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And more on the Jan. 6 committee

We discuss Thursday's Jan. 6 hearing about former President Trump's efforts to use the DOJ to help him overturn the election results.

In the 24 hours since its last televised public hearing, there was an uptick in the number of violent threats against lawmakers on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and all the members are likely to receive a security detail, according to three people involved with the investigation.

WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump's closest campaign advisers, top government officials and even his family were dismantling his false claims of 2020 election fraud ahead of Jan. 6, but the defeated president seemed "detached from reality" and clinging to outlandish theories to stay in power, the committee investigating the Capitol attack was told Monday.

Expanding their scope, and theyre not in a hurry, to the frustration of many, as the information comes in, including everything were going to be hearing tonight and more from the committee. they will use to it build whats looking like one of the biggest cases in department of justice history. >> for those who are not familiar with the name enrique tarrio, he was head of the proud boys. he and four other proud baysing a far right extremist spear cyst group who were indicted this week by the justi...

The House on Wednesday evening endorsed some of the most aggressive gun-control measures taken up on Capitol Hill in years -- including raising the minimum age for the purchase of most semiautomatic rifles to 21 and banning high-capacity ammunition magazines -- as Washington seeks to mount a tough response to recent mass shootings.

The House votes, however, will amount to little more than a political messaging exercise because of firm Republican opposition to substantial new gun restrictions.

Privilege. it involves meetings with congress. it involves stuff with giuliani. so it is back to the -- what devlin was talking about, it is within the doj, the very sort of epicenter of what could be expanding in time, all the way back to november and all the way up to january 6th from the beginning and scope. many more actors -- state actors and actors in congress, one of the documents concerns meetings with people in congress who are obviously fellow believers and travelers here. >> harry lit...

And Biden's approval rating dips to an all-time low in a new poll.

WASHINGTON -- Michael Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer with ties to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, was acquitted Tuesday of a felony charge that he lied to the FBI in 2016 when he shared a tip about possible connections between former President Donald Trump and Russia.