bill barr. during his deposition, the former attorney general told the committee that he repeatedly told trump that there was no credible evidence of election fraud. i made it clear that i did not agree with the idea of saying that the election was stolen. i told the president this was dumb. i did not want to be a part of it. this is what led me to decide to leave when i did. even though a number of his own top administration officials debunked election fraud conspiracies, trump hospice persisted. weeks following the election, he lashed onto the idea that pence would be able to overturn the results of the election by choosing to certify the votes of certain states. this was an illegal plan that was spearheaded by john eastman, who also played a role in the pressure campaign to get the vice president to delay the certification of the 2020 presidential election. this pressure campaign and intense focus on what the vice president would do on january 6th, resulted in the viol
right wing reacting to his tweets before they converged on the capitol. reports that pence caved. if pence caved, we are going to trial drag this guy through the streets. you politicians are going to get a drug through the streets we deserve to be with the rest of them. vice president is not going to interject anything. [noise]. you heard it here first. mike pence has betrayed the united states of america! okay, that is horrifying. unfortunately, it is the tip of the iceberg. turns out, a trump s lawyer and insurrection mastermind, johnny, did not think that the supreme court would overweight overturning the election. a swing claimed to have insight on fighting among the justices. i wonder how he got that? that is strange. maybe it is not so strange. he did clerk for justice aaron thomas. the washington report shows that he has been exchanging corresponds with jesse thomas. he denied that any of this can come before the court. now the january six committee has some qu
good to see you again. i m yasmin vossoughian. we ve got a lot to get to the sour. we have the cdc voting to recommend the covid vaccine for children under the age of five. if that means millions of kids now eligible to be vaccinated. then we ve got explicit testimony from the january 6th hearings this week. we have that special all last hour. highlighting the danger that the vice president was in. also startling information that ginni thomas s role in trying to overturn the 2020 election is in fact bigger than previously thought. the question now is, will she testify? and the former president, accusing the january 6th committee of selective, calling the committees evidence a complete and total lie, during a rambling 19 minutes at a conservative conference last night. and continuing to attack his former vice president. the election was perfect. and the democrats are sitting back, saying no where we re gonna impeach this guy. no. it s terrible. but mike was afraid of wha
rioters. as trump pressured him to stop the vote certification of the 2020 election. it was a move trump knew was illegal as several witnesses revealed just yesterday. let s get to cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez. what more are you learning about next week s hearing? well, the committee, the january 6th committee is trying to nail down the list of witnesses that they have from the former justice department, former justice department officials under former president trump. and right now we know that they have slated they were key in standing up to the president. he was trying to essentially use the justice department to endorse his claims that there was vote fraud, and in the end, to try to overturn the election results. one witness that we don t know we know the committee was looking for, and it appears will not be showing up is pat sip pat cipollone. it would have been unusual to see a former white house counsel sitting before this committee. it appears
strohmier. we talked to a farmer who says this could snowball into a food shortage. there is all kinds of shipping delays, it s a big snowball effect happening at this point. ashley: griff jenkins live in washington with more, good morning. griff: inflation was 1.4%, yet in his first interview with a reporter since february, president biden tells the ap we re in a stronger position than any nation in the world to overcome inflation. if it is my fault, why is inflation higher in other countries in the world. we are higher than germany, france, israel, and saudi arabia. he does admit the country is in a funk, which he blames on the pandemic. people are really, really down, consequence of the covid crisis, this after biden blamed oil companies for $5 gas threatening them with emergency powers. at least one company is firing back writing, exxon mobil has been developing more than any other country and globally invested more than we ve earned over the last five years. we kep