good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, june 21st, i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. we are now hours away from the fourth public hearing by the january 6th committee. this afternoon, we will hear much more about this infamous phone call. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. so what are we going to do here, folks? i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. that was former president trump calling georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger days before the insurrection, pressuring him to find the votes needed to win georgia. 11,780. raffensperger is one of three republicans testifying today. the other two are raffensperger s top deputy, gabe sterling and arizona house speaker rusty bowers who says trump and rudy giuliani called him after the election asking for help to overturn president biden s victory in his state. we re also goi
as a law enforcement officer, i would find myself in the middle of a battle. that s capitol police officer sharing her harrowing experiences with the insurrectionists on january 6th, as she testified in the first hearing into the attack on the united states capitol. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, june 10th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. the committee investigating the january 6th attack began laying out its case in vivid detail last night. it was searing, powerful, at times hard to watch. but very necessary to do so. offering never before seen video and new evidence that investigators say shows donald trump and his advisers new that he lost the election fair and square, and yet still sought to overturn the will of the american people. committee vice chair liz cheney also presented evidence of how trump s actions led to the planning of what happened that day, that the white house knew in the days leading up to the attack that t
another witness announced for tomorrow s primetime hearing. and new reporting on how donald trump had the secret service scrambling on the day of the attack. plus, we ve got the top headlines from last night s midterm election primaries that may serve as a warning to democrats. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, june 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. senators had hoped to reach a bipartisan deal on gun safety by the end of this week, but nbc news has learned that that timetable may slip. perhaps into next week. senators have hit a snag on how to expand background checks. two people close to the talks tell nbc news at issue is whether to add waiting periods for 18 to 21-year-olds and to enable the fbi to conduct background checks on their juvenile records. a spokesman for republican senator john cornyn of texas said he is not considering waiting periods but does support the provision on the juvenile records. democrats, howev
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