violent actions. you ll also hear from stephen ayres who was directly influenced by president trump s tweet to travel to washington for a day he said would be wild. and there is immense pressure on the committee today in what could be a put up or shut up moment to prove to the nation that there is a direct link between former president donald trump and those extremists responsible for the chaos at the capitol. there s a lot of expectation on new video clips of former white house counsel pat cipollone from his nearly eight-hour deposition last week. what did he tell the committee about what he advised the president on and around january 6th, and what did he corroborate from the testimony of others, specifically cassidy hutchinson. ladies, listen, just to get us up to speed on what we have seen so far, there s been a number of hearings, a number of weeks between them, just to catch us all up. remember the first one started with him knowing that he lost, being told that he los
insurrection. the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair has authorized to declare the committee in races at any point. pursuant to house deposition authority deposition the chair announces the committees approval to announce the good afternoon. in our previous hearings, the select committee showed that then president trump applied pressure at every level of government. of local election workers, up to his own vice president. opened hoping public servants would give into that pressure and help him steal an election he actually lost. today, we will tell the story of how the pressure campaign also targeted the federal agency, charged with enforcement of our laws, the department of justice. we have already covered part of mr. trump s effort. we heard from attorney general bill barr, tell the story and the committee about the baseless claims mr. trump wanted the justice departm
i ll give you this preview, the president didn t do very much, but gleefully watch television during this timeframe. we will present a lot per than that. i can only imagine, i know what i felt as a u.s. congressman and if i was a president sworn to defend the constitution and that includes the legislative branch watching this on television i know i would have been going ballistic to try to save the capitol. he did quite the opposite. s we ve discussed many times on this program in the past, more than three hours, 187 minutes, to be exact, elapsed from the time donald trump leaves the rally on the ellipse to when he tweets out a video asking his supporters to leave the capitol. congressman elaine luria who will be leading thursday s hearing alongside congressman kinzinger said they ll be going through a period of time minute by minute. take a listen. not only was it a situation that he was not doing anything and at one point the infamous tweet at 2:24 he egged people on b
prepares to sign it into law. will it make a difference in the epidemic of gun violence in the united states? i ll ask the new york city mayor eric adams. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf f blitzer, you re the situation room . we begin with the u.s. supreme court decision undoing a half century old precedent and ending a woman s guaranteed federal right to an abortion. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider has more on the ruling and ramifications. hell no we don t need roe. reporter: roe v. wade roe v. wade no longer the law of the land. eliminating the right to abortion and leaving all decisions concerning abortion rights to individual states. the final 5-4 majority opinion striking the draft from justice samuel a lee toe. in a dissenting opinion, the court s liberal justices lament the current state of the conservative court saying with sorrow for this court and many millions of american women who have today
the next election to try to make sure your side is a better chance next time the people sell their differences at the ballot box. . you cannot turn violent and you cannot try to achieve desires through harassment or intimidation. and a real leader who sees that going down that path, approaching that line has a responsibility to say stop. we gave it our boost. we came up short. we try again next time. because we settle our differences at the ballot box. on december 14th, 2020, the presidential election was officially over. electoral college had cast his vote, joe biden was the president elect of the united states. by that point, many of donald trump s supporters were already convinced that the election had been stolen. because that s where donald trump had been telling them. so with donald trump was acquired to do in that moment, but would have been required of any american leader was to say we did our best and we came up short. he went the opposite way. he seized on the anger