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statements or about holding a press conference. the justice department declined all of those requests that i was just referencing because we did not think that they were appropriate based on the facts and the law. >> repeated attempts to over turn the election. much of yesterday hearing focused on jeffrey clark who played a central role in pushing trump's false election frauds and who trump wanted to install as the acting attorney general. just hours before yesterday's hearing, federal agents raided clark's home. we'll have much more on what led them to do that. >> our panel of exper...

two hours of explosive testimony about donald trump's actions and state of mind on january 6th are raising some new legal questions. former white house aide cassidy hutchinson revealed that white house lawyer pat cipollone was worried that he along with trump's entire team would face multiple criminal charges if the former president joined the rioters at the capitol. now, republican congresswoman liz cheney is now ramping up the pressure on cipollone to testify. >> hutchinson also said the president knew his supporters were armed and sent him to the capitol anyway. >> i was in the vi...

hot texas sun. and now word of children among the victims. plus, shocking new video of a powerful blast in the war that russia started, as the u.s. and allies rush to prevent any chance of a similar fate in two other countries. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and the paulout from the damning, stunning january 6th hearing yesterday. it is becoming more and more clear just how distressed trump and his allies seem to be in the wake of the testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. based on how relentlessly they're attacki...

Constitutional precedent before. what are people hoping to learn in the second kick of the election losing newell mule, and quote. now, even if the republican ranks could muster enough votes to push through this change, camp who is now in his second term is not likely to rally behind the effort. the georgia governor and trump parted ways in 2020 after he rejected trump's claims of election fraud in the state, not to mention trump's recent attempt to and seek kemp from office last year. attempt to a nd seek kemp fro office last yeshould trump findf convicted on the array of 13 state felony char...

Over turn the election and yesterday you had atrying to us department to over turn the election. it's the cumulative effect that is most meaningful to me. that is a moral and historical matter. whether it's true that any crimes were committed by donald trump or anyone else, i'm not prepared to say at this point. certainly yesterday was something that justified a criminal investigation. there's no doubt that what was going on there. as the people involved knew. that's another thing that's interesting about these pardon requests is that even at the time all these people knew, something bad was g...