your queens. fabulous. i want to thank everyone for being here. this is a table of sisterhood and friendship. i think we should have a toast. >> can i just say one thing. i'm gonna trying to not get emotional. >> too late. too late. >> for so long, so many of us at this table have said, somebody, anybody singing a black girl song. and you all saying that some. >> chairs. >> we love you. >> chairs. >> here's to black women. >> yeah! ! >> to black women! >> nearly six and ten americans think trump should be charged with a crime for his role on january 6th. we now know mike pence was also almost assassinated by the mob. i'll speak to olivia troye about accountability.

my interview with ukraine's former president about what is going to take to end russia's brutal invasion of his country. why is florida governor ron desantis undermining covid ccination efforts again and endangering the lives of young children in the process? also, isn't it time for universal health care? good evening, i'm mehdi hassan, what did the president know and what did he know -- that was the seminal question that drove the watergate hearings, amazingly current events make this weekend's anniversary since five burglars were caught trying to break into the headquarters at the watergate complex here in washington, d. c.. it makes that question as fresh and relevant as ever and if the arms of the senator beg the question about what nixon knew, was well nixon knew everything today he was implicated in it

all, drawing parallels between the hearings and the january six public hearings that are now unfolding half a century over so far this select committees presenting compelling evidence that that president donald trump knew he lost the election, and that president trump knew's election fraud, they knew the plot over joe biden's election was illegal among constitutional evidence that trump was cheating around pence letting him down even after he knew he had breached the capitol. and yet, despite all of that trump went ahead with his scheme, his plot, his tweets the whole january 6th attack on democracy anyway, and while richard nixon resigned rather than face impeachment. while nixon left opposite of his own volition, -- trump probably wants to be president again. and turn that up at a right-wing conference the day after the third 16. hearing the day after the

president's mob admitted wanting to murdering his vice president. and it seemed to just admit to the whole thing. the pressure campaign on pants, and on attorney general bill barr. have a listen, talk about saying the quiet part out loud. >> mike pence, had a chance to be great. he had a chance to be frankly historic, but just like bill barr in the rest of these week people, mike, and i say it sadly because i like them. but mike did not have the courage, to act. bill barr was afraid of certain things, and do you know what they were! please don't impeach me, don't i said please, what's wrong with being impeached, got impeached wants. and my poll numbers went up. >> trump called pence a human conveyor belt. whatever that means. for overseeing the certification and refusing to reject electoral votes over trump's false claim of voter fraud. look, there's never been a bigger or more important story

in american history than this. i wish we could talk about something else on this show other than donald trump, but to be clear on this 50th anniversary of the watergate break in. to avoid impeachment over planning a botched to bit burglary. it was a big scandal, the biggest scandal, the biggest crime ever seen or imagined by an american president. and it pales in comparison to what trump did - water gates a walk in the park next to the january 6th attack on american democracy. and the almost a saturated american vice president, at the hands of a mob incited by the american president. so, there's a lot riding on these hearings. this week the committee is set, as it passed, to show how the pressure campaign began at the state level. will remember trump's phone call to georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger.

when he asked them to find 11,000 votes. it was only after the campaign and key swing taste like georgia failed, the trump began to pressure the vice president mike pence, it was his final, desperate measure. his last gasp, and when that didn't work, when pence actually decided to do his job and to certify the presidential electoral ballots, trump publicly attacked his own vice president, and didn't seem to care if that got him killed. trump incited a mob -- pence's execution, and came within 40 feet of finding the vice president at the capitol. 40 feet. it boggles the mind how closely pence managed to escape. so, the doj prosecute trump for any of this, a new poll suggests that nearly 60% americans think he should face prosecution for what one federal judge ruled was felony obstruction. this isn't rocket science, this shouldn't be so hard, donald trump according to that judge, david carter, was illegally obstructing congress and conspiring to defraud the u.s. government. as well as the judge said, john eastman, there is a reason why we discover this week the 16 committee that the trump legal

advisor, eastman, trying to hop on the pardon list, if that still in the works he asked. and a meme was born. and the other human being in this scenario, would be denying all that, would be running from the cameras, keeping their head down. but not donald trump, the man that incited a mob to assault congress, to keep himself in power, and failed to do so. now says that if he succeeds in returning to power, he'll pardon the members of that mob. i can't make this stuff up. >> most people should definitely not be treated the way that you've been treated. and if i become president some day, if i decide to do it, i will be looking at them very, very seriously for pardons. very, very seriously. [applause] >> donald trump hadn't even won the white house when he declared that he can shoot someone on fifth avenue

and not lose a single voter. he must survive the impeachment, and still could escape prosecution by merrick garland's doj. as this week's forced public hearing on tuesday should remind us, there's always georgia, because in georgia -- fani willis could bring charges against him for that notorious phone call to raffensperger, a special grand jury has been convened to hear evidence in the case. but for now, as american democracy stands on the cliff's edge, the former and perhaps next president is acting with, what's the word i'm looking for, impunity. he's acting with impunity. >> he's essentially saying yeah, i didn't all do it again. which is what we've been contending all along. that if you allow impunity for attempts at unconstitutional seizures of power, which is what a coup is, then you're inviting it again in the future. and to be a strong self-sustaining, self

respecting democracy, we cannot allow people to decide that they're above the law, that they're more important than our constitutional processes. >> we cannot allow people to decide they are above the law. >> joining me now is olivia troye, former top aide to then vice president, mike pence, she's now a chief strategist for the renewed american movement. olivia, thanks for coming back on the show you of course work for mike pence, you are sitting in the hearing room. could you were sitting in the hearing room on thursday, how shocked -- by how close mike pence is -- only 40 feet away from discovery by the mob? >> i was appalled. i have been following this very closely the past year, how this

was progressing, hoping that there be accountability for these actors, who were in this inner circle who lettuce that violent moment on january six. to hear that, so clearly delineated -- i knew it was close but to see greg jacobs reaction as well. mike pence's general counsel, say that he could hear the mob chanting, he could hear it but he himself did not know how close they came until that moment at the hearing. and to be honest, mehdi, i had to look away the footage. it's just hard to hear regardless of where you are politically. just knowing that the president of the united states let this happen, enabled it, and did nothing nothing to stop it. had nothing to prevent it from continuing on. and put its own vice president life at risk. it is the stuff -- this is not something you would expect and what we are the beacon of democracy --

international committee would say about this today. >> olivia, committee member jamie raskin called mike pence a hero. betty thompson heat -- for his courage, although to be clear, mike pence was just to have on january the six, whatever he did on january the six, 18 months later he continues stay silent. he doesn't show up to the committee hearings, can we hear from mike pence right now, adam schiff is saying today that there is a chance pence could be subpoenaed to testify? >> yes, i've been calling for mike pence to come forward and speak publicly about this and address it throughout the past. year if it were up to me, had he should've come forward on january 7th, and said this is everything that i happen before hand, it almost led to my own death. we gotta put a stop to this, a stolen election narrative. i do think it's important to hear from mike pence, greg jacob and mark short were on the waiting staff, they've shared a lot of the details, but i think it is a powerful thing to hear from mike pence himself. also, because the stolen election narrative continues,

it lives on today and that's why this hearing is so important, still. they are candidates, running across the country that are election deniers they're running -- prior to january six trying to hold office. this fall, and that should be very alarming to all of us. >> i'm glad you mentioned the election across the country, it's very easy to focus our ire and outrage on donald trump. but sadly, the republican party that you remember of, establishment wing is also complicit in all of this. we know about kevin mccarthy's hundred and 18 degrees uterine, from january six which have since been leaked and now is loyal to trump and he's against the committee, we had king as a -- committee member saying the republican party failed the american people you have senators like bill haggerty,

who posted over the weekend about playing golf with trump. at the end of the week, in which we learn new details about trump's role in all of this. this is the 50th anniversary of watergate, olivia, republican senators and members of congress right in the other direction of nixon water gate bro, that's a force -- towards trump to play golf without, even after they knew about how mike pence was almost killed. >> yeah, i keep hoping the tide will turn, watergate, i believe the hearing started in the spring of 1973, wasn't until july believe, of 1974 that the republican caucus finally turned against nixon, and so here we are, about a year and a half after january six, is there hope for that, i don't think. so because we're watching -- the texas gop base at the

convention this weekend. boo senator cornyn because he stands on gun safety, after a mass shooting, they're upset with him for that, are you kidding me. and your downing dan crenshaw, get attacked by pride boy members, i believe, where does the violence end, and then you have donald trump, doubling down on statements that are encouraging that type of behavior. so, haggerty hanging out with them, aren't you ashamed, aren't you ashamed behind me out with somebody who basically did everything but pretty much stage a coup, against our country, so i think the question is will the tide turn against republicans, so far i don't see that happening? >> last quick question, donald trump was leading in a poll for the presidential election in 24 -- the same time we're learning about his efforts to overturn the election. the mind almost boggles. he could be the next president of the united states. >> he could be. and, look shortly before the 2020 election, i came forward and i said we will no longer be america if we had four more years of trump.

when i fail to really process then, was the fact that trump -ism as a movement had taken hold across the country. and that trump was unwavering league and i remain the leader of the republican party. and that going forever would be in the same scenario, where he could very well be the nominee, the republican nominee in 2020. for i think that's where it's gonna take all of us, to take a stand against this. >> olivia troye, as ever, thank you for your time, i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> on tuesday, join us on the msnbc hub on peacock for the next january the 6th hearing, special coverage kicks up with me at 12 pm eastern, continues with katie tour, andrea mitchell, -- 3 pm eastern followed by the hearing alive in full steam in the january six committing tuesday on peacock. still ahead, my conversation with the former president of ukraine, petro poroshenko, don't miss that.

that but first, gigi stone woods here with the headlines. hello. >> hello mehdi, here's the top stories we're watching from msnbc headquarters. police are searching for the suspect responsible for a deadly drive-by shooting at a family barbecue in san antonio, texas. authorities say the gunman fired off 20 to 30 rounds, as they drove past, killing at least two people, five people were also wounded. it's still unclear if the shooting was targeted. french president emmanuel macron, -- lost its majority in parliament following a runoff vote on saturday. far right and left wing parties made big games however -- still expected to get the most seats. and white house national security jake sullivan tested positive for covid-19 saturday. the security council says that sullivan's not showing any symptoms, and has not been in close contact with president biden. we'll have more on the mehdi hassan show after this break,

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the european union. on friday, the blocks executive arm granted ukraine candidates status to join the union. also, this week, western leaders showed renewed support with uk prime minister, boris johnson, meeting president zelenskyy in kyiv on wednesday. that meeting was followed by visits from leaders of germany, france, italy and romania on thursday. speaking of leaders, president biden this week announced an additional one billion dollars in security assistance to support ukraine and the fight. will that be enough? as vladimir putin doubles down on the fight against the west. russia reduced the gas by have, that same, david's of two u.s. citizens that went missing while fighting in ukraine appeared on russian state tv. seeming to come from that they hadn't they'd been captured by the kremlin. it's been a big week of news in ukraine, but how and when does this conflict end? coming up, after a short break,

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away from the four month mark since the illegal russian invasion of ukraine began. earlier, i spoke to the former president of ukraine, petro poroshenko about the ongoing conflict and the prospect for a cease-fire. have a listen. >> petrov poroshenko, thank you for joining me on the show today, you have got the ukrainian death up from 100 a day to anywhere between 200 and 500 a day. which is a huge number, obviously, president zelenskyy says that there has to be a diplomatic end to this conflict. president biden recently said the same. what does that diplomatic end or solution look like in your view poroshenko? how does the compromise on ukrainian territory --

involved? >> you're absolutely right. you cannot find any mention in the world who wants peace more than we, the ukrainians. because we hate the idea every single day to ruin the lives of ukrainian heroes. i have experience. for five years of presidency, we were in constant dialogue pretending -- i just want to remind you. when i was elected president, the whole donbas was occupied. me, as a supreme commander in chief, deliberated from the russian troops -- mariupol, severodonetsk, lysychansk and all these towns which we have today. i want to assure you that in 2022, we will have the same result since 2014. what is that diplomatic solution? we have three positions. first, it should be the

cease-fire. together with the cease-fire, it should be second withdraw of the russian troops. and third, it would be the question of whether the forces should be in the humanitarian corridor. the ukrainian territory, and territorial territory of their be, subject to compromise. this is the ukrainian soil and ukrainian identical jurors argument in their. life >> i understand the point that you are making. and it's a principal position. russia shouldn't be allowed to take territory from ukraine. it is an illegal invasion and occupation. we agree on. that but, realistically, surely, you are the former president of ukraine. you accept that ukraine is going to get crimea back. it is never going to get parts of donbas back. that's just the real world, isn't it? >> one month ago, they kept, including in the nato member shape that we never can the

bloc fear. we can never receive back our knees. please, a little bit more optimism. because ukraine surprised the world with the first 103 days we stop the so-called second biggest army in the world. i am proud that me, as a supreme commander in chief, we created this armed forces based on the nato standard. we surprised the world. we, together with, you we surprised and created an anti-putin coalition. and now, putin, is not paying the high price. and with that situation, we need two or three things, trust, weapons, and ukraine doesn't need any nato soldiers. but we need weapons to have an effective operative of our armed forces. number two, this is the inception and barter and the total russian exports should be

subject of embargo. because 80% of russian exports are using the commercials for it. this is the program of deputation in the world now, with that situation, we are quite optimistic that we would have a success. and when russia understands that, that will be the wave of a diplomatic solution. >> president zelenskyy is seen as a hero in much of ukraine and much of the western world today. new and he haven't had the best of relationship in the past. he beat you in the 2019 election. his government has accused of treason, something new tonight. and you, of course, when you are running against him and even after you took office, you suggested that he was soft and weak on russia. do you still think that? and what do you make of president zelenskyy's leadership of ukraine over the course of this conflict? >> definitely, the world is separated before and after 24th of february.

before the 21st of february, they had the political motivation -- and many other things. there are consequences that we do not have any other priorities like to save ukraine, to stop putin and to the russians away from ukraine. and then we can discuss the political question and since then the president of ukraine has said that they are the leader of the second biggest problem in and we don't have any more president or leader of opposition. we have soldiers and bosses. me and presidents ellen ski our soldiers from soldier to soldiers who need to protect the country. and, definitely, we've had some in, so, called useful idiots who want to attack our unit. but, we do not allow them to

implement this scenario. >> petrov poroshenko, you know that russia and vladimir putin want the world to believe that ukraine, your country is filled with nazis. that's what they say which is a nonsense. the even ridiculously accused the president of your country being a nazi. yet, at the same, time yourself, your critics would say have invoked the ukrainian nationalists who is antisemite with nazi germany on this network that you call molotov cocktails, some of these that you've been accused of handing out military vehicles called bandera mobiles. what do you say to the critics who say that that's not just morally wrong but a pr gift to russia. it helps their narrative about your country. >> i have a personal experience to have a negotiation with putin within five years. and, i have two recommendations. recommendations on her one, don't trust, putin don't

believe putin. because this is the concept of lies. this is the russian propaganda as the element of force against the cold war. and, second position, please don't be afraid of putin. because putin will go as far as we allow when to go. help us to save you. help us to save the world. because, putin will have a war against ukraine. we have to walk against the old world. and you have the information. because from the very beginning, putin said that they will go to -- >> petra poroshenko, i agree with you that vladimir putin is pushing propaganda. i agree with you that he's trying to smear the ukrainian people. all i'm asking is was it helpful for someone like yourself to be invoking stephen mondaire who wasn't collaborating during world war ii? >> first of all, please don't stay on the rail of putin. stephan bundler was never a --

and, yet you have all the information. because yet, in the first two, weeks he said that -- now he said that the western world you are not. and this is very easy to just cooperate and to understand. now, all western worlds have are fighting against dictatorship against aggression of russia's with a putin crazy mine. please, don't distribute this position. because this is how you help the country aggressor. >> petro poroshenko -- >> thank you for staying on. this >> look, look, look let's agree. i agree with. you vladimir putin is pushing propaganda. we are grow on that. but, the center and majors groups do believe that stephen was a nazi collaborator. but we'll leave that argument for another. day patrol portugal, former president of ukraine, we thank you. please stay safe. >> thanks a lot.

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authorized covid vaccines for children under five. meaning shots for tots can began immediately, at least 49 of our 50 states. one state did in order any covid vaccines for kids ahead of time, that state is florida. surprise. gop governor ron desantis said this week, he's affirmatively against the covid vaccine for young kids. he said kids are quote, the people that have zero risk of getting anything. not to be outdone on senator of texas also said this week that the virus poses minimal risk for children. neither desantis nor cruz or doctors of course, to not scientist, not epidemiologist, or virology. as and what they're saying is an outrageous and dangerous as it is flatly untrue. i for one frankly tired of this ridiculous argument that are much less likely than the elderly to die from covid, that

means they're not at risk at all. no, that's a dumb comparison, on that basis kids aren't at any risk for cancer either, because they're less likely to die from cancer than the elderly. are no, the only comparison we should be making is how deadly covid is to children, compared to other illnesses or things that kill kids. and covid, is that one of the top ten causes of death for children and young people in america. in terms of respiratory infectious diseases, it's the number one cause of death for american kids. look, we're not supposed to be okay or dismissive of kids dying from any illness. and yet, nearly 1500 american children have died from covid. an estimated half 1 million children may have long covid. i would ask desantis and cruised to leave the medicine to the doctors, and stick to the politics but instead politics it's driving they're ridiculous and ignorant interventions in the debate over vaccines. still, the rest of us should stick to getting our medical advice from medical experts. experts like doctor mark cline, professor of pediatrics and a physician in chief at the children's hospital of new

orleans, doctor cline joins me now, you have treated far too many children for covid in the icu. how do you feel when you hear non-doctors minimize the covid threat to children? >> mattie, it breaks my heart. it's absurdly, and demonstrably false to say that babies and toddlers are not severely affected by covid. we've seen thousands of children hospitalized across the united states. we've seen nearly 500 deaths among children under five years of age alone. and so, to say that kids don't get sick from covid, they're not at any risk whatsoever, as a governor and senator are sad, perpetuates a myth and is a denial of the lived experiences of thousands of families, virtually every health care professional in a major children's hospital in the u.s.. >> that math was bad enough in 2020, when we were new to all this, og covid if we want to call it that.

then came delta, then came omicron, the omicron tournaments been far worse for children than even delta. five times as many children were hospitalized at the peak of omicron, as the peak of delta, which suggests with omicron still spreading, that the risk to kids it is growing, not falling. and that this decision by the cdc the fda to approve the vaccines under pfizer, or will literally save lives. >> that's right, young children are being hospitalized at a rate comparable to middle aged adults at this point. omicron has really heavily impacted young children in particular. and here we have experts by the fda, and the cdc, who've unanimously recommended that these two vaccines, one made by moderna, the other by pfizer, to be authorized and recommended for children under five years of age. we have politicians who think they know better. i agree with what you said in

the opening, let's leave those kinds of recommendations to the experts, to people who spent their entire career studying infectious diseases, and epidemiology. >> on saturday, doctor cline, you tweeted this quote, many politicians have gone from simply neglecting children to actively and intentionally undermining their health and safety. think covid vaccination, gun violence, and transsexual adolescents, you called out iran descendants -- desantis, governor greg abbott. these are people who claim to care about kids. they call themselves pro-life, the reaction to the pandemic was to obsess over the harm that the kids by school closures. when it comes to actually protecting children, with vaccines, they're undermining the messaging. how harmful is their rhetoric, are these comments that they're making to the health of american children? >> it's awful. it's undermining everything we're trying to do to mitigate the risk of this virus for children.

to reduce or eliminate preventable that. these are the cornerstones of pediatric practice. and the practice of public health. and we're working against our political leaders, who seem to be playing to political constituencies, rather than concerning themselves with the health and lives of children in their communities. and so, i find it disgusting, one of the things about this is if either governor desantis or senator cruz had taken even five minutes to place a call to one of the children's hospitals, in their state, and talk to a pediatric infectious disease, our critical care specialties they'd find out, that in fact the virus is impacting children in a significant way, causing deaths, they obviously haven't done that. >> such an important point that they refused to actually speak with experts. in fact, this war on experts

and scientists has reached a point, i wonder, quick last question, what do you make of the fact that -- demonization of doctor, scientists, epidemiologist during the pandemic. you have fox and others on the right gleefully locking doctor anthony fauci, after he tested positive for the virus this week. >> well, i think we're gonna see the impact of -- to come. already, the anti-vaccine movement has been empowered by the governor, the senator and others. we're seeing opposition to retain vaccinations, and i think this is gonna have an impact for decades. >> doctor mark kline, will have to leave it there, thank you so much for coming on to the show tonight. i appreciate it. >> thank, you mehdi. >> next, the best way the u. s. can prepare for the next pandemic is to do something -- every western country in fact guarantees, except us. stick around for that.

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taken a devastating toll on the united states, it has now infected over 86 million americans and claimed more than 1 million lives. there are a number of reasons as to why our country has handled the pandemic so much worse than most other western countries including four presidential leadership in the trump era, and the anti-vaccine republican governments, ali of information from the likes of fox and facebook. we also need to talk about the elephant in the room, universal health care, or are lack of universal health care. compared to other large high income countries, the u.s. had the highest death rate per capita from the virus. and it's also the only one among such countries without universal health care. the result of that, a new study released this week found that if we had a single universal health care in the senate, everybody had free universal health care like they do in every other western country, we

could've saved more than 100 billion dollars, and more importantly, we could've saved more than 330,000 american lives, 300,000. how can that be? well, here in america lot of people's health insurance is tied to their employment, with the pandemic up millions lost their jobs, and their insurance. that didn't happen in other countries, as for those americans that still have health insurance through an employer, the fear of bruising that inference during a pandemic, might cause them to still go to work even when they didn't feel well. these factors both delayed diagnosis and exasperated transmission of the virus, but in addition to preventing illness and death universal health care system could also have cut out costs. the u.s. spent almost twice as much on health care per capita as other wealthy countries. but spend that money really inefficiently, we see that debate that u.s. could actually say more than 400 billion dollars with a single page universal plan during a non-pandemic year. the lead author of this new study, professor at yale, told the guardian quo, universal

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we'll be right back here next sunday you cannot find the show on msnbc on peacock and stream it anytime you episodes of the man he has found joe on peacock will post every weekend monday through thursday, now it's time to handed over to my friend ayman mohyeldin. amen, first off, happy father's day. secondly -- >> happy father's day to you to. >> thank you very much, secondly, i've been thinking this weekend about that very funny name that says i don't think that the members of the face eating leopard party, because i've been watching the latest antics from the texas state gop convention in houston.

dan crenshaw was confronted by even more protesters, using tucker carlson's nickname for. am i'm patch mccain, right-wing senator ted cruz was heckled, but even right -- protester who called cruz a globalists. also if a term of tucker carlson in the far-right. this is the same texas gop convention where they adopted as their platform, came, in the position of the -- that joe biden's election was illegitimate, and homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle job. at what point do we say in, that this is not a normal political party, full of a lot of angry radicalized far-right man. >> yeah, i was gonna say this may be the moment, find a penny for every time the journal or post our conservator ransom how, it's tacking itself i would literally retire tomorrow. i wouldn't have to hang out with you on a sunday night. not that i don't enjoy my friend. but right here in front of us, again, is a concrete example of

the right, eating the right. it's surreal, think for a moment in your listing how just consider this for a moment, how unhinged you have to be to view people like that crenshaw, ted cruz, to be republicans -- who is their motto republican, marjorie taylor greene, so let me play for humanity, the sound of the gop crowd reacting to john cornyn, who got up to speed. this is how they treated him for humor-ing the idea of negotiating with democrats about gun safety. watch. >> [inaudible] our great state of texas [applause] >> look the senators literally being booed by the republican gop. putting aside all that chaos though, it's worth letting us know that the formal platform as you imagine, mehdi, voted on by this convention and in

addition to that homophobic language, new platform calls for a full repeal of the 1965 voting rights act. and they actually demand the referendum on whether texas should secede from the u.s. or not. so, i'll leave you with that my friend. every republican should come and condemn this this evening. >> and every reporter should ask a republican on capitol hill, do they agree with the texas gop state platform? >> you know that's not gonna happen. >> goodnight. goodnight, mehdi, enjoy the rest of your father's day. good evening to you and welcome to a special american even tonight. radical addition of a man, how trump's pressure campaign on -- we are going to explore a member of congress how it's been the day before the attack plus the justice department makes an explicit link between domestic terror attacks. and access to guns. then, far-right extremist targeting the lgbtq community