• The January 6 panel previewed Thursday's hearing with a clip featuring testimony from Trump's former White House attorney Eric Herschmann.
• Herschmann pushed back on false claims that the election was stolen.
• He previously represented Trump in his first Senate impeachment trial.

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The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack previewed its upcoming hearing on Thursday by playing videotaped testimony from Eric Herschmann, an ex-senior advisor to former President Donald Trump who said voter fraud claims in the 2020 election were bogus.

In the clip, Herschmann spoke candidly about a confrontation he had with conservative lawyer John Eastman a day after the riot. Eastman, who amplified 2020 election conspiracy theories, was still keen on pursing efforts to overturn the results in Georgia, according to Herschmann.

"I said to him, 'Are you out of your effing mind?'" Herschmann, an attorney, told the January 6 panel in his recorded deposition. "'I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth for now on: Orderly transition.'"

After Herschmann repeatedly instructed Eastman to say those two words, he eventually did.

"'Now I'm going...

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