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developments in the doj's criminal investigation of january 6th and the efforts to overturn the 2020 election. cnn is live in the capital with the latest. good evening. we appreciate having you. what are you learning about today? >> reporter: this is a significant development in terms of the department of justice investigation into donald trump's election interference and how that led to what happened on january 6. both jacobs and marc short were the first big witnesses that the january 6th elect committee were able to cooperate

that were inside that orbit of the white house, the oval office, west wing and the days leading up to january 6. what the testimony revealed at that time, was the intense pressure campaign that was put on vice president mike pence and the steps that he stood to resist that and satellite on the fake collector plot going on around the country. these are things we did not previously know until the committee was able to crack core of mike pence and the inner circle. the fact that they are cooperating, they are under subpoena and the testimony is behind closed doors to a grand jury but it is a significant move. and more than anything it shows they are very much interested in the plot to subvert the will of the american people beyond just the violence that took place on january 6. >> the select committee releasing new evidence today, what does that show? >> reporter: it shows they left a lot on the cutting room floor last thursday.

it was a lot of information as it relates to donald trump's, what they call dereliction of duty, on january 6 and in particular the speech he tried to give, he did give but it was a much different speech than what was originally planned on january 7. i believe we have a clip to show. >> do you recognize what this is? >> it looks like a copy of a draft of the remarks for that day.>> and as you can see throughout the document, there are lines crossed out and there is some words added in. do you recognize the handwriting?>> it looks like my father's handwriting. >> in my view, he needed to express very clearly that the people who went into the

capital, did what they did, should be prosecuted. and should be arrested. >> it looks like he crossed out, that he was directing the department of justice to ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted. we must send a clear message. not with mercy but with justice. do you know why he wanted that crossed out? >> i don't know. >> that needed to be stated forcefully? they did not represent him or his critical views, in any form or fashion. >> he crossed out, you do not represent me. you do not represent our movement. do you know why he crossed that language out? >> i don't know.

>> to be clear, the stuff that donald trump did not want in the speech, he did not want to point out that he wanted the rioters to be brought to swift justice. what they did was wrong and he also crossed out the line that said, those individuals did not represent him. he is the one that rejected that. the ultimate ending to this was a flimsy three minute speech that did not accomplish much. as we see as this played out the outtakes they showed on thursday night and now this heavy editing of the original script, shows the former president was rejecting the advice of his advisers at that time i was going on a completely different direction, despite everything that happened the day before. >> thank you so much. i went to bring in democratic congressman eric swallow of california. as far as we know, marc short

is the highest ranking person in the trump administration to testify before the grand jury. >> there is a mountain of evidence. all the arrows point toward his guilt. this. on january 6, aimed it at the capital. finally, it looks like the department of justice is going up the ladder and getting closer to trump. i would be worried if i was donald trump. >> you think so? >> how could he not? after all the evidence the committee has shown. his intent was to conspire with a violent mob to try to stop congress from counting the electoral college votes. >> they are concerned it may seem like it is political, if

they indict a former president. >> i would say we had norms in this country that you would typically, try hard not to indict a former president. gerald ford pardoned richard nixon. but this ain't any old former president. he broke those norms when he stopped the transition of power. i think he should be treated no better than any criminal defendant being investigated and no worse. if we let them go for the sake of moving on, he is not getting better. he is getting worse and putting in place people across the country who would go into office who are inspired by him who will not honor the next transition of power.>> richard nixon ended his political career. he left office as president. there is new information about the select committee, they played in the last hearing the outtakes. on the day of the

insurrection, trump refused to say he was sickened by the violence. and also crossed out the line, you don't represent me or our movement. it is a stunning piece of evidence. does this amount to a crime? >> that line did not represent what donald trump believed. he was with the violent mob attacking police officers. it goes to his intent that he wanted the mob to storm the capital and stop the count. and obstruction of congress, which is a crime. conspiracy is a crime. january 6th committee has laid it out and hopefully and in the pond independent department of justice sees it the same way. >> i don't know that congress

can take a member of congress to court under the speech or debate clause. we have never been in a situation before. our point is not to come up with a dozen new dazzling theories to end up in a lot of wild goose chases all over the land. >> the concern when i said, it may seem political if you try to indict the former president, are you concerned that the shoe is on the other foot? >> and they already said that they will go after me and adam schiff. which shows this is really just about retaliation, not anything else. we have had the power and we have used it before to use contempt of congress and to put a system in place, if you're not going to comply, you will be held accountable. it will be interesting. we have no intention of losing the house but if they ever have

subpoena power, how could they expect anyone to comply with it, if they are showing themselves as being above the law? >> it is interesting. every time at the end of the hearings, liz cheney will say or someone on the committee will say you have so much time to call the committee and they say they're getting this evidence. they say they are seeing so much evidence coming in they may have to continue the work after election day. cannot happen if republicans take the house? >> if the republicans take the house they shut down the committee, the congressional gold medals don't go to the capitol police. they go to the rioters. they are more comfortable with voting, more comfortable with violence than voting. what is inspiring to me is courage with this committee has begun courage. as people show courage, like cassidy hutchinson it inspires other people who have information, who may not want to go public.

>> how are democrats going to turn things around? americans are hurting from crippling inflation and they usually blame the party in charge. is it important what happened on january 6? >> we are a party that gets things done. we sees inflation as a real issue. i get it. i do grocery shopping for three kids in diapers in our house. the president one after the oil companies and work with country to reduce oil and gasoline has been down $.32 over the last four weeks. the republicans pander to grievances and they don't have a plan. i think this election is about freedom. the freedom for a woman to make her own health care decisions, the freedom for your kids to be free of gun violence and the freedom for you to have your vote counted. and those freedoms are on the line with republicans in the majority. >> do you think those things will trump the economy?

>> you are seeing it right now. the democrats have surged ahead in the generic ballot because of what republicans positions are on guns, women's reproductive rights and showing they prefer violence over voting. the january 6th committee has dropped one bombshell after another. is all of this registering with voters? worried about how they will put food on the table. and fill their tanks. good question. he's a fast talker. a fast walker. thanks, gary. and for unexpected heartburn... frank is a fan of pepcid. it works in minutes. nexium 24 hour and prilosec otc can take one to four days to fully work. pepcid. strong relief for fans of fast. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy - even a term policy - for an immediate cash payment. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly

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members of the january 6th select committee say they get so much evidence they may need to continue after election day. but that cannot happen if republicans take the house in november. the evidence coming out of the select committee is damning and we are learning two former top aids to mike pence testified. do you think all of these developments are registering with voters when most are struggling to pay for groceries, rent, gas et cetera? >> you are absolutely right. the economic issues when they are bad, tend to occupy a special dominant place. but let's not forget the story of the last 10 years in

american politics, which has been that cultural issues matter a lot to people. people increasingly are defining themselves politically by where they are in culture and this is one of the reasons why republicans have tended to do so well. even in cases where working- class whites, republican policies are often not particularly well geared to get those voters economically certainly. they rub certain cultural issues very well. they scratch those itches very well. this time, for the first time we are seeing the democrats take the offense on some of these cultural issues. abortion. voting rights. guns. there are issues on which for some reason, part of it is the overturn of roe v. wade. part of it is just the overwhelming persistence of these mass shootings.

part of it is the september, the january 6th hearings. which have been very successful in making people understand both the level of the significance of what happened, but donald trump's culpability. all of those three cultural issues are working in the democrats favor in a kind of unusual way.>> do you think democrats will be able to convince americans that they are looking for them? the midterms is a few short months away. as i discussed with congressman swallow, democracy is at stake right now. >> your skepticism about this is well warranted. the congressman said that the generic ballot, the democrats were surging. i think that might be a slight exaggeration. the democrats are doing better than they were. the republicans still have an advantage.

they are leading in the generic ballot. unfortunately because of all kinds electoral rules and gerrymandering and things like that. republicans over perform. even when they lose the overall vote, they get a small majority. if they are leading they will do even better. >> i don't think it is enough yet to change the directory but people are talking about a republican blowout, that does not seem as likely. there is a troubling indicator, which is a predictor, the president's approval rating continues to be very bad. and of all the indicators of the president's party's performance in a midterm, i think -- i don't think i am wrong. the single most surefire predictor is what is the approval rating. >> not very good right now.

>> maybe the worst. i think tied with donald trump for being the worst ever. >> maybe lower. you have a lot of people talking about an article you wrote, coming up and saying, he said this and i cannot believe it. what you think about this? you want something for the washington post thing democrats need to once more become the party that gets stuff done, build things and make's government work for people. that is more important to most americans than using the right pronouns. a lot of pushback for this. what are you thinking? >> i 100% stand by my point. the most important thing to do is to win. if you cannot win, you cannot do anything. you cannot enact any program or protect any civil rights. nobody is going to be protected are looked after, affirmed

without that. you got to figure out what is the way you win. the way democrats will win, is if they show they can be a party that governs and uses government to do stuff. one point i was making is the democrats pass these instruction bills, but very little actually happens. it takes so long to build anything in america. mostly in the blue states. especially in blue states. there are so many reviews, so many regulations that make it impossible to build anything. it is one of the reasons why housing in blue states is such a nightmare. housing costs have gone up so much. because a combination of environmental reviews and that review, you cannot get stuff done. if you are the party of government, you are the party that says we will use government to improve your lives. you've got to show you can actually do it.

instead of a lot of virtual signaling about this, that or the other. i am not against any of those things. i am saying focus. when you're running an election you have to prioritize and if you ask yourself, what is it that you want to stand for and people to know about you, and what franklin roosevelt and lyndon johnson and even bill clinton understood, the way you get people to see the democrats in the right light is to say we are the party that uses government to help the little guy. that is what obama did with obamacare. that is why it was so important . he prioritize that over everything else. you may look back and say why didn't obama domarriage? at that moment he was saying my priority is to take this once- in-a-lifetime opportunity i have and push forward something that will raise tens of millions of americans. you have to focus.

>> we say this. you are right. even members of the lgbtq community say you are right. of course we can have a discussion about pronouns. that is well and good. where we are right now culturally, where we are right now politically, where we are right now socially, if you leisure democracy, then you cannot have those conversations. and the priority right now, not that those things are not on the list, but the priority should be saving the democracy. whether a democrat or republican. then you can have all the conversations about what makes democracy great and how different people get to exist within that democracy. do you understand my point? >> totally. i think most don't recognize the degree to which it is threatened. this is something you and i have talked about. i have done a special on this if donald trump were to run in january, we face an existential

democratic crisis. we know that one of two things will happen. donald trump will win or he will claim he won. even though he lost. and all kinds of state-level officials and state legislatures have been primed for this. so the most important thing to do is to break the momentum. i don't know and i don't really think the best is a legal one. you have to fight this politically. you have to win this politically. there are tens of millions of people out there who are believing in something that is a lie and believe in someone who is a demagogue. you have to break the fever and join this fight. >> you have to remember the context in which were having this conversation. it is not as political activists , but the only party in general for the most part he was

operating in reality is the democratic party. that is the party people are relying on to save the democracy. in order to save the democracy, people are looking at democrats to do that and they have to get priority straight to do that. next, a growing far right imposter, christianity. and what it is doing to democracy. wp ? aspercreme arthritis. full prescription-strength. reduces inflammation. don't touch my piano. kick pain in the aspercreme.

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americans, january 6 was a wake- up call to the threat of a growing white, christian nationalist movement and they are calling it a christian revolt. i urge everyone to read this new piece on cnn.com, and imposter christianity is threatening american democracy. good evening. this is a great piece. i emailed you and said it was important. thank you for joining us this evening. we saw christian symbols all throughout the crowd that went to the capital on january 6. what made this a christian revolt and what does that mean? >> part of it is what you just said. people that were at the insurrection announced it and they announced their faith. if you look in the crowd you saw people praying and people holding their hands up to the heavens. one of the signs i saw that was striking, someone had

a photo of jesus with a red make america great again hat on top of his head. the people themselves made their religious intentions pretty obvious. and you have to understand a lot of people don't see this as a political battle, they see it as a spiritual warfare. because it is a religious driven movement, a lot of people were driven by religious impulses, i think it makes it more dangerous. if it's a democratic movement, people can lose an election and they can acknowledge that someone won and move on. when you talk about a battle between good and evil, people don't just accept defeat and people become more desperate and the end justifies the means . >> you explain how many americans have adopted the beliefs of white christian nationalism. talk to me about that.

how does that happened? >> it is a combination of bad history and bad theology. the bad history comes through books, films, things we have heard the sound pretty innocent. for example, you have heard people say this nation was founded as a christian nation. i hear that all the time. it is not true. we were not founded -- the founding fathers had a lot of different theological beliefs. and many saw how religion had torn the continent apart because of the religious wars. this is not a christian nation. part of the bad theology is that preachers and pastors and christian leaders, pass these messages on in the pulpit. people have gone to churches and they see an american flag by the pulpit and they don't think about it. people do the pledge of allegiance at church and they don't think there is anything wrong with that. that is part of how this

theology gets passed down. >> i urge everyone to read it. even if you are a christian pastor, don't think about separating christianity from politics and the movement because you will not be a christian pastor for long and you won't have much of a congregation or people who come to your church. thank you. your article is on cnn.com. i urge everyone to read it. it is fascinating. thank you. a gop congressman attended hissons wedding over the weekend . not news. but what if i told you that congressman voted against protecting same-sex marriage, just days before. scientists proved that rid- x reduces

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>> attended his gay sons wedding last week . other circumstances would not be news. back at this, three days before the wedding, he voted against the bill to protect same-sex marriage. he was one of 157

house republicans who voted to oppose the legislation, which would codify same-sex marriage and interracial marriages into law. the bill needs at least 10 senate gop votes to pass the senate. let's discuss this now. what is wrong with codifying marriage that's okay, whatever. listen to this. the office said the congressman and his wife were thrilled to attend his son's nuptials and are happy to welcome a new son- in-law into the family. but his office did not respond to cnn when asked why he voted against the bill. does that make any sense? >> first of all let me tell you, congressman thompson son and the new son-in-law of the to just most forgiving, and gracious gay people i have ever met. if my father had voted against protecting and safeguarding the

sanctity of my marriage three days before my wedding, i think if i had been his son, he would have been sitting outside on a chair on the hottest day of the year. and see how that goes. i think it is painful and i cannot believe -- it is hard to believe people who put politics over country. it is harder to understand people who put politics and political ambition of her family. let me talk to you about two republicans who'd did not. my friend, a former congresswoman, who became a leader. and another one, who's got a gay son and is a person who has signed up to cosponsor this bill in the senate. politics should not be thicker than blood. >> i have to say that we asked

congressman thompson to join us on this program and we have not heard back. he is welcome. i want to hear what he says and i would love to have a son and the new husband on. >> i don't know congressman thompson and would not pretend to know what the relationship is between him and his son. i think it is very personal. i did read the statement when he cast a vote against it and the office said he was voting no because he thought it was a show vote and a distraction from the real issues of the day. to take him and his office at his word. this is a very personal deal between him and his son. i would not pretend to know what is going on between them. i am glad he went. candidly, i know people who have had similar situations in their family where the parents chose not to attend and chose not to engage, which i think is incredibly sad. when people cannot celebrate as families. it is a strange situation.

it sounds like from the office statement, they want to keep the relationship between him son more private. >> i don't know what other business of the day, this is pretty important, i think marriage between two individuals regardless of race is important. senator marco rubio told cnn the bill was a stupid waste of time, had this to say after criticism from pete buttigieg who is gay. >> i will not focus on the agenda dictated by a bunch of elite liberals and marked this misfits who sadly control the agenda of the modern democratic party. >> this is a real problem for rbg q americans, who could stand to lose rights. do you think your party is on the wrong side of this issue?

>> if you look at the polling on marriage specifically, it has moved a long way from 10 years ago or 15 years ago or five years ago. the majority of republican support, a wide majority support it. i think you will see different people act in different ways for jurisdictional reasons. people who represent more rural states that have more weekly churchgoers will feel one way and people who represent other kinds of constituencies will feel another. in the senate i think you will see a split conference like in the house. my presumption is it will pass in the senate. it will get at least 10 republican votes. i don't who they are. i think the republicans have moved somewhat on this. at the same time calm popular opinion has moved as well. >> more rural -- i grew up in a rural area. they needed it the most. there are more gay people in the rural area that you could

shake a stick out . but no one came out and that was detrimental. that they cannot live and be themselves. to this day they are suffering the consequences i know people who never came out and never came out until late in life. this is something that messes with their lives. you talk about people who change. liz cheney changed. she changed her views because of her gay sister. >> i think it is her gay sister gay and in a committed relationship. it changes you because you are seeing it. i don't know how republicans can call themselves the party of family values and vote against safeguarding -- >> when you talk about freedom and liberty. this is what liz cheney said. freedom means freedom for everybody. that is supposed to be the

basis of the republican party, freedom for everyone. limit the government. >> it is not just liz cheney. barack obama changed on this. i remember when i first met him in 2008, he was not pro- marriage equality and today he is. today, the entire country has changed. over 71% of americans support gay marriage. this bill was also about interracial marriage, marriage between different nationalities. it is protecting the institution of marriage, which republicans hang their hat on. i can think of so many gay friends of mine, floridians, who are married and some have gay children who are married and are marco rubio donors. i will call them and tell them, you should tell them, you should tell marco rubio that giving him money is a royal,

stupid waste of time. >> only gay leftists, only elite leftists are gay? does that make sense to you? >> marco rubio today, everything that comes out of his mouth is a noun, a verb and socialist leninist. >> he talked about barack obama , i went to a white house christmas party with barack obama when he was president. after i came out, he said to me , you did the right thing. he said a lot to me. >> joe biden pushed him into doing that. we will be back. mino have r joint pain, plus high blood pressure. and since pain relievers

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intercontinental ballistic missiles at the ready in rural and remote areas of the u.s. could be threatened with vulnerabilities tonight. officials have long raised alarms about chinese made equipment manufactured by the firm huawei, sitting on top of cell towers near u.s. military bases in the rural midwest, including bases that have nuclear silos. multiple sources tell cnn the fbi determine that while weight equipment was capable of capturing or even disrupting restricted u.s. military coup indications, including communications from u.s. strategic command, which oversees america's nuclear weapons. >> it could allow china to collect communications of military officials who are moving around between the various installations. >> reporter: cnn intelligence reporter has in a report on a multiyear investigation by u.s. officials into china's ramped up espionage operations inside the u.s. operations inside the u.s. she said it is not clear if the u.s. intelligence community has found weather

sensitive data was intercepted and sent back to china from the cell towers where huawei equipment is used. experts say even though american nuclear bases use encrypted communications.>> icbms are supposed to be hard. it may not be easy to do. >> reporter: china's alleged spying aspirations don't and. according to multiple sources familiar with the matter, in 2017, the chinese government offered to spend $100 million to build an elaborate chinese garden at the national arboretum in washington, a project that would've included temples, pavilions and a 70 foot pagoda. when u.s. counter intelligence officials began digging, they found that pagoda would have been strategically placed inside the arboretum's grounds on one of the highest points in the city, two miles from the u.s. capital. >> this is a concern. china was going to be able to use this friendship garden, this pagoda as a prime platform

for signals. >> reporter: u.s. officials quietly killed the chinese project at the arboretum before got started. as for the chinese equipment sitting on the cell towers, in 2019 after the fbi briefed the white house on the existence, the federal communications commission ordered the american companies using that equipment to remove it from the cell towers. but not enough money was allocated by congress to reimburse the companies for that. >> the equipment is still in use. >> reporter: the chinese government strongly denies any efforts to spy inside the u.s.>> the equipment is still in use. >> reporter: the chinese government strongly denies any efforts to spy inside the u.s. while i sent a statement to cnn saying all its products imported to the u.s. have been tested and certified by the fcc before being deployed. while weight denies its equipment is capable of operating in any spectrum allocated to the u.s. defense department. and the company said it is never been involved in any malicious cyber security incidents. thank you for watching. our coverage continues.

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hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i'm christina macfarlane in for max foster here in london. just ahead -- >> we have much work yet to do. and we will see you all in september. >> i can confirm that i did receive a subpoena for the federal grand jury and i complied with that subpoena. >> you mean like besides that attack at the capitol? >> you really believe that happened? >> i was there. >> it has take