thank you for the opportunity to get after it. it's now time for the big show. don lemon tonight with its star. >> did you ever hear, i didn't get the last part of the show because did you ever hear back from chris stewart or his office? >> daniel dale was told by his office that he misspoke. >> he what? i thought pit was pretty clear but okay. do they actually think maybe they are used to going on platforms where they are not challenged and that people will just sort of buy whatever it is that they are saying an just move on as if it's gospel? >> yes, comma and he has an advantage. >> how so? >> his side doesn't care if he

lies or misspeaks or gets it wrong or fudges because he was just trying to win the fight. it doesn't matter because i'm worse. it doesn't matter because he's their guy. it doesn't matter because he's still in right because he's being victimized. look, representative maloney didn't like when i said this tonight, all due respect to her and the oversight committee putting out the e-mails about what trump is trying is huge. i say i think they are better than you at this. if they had been the the aggrieved on january 6th in a position the democrats are in, you and i would have never been able to move on from it. i probably would have been in washington, d.c. for three weeks covering it because it's all the republicans would have been doing and saying we must put down the civil war. it's all they would do. biden wouldn't be able to be nowhere else. >> you get no argument from me on that. imagine as we have said and many have said before if the tables had been turned on january 6th.

imagine if it was people of a darker hue, what would have happened. just imagine if it was supporters of joe biden or hillary clinton or, i mean, we would -- that's all we would be hear about from the right and especially from state run media. >> it's not even fair to make the color comparison because all the stakes fly up. we'll get your beat for vaping. you don't stop vaping right away and you talk tough to a cop, there's a too good an index of problems. let's leave color out because it's too obvious what happens then. politically, i just believe they play to win and it's like the old raiders. just win, baby. >> i don't disagree with you on that. let's say he misspoke. i don't know how you forget the only vote on the issue you took

that was covered by everybody. >> how long did the misspoke thing take to, i mean -- >> they never answered us. it's like wait a minute i was on with chris and i said something wrong, i better have my people call him and explain to him that's not what i meant. that would have taken all of five minutes. why don't you talk about this? you don't have toell the truth. >> we have to hold them accountable. >> that's the job. >> i have to get onto my job. >> someone who was there the last time a president was in helsinki is there now.

we're going to talk to her. >> that's very important. i thought you meant me. i wasn't there. >> yeah, i meant someone who is important. >> my mistake. >> yes. >> i misspoke. >> at least you corrected it. i'll see you, brother. >> good night, brother. this is don lemon tonight. a big news night. what about this? russia, if you're listening, remember that. russia is going to hear from a very different united states in just a few hours when that's when president biden will sit down for his summit in geneva with russian president vladmir putin and the united states goes from this, supposed leader of free world failing to stand up democracy denying russia's interference and the 2016 l election. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to see and said they think it's russia. it's not russia. i will say this.

i don't see any reason why it would be. >> trump answer was so disasterous, next day he tried to do damage control but the damage was already done. >> in a key sentence in my remarks, i said the word would instead of wouldn't. the sentence should have been, i don't see any reason why i wouldn't or why it wouldn't be russia. just to repeat it. i said the word would instead of wouldn't. the sentence should have been, i thought it would be maybe a little unclear on the transcript or unclear on the video. the sentence should have been i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. >> okay. tomorrow we're going from trump to this. >> we have to prove to the world and to our own people that democracy can still prevail against the challenges of our

time and deliver for the needs of our people. >> biden and putin have met before but this is the first time biden is sitting across from the russian leader with the power he holds as commander in chief of the united states. that president knows very well the president knows well who he is dealing with. >> i had met with him. he's bright. he's tough. i found he's, as they say when you used to play ball, worthy adversary. >> what about here at home where it becomes increasingly clear our adversaries come within. the calls are coming from inside the house and the house itself is under assault as we saw in deadly violence at the capital on january 6th. the fraughted in arizona and where today documents were

released that show just how hard the trump white house and the aids and rudy giuliani clown show pushed the doj to challenge and overturn the 2020 election results putting forward false, outlandish and flat out ridiculous allegations. they abuse their power the try to stay in power. if there's any doubt who is behind this, who was trying to steal the election, the subject line of the e-mails reads, look at your screen, from potus. trump's white house chief of staff mark meadows pushed the conspiracy theory hatched by an ally of rudy giuliani alleging that italy was using military technology and satellites to change votes in favor of joe biden. italian space laser, i guess. it's clear he knew it was gar garbage. he said i flatly refused.

i said i would not be giving any special treatment to rudy giuliani or any of his witnesses, putting the word witnesses in quotes. reaffirming he wouldn't talk to rudy giuliani and telling an aids the allegation is pure insanity. also in quotes. today cnn caught up with meadows and asked him for explanation. he declined to give one saying i'm not going to comment on anything that may or may not have happened. gas gaslighting. we have the documents. what is this we may or may not, it may or may not have happened. that's not all that we found out today about the attacks on democracy, about the calls from inside the house where at a hearing into the january 6th insurrection, we learned various law enforcement agencies including capitol police and the washington metropolitan police requested help from the d.c. national guard 12 times when the capitol was under violent attack. >> after a series of delay, the

national guard did not arrive until 5:20 p.m., more than four hours after the capitol perimeter was breached. this is a shocking failure. >> congresswoman pressing fbi director christopher wrey on behavior, including 50 tips about potential violence. >> the system was blinking red. the committee has obtained documents showing social media company par lour sent the fbi of planned violence in washington, d.c. on january 6th. parlor referred this content to the fbi for investigation over 50 times. >> i did not recall hearing about this particular e-mail, certainly not before january 6th. >> we need the find out lot more about the warnings and why they went unheeded.

we learned yesterday that qanon digital soldiers may become more violent. the warnings can't go unheeded. at another hearing some people resistant to having an honest conversation about racism in american history may have learned a little something about it today. republicans state lawmakers are moving to ban the teaching of critical race theory in schools, calling it anti-american. two gop congressmen criticizing navy highest ranking officer for recommending that sailors voluntarily read the book how to be an aenti-anti-racist. admiral pushing back hard. >> this is a bigger issue than the book. what this is really about is trying to paint the united states military, in this case, the united states navy as weak, as woke. we're not weak. >> admiral not stopping there. >> i do know this, our strength

is in our diversity and our sailors understand that. racism in the united states is a very complex issue. what we benefit from is an open discussion about those issues that we don't try to ignore it or rewrite it but we actually have a discussion about it. >> thank you, sir. you may have just taught them something today. current president of the united states preparing for his summit with russia's leader. any next guest was there the last time the united states president held a summit with the russian leader and it went so badly, she considered faking a medical incident. >> exactly the same feeling that debra birx had during the press conference while there was the suggestion of president trump about injecting bleach to counteract the coronavirus. it was one of those moments where it was mortifying and humiliating for the country.

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far. meeting with russian president vladmir putin. i want to bring in fiona hill who helped biden prep for the meeting. she testified in trump's first impeachment inquiry and work at the brookings institution. we're so grateful she's here with us. thank you for joining us. you helped the president prep for this face-to-face meeting with vladmir putin and you know putin well. does either side have an advantage here heading into this critical meeting? >> i think a lot of people are conceding some kind of advantage of vladmir putin because the meeting is happening. i think pre-judging this is unfair for our president. the united states president. one way or another biden has to meet with the major leader of countries that are most c

consequential to the united states at that moment. one way or another he's got the meet with him. i'm sure the white house is thinking why not now as you're saying at the end of what's otherwise a trip to europe to visit all of our allies. biden already met with leaders of the g7 other fellow democracies with the representatives european union. he had meetings in the uk and the queen and nato allallies. adding putin to the end of this made a lot of sense in terms of proximity. it's similar with passion of meeting we had in the past with soviet and russian leaders. i think the last time we had a presidential meeting was reagan which was the height of the cold war. we're in another confrontational meeting. the whole point is to try to see if we can take the temperature down on this highly contentious

relationship. geneva makes as much sense as anywhere else. >> biden called putin a killer and a thug. what's your assessment of putin? how will he behave or is he going to behave, do you think? >> putin makes point of pride in being unpredictable and taking preeveryoveryonetive strikes. this won't be the first time they met. it will be the first time they met with biden as the president. back in 2011, biden met with putin and had a famous quip about looking into his eyes and thinking he didn't have one and putin saying back, i think we understand each other. it's not like these guys haven't sparred before. biden has been around for 50 years in politics. putin has been president of russia for about 20 years. these are both going to be very

experienced people will be sitting down here. what we're all hoping for, those of us watch russia and not in the business of making a drama out of it for television is we get out of this unscathed. what it would be good to be back again is to some kind of predictability and sequences of meetings so we don't have to hyper ventilate vever time there's an idea of a russian -- american meeting with russian counterpart. he's been making fun of biden's age. putin said he will be around until 2036 by which time he will be six years older than biden is now at 84. i would suggest he should be careful about that one. no less, thinking ing about thi will think about how he can get one over. the more we feed into it, the more advantage that putin gets out of this because he just

likes to make mischief. as you saw at helsinki and other settings as well. >> you mention ed helsinki. you were there for the meeting when trump sided with russia. it was humiliating for the united states. how do you think putin is looking at biden compared to trump? he said trump is very talented but he hasn't said the same thing about the current president of the united states. >> he's been much more about that. they have both been around for a long time. they are trying to make the measure of this new formulation with both of them being president. i don't think that putin will expect biden to be anything other than prepared. the russians are making a big point of fact that putin is not preparing. that's bs. putin is always prepared. he's thought one step, two steps, three steps ahead. he prepares with note cards.

some of the mischief that pew t but he will have ample opportunity to have his own press conference and give his own spin on the meeting. from our perspective and watching all of this right now, i think putin is just trying to get the measure of everything. how is the united states going to react. how is media going to react. what is biden going to present to him. how far is biden going to push very strong messages. how much does putin think he can get away with in moment of the meeting and after afterwards. the other important point is putin wants this meeting. he wants to be seen as an equal of the u.s. president so this may be some limits to how far he would go. i think putin realized he pushed it too far. there were moments where he was trying to help trump out of the predicament he got himself too. >> biden, he isn't conference w.

i would to read something and you said this. you said my initial thought was just how can i end this. i literally did have in my mind the idea of faking some kind of medical emergency and throwing myself back wards with a loud blood curdling scream into the media. all the disasterous things you have seen on the world stage, where did that moment fall and did you seriously consider that? it was that bad? >> i did seriously think about it. i first of all looked around to see if there was a fire alarm but we were in a rather grand building attached to the presidential palace of the finish president who had lent it to us. i couldn't see anything that resembled a fire alarm. i had exactly the same feeling that debra birx had during the infamous press conference where there was the suggestion by president trump about injecting bleach to counteract to the

coronavirus. it was one of those moments where it was mortifying and humiliating for the country and it was completely, i have to say, out of step of what had happened in the meeting prior to that. putin tried to pull a fast one again. he likes to stoke outrage. he come up with the idea of allowing the united states to interview some on thperatives t we skjust indicted but it was about to announce to world we would like to interview a few americans, including our foreign ambassador and a number of state departments and other officials who he also got in his cross hairs. he knew that was going to stoke outrage. it was the press conference itself and the way that president trump handled himself which was the worst moment of all. as i said, i just thought, let's just cut this off and try to end it. i couldn't come up with anything

that just wouldn't add to the terrible spectacle. i think it's a great idea not to have a joint press conference after that and in fact, in the past we haven't really had these joint conferences or press conferences between add vverse sars. it's more something you do with your allies. he's going back to something that we did in the past which is try to avoid those kinds of embarrassing moments with add verse sars when everybody will try to put you on the spot. >> we're blad you're here to share your expertise with us and also with the people who are running the country. thank you fiona hill. i appreciate you joining us. >> thanks so much. as the president defends american democracy abroad, the fall out from trump's dprepresiy reveals new threats here at home. stay with us. ♪ sometimes you wanna go ♪ ♪ where everybody knows your name ♪ ♪

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newly released e-mail shows how trump and his allies pressure top officials to investigate his big lie about election fraud. the documents show mark meadows pushing jeffrey rosen to challenge the 2020 election results. joining me cnn chief political analyst gloria borger. good evening to you. more evidence of what we talked about just kind of the sequel of what we talked about last week. biden is overseas. he's defending democracy while at home we're learning about new abuses by trump pressuring his justice department. it's easy to become numb to all these assault on democracy but every day we learn just how deep this all goes. >> yeah. this was pretty deep. this is constant inundation of e-mails from people inside the

white house, people at the behest of the president, the outside attorney at the behest of the president, former white house chief of staff to the acting attorney general saying you've got to investigate michigan. you've got to investigate the italy tie. there's a conspiracy in italy that fixed the voting, et cetera, et cetera. all these kind of conspiracy theories. hen you put this into context and understand what's going on in the country. this started around december 14th. that was the day the certification of the american election and yet, rosen was getting these e-mails about this and eventually he just threw up his hands because he couldn't deal with it anymore. imagine what would have occurred if you had somebody more v receptive at the justice department to this corrupt inquiry that would corrupt the

justice department and in fact, perhaps, the courts. >> yeah. last time we were on discussing this, i think you called it the peeling of an onion that we would find out more. what we're learning is that if they could have stolen the election that they could have? >> i think what we are learning is that they would do anything to win. that includes fixing the votes. what we see going on right now in arizona, for example, don't forget, i don't have to remind you. you've talked about it every single night is you had 60 court, including the supreme court of the united states saying these lawsuits were frivolous. they were unnecessary. that this was a free and fair election across the country. you had election officials across the country standing up to all of this and many of them have endangered their jobs and

their lives, in fact, getting a lot of death threats for doing this. nothing has changed except that the challenges continue and the question is, i think, what will happen in the next election and how will americans be able to vote. >> yeah. listen, you're right. threat is still ongoing. trump is still pushing the big lie. republicans are assaulting voting rights. we don't know how it's all going to end, gloria. that's the thing. >> no. we don't. i think all you can do is be vigilant and as these things lay out, our job is to point out what's going on in each state. i think we have been over that at cnn. i think you have to say here, here are the laws being passed by legislatures. here is what they do and here is what they don't do. you have to get people to understand what's at stake here and i think the american electorate is understanding that now how important voting is and

no matter how you decide to vote, you want to figure out a way to do it and do it and get to the polls so nobody can stop you from exercising that right of citizenship in this country. it is a huge issue and we all know in the end, donald trump will never admit that he lost the election. ever. what he will talk about, and i gather he's having another rally or two. what he's going to talk about is the fact he should be president of the united states. that the election was rigged because he cannot stand losing. that's what that is about. >> well, you know, any way. i'll move on. republican congressman paul gosert grilling christopher wrey who was trying to jump through smashed window. listen to this. >> the capitol police officer

that did the shooting appeared to be hiding, laying in wait. no warning before killing her. question again, why hasn't that officer that executed ashley been named when police officers around the country are routinely identified after a shooting? >> on that case it's not one we have been directly involved in. i can't agree or disagree with your characterization. >> sounds good. >> congresswoman liz chaeney saying as a violent mob advanced on the house chamber i was standing near representative gosert and helped him open his gas mask p the capitol police led us to safety. it's disgusting do see him lie about the day and smear the men and women who defended us. g gloria, she is still not hoeding back after losing her leadsershp position. >> she isn't. i might point out he was one of

2 is republicans who voted against the congressional police officers the congressional gold medals for their work on january 6th. he was opposed to that. a lot of those members didn't like the word insurrection used in that legislation. in any case she has a point to make and makes it real well. she was there. he was there. he knows what was going on. to say that woman was executed by a police officer when you don't have the facts is stunning to me. that's the kind of language that's being used about the capitol hill police. i think good for her for calling it out as often as she can. it's not going to get her very far politically in the republican party, as you know and we talked about this. she was there standing next to him putting on gas mask. she understood and she knows that he understands exactly what occurred in the capitol.

these people were not tour is. >> the danger of that day. before i let you go, i have to ask you about the new york times reporting. allen weisselburg could face charges. the big question is whether he will flip on the former president politically speaking. what will the gop do if trump gets in legal trouble? >> well, we have to see. i'm assuming a lot of people who are trump fans will blame the courts and say it's a hoax and a witch hunt, et cetera, et cetera. i think weisselberg is key. it's clear they want him to flip. they are putting pressure on him. whether he will or not, who knows. he's in some legal jeopardy. i think it's clear he's not the big fish here. the big fish is donald trump. i'm not an attorney but this is how things work.

you kind of put pressure on someone to get to someone up the food chain. that is trump. i think the question of donald trump's taxes and how he has handled his fiscal matter s out there. it's been out there for a long time. whether it would change any support for donald trump, i doubt it. >> gloria, always a pleasure. thank you so mump. >> good to see you. >> you as well. presidentsending a message to allies, the soul of america is infact and sending it back home to keep it that way, his agenda needs to get passed. we'll look at can he get it down. former senator al franken will explain. there he is, next. it comes from within. it drives you. and it guides you. to shine your brightest. as you charge ahead. illuminating the way forward.

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franken, giant of the senate. there's some giant issues at stake. senate is where the fate of the biden agenda on infrastructure, on voting rights, they sit talled. hostage to the filibuster and mitch mcconnell. former democratic senator, al franken, the self-professed giant of the senate. thank you. i appreciate you joining us here this evening. let's get down do business. >> ironic, huh. >> yes. >> thanks for having me. >> i'm dpglad you have a sense humor. much needed in this time. president biden taulks about stroering the soul of our country. he's telling allies that america is back and reassuring them that our democracy is alive and well. are you confident he's right? >> not entirely confident.

that's a threat to our democracy. you see what's going on around the country. these laws being passed, state legislatures not only about suppressing votes of certain people so giving elected officials in the state the power o over turn elections. it's very, very frightening. i'm not terribley confident now. the power to overturn elections that's probably the bigst issue to -- all of it is big but that's probably the most frightening that someone given eing state legislatures the power to overturn the will of the people. that's huge. >> yeah. it's enormous and it's basically trying to do legislatively what trump was trying to do, you know, in georgia and by asking the secretary of state to find

11,780 votes or wining and down dining the state legislatures from michigan or going to the supreme court with virtually, a large majority of republicans in the house supporting that. they were trying the steal it. trump could have stolen it if he could have. it's very disturbing allowing state legislatures to do what he couldn't do this time. >> back at home, let's talk about what's going on here. the president is overseas. it appears that his agenda is getting stalled for the moment. we'll see. len republicans are ploking everything from voting rights, police reform, infrastructure.

biden says the answer is showing americans that government can work but how can you do that, how can he do that without ditching the gop? >> it gets us down to what are they going to be able to do with reconciliation so i believe they could do infrastructure with reconciliation. they could do that with 50 votes on the for the people act. that i don't know. then that gets you to the filibuster. i've had a plan to modify the filibuster going on 12 years. joe man chin said he would not vote to get rid of the filibuster but open to modification.

it takes one person to go i object. 60 votes, you need 60 votes to end the filibuster. what we're seeing is the burdens should be on the minority is trying to filibuster. they should have to show up, go to floor, cast 41 votes to sustain the filibuster and then stay there and do a talking filibuster. they should have to debate what they're trying to kill. i would like to see a debate. >> how would that change things? >> well, they have to stay there. i know my colleagues, they won't want to stay there. i'm talking about 41 republicans in this case would have to be on the floor at all times for 24 hours, for 48 hours. chuck grassley will go, i'm 87 years old. i'm not going to -- you know. mcconnell will say, okay, chuck

only has to be here instead of 19 hours day, we'll let him be here only ten. you junior senators will have to be 21 or something. it will wear thin quickly. >> yeah. also they'll have to -- >> in other words, they will really have to care about what they're filibustering instead of just automatically saying i objects and we can't get to 60. >> you have this new piece in rolling stone. it's titled tax the rich. also the very affluent but mainly the rich. why do you think this is the only way to go by taxing the rich, also the affluet but mainly the rich. >> we just had an article with bezos and elon musk paid no

federal income taxes last year. they had tax cuts during the trump administration and there's stuff that biden has laid out that's very popular, including infrastructure, child care, early childhood education that not only should we do but we kind of have to do it. we can't afford not to. we need to do it. we need to -- we need to raise the upper tax bracket, back to 39.6%. we need to raise the corporate rate. when they did the trump tax cut and they reduced the corporate rate from 35% to 21%, all the ceos said we're going the use that money to create jobs. no. they bought their stock back and gave themselves bonuses.

we need to do this stuff. we need to fund k through 12 education so kids education doesn't depend on his community's tax base. these are things that we really have to do. we're 13th in world in infrastructure. that's not -- that's dangerous. that's bad for every one. when a bridge collapses, a mercedes falls as fast as a hyundai. it's ridiculous that we're 13th in the world. americans don't want that. that's why overwhelmingly americans want these things. they want child care. every other country in the world has child care. why do people want child care? so they can know that they are leaving their child with someone who will take care of their kid and safe so they can go to work. >> right. i don't think it's too much to

ask. listen, people want child care. you're right. we need to figure it out. we need to figure out infrastructure and that includes much more than roads and a grocery store worker dead, another injured, all because a customer was asked to pull up his mask. that's next. ♪welcome back to that same old place♪ ♪that you laughed about♪ ♪well, the names have all changed♪ ♪since you hung around♪ welcome back, america. it sure is good to see you.

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weapon and shot the cashier. >> reporter: a customer in a decatur, georgia supermarket shot and killed a cashier monday after getting into an argument with her about his face mask. >> he had a mask. she just is a very cautious person, so she had asked him to pull up his mask. he refused and walked out, came back in and did that. >> reporter: according to the georgia bureau of investigation, the suspect, 30-year-old victor lee tucker jr. was checking out of the big bear supermarket when he got into an argument with the cashier about putting on his mask. tucker left without paying, then came back to the store and pulled out a handgun, shooting and killing 41-year-old laquita willis. tucker exchanged fire with a sheriff's deputy working with security. both were hurt, taken to a hospital and both are expected to survive. a bullet was seized from the scene. two responding officers arrested tucker as he was attempting to

crawl out of the store. witnesses were terrified. >> my life flashed before my eyes. >> reporter: the gbi says tucker faces charges of murder and aggravated assault. it's not clear if tucker has an attorney. this shooting coming as the number of deaths and gun violence in this country has increased 23.5% since this time last year, according to the gun violence archive. just as health restrictions put in place in the pandemic are easing. but not all cities and states have relinquished their mask mandates. decatur, georgia is one of them. last month the city extended its mask ordinance until june 31st, saying masks must be worn when entering any public building or business, except for religious establishments. >> we're still following, you know, some of the cdc guidelines, so it would be up to the store to decide if it's made mandatory or not mandatory. we don't know the policy of this store. >> reporter: only 20% of the

decatur residents have been vaccinated, according to the cdc. that's less than the national number of 40%. only 36% of georgia residents are fully vaccinated. medical experts encouraged mask wearing to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. they were meant to be lifesaving, but for some they've become a reason to kill. martin savage, cnn, decatur, georgia. >> senseless. senseless. thank you, martin. appreciate it. the fbi director on the hill today answering questions about the security failures of the attack on the capitol. also testifying, michael flynn's brother. stay with us. and here. which is why the scientific expertise that helps operating rooms stay clean is now helping the places you go every day too.

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