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good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it is friday, june 24th. i m john berman with brianna keilar. just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and republican congressmen. a sentence that rang across the halls of the capitol and this morning might very well be ringing into the courtroom. after a day of sworn testimony about how former president trump tried to weaponize the justice department to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, even some former trump administration officials and allies are acknowledging to cnn that the revelations were damaging. the most damaging yet. even bleak. so why, why so damaging? and what now? that is the focus this morning. testimony about a relentless almost daily effort to push officials to say things that were not true and do things that arguably were not legal. a scheme that seemed minutes from success to install a man named jeffrey clark, an environmental lawyer, an election li ....
Prosecute and jail them after president joe biden assumed office. committee chairman benny thompson says the committee has proof. the only reason i know to ask for a pardon is because you think you ve committed a crime. all right. sara murray, stick around. with me now laura jarrett early start anchor who covered the justice department for years and ryan goodman professor at nyu school of law and former special counsel to the general counsel of the department of defense. lawyer ration that was a great overview of the totality of what we saw yesterday, the enormity in some ways of what we saw yesterday and after it was done trump administration officials and allies told our kaitlan collins they thought it was the most damaging hearing yet, even pl bleak. why? because you had three trump appointees, not democrats, lifelong republicans, going on the record saying that the former president of the united states instructed them to tell a ....
Morning from the fbi about a shift among supporters of qanon. what was once just a fringe far right conspiracy that the former president is how a knock hero in a battle against a pedophiles has now become a collective delusion seeping into the right wing mainstream. now the fbi is concerned the recent evolution of the movement will lead to more violence. cnn s whitney wild has more. reporter: christine, lawyer ration the fbi has warned lawmakers that online qanon conspiracy theorists may carry out more acts of violence as they move from serving as, quote, digital soldiers to taking action in the real world. this after becoming emboldened by the january 6th u.s. capitol attack. the shift is fueled by a belief among some of the conspiracy s more militant followers that they can, quote no longer trust the plan set forth by the midwest reese standard bearer known simply as q. that s according to that new report. ....
An already severe drought out west work thing after another dry week with temperatures well above average. four states now entirely under drought conditions, california, oregon, utah, nevada, the hoover dam reservoir is at a record low level. the situation is expected to get worse over the next week with no rain in the areas that desperately need t now a reservoir shut down is pitting neighbor against neighbor in a water war. lucy kafanov has more from the drought-stricken california/oregon border. reporter: christine, lawyer ration we are at the actually lake national wild lake refuge, right here i m supposed to be under four feet of water there is not a drop in sight. this is indicative of the water crisis that s gripping the west. there is an unprecedented drought affecting western states but here on the california/oregon border locals say the crisis is largely man made. at issue is thf reclamations decision to cut off ....
Help, including uganda. for the second straight week the country is reporting a triple digit spike in infections. larry madowo has the latest from uganda. we know that hospitals are struggling with capacity, the government insists that this crisis was avoidable. i know you ve been doing a lot of reporting on this. what are you finding? reporter: lawyer ration we re finding that the second wave of the covid-19 crisis in uganda is so bad that the country has turned its main national stadium into a covid hospital where they usually play football games, under the stadium, they have turned that into 100 ward capacity for covid patients and that might increase the ministry of health telling us they are ready to add up to 1,000 beds if it gets to it. we were there and we saw a body being carted out. even though the government of uganda tells us this is supposed to be for mild to moderate cases people there are dying and it ....