rioters. as trump pressured him to stop the vote certification of the 2020 election. it was a move trump knew was illegal as several witnesses revealed just yesterday. let s get to cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez. what more are you learning about next week s hearing? well, the committee, the january 6th committee is trying to nail down the list of witnesses that they have from the former justice department, former justice department officials under former president trump. and right now we know that they have slated they were key in standing up to the president. he was trying to essentially use the justice department to endorse his claims that there was vote fraud, and in the end, to try to overturn the election results. one witness that we don t know we know the committee was looking for, and it appears will not be showing up is pat sip pat cipollone. it would have been unusual to see a former white house counsel sitting before this committee. it appears
talk to us about this new development as it relates to the january 6th committee and this intent to respond to this doj request for transcripts. it was something the department of justice had to ask for twice to this point. yeah, had to ask for twice. and you saw in the letter that came yesterday, as hearings were ongoing, that the justice department said that by not having this, it could also be hampering some of the investigations that they are already ongoing with. that s something that i posed to chairman bennie thompson yesterday after the hearings were over. he said, basically, it wasn t a question of if they were going to comply, but went. although, now, we do have a better sense that that compliance is happening. i can throw up for you on the screen there a statement from a committee spokesperson who says, the select committee is engaged in a cooperative process to address the needs of the department of justice. they re not inclined to share the details of that publ
chairman benny thompson says no. but you don t, just to be clear, you don t anticipate that the committee, itself, will offer up a formal referral? no, that s not our job. our job is to look at the facts and circumstances around journal 6. what caused it and make recommendations after that. but is ranking member liz cheney saying maybe. she tweeted the january 6th select committee has not issued a conclusion regarding potential criminal referrals. we will announce a decision on that at an appropriate time. all right. the committee laid out a case for the why when the president refused to accept the results beyond just a hurt ego. yesterday, we heard about alleged grit that the trump campaign spent months fundraising off supposed election fraud even as it knew there was no election fraud. campaign aides and lawyers admitted that they did know it under oath and said they told the president the truth as well. all while, all the while, millions of dollars were pouring in. a
violence associated with the supreme court s eventual decision on abortion rights. this warning comes as the senate is holding a hearing on the threat of domestic terrorism, and lawmakers are still talking, trying to find common ground on something to combat the gun violence epidemic in the country. this morning, a teacher who survived the elementary school massacre in uvalde is speaking publicly for the first time. every single one of his students in his class were killed. i lost 11 that day. and i tell the parents i m sorry, i tried my best. it s what i was told to do. please don t be angry with me. just gut wrenching. we ll have much more of his story in that interview in a moment. let s begin with this new threat bull fin. what more are you learning? reporter: this is the sixth time that dhs has issued this terrorism bulletin that makes clear that terrorism risk comes from within the united states, before january 6th, these advisories focused on terrorism from eithe
with primary races under way in seven states. california, iowa, mississippi, montana, new jersey, new mexico and south dakota. polls are just opening now in california. one of the races closely watched is the los angeles mayoral race in which democratic congresswoman karen bass is facing off developer rick caruso. in montana, ryan zing ki who left congress to become the terror secretary is trying to return to the house representing the state s congressional district there. a top gop target this fall, iowa s third congressional district, the three candidates facing off in the republican primary hoping to flip that house seat this fall. joining us are national political correspondent steve kornacki at the big board and steve patterson in los angeles. let s start with steve kornacki, good morning. what are you keeping an eye on this morning? a lot to watch today, jose. there are seven states holding primaries. you can see this is actually kind of a super tuesday. this is the b