and rocket attacks in baghdad as that country sees upheaval not witnessed for years. i m john berman with brianna keilar. and president zelenskyy telling troops to go home as they gained ground in south. ukrainians have retain foul villages from russian occupation. you can see a couple right here. they re near the crucial taking of kherson. kherson was the first city, of course, to fall to the russians months ago. and announcing the counteroffensive, a claim that failed miserably and heavy losses. we re live on the ground. and political chaos gripping iraq as deadly clashes play out in baghdad s green zone. at least ten people were killed. more than 200 injured after a powerful cleric announced he s stepping down from politics. hundreds of protesters stormed the presidential palace. they were met by tear gas in live fire. and just getting word that four rockets damaged straight ahead. and one year since the final plane left afghanistan. the cnn special report an how life
hearing. cassidy hutchinson testified that donald trump and chief of staff mark meadows ignored warnings about potential violence before the attack and did nothing to stop it once the attack was under way. according to hutchinson, trump knew there were weapons in the crowd but during his speech at the ellipse, still ordered his supporters to march to the capitol. and new details about efforts close to trump to intimidate witnesses who have cooperated in the congressional investigation. good morning, welcome to morning joe. it s wednesday, june 29th. it seems that history bends every day this week. mika, we, of course, had the supreme court decision last friday. and yesterday, had the most testimony on capitol hill since watergate, what was your takeaway? well from my perspective, it was revealed, exposed really that the men around trump are weak, feckless cowards who had this pathetic need to be close to a failed president. and they almost destroyed our democracy. and
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positions. his own white house counsel, his own doj officials. he appointed these people. to say all of these people cooperated and said we delivered a clear message to him that there was no election fraud. it s going to be hard to counter that. especially there s also testimony presumably from caddie hutchinson who testified before the house select committee that she overheard conversations that donald trump acknowledged that he lost the election. similarly, there s also likely to be testimony that he said prior to the election even happening that this election fraud allegation was going to be his strategy because he thought he could. so given all of that together, this knowledge, proving up donald trump s knowledge that he knew that these election fraud claims were false and being used as a pretext to try to stay in power i think will be very, very straightforward for jack smith to do. and for a jury to understand.