0 donald trump coming forward with information that is >> bill barr, republicans are giving damaging. >> it is not a partisan witch- hunt? >> i know t it is hard to believe. >> thank you. damning testimony today to talk about coming from the hearings that happened up on the hearing today. a lot to discus. we want to get straight to evan perez, senior justice correspondent. the big headline out of today's hearings, trump's allies, helping the former president overturn the election. tell us more about this and how our lawmakers are responding. >> what we are hearing, a blockbuster already before we got to this. six members of congress that were part of the group that objected to the certification of joe biden's victory who reached out in various places to the white house to ask for pardons, including gates, bigs, taylor-green, gohmert. perry, most of them downplayed there, some of them denied it ever happened gates, i got to tell you, one of the interesting one. he denied all wrongdoing, not charged. but, according to the testimony that we heard in the lawyering today, matt gaetz was asking for everything pardoned. prosecutors are still looking at him and deciding if he will face these larges. now, this could add complications to matt gaetz. a the this point, you know, again, these members of congress are saying there is nothing to see here. as you can tell from the testimony from people inside of the white house this actually happened. >> not all of them but several of them did. >> you mentioned mr. gaetz -- >> mr. biggs did, mr. gohmert talk about it but never asked me about one. more on an update if the president is going to pardon members of the congress. mr. perry asked for a pardon, too. i am sorry. >> today, we got a clear reminder it is still going on. federal agents searching former justice official jeffrey clark's home. what do we know? >> we know it is part of of the investigation they are doing into the effort to overturn the election. and clark, it appears, was, the search occurred at his home predawn hours, he was outside in his pajamas as the federal agents went in there, retrieved whatever evidence they were looking for according to one of his office. he was, they took his electrics. again, we don't know exactly what the agents took. but, we know that this is part of the brooder investigation into the effort to overturn the election. it wills us, look, for you to go search a former justice department official's house, you know, they have to believe that they just could not call him and ask for these things. they believe that perhaps there was going to be destruction of evidence. that is how we had the event that happened yesterday at jeffrey clark's house. >> take a step back. you have been reporting on all things january 6 from day 1. was today's hearing the most important and yet understanding how far trump would go to they in power? the relentless pressure campaign? willingness to undermind the rule of law? >> yes, to me it crystallized how close we came to just utter chaos in this country. look, january 6 was bad. but could you imagine if these three men who were testifying today, if they had folded. if the former president had managed to replace jeffrey rosen with jeff row jeffrey clark , if they just went along with the plan. it would of given them the ability dispense in their states. these are the states that the donald trump fairly lost. and, you know, again, we are talking about how close things were in those key days. end of december, 2020, beginning of january 2021. you know, to me, you know, having covered these people being in that building during that period it astonishes me reliving all of that today, don, to hear how close we came to losing democracy in this country. i think a lot of americans do not realize this. a lot of people moved on and it is like oh, forget about it, not that big of a deal or, you know, let's let it go. i think it is important for us to relive this simply because we need to learn from it and to make sure it does not happen again, don. >> it is important to get that information out there. thank you, evan, appreciate that. i am going to bring in congress adam schiff, a california democrat who is a member of the january 6th committee. i want to get to the content of today's hearing with you. first, we obtained a new clip. an outtake from the raw footage from the trump documentary, ivanka trump from middle 2020. >> i think that as the president has said every single vote needs to be counted and needs to be heard. he campaigned for the voiceless and i think a lot of americans feel very, very disenfranchised right now and really question the sanctity of our elections, that is not right, that is not acceptable. he has to take on this fight. look, you fight for what you love the most and he loves his country and he loves this country's people. he wants to make sure that their voice is heard. and not muted and will continue to fight until every legal remedy is exhausted and that is what he should do. >>ment documentary filmmaker that testified this morning told me it was a big focus of his questioning today. what does this raw footage reveal to you and what did the committee want to know about it from holder. >> it says to me, this is ivanka parroting her father. a lot of people are questioning the election, they are questioning it because you have been lying about it. she goes on to say, you know, he is fighting for what he loves the most. he was, which was donald trump. that is what he loves the most, not the country. as these top justice department people pointed out so graphically today what he was fighting for them to do was violate their oath of office, ignore the constitution and write this letter and talking about fraud and call the legislation back in session and have these letters sent out to other states as well. it took the threat of mass resignations, you know, 100 to 150 top lawyers around the country resigning to get the president to stop. and i think it showed us just how close we came to constitutional collapse. >> i want to compare that to what ivanka said what she told your committee under oath. here it is. >> i respect attorney general barr. so i accepted what he said, was saying. >> barr had given that assessment, she claims she believed on december 1st in 2020 but in middle december she was saying things appearing to be contradictory. >> i would need to see the full tape of the interview done by the british documentary filmmaker before i could really say but certainly on the basis of that excerpt she is saying one thing under oath and another for public consumption. sadly it is a trump family story of, you know, telling one thing publicly and another thing privately and here we get maybe the truth? under oath? but, very difficult to tell. >> does it matter that she told the truth under oath from a legal perspective? >> absolutely. there is no jeopardy to her in lying to british filmmaker if she was lying to the filmmaker, lying under oath exposes you to criminal penalties. there is a far stronger incentive to be truthful when you are testifying before congress. >> you can lie to the press people do it all of the time, sadly, you can not lie to congress and officials under oath. let's move on to the pardons that the committee says your colleagues asked for. gaetz, brooks, gohmert, perry. >> to think of how unprecedented it is. i have been in congress for 20 years and never seen anything like it. multiple members of congress seeking a pardon from the administration for their role in something. of course, here the role was in a lot to overturn the election. it shows guilty and fear of criminal liability. that is why you would seek a pardon. that is really just another shock to the system particularly when so many of them appeared to have denied it. >> there was a search yesterday at jeffrey clark's residence. does your committee have any information to aid the doa in their investigation? >> i am sure we have information that the department would be interested in. and, we are in dialogue how to share that information and what particular information they need. but they made an unprecedented request, just open your files to us. that is not what is done. i have been involved in several high profile congressional investigations that ran concurrently with doa and they never just said just give us files nor have we said it. we will make sure they get what they need. we want them to obviously be successful in holding people accountable and bringing them to justice. i think our goals are aligned in that we all want accountability. >> listen, people think that the justice department and the congress that you guys near cahoots but the justice department asked you to open up and give them everything you have and you have denied? >> well, we said look, we will work with you but you will have to be specific about what you need and give us a sense of why you need it. that is traditionally how this process has worked. and, and the justice department should be able to do that. i am confident we will work it out. it was breath taking to have that initial request just say give us everything. >> your next hearing has been pushed to july. your colleague says the committee has gotten a deluge of new evidence, can you characterize the information what does it pertain to? >> well, you know, the reality is we continue to get new information pretty much every day. sometimes every week. it really is aided in our investigation but presents a challenge. you start preparing for a hearing and then suddenly you get new additional information and you need to figure out how to make sure to incorporate the most important things. it is a nice problem to have. we have been very lucky to have lots of people cooperate like these three senior republican justice department officials and those that are not cooperating, they stand out for their unwillingness to do the patriotic thing that we see others doing. >> congressman, thank you for your time, i know you are busy. >> thank you. >> thank you. just moments ago the senate successfully passed a major bipartisan gun safety bill for the first time in decades. straight to cnn's correspondent, jessica, hello, thank you for joining, the senate voting on the gun safety bill tonight. it is a big deal, a deal like this has not gotten through. >> you can tell it was a big deal watching the senators. i was inside the chamber, there was a lot of hugging, fist pumping and high-fives. both between democrats and to the republican negotiators on this. stopping and talking. it was jubilent in there for people that supported it. the final vote, 65-33. that is pretty overwhelming bipartisan in this 50/50 senate to see the gun legislation go through. not something many had on their bingo card for this year, frankly, then uvalde happened and it changed everything. now we see this legislation that is going to do things like close the boyfriend loophole, expand background checks on younger gun buyers, really revolutionize mental health funding and school country and school safety funding things like that. it is an expansive bill in that way. it will now head to the house we are told tomorrow. house speaker nancy pelosi sending out a statement it will go to the rules committee first as it normally would and then vote on it in the house tomorrow and then head to president biden's desk for his signature. again, i really can not underscore enough how massive of a deal it is. you mentioned it. decades since either the house or the senate has been able to get through gun legislation that can go to the president's desk. to see it happen today was pretty monumental in the senate. also worth noting, don, that on this very same day, just across the street at the supreme court, we saw something swinging in the other direction when it comes to gun laws in the country. we saw the supreme court overturning the new york law that has to do with restrictions on care permits. two sides of the spectrum here in washington, d.c., far less than a mile from each other, just in each other's backyard. >> jessica dean, thank you very much. >> appreciate that. up next, a conspiracy theory, would you believe vote switching italian satellites? 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