the january 6th hearing today. our continuing coverage along with our panel of parts, who i m going bring in in a moment. but what s going on today is another set of break-throughs in this set of hearings, include people naming names. we re learning which specific republican lawmakers were literally asking for last-minute pardons for their own conduct. the focus today is how the committee laid out this new evidence of donald trump s efforts to get people installed and promoted within the department of justice to carry out a coup. three doj officials testifying about what they did, including a tense oval office meeting with resignations with that coup plot moved forward. this was happening in the hairy days before january 6th and drew on testimony both live and in these video taped depositions like you see here. jeffrey clark, more on his liam problems in a moment, was the one that was going to be bodying up to take over the justice department for the explicit purpose of layin
Eastern with live coverage from tel aviv. Until then aaonce again aa thanks for watching. Erin burnett, our front starts right now. [music] upfront next. Live from israel. The Breaking News is dramatic to me. Ramping Up Bombardment of gaza. One of the worlds top reporters in israel telling cnn thousands of soldiers are entering gaza in just the last few hours from israel. This is a new phase. What does it mean for the 200 Hostages Inside Gaza Tonight . And how will hamas retaliate . Plus the United States on tyler at this hour telling all americans to get out of lebanon as the pentagon announces that u. S. Troops in the region have been attacked 20 times just a few days. An hour of the breaking story this hour. The massive manhunt for their respective government who killed 18 innocent people in maine aathat search expanding to me as we are learning troubling new details about when investigators believe robert carr approached his gun. Lets go out front. Good evening and welcome to a Spe
Well look at some president ial errors. Also, unreal and overoptimistic. For the nhs and Welfare State if britain leaves the eu without a trade deal. Thats the opinion of the former Prime Minister sirjohn major. And the greek economic crisis it goes from bad to worse, well speak to the former greek Finance Minister yanis va roufakis. Im katty kay in washington christian frasers in london. Big increases in Defence Spending offset by cuts to domestic agencies and the State Department thats what President Trump wants from his first budget. Hes promised one of the greatest military build ups in american history, and briefings by the white house suggest the increase could be more than 9 . Also today, the defence Secretaryjim Mattis is due to deliver his plan for defeating the self styled Islamic State group. This is what donald trump had to say earlier about the military. We must ensure that our courageous servicemen and women have the tools they need to deter war, and when called upon to f
democratic senators, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren want to sue the oil companies, thanks to the illegal lies, these costs and the cost of repairing our environment and transitioning away from fossil fuels must not fall on american taxpayers. instead they must be borne by the parties responsible for driving climate change and lying about the negative impacts of their products, the polluters must pay. thoughts on that. it s a perfect misdirect from the failures of their own policy and they want somebody to pay for the failures that they have created. you know, right across america today there s 20 different lawsuits against big oil companies, cities, states and municipalities and they cannot even go to court because they are trying to piece together this huge grand conspiracy that really doesn t add up. and i would argue, what about the green energy lobby, right? haven t they been hyping climate
times. that s the only difference. people who followed can remember mr. barr pushed it in different ways. i never reported i saw him pass a criminal line, but i reported he used his power to be misleading to misdirect, to cherry pick findings, which is not ideal for the justice department. but the difference would be timing. clark came in later to the attention of trump, which i mean figure out what he could do. there s a different world, to your point, mara, where clark was the attorney general and the letter did come out. and then just under half the country or so goes, what do you mean? this is the doj. everybody says follow the science, follow the law, follow the doj. this is what the doj says. would that have been an even larger problem on the 6th and beyond, a violent problem across the nation? speaking of violence for a moment, another takeaway here is the extent to which the violence we saw on january 6th and i don t believe this to be the