hey, thanks for watching. i'll see you tomorrow night for the live coverage of the january 6th live time hearing. that starts at 7:00 p.m. eastern. now "don lemon tonight" starts now with don lemon. >> a preview, we have more details on what exactly we're going to see tomorrow. adam schiff is going to talk to us and give us more details on what is happening so we'll get to that. laura, i'll see you on -- thursday -- friday. >> tomorrow. >> yeah. >> i'll see you. i'll watch your show right now. i will literally see you. good-bye. >> it's been one of those days. thank you. i'll see you. >> thanks. this is "don lemon tonight."

by this time tomorrow, we expect to know a whole lot more about what happened behind closed doors at the white house on january 6th. and we know that because we have a couple people speaking to us. the committee has out takes of the president's message to supporters the day after the riot at the capitol showing him having trouble getting through the message, refusing to say the election was settled and attempting to call the rioters patriots. tonight, my colleague anderson cooper, anderson got congressman jamie raskin to tell him more about what out takes the committee has. in just 340moments, committee member adam schiff says you'll hear people urging the ex president to say things to try to get the attackers to go home, things that he can't be prevailed upon to do or say. now, that as one day after the secret service turned over precisely one text exchange to a government watchdog who had

requested a month's worth of records for 24 secret service personnel. the january 6th committee is expressing what they call concerns about how the secret service handled that cell phone data. bennie thompson and liz cheney upping the ante saying that quote, the procedure for pro serving content prior to this purge appears to have been contrary to federal records retention requirements and may represent a possible violation of the federal records act. and going on to say that the committee is seeking additional secret service records, as well so stay tuned for that. the secret service responding to the committee saying it will provide the highest level of cooperation for support and as the investigation continues, here is what may be the scariest part of this. he still is doing it. donald trump is trying to overturn the 2020 election. a year and a half after he left washington. still trying to do it.

trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power, still trying to do it after joe biden took the oath of office on the capitol steps that had been swarmed by rioters trying to do it a year and a half after all of that, he's trying to overturn the election, with after course, a phone call. a phone call from a man with a history of very imperfect phone calls from his call pressuring vla vla valid vzolodymyr zelenskyy. the phone call demanding he find 11,780 votes, the call that is under criminal investigation. rudy giuliani ordered to testify in that investigation next month and now there is donald trump's phone call to the top lawmaker in wisconsin's assembly just last week trying to get him to decertify the election results from 2020. our affiliate wisn all over it.

>> he makes his case, which i respect. he would like us to do something different in wisconsin. i explained it's not allowed under the constitution. >> not allowed under the constitution. which apparently didn't mean a whole lot to the ex president who attacked him on social media. so, on the eve of tomorrow's prime time hearing, the question is what are we going to do about this? hmm? what are we going to do about this? the threat to democracy isn't over. it's very real. still happening today. so what are we going to do about it? some reporting on it, my colleague on capitol hill ryan nobles. good evening to you. let's talk about tomorrow's prime time hearing zeroing in on trump's inaction and liz cheney describing it as a diruty.

>> we'll hear firsthand witness testimony from people we never heard from before. we know matthew pottinger and sarah matthews around the west wing on january 6th and resigned their post on that same day because they were so upset about the way the former president conducted himself will testify live but i'm told we should expect to see witness testimony from some of the closed door depositions we haven't seen yet from individuals that we have not seen yet that are going to provide a perspective that we have not seen yet and what the committee is really going to do is zero in on the inaction of donald trump during that 187 minutes from when he ended his speech at the ellipse of the capitol when he encouraged supporters to go to the capitol and then when he finally put out that video statement finally telling them to go home and during that period of time, they are going to show through white

house records, call logs, the diary that took place in the white house at that time that he just really wasn't doing that much other than watching television and in some cases, cheering on his supporters that were at the capitol that day. so what the committee is also going to show, is there were opportunities for him to stand in the way and quail the violence and that there was really only one person who could tell his supporters to go home on that day and that was donald trump and he just refused to do it. and you used the phrase that the committee used over and over again, don, and you'll see them highlight that in a big way. dereliction of duty. they're the two military veterans on this panel and they understand that on a specific level and that's why they are

the two that will lead the hearing tomorrow night. don? >> ryan nobles on capitol hill, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> joining me now is adam s schiff. thank you for joining us, appreciate it. >> great to be with you. >> so we know trump wasn't doing a lot to stop the attack during the 187 minutes. does your committee have evidence to present in terms of exactly what he did, did do and say in the white house? can we expect to hear? >> you can expect to hear what we know about that lengthy period of time in which the capitol was under attack. people were urging the president to speak out and do something and stop the violence and he wouldn't. and he wouldn't. and at the same time, the vice president was doing what he could. others were trying to step in but not donald trump who evidently believed that mike pence who protesters and rioters, insurrectionists were

shouting should be hung had it coming. we would present that in very graphic detail. >> your colleague congressman raskin told our anderson cooper a short time ago your committee has snippets of the ex president's videotaped remarks from the 6th and out takes from the 7th and said that the president had a lot of difficulty completing these remarks. what more can you tell us about these and will we see them tomorrow, congressman? >> you'll certainly see footage you haven't seen before and without getting too much into the detail, it will be significant in terms of what the president was willing to say and what he wasn't willing to say. it's also of course, a very significant how long it took him to say anything that is anything that wasn't just adding fuel to the fire. but yes, you'll see footage you haven't seen before. you'll hear from witnesses you haven't heard from before and most importantly, we'll weave it together to give a vivid picture

what was going on. >> is he off script? is he scripted? are there people coaching him or producing it? is he refusing to say some things? can you tell us what we'll see? >> you know, there are people urging him to say things to try to get the rioters the attackers to go home. there are things that can't be prevailed upon to do and say for hours and hours and then ultimately, when he does give a statement, still, things he wouldn't say. so you'll have to wait until tomorrow evening to see precisely what that is but i think it will be another very important evidentiary hearing with a lot of new information for the public that sheds additional light on this terrible dereliction of duty by the commander in chief while his government was being aiing atta

>> we will hear and see people refusing him and having difficulty. >> you'll see what we can tell you at this point about all of those who are urging him to say something, to do something to stop the violence. you'll hear the terrible lack of a response from the president and you'll hear more about how he was ultimately prevailed upon to say something and what he was willing to say and what he wasn't. >> all right. let's talk about other people who will be testifying. the former white house officials matthew pottinger, sarah matthews will appear at the hearing. what specifically can they speak to? what will we hear from them, congressman? >> we're not confirming yet who the witnesses will be for the hearing. i'll leave that to my two colleagues running the hearing but you'll hear live testimony from people that worked inside the trump administration about how they review the events going on, what they were seeing and

hearing so again, it will add additional insights from the inside and, you know, i think what made these hearings so powerful is these are the president's men and women. these are people that he chose, he appointed and they will share with you their i think grim view of what he was doing and more importantly, what he was simply unwilling to do while that violence was unfolding. >> let's talk about those missing secret service text messages. the committee says it has concerns why they were deleted when four white house committees asked dhs for the data before that late january 21 migration, 2021 migration. are there concerns that something happened? >> we're deeply concerned because we don't know exactly what happened. i was one of the chairs who wrote one of those letters on january 16th that was ten days after the events of january 6th

and asked for those records among a larger, much larger category of records of that day and that attack and the idea that all of these text messages save one text chain would be lost or destroyed or that the secret service could somehow maintain as they claimed publicly that nothing relevant to our investigation was lost. how would they know if those records were destroyed? so suffice to say we don't have adequate answers yet from the agency and we are determined to get them. we also want to find out if there is anyway to recover what was deleted from the devices and we will ultimately i'm sure be reporting to the public what we learn. >> merrick garland says no person is above the law so your committee finds that trump broke the law, right? will it ask the attorney general to do something about it?

>> we will have a discussion and indeed, we have been having that already but we will reach a conclusion about whether to make a crime referrals against whom for what offenses. we'll make that decision at the appropriate time. i think we're all of the opinion that our investigation remains very much on going and, you know, we want to have the benefit of full information when we make those referrals if we in fact go forward with that and as new information comes in, we may supplement that. >> congressman schiff, thank you for your time. appreciate it. >> you bet. great to be with you. of course, we have more to come on the out takes from trump's message to supporters on january 7th. out takes we expect to see in the hearing. what do they tell us about what he was thinking the day after one of the worst attacks ever on our democracy. ["only wanna be wy hootie & the blowfish]

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we expect to see them tomorrow night. here to discuss norm ison in the first impeachment trial. happy to have both of you. thank you for joining us. as i'm going to start with you, what do you think of this january 6th committee having up trump out takes a day after the insurrection? they're expected to show them tomorrow. >> don, this committee has been so good. nick and i are both trial lawyers and you've got to constantly surprise the jury, give them fresh material, keep them on the toes and persuade them, hit them with the substance. these out takes will be the talk of the country, in each of the eight hours, they had surprises. it sizzled but also substance. i think it will be another block buster. >> you think it will be the talk of the country tomorrow? you think it will be that compelling? >> don, do you, on the break we talked about what we like to watch on tv. at the end of movies, they have the out takes in comedies and

people stick around and watch. >> i do. >> after the credits. or the easter egg that comes at the end. this is going to be like that. people will be riveted by it but this is the sizzle and there will be substance, too. >> we're supposedly going to see, nick, trump attempting to call the rioters patriots, people familiar with the plans of the committee he went to lengths to not accuse them of a wrongdoing. this says a lot about his state of mind, doesn't it? >> it says a lot what he was trying to do. he viewed those people as patriots helping him to stay in office. this was a preconceived plan to get those people to washington to get the oath keepers, to get the proud boys to go in and do the dirty work, the hard work and get supporters to be the backup and make it so that count of electoral college came to a halt. that's what it was about and in his view, they were the patriots. they viewed themselves as patriots and it just shows that

he is part of that conspiracy. >> uh-huh. so i said to him to adam schiff who was on when he said you'll certainly see footage you haven't seen before, what the president was willing to say or what he was not willing to say. it's also of course a very significant -- also a very significant how long it took him to say anything that is anything to do with just adding fuel to the fire and he goes on and i said, i said which i thought was important to his response, i said is his off skrcript? is he scripted. are people coaching him or producing it? can you tell us? he said, you know, there are people urging him to say things to get the right thing but they couldn't prevail upon him to do that. so it's going to be -- i would imagine that it may be something like, you know, mr. president, you need to say such and such and such and perhaps he'll say

can we say it a different way or what have you. will that make a big difference? >> definitely. definitely. >> why so? >> because it's not just the words that he speaks, the words that he doesn't speak. you're getting a view into his mind through his reactions, through his facial expressions, through his gestures. the toughest thing to prove both of us faced it in impeachments is corrupt intent. here, these out takes and the rest of the evidence really the past three hearings have focused on trump's state of mind. they've built up all the actions they need for federal and state crimes and now they're going to the tough question and these tapes will help. >> go ahead. >> it's like being -- cr cross-examining a defendant. he'll take different stands and be squirming and insisting on saying certain things like they're patriots and people saying he can't say that and then he'll say other things in between. we can conjecture all we want about it. i think at the end of the day,

it's going to be his demeanor, the wait he says it and the way he moves from one to the other when people ask him to do something different. i think that is going to be extremely telling. it's going to be like putting a major criminal on the witness stand and cross-examining him with his statements. >> is this a star witness? >> the star witness was cassidy hutchinson. >> okay. all right. >> she was the new john dean. >> let me ask you about -- norm, you worked regeed regularly wit white house secret service on records handling issues. are you suspicious about the text messages that have gone missing and turned over one, that's it, just one? >> yeah, suspicious would under state the case, don. if it was only an isolated incident of the secret service not preserving documents that would be one thing. there have been very serious allegations of a witness intimidation scheme as part of these proceedings. the good cop, bad cop that we saw trump do with michael cohen

for example, right? the committee played these grooming messages before the good cop, before cassidy hutchinson's testimony and then afterwards, trump comes down on her like a ton of bricks and who helps him? a whisper campaign involving former secret service agents who are supposed to be disagreeing with her and now we find those same secret service agents were supposed to preserve these texts and may not have done so apparently didn't do so. i think it stinks. >> you point out the motto of the secret service ambassador eisen. you say -- not you. you say that worthy of trust and confidence and say that's now a big question mark. >> i think that they're going to have to put a question mark on their motto, don. >> all these -- this is so many shifting explanations, nick, about all of this, what happened. the committee. they need to talk to all of these agents, do you think? >> yeah, the big issue is were they trying to get vice

president pence out of the congress? were they trying to whisk him away so he couldn't go back and complete the vote? i mean, that is the big issue here in terms of the january 6th committee. that is -- if they can show that in fact, trump had gotten the secret service in there to try to get pence out, so that they could stop that vote, which was the whole point of the violence in the first instance, that would be huge. and so that is what i think is the major motive behind destroying these text messages. >> maybe you just said it but i want to ask you, what is the worst thing that they could find if they find these text messages? what would be the worst thing to find? who would be -- who they were communicating with? is there a certain person? >> more proof of trump's intent of what he said, what he did, because what this is all about -- >> what i'm asking, would it be conservations between agents or

with someone at the white house? >> it would be a text. p potus just tried to grab the wheel. they may have failed to preserve their records as being alleged now, that's a very big deal. >> the worst thing is if there was a text that said get that guy out of there as quickly as possible and send him up to alaska. i mean, that is the kind of dynamite evidence that would be in those texts that would absolutely nail -- >> we don't know that. we don't know that. listen, do you really think -- look, i don't know. in a million years that the secret service would do something that -- >> well, you do have an individual in there that was brought into the white house, into a political position, this tony who is very close to donald trump -- >> that's my point. if tony is texting -- again, we

don't know. that's what i was asking, what is the worst thing of the worst, you know. >> two of us have made a very good living for decades out of the stupid texts, emails, dms and other things, notes that people write down. it's incredible what people write down in the moment, don. >> yeah. but we may never know because we can't get the texts. >> well -- >> we may never get the texts. >> i'm not so sure. >> why not? >> a lot of these things go to different parts of the computer there are ways forensically to pull this stuff off. they didn't have time to do that the last couple days. this would mean taking the hard drives, trying to see if these phones are still in exist tence whether or not they can get anything off of it. the whole commuter system that they're using -- >> i got a merrick garland said nobody is

above the law. is it that way, meaning the former president isn't above the law? >> i think that's true. if you prosecute the former president, make sure you convict him -- >> he said that when asked about donald trump, he said nobody is above the law. >> you don't know that at this point. look, i think -- merrick garland is in a tough spot in the sense he has a conflict here. he's being asked or may be asked to judge whether or not to indict donald trump when in fact, he is beholdeni to biden who will be the chief rival and so there is a direct conflict here and so he's either got to get a real special prosecutor to make that decision, somebody totally independent or decline for georgia, which may turn out to be the stronger case. >> d.a. willis in atlanta is not just saying no on his above the law, she's proving it, don, with target letters that seem to be pointing at the former president, so we're looking to georgia. we're looking south for the followup after what i think will

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epa administrator michael region. thank you, appreciate you joining us. >> thank you, don, for having us. >> i want to put this up to look at americans across this country are dealing with dangerous heat. i mean, this isn't red or blue state issue, this is a crisis hitting everyone if you look at the temperatures on the screen. how massive is this problem, sir? >> it's a big problem, don. i think the president was firm today when he said that heat and climate change is an emergency. we're seeing record temperatures and heat, drought, you know, we're seeing a lot of impact on life. this is an emergency as the president stated, which is why he's taking action. i think he said from day one if congress doesn't move, that he would. and don, he's not taking no for an answer. today's actions are an example of that. >> so he boosted, today he announced steps to boost alternative action and increase

funding for communities facing extreme heat but didn't declare a national climate emergency. why is that? >> don, i think that he's got a number of tools in his tool box and he did not take that off the table. but the president is demonstrating leadership and today as another series of actions he's taken, listen from day one he's instructed every single cabinet agency to focus on climate change and climate mitigation and epa is at the tip of the spear but the president did not take that off the table and as he said, he will continue to think in the days and weeks ahead on how and when to deploy those tools. >> listen, we're in july. we're not even in the dog days of august yet. the extreme heat forcing many cattle ranchers to sell their cows because it's too difficult to care for them and issues with crops. this is going to impact our food security. >> it does, don. it impacts our food security. i've been on the ground in

california with the governor after a mild fire and spent time with communities in arizona dealing with the drought and our community in arizona dealing with the drought. i've been in the basement in michigan after one of these so-called 500-year floods that happen every so often. climate change is real. and again, the president was firm today. climate change is an emergency and listen, that's why i've been asking the epa since day one. we've proposed the most stringent regulation on the transportation sector because it's a major contributor to climate change. we have proposed a rule to regulate methane, a potent greenhouse gas coming from our oil and gas sector and despite my disappointment with the supreme court's ruling, we're going to continue to move forward and develop regulations for our power sector. it's imperative that we continue to move forward and that is the leadership that president biden is showing. >> my colleague rene marsh has been reporting from greenland. it's going so warm the ice melt last weekend alone was 6 billion

tons. that could cover west virginia a foot of water even if the u.s., we're doing everything right, don't you need global cooperation to deal with this? >> we do need global co cooperation, don. as i've traveled internationally and met with my counterparts across the world, i think we're all committed to looking at the levels of reduction we need to save the planet and listen, we know that much of what we're seeing or some of what we're seeing we'll be living with for the foreseeable future. we're trying to reduce the emissions or mitigate, we have to invest tons of resources into adapting to where we are especially those communities that have been disproportionately impacted and plagued by pollution and climate impacts for a long period of time. >> michael, thank you. appreciate you coming on. >> thank you, don. appreciate you having us. an election denier winning the gop primary last night and

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the gop is nominating more extremists candidates and they're getting huge boosts. just not from who you'd think. democrats are helping fund far right candidates hoping that those candidates will win their primaries. the thinking here is that moderate voters will be turned off, right? and that would give democrats a better opportunity to win general elections. take a look at this. i reported this last night, dan cox is an out right election denier and won the primary in maryland for republican governor last night and trump endorsed, trump endorsed darron bailey, candidate for governor in

illinois and doug running for governor in pennsylvania. ron brownstein and republican strategists doug high are both here. so happy you're here. both of you. >> thank you. >> let's see, let's see with this dream team is like, if it's in fact a dream team. doug, let's start with you. i found it interesting you say democrats are playing with matches. how big a risk is this actually if it indeed does backfire? >> well, it's a very big risk and let me say full disclosure, kelly schultz the republican candidate that lost is a friend and wes moore the democratic nominee is a friend so full disclosure there. but let's compare 2002 when republicans took over the house to today. in 2010 when i was at the republican national committee, our magic number for obama, don, was 46. we felt if he was at or below that we'd take back the house. ultimately, obama was 44, 45 in

every tracking poll we had internally and externally. in 2022 we're dealing with a very different political situation. joe biden is at 38% in the latest polling. 80% of the country think we're in the wrong direction and so for democrats, to help candidates that they are saying are anti woman, anti gay, proinsurrection, these are the matches they're playing with is the tinder that's here with biden's low approval ratings and if one of these republicans gets through in maryland and arizona and pennsylvania and one of them can, it's not just playing with matches, it's political arson. >> it is a very big and dangerous risk. i do agree with you on that, doug. i want you to respond, ron but let's talk about this. get ready because people get really upset when you talk about the president's poll numbers, right? they get really mad. a poll puts the arpproval ratin at 31%. does it make sense for democrats

to go with the strategy when so many americans disapprove with the performance? >> doug is right there is a risk in this environment that with the president's approval this low and on track sentiment is this high, some of these candidates might get through and win but on balance, this is not a crazy strategy for democrats. we saw in that 2010 election that doug mentioned democrats won senate races in nevada and delaware as i recall. and then in 2012, missouri, they win senate races in missouri and indiana and each case largely because they had candidates republican candidates who are out of the main stream. he noted the cutoff number of a bomb obama approval of 46% in 2010. they thought democrats could survive in that area. the difference is, don, we talked about this before and see it in the cnn poll this week and other surveys a higher

percentage of people that disapprove of biden are going to vote democratic for congress and in stop of these senate races then we have seen over the last 20 years including in 2010. in 2010 about 85% of people that disapproved of obama voted republicans. right now republicans are winning 70 to 72% -- >> so whatry are you saying her in your audio cut out a bit. what are you saying here? >> democrats are winning a higher high higher percentage of people that disapprove of biden than typically the case for the last 20 years and that's largely because of a perception that the republican party is too extreme and so in that sense, nominating candidates who reinforce that perception to the extent democrats can make that happen makes sense for them even understanding the risk that some of them might win -- >> okay. listen, you're talking about 2010 and 2012, guys, look, those as we look back, right, we thought those were the good ol' days. you didn't have people who were,

you know, trying to steal an election. you didn't have election deniers who were running. you didn't have people around the country trying to put people in place who will be election deniers, who will, you know, may or probably will put their thumbs on the scale. is it fair to compare what happened in 2010 and 2012 to now in 2022 considering what happened on january 6th? either of you? i mean -- i just don't know -- >> look, ron and i are both making political points where you talk about substance on where these candidates are and that's valid. so much of the conversation we had over the past year and a half and frankly the past five or six years has been the stakes are different now. things are more serious now. i a knee gree requewith democra. i was horrified. there are real questions what will happen to the democracy and threads of those things that hold the nation together so i

say democrats are playing with matches like this. it not mere political jujitsu and get the people we can. there are real conkwesequences one of these or more than one of these candidates win. >> yeah, go ahead, ron. >> yeah, and look, there is a try if t trifecta in arizona. all election deniers, all extreme candidates. look, democrats are not the tipping point in these nominations. i mean, these candidates could not win if there was not a substantial position of the republican base that was okay with these ideas and it is a risky strategy for democrats to get involved but again, in an environment where the best asset i think democrats have at a moment when biden's approval is so low is the perception of many voters that republicans are too extreme, especially post dobbs, post the uvalde massacre, post the january 6th hearings,

candidates who embody that may be, you know, kind of turbo charge that and so -- >> ron, ron, that's true but they're still winning. >> it's understandable -- >> they're still winning or within the margin of error, look what is happening with herschel walker and down in pennsylvania. even though you say -- >> don, if there was a generic non-d n non-discrept in virginia, they would be ahead. i agree with doug. i agree with you. there is risk in this strategy it -- but and i think you can over state the impact of democrats and who wins and who doesn't but it is probably the best chance democrats have to avoid a very bad outcome in november. >> play us off, doug. >> very quickly, the last political campaign i was involved in was 2014 we had a big upset against my candidate, the house majority leader. >> i remember. >> he was cash strapped and no means to get his message out got

outside help and that's what happened in maryland last night. >> someone who looked like him very odd. i remember that, that campaign. gosh, you guys brought me back talking about 2010 and 2012 where it was -- >> legitimate race. >> oh my gosh. i forgot about that. we're talking about the palin days and john mccain and listen, it was mitt romney. we were with -- there was sanity at least in part back then. thank you guys. >> gal leaxy far, far away, don >> thank you, guys. see you soon. i bet you never seen an ousted politician say this. >> hasta la vista, baby, thank you. re vision loss. and if you're taking a multivitamin alone, you may be missing a critical piece. preservision. preservision arereds 2 contais the only clinically proven nutrient formula recommended by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of moderate to advanced amd progression.

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>> we are less than 24 hours away from the january 6th committee's eagerly anticipated primetime hearing. focusing squarely on 187 minutes, when then president did nothing, as the capital riot raged. testimony from two witnesses, we have not heard, alive before. cnn's kristen holmes has the details on who they are, and crucially, what did they could reveal. >> matthew pottinger and sarah

matthews, two former trump white house officials who resigned after the deadly capitol attack on january 6th. tomorrow, testifying publicly. >> the president started talking about the rally -- >> after talking to the committee behind closed doors. >> one of my staff brought me a print out of a tweet by the president. and the tweet said something to the effect. mike pence the vice president didn't have the courage to do what should have been done. i read that tweet. and made a decision at that moment to resign. that's where i knew i was leaving that day once i read that tweet. >> pottinger former deputy national security adviser served under trump for four years. the former journalist and