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hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday. im fredricka whitfield. were following breaking news on a damning new report with heartbreaking details into the massacre at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. the report just released by the texas house investigative committee found systemic failures and egregious poor decision making by multiple entities including law enforcement, the school and the shooters family. the report also says the attacker likely mur...

hutchinson ahead of her sworn testimony. a source tells cnn one person who may have tried to influence her did so at the behest of then white house chief of staff mark meadows. the january 6th committee giving us a taste of that pressure campaign. >> this is a call received by one of our witnesses, quote, a person let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. he wants me to let you know hes thinking about you. he knows youre loyal and youre going to do the right thing when you go in f...

comes amid new reporting that federal prosecutors have zeroed in now on donald trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election, focusing on the man himself. the attorney general saying anyone who tried to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power will be held accountable, that includes, he said, a former president or a candidate. trump meanwhile returned to washington for the first time since leaving office. and dropped several more hints about whether he may run in 2024. as he and mi...

subpoenaed to the grand jury two people from the white house counsels office including the white house counsel himself, but what is standing in the way of getting all of the information that prosecutors want are claims that donald trump is trying to make about executive privilege where hes trying to protect statements that were made to him or that he said on these crucial days that are being investigated. so those claims of executive privilege, thats potentially leading to a court figh...

mexico while their asylum cases are under review. so what do these major rulings say about the direction of the court, and what can we expect for the next term? ilya shapiro is author of "supreme disorder," which is available on paperback on tuesday. ilya, welcome. good to see you here. historic term for the supreme court. did the court surprise you with its ending? >> the court finally colessed; has, the conservative majority that has long been promised, expected, feared, vaunted fina...

capitol since the war of 1812. >> meanwhile, the committee is debating whether or not to rerve the former president trump to the justice department for criminal prosecution. last hour we spoke with a member of the committee, congressman adam kinzinger who seemed open to that idea. >> i cant do the dojs job. as a nonlawyer, there is all kinds of threshold questions. but my belief is this. we never want to get to a position in a country where we prosecute last administrations because tha...

a curb and ran into a number of people in midtown manhattan. athena jones is here with us. what can eye tell us? >> victor, this is just breaking, 12:59 p.m., a taxi jumped a curb and struck three people. three of them critically injured. they were sent to a local hospital according to the nypd. it appears this is just an accident. this is being investigated by the detectives on the scene and the taxicab driver remained on the scene. four people struck, three people critically injured ...

the public. >> reporter: they talked to ivanka trump, whose comments seemed to contradict what she told the committee under oath about whether she believed the election was stolen. plus, easing the sting of gas prices. at the white house next hour president biden will call on congress to suspend the federal gas tax for three months. but is this proposal likely to hit a dead end in congress? speaker pelosi called it good pr just a few months ago. also on capitol hill, a major breakt...

every legal recommend dip is exhausted, a tone different than she reported in her interview before the january 6th panel. >> and the temperature yesterday underscored how ugly and scary it was to be an elections worker or public official who either came under donald trumps scrutiny or refused to bow to his pressure to overturn the results. arizona house speaker republican rusty bowers described the hoards of people, some with weapon, who would show up at his home. and pole workers shea...

>> the conversation was pretty heated. >> i remember hearing the word wimp, he called him a wimp. i dont remember if he said you are a wimp. >> it was a different tone that i had heard him take with the vice president before. >> these pictures of pence never seen before, the vice president being hidden by the secret service in an underground garage under the capitol, reading the presidents tweet that said that pence lacked courage to overturn the election. that tweet helped inflame the...