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this is on them tonight that we have a lot that we are learning. to top aides to the vice president testified in the doj's criminal investigation on january 6th. and the efforts to overturn our free and fair election. marc short who was chief of staff to then vice president mike pence confirming to cnn that he testified on friday in front of a d.c. grand jury. the new york times in the wall street journal reporting that greg jacobs's general counsel has also testified. and what we are hearing from the january six committee. now maybe an even bigger deal. even more damning. then what ...

worker too scared to even say her own name out loud in public, a steep price for those who defended democracy and did their job. >> the committee unveiled new information about previously unknown activity involving wisconsin's republican senator ron johnson. his aide offered to hand deliver fake electors to vice president mike pence on january 6th, now, johnson claims this is a nonstory. cnn's manu raju pressed him on this. >> reporter: why was he even asking for that? >> because somebody delivered this to our office and asked to deliver that to the vice president. >> reporter: who i...

Violence is gonna spike in the summer, right, we can do with slightly more than offer a punitive response about it. we have a lot more in our tool that. it should be easy to use it. we can allow people to think more about what they can do. there is a lot of programs that think about this way upstream and far-left of punitive response that say, well, let's put police officers there. ideally, those police officers will either use their handguns or their handcuffs to address this problem. we are really beyond that. we need to start thinking about that in a whole different way. this is one of thos...

We had 14 republicans join in supporting this bill. the billions of dollars of investment in community mental health, obviously strengthening background checks for 18 to 21-year-olds, closing the so-called boyfriend loophole. there is also additional penalties for trafficking in guns, for so-called straw purchasers, that i think will be important and one of the things important to my home community and many others is $250 million for violence interruption programs, something that has been proven around the country to help prevent a cycle of gun violence at the community level. >> i want to foc...

Agreed on a frame work, and were going to be heading to the white house tomorrow. The white house confirmed tomorrows meeting taking place just before senators leave town for their twoweek recess. Theres more on this glimmer of partisan process just ahead. Biden also putting his weight behind fighting a surge in violent crimes. Homicides up 24 . Gun assaults, 22 . Over the same period last year. Late today the president and Attorney General outline a new anticrime strategy focused on getting more money to Police Departments and violence intervention programs while cracking down on socalled rog...