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with lester holt good evening im savannah guthrie in for lester. tonight, the impassioned calls for change in this country, from the uvalde teacher, the lone survivor of his classroom among 11 dead students, to a grieving son of buffalo in a hearing room on capitol hill to the white house briefing room where this afternoon the actor and uvalde native matthew mcconaughey made a surprise appearance, eulogizing the dead in heart wrenching detail, down to the green high tops the only ide...

he met with after the mass shooting and the victims of another preventable tragedy, this time in his hometown. watch. >> uvalde, texas, is where i was born. its where my mom taught kindergarten less than a mile from robb elementary. uvalde is where i learned to master a disy bb gun. took two years before i graduated to a 410 shotgun. uvalde is where i was taught to revere the power and the capability of the tool that we call a gun. uvalde is where i learned responsible gun ownership. w...

committee is about to go public with has been gleaned by more than a thousand interviews and more than 125,000 documents thats according to "the washington post." it may very well represent the last and best chance to break the fever of trumpism and the hold that trump and the big lie have on millions of our fellow citizens. the nearly year and a half since the deadly insurrection, the gop has not just memory hold january 6th itself, but in many ways its come to embrace the insurrectio...

Committee has been so cautious about guarding against politics and the politics for the two republicans are terrible, other democrats see opportunities and having this roadblock coverage inside donald trumps inner circle and the coup plot. >> right. and thats why i made the point, if youre in a tough district, battling for re-election in a very tough wave, year, nicole, as a democrat, you should not be afraid to talk about the fact that the republicans who are taking -- poised to take control of...

Homeland. obviously a hawk. her views are very much out of step with a lot of democrats with whom shes now working to hold trump and trumpism accountable, and it seems to me that we have all witnessed efforts to hold trump accountable, and the only way -- and we know trump watches. he watches television. theres not much other conduct that we know he engages in, other than golf. when he was on trial twice in the u.s. senate, all he did -- the reason elise stefanik has risen in the republican part...

Interim report on its findings by summer as it shifts into a more public phase. in addition, it is examining whether the justice department will pursue charges including former president trump and whether proposals are needed to prevent valid election results from being overturn. the committee is trying to finish their work. "washington post" reports this, quote, the rough timeline being discussed among senior committee staffers includes public hearings starting this winter stretching into sprin...

Expresident might have heard in there. i think its this part. we anticipate next year we will be conducting multiple weeks of public hearings, setting out for the american people in vivid color exactly what happened every minute of the day on january 6th here at the capitol and at the white house and what led to that violent attack. thats going to take place you know where -- on live tv. thats going to take place in roadblock coverage, the kind thing that triggers the expresident like nothing el...

Very many events in this country. i can think of the olympics, i can think of the christine tes. we dont always know when something is viewed -- you know, the super bowl, we do not have many news events that is broadcast wall to wall in whats called roadblock coverage. is there a contingency plan in case when people see -- i believe there are two purple heart recipients, an iraq war veteran, diplomats. people were recruited by mike pompeo. people will not see that witness on the stand. there wil...

Real issue to ban these weapons of war as he so vividly described them last night. confiscating them is a different issue and thats the kind of thing that the nra and 2nd amendment believers have long feared. the whispers about the government is coming to take your guns away. in this case he is giving voice to that conspiracy theory. a lot of americans would have no problem with that but others would. as he was saying that last night saying this could be the opening line of a donald trump re-ele...

That out loud on live television in what will be roadblock coverage, which means no matter what channel you turn to, you will see and hear robert mueller, that could be a cataclysmic political undertaking for the president. dont believe me. just look at the president. the president in his bones knows the last thing his presidency could handle is robert mueller reading a paragraph from this report on television. >> the president doesnt seem particularly pleased with the fact bob muellers going to...