americans believe donald trump should face criminal charges for his part in the capitol riot. on tuesday the house select committee investigating the capitol insurrection will begin its third week of hearings. this time the panel plans to focus on former president trump s efforts to pressure state officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election. georgia elections officials are expected to testify at tuesday s hearing along with arizona house speaker rusty bowers. our justice and crime reporter is joining us. what can we expect from tuesday s hearings? reporter: we re going to see another aspect of donald trump trying to manipulate the laws to take the election in 2020. this tuesday the public hearing before the house select committee is going to focus on the states, specifically battle ground states like arizona and georgia where trump and the lawyers were trying to get people to change the outcome of the votes in the states. those were states that trump lost. so we kn
we have a stronger and better position to tackle inflation than almost any other country around the world. what juneteenth does it channels a way for america to talk about slavery and to talk about it without and tim dags and anguish to honor slaves who have never been honored. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. happy father s day to all the dads out there. and we begin tonight with new cnn reporting. u.s. intel is warning of another potential russian plot to interfere with the 2022 midterms. homeland and national security officials say they are worried kremlin meddling like hacking into smaller and more local election authorities in this country and creating disinformation campaigns could have a significant impact on the november elections. so this is not new, isaac, the idea of meddling in the elections. we know similar campaigns were used during the 2016 election and after that as well. what has changed with the threats since then?
Hold up. and this is not unique to donald trump and there are 5000 or 6000 corporations. this congress also needs to look at itself and why all this fill agree loads our tax code which, in the official government version, is close to 4000 pages long, when it does not need to be more than a couple hundred pages long. david cay johnston, who got a christmas present he has always want to, donald trump s tax returns, coming this week. thank you very much for joining us tonight, david cay johnston. really appreciate it thank you, lawrence. thank you. and coming up now, we are hours away from the january 6th committee making its evidence and testimony public tomorrow after voting for criminal referrals of donald trump to the justice department. and there is new reporting about the committees
Looking at, lawrence, i think you asked our friend ben rhodes a question that s very perceptive. you said on january 6th, trump is as still to this day never explaining what he has done for that 187 minutes. i think jack smith is going to start to realize that is trump s mo in general, this modus operandi. because it is not just january 6th, it is also the explanation of why he had all of those stolen documents. at mar-a-lago. he s never explained that. it s been like 18 or 19 weeks i have lost count since his house was was raided. there s no explanation. all trump does s attack, attack, attack, crybaby says that it is unfair, this and that. but he is never actually explained what he was doing on january 6th, or with all of these very sensitive national security documents, having one prosecutor, jack smith, look at all of this will start to see these parallels and patterns emerge. neal katyal and ben rhodes, thank you both very much for joining us. thank you. and a special last w
Violations, but possible criminal violations as well. he is exactly the kind of person a prosecutor would try to flip. so ben rhodes, the january 6th committee finishes as public presentations yesterday. about donald trump, and donald trump s reaction was to make some posts on his, you know, his social media site. criticizing the committee. what he did not do is explain what he was doing during the 187 minutes when he was accused of doing absolutely nothing while the capitol was under attack. he did not release a phone log of him calling the secretary of defense, calling the attorney general, calling the head of the fbi, or calling anyone. so, in fact, he has never offered one word of defense about what he is accused of doing, and not doing leading up to, and on january 6th.