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insurrection. ♪ ♪ ♪ the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair has authorized to declare the committee in races at any point. pursuant to house deposition authority deposition -- the chair announces the committees approval to announce the -- good afternoon. in our previous hearings, the select committee showed that then president trump applied pressure at every level of government. of loca...

and the supreme court on guns and with the supreme court going one way and congress going the other and we will tell you what it means for gun safety in america. and breaking news overnight from ukraine, after weeks of fighting, the ukraine officials say the forces have to withdraw from a key battleground in the east. well have the latest. all right. good morning. and welcome to "way too early." on this friday, june 24th. im sam, in for jonathan lemire. hearing number five into the...

of big news, joe, on capitol hill. >> what a significant day. and i will tell you, i was away from the tv for a good part of the day, and started getting breaking news alerts about the hearings, started following some -- i had to come back, rewatch the entire hearing all over again. it really, yesterday, about as compelling of any hearing weve seen on capitol hill since the days of watergate. i was young when the watergate hearings were on. i was upset because we had only had four chan...

>> on the one hand i wasnt going to accepting fired by my subordinate, so i wanted to talk to the president directly. with regard to the reason for that is i wanted to try to convince the president not to go down the wrong path that mr. clark seem to be advocating. it wasnt about me. there was only 17 days left in the administration at that point. i wouldve been perfectly content to have either of the gentleman i left -- if anybody wanted to do that. but i did not want for the department of just...

Meeting came about. >> did he tell you that the president had offered him the job of acting attorney general? >> that was a day later. on the 2nd he said that the president had asked him to let him know if hed be willing to take it. subsequently he told me, on sun the 3rd, he told me that the time line had moved up and that the president had offered him the job and that he was accepting it. >> what was your reaction to that? >> well, you know, on the one hand i wasnt going to accept being fired ...

Honored his own representations of what he would do. he raised, again, that he thought that letter should go out and we were not receptive to that. >> did he tell you that the president had offered him the job of acting attorney general? ed. >> that was a day later. on the 2nd, he said the president asked him to let him know if he would be willing to take it. subsequently he told me on sunday, the 3rd, he told me that the timeline had moved up and that the president had offered him the job and h...