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nationwide calling for tighter gun laws. march for your life rallies are scheduled for today. some locations underway right now like in d.c. rally-goers reknewing cries for addressing the gun violence epidemic after a series of mass shootings and cnn is covering events across the country and i want to begin with brian todd at the capitol. hi, brian. things are just kicking off where you are? >> reporter: that is right, amara. the crowd gathering, several hundred strong with the riser a...

hi, everyone, thanks for joining me. im amara walker in today for fredricka whitfield. and we begin this hour with mass d demonstrations nationwide calling for tighter gun laws. more than 300 rallies happening today. some like the event in d.c. underway right now. that is david hogg, he is one of the co-founders of this rally march for our lives and also a survivor of a mass shooting that happened at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. this is renewing calls to l...

partisan thesis, we heard from witnesses in cabinets own circle and some of them turned on him. trumps attorney general, bill barr told trump the idea that he won the election was bs and trumps own daughter said she accepted barrs assessment. trumps strategy now is to claim his attorney general sucked and throwing his own daughter under the bus by saying she checked out. we see that the mobs chants of hang mike pence erupted after a rioter broadcast a trump tweet about mike pence certi...

seven-point plan to stay in power at all costs, even though he knew biden won a fair election. this is the mob that trump assembled. youre seeing the video once again according to the committees republican vice chair, republican liz cheney, previously unseen body cam footage shows an officer under attack by insurrectionists. we also heard testimony from people very close to donald tr trump. >> i had three discussions with the president that i can recall. i made it clear i did not agree...

we also learned the mobs chants of hang mike pence erupted after a rioter broadcast a trump tweet about pences decision to certify the election results. the committee revealing trumps shocking reaction. >> and aware of the rioters chants to hang mike pence, the president responded with this sentiment, quote, maybe our supporters have the right idea. mike pence, quote, deserves it. >> im joined now by former democratic senator from minnesota and host of the al franken podcast, al franke...

unfolded. >> the politicians, the pundits who say that january 6th was anything short of a violent insurrection are lying. >> reporter: the committee is promising many more details that we havent learned before. justin bieber taking a break after getting a rare virus thats paralyzed half his face. >> i cant smile on this side of my face. im pamela brown, youre in the cnn news room. march for our lives in more than 400 cities across the country today. these rallies demand the lawm...

griff: anita, great to see you. lets kick things off with lucas tomlinson from the white house. >> the labor department issuing a brutal report saying inflation is getting worse not better. in los angeles president biden says its not just putin thats responsible, but exxon as well for skyrocketing prices. >> they have 9,000 permits to drill, theyre not drilling. why arent they drilling? because they make more money not producing more oil. the price goes up, number one and number two th...

president trump gave no order to deploy the national guard that day and he made no effort to work with the department of justice to coordinate and deploy law enforcement assets. >> now, the committee heard from capitol police officer caroline edwards who was injured during the insurrection. they also played a video of mostly never before seen footage showing some of the most violent scenes on the day. >> we need back-up! [ bleep ]. >> we are going to give prior warning. >> declaring it...

squarely on donald trump and his baseless conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen. listen to this. >> president trump ignored the rulings of our nations courts. he ignored his own campaign leadership, his white house staff, many republican state officials. he ignored the department of justice and the department of homeland security. president trump invested millions of dollars of campaign funds, purposely spreading false information, running ads he knew were false and con...

despite the lawful outcome of the 2020 election and in violation of his constitutional obligation to relinquish power. over multiple months donald trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated, seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power. >> there was also previously unseen video they played from trumps top advisors including former attorney general bill barr. he said in no uncertain terms that he told trump that his rigged elect...