i m poppy harlow. and i m jim sciutto. tonight the january 6th committee will begin to lay out its evidence. after 11 months of interviewing witnesses, scrutinizing thousands of hours of video, more than 100,000 pages of documents, the panel will hold its first public hearing, this one in prime time. it will make a case, that the former president was at the center of a coordinated multistep effort to overturn joe biden s 2020 election win. the committee will present, it says, never-before-seen material. and chips of taped interviews with family officials, and witnesses who had an up-close view of the rioters in action. many leaders like kevin mccarthy, have been all over the air waves, trying to downplay and denigrate the committee s work. leaked audio from just five days after the insurrection, coming from mccarthy himself, reveals that he really wanted a bipartisan investigation into the attack. listen to part of that. we can t just sweep this under the rug. we need t
should yield your positions of authority and influence to others that are willing to lead on this issue. the urgency of the moment demands no less. my eartmother s life mattered. negotiations at a critical stage, one lawmaker telling cnn they hope to reach agreement by the end of the week, joined by maizie, and a live report from the white house, first, though, some of what matthew mcconaughey said from the briefing room, talked about meeting overworked funeral directors trying to make badly torn bodies look like children again from memorial services, he spoke with parents like ryan and jessica ramirez who told about their daughter alethia. now alethia, her deream was o go to art school in paris and share her art with the world. ryan and jessica were eager to share her art with us and if we could share it, somehow, maybe that would make alethia smile in heaven. they worry green high-top converse with a heart she had handdrawn on the right toe because they represented her
and we ll see you tomorrow night. a big show to get to tonight. thanks so much. this is don lemon tonight, and we are at a very critical point in this country right now. a crucial point, as a matter of fact. a moment when we get to decide whether we re going to do something about the gun violence that is killing more and more americans every day, even if it s only a first step, or do nothing and just watch more and more funerals, more and more families torn apart. this could be the moment. i don t want to get preachy about it but it could be the moment. a bipartisan group of senators working to hammer out a deal. but it s no sure thing and whatever they come up with will likely be less than what democrats want and a tough sell in the red states. they re looking at bolstering checks on 18 to 21-year-olds who want to buy semi-aublth v automatic weapons, red flag laws, school security and mental health care. the white house says that president joe biden is optimistic and negot
legitimate reasons why people would want to have them. why do you think people need to have ar-15s in this country? you are talking about a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. if we can introduce to them safely, they normally say that thing s not even scary. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. wednesday, june 8, 4:00 a.m. on capitol hill where in the coming hours u.s. lawmakers will hear the testimonies from the families of mass shooting victims reflecting on the lives they have lost. while gun policy, talks on a bipartisan deal, carry on, many believe it is not enough for the families who have lost loved ones to gun violence. on tuesday, the u.s. senate heard from some of those families, they called on congress to take action on gun reform and hate crimes. one man s mother was killed when a shooter opened fire at a grocery store in buffalo, new york last month. he remembered his mother as the heart of the family. what i loved most ab
laws. a source tells cnn that mitch mcconnell has privately expressed openness to raising the age to buy them but he won t say so publicly. it won t surprise you to know that i m not going to sit here and try to negotiate the deal with all you guys. we re waiting to see if we can get an outcome that directly relates to the problem that brought the issue to the fore. daniella diaz is live on capitol hill for us. what are republicans concerned about, are there divisions among them on this issue? reporter: there is divisions about what they actually want to see on any sort of gun safety legislation that could pass through the senate. there is still the more conservative senators like senator ted cruz and ron johnson that don t want to pass any legislation and wouldn t support any sort of bill in the senate. of course there are negotiatneg, john cornyn of texas being one of them, that is trying to reach some sort of deal to get ten republicans on board to support any gun sa