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another witness announced for tomorrows primetime hearing. and new reporting on how donald trump had the secret service scrambling on the day of the attack. plus, weve got the top headlines from last nights midterm election primaries that may serve as a warning to democrats. ♪♪ good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this wednesday, june 8th. im jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. senators had hoped to reach a bipartisan deal on gun safety by the end of this week,...

tomorrows primetime hearing. and new reporting on how donald trump had the secret service scrambling on the day of the capitol attack. also this morning, the top headlines from last nights midterm election primaries that may serve as a warning to democrats. >> yeah. some democrats. willy, you know this better than anybody, when brilliant minds visit our show, who do they quote? churchill, lincoln, aristotle, jesus christ. >> okay. >> of course more dorchester the british governor of ...

house oversight committee on gun violence. there have been nearly 250 mass shootings happening nationwide so far this year and the hearing takes place just weeks after the mass shooting in buffalo, new york and uvalde, texas. a fourth grader who covered herself in blood and played dead to survive the massacre is also scheduled to attend the hearing. caroline maloney from new york is here. what can we expect to hear during the hearings? >> this can be an opportunity to listen to people ...

mia cerillo covered herself in her friends blood, pretended to be dead so that she could survive. the hearing comes as pressure mounts on u.s. lawmakers to address a recent string of mass shootings. this afternoon the house will vote on a set of bills that would raise the minimum age to buy a semiautomatic weapon from 18 to 21, ban high capacity magazines and crack down on ghost gun purchases or guns that are not traceable. the bill is unlikely to garner republican support, but a diffe...

testimony from victims of the recent shootings. this student described watching her friends and teachers die and saying shes afraid to return to school. the devastating story of kimberly and felix rubio who lost their daughter. >> we told her we loved her and we would pick her up after school. i could still see her walking with us toward the exit. in the reel that scrolls across my memory, she turns and acknowledges my promise. then we left. i left my daughter at that school, and that ...

i thought he was going to come back to the room. so i grabbed the blood and put it all over me. >> do you feel safe at school? why not? >> because i dont want it to happen again. >> you think its going to happen again? >> miahs dad, who spoke briefly, said the 11-year-old is still healing from the bullet fragments lodged in her back. he said she is not the same little girl who only a few weeks ago was laughing and playing. and they heard from the only pediatrician, he detailed the mome...

migrants crossing the border. and why some are calling it the abbott plan. im hallie jackson in washington along with our team, ali vitali is on capitol hill, well get to what i think you can only call the gut punch of a hearing that happened this morning on the house side. right now you have this debate on changing gun laws. it seems likely these bills will pass the house. then it seems likely these bills will hit a brick wall in the senate. thats why the focus is on the private negot...

dresses his wounds as well as the pediatrician of the town of uvalde and he was there with the families at the moment they learned their child would not come home. he will never, ever get those mothers screams out of his head. >> i raced to the hospital to find parents outside yelling childrens names in desperation and sobbing as they begged for any news related to their child. those mothers cries i will never get out of my head, but what i did find was something no prayer would ever r...

find twitter because the billionaire is worried about losing money. hes waffling. hes weak. ill walk through the evidence for you tonight. we begin with a very serious story. a story that we continue to cover as the nation continues to reel from what we all see and live through, the epidemic of gun violence. this is important. ill tell what you it is so you know what youre about to deal with, because its gut-wrenching. new testimony out of washington from victims families out of buff...

stunned and grieving and burying its children, the gun lobby has demanded that we not politicize the issue of gun violence. they say we should wait until passions have cooled before taking any actions to reduce the gun violence in america. well, madam t president, the grm reality is it is no longer possible to wait months or weeks or days after a mass shooting for passions to cool. the shootings just keep happening. so far this year we have seen 246 mass shootings and 157 days more tha...