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guy, jeff clarke. >> the january 6th committee turns its spotlight on jeffrey clarke, the critical figure in trump's corrupt plot to put the parameter on his fake elector scheme. also tonight, trump is not happy with kevin mccarthy because the january 6th hearings are completely devoid of clowning, trolling and disruptions that trump was counting on for his attempted coup. i have a special guest, cherelle griner and the wife of basketball star britney griner who has been held in russia for four months. we begin with the january 6th committee hearings which most people can agree have been extremely substantive. so much so that they're going on longer than we thought. chairman bennie thompson said today that the committee received so much new information on the tip line that he's been promoting during each of the previous hearings that after tomorrow additional hearings will be held in july. >> one of the latest

developments, never before seen footage subpoenaed from the committee from a documentary filmmaker who was embedded at the white house. the footage includes interviews with the former president and his family. that filmmaker, alex holder will be deposed privately tomorrow. he will then join us live on "the reid out." >> what we learned in tuesday's hearing aside from the violence and the threats that donald trump's scheme unleashed on the capitol, on the vice president and all of the way to local election workers was how extensive the plan to install fake electors really was. extending from the campaign to the republican national committee and how intimately the former president was involved in the plot to pressure state lawmakers to go along with what trump needed and what he needed -- what he needed to pull the plot off was an official investigation to give it all some legitimacy, and tomorrow we'll hear more on the effort to pressure the justice department to provide that cover. zeroing in on jeffrey clark, the

former doj official who trump considered installing as attorney general and his related plan to use the doj to encourage states to choose their own electors. after loyal foot soldier william barr's resignation, trump was desperate for anyone to provide the investigative power he needed to stay in power, reminiscent of i want you to do us a favor extortion of president zelenskyy in 2019 was the subject of his his first of two impeachments. he told attorney general jeffrey rosen, just say the elections was corrupt and leefr the rest to me. rosen and richard donohue went out of their way to tell trump his claims were bogus. >> there were instances where the president would say people are telling me this or i've heard this or i saw on television, we were in a position to say we looked at that. we know you're getting bad information and that's not correct. >> there were so many of these

allegations that when you gave him a very direct answer on one of them he wouldn't fightous it, but he would move to another allegation. >> trump found the man he was looking for in environmental lawyer jeff clark who with no elections experience, zip, zero, but who had found an ally of his own in pennsylvania republican congressman scott perry. remember, the committee said that perry sought a presidential pardon for his role. "the washington post" detailed a meeting between trump, clark and top doj officials inside the justice department three days before the insurrection. at that meeting clark told trump that if he became attorney general he would conduct real investigations that would uncover the phantom widespread fraud. clark also vowed to send a letter that he drafted to georgia other and states urging the appointment of separate electors saying, quote, this was a last opportunity to sort of set things straight with this defective election and he could do it.

the proposal to install clark as a.g. led to its own saturday night massacre. rosen and donohue threatened mass resignations included their own and trump eventually backed down. we'll hear from rosen and donohue tomorrow. we'll hear from the attorney general from the office of legal counsel, stephen engel. joining me is former assistant watergate special prosecutor and peter strzok, former fbi counterintelligence agent. jill, i'll start with you. what do you think is the significance of having these doj officials come forward and tell the story that just summarized before the committee. what do you think will be the impact? >> so, first before i answer you i'm saying i look forward to the rest of your show with britney griner's wife and tomorrow with the documentarian. that will be very exciting. >> thank you. >> tomorrow will be very important because there is another lever of government that

the president, trump, abused. and it's the closest that we come to watergate where richard nixon also used the department of justice to get information that he had no right to have, and then he used the fbi to say you can't follow the money trail because it's national security when, in fact, all it was was a direct trail to the white house and the committee to re-elect the president, and i think what we're seeing here is an attempt to totally undermine the department of justice, our system of justice and in this case, it was part of undermining our democracy, our right to have our vote counted. in the watergate era it was only to cover up, when i say only it's a bad thing, but in comparison, undermining democracy and undermining the trial for burglars is hardly the same comparison and this is so much worse. it's really terrible, and i think that this should be a very

dramatic part because it is just one more plot that is part of the overall scheme to undermine our democracy? >> peter, let me play you what liz cheney said because she is very clear that she would also like to hear, the committee would also like to hear from trump's white house counsel because it is relevant what kind of counsel he was getting from the person that the united states pays his taxpayer dollars to give legal advice. here's what liz cheney had to say. >> the american people have not yet heard from mr. trump's former white house counsel pat cipollone. our committee is certain that donald trump does not want mr. cipollone to testify here. indeed our facts show that mr. cipollone and his office tried to do what was right. they tried to stop a number of president trump's plans for january 6th. >> what she means by that is there is i reporter from "the washington post" that we talked

to on the show, he told trump that this proposal by mr. clark, that proposed letter to all of these states was a murder/suicide pact and that is according to mr. donohue's deposition and he quotes him as saying, it's going to damage anyone who touches it, and we don't want to see that letter again. what do you think would be the significance of getting pat sip loan toe say all of that to the committee on the record under oath? >> absolutely. first and foremost, it gives testimony from somebody who was sitting in meetings with president trump and not people around him and not people beneath him, who can give testimony about what was and wasn't said. he can speak to a wide range of things that were alleged to have occurred. at the end of the day it doesn't bother me as far as what jeff clark could do as well as the attorney general and when you look at the other plans, the least worrisome end is this

announcement that the election was corrupt, but you have to keep in mind. we've had all of these reportings that there were meetings in the white house with giuliani and others encouraging trump to use the fbi and to use dhs to send agents out to seize voting machines and when you move from simply a statement that an election was corrupt, to thinking and considering using armed agents to go out on the streets of america seize voting machines conduct actions, and that's an entirely far more chilling prospect from when we've heard to date. certainly pat cipollone would be one of the primary people who would push back to those plans as well, but who could speak to exactly what was being put forward to president trump at the time. >> he's no longer white house counsel. can you think of any good reason why he wouldn't accept an invitation or subpoena? >> i think he might claim that there's an -- jill has better insight than i do, but he can claim privilege that he does not

either for himself or for future white house counsel, that he does not want to dampen the kind of candor that a sort of counselor relationship has when it comes to the white house counselor, but i think i've heard some indication that he has cooperated to the committee in the past. to the extent there is privilege, that peripheral edge appeared to be waive period and i'm interested to hear what jill has to say. >> we're dealing with people who in the end did do the right thing by the country and our democracy. i don't know if there's no crime fraud exception applies here if trump wanted to commit a crime. it seems he didn't. can you think of any reason why pat cipollone wouldn't want to come forward and see what he knows. >> i can't think of any reason why he wouldn't want to and as to the claim of any attorney-client privilege, the counsel for the white house is the counsel for the presidency and not the president. he is not a personal attorney for the president and so his

client is the american people and the white house. it is not donald trump. so i think that his claim of attorney-client privilege, should it be raised, would fail, and we have, you know, a very good example going back to watergate. he would be the successor to john dean who was the white house counsel who testified brilliantly, and i think he could be the narrator as john dean was of this whole conspiracy because the white house counsel actually gets a lot of information from a lot of sources, and therefore might be able to be the one who goes from the beginning to the end, and remember this conspiracy did not start on january 6th. that's only one element of the conspiracy. it started a long time before that, and i think that pat cipollone might be the one who knows enough to tell the american people how long this was in the planning and what donald trump's mindset was and

what his intent was. i think he could be dramatically important, and i hope that the call to him will be answered with his duty to the constitution, to the country and even to his party to the extent that it can be saved from donald trump. someone needs to speak up and the people who have testified now, many of them stood up at the time. they didn't wait until now. rusty bowers did the right thing at the right time. gabriel sterling did the right thing at the right time. brad raffensperger did the right thing at the right time. ruby and shay moss did the right thing at the right time and they've suffered for this terribly and we need to get our democracy back. >> peter, you know -- i mean, you know, you've been there, too, you know what it feels like to take incoming from this former president. as someone who has also been an investigator, the fact that they're hoovering up so much

information, chairman bennie thompson put out this tip line. there is a website, and they're hoovering up so much information that now they have to add more hearings and delay it because they have to process it and create material for it. as an investigative matter, can you exflien my audience this question, how it could be possible that the department of justice wouldn't be watching these hearings and saying to themselves we ought to make some time to do a prosecution here because i'm not even a lawyer and this looks like a very straightforward conspiracy that also has a $250 million fraud element to it. can you imagine how it is possible that the justice department would not be investigating this, too? >> i can't imagine they're not. there's every indication and today there's reporting that at least two individuals were served with subpoenas, individuals that it appears were involved with the elector slate,

and that again, is what your point about as you pointed out, that's one aspect of this broad, broad criminal enterprise, and i think there is indication that doj is moving forward on a number of fronts. it does not surprise me that we haven't seen a lot of detail. i understand the friction between doj wanting trance krits and the committee that they haven't seen in some cases to have seen investigation, but doj, unlike the committee does have some sort ever speed regulator placed in that they have to move through the judicial process which inevitably takes time. comparatively, it has a freer hand to get away because they're not looking to lock people in evidence in a way that would be challenging and sustainable and the committee has a little bit freer rein to go do it, and i don't think silence from doj

should be interpreted by inaction for doj. i know that's frustrating for people, and i hope that's what's going on. >> as a taxpayer and as a citizen, if we get out of four years and attorney general and this department of justice is andrew gillem, getting illicit hamilton tickets and search, if that's what we're paying for, we're paying too much for the department of justice. >> i was going say, quick point, keep in mind, the committee is working with a january deadline. they assume they're going to be done. doj has another two years. >> it will be a different horizon if the republicans take down the house and senate and shut down everything and all of the fire hose will shut off if they get control of the government and jill winebanks, peter strzok, very much appreciate both of you. up next on "the reid out," kevin mccarthy seems to be back in the doghouse, and trump is clearly rattled by what he's seeing by

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magas and he is pissed. >> in a way the republicans should be ashamed of themselves. unfortunately, a bad decision was made. this committee had a bad decision not to have representation on that committee. that was a foolish decision. >> he should be angry because this might be kevin mccarthy's biggest blunder since he blurted on camera that the benghazi hearings were designed to stop hillary clinton from becoming president. kevin who would be speaker, somehow thought that giving the committee hours of uninterrupted game time about how trump and his allies corkes traited a coup was a good idea. >> that never psz in congress these days. maga republicans are constantly interrupting like "woke" just to get on fox news, look at this with the commissioner from earlier today. >> i'm a little bit troubled by your embracement of what i'll call left-woke anti-american

propaganda. >> madam chair, if you want to know why they're frustrated and it's not about holding sexual harassment accountable, and it is about us conducting show trials, and unless you're jack del rio. you get fined. >> this is so bad. thankfully, with the january 6th investigation, we have been spared their performative that the theatrics. leader mccarthy directed the ranking republican on the house homeland security committee to come up with a deal and coming up with the agreement, he got democrats that joint subpoenas would have to be agreed upon and the commission would not have current politicians serving on the body. that sounds like a pretty good deal for the republicans, right? alas, it would not come to pass because mckarthy and senate

minority leader mitch mcconnell killed it, why? wait for it. because they were scared that it would make trump angry. you wouldn't like him when he's angry. that brilliant game of strategery gave republicans a select committee controlled by house speaker nancy pelosi. yep, mccarthy handed control of the committee to speaker pelosi because she had the ultimate authority of who would participate. of the 13 members five would be in chosen with consultation of mccarthy and when he named two members who had participated in the attempt to decertify the win, jim bank and jim jordan she said no dice. mccarthy being a brilliant political strategist pulled all of his leading republicans with a truly bipartisan committee. for god's sakes, there's a chain owe it plus adam kinzinger and we, the american people are getting a clear, coherent

testimony, free of screaming nonsense. thank you, kevin. with me now kurt bardella and for those who don't remember someone who used to work for the guy who used to do the screaming hearings against the democrats, one of them, darryl issa back in the day. so you know how this is supposed to work. you and i have texted about this and we'll say what we said privately, how big of an error was to keep screaming people off the committee for kevin? >> kevin mccarthy's loss, joy, was america's gain in a lot of ways, and in a backwards kind of way, kevin mccarthy did this country a favor. >> he did. >> by withholding his republican appointed members from this committee, but it was a massive strategic blunder and as you alluded to, perhaps the biggest blunder of his time as republican leader to allow this committee to operate and function in an uninterrupted fashion, to allow them to operate in a way that they can

tell the story from start to finish without any of the republican propaganda, b.s., nonsense we've grown all too accustomed to seeing in proceedings like this, and in many ways, joy, this is perhaps the northwest non-partisan congressional investigations in modern liftry when you consider the participation of liz cheney and adam kinzinger and when you consider that most of the witnesses are actually republicans and some who to this day would intend to vote for donald trump in 2024, and they have provided the testimony. this is the least partisan congressional proceeding we'll probably ever see. >> 100%. in my lifetime, i've never seen where everything was a food fight and everything about hillary clinton was a dogfight. in this case, especially the first hearing and it was in prime time so people who would be watching "the masked singer" or whatever, they watched and a lot of people did.

for the first time they were probably hearing and seeing the full, unvarnished information about the insurrection and what trump's part in it was, but let me show you what people have missed. for those of you who don't really know about jim jordan. here's jim jordan and he's yelling and screaming about something today and this is from him from newsmax. >> they tell us this is the most solemn, serious, important investigation in the history of our republic, and then the same people are inviting colbert's comedy crew into the capitol complex, letting him enter the facilities illegally. >> oh, yes. courage the cowardly dog. that's what he wants to talk about. your thoughts? about courage, if you like. >> this is what republican oversight looks like, by the way. let's focus what a late-night sketch comedy show was doing and not domestic terrorists who assaulted police and wanted to hang the sitting vice president

of the united states. it just goes to show that dechl democrats were right and speaker pelosi was right to deny jim jordan a place on this committee, to deny the theatrics and the nonsense and the b.s. that we constantly see. i'm so glad -- i was telling this to ali vitali today, i am so glad i don't have to hear my time is almost off. i have to cut the witness off. we have been spared all of that. >> yeah. >> and instead allowed -- and i really do think, joy, this has got to be the blueprint for congressional proceedings going forward. we have to different the nonsense five-minute volley between republicans and democrats. let's let the witnesses that we've asked to be here actually speak to us. >> yeah. >> there is a knopf will concept and something we don't usually get to see. this is how it has to be done and this committee has done an extraordinary job. >> rusty bowers said he would

still vote for trump to this day even though his family was threatened and the wide stance said he'd vote for him to this day and this is republicans at republicans and i want you to have a crack at the ron johnson situation because that's been one of the revelations and the courier, ron johnson, here he is running away from manu raju of cnn. >> how much did you know about what your chief of staff was doing that the alternate slate of electors? >> i'm on the phone. >> no, you're not. i can see your phone. i can see your screen. >> can you explain what happened there? why was he offering this to the vice president? >> that's a complete non-story. we've issued a statement. i don't know what you're -- what you're even concerned about here. >> this is a staff to staff exchange, and i was basically unaware of it. >> between people like him who

was apparently willing to be a courier for trump, mo brooks who showed up at the ellipse in a bulletproof vest and then dumped because he wasn't maga enough. we're starting to see how much lawmakers and republican law makers were involved in this plot. >> joy, it's vital that we understand the full totality of what republican members of congress were involved in this, and what republican members of congress were helping with this. ron johnson is basically a courier for domestic terrorists and the idea that he didn't know what his chief of staff was doing when it comes to something this delicate, this confidential is complete nonsense and one of the things we'll see tomorrow at the hearing as we look at what the justice department's role in an effort to overturn trump, i think we'll see more revelations about the broadening circle of accomplices that encompassed the

republican party and members of congress. we remember in the very first hearing it turned a lot of heads when there was an illusion where there were members ever congress asking for pardons. i think that we'll get a lot more information on that and even though the committee would go on a two-week break to continue the investigation, a lot of us would have to talk about the hearings and the republicans would be very uncomfortable when i see manu raju and ali vitali. >> i think he's the one that said i can see your phone. giving them credit. kurt bardella. still ahead. senate negotiators finally reach a deal on gun safety legislation as we learn disturbing new details about the police response in uvalde. we'll be right back. n uvalde we'll be right back.

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♪♪ ♪♪ following the recent mass shootings in places like buffalo and uvalde, the senate is actually moving forward on gun safety legislation, and it's likely to become law with republican support. the lead democratic negotiator on the bill, senator chris murphy is calling it the most significant change in our nation's gun laws in 30 years. fred guttenberg whose 14-year-old daughter jamie died in the 2018 parkland school shooting wrote on twitter. my heart is bursting over how big a deal this is. although the bill did finally codify the boyfriend exemption

that would save the lies of abuse victims and red flag laws which would allow guns to be removed from a person considered to be a threat to themselves or to others. meanwhile, as we are now learning that in uvalde, texas, that the reverse actually happened when a gun was taken away from off-duty police officer ruben ruiz as he tried to rescue his wife, teacher mireles who was shot and later died on the way to the hospital. it's one of the damning new revelations about how poorly the situation was handled. the head of the texas state police testified at a state senate hearing on tuesday and the law enforcement response was a, quote, abject failure, and that the police at the scene actually had enough fire power and protective equipment to storm the classroom within minutes of their arrival, but they still waited around for over an hour and that the door to the classroom was unlocked the whole time, contrary to what law enforcement initially said. mcgraw blamed the indecisiveness

of the on-scene commander, uvalde police chief pete arredondo who mcdraw says placed the lives of officers before the children. as of tonight, arredondo has been placed on administrative leave. new reports from the publications like the texas tribune show surveillance images that appeared to corroborate mcgraw's statement that there were numerous officers with ballistic shields and high-powered rifles well before federal law enforcement officers took out the shooter. joining me now is sewell chan, editor in chief of the texas tribune. thank you for being here. it is a horrifying story, but let's go through the pieces of it because one of the things that arredondo jumped out early and one of the things he said was that he was frustrated when he went out to the classroom and the door was locked and he literally said he checked to see if the door was open. and that was in question and is there reporting that confirms it

either way? i can't hear you. let's see if we can get your audio to work. hi there one second. >> hi, joy. >> gotcha. thanks, great question. listen, this is a key discrepancy, chief arredondo gave us an exclusive interview and we asked many tough questions and one was did you try the doors and his account was that the officers had found the lock and were unable to kick them in and when they burst in and had to wait for a master set of keys for that accounts for excruciating delay and the transcripts, and the video footage that we and other media outlets have been able to see and that the testimony yesterday from the head of the texas rangers suggested in fact those assertions are not supported by the footage, and that -- as you say the authorities believe the doors may never have been locked. clearly, the gunman was able to

get in, there's a lot that's still unanswered here and i would point out there's significant state local tension that ha erupted. the texas rangers are putting the blame and scapegoating the local folks and you know, denying their own responsibility and of course, tonight, the uvalde school district placed the school's police chief on leave. >> let me play, actually, this is the mayor who i thought was oddly quiet and it was don mclachlan. this was last night. take a look. >> colonel mcgraw has continued to whether you want to call it lie, leaked -- excuse me, liked, leaked, mistaken information in order to distance his own troopers and rangers from the response every briefing he leaves out the number of his own officers and rangers that were on scene that day. colonel mcgraw has an agenda and it's not to give a full report

and give factual answers to the families of this community. >> and i know that the houston chronicle reporting, another paper there, that state senator roland gutierrez, he is accusing -- he's sued the texas department of public safety for withholding records on the shooting. he's alleging the agency denied state open records laws by denying documents. the texas tribune has submitted 70 public information requests. first of all, have you gotten those requests answered and are they cooperating with what you need to do with the reporting and can you tell us about this reporting that there were many, many police officers from whichever department inside that school with long guns and shields? >> yeah. one answer at a time, joy. unfortunately, this is the government at all levels and state and local have been very, very opaque. of the 70 records only a small number have been fulfilled and all texas media are trying to get together right now to see if

there's legal action that can be taken to get access to these records. i think the fact that i don't want to say death by a thousand leaks and there have been so many different revelations and news outlets and all of them interesting and promising that there has not been a comprehensive dump with the data, frankly that would allow independent analysts to take a look. as to what happened in the school that day, yes. by the end of that hour plus of waiting, was there something like 60 to 80 law enforcement officers and multiple agencies, dea, u.s. marshals service, border patrol, uvalde city police, the sheriff's office, really a multibliss itty and the texas department of public safety had up to eight people inside the building and that was actually more people than the entire uvalde school district police force which is only six officers. i am not at all taking sides. i am merely observing that there is a lot to still examine here and a lot of finger pointing. >> and just to be clear, a lot of officers inside that building

with long guns, not just pistols, with shields but no one opened that door, that unlocked door to either of those classrooms and went inside where the gunman was killing the children. >> it sounds inexplicable and military and police are taught to follow chain of command. there appears to have never been an order, breach that door, right? even though there were officers whose spouse or child earn literally dying inthe classroom which was so agonizing and i think that's really what the focus is going to be on, who is in charge. that's the xmental question, chief arredondo did not believe he was the incident commander and the state police saying he effectively was in charge and failed. >> very quickly, we're out of time, but do you know, has your reporting said whether other schools in the community or the school district have similar issues with doors that don't lock and that kind of thing.

do we know if there's a broader issue? >> texas announced that more than 300,000 external locks on schools across the state are going to be checked if the locks are functioning correctly. >> you'd think that would be something they'd know in advance. i appreciate you. don't go anywhere. britney griner's wife cherelle is here as russia continues to hold britney captive. we'll be right back. britney cae we'll be right back. go to safelite.com. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ i booked our hotel on kayak. it's flexible if we need to cancel. cancel. i haven't left the house in years. nothing will stop me from vacation.

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wnba star britney griner who has been detained in russia since february for allegedly carrying hashish oil in her luggage tried to call her wife cherelle griner nearly a dozen times through the american embassy in russia, but they never connected because the phone line at the embassy was not staffed. this is according to cherelle who told the associated press that for two weeks she had a phone call scheduled through the u.s. embassy for her detained wife for their anniversary last saturday. i have zero trust in our government right you in. according to russian state media, griner will remain in russian custody through at least july 2nd. today she was named honorary all-star and starter for the july 10th, wnba game. >> happy anniversary, belated and i understand you're going through -- i can't understand

it, honestly. i can't relate to it. have you had a chance since her detention to speak with britney? >> no, i haven't, and first, thank you so much for that, and no, i have not had a chance to speak with brittney since february 17th. >> the answer to that question is yes, and i have to rely on people who do not know brittney at all and the embassy were able to see her twice told me she seemed well, all things considered and her attorneys would tell me their version of how they feel she's doing, but you know, i know my wife and so, you know, being able to actually hear her voice would have been the one moment where i could have actually known for myself how she's doing because she could tell when she's fine, but i would know if she's not fine.

>> putin's spokesman, vladimir putin's spokesman has said that your wife is not a hostage and they dispute the position that she is a russian hostage. she is not a hostage and being she was coming to take part in sport in russia. effectively trying to build bridges through sport. it's a terrible message, isn't it? that she should be arrested. >> it's also a terrible message to bring some forbidden essences and materials to this country. it's prosecuted by russian. lance >> given that is the position that the russian government is taken, what's in your mind can the u.s. do about that? since of course, we are on the opposite side of russia on what's going on in ukraine. not clear with the diplomatic

relations like. what do you believe that the biden ministration could do differently? >> so would i believe the biden administration can do differently is to actually take the words and the rhetoric that they have and match them together. for example, an american that is deemed, wrongfully detained, to my understanding, from with the state department saying, america will negotiate their release. it is not a maybe. it is a will. a will negotiate for their release. and so right now, my wife has been wrongfully detained. so despite whatever the russian authorities are saying, despite whatever, you know, press conference stays. they'll say anything about the g and legal matters over their -- america has already determined that she gets no justice in that system. and that they will negotiate her release. and so my pushes for the american administration right, now the biden administration to do exactly. that to make a deal for b.j.

because she is wrongfully detained. because she is wrongfull detained >> but you haven't turning? russia >> of course. i just graduate law school. so whether my wife is in any country, and in a legal proceeding, we are going to make sure she has an attorney. despite the fact that she is in a position where there is a great chance that she probably will get no justice in it. we are still going to make sure she has representation. >> there's now a campaign that is being built around getting your wife freed from where she is. supporters calling on president biden to strike a deal for her. the campaign is from doesn't organizations representing women of color, women, lgbtq. there's some frustration that people are feeling that they don't feel the case has been made prominent enough.

has the white house reached out to you? has the state department reached out to you? have you been able to speak to someone in the administration about what you want to see done? >> the answer to that question is twofold. the white house has a lot of personnel working in there. and so i have been able to speak with secretary blinken. inside of the white house. i have been able to speak with some persons from the -- department. however, the person that has the power, the biden administration itself, being president biden, vice president harris. i have not spoken to them. i have asked, i have requested, you know, at this point, it almost feels like they're indirectly telling me know. it almost feels like indirectly they told us as a family they will not be with us. despite the fact that everybody is saying, when i do speak to people, b g is the top priority. we know she is long -- wrongfully detained. we are doing everything.

but the people who have the highest power, no, they have not spoken to my family. >> we hope that will change, cherrelle griner, and we hope britney's situation will change. we all would like to see your home. but none more than yourself, obviously. cheryl griner, thank you for taking the time. i really appreciate you. >> thank you for having me. >> of course. coming, up a major decision is coming any day now from the supreme court. and a very consequential ruling that you might have missed. stay with us. missed stay with us stay with us finding the perfect developer isn't easy.

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