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we begin with the fallout from the historic supreme court ruling. the conservative majority overturned roe v. wade and ended the constitutional right to an abortion. in a narrow vote, this decision reverses nearly 50 years of court precedent. the reaction was swift and emotional. everything from victory celebrations to outrage outside of the nations highest court. writing for the majority, justice samuel alito argued quote, roe was egregiously wrong from the start, its reasoning was ex...

he left town in disgrace following the capitol riot and his election loss. he will be speaking to a group of conservatives and were told that he plans to focus his speech on law and order. >> trump returns to washington amid a widening probe by the justice department into the capitol insurrection that now includes testimony from high ranking officials in his administration. mark short, the former chief of staff to vice president mike pence says that he testified under subpoena before a...

>> jake, that call that was on full display today during this hearing was, of course, the hour-long phone call that then-president trump had in january with these election officials in the state of georgia. mainly the secretary of state, brad raffensperger, who you heard from today. and im told that despite what you saw today, which was the committee playing clips of that call with claims from trump saying thousands of ballots had been shredded or thousands of dead people had voted, an...

>> plus, wnba star brittney griner is set to take the stand in russia, while the family of another american also held by the kremlin, also on drug charges, calls for more attention to his case. >> welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and merrick garland saying moments ago that the justice department will not hesitate to hold donald trump accountable for the events around january 6th even if trump is the republican nominee for president. if thats ...

>> that was mr. giuliani. he said, we have lots of theories. we just dont have the evidence. and i dont know if that was a gaffe or maybe he didnt think through what he said. i said, what would you have me do? and he said, just do it and let the court sort it out. >> but rusty bowers, the arizona speaker of the house and other election officials were not just facing pressure from the trump team. many also endured harassment and in some cases actual violence from people in their states ...

golos a lifestyle change and you make the change and it stays off. (soft music) its the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. im alisyn camerota. >> im victor blackwell. a just released letter from the national archives reveals more than 700 pages of classified documents were retrieved from former president trumps home in january. and that collection set off the chain of events that led to the fbis search of mar-a-lago this month. this letter, first disclosed on a web site of a trump ally...

they thought releasing it helped their case? >> also, urgent warning, the u.s. urging americans to leave ukraine immediately. the warnings of a possible russian attack as ukraine prepared to mark its day of independence. >> plus, explosive whistleblower claims in a cnn exclusive. the man who was head of twitter security says your data on the site is not safe and security problems at twitter are so grave, theyre even a risk to national security. >> welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper....

knew to be armed to the seat of that democracy then agreed allegedly with member of the mob who were crying out that his vice president mike pence should be hanged. >> from the beginning to end today what former white house staffer cassidy hitchenson testified she heard and saw. as never been said publicly before. and some of it has never been considered imaginable before in a president of the united states. she testified in person and previously on tape the crowds were gathering for t...

>> explosive testimony today about what trump and those closest to him new heading into the insurrection. in a to the former white house chief of staff mark meadows publicly testifying trump was told his supporters were armed but said they are not hurt t here to hurt me. ryan nobles has more now. >> from the moment she was sworn in, cassidy hutchison, former aide to trump white house chief of staff mark meadows made it clear she had much to share. >> that was the first moment that i r...

grabbing a seekcret service agency. >> how ado you adescribe that the leader of the greatest democracy on earth sent a mob to members who were crying out that his vice president, mike pence, should be hanged. >> from the beginning to end today, what former white house staffer testified she saw and heard to chief of meadows has never been said publicly before and probably never been considered imaginable before in the president of the united states. hutchinson testified in person and pr...