Fight to decertify the election, the 202 election. he did not use the word decertify. he used the word rescind. rescind. what did that mean to you? well i m a lawyer, rescind means, that you render it null and void. do you guys have the power to do that in congress? no. and then immediately remove joe biden, i guess that would be through impeachment? through the rescission of the election results. and then did he say that he wanted congress to immediately put him back into the white house? okay, you re using the word congress. my statement doesn t say congress. we never got that far, because i explained to the president that what he asked is legally impossible and it violates the united states constitution, and i m not going to do it. congressman brooks says trump mentioned having a new election. the congressman who has been a staunch ally of donald trump has since lost the former president s endorsement for his re-election bid.
The january 6th committee has sent letters to three more republican congressman, asking for their cooperation, in its investigation. the committee wants to hear from congressman andy bigs, brooks and ronny jackson. in the letter to congressman big, the select committee states they want to discuss his participation in planning certain speaks surrounding the 6th. that includes efforts to get then vice president mike pence to reject the electoral votes from certain states, efforts to bring protesters to the capitol, efforts to persuade state officials to overturn the election, and efforts to seek presidential pardons for those caught up in the scandal. the committee also wants to speak with congressman mill brooks who say trump asked him to rescind the 202 election as a results. this is the conversation that vaun hilliard had with congressman brooks back in march. did he directly tell you to
Brooks have been working for months to prove who is the truest trump die hard. why? although the president s approval rating across the country is at an all-time low, in alabama, the president is at a mere 90%. this support is big. the other endorsements from mitch mcconnell, hundreds of thousands of dollars of ads on his behalf that could hurt him. there was a failure to pass repeal obamacare. that offended voters in this state. second, the president has been attacking mitch mcconnell for several weeks, so that could hurt him as well. also, why does mitch mcconnell support luther strange? because moore and brooks have been saying this. i believe the people of alabama don t like being told who to consider. i believe that s going to backfire against mitch mcconnell s boy.
Alabama voters hit the polls for a special primary election to fill the senate seat once held by attorney general jeff sessions. this is a heated, fascinating race. three republican candidates leading here. two of them, the top two, likely head to a run off. of course, alabama is a state that president trump holds near and dear. cnn s victor blackwell joins us live from alabama where the voting is on. victor? reporter: so, john, this race could hang on two big endorsements, one from the president of the united states and the other groups associated with mitch mcconnell. luther has both of them. let s talk about the president s endorsement. a robo call went out overnight and tweets of support thachlt is a boom. he and his other front-runners in the race, congressman mill
60%. john? judge moore, remind viewers, he has a rich history and has been in the national spotlight for 15 years. reporter: absolutely. removed from the bench twice. first, when he was a state supreme court judge about 14 years ago, when he refused to remove a monument of the ten commandments on state property and last year when he enforced the ban on same-sex marriage after it was overturned. he gets an advantage while brooks loses points. he s saying he is the truest trump die hard. in the primary, he supported another candidate and the interviews where he was attacking donald trump in the primary have been playing like a loop on television. then there s senator strange who has the quitter money from washington. really, really juicy