d, w dot com ah ah, for the past year a u. s. congressional committee has investigated the january 6, the attack on the us capital. last night they presented in prime time what they've discovered. a conspiracy to mute the voice of voters culminating in an attempted coup with former president donald trump at the center of adult. now there will be more public hearings more damning evidence against donald trump, but to what end. january 6th was a near death experience for american democracy with it survive an attempt to bring donald trump to justice. i'm break off in berlin. this is the day. ah,

january 6 was the culmination of an attempt at cooper. ah, the balance was no accident. president trump believed his supporters at the capital and i close. we're doing what they should be doing. ah, it was carnage. it was chaos. i mention the word love to love the love. i've never seen anything like president trump summoned the mob assembled the mob. and with the flame of this attack, also coming up a pro russian separate is already control parts of eastern you crate this week, one of their courts sentence 3 foreigners to death for fighting for ukraine condemnation from the west has been swift. such trials against prisoners,

a floor amounts to a more crime. in the case of the use of the death penalty fair trial guarantees are of course, all the more important to our viewers watching on p b. s. in the united states, into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with a former u. s. president who sat back and did nothing as his foot soldiers came close to hanging the vice president and killing democracy in the process. and with that dramatic description us lawmakers last night began presenting their evidence and their case against donald trump. the house select committee investigating the january 6th. the tackle the u. s. capital held its 1st public hearing on thursday evening, a prime time presentation of what it has discovered over the past year. that former president trump inside the violence that day in an attempt to hold on to power and that he did nothing to pull back. the mob, even when it became clear that the vice president was

a target for murder. here are some of the highlights from last night's here. the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on a united states capital would be an auto january 6th. was the culmination of an attempted cou, a brazen attempt as one right to put it shortly after january 6 to overthrow the government. the balance was no accident. we're going to remind you of the reality of what happened that day. we will never give up. we will never can see that doesn't happen. i don't, i made it clear. i did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which i told the president was bolt and my credit is gonna have to come through for us. and if he doesnt, that will be a sad day for our country. ah!

and aware of the rioters chance to hang mike pence, the president responded with this sentiment, quote, maybe our supporters have the right idea. ah, president trump summoned the mob assembled the mob. and let the flame of this attack, i am not allowed to stay with everyone is going to have to watch me for that. it's going to happen. i documented the crowd turned from protesters to riots as to insurrections. i was surprised at the size of the group, the anger and the profanity. a visor trying to reach the capital. what i saw was just a war scene. it was something like i had seen out of the movies.

i couldn't believe my eyes. there were officers on the ground i now they were bleeding, growing up. i. c i mean, i saw friends with blood all over their faces. i was slipping in people's blood. i say what people, these were great people, the crowd. unbelievable. and i mentioned the word love love a but i work must do much more than just look backwards because of our democracy remains in danger. the conspiracy to prop the will of the people is not over. that was what was presented last night, w, washington. correspondence we see misconduct, she watched yesterday's prime time event. my after how many other americans tuned

it? well, we have some numbers that have come in that have showed that their ratings were relatively good for all of the major networks that showed mainstream networks. i should say that showed the hearings live on tv. there were concerns that people would not be interested in watching this coverage because it has been 2 years. people believe the country has moved on. but as i said, this was very compelling evidence to be watching extremely effective storytelling for those who are paying attention to the hearing democratic voters, it is likely they will continue to watch. but i should know brent that fox news did not cover this hearing to put it on fox business, which has much lower viewership. they called it a show trial. they didn't show any clips of the violence. so for the many americans who watch fox news, they were not getting the same coverage. and that's important because that means it was not reaching a large number of americans. that was suzanne was gone to reporting there from washington. my 1st guest to night is

a former white house insider richard painter was the chief ethics lawyer for president george w bush. he's now a professor of corporate law at the university of minnesota professor painter. it is good to see you again. unfortunately under these circumstances. but i have to throw it at the hearing that took place last night. it took place during prime time . the expectations were high. did the committee deliver well, the, the committee, i exposed the facts, at least some of the facts about january sex and the insurrection. lot of these facts we already know, but we saw video coverage of the insurrection that we had never seen before. and also testimony from the attorney general, the united states, the former attorney general william bar officer, explicitly told president trump that he had lost the election. and they did not have a legal ground to stand on challenging the election was all of them. and that,

of course, what instigated all as president trump senator, for over 2 months to overturn the result is on election lee. when those results were really quite clear, and this was a very dramatic hearing for sure. but ultimately the question is going to be whether. ready a former president, trump, or anyone else high up in the white house will be held responsible legally for what happened, or whether the effect of the hearing is just political. and that actually has its vi was, well, if the republican party makes the wise decision, i hope that will make that somebody else should run for president in 2024. not donald trump will professor is, would that be the, the best outcome to come from this investigation that donald trump never runs for president again? or let me ask you as a, as a, as a legal mind, would you think it would be prudent for the justice department to pursue charges

against donald trump? to put a former us president on trial. if he committed a crime, a should be held accountable for any crimes. he committed that he could be shown. now that without the shown beyond a reasonable doubt, a criminal trial. but there is overwhelming evidence. the former president trump engaged in election fraud when he sought to induce the secretary of state of georgia to just come up with 11000 volts. and that'll take for the conversation. it's also quite clear that president trump put enormous pressure on federal employees, including the attorney general and others to reverse the results of the election. and it is a cron. i federal crime in i to says for anyone to speak to co worse or order at federal employee to engage in partisan political honda. and a lot of the interaction between donald trump, the justice department,

appears to be just that the president seekins for the wars, the justice department into a rotting and opinion letter that that election was invalid. a that's very traveling in former president. trump could be charged under the political version, snatching more difficult, of course, will be showing a direct connection between donald trump and that violent insurrection. we do have his words exciting the crowd to march on the capital. he did specifically tell them to break in order to kill a police officer to gauge another violence. although that had been simulated from his words, but a criminal charge relating to the insurrection itself might or might not succeed. it would, if i'm understanding you right, it would, is going to be easier then to disqualify donald trump. and as a political candidate in the future than it would be perhaps, to prosecute,

hits him successfully for inciting the january 6 insurrection. is that correct? it might be, we don't know all of the facts. yeah. by connecting donald trump with the actual insurrection and what he knew about that crowd when he sent that crowd and he did tell them to go to the capital. that's where the question is, whether he knew that they were going to bryant, i enter the capital and engage in all the crimes i did, including threatened to hang the vice president. so such a criminal case in connection with the january 2nd, recommend site of the interaction might say, we haven't seen all the evidence yet. my main point though, is that there are other criminal charges from solicitation of election fraud to coercion of political activity by federal employees. that i think are quite clearly supported by the evidence. and those charges could be brought against the former

president. if the department of justice were decide to do honor, what are the chances of the department of justice doing that? you know, there is criticism right now. the attorney general that he has not brought any chargers against anyone connected with the hearing people who've been held in contempt of congress for example. and that has a lot of people puzzled and asking, why are we seeing no action or the reality of what happened? well, the attorney general, they just the parent has brought charges against 2 individual, or that congress in connection with the january 6 interact insurrection, to others. led declined to prosecute i we have an ongoing investigation now whether the attorney general is going to make the decision to prosecute the former president or others were ohio remains to be the same. it to be seen. i have repeated since january of 2021 said that the justice department should appoint

a special prosecutor to make these decisions. the attorney general girl under was an appointee of president bought and should be in the position of having to decide whether to prosecute donald trump for crimes that donald trump committed to try to take the election victory away from president bond. there should be a special prosecutor just as we had robert muller is a special prosecutor, a connection with the russian investigation after the 2016 election. unfortunately, the dust department has not yet appointed a special prosecutor. and without one attorney, john garland will ultimately have to make those decisions for friends. richard painters always, it's good to get your valuable insights on this and no, because put context around something that is important to the future of american democracy. thank you. thank you very much. sir, ah, or from the interaction at the capital 2 stopping gun violence across america,

the u. s. senate is under pressure to follow the u. s. house and pass a series of new gun safety restrictions, but republican senators will probably stand in the way of the measures. they include raising the age to buy certain semi automatic fire arms from 18 to 21. the legislation comes after another series of mass shootings in buffalo, new york, 10 african americans were gun down and a racially motivated attack. and 10 days later in you've all the texas. a gunman massacred 19 children and 2 teachers. and there have been more than $240.00 massive shootings in the united states so far this year. that is more than one every day evolve. texas is the latest in a long line of school shootings. going back to the 1999 shooting at columbine high school in colorado, w sumeet, and was gander, reports columbine,

a name that became synonymous with anguish and tear. not just here in this community outside of denver, but around the world. on april 20th 1999 to armed teenagers, went on a shooting rampage in the columbine high school library. 12 students and one teachers were killed. shocking images were beamed on to tv screens across the country. and it's spurred many americans to demand action on gun safety. today, the columbine memorial sits just half a mile from the high school, a place to remember the victims and trauma wrought upon this community. tom mouser, son, daniel, was killed in the massacre. he was just 15 and already worried about gun violence in the u. s. and was just 2 weeks before columbine. he asked me a question, the dinner table. dad, did you know there were loopholes in the brady bill. brady bill is the national law

that requires background checks for gun purchases. i said no, i didn't know about that. daniel. 2 weeks later he was killed with a gun that was purchased through a loophole in the brady bill. how could i not respond to that? i had to, so tom joined, colorado cease fire, a group pushing for stronger gun loss. and colorado did react in acting universal background checks in colorado and closing a loophole that made it easier to buy fire arms at gun show. but there was a standoff between people and politicians on gunrall waiting on a national level. most americans want some restriction around magazine, but federal law makers are gridlocked along hardest in life magazine. it's pretty clear when you have 90 percent of the people supporting something and you can't get that pass in congress, there's really something something terribly wrong. he says he has consoled so many families who have lost children in school shooting since columbine,

that he has little faith that federal politicians will act to day. he carries a piece of daniel with him. so he was wearing that couple so one thing i wanted, when they finally returned his belongings, he was the same shoe sizes me. so to me was very symbolic. that i'm walking and daniel shoes. and he will continue to walk. he says, until significant action is taken to protect lives like his sons. ah, ukraine, it says as many as 200 of its soldiers are being killed every day. but the war in the east rapidly becoming an artillery battle. ukrainian officials are urgently calling for more heavy weaponry. according to the government, in kiva, russia has between 10 and 15 times as much artillery equip. moscow's focus remains the eastern dome beth region, which has been partly occupied by. busy for

a russian separatist since 2014 the un says at the trial of 3 foreign fighters by a pro russian court could amount to a war crime. the comments come after a court in the self proclaimed, don't ask people's republic sentence the 3 men, 2 of them from the u. k. one for morocco to death. it alleges they were mercenaries, and therefore not prisoners of war. western nations have denounced the trial calling the court a sham and a breach of the rules of bohemia. hardoon is one of the 3 men sentenced to death. his friend mo, as i've gone saddam has started a social media campaign to press for his release. and he joins me now from keith. it's good to have you on the program. i know you've been talking to a lot of people the day trying to get your, your,

your message out and want us to go back a little bit. can you tell me when, when was the last time you you heard from bohemia and what did he did he give you any idea of what he was about to do? the last time i heard about bry him was march the 27th. he didn't ride much because unfortunately his phone was broken and he was asking some of his friends to pass the phone so that he can just update me in his closed ones. so he just wrote phone messages, which for hey, i'm fine. i'll be ok. i just don't have internet and you knew that he was going to join the military and to fight for ukraine, and that, that was clear. yes, i did know that. and there's documents to prove that because you know what this court said. it said that these 3 men were mercenaries and not prisoners of war,

but there is documentation to prove that they were fighting for the ukrainian military or is there not? there is a documentation and i have copies of those documents. and why did boy he, why did he want to go and fight? did he, did he talk to you about that? yeah, yeah, no pricing had that you know like, well, we are so soul and he wanted so he just was feeling kind of useless. so he wanted to kind of give back to the community and also have this sort of experience in his life because he's so young and he doesn't, he doesn't know what he wants to do live. so that's one of the things that you want to try out. what did you think when you found out that he was going to go and help the military fight against russia?

and i was against that. i mean, he just, during the military he ran, there was no war that i was against that. but you know, at that time we were not close enough so that my, you know, like my opinion can, could somehow effective decision. and what about now you are trying to use social media to, to get him released or at least to save his life. tell me a little bit about that. well, i've started a campaign called save brought him. and we know that social like me, is a key. so if we want to get connections, if you want to get connected, some institutions that are able to help them, we should go public. so safe brought him, campaign is about going public and it's working pretty well. we already have over

20000 life. so the proof of on the post that we have and you know, lots of media are getting in touch plus lots of institutions that are willing to help. we have only some influential people involved and which is all positive, but you know, i wanna ask you, it is a difficult question. more as you know that your friend bry, he, he has been sentenced to death by this court. i mean, he could, he could, he could die because of what has happened. yeah, i mean i take it very seriously, but at the same time i try to say as optimistic as possible because this is a very hard moment and i don't want it to kill me. i wanted to make me stronger and make me one step closer to my friend. well, we certainly wish you all the best and wish you all the best in, you know,

trying to save friends. life was one so not a friend of the ukrainian soldier, bro, he so we certainly appreciate your time tonight as well. thank you. thank you. 2. ah, this week russians are celebrating the 350. it's birthday of peter the great, a giant figure in russian history. he was czar from 168221725. he built the city of st. petersburg as russia's window to europe were to day with rushes, international ties in tatters. officials are downplaying that side of peter the great, instead of focusing on his efforts to transform russia into a great power. now that is not lost on vladimir putin. on thursday, he visited an exhibition in moscow dedicated to the early life of the russian czar

. after signing the guest book fulton met with a group of young entrepreneurs in, started developed during the q and a photon drew a striking parallel that he and peter, the great surprise, shared the same historic requests recognition of income with pay to the grateful the northern wolf a 21 years ago, some might say he was fighting to seize territory from sweden. he wasn't seizing anything. he showing that he was taking it back. rachelle took by this. that was what i show you could reclaiming and consolidating. that's what he was doing. so now it seems that it's our turn to reclaim and to consolidate. to paula was i, she threw, could it be at the convenient when vladimir putin launched his so called special military operation, he claimed that his aim in ukraine was in part d notification. now, after putin's high praise for peter,

the great he says moscow's real objective is clear. old school conquests. president zalinski is adviser, mccullough ali yuk, tweeting this today, take a look at this hooton's confession of lan seizures and comparing himself with peter the great prove. there was no conflict, only the country's bloody seizure under contrived pretext of people's genocide. we should not talk about saving russia's face, but about it's immediate. d, imperialist zation. ah, the days almost down the conversation is continues online to find us on twitter. either the w news, you can follow me on twitter at brit dot tv. i remember whatever happens between now and then, tomorrow is another day, have a very good weekend. everybody. ah

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