election. once again in the spotlight, no one other than wisconsin s senator ron johnson. after the committee revealed on tuesday that one of his top staffers messaged an aide to vice president mike pence about johnson passing fake slates of trump electors for wisconsin and michigan to vice president mike pence by hand on january 6th. a pence aide promptly shut it down texting the johnson staffer this, quote. do not give that to him, end quote, but that attempted handoff still begs many questions like what did ron johnson know about the scheme to set up false electors which is under criminal investigation by the justice department. here s johnson on capitol hill dodging questions from reporters. how much did you know about what your chief of staff was doing with the alternate slates of electors? no, you re not. i can see your phone. i can see your screen. did you know what your chief of staff was doing? does your chief of staff still work for you, sir? can you expla
state of the union jostar now. have a great day. at war. a note of caution from the u.s. far too many palestinians have been killed. as israeli forces pound gaza. we re increasing pressure on hamas every hour, every day. what s his war plan? israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu joins me live for his first cnn interview since hamas terror attack inside israel. then u.s. national security adviser jake sullivan is here. plugs, the right to vote. voters send republicans another message on abortion rights. how will the gop adapt? we have to address this issue. i ll ask the chairwoman of the republican party ronna mcdaniel ahead. it s complicated. a new democratic headache. i will not be running for re-election. but will he run for president? what does an already crowded third party lane mean for a biden re-election. david ags elrod and former republican governor larry hogan join me ahead. hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union i
Protesters are taking action against the prosecutes crackdown. Activists say the recent wave of arrests is striking fear into families who pose no criminal threat. Ice Officials Say that the arrests were in fact routine. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez joins me from atlanta. Gabe . Hi, there, amon. There were several arrests in atlanta alone. Ice Officials Say these were routine Law Enforcement operations, but immigration advocates say this is what they have feared. On the same week that protests ecorrupted in arizona as a mother convicted of using a false Social Security number was deported. Families of undocumented immigrants say they are now living in fear from california with donald trump being president , i see no hope for us. To north carolina. This week immigration and Custom Enforcement raids in at least six states. Ice says the raids were routine, no differentiate than those in the last administration. This is where the raid happened. This is where the rai she says theres a sense of panic
following tomorrow s hearings, the next hearings will be pushed into july to account for the additional work the committee now has to do because of the new information and evidence it is receiving. let s bring in congressman pete aguilar of krochlt, a member of the house committee of january 6th, notably led the oefd and witnesses. i wonder if you the put any more specificity around the quantity and kind of evidence you re getting. is it witnesses? is it things like the documentary tapes from the documentarian who turned things over to you? can you tell us about the kind of things you re in receipt of? i m not going to talk about the types of evidence that we have. the public reporting, the documentarian came forward and indicated he was cooperating and turning material over to the january 6th committee. that is one type of new information that we received,
he s been in power now since 2011, december. but he has yet to fully consolidate krochlt he s really kauktd political struggle with the military. so i think that he s allowed a lot of tests last year of ballistic missiles largely because he needs to placate the senior officers as he takes away some of their power and prestige. so there is a very interesting interaction between the kim family and the flag officers. some criticism that a lot of this when it comes to administration s focus has been wrongly placed on countries like iran in terms of what they are doing. the iranians say they are doing this for self-defense. help us understand the rational. do they want to just draw the