and the supreme court on guns and with the supreme court going one way and congress going the other and we will tell you what it means for gun safety in america. and breaking news overnight from ukraine, after weeks of fighting, the ukraine officials say the forces have to withdraw from a key battleground in the east. we ll have the latest. all right. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, june 24th. i m sam, in for jonathan lemire. hearing number five into the january 6th, focussed on donald trump s efforts to get the justice department to legitimize his bogus claims of voter fraud, that includes his relentless pursuit of an attorney general who would go along with his election conspiracies. the pressure top leaders faced when they refused to do so and how those leaders band together and then prevailed. and pardons for the roles in the election scheme. first, trump s nonstop efforts to get the department of justice to sign off on the big lie. here
of big news, joe, on capitol hill. what a significant day. and i will tell you, i was away from the tv for a good part of the day, and started getting breaking news alerts about the hearings, started following some i had to come back, rewatch the entire hearing all over again. it really, yesterday, about as compelling of any hearing we ve seen on capitol hill since the days of watergate. i was young when the watergate hearings were on. i was upset because we had only had four channels then, and i wanted to see the flintstones and mr. ed, but my parents were sitting front, watching watergate. like everybody. and it was so compelling. and you see those clips, and it s history and you don t think you re ever going to see anything like that again. like a movie. but actually, willie, we did see something and we keep seeing, every one of these january 6th hearings. you re looking at history, you understand it, because, again, it drives home the point that maybe we ve
he said, suppose i do this, replace jeff rosen with jeff clark, what would you do. mr. president, i would resign immediately, i m not working for one minute for this guy who i just declared was completely incompetent, so the president immediately turned to mr. engel and said steve, you wouldn t resign, would you, and he said absolutely, i would, mr. president, you leave me no choice, and i said we re not the only ones. no one cares if we resign. steve and i go, that s fine. it doesn t matter. you re going to lose your entire department leadership, every single aid will walk out of here. your entire department of leadership will walk out within hours, and i said mr. president, within 24, 48, 72 hours, you could have hundreds and hundreds of resignations of the leadership of your entire justice department because of your actions. what s that going to say about you. steve pointed out that jeff clark would be left leading a
didn t have a break. we re extremely lucky, i think, that we didn t have a break, that sidney powell didn t get appointed special counsel, that jeffrey clark didn t get the job of acting attorney general. because if any one of those things happens, we re in a real constitutional crisis. the only other thing that i would add that i think kind of gets lost in this, maybe it s not materially important, but to me at least it is, is that here we have essentially the main powers of government, the department of homeland security, the department of defense, department of justice, the presidency. all the top of those people completely consumed, whether by choice or directive on this idea of what happened with the vote. this is all happening, all of our government is focused on this absurd conspiracy theory. and you re in the middle of a pandemic, right? like, the government had a job to play at that moment in time. that job. it said, we re not going to focus on this stuff because we ll have to
hearing number five into january 6th focused on donald trump s efforts to get the justice department to legitimatize his bogus claims of voter fraud. that includes his relentless pursuit of an attorney general, who would go along with his election conspiracies. the pressure top leaders face when they refuse to do so, and how those leaders banded together and ultimately prevailed. the committee also revealed the republican lawmakers who sought pardons from trump after the capitol attack for their roles in the election scheme, we will have all the key and extremely dramatic moments just ahead. plus, major developments on the debate over gun safety. last night, the senate passed a bipartisan gun reform bill, its most sweeping gun bill in decades. it came on the same day the supreme court issued its first major decision on guns in a decade. we ll go through it all. but, wow, yesterday, a fire hose