The second hearing into the January 6 Capitol attack shed light on the events that occurred inside former President Donald Trump‘s White House on the night of the 2020 election.

In recorded testimony released by the House Jan 6 committee, Trump administration officials, including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and former campaign manager Bill Stepien recounted how election night unfolded at the White House.

An event on the residence side of the White House was underway the night of the election. It was attended by White House officials and advisers, including Trump’s family. Kushner said in the deposition tape that the then-President was in the upper level of the residence where he met with advisers while votes were coming in.

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According to Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, Rudy Giuliani, who served as a lawyer to him at the time, pushed election fraud conspiracies to Trump that he would eventually use as a backing for the false claim that he had won.

“Trump rejected the advice of his campaign experts on election night, and instead followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani, to just claim that he won,” Cheney, said in her opening statements. “The Trump campaign legal team knew there was no legitimate argument…to overturn the election. And yet Pres. Trump went ahead with his plans for Jan. 6 anyway.”

Trump’s then-spokesperson Jason Miller told the committee in his deposition that “the mayor was definitely intoxicated” at the White House on election night.

In a deposition tape, former Attorney General Bill Barr said Trump claimed election fraud “right out of the box on election night … before there was actually any potential of looking at evidence.”

Meanwhile Bill Stepien, Trump’s former campaign manager, said in a video clip that Trump disagreed to his recommendation about it being too early to call the election. He said, “they were going to go in a different direction.”

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Kushner also told Trump that if he were in his position, calling the election early ” [was] not the approach I would take if I was you.”

Matt Morgan, the Trump campaign’s general counsel, said that after hearing about Giuliani’s conspiracies about election fraud, it was determined that “the law firms were not comfortable making the arguments that Rudy Giuliani was making publicly.”