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police calling law enforcement's response to the rampage a, quote, abject failure. plus, the latest on the bipartisan effort to pass new gun legislation as the legislative text on a narrow set of provisions is released. there is hope. and we're keeping an eye on the markets as stock futures plummeted overnight after yesterday's rally. this, as president biden prepares to call on congress to approve a three-month gas tax holiday. we have a lot to get to, mika. we talk about the bipartisan gun legislation. we had chris murphy on, a democrat who's been a champion of gun safety reform for quite some time now, certainly since 2014. it's a small step forward, but it is a step forward. the senator corrected me and said, no, actually, this is a significant piece of gun legislation. i think it's something that, again, when we're looking at the

federal government, you look at the impact of the january 6th hearings, how effectively they've been run over the last several weeks and you look at this bipartisan piece of legislation on one of the most divisive issues in america, those are things to celebrate. >> we're definitely seeing something significant happening on guns. many would argue there's more to be done. >> there's a lot to be done still. >> this is a huge step. >> it's the first time, as he said, in a generation there's been any gun safety legislation with a possibility of passing both chambers. we start with the stunning new testimony about former president trump's pressure campaign on local officials in key background states to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. public hearing number four revealed evidence that trump was directly involved in trying to put forward alternate slates of

trump electors that he hoped would replace legitimate electors awarded to joe biden. the committee detailed many of the ways trump and his allies tried to strong arm officials into flipping their states' results. the first key witness was rusty bowers, a conservative republican who delivered powerful testimony about rebuffing efforts by trump and his attorneys to decertify the results of the election in arizona. bowers said there was no evidence of voter fraud. he would not break his constitutional oath. >> i said, look, you are asking me to do something that is counter to my oath when i swore to the constitution to uphold it, and i also swore to the constitution and the laws of the state of arizona, and this is

totally foreign as an idea or a theory to me and i would never do anything of such magnitude without deep consultation with qualified attorneys. i said, i've got some good attorneys and i'm going to give you their names, but you're asking me to do something against my oath and i will not break my oath. >> he also told the committee about a phone call he had with trump and rudy giuliani after the election. >> to quote the former president, during the conversation he told me the election was rigged and that i won arizona, end quote. did you have such a conversation with the president? >> i did have a conversation with the president. that certainly isn't it. there were parts of it that are true, but there are parts that are not, sir. anywhere, any one, any time has said that i said the election is

rigged, that would not be true. >> and when the former president in a statement today claimed that you told him that he won arizona, is that also false? >> that is also false. >> georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger testified about trump's obsession with getting the state's election officials to find 11,780 votes. that's the number he needed to overturn joe biden's victory in georgia. raffensperger explained why trump lost. >> what happened in fall of 2020 is that 28,000 georgians skipped the presidential race and yet voted down ballot in other races. the republican congressman ended up getting 33,000 more votes than president trump. that's why president trump came up short. the numbers are the numbers. the numbers don't lie. we had many allegations and we

investigated every single one of them. >> top aide to the georgia secretary of state gabe sterling testified about the challenges he faced trying to debunk voter fraud conspiracies promoted by president trump and his allies. >> for lack of a better word, it was frustrating, but often times i felt our information was getting out, that there was a reticence of people who needed to believe it because the president of the united states, whom many looked up to and respected, was telling them it wasn't true despite the facts and i've characterized at one point it was like a shovel trying to empty the ocean. yes, it was frustrating. >> former attorney general bill barr gave private testimony about there being no voter fraud in georgia and he says he made

sure trump knew it. >> we took a hard look at this ourselves, and based on our review of it, including interviews of key witnesses, the fulton county allegations had no merit. and i told him that the stuff that his people were shoveling out to the public was bull [ bleep ], i mean, that the claims of fraud were bull [ bleep ]. >> one key them from yesterday's hearing, threats of violence from trump supporters against people who refused to go along with the illegal scheme to overthrow the election results. perhaps tuesday's most powerful witness testimony came from shaye moss, a georgia election worker who was falsely accused of participating in a voter fraud scheme. the lies against her were magnified by trump and rudy giuliani. she described suffering from relentless harassment. >> a lot of threats wishing

death upon me, telling me that i'll be in jail with my mother and saying things like be glad it's 2020 and not 1920. >> were a lot of these threats and vile comments racist in nature? >> a lot of them were racist. a lot of them were just hateful. >> how has this experience of being targeted by the former president and his allies affected your life? >> it's turned my life upside down. i no longer give out my business card. i don't transfer calls. i don't want anyone knowing my name. i don't want to go anywhere with my mom because she might yell my name out over the grocery aisle

or something. i don't go to the grocery store at all. i haven't been anywhere at all. i've gained about 60 pounds. i just don't do nothing anymore. >> this is such a tragedy where you have donald trump lying about people who are private citizens, in this case two private citizens who only wanted to serve their country in a pandemic and help the democratic process work. i know when i was involved in politics, i had such great respect for democrats and republicans who would dedicate their time to going out and doing exactly what shaye did and what her mother did. it is heartbreaking. the thing is, as we described earlier, you know, public figures, they understand that

it's part of it. the arizona speaker, it wasn't easy for him, it wasn't easy for his dying daughter. he did understand even with those threats of violence, he was in the public arena. you could say the same thing about the georgia secretary of state. in my case, personally, of course, when donald trump attacked me and accused me of murder, i'm a public figure. yeah, it caused obviously some security challenges for us. for the woman's family that was involved in that lie, it shattered them. it has continued to shatter them as these lies continue to spread. so you look in this case, you look at a private citizen who's not used to the spotlight, who

only wanted to help her country out and having her life shattered and being lied about constantly, not only by donald trump and rudy giuliani, but millions of other people who were spreading that deceitful, hateful lie on e-mail, on facebook, on twitter. it is contemptible and they should be ashamed of themselves. >> this is the story of, quote, trump the grifter, the thief, the corrupt to the core. this is the kind of person who has a cruelty and a callousness that has people like those who followed his cult-like personality or cult and ran to the capitol with weapons, anything, twist ties, a noose,

all in the name of trump. they're going to jail. trump's at mar-a-lago. citizens, some who even supported trump or local politicians, those who even supported trump, they are getting harassed. listen to shaye and her story. she's just a citizen who was trying to help with local elections, and her life has been ruined. shaye's mother ruby was also targeted, including by trump himself. >> we had at least 18,000, that's on tape, we had them counted very painstakingly, 18,000 voters having to do with ruby freeman. she's a vote scammer, a professional vote scammer and hustler. >> and ruby talked to the committee in a prerecorded interview about the impact the attacks have had on her life.

>> there is nowhere i feel safe, nowhere. do you know how it feels to have the president of the united states to target you? the president of the united states is supposed to represent every american, not to target one. but he targeted me, lady ruby, a small business owner, a mother, a proud american citizen who stands up to help fulton county run an election in the middle of a pandemic. >> jonathan la mere is still with us. let's also bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitale. former u.s. attorney and former deputy attorney general during the clinton administration,

harry litman. and curt bardella. >> i'm curious what your take is on yesterday's hearings. obviously we've had blockbuster revelations coming out about mike pence, about the president. what was your big take-away from yesterday? >> again, a very big scheme and trump knows about it. trump knows it's unlawful. for me, the take-away was all this stuff throughout the country. we've had these set pieces in washington, d.c. we will return to them tomorrow. but here you saw the actual effect on human lives of the despicable personal qualities of trump and his minions. before things have been analogized to a criminal syndicate. this was an actual criminal syndicate with mobs and thugs

ready to do his will. the good, bad and ugly of people standing up and calmly telling the truth and for that facing the wrath of trump and untold thousands of frenzied supporters. that's what drove home to me where we are in the country, not just in washington. >> i think that one of the things that stood out to me in all of these proceedings is how seamless this process has been, how choreographed it's been and what a huge strategic error kevin mccarthy made by not seating any of his members, allowing republicans to basically sit this entire thing out. imagine how different all four of these hearings would have been if you had the jim jordans, the matt gaetzs, introducing new narratives, false conspiracy

theories, all the things we normally see during normal proceedings like during the confirmation hearings, that's not part of it. we're able to get a seamless story without interruption, chaos or nonsense. it is a powerful way to present what's going on for the american people. it was a massive blunder by kevin mccarthy to not seat any of his members in this proceeding. i can't believe he did this. trump is out of his mind watching this. he can't understand why kevin did it. it may cost him the speakership down the line. >> we have a new interview from the former president this morning expressing his real displeasure there aren't republicans on that committee who can defend him. as we've been saying all morning, yesterday i'd argue the most powerful of the hearings yet because it came from this testimony from those who were the subjects of these threats, particularly ms. moss and her mother. we have another hearing

tomorrow. what's on tap there? >> another one tomorrow focusing on the pressure campaign inside the department of justice with key officials that were part of those conversations, including the acting attorney general at the time as well as his deputies. they can speak to the mindset of the former president as he was trying to install allies atop the department of justice. of course, it makes congresswoman liz cheney's plea that pat cipollone, the white house counsel, should come forward. they've had some conversations with him, our sources tell us, but at the same time they would like to hear meaningful way in these hearings. she said they're going to continue the conversations with cipollone, leaving the crux of the question unanswered. you and i have talked about this, the fact they are laying out a public narrative while

they are still learning new information. they are asking ginni thomas to come and talk to them. they have new footage of ivanka trump because of that documentary filmmaker. also making sure they have all of the information they could possibly want. i will say, though, in terms of yesterday, the real moment for me was when rudy giuliani apparently said to them in the context of trying to find these votes and find some way to bolster conspiracy theories they were coming up with where he said they had lots of theories, but they just don't have the evidence. that's pretty much the banner for what the trump campaign strategy was in the aftermath of losing the election. >> how important would it be to have cipollone testify before the committee? >> he had repeated conversations

where he said this is unlawful, you can't do it, with trump personally. it really drives that home. i think they do have it in equivalent form, but that was a high hard one from cheney at the end, calling him out directly. they know about conversations that they'll have to do secondhand. cipollone would give it straight. cipollone is a bar guy, always has been. >> kurt, let's talk about the pacing of these hearings. it's fascinating the committee is having to slow things down, they're getting so information. every hearing seems to be a blockbuster hearing. there are headlines that could last a week. they have a bigger issue as far as pacing. they're learning so much in these hearings.

they've learned about this new documentary filmmaker who followed trump around around january 6th. they're trying to get more evidence to make sure they don't get ahead of themselves. i take it you agree with the pacing of these hearings, that it's better -- >> let it breathe. >> not compress it so much that you miss some evidence, that the american public miss some evidence. >> we're seeing from this committee and it's very refreshing, actually, in realtime making adjustments based on how this is play out with the american people, based on the information they're getting. i remember talking to people on the committee before the hearing started. they were prepared for the possibility that because what we were going to see is so compelling, they would get an avalanche of people coming forward with new information, that these would extend beyond june. when they initially announced

the hearings for june, they did so saying this is just the beginning. now what are we're seeing is they understand and they're learning lessons from the past. during impeachment, we had three hearings a week. nothing was able to resonate, nothing was able to sink in. they're not going to make that same mistake twice. they're going to space this out, let the information breathe, let the american people digest it. they are not going to rush this. the only thing i would change about yesterday is i would have put it on prime time. >> thanks for being on this morning. and harry litman, thank you as well. breaking overnight, the most specific gun safety legislation in decades is a step closer to becoming law. the bipartisan group of senators working on the bill released the

text of the bipartisan safer communities act. it's already passed its first hurdle in the senate with 14 republicans joining democrats to vote in favor of moving forward with the bill. the measure expands child and family mental health services, strengthens background checks for buyers under the age of 21, bolstered crisis intervention programs and offered red flag grants to states. it also closes the so-called boyfriend loophole to prevent domestic abusers from accessing guns. ali, vi tavitale. >> yesterday was the key hurdle people were talking about needing to get that bill out. these senators set july 4th as their arbitrary deadline.

they needed to get this bill text out. initially it would have been better for monday. it did end up coming late yesterday afternoon. the senate could try to clear this by friday, we're told. then, of course, it's up to the house. we know those democratic margins are there. in conversations with democrats i've been having, they've been looking forward to this legislation, not because it has everything they want in it, but this is the most significant gun legislation they've had in nearly three decades. the fact that the senate was able to come together on this, at times it looked like it was going to fall apart over things like the boyfriend loophole you mentioned. they were able to get this text down. the refrain i've heard was the devil will be in the details. it seems like at this point the details are settled and they're able to move on in true

bipartisan fashion. frankly, i can't remember the last time i saw a piece of legislation like this get 64 votes in a senate like this one. so pretty significant here. >> that's pretty amazing. ali vitale, thank you very much. up next, the move president biden is set to push forward today that could save you some money on each gallon of gas, at least temporarily. plus the roller coaster continues. we'll take you to wall street as the markets look to be in store for another day in the red. and three months after former president trump rescinds his endorsement, congressman mo brooks loses the alabama senate primary. primary. right now, we're all feelin' the squeeze. we're having to get creative. find a new way.

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for us to suggest that 30 cents a day for three months is real relief, that that's a real energy policy, means that we are not tackling the problem that has to be tackled. we are offering gimmicks. >> obama. mika, i remember this very well. >> i would never do that. >> you did. >> i liked the idea of a gas tax holiday. >> no, you did not. we have the tape. it's on tape. >> no. >> i was saying a gas tax holiday in 2008 was a great idea, but because barack obama said it was a bad idea in 2008, you thought it was a bad idea. >> okay. that was obama in 2008. >> what's your recollection? >> my recollection is i'm all for a gas tax holiday. i'm not sure why i wasn't, but

i'm not sure if i believe you. i will check the tape. later today, though, barack obama's former vice president is expected to push for one himself. i agree with it. >> oh, you agree with it. okay, great. >> it's part of a four-point plan to bring down gas price while the national average for a gallon of gas has fallen in recent days, it still remains about $2 higher than this time last year. that's a lot. joining us now, white house reporter for politico and "morning joe" contributor eugene daniels and sima modi. >> i just read something this morning, reports from certain states that have tried a gas tax holiday on the state level, that it's not being seen actually by consumers because the gas stations are keeping the prices high. there's really no guarantee even

if they cut the tax, that gas stations won't pocket the money themselves, right? >> that's exactly right. there are mixed opinions on how this gas tax holiday will play out. pressure is growing on this administration to address the ongoing rising gas prices affecting americans especially as summer travel is getting under way. the president is asking these individual states to also consider halting their own gas tax or look at other ways to provide relief. again, mixed opinions on whether this gas holiday will bring prices down for the short or long term. remember when democrats first explored this idea in february? it was shot down immediately by senator mitch mcconnell. you have biden placing blame on big oil companies like chevron and exxon for enjoying the profits and not doing enough to help americans. a meeting set for this thursday between the ceos of major energy

companies and president biden. we'll have to see what comes out of that. >> let's go to eugene daniels and talk a little bit more about what we expect to hear from the president today. >> we are going to hear, as you just laid out, that the president is going to ask congress to put a three-month pause on this 18 cent federal gas tax and also ask states to do something similar. the white house estimates that if everyone does that, everyone puts a pause on these taxes, that we'll see a dollar of relief at the gas pump. so you're looking at $4.95 today. if this all happens, they say it would be around $3.95. that is a lot of money. i will say, though, congress is not on board with this, not just republicans. this is not something democrats have wanted to do even when they started talking about passing

their own gas price bill, this wasn't something they put in it, because they have the concerns about oil companies keeping the money and not passing those savings onto the consumer. we're expecting the president to say this is going to give people breathing room. we've heard him say that over and over again as they've talked about how to lower prices. we're going to hear that again from the president today. i will say that a study found that maryland, a state that has suspended its own tax, 72% of all tax savings did go to the consumers. it's not that it can't happen. it's up to oil and gas companies to make that happen. president biden is going to continue to do that. i'm not sure what they're doing over there. it does show you how committed

and desperate this white house is to show the american people they're getting their arms around this problem. when you talk to experts, they say some of this feels a little too late because gas prices have been going up for quite some time and this is not going to do much. this administration is trying to show the american people they're working really hard for them. we know, the white house knows there's not much any white house can do and frankly this congress can do about gas prices. this is about making the american people feel like the administration is doing something. i'm going to stop before something caves in over here. >> i'm slightly concerned the russians have arrived and suggest you seek shelter. sima, the man of the moment in washington is jerome powell. we know about the interest rate hike he announced. today he's appearing on capitol hill, where i suspect he will face a lot of questions. give us a preview. >> in front of congress today

fed chair jerome powell will try to reassure lawmakers it is doing everything it can to help. he will talk on a hawkish tone likely to raise interest rates and how that's the key tool to lowering inflation. but he'll have to explain why a rising rate environment will bring prices down but won't send the u.s. economy into a deep recession. that is what the market will be looking for, clarity on the speed and scale at which this economy softens. just this morning citi group racing the probability of the worm economy facing a recession to 50%. goldman sachs' economist also said the risk of a recession is growing. powell will need to address that when he testifies today. >> thank you both. >> be safe out there, eugene.

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stock collapsed in the state so he switched horses midstream. >> this was a saga going back a year. brooks got the endorsement, brooks lost the endorsement. brooks found his way into the runoff. brooks made a public plea to donald trump in the runoff to endorse a public plea to trump in the runoff to give him a hail mary pass, and trump says no i am with brit. brit wins. she now emerges the overwhelming favorite to win this seat in november just given alabama's political tint. but you can see top to bottom here, only one county, shelby county, brooks carries that one. otherwise a statewide sweep here for britt in the republican runoff in alabama. >> let me ask you about alabama for a second. some people say this is a trump win. i mean, nobody, as you know,

nobody is more establishment hand richard shelby. he is the establishment's establishment guy, and the fact his chief of staff won in alabama, and the fact that that's being considered a victory for trump -- well, that is some pretty, i guess you would call it thin gruel, isn't it? >> yeah. i mean, this said nothing about trump and an affinity for katie britt as much as i think it said about trump and consem tempt he felt for mo brooks. it is not just the ties to shelby. this also put trump on the same page as mitchell. because this is mcconnell's candidate in alabama. trump and mcconnell found themselves on the same side. what happened with brooks and trump was combination of things. brooks wasn't polling the way trump maybe suspected he would. he thought maybe he was jumping off a sinking ship when he

withdrew his endorsement. brooks basically said that the 2020 election was stolen from trump. then he said, but we shouldn't talk about that. we should talk about the future. that's when trump put out his statement that said mo brooks had gone, quote, woke. >> let's go to georgia. >> a couple weeks ago, there were clear rebukes of trump. he went after brian kemp, after the secretary of state, raffensperger, who won a crushing victory. all about trump and his grievances with the 2020 election. trump had two candidates backed in republican runoffs last night who also suffered landslide defeats. here's one of them. jake evans, had the trump endorsement in the sixth district, loses 2-to-1. in the tenth district, vernon

jones, had the trump endorsement. loses 3-to-1 in this case to mike collins, son of a former republican congressman matt collins. these are trump backed candidates. however, the difference i would stress between these two defeats, these candidates collins ran on trump-friendly themes. collins put a video up where he is walking around carrying a gun, saying hey i want you to know, if any legal vote was counted in the county, trump would have won. it was different than the kemp and raffensperger contests. but two trump-back candidates who suffered see feats in the runoffs. the second district in southwest georgia, this is a seat that has

been held by a democrat, sanford bishop for about 30 years, because of redistricting, we will show you of course biden carried it by a little more than ten points in 2020. this is the kind of district that if it proves to be the wave year that republicans hope it could be, this could come into play, republicans invested in jeremy hundred here, who fell short. this district is about 50% black. hunt is a army veteran, they believed he would be a good match for the district, give them potential opportunity. hunt fell short against west. we will see what west continues to do there. but that's the runoff that could be competitive this november in georgia. >> steve kornacki, thank you so much. greatly appreciate it. my gosh, collins carrying around a gun saying joe biden is not the elected -- i mean, that race is not just a loss for trump. that's a loss for america. >> yeah. >> we'll be right back. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> we'll be right back

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