know, a 40-year high. belief in the economy is strong but there is more pain ahead. >> that does it for us this morning. jose diaz-balart picks up the coverage right now. >> thanks for watching. good morning. it's 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart this morning, a look at what to expect at tomorrow's january 6th committee hearing. after a day of emotional testimony and new revelations. and for the first time in three decades, theest is senate making moves to pass a significant bipartisan agreement to address rising gun violence. also this hour. abject failure. that's how the top officer in texas described the police response to the uvalde shooting. he said officers were well equipped to take down the gunman in a matter of minutes to end a tragic shooting that left 21 people dead. right now, tragedy in afghanistan. emergency crews trying to rescue those trapped in the rubble after a major earthquake left

more than 1,000 people dead. later this hour we will break down the results from tuesday's primary election. steve kornacki will join us from the big board. the big board. this morning, the house january 6th committee is preparing for its next public hearing, tomorrow, one day after hearing powerful testimony about former president donald trump's efforts to intimidate state lawmakers and election officials into overturning the results from the 2020 creeks. testimony from someone who detailed phone calls from trump and his allies pressuring them to find votes for trump or send fake protesters to washington. the trump team never produced evidence of fraud. he got emotional when he

insisted he would method violate his oath of office. >> for me to do that because somebody just asked me to is foreign to my very being. i will not do it. >> some of the most emotional testimony came from a former georgia election worker and her mother who have been harassed and threatened after the former president and miss allies accused them of committing election fraud. >> affected my life in a major way. every way. all because of lies. >> the president of the united states is supposed to represent every american. not to target one. but he targeted me, lady ruby. >> with us now to talk about this, nbc capitol hill correspondent ali vitale, luke broad water and david henderson. ali, yesterday you told us about

maw documentary filmmaker alex holder gave the committee video of trump and his inner circle that were conduct bfd the january 6th riot. what are we learning about the interviews. >> we are learning more about what's in them, specifically this officer view with ivanka trump which was first reported in the "new york times." we confirmed its contents and we heard from the president's daughter at various points throughout the committee's hearings specifically when she said she agreed with the former attorney general bill barr when he said that the president lost the election and there were no signs of fraud. in one of these interviews, ivanka said her father should continue to fight until every legal entity is exhausted because people were asking for it. it does present, again, another

example of the fact there is more information coming in in real time to this committee. this is someone, this documentary filmmaker who they subpoenaed last week who has 15 to 20 hours of video he is likely to turn over to the committee. we any his testimony is happening tomorrow in washington, d.c. it's the same day of the hearing. it represents both sides of the coin here, they are moving ahead with public hearings even as they are continuing to depose witnesses. >> what comes next for the january 6th committee, ali? >> tomorrow's hearing focuses on the pressure campaign inside the department of justice. we are going to hear -- i'm sorry. there is a bug. we are going the hear from key people inside the department of justice who were pressured by the former president to overturn the election including jeffy rosen as well as some of his help deputies. names we are likely to hear a lot of though are people like jeffrey clark, people who trump was trying to put at the top of

the d.o.j. who would lend legitimacy frankly to the lies he was putting forward of conspiracy theory that didn't exist and lying to allies saying that he won. it also puts into starker folk us the pleas from liz cheney when she said they need to hear from white house counsel pat cipollone. we are told they have had some conversations. that's what cheney told me yesterday, they are going to continue talking to mr. cipollone in hopes he will come in and testify. >> david, what stud out most to you from yesterday's testimony. the emotional impact of the testimony. lady ruby almost made me cry. the difficulty was that the testimony was so emotional, it is difficult to remember how it fits into the grand scheme of

things. s that trump to defraud the electoral college. there are seven states where we can sub out the original electors, sub in our people, and they will vote us into the white house. the first witness we heard from, bowers, was from one of those estates, arizona. he was there to say, yes, they really asked me to do that. which sttd stood out to me. and he was there to explain what happened when he said no. they came down on him like a ton of bricks which was supported by the testimony of the other live witnesses. >> david, how effective do you see the committee being so far? because they have been weaving an intricate case? >> i think they have been effective so far. i say that because of how surprised i have been by the hearings. i thought to myself, there aren't going to be any surprises here. you already know where they are going. a federal judge out of

california already sprained trump probably committed two crimes. yet when i hear directly from the people would are involved i am surprised how captivating the testimony is. if you didn't start off with reason to watch these proceedings you definitely have it based on the content we have seen so far. >> look, are these hearings having any impact on capitol hill. >> you know, it's interesting because the republicans promised a robust, rabid response to these hearings. so far, the response has been quite muted. the house republicans did one press conference before the event -- the hearings began. but since then, they have not been rolling out what i would call a robust defense. and i think that's because what are they supposed to do? i mean, are they supposed to attack mike pence, or ivanka trump, or judgment lud ig or bill barr? because the committee is using

republican witnesses for the most part and republicans in depositions talking about how bad these schemes were and this effort to overturn the election was it is kind of hard for the house republicans to go against these people. looks like it is going to be the same on thursday where it is going to be mostly trump justice department officials testifying. these will be conservative men saying how they stood up to donald trump and they preferred to resign rather than go along with his plans that puts house republicans in a difficult position in trying to respond to the hearings. >> luke, just your thoughts on what is the audience that this committee is trying to reach here? >> yeah, i think there is a couple different audiences. i do think that for the republicans on the committee, specifically liz cheney, and adam kinzinger, one of their goals is to break lieu to the republican electorate and say donald trump was out of step with american values, and with

democratic values and try to excise him from the party. there is also a broader goal, i think, for more of the committee, which is the american people generally. but i do think it is quite interesting to watch the republicans on the committee and their goal because they have been part of a kind of dying -- dying breed in the party. and this is a chance to try to win a larger segment of the party back. >> yeah, and, david, yesterday's hearing also showed us the toll this campaign, this pressure campaign has taken on state officials, and ordinary election workers. we know that more election workers like moss have quit in the wake of the fraud accusations. what is the long-term impact of this, do you think? >> the long-term impact is based on how we choose to deal with this. if we choose to do nothing because we say it is too difficult to do something then good people aren't going want to

get involved because these pressure schemes don't make it worth it. when lady ruby said i was targeted, it is difficult to say what it means, when someone has followers and they target you, you get home showing up to your house and intimidating you. ordinary people, good people aren't going to want to be involved in our political process which depends on the will of good people if they are going to be subjected to that type of treatment and the justice system won't do anything about it. the long-term consequences are based on us and whether we choose to do the right thing. >> thank you all for being with us. if you missed any of the hearings, msnbc will be dropping them all along with our team's analysis as podcasts all month long. scan the qr code that you see on there on your screen and you will be brought to the rachel maddow show's podcast feed. turning now to what could

soon be the most significant gun bill in three decades. the bill will for the first time make it more difficult for dating partners who are accused of domestic abuse to buy weapons. joe murphy last night said this. >> this bill is a compromise. it doesn't go as far as i would like to go. it certainly goes further than a lot of republicans would like it to go. but there is no doubt this bill is going to save thousands of lives. >> joining us now is nbc news capitol hill correspond ali rougha. ali, how soon could this bill get passed in both houses? >> good morning, jose. we can safely cross off today because it is currently being reviewed by budget officers. but senators waste nod time between the time when the text

was released and when they voted to bring to it the next step. it got a good padding of gop support beyond the ten republicans who we already knew supported the framework of this legislation including senate minority immediater mitch mcconnell. jose, it is important to underscore how big a deal this is, it shows it is guaranteed to pass when the senate takes this up. we are thinking thursday or friday, before they leave on a two-week recess for the fourth of july. then kicking it to the house for a vote which speaker distancy pelosi says she's been eagerly waiting for. she says she's been waiting to bring this onto the floor as soon as possible. as far as what's specifically inside this bill, this historic legislation, it it will expand child and family mental health services, strengthen backgrounds checks for juvenile buyers under the age of 21. it clarify who is is considered a gun seller, establishes

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17 past the hour. happening right now, a special committee of texas state senators is hearing testimony on mental health and firearm safety, four weeks after the massacre at robb elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers did. this after the state's safety chief called the local police response an abject failure and said the gunman could have stopped in just three minutes. >> the only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children. >> and then another -- i mean, there were many chilling revelations yesterday. the doors to the classroom where

the gunman opened fire were both unliked even as they spent time trying to find a master key. but the state's response is under scrutiny as well. here's how the uvalde mayor responded last night. >> there is a lot more than even i know yet that's going to come out. everyone is trying to see why on this. colonel mcgraw or anybody else, they don't want to report their dps officers were there. not one report, not one hinge up there in the state up there did you hear what the dps ders were doing in that hall. >> sam, let's talk about the back and forth between state law enforcement, local, police. where is the investigation as we

speak going? >> jose, good morning. you know, you can hear it in the voice of the mayor there for uvalde, don mclaughlin that he feels like he's being kept in the dark right now because as you outlined in your introduction they called this an act jekt failure, called ate complete failure and said do you know who is to blame? then pointed the finger at local police and school police force. now the -- he says there is not information that's being shared right now with the dps, the legislature, with the d.a.'s office and the school officials. there is understanding there might be legal action taken to

try to obtain the body camera footage from inside robb elementary school because clearly right now there needs to be more transparency, there are so many questions that haven't been answered and local officials in uvalde feel like it is not fair to put them on full blast and not provide that kind of insight and information. >> sam, of the many things we heard yesterday in the hearing at the senate was that that door, i think 111, not only, was it unlocked. it didn't work. it wasn't work. it wasn't even closing properly. meanwhile, there is a -- yesterday they talked about that police officer who received a call from his wife who was inside that classroom, had been shot and was dying. tried to get in, but he was stopped from going in? >> it is hard to even understand how this unfolded. but according to dps and its director rubin ruiz, who is a school police officer there, he got a phone call, jose, from his wive, one of the two teachers

killed saying i have been shot and i am dying. he arrived, ruiz, on campus, tried to get in through the hallways to rescue hess wife. according to dps they took his gun, detained him and removed him physically from the premises as he is trying to save his wife. the dps officer didn't specify have agency did this but many want answers to why this would happen between a family crisis a community crisis and the one man trying to save the person he loves the most? no doubt about that. it's just got to be so devastatingly difficult, catherine, let's talk about this. you know, in the heat of the moment it is understandable why the officers that were there would not want someone coming in and you know acting unilaterally, but no one else was acting. >> yeah. what that's telling me is somebody was in charge. even though the chief, i know,

in his only interview that he really did with the press said, i wasn't in charge. he clearly was in charge. i think you are hearing from dps that their indication was that they were in charge. i think that dps chief familiar heat yesterday for why didn't your guys take charge? but there are clear kind of protocols for law enforcement when they respond. incident command is, you are the first one there, you are in charge. fbi hands out these sheets for active shooters specifically, it says at the top of it, first one to arrive, take command, stop the killing, stop the dying. that is -- you have to rely on the fact that somebody is in charge. this guy was in charge and he has to take responsibility for that. >> catherine, help us understand this, because i have just been thinking a lot about this. so what's policy, procedure, history, precedent when, let's say that a state official or any official arrives to that scene,

right? and what that police officer or that official sees is that the person in charge is not doing anything, and that people are dying. is it precedent, acceptable, for some other officer who comes in later to say, you know what, this guy is not doing anything, i'm going to take charge? is that each possible? >> well, it certainly is possible, right? it's not -- it's not common. you know, i think to start from the beginning, right. the rule is that the first guy on the scene is the incident command. he's in charge. here you have a chief, it's his school district, his department. you always defer to the local guy whose jurisdiction it is. and then you come in as the other departments come in. it is not necessarily their purview to step in and say oh, okay i am in charge. that's not the way it happens. you heard that -- i think you heard the dps chief yesterday saying hey we don't want to

create that situation, the same way he doesn't want the fbi coming in and taking over his command when he gets on scene, he doesn't want his guys taking over command. we also saw the end result that if bad happens -- look at what happens in the george floyd situation in minnesota where officers stood by and watched another officer do something he was ultimately convicted of murder for. those officers were held culpable for their lack of action. i think we are going the see lack of action you know that's going to play out. it isn't unheard of. but it's incredibly unusual to have an officer just override. but in some cases, it needs to be done. you know that those officers are not sleeping well because they didn't. >> catherine, i am wondering, on the fact that the dps officer said that there was enough fire power and they had enough protective gear, et cetera, to, in three minutes, take out this shooter had they decided to do

so. but the -- the protocols that you are partially responsible for creating says that it doesn't matter if you have weapons, high caliber weapons or shields. >> right. >> that's not what you wait for. >> we train them specifically to have the tactical advantage. they had three officers on scene. they had long guns. the fact that they have ballistic gears. blissic shields are not part of protocol. the answer is you are more tactically trained, the people in inside have nothing. that's your job. -- when even one officer -- this is law enforcement 101 that they did not follow. there will be a lot of culpability that comes -- a lot of culpability. there is responsibility that's here. it is going to come out birthday by bit because the time lines and the cameras and the pictures. justice department is doing their own research.

they are going to be holding hearings i am sure in congress. there is going to be testimony. we are going see a lot more details. the questions are there, but the answers are also going to couple out that there was responsible responsible, a number of people who stood by who felt that they didn't have the authority to go forward. it is going to make officers think twice next time. >> sam, we are also learning about plans to demolish robb elementary school? >> that's correct. the mayor has confirmed that that's going to happen, jose. this had already been hinted at for weeks, the fact that it would be so retraumatizing to have these families or students have to walk through the halls of the school again. we have learned it is going to be demolished. just a couple of months before school starts again this the fall so we will see how those plans shake out. robb elementary as it stands right now is not going to exist any further. >> thank you for being with us. up next, what president biden is set to announce today to bring down skyrocketing gas

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31 past the hour. we are keeping a close eye on wall street this morning. it has been a little bit of a slow move for wall street this morning. federal reserve chair jerome powell is answering questions from senates on the economy. and senior administration officials say president biden will call for a three month suspension of federal and state gas taxes to alleviate pain at the pump. if enacted, truckers could save 24 cents a gallon on diesel fuel. this proposal coming as the national average for regular continues to hover around $5 a gallon. mike menially is with us this morning. mike, what about the president's plan to reduce gas prices? this is a temporary three-month thing but could be announced as early as today? >> that's right. the headline is as you talk about.

the president biden is, as he discussed as a possibility several times this week is going to ask congress to pass legislation to temporarily suspend the gas tax. it could be a 18 cent reduction potentially in the price of fuel for americans. he is also asking states and local governments to consider similar acts. new york has suspended its state tax. in many cases, the state taxes are even higher than the federal tax. the president is also going to keep pressure up on oil companies ahead of meeting with jennifer granholm and other members of the administration both to expand capacity, continue to pump more oil out and also to explain why they are making record profits at a time when consumers are feeling the pinch. none of these will result in immediate relief for americans. the president is asking congress to do something and local

governments to do something. there is no evidence there are enough votes in congress, pete defazio saying this is short sighted and will not result in relief for americans. >> thank you very much. the program providing free school meals to all students regardless of family income is set to expire at the end of the month narrowing the call eight fixes for free food for kids. when that program ends, experts warn of a crisis as families already squeezed by inflation have to add more meals to their budget. joining us now, jillian myer director of partnerships and campaign strategy at no kid hungry. thank you for being with us this morning. these last two years many schools provided food even over the summer. what does reality look like for some families if these free meals ends? >> the bottom line is, a crisis is unfolding as we speak. one in six kids live in families that struggle with food insecurity. that was before we started taking into account inflation,

rising food costs and, as we just heard, gasoline prices up about $5 across the country. the bottom line is, families are hurting and congress has the power to prevent it. >> so this is -- let's help us understand. this program is a program that gives access to everyone for school meals, regardless of income. it's a program that some say was meant to be temporary, right? >> absolutely. and i just want to caution a little bit about focusing only on the free universal meals component because, actually, there are a slew of waivers underneath of that that are equally, if not more critical that keep these school meal programs functioning. and that's what we are risking right now is that we won't have functional meal programs for kids when they come back to school next year. >> tell us a little bit about

that deeper effect that it's having, and impact that it has. >> absolutely. so schools, are already having a really hard time operating their programs. just like us, there are supply chain disrugs, lags in deliveries of food. they can't find specific items they need. and without these waver flexibilities they are going to struggle more between rising food costs and staff shortages, this supply chain disruption -- they are all combining for this really huge catastrophe if congress doesn't take action. >> jill yen meyer, thanks for big being with us this morning, important information that i am glad to learn a little bit more about. thank you very much. >> thanks for the time today. up next, the latest on the major earthquake in afghanistan as rescuers frantically search for survivors trapped under the rubble. they are saying more than 1 n.o.w. people are dead, 1,500 injured.

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death toll, the deadiest earthquake in afghan's history in the past 20 years. today in afghanistan rescue workers rush to save the wounded after violent tremors shook this nation killing more than 1,000 according to the government. the 6.1 magnitude earthquake was felt in the country's capital and neighboring pakistan. it destroyed our neighbors houses, this man said, when we arrived there are many dead and wounded. officials say casualties are expected to rise. hundreds still remain trapped. this comes less than a year since taliban fighters claimed the entire country. under america's chaotic withdrawal following a nearly two decade long occupation, the

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out of last night's primaries and runoffs. this was a runoff in alabama with mo brooks, we talk about the drama between he and president trump. trump endorsed him, withdrew the endorse men. brooks made al last-ditch effort to try to get trump back on board. instead trump goes with britt. britt now the favorite to win this senate seat in deeply red alabama in the fall. we had a couple house primaries of note yesterday, too. two in virginia we were talking about yesterday that are going to set the stage for some battleground house races this november. one is in the second district, virginia beach, norfolk, big navy presence in that area. the republicans nominated jen kiggans. she's a navy vet land.

who will she run against? democrat elaine luria, who held the seat since 2018. she won the seat in the democratic wave of 2018. republicans are hoping to flip it back in hope what they hope will be a wave year in 2022. but the second district of virginia, remember that one, we are going to be talking a lot about that on election night in november. we are also going to be talking about the seventh district of virginia, another politically competitive district, a competitive republican primary. vega wins. she's a supervisor in prince william county, virginia. she wins the republican nomination. who will she square off against? abigail spanberger. a similar story here, spanberger flipped this seat in 2018 in a democratic way. republicans believe they could have a wave this year and win it back. vega is one of several latino women nominated in house races across the country. it will be interesting to watch

there n. georgia you had runoffs yesterday in georgia. to note, jake evans, a trump backed candidate, was overwhelmingly defeated, also vernon jones, a trump lost in r georgia. trump has had a tough run of it lately with his endorsements in georgia. though i think it's worth noting the winning candidates in these two runoffs who defeated the trump-backed candidates. mike collins ran on trump friendly themes saying the 2020 election was stolen from trump. so running on trump-friendly themed even as they defeated trump-backed candidates. and an outcome on the race in texas, another squeaker. >> talk about long-standing dramas and sagas, the 28th district of texas. this has been going on for years, cuellar, one of the most moderate democrats in the house,

his progressive challenger, she went after him in a 2020 primary, narrowly lost, went after him again this year, it we want to a runoff, yesterday she conceded. cuellar is the winner. he will be the democratic nominee again. and this the border region, these three congressional districts around the border in south texas, all three of these are going to be potentially competitive this november. this is a new development. this is a new dynamic. this speaks to the shift we've been talking about among hispanic voters who in the 2020 election we saw movement from the democrats to the republicans. we saw dramatic movement in this region of the country. and a few years ago we would have pencilled in this neck of the woods as strongly democratic. this november, all three of these congressional districts, trust me we'll spend a lot of time looking at those jose. >> steve kornacki, thank you

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coast guard describes as unsafe rustic vessels. "reuters" has reporting that three migrants sent to mexico by the united states under the remain in mexico policy were kidnapped there, despite the biden administration's claim of reviving the program with new measures for safety. one of the migrants told "reuters" local officials were driveing him and two other officials to the shelter when kidnappers stopped their truck to distort friends and family in the united states. joining us is the president of the immigration association. allen, thank you for joining us. this is reports we've seen over the years of people getting kidnapped and extorted under the remain in mexico policy. this apparently continues. >> everywhere. and this is the ones reported to us in the news because this is an anomaly. this person's family was ran

somed for $6,000 which is a lot of money for a immigrant family. it tells us two things they have family in the united states that could take care of them. and the remain in mexico policy does not work. and i'm hopeful tomorrow that the supreme court will give the biden administration the right to end it. >> allen, as you know, deportations continue for haitians. and haiti, and we've been focussing a lot on this. haiti, gangs are gaining control. migrants are being sent back to cuba where the government sentenced another 33 people for up to 18 years in prison for watching the peaceful protests last july. what does this say about the severity of the situation in countries like haiti and cuba. and yet we're still not having a clear policy here? >> i think it's just weeks after the summit of the americas and this speaks to the policy we

have in north america. this is something that affects the whole landscape of how democracy moves forward and its failed policy is the united states looking away saying we can't when we can. it is a choice to turn around these ie asylum seekers it's a choice to make them between a rock and a hard place. returning to countries where they may be killed or suffer kidnap and rai rape. we need to allow these immigrants to reach us and be a set model for the rest of the world. >> how can you have a model like that. what are some of the things we could or should be doing? >> the first thing to do is stop locking up people who come to the united states seeking asylum. that's not what poland did with ukrainians. look at the southern border as an opportunity we have so many jobs unfilled right now across the united states. here's the labor. find a way to meet the need the

american people also need. secondly our immigration system is built on a 1980s platform. it's time to update our immigration law. it's time to push congress to do something easy. such as pass daca or move into a system that allows them to come in, able to work and leave. fix 96 we made laws that made it impossible for migrants who come in and overstay the ability to leave and stay in a timely manner. before that law people might come over, work, return to their home country. we need to have the laws in place for the time we live in. >> allen orr thank you for being with us. appreciate your voice. thanks. >> thanks. that wraps the hour for me. be sure to follow the show online. thank you so much for the privilege of your time. peter alexander picks up with more news right now. good morning, i'm peter alexander here in washington. right now the house committee

investigating january 6th is gearing up for tomorrow's public hearing. the focus how senior leadership in the justice department threatened to resign and how they confronted donald trump in the oval office following his relentless pressure campaign. that detail coming straight from the committee's top republican, liz cheney coming up right here who we expect to hear from tomorrow and what we are likely to learn. plus a big break through on bipartisan gun legislation in the senate. we finally know what is in the compromised bill, 14 republicans joining all the democrats to advance the agreement, putting it on track to pass congress possibly by the end of the this week. this is what senator chris murphy said about what it means for millions of americans. >> this is the most significant anti-gun violence bill that congress has voted on in 30 years. >> this bill is a compromise. it doesn't go as far as i would li t