks.
A few days before the election,
Mr. Trump also consulted with
one of his outside advisors.
About the strategy for election
night.
The select committee got this
preprepared statement from the
national archives.
As you can see the draft
statement, which was sent on
October 31 declares we had an
election today and I won.
The memo specifically indicates
a plan that only the votes
counted by the election day
deadline.
That they would only matter.
Everyone knew the ballot
counting would lawfully continue
past election day claiming the
counting on election night must
stop before millions of votes
were counted, as we now know, a
key part of president trump's
premeditated plan.
On election day, just after 5:00
P.M., he indicated he had spoken
with the president.
Sending along again, just talk
to him about the draft below.
Again, this plan to declare
victory was in place before any
of the results had been
determined.
In the course of our
investigation, he also
interviewed Brad parscale,
president trump's former
campaign manager.
He understood president trump
planned as early as July that he
would say he won the election,
even if you lost.
A few days before the election,
Steve Bannon, a former trump
white house strategist spoke to
a group of his associates from
China and said this.
>> What trump is going to do is
declare victory.
That doesn't mean he is the
winner.
They are going to have a natural
disadvantage and trump will take
advantage.
It's going to be a firestorm.
If trump is losing by 10:00 or
11:00 at night, he will sit
right there and say he stole it.
He will direct the attorney
general to shut down ballots.
Trump will do some crazy --
>> Mr. Bannon refused to testify
in our investigation.
He has been convicted of
criminal contempt of congress
and is awaiting sentencing.
The evidence indicates Mr.
Bannon had advance knowledge of
the intent to declare victory
falsely on election night but
also that Mr. Bannon knew about
Mr. Trump's planning for January
6.
Here is what he said on January
5.
>> All hell is going to break
loose tomorrow.
It is all converging.
The point of attack is tomorrow.
It is not going to happen like
you think it is going to happen.
It is going to be