conspiracy theory that an italian defense contractor uploaded software to a satellite that switched votes from trump to biden. members of congress angling for pardons. the only reason i know to ask for a pardon is because you think you ve committed a crime. and brand-new tonight, my interview with alex holder, the documentary filmmaker who testified to the committee behind closed doors this morning and turned over hours of his footage. you re going to hear him tell me that the committee was especially interested in inconsistencies between what ivanka trump told them and what she told him. but minutes before air time, we received this raw footage, an outtake from the documentary now seen for the first time on cnn. i want you to listen closely because this is the footage and the content that alex holder tells me the committee questioned him about. i think that as the president has said, every single vote needs to be counted and needs to be heard, and he campaigned for t
taylor green. some have denied this ever happened. matt gates is under investigation in an alleged sex trafficking investigation. he has denied all wrong doing, he has not been charged. but according to the testimony we heard in the hearing today, matt gates was asking for one of those from the beginning of time for everything he has ever done kind of pardons. and, you know, that could be an interesting thing for prosecutors who are still looking at him and are still going to have to decide whether or not he faces these charges. it depends on what he told the white house his pardons were about. this could add complications to matt gates. at this point, these members of congress are saying that there s nothing to see here but, as you can tell from the testimony from people inside the white house, this actually happened. you mentioned mr. biggs mr. biggs did. mr. dornan talked about congressional pardons but he never asked me for one. mr. gomer asked for one as well and m
this is don lemon tonight. a firsthand account from the witness who gave dramatic closed-door testimony to the january 6th committee, today. this is the sitting president of the united states, saying this in the white house, that was actually very scary. you have used the words frightening, and scary. you were frightened? those are strong words. of course they were pickups the. in the capitol, revelations on the plot to overturn the election. what the president told the doj. what i am asking you to do is say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congress meant. a not a conspiracy theory about italian satellites had reached the highest levels of the government. the completely baseless conspiracy theory that an italian defense contractor for flitted software to a satellite which switch to votes from trump to biden. members of congress angling for pardons. the only reason i know to ask for a pardon, is because you think you have committed a
less overthrow the election, pressured them almost every day, asking officials to say things that were not true, that they told him were not true, and trying to get them to do things without precedence and that were arguably not legal. watch. let s take a look at another one of your notes. you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. how did the president respond to that, sir? he responded very quickly and said, essentially, that s not what i m asking you to do. what i m asking you to do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. i made the point that jeff clark is not even competent to serve as the attorney general. he s never been a criminal attorney. he s never conducted a criminal investigation in his life. he s never been in front of a trial jury. and he kind of retorted by saying, well, i ve done a lot of very complicated appeals and civ
the most significant gun ruling in a decade the supreme court s major decision allowing more people to carry a firearm. tonight, new york officials calling it a blow to public safety. juul, banned. what does the f.d.a. s order mean for the vaping industry? our eye on america: how the chicago police department is handling staffing shortages. and, the heroic rescue. we hear from the coach who saved an american swimmer.. plus, 50 years of title ix. how the landmark law changed sports for women, and the world. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us on this thursday night. in the past few weeks, we have heard gripping new testimony from the january 6th hearings, but what we learned today was particularly egregious. three former high-levels justice department officials t testified that the president of the united states repeatedly d.o.j. to, in t