son-in-law jared kushner served as senior white house advisers and both testified before the committee. a videotaped deposition of ivanka trump discussing conversations with her father could provide new insights about her father's mindset that day. nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander has more on what we should expect tonight. sfwlfrmgts it was the most vooilt attack on the u.s. attack in more than 200 years and tonight in the very building where it took place, the house committee investigating the assault will lay out the initial findings in vivid tail for the american people. >> it was a multilevel, multi-step process of trying to negate and nullify and destroy joe biden's majority in the electorate college. >> tonight is an opening statement of sorts. first in a series of severn hearings to show how donald

trump's obsession and repeated false claims of voter fraud laid the foundation for the deadly siege. leading off tonight's hearing expected to run two hours in prime time, new video of the attack. as well as live testimony from a british documentary filmmaker, embedded with members of the proud boys who captured the chaos. the night's first in-person witness captain police officer caroline edwards. she suffered a brain injury after she was knocked down by rioters. >> those images, the smells, the yelling, the chaos, the blood, i mean it was -- that day was a war zone. >> reporter: the committee is also expected to show recorded testimony from some of the 1,000 other key witnesses interviewed including the former president's daughter ivanka and her husband jared kushner.

trap allys have blasted the hearing. >> this is a smear campaign. >> reporter: but overnight new audio recordings provided by the book "this will not pass" reveal kevin mccarthy less than a week after the january 6 attack on a call with gop members. criticizing mr. trump and speaking in support of a bipartisan commission to investigate the riot that he and his party now oppose. >> we cannot just sweep this under the rug, we need to know why it happened, who did it and people need to be held accountable for it. >> peter alexander reporting there. we're getting a look at new video, never before seen video presented at tonight's hearing. nbc news obtained some of the material from quest ed and it shows a group of trump supporters transforming into an angry mob. it shows rioters outside of the

capital building and follows the protesters as they overpower capitol police officers before rushing inside of the building. meanwhile brad raffensperger is set to testify. he was thrust into the center of former president trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election after trump asked him on tape to find the votes needed to undo president biden's win in georgia or a reminder, they counted the votes three times in the state of georgia, once by hand and joe biden won each time. >> and republicans are attempting to undercut the committee. casting it as a partisan body targeting trump so that he's not a viable presidential candidate in 2024. in recent days, republican critics have opened a new line of attack. focusing on the committee's hiring of former abc news executive james goldstein to

help choreograph the hearings. they say enlisting the help of a media professional demonstrates the committee's priority is a tv spect acle and not a fact-finding endeavor. >> such idiots. >> they would do the same thing if they wanted to have a hearing that helped tell a story of the sub version of american democracy and help communicate it effectively. someone in the news business, a journalist, not a movie producer, it's -- it is ridiculous. >> well they're desperate. like i said earlier this week, marco rubio, little children are gunned down in uvalde schoolroom and he attacks the nba. it is really just bizarre.

and then january 6 committee, he's attacking a former news producer. which shows you it is all about distraction. and americans really do need to stop and just say, my god, what kind of political party would actually oppose -- could we show some video of the that january 6 video? because this new video, we're going to see more of this. why doan they want the truth? why don't they want americans to know the truth? where are they afraid to know the truth? why don't they want the truth to be let out there? and why don't they believe that truth is the best disinfectant and if you know the truth, the truth will set you free. >> why don't they believe this is bad. >> well, yeah, because they did at one point. on january 6th they thought this was horrible. kevin mccarthy thought it was horrible. >> it is horrible. >> lindsey graham thought it was horrible and so did mitch

mcconnell and still said it is horrible. but this is a mob that donald trump set loose, let loose. this is a mob that they predicted was going to happen. time and time again. and i want to bring in kurt bardella, a former spokesperson for the house oversight committees. he's adviser to the dnc and the dccc. and what will remembers do if we don't have to do the if. we don't have to do the if. you were there. you saw what they did. going after hillary clinton when all they talked about was benghazi which is a tragic eept, but it was not the storming of the united states capitol. it wasn't a attempt to overthrow american democracies but the republicans wone admit it. if you look at hillary clinton's approval numbers they went down since we started our benghazi

committee, it was naked partisanship and here they have a committee that wanted to be bipartisan and be bicameraal and republicans would not cooperate other than adam kinzinger and liz cheney. so what do the democrats need to do. republicans are standing in the way of it and will condemn them for that. but what do democrats need to do to make sure the truth gets out? >> well i'll tell you, joe, this proceeding is unlike anything we've ever seen before. because unlike things like whether it was watergate or 9/11 or even benghazi, the hearing isn't part of the investigation. it is about conclusions and this committee is prepared to show case those conclusions. and unlike everything we've seen before this, we won't have the republican games manship, where they try to interrupt the hearing, try to derail the proceeding and bring up inain and topics that aren't related to it and try to misdirect

people. they surrendered their right to be a part of these proceedings by walking away from it. so we'll have a united dais, who believes in telling the truth and exposing the truth about what happened and i think that run of the reasons why you're seeing republicans act this way, is because they know the most damning part of what we're going to hear today is going to come from republicans. >> from republicans. >> they have more -- >> that is a great point. that is a great point. that the worst admissions, the worst testimony, the most damning testimony will come from republicans, will come from people inside of donald trump's own white house. and i want you to talk about that. and i also want to you talk about, again, remind our viewers that democrats tried to get a

bicamera, a bipartisan committee to investigate this. joe manchin was enraged at republicans and kept going back to mitch mcconnell going you all have to have a bicamera -- and republicans wouldn't do it in the senate. and they wouldn't do it in the house. they kept moving the goalpost. so again, democrats tried to make this bipartisan. republicans don't want it to be bipartisan. >> well that is what we have to remember. is we hear republicans tonight crying line about this being as they call it a witch hunt. we tried to put forth a 9/11 trial commission that was bipartisan, bicameraal and they walked away from it. but the way this committee has been functioning is right down the middle. the staff is majority minority, and working together and the investigators are working together. this is not partisan. this is a thorough investigation that has been conducted by professionals, national security professionals and investigative

professionals, this is not partisan. and when you look at the depositions, this is the key to the proceedings, the videotaped depositions and many who were close to the republicans who are republican, would worked in the white house, when you have these type of depositions, joe, they turn into confessionals. the witness tends to want to unburden themselves because they're so repulsed by what happened and watching what has unfolded since then and i think we're going to see not just in the proceedings but afterwards, people who have not spoke to enthe committee will watch what happened and see who spoke out, see who spoke up and they will volunteer to cooperate going forward. >> this committee has already performed 1,000 depositions and interviews and collected 136,000 pages of documents. a lot to work with. let's bring into the conversation new york time congressional reporter luke broadwater his hearings putting trump at the center of the plot

that will result in the capitol riot. let's dig into your reporting a little bit here. there is a narrative, a whitewashing of what happened on january 6, despite what we know from reporting and from public information, that republicans will say this was a protest that got out of hand. that there was something spontaneous about the way that it rolled out but when you report in your new piece it was a coordinated plot whose outcome was to overturn the 2020 election. >> yes, absolutely. and i think you could look at this in two ways. one there is almost undoubtedly a coordinated campaign to keep donald trump in office. through a number of steps. and i think the committee will start laying out some of these findings tonight in their initial hearing. we know about the initial attempts to challenge the election, the courts, but after all of those fail, after the 60

lawsuits fail, they start moving to other strategies to keep donald trump in power. they come up with a plan to use fake electors in seven different states. we may hear about that tonight. and they wanted to seize voting machines to try to get the widespread voter fraud that they couldn't find. they tried to put pressure on the justice department, maybe even ousting the acting attorney general. and finally when everything else fails, it turned to pressure on mike pence at a massing acrowd at the capitol on january 6. really when you think about it, the only reason anyone ever came to the capitol on january 6, no one has ever thought of this in previous elections, because donald trump told them to be there. and i think you'll see video tonight about pre-planning among those people who attacked the capitol and in which their relying on donald trump's public statements and specially one

tweet he sent on december 19th to sort of rally the masses to d.c. that day when they were very angry and then they were directed to march towards the building to put pressure specifically on mike pence and the members of congress. >> there is a lot of focus, luke, and questions around republican members of congress and their potential roles in planning this. there has been those reports from democratic members that they saw some of their republican colleagues giving tours of the capitol building the day before the attack. what is your sense of whether actual sitting members of congress may be implicated in this report, in this presentation? >> i have not heard that tonight we will see republican members of congress implicated in any way beyond spreading the big lie. so trying to challenge the election through overturning it by rejecting votes from certain -- legitimate votes from certain states through congress.

i do not think we'll see tonight plans between members of congress androters to attack the building. i don't believe the committee has found that. that said, there is sort of a nonviolent atem to overturn the election which is just as bad as the violent attempt at one gives way to the other. so once nonviolence fails, then violence takes over. the goals are the same. it is to keep donald trump in power. it is to reject legitimate votes for joe biden. and you will see testimony tonight about the human impact of that plan and with the testimony of at least one of the witnesses who is a capitol police officer who suffered a traumatic brain injury and has continued to suffer from fainting spells in the months afterwards and she has a compelling story that i think will be powerful for the

american public to hear. >> all right, luke broadwater thank you so much. greatly appreciate it. and former spokesperson for the house oversight committee kurt bardella, thank you as well. always great to have you with us. >> and it was a very emotional day of testimony in the house about the horrors of gun violence. survivors and family members of victims of the recent mass shootings in uvalde, texas, and buffalo, new york, told their devastating stories before lawmakers. 11-year-old mia ser illo had a prerecorded video about how she covered herself with a dead classmates blood and then played dead to avoid being shot to death during the massacre at her elementary school. >> when i went to the back, he shot my friend that was next to

me and i thought he was going to come back to the room so i got blood and put it all over me. >> if there was something that you want people to know about that day and about you, or things that you want different, what would it be? >> to have security. >> do you feel safe at school? why not? >> because i don't want it to happen again. >> and you think it is going to happen again? >> she's not the same little girl i used to play with and hang around with and do everything because she was daddy's little girl. i wish something will change. not only for our kids, but every single kid in the world because schools are not safe any more. >> and uvalde's own pediatrician testified in graphic detail about treating the victims after

the slaughter. he pleaded with lawmakers to act on gun safety legislation. >> i chose to be a pediatrician and take care of children. keeping themself from preventible deass i could do. keeping them safe from bacteria and brittle bones i could do. but making sure our children are safe from guns, that is the job of our politicians and leaders. in this case, you are the doctors. and our country is the patients. we're lying on the operating table riddled with bullets like the children of robb elementary and so many other schools and we're bleeding out and you're not there. my oath as a doctor means that i signed up to save lives. i do my job. and i guess it turns out that i am here to plead, to beg, to please, please do yours. >> willie, this pediatrician also testified that he tried to

go see to children in the hospital who had been shot in the massacre, and found them pulverized, was the word he used. >> unrecognizable. >> decapitated. so these guns, which again blow up flesh, are the guns that republicans are standing by and holding close to them. they're hugging their guns rather than their children. the house passed a slate of new gun safety measures in response to this series of mass shootings across the country, but, willie, who knows what will happen when it goes to the senate? >> yeah, unfortunately i think we know what will happen. if it won't get 60 votes it needs to pass. it is staggering to heard to that testimony from 11-year-old mia who is changed forever and the pediatrician to listen as anetta everhart whose son was

shot, one in his neck and back and leg and i invite you members of congress to help me clean his wounds. that is the rest of our lives. and to stay then and to hear that and go out and talk about, well we do need guns out on the the prayer to shoot prairie dogs and on the ranches to shoot var mines. and you could carry that with a shotgun, you don't need an ar-15. it is astounding to make that contrast. the protecting our kids act that you just mentioned passed in the house, 223-204. that was the vote. with five republicans joining and all but two democrats supporting it. the bill would raise the age to purchase semi-automatic weapons to 21 and restrict large capacity magazines and require all firearms to be traceable. bill now heads to the senate. but not expected in that body to be taken up. instead senate negotiators are

still working to craft a much more narrow measure designed to win enough bipartisan support to overcome that republican filibuster. so we'll see where that lands in the senate. mika. >> also ahead this hour, we're going to be joined by house majoritier steny hour. we'll ask him about the new gun legislation. also coming up, ceo's from a number of major u.s. companies are joining the gun debate. with a new plea to congress. andrew ross sorkin will join us to explain that ahead. and as we go to break, there are new developments in the new york attorney general's civil probe into the trump family business. former president trump and two of his children don jr. and ivanka are now set to testify on july 15th. each member of the family will testify separately. and the date could change if the state's court of appeals issues a stay. we'll be right back. a stay we'll be right back.

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inflation is -- is the bane of our existence. inflation is mostly on food and in gasoline. at the pump. >> that is what kills you, because it is a little billboard telling everyone how expensive everything is. if donald trump leaves one of those sharpies over for you, you could maybe change the price on that, i know. >> everybody said biden won't let them drill. they have 9,000 drilling sites that they've already owned that are there. they're not doing it. you know why, because they make money buying back their own stock. >> 25 past the hour. that was president biden letting off steam about inflation with jimmy kimmel last night and this morning more people are feeling it even worse at the pump. the national average gas price is creeping closer to $5 a gallon. nearly $2 higher than a year ago. with 19 states already seeing

their own average higher than that, three more than yesterday. now the pinch is pushing some drivers to get creative and change habits. sam brock has more. >> reporter: for a nation that feels like it is stuck right now in gas gridlock, many drivers aren't sitting idle with soaring costs. they're getting creative. >> my salary hasn't changed so i car pool with my sister to work. one week she drives and one week i drive. >> and college students like gabby are crafting new systems for getting together. >> we all go in one car so that it is not $20 each person spending their gas. >> reporter: car pools and car swaps -- >> i just bought a motorcycle because now for $20 i use for three or four days so it saves me a lot. >> some families working more from home while stacking trips. >> we try to consolidate.

for example we're running errands now instead of perhaps just running to target and heading home. we're trying to hit a couple of stops. >> reporter: according to the consumer experts at nerd wallet, these are all common approaches to curbing gas costs. >> they're shifting to more plien purchases and doing errands online whenever possible. >> instacart or door dash charge delivery or service fees or both and even if that costs $5 or $10, it is still cheaper than a trip in a car. others on social media scoping out alternative forms of transportation. under the title when gas prices get too high. busting out kids cars and power wheels and go-karts. satire revealing at a time gas prices are so high bike sales are exploding. >> i've moved to the city, i don't need my car and can't

afford gas. >> an even police departments are under strain. this michigan sheriff's office is feeling the pain at the pump as well according to the facebook post and has advised deputies to handle nonurgent calls over the phone. a sign of the times as experts say those who need cars could keep some simple saving tools handy. gas stations offer credit cards and rewards that could net you $3 to $5 off and costco and some other places have regular deals and google maps is your friend to navigate based on fewer hills an traffic. they may not save from pump time dread. >> i've 50 and i've never seen it this high. >> every penny counts. >> sam brock reporting for us there. and let's bring in our friend andrew ross sorkin. the prices go up every day and we talk about when they may come back down. we're probably going to cross the national average tomorrow or

the next day, maybe. so is there any hope in sight? >> i hope to say it and i know we talked about it yesterday, i don't think there is, at least through summer months. i think the expectation is we could get over $6 to become a national average. and then you're talking about work from home. you think the stock of zoom should be going up but clearly the issue is that people are taking these unusual teps to try to save money. but it is not just saving money on gasoline that is the issue. it is saving money everywhere else that is the larger problem throughout the economy which there are people that still have to drive and they have less money to spend elsewhere. you might see companies like amazon which is also imposed a surcharge and even higher surcharge in the future on shipments and the like from third parties and others and i think that is something that you could start to see emerge over the next couple of months. and then you throw in the possibility of a hurricane or some kind of weather event this summer and we're starting to get

into that hurricane season, things get very complicated very quickly. and we have to hope that doesn't happen but there is no question that this is -- this is the economic problem and perhaps just as importantly in washington today, the political problem of the administration just can't get away from. >> as commercial impacts, but personal impacts. if you're thinking about a road trip or a vacation, the prices change your thinking about that. let me ask you about any reporting out of axios that said a new open letter is about to come down from 220 ceo's calling on the senate to take action on new gun laws. who are they and what are they saying? >> so this is a letter, it is an update from a letter that was published a couple of years ago by many of the same companies, saying we want some form of gun safety, new rules, new laws put in place. it is a little bit, i won't say -- it is very ambiguous. it does not take a position on what the laws should be.

and i think importantly it is worth noting some of the biggest companies in the country have not signed onto it and i speak to ceo's about this all of the time, there has been such an anxiety around publicly declaring, even if it is their position privately that there needs to be new laws put in place, that they're so worry about not just offending customers but offending politicians who they worry about will have some form of retribution against them. so many of them citing what has happened in florida with the governor there, governor desantis exacting retribution against disney for speaking out on the don't say gay bill but just recently a form of retribution taking away a tax benefit or a $35 million payment that was going to create a baseball stadium for a team that went to twitter and said we want gun safety. they didn't even say what they wanted in terms of a new law.

through said we want gun safety and that is enough for him to say, we're not paying for it. >> governor desantis taking money away from the rays. one of the home town teams, home state teams because of their tweets. andrew ross sorkin, thank you so much. we'll talk to you tomorrow. well, coming up, as we draw closer to tonight's prime time january 6 hearing, one question being asked, has the committee already failed in its mission. that is from one of this morning's must-read opinion pages. we'll read from that next on "morning joe." ng joe." finding the perfect project manager isn't easy. but, at upwork, we found him. he's in adelaide between his color-coordinated sticky note collection and the cutest boxed lunch we have ever seen.

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36 past the hour. many of the must-read opinion pages are about tonight's january 6 hearing. "the new york times" writes, the pete entitled, the january 6 committee has already blown it and david writes in part, thank

you, david. >> a little early, buddy. let's wait for the first pitch. >> well here is what he said. sorry boomers, but this is not the watergate scandal in which we need an investigation who find out who said what to whom in the oval office. the horrors of january 6 were out in public. the shocking truth of it was what we saw that day and what we've learned about the raw violence since. the core problem here is not the min issue of who texted what to mark meadows on january 6 of last year, the core problem is there are millions of americans who have three convictions. that the election was stolen, that violence is justified in order to rectify it and the rules and norms that hold our society together don't matter. those millions of americans are out there right now. i care more about their present and future activities than about their past. well i disagree because i think

what happened has to be laid out because it is wrong and it needs to be defined as wrong for those americans who see that they've been misled. no? >> a couple of things. first of all, let's actually let the hearing start before saying they failed. secondly, willie, i think for polite society, i think for a lot of people in the media, i think for democrats on both sides of pennsylvania avenue, they've got to readjust their thinking and they've got to stop judging the success and failure of investigations or hearings or their efforts based on the reaction from people who get their news from chinese religious cults, who actually believe that china -- >> facebook is a -- >> that china put bamboo in arizona ballot and that an

italian dude with a satellite somehow rigged elections. they believe that jewish space lasers that the roth child's created a jewish space laser and these are people in congress and also people that believe that jews and international bankers, they have launched a replacement theory to replace white people with migrants. of course, we've talked about that time and time again. this is a trend going on for 40, 45 years. and that has nothing to do with jewish international bankers and has everything to do with the demographics of this country. but again, democrats always freak out, what do we do about this, these people might think, these are people who believe that pedophiles are running hollywood and washington, d.c. these are people that cause

that -- that deranged guy to shoot up a pizza joint. i mean, this is not how you judge success or failure and i think that is a mistake. too often polite society in washington and new york and l.a., this is a mistake they're making. >> each example sounds like a southpark pariddy. that you just laid out that republicans and qanon followers have said and believe. but yeah, you're right. it is obviously too soon to judge what happens tonight and going forward with this committee. they've put in a lot of work. it is a year. we've laid out all of the statistics and the documents and the subpoenas they've issued. so let's watch it play out. and of course there will be a large portion of this country that tunes it out. they won't get a chance to watch it tonight for example on fox news but there are an awful lot of people who don't pay attention as closely as we do because it is our jobs. we'll get to see it all in one

place and get to make up their own minds. colbert king has a new piece in washington post with a little advice. it is entitled, please democrats, no show horses at january 6 hearing. he writed in port. the insurrection story could not be told by members preening for minutes before live cameras, their job is to restrain them sfld and act as a committee. because the january 6 hearings are not a show. the country needs to know who, both in washington and beyond was involved in the events leading up to and including the storming of the capitol. what were they seeking to achieve, how was the plan hatched and coordinated and if paid for, how and by whom. we might think we know the story. who hasn't seen the images on capitol and d.c. police, the rampage in the building, the senate chambers desecration, but how did the mob get rolling. it was it planned, spontaneous and more to the attack and what was the role of donald trump in

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you know, when you look at the killings and shootings in cities, there are many democratic cities. but when you look at the state,

they are the red states, when you look at what is happening in tulsa, the murder rate is three times the rate of los angeles. look at mississippi. you look at these rest states, they are under fire. but it is the cities within these red states that are dieseling with the violence. >> new york city mayor eric adams reminding us earlier this morning that gun violence isn't just a problem for blue states but house republicans are fiercely opposed to the slew of gun reform bills that passed the house yesterday. many of them if response to what happened in buffalo and uvalde. when slim odds of that legislation getting republican support in the senate, how could members of congress find solutions when they can't even agree on the problem. joining us now from capitol hill, house majority leader steny hoyer. thank you very much for joining us this morning. and i guess that is the question. how do find common ground on

responsible gun legislation. the house did just pass pretty good ideas that would help really address the problems of these mass shootings. >> you know, you're right, mika. extraordinarily hard to think of how we could reach common ground. when we have the overwhelming number of the american people, i a percentage is 75, 80, 90% of people saying that makes sense, to make our community safer. and we -- frankly the bill that we did yesterday that had six -- we believe common sense issues overwhelmingly supported by the public, didn't go as far as i would go. we eliminated assault rifles, there is no reason for an assault rifle, a gun that could be designed to kill a lot of people very quickly. nobody is using that for hunting purposes.

nobody needs that to defend their home. and a machine gun is outlawed. some of the things that we did yesterday, like eliminating the bump stocks, trump had an executive order on. so it is very hard to say that when we can't even get consensus on something that trump thought was necessary and appropriate to do, how we're going to get -- but we do have 13 republicans vote on one of the parts of the seven-part bill. we had a bipartisan bill that did in fact pay us with a number of republican votes. and is now being sent to the senate. but we sent background checks supported by 85% of the people who said yes it makes sense to make our communities safer to have everybody had a background check to terrorists don't get guns, people who have committed gun crimes who propose a threat don't get guns. it is very hard to see whether there is anything, anything that

the republicans feel they could vote for to make our communities safer other than making our schools fortresses, i think our schools ought to be secure. i think it makes sense to make sure the doors are locked and you need to have protocols in place. but it doesn't the ok corral in the united states of america, where the only answer is if good people had guns, then they could fight the bad people with guns. that's not the solution. and we are unique in the world in confronting this problem because we have this gun culture and fixation. unique in the world. no other country in the world. democratic country, small country, big country, none of them have the problem we have in america. and we ought to be able to deal with it. and these are ul -- all six of these propositions, common sense, not radical, no harm to

the second amendment, no harm to a person having a gun in their home or business to protect themselves or rifle to go hunting. none of these propositions adversely affect those rights. >> always good to talk to you. you're so right about this whole idea, a good person with a gun is all we need. it wasn't enough in buffalo. we had a lot of cops who were afraid to go inside in uvalde. a lot of kids bleeding out because of that. i am curious, steny, you've been in the house for a very long time. you've seen the ebb and flow of public opinion on guns. i'm curious, do you think we may be at a tipping point here? do you think you're starting to see, perhaps, a move towards more sensible public safety laws, gun safety laws? >> i certainly hope so. i pray for that. i said something yesterday that

i think is absolutely true. you know, we have a moment of silence and we have prayer. and we pray for the victims and we pray that this stops. and i pointed out that kennedy said, you know, god's work on earth must truly be our own. we must be the instruments of the answering of those prayers and making communities safer. i hope so, joe. but i will tell you, i have never seen either the congress or the country as polarized as i've seen it over the last few years. it is sad. and when you can't come to an agreement on common sense, we'll raise the age to 21, we'll eliminate bump stocks, we'll make sure we don't have trafficking and guns in our communities, elements like that, or the background checks, the universal background checks or say, look, we need to wait so we can find out whether this person has got a mental health problem

or a criminal or terrorist or has abused his partner or her partner. those are common sense things the american public says, of course we ought to be doing that, but we can't get the votes. it's very frustrating, joe. you wonder where we're going. >> leader hoyer, good morning. yes, sir, go ahead. >> all itself going to say, willie, to add to that is joe's question was, when you see these happening on a daily basis, it used to be a weekly or monthly or a number of times a year, but now it's almost on a daily basis that we have these mass shootings, these mass assaults on our communities. and almost every venue in our communities. you would think that that would galvanize the public to demand action from democrats and republicans. >> doesn't look that way so far. i want to ask you about tonight's hearing of the january 6th select committee. i know you're not on the committee but you are the

majority leader in the house. can you give us a preview of what we might see tonight? also you've seen and heard so much already over the last year and a half. do you have any doubt that some of your republican colleagues are responsible for what happened that day? >> i don't have any doubt that the president trump was responsible for what happened that day. i don't have any doubts that there was a conspiracy. it was not just a happenstance event, but that there was a planning that went into it and with an intent to stop the steal, as they called it. i call it stop the operations of our constitutional duties to count the votes for president of the united states and elect a president of the united states. so, i don't have any doubts of that. and, by the way, liz cheney has no doubts about that at all. liz cheney and i in voting probably have a voting record that's pretty far apart, but we both agree on that facts and truth ought to make a difference in a democracy.

it ought to inform voters of what people they want to support and what policies they want to see pursued. and that's what this commission is getting at. that's what i think these hearings are going to reflect to the american people. what happened, what's the truth, what's the facts, why did it happen, who participated. and i hope the american people take away from these hearings a sense they need to protect our democracy and our constitution by not allowing this kind of thing to happen ever again. >> house majority leader steny hoyer, thank you very much for being on this morning. now we want to take a quick look at some of the morning papers. we begin in washington state where the olympian details a new state law that allows students to take time off from school for mental health reasons. the new measure goes into effect next fall, will provide students an unlimited number of excused absences to use for mental

health needs. in utah, "the daily herald" reports a new study has revealed many people who vapor use e-kig rets can have chronic issues. it followed a number of people vaping found lung injuries and found they were at high risk of developing depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. in ohio, the columbus dispatch reports the federal trade commission has unanimously agreed to investigate pharmacy benefit managers. the so-called drug middlemen can have a huge impact on which drugs patients are prescribed, which pharmacies they can go to and how much they ultimately pay at those pharmacies. the probe will investigate their vast influence over the u.s. prescription drug system.

willie? the kansas city star has a front page story on clean-up efforts under way after several tornadoes touched down in that city yesterday. damage reported on both sides of the state line with at least 66,000 people losing power. thankfully, no injuries reported so far. in california the mercury news has a front page story with the headline asking this, newsom on path to higher office? the future looks into whether the state's governor will now set his sights on the white house after a strong showing in tuesday night's california primary. and finally, the boston globe celebrating the celtics' win last night in game three of the nba finals. the celtics topped the golden state warriors 116-100, now lead the series two games to one. that series continues with game four tomorrow night. that does it for us this morning. we'll see you right back here tomorrow morning. jose diaz-balart picks up the coverage on an important day after a quick final break. k.

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good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern. i'm jose diaz-balart. tonight for the first time, the house committee investigating the january 6th insurrection will make its case to the public. we'll talk with congressman pete aguilar about what we can expect to see and hear at tonight's