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canceled. can travelers expect more of this as we enter peak travel this summer? also new questions on whether the former vice president, mike pence, will be the next witness the january 6th committee subpoenas to testify. ahead of tomorrow's fourth public hearing in an exclusive interview with cnn, committee member adam schiff said trying to speak to pence for the investigation remains on the table. >> we're not taking anything off the table in terms of witnesses who have not yet testified. we would still, i think, like to have several high-profile people come before our committee...

this nation, democrat and republican. allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of our democracy. >> president biden last week addressing thursday's primetime hearing of the january 6th committee investigating the attack on the capitol. and we're hours away from the committee's second public hearing. at 10:00 a.m. eastern, the house panel will lay out how the big lie got started. also ahead, a compromise on capitol hill. senators from both sides of the aisle agree to what could be the most significant gun safety legislation in decades. we'll tell you what's in the deal and how s...

Safety. our national correspondent suzanne malveaux has been following all this. it's another gun tragedy in america. >> reporter: it is so, so sad. good morning. i know this area very well. it's near 14th and u streets in northwest washington. i attended the livelily music dance, artistic festival, for last year's juneteenth celebration. this year tragedy struck late in the day in what was otherwise a beautiful celebration of freedom here in the nation's capital. a 15-year-old boy died, three other people shot, including a police officer after a shooting broke out close to a concert site that...

But the fear, as one aide put it to me, when the next steps come, will it be in the wake of another gun tragedy? they hope not, but that, sadly, is the political reality we may be facing. >> mike, let's talk about the incremental progress here. it is incremental, at the same time, it is fairly dramatic at the same time. because you look at republicans, they dragged their feet after sandy hook, dragged their feet after el paso, dragged their feet after las vegas country music concert. they dragged their feet after mass killings in churches, in synagogues, in movie theaters, always drag their fe...

Correct? >> that's right. we have an epidemic of gun tragedy in this country. and i think everything that we can possibly do to potentially limit those tragedies, to possibly stop the next one, those are responsible steps we should be taking to make sure people are safe. >> specifically about this case, is there anything that jumps out to you. this was a child. we don't know exactly where he got the gun. but his late father was a hunter. maybe it came from his electi . collection. >> it's hard to say. is this a gun he had access to through the home? was it legally purchased? those are all thin...