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secret service exchanged texts on the and around the date of january 6th. what were learning and why they werent saved. more than 85 million people under heat alerts today, and mother nature is only cranking up the heat as we go through the weekend. where we can see dozens of records set for tomorrow. and the white house says president bidens covid symptoms have improved, but we still havent heard directly from his doctor how hes doing. well be joined live by dr. anthony fauci this...

you can see in this video right here, held out a key chain with two sharp point ts on it. cnns evan perez is following all of this for us. hes here with me now. evan, what more are we learning about this man? that video, again, weve shown it a number of times. very alarming. >> its a very disturbing thing to happen, obviously. li lee zeldin, a congressman was on stage when this attack happened. the suspects name is david j jakabonis. hes charged with assaulting a member of congress wit...

ripped their lives apart, their devastating personal stories were revealed today in the most emotional january 6th hearing yet. plus, new details on trumps highly illegal campaign to pressure state elections officials to install fake electors. just a few hours ago the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection laid out in clear terms just how broad donald trumps thirst for power and how deep his acceptance for violence really went. the committee outlined how trum...

describing how president trump used the lies he told to raise millions of dollars from the american people. these fundraising schemes were also part of the effort to disseminate the false claims of election fraud. >> without objection -- >> i am the senior investigative counsel at the house select committee to investigate the general six attack on the united states capitol. between election day and january six, the trump campaign sent millions up fundraising emails to trump supporters,...

and if so, when? >> we are not going to stop what we are doing to share the information that we have gotten so far with the department of justice. >> tonight, the latest on the back of forth between the 16 committee in the justice department -- the connection between the coup plotters and the supreme court and the alleged complicity of certain members of congress, including the senator from cancun. then, the republican governor found vacationing in europe while his state deals with his...

of james, mccord. he is one of five persons surprised and arrested yesterday inside the headquarters of the democratic national committee in washington. mccord is a former cia employee. now he runs his own private security service. and guess what else he is? a consultant to president richard nixons re-election campaign committee. >> nixons watergate scandal began 50 years ago today. like trump, his presidency ended in crime and chaos, but there were major differences in the methods the...

about the presidents counsel, the vice presidents counsel. they all told him it was un-american. in the words of a prosecutor, illegal. even the nations top prosecutor, the attorney general bill barr, found no evidence to support a play to stay in office. and tonight we have not one but two former attorneys general here both nominated by republican president. and both are going to give us their take on whether the emperors wardrobe might be traded for prison garb. the former attorney g...

thing, we win the election. >> i remember hearing the word wimp. he called him a wimp. wimp is the word i remember. >> it was a different tone than id heard him take with the vice president before. >> do you remember what your father called him? >> the p word. >> the hearing included testimony that even after trump was informed violence was breaking out on the capitol, he tweeted an insult saying that pence lacked courage which the committee says led to a surge in the crowd. >> then i ...

forward to pressure vice president pence anyway. the committee outlining how close to imminent mortal danger the vice president was on january 6th, 2021. >> our investigation found that immediately after the presidents 2:24 p.m. tweet, the crowds both outside the capitol and inside the capitol surged. >> mike pence has betrayed the united states of america! mike pence has betrayed this president and he has betrayed the people of the united states and we will never, ever forget! >> im t...

does she feel like she owes an apology? >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt good evening. as riveting as the stories were, it was who was telling them that gave way to chilling testimony before the january 6th committee today about donald trumps pressure campaign on his vice president, mike pence, to stage an illegal one-man attempt to overturn the presidential election results one pence adviser calling it constitutional mischief another warning it risked the el...