made its way to our doorstep right here in aalbuquerque, new mexico. fundamentally at the end of the day this was about a right-wing radical, an election denier who was arrested today, and someone who did the worst imaginable thing you can do when you have a political disagreement, which is turn that to violence. wow. saddest of all perhaps is that such incidents of dangerous domestic extremism are starting to feel routine in our country. amid a sharp rise to threats of public officials over the last few years, are any of us even surprised in what plays out almost every day. what did republicans expect or want when they spent the last few years talking like this. we re not allowed to punch back anymore. i love the old days. you know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? they d be carried out on a stretcher, folks. i m eric grietens, navy s.e.a.l. and today we re going rino hunting. now today we face the greats danger we have ever
side. the truth is what we as a country moving forward, will we continue to operate the truth? do we continue to be the place where the truth matters or will we fall to the lies where we succumb to the biggest lie of them all? you know the big lie i am talking about, that s the lie of the stolen election of the big fraud. it is not hyperbole to say the january 6th hearing that s hours away of what comes out of them will be an indication of whether we can keep our fragile democracy right now. it is hanging by a thread whether we can keep it or not. are you paying attention? you should. tomorrow we ll listen to testimonies, live, from three republicans who know exactly how far the former president was willing to go to overturn our free and fair election. 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. it is outrageous. this is not just about what happened more than a year ago. it is about what s happening
cnn tonight with don lemon starts right now. sarah sidner, thank you so much. i appreciate it. this is don lemon tonight. i can t tell you how important this is. so pay attention to me, please. this is something we can both side. the truth is what we as a country moving forward, will we continue to operate the truth? do we continue to be the place where the truth matters or will we fall to the lies where we succumb to the biggest lie of them all? you know the big lie i am talking about, that s the lie of the stolen election of the big fraud. it is not hyperbole to say the january 6th hearing that s hours away of what comes out of them will be an indication of whether we can keep our fragile democracy right now. it is hanging by a thread whether we can keep it or not. are you paying attention? you should. tomorrow we ll listen to testimonies, live, from three republicans who know exactly how far the former president was willing to go to overturn our free and fair elect
Hillary clinton emails. What mess. That statement one thing. The bigger might be all of a sudden he raised doubts about where he stands on Foreign Surveillance and then just as suddenly, he seemed to backtrack. Kaitlan collins at the white house this morning where it is a bit of a confusing morning, to say the least. Thats right, john. A lot of contradictions and cleanups going on this morning and its only 10 00 Alex Marquardt he 10 00 a. M. At th white house. The president came out with a bill less than 12 hours after the white house issued a statement going to a vote in the house today. It got started when the president tweeted 7 30 saying house votes on controversial fisa act. To so badly surveil and i because the Trump Campaign by the Previous Administration and others. Now that comes less than 12 hours after the press secretary Sarah Sanders issued a statement endorsing no changes to this amendment to this bill saying in a statement they urged the house to, quote, preserve the use
His deputy, Rod Rosenstein, who is of course overseeing the russian investigation. The post reports that according to people familiar with the exchange, quote, sessions made his position known in a phone call to White House Counsel Don Mcgahn last weekend as trumps fury at rosenstein peaked after the Deputy Attorney general approved that fbi raid april 9 on the president s personal attorney, Michael Cohen. In the phone call with mcgahn, sessions wanted details of a meeting trump and rosen style held at the white house on april 12 according to a person with knowledge of the call. Sessions expressed relief to learn that their meeting was largely cordial. Sessions said he would have to have had to consider leaving as the attorney general had trump ousted rosenstein this person said. Tonights story says the president has derisively nicknamed Jeff Sessions mr. Magoo and Rod Rosenstein mr. Peepers. And about sessions, the president has been famously willing to publicly thrash his attorney ge