chad wolf and ken cuccinelli. the committee is asking them to voluntarily what they know. now i have said it before but you got to wonder what he's trying to hide. you got to wonder why he does not want you to know the truth. but far too many republicans can't handle the truth. they are trying rewrite the history of what happened on january 6th, mo brooks, who tells cnn he has no involvement of planning the attack on the capitol. he says if his staff did he would be proud of them for quote "helping to put together a rally to protest voter fraud and election theft." proud? proud of a rally pushing the big lie of bogus voter fraud. remember what mo brooks said at that rally? >> today is the day america patriots start taking down names and kicking ass. >> all of that in a "fire pelosi" hat. at least one member of the january 6 committee would like to speak to congress that day. >> i would hope that my colleagues would be proud to come speak and tell his side of the story and to get it on the record. this from an electoral college who says and clearly questioned his own safety

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chad wolf and ken cuccinelli. what specifically are you hoping to learn from them?n the department of homeland security is we want to know about the intelligence issues. we want to know what intelligence was out there, which was sent over to capitol police, what was not. and we want to know their role between the election day and january 5th and january 6th. they play a key role, so we have asked them questions. we have asked questions of the national archives as well, for dhs material, and so that continues to be something that we want to get to the bottom of. >> republican congressman mo brooks is denying he had a role in planning the january 6th rally, but said he would, quote, be proud, his word, proud, if any of his staff did help organize it. what questions does that raise for your investigation? >> well, i would hope that my colleague would also be proud then to come speak and to tell his side of the story. and to get it on the record. but we want to get to the facts. we want to search for the truth. and anyone with information, whether they're a colleague of

ken cuccinelli, decades of experience in government. director of immigration services. active secretary of the department of homeland security. served in the virginia senate. was a virginia attorney general and the last one to handle the issue of preclearance. i am hoping that todd rokita can help us. he was attorney general in indiana. a fourth district congressman and their secretary of state. he led the passage of the first in the nation voter id law. 35 states followed suit. first item of business is the swearing in of the witnesses. witnesses who are present, please stand. the testimony that you are about to give, is it the whole truth, nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> i do. >> we will start with opening statements of five minutes. we will first recognize wendy weiser. thank you for coming. >> thank you. thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the voting rights act, a critical bulwark against discrimination in our voting system. as we have heard, in the last eight years the supreme court has dealt serious blows to the law and it is now no longer

chad wolf and ken cuccinelli. the committee is asking them to voluntarily what they know. that as joe biden is refusing to assert executive privilege over a second batch of documents president trump wants to keep under wraps and away from the committee. now i have said it before but you got to wonder what he's trying to hide. you got to wonder why he does not want you to know the truth. but far too many republicans can't handle the truth. they are trying rewrite the history of what happened on january 6th, mo brooks, who tells cnn he has no involvement of manning the stop the steal rally right before the attack on the capitol. he says if his staff did he would be proud of them for quote "helping to put together a rally lawful under the first amendment to protest voter fraud and election theft. proud? proud of a rally pushing the big lie of bogus voter fraud. a rally about overturning the will of the american people. about overturning the election of a duley elected president. remember what mo brooks said at that rally? >> today is the day america patriots start taking down

ken cuccinelli was his opponent. he barely won.sent a more moderate image remember what happened in to 2013. joe biden himself hovers over this race. this is how we look at the virginia race as you mentioned kind of a prelude to the mid-terms. biden right now just under 43% his approval rating nationally, and in virginia which again he carried by 10 points last year over donald trump, there's biden's average approval rate in those polls we've been looking at, 45% in the commonwealth of virginia. so, yes, it's gotten bluer and bluer, but democrats now face a set of circumstances here. they control the presidency. the president isn't that popular in virginia. they control the house. they control the senate. in the past that has been trouble for a party in a virginia governor's race. it's why the polls are so close right now, garret. >> northern virginia, those d.c. suburbs always come in late, keeps democrats sweating to the very end even of elections they tend to win big. it's going to be an interesting night. thank you. >> you got

this new information coming in to cnn, my colleagues, zac cohen and jeanne reporting that both ken cuccinelliofficials in the department of homeland security during the trump administration on january 6th, have also been asked to voluntarily communicate and cooperate with the committee. now, at this point, neither of them have actually begun that process of engagement. they aren't necessarily not cooperating, but at this point, it's just an introductory level of communication between both of these men. of course, cuccinelli and wolf, very important players in all of this. they could speak to whether or not the white house was using a pressure campaign on the department of homeland security in an effort to overturn the election. so, you know, victor and alisyn, these are all very significant developments in terms of this investigation. >> it sounds like it. okay, ryan nobles, thank you for that. >>> let's discuss all this with elliot williams, a cnn legal analyst, former federal prosecutor, and former deputy assistant attorney general. elliot, great to see you. i want to ask what the incentive

has also learned that two trump-era department of homeland security officials, chad wolf and ken cuccinellio voluntarily speak to the gcommittee. are you going to ask them if the white house pressured them to help him overturn the election? >> well, there are several different lines of investigative inquiry that correspond to what took place on that day. there was a mass protest which was, you know, totally protected by the first amendment that became a riot. so we're interested in how that happened. then there was an insurrection of groups like the proud boys, the 3 percenters, the militia groups, qanon followers who came locked and loaded as one of their #tags had it ahead for civil war part 2 is another hashtag about it. and that was all surrounding a political coup directed not against the president of the united states but against the vice president of the united states, mike pence. so we're very interested in each level of this activity, but ultimately it comes back to the president, to then-president donald trump and his determination to thwart the certification of the electoral vote

here to react former dhs acting deputy secretary, ken cuccinelli.caravan of people heading north. tell me about your experience with that. why would they reject a humanitarian visa offer from mexico? this thing is huge, ken. how does it get organized and what does that reveal about its intentions that they rejected this visa? >> so they get organized using social media and traditional advertising. literally human traffickers run ads like we think of advertising up here, you know, over the years when i was at dhs i tweeted out a number of them so people could see them. just very traditional ads. business cards. this organization is a money-making operation. they are obviously very defiant of the law. so it is capitalism by frankly people who are happy to take advantage of the left-wing open borders mentality that prevails right now. you mentioned the rejection of mexican work visas. this tells you, some people come to the american border claim asylum. oh, protect me where i'm from. mexico effectively offered to do that. these folks en masse rejected

democratic turnout in northern virginia and allowed a guy who had no chance at winning that race ken cuccinelli actually come within three points. >> yes, and we're obviously as you mentioned the whole country in the political universe at least is watching this race as a bellwether to say what it's going to signal for 2022. i have talked to hill staffers who said their members, democrats, are watching the race as they try and figure out what they should support in this spending bill. how far they should go to the left or the center or to the right in this spending bill. democrats currently in congress watching to see what happens here. it may seem like we're kind of obsessing over one race that, in a state most of the country isn't from but it certainly has a lot of political significance here, chuck. >> a lot in northern virginia and if they are feeling demoralized they may not necessarily come out to vote. let's go to the other side of the commonwealth. gary, for as much as national democrats we heard members of the house, they're watching to see how terry mcauliffe does maybe to decide wheth

ken cuccinelli, decades of experience in government. director of immigration services. active secretary of the department of homeland security. served in the virginia senate. was a virginia attorney general and the last one to handle the issue of preclearance. i am hoping that todd rokita can help us. he was attorney general in indiana. a fourth district congressman and their secretary of state. he led the passage of the first in the nation voter id law. 35 states followed suit. first item of business is the swearing in of the witnesses. witnesses who are present, please stand. the testimony that you are about to give, is it the whole truth, nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> i do. >> we will start with opening statements of five minutes. we will first recognize wendy weiser. thank you for coming. >> thank you. thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the voting rights act, a critical bulwark against discrimination in our voting system. as we have heard, in the last eight years the supreme court has dealt serious blows to the law and it is now no longer

ken cuccinelli, decades of experience in government. director of immigration services. active secretary of the department of homeland security. served in the virginia senate. was a virginia attorney general and the last one to handle the issue of preclearance. i am hoping that todd rokita can help us. he was attorney general in indiana. a fourth district congressman and their secretary of state. he led the passage of the first in the nation voter id law. 35 states followed suit. first item of business is the swearing in of the witnesses. witnesses who are present, please stand. the testimony that you are about to give, is it the whole truth, nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> i do. >> we will start with opening statements of five minutes. we will first recognize wendy weiser. thank you for coming. >> thank you. thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the voting rights act, a critical bulwark against discrimination in our voting system. as we have heard, in the last eight years the supreme court has dealt serious blows to the law and it is now no longer

i hope to hear from the honorable ken cuccinelli, who was attorney general of the commonwealth of virginia when preclearance was outlawed. what the effect of imposing preclearance procedures would have moving forward. before i wrap up, i would like to take a moment to introduce for the record, two statements that i believe warrant recognition. a lieutenant governor described the clause in -- flaws in h.r. four, and noted, quote, "this legislation is nothing more than an attempt to ensure that one party controls the government in perpetuity, by mandating an unconstitutional federal takeover of elections in our country." i also appreciate that a legal advisor to the bipartisan carter-baker commission noted that h.r. for his, quote, "the antitheses of the carter-baker commission's bipartisan recommendations for election reform." we would be wise to heed their concerns with regard to h.r. 4. so, sadly, my democratic friends seem to disagree. they are pushing h.r. 4 to takeover the ability of states to establish their own voting rules. we should all agree that participating in american democrac

the honorable ken cuccinelli, decades of experience in government, acting director of u.s. citizenship and immigration services, acting deputy secretary for the department of homeland security during the trump administration, leading spokesman for a variety of issues including election security, served in the virginia senate from 2002 to 2010. and as a virginia attorney general from 2010 to 2014, he was the last attorney general of virginia to handle the issue of preclearance. welcome. attorney general ty rokita i hope joins us served the hoosiers in indiana. he is the highest state office holder last year. served as the fourth district congressman from 2011 to 2019. he also served as indiana secretary of state from 2002 to 2010. while serving as the indiana secretary of state, he led the passage and implementation, the first in the nation, voter i.d. law which became a model. following his success, 35 states followed suit implementing similar laws protecting the integrity of our elections. so, first item of business is the swearing in of the witnesses. could the witnesses

. >> i'm young against the most homophobic and-- and i ran against ken cuccinelli.t was vice-president kamala harris in southern virginia, headlining in norfolk. and mcauliffe maintains it's about local issues, this race has gone national with democrats trying to tie youngkin to former president donald trump who lost virginia by 10 percentage points and the vice-president acknowledging the national consequences of this race. >> it's a close election and it is a bellwether for what happens in the rest of the country. what happens in virginia will in large part determine what happens in 2022, 2024 and on. >> now, over the closing days of this campaign he's got the national democrats continuing to campaign for him. senator tim kaine, the virginia senator will be campaigning along with barbara lee and jim cliburn. neil: thank you for that, rich edson. and following this closely as will fox 24/7 and even the big vote on tuesday. in the meantime, the debate having kids as young as five vaccinated. are you on? after this. imagine having someone else do your books for you.

mcauliffe made the race about his republican opponent, ken cuccinelli.hat's hopeful for this year. the flip side is can cuccinelli make it as easy as glenn youngkin is to call him an extremist? mcauliffe, he won with 47% of the vote. well under 50%. a third party candidate got 7% because both cuccinelli and mcauliffe were so unpopular. >> steve kornacki, it's bizarre that we're back at the big board but it's so great to see you in front of the big board. i can't wait to call on you over the next seven days and beyond. do you think we'll know early? >> yeah. remember 2020. virginia was pretty efficient. the state got called at 12:04 a.m. calling around talking to election officials, i think we're going to have more vote earlier than that. the polls close at 7 p.m. we'll have a lot in the first 10 minutes. >> might be an early night. steve kornacki, thank you so much. alexi, thank you for spending time with us today. quick break for us. we'll be right back. it's clinically proven, reduces inflammation and comes in original prescription strength. salonpas.

made its way into the virginia governor's race with a fight is beginning to take place, look at ken cuccinellired by parents stepping forward to annoy terry mcauliffe by trying to have us say in their children's education. >> my parents lost their freedoms and had to escape from communist cuba and 1961, i am in this fight against the liberal indoctrination that the school board is trying to push on her children. >> it's not completely the teacher's fault, it is not completely these radical progressive school boards fault, it is our fault, the constitution is clear, the virginia code is clear all the powers given to them are given to them by us. will: the last speaker, spot on. it is our country, our classroom i know the leaders running for office including terry mcauliffe want to say is a government who decides, no issue, his parents, his family, you make the call either you run for school board either you vote or not either you homeschool your kids or find out a catholic school that they can go to instead, your choice and will see what happens at the ballot box. rachel: you can decide if you