good afternoon. i m yasmin vossoughian. we have major news developments in the capitol riot investigation. this is including the public s first look at a documentary at the center of a subpoena of the january six committee. can we talk for minute about january six? yeah. you said before you did want to talk about the capitol insurrection. yeah, let s get the sixth. so what s trump and his children would and would not say as you saw there about what happened on that fateful day. plus, we re going to get into breaking news on trump die hards deep in and who may now want to talk to the committee. we re also following these wildfires and yosemite. these are threatening historic sequoias there. weeks of go oil and gas prices have people fear in some relief at the pump. more on that ahead as well. we want to start with the january six investigation. two days before the committee s next hearing a, highly anticipated trump documentary on the presidency. you saw a little bit
security adviser, highly involved in international priorities from the trump/kim summits to china policy. will be impossible to dismiss as a low level staffer. and steve bannon s contempt of congress trial, the former white house senior adviser is charged with defying subpoenas from the january 6th committee, for months. we begin with new information we re learning about the former trump national security official, who will testify in thursday s january 6th primetime hearing. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider joins us now. high level, one of the most senior trump administration officials to resign in the wake of january 6th. what more do we know about what s going ting to happen on thursday? we know the two former officials will be testifying, not only pottinger, but matthews, both resigning shortly after january 6th. matthew pottinger was the deputy national security adviser and we re told at the time of his resignation that he stepped down in response to trump
2020 and january 2021. this pressure campaign on pence to overturn the lelection what understand instructions trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the state. as the former president returned to washington since leading office, we ll have some of what he said shortly. first what merrick garland told lester holt when asked when indicting a former president and possible presidential candidate again might tear the country apart. we pursue justice without fear or favor. we intend to hold everyone, anyone who is criminally responsible for the events surrounding january 6th or any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another accountable. that s what we do. we don t pay any attention to other issues with respect to that. reporter: so if donald trump were to become a candidate for president again, that would not change your schedule or how you move forward or don t move forward? i ll say
focusing on the elaborate effort by then president trump to pressure state officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election. plus the latest on the bipartisan group of senators negotiating new gun legislation in a moment we ll speak with chris coons of delaware on just how close senators are on a final bill. also ahead, we re keeping an eye on wall street as stock futures soared overnight following a brutal week. we ll get a live report from cnbc. and it is primary day for several states across the country which means kornacki is camped out at the big board. he s angry. and i ll tell you what, jonathan lemire, we have a big race today in alabama. you have donald trump who of course always had a prerogative of changing his mind when it looks like his first election is on the way to losing. he chose mo brooks who was there on january 6 trying to whip up the masses to attack the capitol or so some people believe. on the other side, one of richard shelby s staff members.
it s important to be out here and do this. so, we re actually gonna take you to some of the states throughout the country that are feeling the heat with some of these trigger laws that are now in place. 26 states in total, by the end of the month it sees a least 30 days or so yo have these laws in place for banning abortion. the country will look different than it does right about now. as we see, i just want to give you a lay of the land right now. before we move on. now, there s this protest that is continuing to grow here. throughout the morning, started a pretty small, as i, said it s really kind of day three of the protests. after the decision was delivered. it s continuing to grow. the signs are continuing to grow. the passion, the, emotion it s continuing to grow throughout the last hour or so as many of you have witnessed ourselves as a confrontation happening between women that are for abortion rights versus people that are anti-abortion rights. that type of thing