and it s not just mass shootings, it is every day violence. we ll take a deep dive into the gun epidemic breaking our country. as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. two two former trump white house officials will be key witnesses at thursday s january 6th hearing on trump s 187 minutes of inaction during the violent riot. nbc news has learned, former deputy national security adviser, matthew pottinger, will testify in person. he resigned after the insurrection, and has already given closed-door testimony to the committee. one of my staff brought me a print down off a tweet by the president, and the tweet said something to the effect that mike pence, the vice president, didn t have the courage to do what should ve been done. i read that tweet. and made a decision at that moment to resign. that s where i knew that i was leaving that day, once i read that tweet. also appearing on thursday, former deputy p
about our children or us. stand for against us. because we re not going nowhere. dozens of devastated and furious members of the uvalde community lashed out at the school board, demanding new leadership and the firing of the school district s police chief. the contentious meeting came after the release of a damning report and dramatic police body cam video. meanwhile on capitol hill, two trump white house officials will testify in thursday s prime time hearing by the january 6th committee, as the panel shifts its focus to the three hours of inaction by former president trump, during the insurrection. and over in the senate, joe manchin is trying to save face. he s now claiming that he has not written off any key parts of president biden s domestic jaebd. we ll have the latest on where the negotiations stand. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, july 19th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we start with the latest on the january 6th in
kate bolduan in for erin bu burnett. going, quote, medieval, that s steve bannon. bannon is defiant on his podcast. pray for our enemies, okay? because we re going medieval on these people. we re going to savage our enemies, so pray for them. who needs prayers? not maga, not war room, and certainly not steven k. bannon. after leaving court today, bannon spoke briefly to reporters. listen. look, it was a very good first day. it was a long day for jury selection. and so it goes. now bannon faces two criminal charges for his failure to comply with a house january 6th investigation. it s been ten months since he received a subpoena from the committee. the case is a major test of how much power congress really has when a witness defies a subpoena. bannon, one of the biggest purveyors of trump s election lies was a key figure in the lead-up to january 6th. days before he was outlining trump s plan win or lose. in his words then, trump is just going to declare victory and ba
believes you have to basically burn the system down to rebuild it and fix it. steve bannon on trial in the first of several major developments this week related to the capitol insurrection. right now the secret service is getting ready to hand over subpoenaed text messages as the january 6th committee gets red for thursday s primetime hearing on the 187 minutes when trump did nothing to quell the violence. in uvalde, texas it was 77 minutes that police, hundreds of them, did nothing has children were being murdered. what a damning report reveals about policing in uvalde and beyond. we begin with a day in court for steve bannonch the right wing podcaster and one-time adviser to the twice-impeached former president. his trial for contempt of congress got under way today. jury selection wrapped just a short time ago after two last-minute attempts by bannon s team to delay the trial, including an offer to testify before the january 1th committee. narrowing the jury pool from
elementary school. it includes the frantic early moments and the officers smashing windows to pull the children out of classrooms. but is includes long stretches where the heavily armed officers just waiting for guidance or permission to act. early on there is confusion if he is in an office or classroom. and this the dispatch officer discovered the horrifying truth. what is that? room 12? where is room 12? he is in the room full of victims at this moment. 12 minutes later the uvalde, texas police chief is still trying to talk the gunman into surrendering. > please put your firearm down. ultimate about the classroom is not breeched and the shooter killed for another 27 minutes. more now from rosa flores. reporter: according to the report, there were so many symptomatic and catastrophic failures on multiple levels by the law enforcement. let me take you through this report, a portion of it. according to the report, the school police chief wrote the active shoot