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capital city of kyiv. good afternoon, everybody. im yasmin vossoughian in for hallie jackson. i want to get right to capitol hill with our reporters. and were joined by former alabama senator doug jones. so bring us up to date as to what we know as we learn about this emergency testimony well be hearing tomorrow. >> reporter: yasmin, its fair to say we have more questions than answers. in will be a hearing tomorrow afternoon at 1:00 p.m. which they will present evidence and witness tes...

committee is about to go public with has been gleaned by more than a thousand interviews and more than 125,000 documents thats according to "the washington post." it may very well represent the last and best chance to break the fever of trumpism and the hold that trump and the big lie have on millions of our fellow citizens. the nearly year and a half since the deadly insurrection, the gop has not just memory hold january 6th itself, but in many ways its come to embrace the insurrectio...

To hear when it comes to these public testimonies? >> reporter: it indicates something has changed for this committee since last week when the chairman indicated that the committee would postpone the remainder of its hearings until later in can july. that this is a departure from what he said last week. between then and now, it appears as doug jones indicated that something has come to their attention that they want to do this hearing tomorrow. as for the final hearings, we know there are at lea...

They can get some aid organizations in there, the red cross, doctors without borders, get some civilians out, that would be worth negotiating for, but again, his concern from the beginning has been, if hes negotiating with the russians and theyre not doing it in good faith, is he just giving them time to regroup militarily. its a very difficult line for him to walk, alex. >> cal perry live in lviv. thank you, cal, and please stay safe. joining our coverage now this hour is elise, contributing ed...

Clare is still here. betsy, i dont like to ask where the line is for any house democrat, but ill ask you -- it feels like it was an open secret for a while, among chris wallace who pushed kevin mccarthy, among liz cheney who dangled this information about kevin mccarthy needing to be a fact witness, now among people covering jim jordan who is sort of humbling about how many times and how he talked to donald trump. what is the operating thesis of what they are hiding specifically as it regards re...

Betsy, i dont like to ask where the line is for any house democrat, but i guess what ill ask you is, it feels like it was an open secret for a while among chris wallace, who pushed kevin mccarthy, among liz cheney, who dangled this information about kevin mccarthy needing to be a fact witness, now among people covering jim jordan, who sort of hummed about how many times and when he talked to donald trump. what is sort of the operating thesis on what theyre hiding, specifically, as it regards rec...

This is the understanding that the police have. the latest on the investigation that we heard earlier today, the pair remain in critical condition in the same hospital, just eight miles from here. they cannot say -- the british police and government cannot say at this time that the poisoning is from the same batch, which would mean the same precise chemical makeup, meaning they could say that this was some piece of contaminant left over from the attack in march thats been picked up over this pas...

They just cant believe it. so they leak it. and i think thats a lot of what you get in the press today. >> and, matthew, this of course adds to a paranoia which has been kind of an operating thesis in that west wing you cover. >> thats exactly right. we know the president sort of feels this paranoia about the deep state or other leakers. but to touch on what jeremy said earlier, it is sort of a paranoia of back-stabbing in the west wing that leads to so many of these leaks happening. donald trum...

Theyre seeing and what theyre hearing when they go into a meeting in the oval office, and they just cant believe it. so they leak it. and i think thats a lot of what you get in the press today. >> and, matthew, this of course adds to a paranoia which has been kind of an operating thesis in that west wing you cover. >> thats exactly right. we know the president sort of feels this paranoia about the deep state or other leakers. but to touch on what jeremy said earlier, it is sort of a paranoia of ...

Road in figuring out who leakers are in the news you read throughout the day? >> well, i think one of the more interesting developments of covering this administration, brian, is the way that the leaks arent always coming from inside the white house but from the peripheral agencies and entities, the intelligence agencies, the national security agencies, congress. there are plenty of people on a daily basis who have interaction with this administration and with this president who frankly are flab...