collins in washington. reporter: good morning, christine. we are now learning that former president trump and his legal team are considering releasing the surveillance footage from those several hours when fbi agents were at mar-a-lago conducting that search of course of his property looking for classified information that they believe he took with him from his time in the white house to when he went to mar-a-lago as he left the day he was inaugurated. there were major questions of course this entire justice department investigation over how this information was handled and what exactly was taken down there and we re now told that despite that day when fbi agents showed up and they asked the trump team on the ground to turn off the surveillance cameras, they did not do so and they are now in control of several hours of footage of them actually being there conducting this search. and we re told that they are now considering releasing it, though there are some inside the form
primary landslide in wyoming, but now the big question, will she challenge donald trump for the republican presidential nomination in 2024. and parents, you are feeling the pain on this one, how much more school supplies cost this year. cnn is adding up the shopping list. welcome to the lead. we start with the politics lead. rudy giuliani just wrapped up his testimony after spending roughly six hours under oath in front of a grand jury. giuliani s lawyer warned that his client might not be responsive to the questions that he was asked saying, quote, if they want to play hard ball, we know how to play hard ball. unquote. we do know other witnesses who have appeared have been asked about giuliani s meetings with georgia lawmakers. and atlanta prosecutors have warned giuliani he is a target of their criminal investigation into donald trump s attempts to overturn the 2020 election in that state. also today, former vice president mike pence made a stop in the first of a nation
i m erin burnett. outfront tonight caught in a lie. new video from the january 6th select committee, sworn testimony from trump s acting defense secretary chris miller contradicts a statement from president trump. he said he personally asked for 20,000 national guard troops to be at the ready ahead of january 6th. this is what the defense secretary told the committee exactly happened. to be crystal clear there was no direct order from president trump to put 20,000 troops on the ready for january 6th, correct? you re correct. there was no order from the president. that shutting down a statement from trump who on june 9th said the unselect committee learned that i as president offered up to 20,000 national guard troops be deployed in d.c. because it was felt the crowd was going to be very large. well, you heard the secretary of defense say he did no such thing. whether 10 or 20,000, he never ordered any. this blatant lie exposed as we learn more from attorney general me
presidential election. and that is terrifying. damaging testimony against former president donald trump as officials inside the justice department detail how he tried to weaponize the department to steal the election. plus positive news for ukraine as the european council finally says okay to them becoming an official to join the eu. we re live this hour in brussels. and growing doubt over boris johnson s future as his party loses two high elections. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show, everyone. it is friday, june 24th. 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington. the january 6 committee has held its last public hearing before the july 4th holiday break and there were plenty of fireworks. top officials in donald trump s justice department testified the former president was relentless in pushing election conspiracies and wanted them to overturn the 2020 vote. the witnesses said every time there were bogus fraud claims,
campaign, biden called them a pariah state. today he said a meeting is in the u.s. interest to help normalize gas prices. chief white house correspondent katilan collins is in saudi arabia following president biden. do we know if the president has raised the murder of khashoggi to the prince? we don t know and don t have a guarantee if we are going to find out because when white house officials were pressed on this earlier given they had not given a clear direct answer on whether he was going to definitely bring it up. they said it s up to whether or not president biden wants to tell reporters that afterward because they want to keep some of this conversation private. they just took reporters in briefly at the top of that meeting. so it will really be up to president biden whether or not we find out if he actually brought that up with the saudi crown prince. of course, we know a reporter did bring it up when they were taken into the room just briefly. this is how mbs respon