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good morning. and welcome to "way too early." on this tuesday, june 21st, im jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. we are now hours away from the fourth public hearing by the january 6th committee. this afternoon, we will hear much more about this infamous phone call. >> all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. so what are we going to do here, folks? i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. giv...

for the juneteenth holiholiday, the biden administration and officials around it are not taking the weekend off. yesterday, i spoke with energy secretary jennifer granholm who projected optimism despite economic challenges. >> the president is really focused on preventing these inflationary increases to the extent he can, inflation is happening globally, recession is in the inevitable, the president really wants to have a steady and stable recovery. but, of course, one of the biggest p...

supposed to protect -- how can you -- if you know a vote is fraudulent, right, how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to congress? >> donald trump justifying the chants of his supporters calling for the death of mike pence. the january 6th committee holds its third public hearing today, focused on the pressure trump put on his vice president to overturn the election. we will tell you what to expect. plus, new reporting that ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thom...

least legitimate committee in american history. over the next hour, well drill into what happened january 6th. well look at the revelations that may come out tonight. well ask what effect the january 6th riot has had on american democracy, and the way it is seen around the world. with the context — attorney and former mayor of baltimore stephanie rawlings blake, ron christie, former senior adviser to president george w bush, and former federal prosecutor joe moreno. hello, welcome to...

younger than 21, but it would be a potentially significant new development. also, on that list, you can see school safety measures, and investments in mental health. the u.s. is on pace to see its worst year ever for mass shootings. there have been at least 247 mass shootings through june 5th of this year, thats according to the gun violence archive, including at least 13 since friday alone. also this week, the events surrounding the january 6th insurrection will take center stage. w...

Welcome back. what can we which part from the committee today on the fake elector scheme? >> well, the january 6th committee is going to go deep on these fake electors. you know, the one point i think i should mention right off the bat is that john eastman, trumps legal adviser, was saying to the president, the vice president, by january 3rd that he could just disregard bidens electors at the congressional certification and, therefore, or thereby, return trump to the presidency. eastman knew, by...

Eastman saying these arent legitimate, it is going to work to begin with, other lawyers may have told him that. that all goes to show that even though trump was full of knowledge, that all of this was baseless including the idea of using alternative slate of electors, he kept pushing forward. he kept telling people to pursue it, kept trying other things and that will help prove his intent. >> i want to ask about mike pence. we heard really compelling testimony live last week from his chief couns...

He was arguing that, you know, they might be more effective in terms of stirring up chaos in influening the justices and debate in that way. i think well find out much more. on the other side of this, i think what were going to hear from judge luttig today about john eastman, that is as equally problematic, is the idea of the election nullification theory. state legislatures could essentially pick an alternative slate of electors and choose who won the election, send that to congress. that is ac...

States. that is a level of political damage that the americans have suffered through for generations. so no, we arent talking about revolution or civil war, but we are talking about the kind of political damage to americas core institutions that will leave the country crippled in core ways for very long time. i country crippled in core ways for very long time-— country crippled in core ways for very long time. i want to store data exlore very long time. i want to store data exolore that — ve...

Took to make sure that the electors were not certified on that day. >> what do you think about that? why do you think the committee may be leading with this area? >> i think abby is right. we heard liz cheney say there was a conspiracy. i think the house members who were involved in the select committee believe theyre going to be able to show that, that starts with showing the people who rushed the capitol, who mobbed the building, some of whom were talking about hanging the vice president, that...