police calling law enforcement s response to the rampage a, quote, abject failure. plus, the latest on the bipartisan effort to pass new gun legislation as the legislative text on a narrow set of provisions is released. there is hope. and we re keeping an eye on the markets as stock futures plummeted overnight after yesterday s rally. this, as president biden prepares to call on congress to approve a three-month gas tax holiday. we have a lot to get to, mika. we talk about the bipartisan gun legislation. we had chris murphy on, a democrat who s been a champion of gun safety reform for quite some time now, certainly since 2014. it s a small step forward, but it is a step forward. the senator corrected me and said, no, actually, this is a significant piece of gun legislation. i think it s something that, again, when we re looking at the federal government, you look at the impact of the january 6th hearings, how effectively they ve been run over the last several weeks and
we have a stronger and better position to tackle inflation than almost any other country around the world. what juneteenth does it channels a way for america to talk about slavery and to talk about it without and tim dags and anguish to honor slaves who have never been honored. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. happy father s day to all the dads out there. and we begin tonight with new cnn reporting. u.s. intel is warning of another potential russian plot to interfere with the 2022 midterms. homeland and national security officials say they are worried kremlin meddling like hacking into smaller and more local election authorities in this country and creating disinformation campaigns could have a significant impact on the november elections. so this is not new, isaac, the idea of meddling in the elections. we know similar campaigns were used during the 2016 election and after that as well. what has changed with the threats since then?
weekend after a warning russian operators could be hatching plan to undermine american elections. moscow tactics like mounting disinformation campaigns and hacking into small local election systems could disrupt the midterms this fall. cnn following the new warnings. it s a more sophistication. and the kinds of war fair that are involved here. and more divisions the russians are able to ply into. what officials i spoke to are warning is the potential that russian hackers will go in and deliberately get caught. so they are then exposed and people say the russians got in and that undermines faith in the elections en more. obviously that s a huge problem right now. especially among supporters of former president trump. who have pushed the idea that there are problems with the election integrity. wow. that s so fascinating the change in the thinking from the russians side. before, they always did the we had nothing to do with it. now they want it to be identified. and look, t
election. once again in the spotlight, no one other than wisconsin s senator ron johnson. after the committee revealed on tuesday that one of his top staffers messaged an aide to vice president mike pence about johnson passing fake slates of trump electors for wisconsin and michigan to vice president mike pence by hand on january 6th. a pence aide promptly shut it down texting the johnson staffer this, quote. do not give that to him, end quote, but that attempted handoff still begs many questions like what did ron johnson know about the scheme to set up false electors which is under criminal investigation by the justice department. here s johnson on capitol hill dodging questions from reporters. how much did you know about what your chief of staff was doing with the alternate slates of electors? no, you re not. i can see your phone. i can see your screen. did you know what your chief of staff was doing? does your chief of staff still work for you, sir? can you expla
and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, we ve got a lot of theories, just don t have the evidence. that s the stunning admission from rudy giuliani about the baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election. now giuliani, you know, you remember him, right? you know, the stuff coming down his face. he was the center piece of a lot of this, one of the loudest voices in trump s ear, one of the biggest mega-phonies out there , mega-phones out there. giuliani knew the conspiracy theories were not true. at some point, one of them made a comment that they didn t have evidence but had a lot of theories. that was mr. giuliani. what exactly did he say, how did that come up? my recollection, he said we got lots of theories, we just don t have the evidence. okay, not having the evidence of any of this stuff did not stop the relentless pressure campaign to overturn the election. the scheme spanned several states and trump s attempts to draw in republican officials from