good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it is friday, june 24th. i m john berman with brianna keilar. just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and republican congressmen. a sentence that rang across the halls of the capitol and this morning might very well be ringing into the courtroom. after a day of sworn testimony about how former president trump tried to weaponize the justice department to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, even some former trump administration officials and allies are acknowledging to cnn that the revelations were damaging. the most damaging yet. even bleak. so why, why so damaging? and what now? that is the focus this morning. testimony about a relentless almost daily effort to push officials to say things that were not true and do things that arguably were not legal. a scheme that seemed minutes from success to install a man named jeffrey clark, an environmental lawyer, an election lie prom
something, tucker, i have never seen before or heard of, an electronic sniffing dog and they took all of the electronics from my house. new fallout this morning from revelation that is six republican lawmakers sought preemptive pardons from former president trump before and after the attack on the capitol. that is according to emails and testimony revealed by the january 6th committee. was representative gaetz requesting a pardon? i believe so. a pardon that he was discussing, requesting, was as broad as you could describe. mr. biggs did, mr. jordan talked about congressional pardons but he never asked me for one. mr. gohmert asked for one as well. mr. perry asked for a pardon, too. did marjory taylor green contact you? no, she didn t contact me about t i heard that she had asked white house office counsel for a pardon. so what were the roles of the pardon seekers in january 6? let s bring in tom foreman to walk us through that. tom? if you look at all sifolks
machines, declare the election corrupt and investigate conspiracy claims. watch. between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election, how did the president respond to that, sir? he responded very quickly and said, essentially, that s not what i m asking you to do, what i m just asking you to do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. just say it was corrupt. we also learned that when top doj officials refused to back his false election claims, trump wanted to install a little known doj environmental attorney and trump loyalist jeffrey clark as the acting attorney general. just hours before yesterday s hearing, federal agents raided clark s home. we ll have much more on the details of that in a moment. let s begin with cnn political correspond
on girls and women s reproductive autonomy. cnn is live as crowds swell outside the supreme court. plus, the widespread impact, where trigger laws now or soon will make abortion entirely illegal for any girl or woman regardless of circumstances. also on this monumental day, the first major gun safety legislation in decades on its way to the white house for president biden s signature. how democrats and republicans came together to compromise. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with the historic decision from the united states supreme court which has overturned roe v. wade. finding that the 167 million girls and women in the united states have no constitutional right to an abortion. massive crowds gathered outside the high court in washington, d.c. this afternoon. some celebrating, some protesting the 5-4 decision. conservative justices samuel alito, clarence thomas, neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh, and amy coney barrett leaving abortion rights as a que
what the president s role was in trying to get states to name alter n alter nat slates of electors. we ll hear about his pressure on the states to replace the electors chosen by the voters. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show. it is tuesday, june 21, and we begin with unsettling new details about the police response to the school shooting in uvalde, texas nearly one month after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers. the texas tribune revealed documents that described ongoing confusion at the scene and details of equipment that officers had access to including four ballistic shields with the first arriving nearly an hour before the officers stormed the classrooms. it is unclear at what point during the standoff this image was taken. you can see there. but the new images and information will only intensify questions. this image obtained shows at least three officers you can see there in the hallway of robb elementary school