children s lives. stunning new details and the images this morning on law enforcement s response to the mass shooting at a school last month in uvalde, texas. we are learning that 11 officers responded to robb elementary school within three minutes. they were armed to the hilt. they had protective gear, bulletproof protective gear, but still waited. why? this image obtained by the austin american statesman shows an officer with a ballistic shield, 11:52 a.m., 19 minutes after the gunman first entered the school,. another image obtained by the texas tribune shows officers with rifles, ballistic shields, and an ax-like tool. so they had all of this, but we do not know, we should note, at this point, what point in the standoff this image was taken. this morning, a father of one of the students killed in the mass shooting tells cnn he cannot fathom why officers would wait so long to act. they re supposed to be trained professionals, bulletproof vests, heavy automatic weapon
electors. presumably designed to create so much confusion the congress would kick the matter back to republican-led state legislators as to overturn joe biden s win in the states. it will explore the broader pressure campaign aimed at subverting the will of the american people. the first witness is the arizona state house speaker. aides say bowers will share critical new details about trump s demands and even harassment as the president sought to decertify biden s legitimate and legal win and republican-led arizona. the georgia secretary of state will also testify live. he famously went public with a phone call from trump. trump asking him to, quote, find enough votes to take away joe biden s legal and legitimate win in georgia and concoct an illegitimate trump win. another georgia election official will appear before the committee. you might remember sterling on december 1st, 2020. he publicly pleaded with trump to stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence.
and we start the fourth hour of morning joe with the january 6 select committee holding the final public hearing before the july 4th recess and there were plenty of fireworks and a lot of drama. top officials from the justice department described then president donald trump s relentless obsessive efforts to persuade doj officials to join him in a plat to overturn the 2020 election results by just saying the election was corrupt and essentially act as an extension of his campaign. riveting testimony came from trump s former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. his deputy richard donahue and steven engel. how often did president trump contact you or the department to push allegations of election fraud? so, between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. so the common element of all of this was the president expressing his dissatisfaction that the justice department in his view had not done enough to investiga
discuss piece arrendondo, after we re hearing stunning reports of law enforcement just outside the classroom. and on nbc news, a top kremlin official broke russia s silence on the two u.s. veterans captured in ukraine. we ll get the latest from moscow. primary elections in virginia and washington, d.c. with runoffs in three other states. steve kornacki will break down what you need to know. and we are just three hours away from another key hearing by the house january 6th committee. the panel plans to lay out an elaborate effort by former president donald trump and his allies to pressure state lawmakers and election officials into defying the will of the voters. and overturning the election he lost. today, we ll be hearing from arizona house speaker rusty bowers who resisted the pressure from trump and his allies and georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger who trump tried to push to find votes just days after the attack on the capitol. moments ago nbc news learned
the 2020 election. alex holder joined me after his meeting today with the january 6th committee. he has turned over more than 11 hours of footage, but donald trump and his footage before the election. we have an exclusive clip from his trump documentary series. first, the explosive fifth january 6th committee hearing, and trumps explosive plot trying to strong-arm justice department leadership into keeping him in power. attempting to strong-arm officials to legitimize his election lies. namely, jeffrey clark and his attempt to take over the entire justice department to advance a two on the president s behalf. today, we learned more about a january 3rd meeting, where clark made a case to the president, to fire then acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and to appoint him as attorney general. here, in the words of justice department officials, they all threatened to resign if the scheme went ahead and warned of even worse. i said, mr. president, within 24, 48, 72 hours, you w