with all due respect, if we needed a pope, we d hold a conclave. but biden waxed pseudoal spiritual throughout his sermon address, the dark of charlottesville, of covid, of gun violence in his direction. charlottesville, covid, gun violence, insurrection. we can see the light.. light is now visible light thatl will guide us forward. i ran for president because i believe we re in a battle for the soul of this nation. the president claims that thists is a battle for the soul ofle the nation. or thebut you can t save the sol by killing the body. re bid and that s what, by aneny objective measure, biden s policies have done.g crime is skyrocketing all over the country. inflation s atthe coun a 40 yea. the border is wide open,de and this administration hasthei encouraged migrants to risklint their lives to enter the country. er illegally. all that does is strengthenan the cartels and human traffickers. the nation s report card dropped today showing that nine year olt y showin
department. what investigators inside the doj could be looking for. plus, the january 6th committee seeking testimony from trump cabinet members who discussed at the time invoking the 25th amendment to remove the then-president in the panel s cross hairs, former treasury secretary steve mnuchin and dni john ratcliff. new cooperation from inside the former president s doj. someone who worked with jeffrey clarke, the man trump tried to install as acting attorney general in the days leading up to january 6th, is now cooperating with the criminal probe. let s begin with senior justice correspondent evan perez. a lot of movement within the doj, particularly as they attempt to get around this executive privilege argument. break down exactly how the department plans to do this and how quickly. reporter: well, jim, they are planning to try to get this as quickly as possible. they are looking the goal here is to try to get to people, testimony from people who were in direct
hutchinson ahead of her sworn testimony. a source tells cnn one person who may have tried to influence her did so at the behest of then white house chief of staff mark meadows. the january 6th committee giving us a taste of that pressure campaign. this is a call received by one of our witnesses, quote, a person let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. he wants me to let you know he s thinking about you. he knows you re loyal and you re going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition. cnn s ryan nobles is here with the latest. yeah, jim, we are getting more information about the concerns the january 6th select committee has about some of their witnesses being intimidated by the former president donald trump or some of his closest allies, and we re learning that those examples that they provided at the end of their hearing on tuesday were both directed at their star witness, cassidy hutchinson, and at least one of them, the belief is that it was sent
th e a trump ally, but, you know, it really does clarify a lot of things for us including the timeline of how these discussions were going on behind the scenes earlier this year. but the fact that there were 700 pages contained here in these 15 boxes taken back from mar-a-lago earlier this year, again, 100 classified documents, some of them in this special access programs type of things, which, again, even if you have classified clearance, the top secret clearance in the united states government, you need additional clearance to be able to access this. it is something that, you know, we were trying to figure out why would you post this letter that all right. the angle that appears to be coming from the trump side, bianna, is that these shows that the biden white house really was involved in the early discussions here in making sure that it was an investigation. that s not really what the letter shows. if you read it carefully you will see that the biden white house was givi
let s listen. [ speaking russian ] i want to apologize to my teammates, my club, the fans and the city for my mistake i made and the embarrassment i brought to them. [ speaking russian ] i want to also apologize to my parents, my siblings, the phoenix mercury organization back at home, the amazing women of the wnba, and my amazing spouse back at home. [ speaking in russian ] i never meant to hurt anybody. i never meant to put in jeopardy the russian population. i never meant to break any laws here. [ speaking in russian ] i made an honest mistake and i hope that in your ruling that it doesn t end my life here. [ speaking in russian ] i know that everybody keeps talking about political pawn, and politics, but i hope that that is far from this courtroom. [ speaking in russian ] i want to say again that i had no intent on breaking any russian laws, i had no intent, i did not conspire or plan to commit this crime. [ speaking in russian ] i hope you take into accoun