region. we ll get a live report from kyiv. this afternoon the house january 6th committee will hold its fifth public hearing on what it has learned so far about the attack on the u.s. capitol. today s hearing will focus on how former president trump tried to use the justice department to help him overturn the results of the 2020 election but failed because of pushback and resignation threats, like this one from former acting deputy attorney general, richard donahue. the president said, suppose i do this, suppose i replace him, jeff rossen, with him, jeff clark. what do you do? i said, sir, i would resign immediately. there is no way i m serving one minute under this guy, jeff clark. donaghue will testify today as well as steve engel. adam kinzinger, one of two republicans on the panel, will lead today s questioning. committee chairman, bennie thompson, says the panel will wait until later next month to hold more hearings because it needs to look through new evidence it
prosecutor in new york, and senior fbi official chuck rosenberg. pete, for those just joining us, walk us through this decision and what it means for americans. this is the first time in american history that the supreme court has ever said what part of the second amendment means when it talks about the right to keep and to bear arms. 14 years ago, in a decision here involving a gun owner here in washington, d.c., the court said the key part it protects the right to keep a gun at home for self-defense. now the court has said that the and bear arms part extends the second amendment outside the home. the new york law said that you can get a license to get a concealed carry permit, only if you can show some heightened or special need. basically, what the supreme court says today is, that turns a constitutional right into something that you have to qualify for, and that s not how the constitution works. this will affect new york and it will affect half a dozen other states th
decision, and the high court just struck down a new york state law that restricted concealed carry hand gun permits. the ruling, 6-3, with all of the courts liberal dissenting. the court ruling that the constitution provides a right to carry a gun outside the home. the new york law is that is at the enltser of this case banned carrying hand guns openly but allowed forpply for a license, but residents were required to show a special need to get that concealed carry permit. gun owners argue that the requirement made it virtually impossible for ordinary citizens to get what they needed to conceal carry. the decision comes as the senate inches closer to passing a bipartisan gun safety law, and the u.s. reckons with near constant violence in virtually every aspect of life, from going to school, to church, even to supermarkets. let s bring in nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, former federal and state
relevant. explain to me the logic there. there were others that didn t think it had anything to do with it. if zimmerman attacked martin or provoked him it wouldn t be relevant. it martin was on top of zimmerman there is no place to retreat. whether you have stand your ground or the previous standard would make no difference. how is this relevant to the debate. gun control proponents have latched on to this because they think they can use this. what it tells you is how few problems have occurred with this law. we have had 41 states that have either castle doctrines or stand your ground laws. another six have rules involving common law type things. yet we have like in the new book we show people have concealed hand gun permits. there are like no problems.