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all to push congress to take action on gun violence. one party, and only one party has heard the calls for those actions. this week, the house oversight committee held a hearing on gun violence, where members heard from survivors of recent mass shuttings, including maya cerrillo, a fourth grader at robb elementary in uvalde, texas. >> he shot my friend, and i thought that he would come back to the room, so i covered myself in blood and put it on me. >> maya, who is just 11 years old, s...

john berman here in for anderson. answer for that will depend on the answers for a string of other questions. can the committee in the coming weeks make the ambitious case it laid out last night. what will the justice department that already brought hundreds of charges in capital assault do with the information the select committee uncovered and will the hearings generate the kind of political census that might be needed before the attorney general decides to aim as high as the select ...

which has already brought hundred of charges in connection with the capitol assault do with the information the select committee has uncovered? and will these hearings generate the kind of political consensus that might be needed before the attorney general decides to aim as high as the select committee is already suggesting might be necessary? >> president trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack. you will also hear about plots to commit seditious con...

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...

which laid out the case of who they said is at the center of the insurrection. heres congressman benny thompson. >> donald trump was at the center of this conspiracy. and ultimately, donald trump, the president of the united states, spurred a mob of tim aesthetic and the maze of the constitution. to march down the capitol, and subvert american democracy. any legal jargon that you care about seditious conspiracy, obstruction of a official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the united sta...

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capitol hill. you are right there in washington where this is going down. good evening to you. the stakes were incredibly high for the first hearing. what did the select committee accomplish tonight? >> reporter: what the committee hoped to do was essentially create a road map for a thesis that they have that donald trump is principally responsible for a plot to subvert the will of the voters and stand in the way of the peaceful transfer of power. they didnt give us all the information...

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 its record on human rights and the killing of jamal khashoggi. welcome to "the lead." im pamela brown in for jake tapper on this friday. and we start with our politics lead. and the fallout from the first primetime hearing of the january 6th committee, where it laid out new evidence and its attempt to prove former president trump concocted a massive conspiracy to stay in power, despite knowing he lost the 2020 election. republican congresswoman liz cheney detailing what she c...

here. from all of our colleagues across the networks of msnbc news, thank you for staying up late and i will see all of you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow now it is a top of the hour. we are looking at live images of the cannon caucus room at the u.s. capitol. members of the january six investigation are about to enter the room and take their seats. in terms of what we are expecting, here betty thompson is expected to gavel the hearing in the session. as i was mentioning we expect op...