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former president donald trump was at the center of an attempted coup. plus, the president of uk ukraine pleads for a modern defense system as russia pummels the country. we are live with more. it is being called an important step in the right direction. a bipartisan group of u.s. senators say they have reached an agreement, in principle, on gun safety legislation. the deal includes more funding for things like mental health and school safety resources. a so-called red flag provision ...

and, russia makes a push to take a key ukrainian city. we are allies in kyiv with details. their first hearing was a smash hit, of sorts, which drew some 20 million viewers. the genuine sixth committee is about to reconvene in front of tv cameras once again, just hours from now. the focus will be on what former president trump knew about the election results, and when he knew it, even as he kept pushing the big lie that he was the victim of massive voter fraud. here is the preview no...

yet. >> russia has its own version of mcdonalds, it comes under a different name here. >> food and politics have nothing in common. like come on, man, keep things simple. >> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with isa soares. welcome to the show. it is monday, june 13th, just after 4:00 a.m. on capitol hill where more bombshell testimony could be on tap today. the january 6 committee set to reconvene before the tv cameras. over the weekend, two members of the panel offered a pr...

stepians recorded deposition to try to establish key facts about todays theme, the big lie, that donald trump knew he lost election, but continued anyway to rally his supporters around the false claim that he had won. >> were also moments away from the supreme court releasing new decisions possibly on the key mississippi abortion case. well bring you any of the big cases as we learn about them. lets start with todays hearing because this missing stepian throws a wrench into the committ...

here he is unsparing in his rejection of trump and giulianis election fraud delusions. >> i told them that the stuff that his people were shoveling out to the public was bull [ bleep ]. that the claims of fraud were bull [ bleep ], and you know, made a statement about that, but i reiterated that they wasted a whole month on these claims on the dominion voting machines and they were idiotic claims. i specifically raised a dominion voting machines which i found to be among the most distu...

Vote. he meant people on native american reservations. he said, theres lots of fraud going on here. flat out that much of the information hes getting is false and/or just not supported by the evidence. >> because there was no fraud. todays hearing also included live testimony from officials in the states who found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the states that trump had on those long, long lists. their findings put their jobs and even their lives at risk. al schmidt, a former philadelp...

Accomplish the breach of the capitol. not because these tens of thousands of people knew they were part of a larger scheme necessarily, but rather that the extremist groups were intent on violence, needed that crowd leverage to get inside the doors and defeat the capitol police. and weve seen talk, weeks before january 6th, about how to breach the capitol police barrier. they were all part of this. were seeing the president portrayed as a radicalizer in chief. i think well continue to see that t...

You are the secretary of state. why cant some members of your party get that right? >> well, weve gotten the message out. we have checked every single piece of disinformation, misinformation. at the end of the day there was never enough to overturn the results of the election. in michigan, the state senator, republican, put out a committee report. there was three republicans, one democrat and talking about the michigan results. i know arizona is right now under review. but at the end of the day,...

Surprised. but i served in the house that bj pack. the man has integrity. hes a very sharp lawyer. and he was looking, and he didnt see any fraud there. nothing that would ever overturn the election. hes a person of integrity, and he should have been believed. >> and you faced similar pressure from then president trump in a january 2nd phone call that we have all heard. the former president referred to bj as a never trumper during that portion of the call. lets play that moment for our viewers b...

Richard plume smblumenthal was room for the closed door testimony. >> my impression was that bj pack was telling the truth, he was forthcoming and he appeared voluntarily. and, second, my strong feeling was as well that he believed in the rule of law and he stood up for it. >> manu raju has more on the investigation from capitol hill. >> reporter: the former top prosecutor of u.s. attorney in georgia testified for roughly 3 1/2 hours yesterday before the senate judiciary committee answering ques...