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election. once again in the spotlight, no one other than wisconsins senator ron johnson. after the committee revealed on tuesday that one of his top staffers messaged an aide to vice president mike pence about johnson passing fake slates of trump electors for wisconsin and michigan to vice president mike pence by hand on january 6th. a pence aide promptly shut it down texting the johnson staffer this, quote. do not give that to him, end quote, but that attempted handoff still begs many...

these witnesses begin talking. >> goodness. an 11-year-old girl. as a small circle of senate negotiators, democrats and republicans continue to work on the possibility of gun legislation. cnn has learned that a larger group in the senate are expected to meet in the next hour to discuss an emerging proposed package, following an emotional plea by actor and uvalde texas native matthew mcconaughey from the white house podium yesterday. >> can both sides rise above? can both sides see be...

i need you. i need you to get vaccinated when its your turn and when you can find an opportunity. and to help your family, your friends, your neighbors gets vaccinated as well. heres the point. if we do all this, if we do our part, if we do this together, by july the 4th, theres a good chance you, your family and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or neighborhood and have a cookout and barbecue and celebrate independence day. that doesnt mean large events with lots o...

>> okay, how do they do that? you have a political issue here, the politics dont appear to be changing. theres a significant portion of the population who will not be watching, and casting this at least in primetime, but on the legal front here, and on the possibility of presenting evidence that might lead the justice department to prosecute, what do you need to see? >> a few things here. the goal of the committees investigation is not necessarily to produce evidence to prosecute people. the goa...

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Separatist area. without presenting evidence, something he has said before, the word genocide gets bandied around by russian politicians perhaps a lot more liberally than the context that we would normally use it in. but again, that helps create a narrative for putin at some point to say, okay, i have got to go in and protect the russian people in the east of ukraine. hes handed out 600,000 passports to them, by the way. so you can see all these different potential pretexts and quasi-legal ways ...

You can see hes working an angle with the timeframe in mind. so by taking the vote today, theres a track opened up for him because that vote goes to his table. it will be up to him to sign off on it or not over a period of time. hell sort of play it out. if he doesnt get what he wants perhaps through talks that are not forthcoming so far, then he can go that route. hes also saying today, accusing the ukrainian authorities of genocide committed against russian speakers in the eastern area of ukra...

Officials are feeling as if theyre providing him advice hes -- theyre providing intelligence hes not listening to and his staff walked in with pages and pages of how to deal with putin and he threw all of that out as well. so in that debate you were having earlier with general clapper about whether or not people should resign, the main reason they may resign is theyre probably feeling theyre completely ineffective. >> yeah, in fact, thats what he said. how can you not feel irrelevant today regar...