but first, to highly this afternoon s highly anticipated fifth public hearing of the january 6 committee. we ll hear testimony from three high ranking justice department officials who led the department in the final days of the trump administration including the former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. he will make clear the doj saw no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to overturn the election. which unindicated that. and we ll detail how he and others resisted trump s pressure to back his babaseless claims. and also new subpoenaed issued to people from several states who acted as fake electors and other trump allies connected to the scheme to overturn the 2020 election. also new this morning, a preview of newly obtained footage from the documentary film crew that followed former president trump and his team for six months both before and after the insurrection. that preview was just released by discovery plus which is owned by cnn s parent company. watch. ok
sira good morning to viewers here in the united states and auld around the world, it is thursday, june 23rd, i m john berman. brianna is off this morning. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is with me. we do have brand-new developments in the january 6th investigation. newly obtained footage from a documentary film crew that was embedded within trump world for nearly six months before and after january 6th. this is footage that maggie haberman reports is causing anxiety for the trump family. the british documentary filmmaker has handed over his interviews with former president trump, his adult children and former vice president mike pence to the house select committee and will be meeting with them behind closed doors today. what we have now for the first time is this film s trailer. okay. my father, he is very honest and he is who he is. he believes everything that he s doing is right. i think i treat people well, unless you don t treat me well, in wh
today. you wonder if these people were not in the positions they were at the time, what would have heaped to democracy, wolf? these top-former doj officials described how they were essentially the guardians of democracy. relentlessly pressured by the former president of the united states, donald trump, to use the power of doj to overturn the election results even after doj had investigated the fraud and found there was no widespread fraud. he here is a clip of the remarkable exchange former acting attorney general jeff rosen described in talking to trump during that time. 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 location. how did the president respond to that, sir? he responded very quickly, and said essentially that s not what i am asking you to do. what i am just asking you to do is just say it was corrupt, and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. reporter: and when it
u.s. citizens home? well, in fact, the state department put out a statement saying that they have seen photos and videos of these two u.s. citizens reportedly captured by russian military forces in ukraine. we are closely monitoring the situation and our hearts go out to their families during this difficult time. we are in contact with ukrainian authorities, the international committee of the red cross, and with the families themselves, due to privacy considerations, we have no further comment on these cases. this is typical of state department statements about, for instance, i have seen it before with americans being held in syria as well. there clearly is a lot of back channel communications going on, but state department officials on these very sensitive issues tend to be quite tight lipped. jake. yeah, ben wedeman in kramatorsk, ukraine, thank you so much. joining us is bunny drewky, the mother of one of the americans being held captive in ukraine. you just saw his pi
replace his a.g. with the third attorney general in a matter of weeks. it wasn t until the threat of a mass exodus that the president halted the plan. and tonight here, the testimony under oath revealing the members of congress who then asked for pardons after january 6th. one white house attorney saying even nixon didn t issue pardons this broad. jonathan karl and rachel scott live in washington. also tonight here, new york s governor and new york city s major outraged over the major supreme court ruling on guns. its impact will be significant, well beyond new york. gun rights advocates celebrating tonight. the 6-3 decision undoing a gun law in new york that has stood for more than a century. the state s concealed carry law. new york governor kathy hochul calling the decision reckless and reprehensible. new york city major eric adams tonight calling the decision, quote, not rooted in reality. so, what now, and how many other states will see their laws challenged? terry mor