the b.j. pak resignation is under investigation by congressional committees and the office of inspector general at the justice department. the senate judiciary committee investigation has led some senators to suggest that the prospect of criminal charges is real here. pak's testimony was behind closed doors. but katie benner is here from "the new york times," she was the first national reporter today to report on what he said. speaking with katie in just a moment. and tonight, we're getting late word that a conservative trump-appointed federal judge in d.c. has just ruled that a multi-billion lawsuit against rudy giuliani, sidney powell, and mike lindell will be allowed to proceed. this is from the company dominion, who was at the center of the election conspiracy theories. with giuliani having his law license suspended now and with this huge lawsuit now proceeding against them, former president trump's lawyers and his surrogates that have been pushing these trash theories for him are facing incre

my impression is b.j. pak was telling the truth and forthright and forthcoming and appeared voluntarily. second, my strong feeling was, as well, that he believed in the rule of law and he stood up for it. he was the top federal prosecutor in atlanta, georgia, where donald trump was trying to say falsely there was corruption in the local election and donald trump would stop at nothing. he mounted a pressure campaign to break the department of justice including top officials there and he continued that pattern even as it involved very improper pressure brought to bear seeking to overturn the election, to over throw democracy to enlist the department of justice in the big lie and really corrupt and weaponize him. >> let me ask you. i emphasize that pak was appointed by trump in 2017, so then of course, he wants to fire him buecause he won't support hm in the big lie ande ehe's some never trumper. did you learn anything from pak's interview that you were not previously aware of? >> i know as a former united states

attorney, b.j. pak's closed-door testimony on that issue was today? he said that he had answered all questions in a candid when my impression is that he believes in the rule of law and stood up to it, how much is that way into it? >> if pak's testimony is as reported, it's just another nail in the coffin here, because trump did so many things that was horrible that it can become difficult to forecast on all of those things, but here we have a u.s. attorney who has been appointed by this president and he conducts investigations, in his district, the fbi does and they determine that there is no actionable voter fraud, that should be the end of it. that's a decision that should be backed by the deputy attorney general, and the attorney general. and instead the top leadership of the department bows to pressure from the white house in that pressures essentially this, we don't like the real facts, we want the facts to be something different so we can steal an election, that was a moment when the leadership of the justice department should have stood up, and

it is clear that the information that jeffrey rosen has, that b.j. pak is going to give in a couple days, relates to what happened on january 6th. we do know there is a massive, criminal investigation related to january 6th. we don't know at this point whether that investigation has included any interviews that -- with jeffrey rosen or richard donahue or b.j. pak. we don't know that. my fear is that everything of course in congress is leaked so that's not a surprise. but the ig's office for the department of justice generally keeps their investigations confidential. and if that is leaking to the press, my concern is that the -- there is no leak about any jeffrey rosen testimony to the fbi or to the u.s. attorney's office. and so i am concerned that we haven't heard about that. it's possible it is going on and we don't know about it. but that is where accountability really lies at this point. it is not through the senate judiciary committee even though that is important. it is through a very intensive and close evaluation of the facts and evidence to see

attorney b.j. paking investigators he quit before then president trump could fire him for rejecting claims of widespread voter fraud in georgia. he testified wednesday that the former president pressured the justice department to take a more active role in trying to overturn the american election. >>> four people were killed and at least one person is missing afof a powerful floods in turke. so far 616 people have beaeen rescued and evacuated. the floods we go leveled homes, damaged roads and collapsed at least one bridge. >>> a new vaccine requirement for schools in california, governor newsom said teachers and school staff must be vaccinated against covid or submit to regular testing. the first statewide requirement. the u.s. education secretary said he would support a vaccine mandate for every teacher in the country. >> if the vaccines are safe, yes. and they are proven to be safe. so yes he would favor the vaccine to be a required -- >> the debate over masks also heating up as students return to sc

. >> b.j. pak is testifying today behind closed doors. oh, to be a fly on the wall.ery surrounding why he resigned so denly. what type of questions would you expect the committee would be asking him today as they try to get to the bottom of that, among other things? >> oh, boy, i've got a lot of questions i would ask. certainly they're going to want to know what, if anything, his office did to investigate allegations of irregularities or other issues regarding the election, what evidence they had, and what specific requests came from the white house from whom, when, to whom, what was he pressured to do? why did he feel he needed to resign? he's going to be asked about specific conversations. i think that could lead to other witnesses from the former trump white house to potentially come before that committee. >> renata mariota, good to see you. >> thank you. >>> i'll speak with a mayor doing everything he can to get people in his city vaccinated, including this, walking the streets with a bull horn, going door to door, leading a par read through the streets of camden

b.j. pak will testify on wednesday. are a great-many others, who had positions of public trust. and donald trump's pattern has been to use acolytes and sycophants in those positions of trust, whether in the white house or in the congress, as well as in the department of justice where he enlisted jeff clark, an underling, with threats to replace jeff rosen. i think the facts already adduced in this investigation and reported publicly as you've just done warrant fair consideration for referral to the department of justice. i think that there are very important evidence that have to be considered by the department of justice in an investigation of criminal lawbreaking. but the important word -- you've just used it -- is accountability. if anybody engaged in lawbreaking, they need to be held accountable. we want to know what happened so it never happens again, and that has to be our common purpose here. find the facts. follow them and the law, wherever they go, and get all the witnesses that will voluntarily testify to prov