of the bravery of 25-year-old cassidy hutchinson, who spoke truth to power, who spoke the truth, who spoke, despite the fact that many much older, much more experienced men, were too weak and too shrivelled to be able to speak out about what happened behind closed doors in the trump white house leading up to did she say that? is willie here? let me tell you something willie i don t know that she mentioned there s more than one woman who spoke out and was able to do that. right. compared to these pathetic men. it s okay. i don t think she used the word shrivelled. they re in the corner, shrivelled in the corner. it was cold. kind of chilly. i don t know. i get what mika is saying here. you better. it was quite an image, willie, is it not? liz cheney getting rapturous applause at the reagan library, the epicenter of what once was a movement called conservatism, and talking about just how corrupt the republican party has gotten, but how one young
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
adamant that he had one and that we were not doing our job. the president said, just say the election is corrupt and leave the rest to me and well. republican congressman. we will wear that any members of congress had [inaudible] mr. gaetz and mr. brooks mr. gaetz was the first to ask for a pardon. mr. biggs did, mr. gohmert asked as well. i m sorry. the only reason i know to ask for a pardon is because you think you have committed a crime. the president is getting very agitated and he said, people tell me i should just get rid of both of you and change the leadership, put jeff clarke in, maybe something will finally get done. i thought the puzzle was asinine. how does the president even know mr. clark? i said, so suppose i do the, suppose i replace him, replace him, jeff rosen, with him, jeff clark. what would you do? i said, mr. president, i would rather resign immediately. but so baloney said this is a murder suicide pact. tonight rachel maddow, nic
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
ukraine s president calls the move historic . tonight with the context, former senior advisor to george w bush, ron christie. and former advisor to hillary clinton, amanda renteria. the us supreme court has upheld the right of americans to carry guns in public, striking down a century old restrictions in new york that limited the ability of people to carry weapons. the legislation required residents to prove they had proper cause to have a concealed handgun. the judges ruled that it violated the constitutional right to bear arms. the governor of new york state kathy hochul described the ruling as outrageous. this decision isn tjust reckless, it s reprehensible. it s not what new yorkers want. and we should have the right of determination of what we want to do in terms of our gun laws in our state. the federal government will not have sweeping laws to protect us, then our states and our governors have a moral responsibility to do what we can, and have laws to protect our ci