committee, three top officials who led the justice department in the final days of the trump administration including the former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen will make clear the doj saw no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to overturn the election and will detail how he and others resisted trump s pressure to back the baseless claims. a preview of newly obtained footage from the documentary film crew that followed former president trump and his team for six months before and after january 6th. it was just released by discovery plus, which, of course, is cnn s parent company. watch. okay. my father, he s very honest and he is who he is. he believes everything he s doing is right. i think i treat people well, unless they don t treat me well, and then we go to war. can we talk about january 6th? yeah. obviously people want to hear what he had to say there. so that documentary filmmaker alex holder has said that he will be deposed today after receiv
receive around the clock security as the department of homeland security warns of murder threats escalating. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is thursday, may 19th. and shortly, the 18-year-old suspect in the racist attack on a buffalo supermarket is due to appear in court after pleading not guilty to first degree murder. we re also learning this morning that a 911 dispatcher has been placed on administrative leave for what officials describe as a, quote, completely inappropriate response to a whispering caller during the mass shooting that left ten people dead. we re hearing stories from those who survived the massacre, including one hero who risked his life to save co-workers and customers. he spoke with cnn s shimon prokupecz. shimon joins us live from buffalo. it is an incredibly moving story, shimon. reporter: it is. what a remarkable man, jerome bridges, he works at the store, describing to us and really just great detail, a
the president will condemn, quote, the terrorism motivated by a hateful and perverse ideology that tears at the soul of our nation. we are told the president will call on americans to, quote, give hate no safe harbor and to reject the lies of racial animus that radicalize and divide us. he will also call for federal legislation to keep guns from the mentally ill. this morning, we are getting new details about the suspect in buffalo, the investigation and new copycat threats against that city. this cell phone video taken by an eyewitness at the moment the suspected shooter was taken into custody. new evidence shows he spent several months carefully planning the attack. he was here. we found some things that show that he was here in early march. and then again, we know that he was here on friday, basically, doing reconnaissance on the area. the suspect had also considered attacking churches or elementary schools. according to his own social media posts but he hesitated beca
I suppose, what do you think . You understand its a fiction, its a drama, so you might think they might be taking some liberties, but you do assume it is very mu. Very. Its sticking to the truth. And when we were talking about it last week and we were planning that section of the programme, of course we invited netflix to take part, and it chose not to put a guest into the programme. So the only time weve actually heard from someone at netflix talking about this was to a parliamentary committee, which is where we get to the latest developments of the story. Exactly right. Because, as you say, the only time netflix has commented since the furore around this programme was when a netflix executive from the uk, benjamin king, gave evidence to the culture, media and Sport Committee and he talked about the show in this way. He said it was obviously a true story of the horrific abuse that the writer and Protagonist Richard Gadd suffered at the hands of a convicted stalker, and that is key con
Of stalking that he underwent and says he underwent in real life. And a lot of the controversy revolves around what happens right at the start of the first episode, where were told by netflix, by the producer of this programme, this is a true story. Exactly. Because it is unusual. You know, were used to seeing these kind of programmes where it might say, this is inspired by true events, or, this is based on a true story. Its very rare to see, this is a true story. And as a viewer, when you watch this as a true story, i suppose, what do you think . You understand its a fiction, its a drama, so you might think they might be taking some liberties, but you do assume it is very mu. Very. Its sticking to the truth. And when we were talking about it last week and we were planning that section of the programme, of course we invited netflix to take part, and it chose not to put a guest into the programme. So the only time weve actually heard from someone at netflix talking about this was to a p