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The election result led directly to the deadly riot. nomia iqbal, bbc news, washington. professor sarah churchwell is from the university of london. she specialises in american literature, culture, and history in the 20th century. those images, the testimonies, they lose none of their power, and we have five more hearing still to come about what happened in the capitol riots. is this watergate 2, at a time when donald trump is talking about potentially having another run at the presidency?— at...

Presentation from the chairman of the committee, bennie thompson of mississippi. and even more powerful presentation from the vice chair, republican liz cheney, who offered firsthand testimonies with videos and texts from trump administration officials and trump family members and trump loyalists, all offering a trail of footprints leading directly from that horrific insurrection, this attack on the capitol, this attack on democracy, footprints traced all the way back to donald trump. lets talk ...

For more on whether these testimonies will lead to action, i spoke to dr shannon frattaroli, a professor at thejohns hopkins center for gun violence solutions. she also spoke to me about how difficult it was to hear their testimony. its heart—wrenching to listen to that testimony. and its even more difficult to accept the fact that this is the reality of life in the united states today. but it doesnt have to be. right, and how important is it for these families to see their testimonies not go ...

Testimonies are in private but the legislators did speak before the testimonies began sharing some information. heres part of that. >> were in the process of developing a list of actions we can take to strengthen security on all of our campuses. in addition, law enforcement officers have been assigned to each campus during summer school and it is our goal to hire additional officers to be assigned to each campus from the upcoming school year. >> katy, that was sound from the school superintenden...

Democrats have decided it better to take a modest win rather than to use the image to try to bludgeon republicans. >> modest is the word for that. guad, theres an investigation into the officer response in uvalde but its going to be behind closed doors. what can you tell us? >> reporter: katy, so this is a different investigation. lets start by saying that theres three different things going on so that people can keep track. we have the first investigation by texas state authorities. yesterday t...

Talking to via video. but, again, her story, we have heard from our own reporting at cnn that she literally had to cover herself in her friends blood and play dead in order to try and survive that shooting in uvalde, texas, at her elementary school. were also going to hear from the mother of a victim at that buffalo supermarket shooting, as well as parents of another victim who died at the uvalde elementary school shooting. so those testimonies are going to really put a human face to the toll of...

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Now is to try to make this moment different. >> ali vitali, thank you. we go live to uvalde, texas. before i get to this doj review of what happened in uvalde, which is part of a piece of the larger whole as we talk about this story, can you give us insight, as youre on the ground there, about what it means to people in that town that theyre again in the spotlight in such a devastating way, with people from their town, the towns only pediatrician, the parents of lexie rubrubio, the fourth grad s...

Awful horrific testimonies of people impacted by gun violence, also in the shooting that happened in buffalo ten days before, and they are saying to lawmakers to do something, this is the time to do something, this is the time to do something, but as you said there, in orderfor any something, but as you said there, in order for any legislation to get through, it has to go through the senate, you need at least ten republicans on board to back them, there is a bipartisan group of senators that hav...

Was difficult to hear. its heart—wrenching to listen to that testimony. and its even more difficult to accept the fact that this is the reality of life in the united states today. but it doesnt have to be. right, and how important is it for these families to see their testimonies not go unheard, and actually end up ushering some sort of tighter gun control laws? well, certainly nothing can bring back the children, the teachers who were killed that day, countless people who are killed in gun vi...