You also noted that Mr. Rosen said to Mr. Trump, quote, DOJ can't and won't snap its fingers

and change the outcome of the election. How did the president respond to that, sir?

He responded very quickly and said, essentially, that's not what I'm asking you do.

What I'm just asking you to do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me in the Republican Congress.

That's the key line from yesterday's hearing into the Capitol attack.

It's being called the quote, smoking gun by one top lawyer who says it speaks to Trump's criminal intent.

We'll have more on that and other key moments from the hearing.

Plus, big news on guns with the Supreme Court going one way and Congress going another.

We will discuss what these new moves mean for gun safety in America.

And breaking news overnight from Ukraine.

After weeks of fighting, a Ukrainian official says its forces will have to withdraw from a key battleground in the east. We'll have the

latest.

All right, good morning and welcome to way too early on this Friday, June 24th. I'm Sam Stein in for Jonathan Lemire.

Hearing number five into January 6th focused on Donald Trump's efforts to get the Justice Department

to legitimize his bogus claims of voter fraud. That includes his relentless pursuit of an attorney

general who would go along with his election conspiracies. The pressure top leaders

face when they refuse to do so, and how those leaders banded together and ultimately prevailed.

The committee also revealed the Republican lawmakers who sought pardons from Trump after the capital

attack for their roles in the election scheme. First, Trump's nonstop efforts to get the Department of Justice to sign off on the big lie.

Here's testimony from former acting attorney general, Jeff Rosen, and his deputy, Richard Donahue.

So between December 23rd and January 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day

with one or two exceptions like Christmas Day. So the common element of all of this was the

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