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 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. >> ahead not next 15 minutes i'll speak with the democratic senator chris coons of delaware, a voice that worked on the deal and one of president biden's top allies. and relief at the pump, that's president biden's goal this afternoon, asking congress to pass a three month federal gas tax holiday, but it's already facing stiff resistance from democrats and republicans. why is that? we'll break it down coming up. and this hour on the hill, roger goodell is testifying virtually before a house committee. what he is telling lawmakers about the league's handling of work place misconduct allegations in the washington commanders' franchise. what we are learning about the next hearing for the january 6th committee and the new

revelations from the latest one. ali vitali is on capitol hill. and i want to bring in reporter kyle cheney and charles coleman, legal analyst and former prosecutor. ali, let's start with what we know about tomorrow's hearings, the witnesses we've been told will include the former acting attorney general and other former department of justice officials. what do we expect to hear and why is their testimony so important? >> peter, you're seeing these men on your screen right now, jeffrey rosen, the former acting attorney general, richard con hugh and steven engel his top deputies at the time. they were part of key conversations with former president donald trump as he tried to install allies like jeff clark atop the department of justice. people who would lend legitimacy to the bogus claims of election fraud he was trying to push. it comes after yesterday's hearing where the committee

detailed what was happening at the state level, the campaign that state legislators and top officials were facing. what we're seeing in the hearings is the same kind of pattern. the way the committee has tried to use witnesses in person to bolster testimony they've already gotten behind closed doors or on video. all of these different hearings, though, putting a different piece of the puzzle together about what the former president and his allies were trying to do in regards to the 2020 election and why it was linked to the january 6th insurrection. i think one of the striking things is the way that the former president has been at the center of every single one of these hearings. these weren't ancillary players. this is the president and his top aides trying to pressure not just people at the state level, not just his own vice president but now we'll see the department of justice trying to overturn the election based on false conspiracies they knew were false but were pursuing anyway.

>> charles, ali laid it out well. we're likely to hear president trump's efforts to pressure his department of justice as he described it. the chairman, benny thompson described it as a quote to corrupt the country's top law enforcement body. we know the current doj is watching these hearings. how does this ramp up pressure on merrick garland? >> i think it ramps up pressure significantly in as much as now we have yet another instance of the intent being shown and unearthed in a way that i can mas it clear and unequivocal. so many different avenues the doj has they can explore potential charges against donald trump. we're seeing pressure not only throughout the executive branch obviously but seeing pressure in the legislative branch and what we may here with respect to ginny thomas, i don't want to get ahead of anyone else. there's the potential there's the pressure on the judiciary as

well. you're talking about pressure on basically all three arms of government in a way that demonstrates a clear intent and a very expansive effort to try and basically hijack america's democracy. so i think this does put a significant amount of pressure on the doj and merrick garland to show just how widespread this operation was, how widespread the intent was and how intentional it was in trying to steal the election. >> let me ask you, kyle, liz cheney called on pat cipollone to appear before the committee. pat cipollone and his deputy informally met with the january 6th committee in april we're told. the panel wants him to testify publicly because he reportedly objected to the former president's plan to fire acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and replace him with jeffrey clark, who supported former president trump's bid for the justice department to pursue false claims of widespread voter

fraud. why would his new testimony be so crucial? >> i think, you know, what the committee members have told us is pat cipollone's name comes up at key junctures in all the efforts of donald trump to overturn the election as someone who resisted the most extreme aspects of that plot. yes, he reobjected and threatened to resign over efforts to replace the top leaders of the justice department. he talked about efforts to put forward false members of the electoral college as being illegal and his view that was illegal was communicated to donald trump and other donald trump allies. so his view is crucial for the committee and hearing him say that out loud at a public hearing might be persuasive particularly because he had been on donald trump's side in so many other matters before. >> i want to ask you about this charles, i was reaching out to

those close to pat cipollone yesterday they told me, quote, pat cipollone has been in communication with the committee but they added there are concerns and issues and those have been recognized by the committee. why would pat cipollone need president trump's permission to testify? >> that's a question of executive privilege. we don't know what items and communications they're going to consider to be privileged. a large part of those communications are privileged and would fall under that realm and protection. that privilege can be waved by only one person, that is donald trump. >> when is the privilege lost? is it only if it's in the commitment of a crime? committing of a crime? >> that's a good question. and these are uncharted -- this is uncharted territory in a lot of respects. with respect to what a lawyer

can divulge around his client providing council to a person, if you're talking about the future commission of a crime that privilege is not applicable. it doesn't apply if you talk about what they're going to do. if you talk about something that's taking place, especially something that may not necessarily involve the direct action of the president but perhaps the president sort of greasing wheels and pulling strings behind the scenes, it gets into murkier territory and that's where we find ourselves. part of the reason merrick garland and the doj has been hesitant to go forward with charges, has been this question of executive privilege and how far it actually extends. that's something that doesn't surprise me, they have to figure out how to work around on the committee. >> kyle stick with us a second. we've talked about the new detail between a text exchange between the top aide for ron

johnson and a pence staffer about handing slates of fake alternate electors to him on january 6th. the pence aide texted back, do not give that to pence. our nbc capitol hill team talked to senator ron johnson after that testimony. here's what he said. >> did you know about what your chief of staff was doing with the alternate state of electors. i can see your phone. i can see your screen. >> suffice to say that was an entertaining moment because as is the oldest trick in the book for lawmakers they hold their phone up when they're not on it. he said this was a nothing burger in effect but some involved in the scheme, kyle, as presented by the committee are still members of congress. >> right. that's what was one of the most striking things about that exchange. it showed you the lengths that people in donald trump's orbit

went to make sure that vice president pence had in his hand these false slates of electors. and that exchange suggests that, you know, someone was pushing ron johnson to directly hand these to pence believing he didn't have them because they weren't legitimate. the national archives did not supply those to pence on january 6th because they weren't certified this was a way to make it happen informally. >> another report from politico, unseen video from a documentary film maker, he was following the former president, inner circle, family members included, on january 6th. what are we learning about how that footage could fit into future hearings and the committee's investigation. >> this has been the challenge all along. they're doing these public hearings but also seeking new information. not just from this film maker but people like ginny thomas and

others. they want to talk to pat cipollone, they want to hear from him at least publically. they're still putting this together in real time. it's a challenge that congressman adam schiff detailed yesterday, too. listen. >> this has been the challenge with the hearings is, as we prepare for one, we get new information we want to incorporate into it and it's a continuing struggle because we want to get this out, we want to get it out quickly. but we also want to get it out in a way the public can understand. we're getting new footage, new information and we will be providing that to the public. >> look, peter, we haven't seen the footage that alex holder, the documentary film maker has but he's going to testify before the committee tomorrow and we have confirmed some details of what ivanka trump says in the interviews including striking a different tone than the one she showed in the hearing you're seeing on your screen right now. there she said she agreed with

and respected bill barr's assessment of her father losing the election. but in this she said people are doubting faith in the election system and they should continue exploring every legal avenue to make sure this election was -- not her words -- but on the up and up. as the story continues to move on, it makes the hearings important, a challenge for the committee but also means the final report they issue could have more in it that we didn't get to in the hearings process. >> some of the testimony -- it was striking to see ivanka trump in effect saying she believed what william barr had said, she realized there was no there there as she suggested to her, that it effectively changed her view. but then you see that -- or you hear this new reporting, frankly, that she was saying something different on that day and the days leading up to then. this is coming from politico. what more do we anticipate from

that? it really is a sort of real-time assessment of where everyone was in terms of their views on that date, despite what they may or may not say in the testimony since. >> what we understand about that film maker he had access to the trumps weeks and months before january 6th and immediately after. so you get a window into their state of mind. in a way it seems that may not be parallel to anywhere else. so, you know, i guess it's an interesting distinction between what ivanka trump said when he speaks to congress, where there are legal penalties attached for saying something false versus saying something to documentary film maker where there is not. so i'm curious to see some of this footage and what it should suggest about the state of mind of donald trump himself, his family and even vice president mike pence who apparently is on some of the interviews. how they were feeling right after the attack on the capitol. >> or potentially the idea some

suggest they were financing their answers in a way in front of the committee to look less problematic potentially going forward. kyle cheney thank you. ali we'll see you later. charles coleman we appreciate your expertise. thank you for being with us. we're keeping a close eye on austin texas where they're holding another hearing on the school massacre in uvalde. after stunning testimony from a top official who called the police response abject failure. new details about the breakdown in the response. and congress now closer than it has been in nearly three decades to passing new gun legislation. we'll talk to one of the democratic senators behind the deal. you're watching msnbc live. wate ( car crashing ) but if you don't have the right auto insurance coverage, you could be left to pay for all of this... yourself.

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happening right now is day two of a texas senate special committee hearing being held in response to the uvalde school

massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead. today the focus is on mental health and firearms safety you can see that hearing under way as we speak. on tuesday we learned new details about what happened that horrific day and heard condemnation of the police response to the shooting. head of the texas department of public safety described it as a, quote, abject failure. same brock is live from austin with the latest on it. what more, if anything, have we learned new today from that committee? >> so nothing so far peter that is material to the investigation. there are nine scheduled speakers today. the first seven have to do with mental health. the last two have to do with firearms safety and this right now as the police response to the massacre remains squarely under the microscope. using posters, time lines, and maps. >> you stop the killing, you stop the dying. >> reporter: the head of the

texas department of public safety called the police response in uvalde an abject failure. >> the only thing stopping the hallway of dedicated officers from room 111 and 112 was the onscene commander who decided place the lives of officers ahead of children. >> reporter: he's singling out pete air aredondo. on tuesday he declined to answer questions after five hours of closed door testimony before the texas house. during an open senate session, fresh evidence from inside robb elementary hallways. cultivated from this surveillance footage, body camera and audio recordings appears to contradict concern of lack of fire power, armor or

locked doors. at 11:33, the gunman begins shooting into the classrooms. by 11:35, three police officers enter with two rifles. followed by arredondo and three other officers. the chief calling for backup five minutes later. i need fire power in here because we have pistols and this guy has a pistol. at 11:52, the first ballistic shield arrives. none of the police radios worked inside the school hallways, and the classroom doors were unlocked per state investigators even as arredondo spent 45 minutes to find a key. >> the teacher could not lock the door from the inside. >> that's correct. >> reporter: parents demanding answers about the police response. >> vest, helmets, anything you could think of they had it. >> reporter: local leaders

pointing out there were more than a half dozen agencies responding not just the uvalde police. >> the perfect storm of whatnot to do happened in uvalde, texas. >> reporter: peter when the dps director was asked why these classroom doors only lock from the outside, his direct response was, i can't explain it. it makes no sense. he also said it prevents the school itself from practicing a real lockdown. and it's notable, teachers from one of those classroom, additionally to that, also reported that the lock wasn't working. it was inspected, it wasn't the lock but the strike plate wasn't going through. even if they tried to lock the door, it still would not have been secure. peter? >> so many awful lessons to be learned from that experience. sack brock watching it all. thank you. just hours after the bipartisan group of senators released the text of gun legislation, 14 republicans voted to move ahead with the debate. will they all stay on board for

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we're back now a bipartisan group of senators are working towards passing what could be the most significant bill addressing gun violence in three decades. overnight 14 republican senators joined democrats in voting to move a measure forward that includes expanding child and family mental health services. strengthening background checks, specifically for those potential gun buyers under the age of 21. as well as closing what's known as the boyfriend loophole. what more can you tell us about what's in this bill and how likely it is to get passed by congress and reach the president's desk, ali? >> reporter: remember the longer the talks took, the lower the chances came of an actual deal coming to fruition. we saw from the release of the bill text yesterday how many compromises the senators cranked

out in just over two weeks of talk. yesterday senators wasted no time between relief of the bill text and voting for the bill to get to the next step, which we did. as we speak it's being reviewed by the congressional budget office and last night when it was voted on it got more gop support than the original 10 senators that signed on in support to the framework we saw released over a week ago. as a matter of fact, 14 senators -- 14 republican senators, including senate minority leader mitch mcconnell signed on in support of this. we know it has the gop support it needs to pass. there will be likely more gop support in the next few days that will sign on in support of this. the big question now is when we can expect a vote. right now we're expecting this to happen tomorrow or friday before the senators leave on a two-week fourth of july recess. that will then kick it off to the house.

speaker nancy pelosi said she's awaiting that to happen. she's ready to have a vote as soon as possible on this. it is likely to pass in the house as well. senator chris coons said this morning he would hope to have this on president biden's desk by, quote, the end of july. we caught up with a few senators this morning who say that's a realistic time line senators on both sides of the aisle agreeing that is possible peter. >> thank you. we'll speak to senator coons in a moment. but in a couple hours from now, president biden is expected to make an address to drop the federal gas tax. it couldn't come at a more crucial time. the holiday travel season now in full swing. right now the national average for a gallon of gas sits shy of $5, $4.95, five cents lower than this time last week when we were

at a record $5.01. mike memoli is joining me from the white house. republicans are already criticizing it. what's the likelihood this gets done? >> reporter: that's a serious question, peter. you know the pressure this white house has been under. this president has been under to do something, anything. to try to lower the price of gas. the white house has made a number of withdrawals from the strategic petroleum reserve. today the president taking another action on the table, which is to call for the suspension of the federal gas tax for three months. but that along with other steps he's going to announce today including governors, local leaders to find similar tools whether the state gas tax, rebates, other forms of relief for consumers, they're actions that depend on others to get it over the finish line. he's asking some in congress who

have expressed reservation about this. they're concerned in part when you ask for a suspension of the federal gas tax through september that's $10 billion from the highway trust fund. the white house is saying they're asking congress to find another pool of money to make sure the transportation trust fund is made whole. the president is also going to point the fingers at oil companies as his secretary jennifer granthome is set to meet with representatives. the gas price is far higher when crude oil is at the same level. he's accusing them of profit tiering at a time americans are suffering. he wants to show he's trying to get things done for the american people but the question is whether voters will reward him for it if congress doesn't have the votes for it. >> some in the white house told you and me both they have to demonstrate progress they're going in the right direction on

these things even if they can't erase the higher prices in general. mike memoli at the white house. thank you very much. i want to bring in chris coons of delaware one of the senators who worked on that gun deal. senator i want to ask you about guns in a second. but coming off what mike was talking about. let's start with president biden calling on congress to suspend the federal gas tax for three months, that means through september. your republican colleague, bill haggerty called this a gimmick. but some democrats are cool with it, tom harper tweeted it's a shortsighted and inefficient way to provide relief about it and here's what speaker pelosi had to say about it in april. >> the pros of it, it's good pr. the cons are it's no guarantee that the saving, the reduction in the federal tax that would be passed onto the consumer.

>> so, senator, do you support the president's call for a gas tax holiday and is president biden calling for something that cannot pass? >> we won't know whether it can pass until we try. there are five states that have already suspended their state share of the gas tax and i am hearing from delawareans regularly that the high price at the pump is a real drag on working families, particularly as they try to take summer vacation or to travel for work. so i'm willing to work with the administration to support the president, secretary granhome is meeting with the oil and gas producers. delaware is home to an important refinery for the mid atlantic states that helps keep our prices down. i think we should do everything we can to continue investment into the transition to cleaner energy while also ensuring that

the oil and gas industry and refineries here in the united states are able to produce at a robust level. in the first year of the biden administration, the united states produced more oil and gas than in the first two years of the trump administration. so there is some objective truth to what is being said here that the price at the pump is not just a production issue. it's also a global supply issue. russia's invasion of ukraine and the sanctions that we've had to impose to put pressure on russia have had a real impact on global supply and global prices. >> senator, let me ask you if i can now about guns now as you are a member of the committee working on this effort, the first big gun legislation in nearly 30 years, 14 republican senators voted to advance the bill. as you know well increasingly bipartisanship appears to be dead. not this time. what got this over the finish line? >> first, the engagement of

average americans who were shocked and horrified by the mass killing at a grocery store in buffalo by the mass killing of innocent school children at an elementary school in uvalde, texas, and who picked up the phone or sent an email or wrote or went out and demonstrated to show that the majority of the american people think we can and should do things to address community mental health, crisis intervention, and expand gun safety. we've got a good group, a bipartisan group that helped lead the negotiations here. senator murphy, cinema, cornyn and tillis. those are two very conservative republicans from texas and north carolina but who were willing to craft a modest bipartisan proposal that hit the sweet spot, got 14 votes on the floor last night and i think we can get out of the senate this week and to the president's desk before the end of next month.

i've been a part of other efforts in the last decade to try and pass universal background checks. and to try to do other things it's been maddeningly difficult. >> for sure. >> i'm still hopeful we can get this done but we can't count our eggs before they hatch. because frankly this deal almost came apart several times over last weekend. >> let me ask you about that. mitch mcconnell supported this, surprising some. he doesn't do anything unless he views it as advantageous for his party. is this a sign that politics around the issue of guns have changed and republicans will feel pressure to do more or do you think this is a unique moment? >> i hope it shows that the politics are changing as more and more americans are asking themselves the question are we doing enough to protect our children? are we doing enough to protect our communities? the racist massacre in buffalo

was horrifying. the loss of those children in uvalde was sickening and the gar imagine year after year has to ask us what can we do? providing an incentive fund for states to adopt crisis intervention, providing money for community intervention programs i think is a good investment. and apparently so does a majority of the senate. i think that's the result of real engagement by folks at the grass roots level calling for change. >> democrats right now as you know facing major headwinds going into midterms. you've seen the headlines questioning if the president can win again in 2024, he'll be 81 years old then. what's his level of frustration with the fact that democrats are openly questioning whether he should run in 2024? >> in 2020, we had a wide open primary field and i was one of the very first senators to

support president biden. i believed in him. i thought he was the right leader at this time and that he brought values to the table, compassion, focus on others, awareness of our place in the world. a strong and deep record on foreign policy and the capacity to help bring us together. i was with the president yesterday and got to see him and dr. biden and he seemed energized, engaged, refreshed after a week in delaware, ready to lean into the issues before us, he's about to head to the g-7 summit in europe and is concerned about holding together the western alliance in the face of russia's aggression in ukraine we talked about the price at the pump and the gas tax holiday that's being discussed. this is a president every bit of capable of leading us if re-elected in 2024 as he was in 2020. i think he brings to his leadership of our country a great heart and a deep record of

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more. what's the latest there. >> reporter: the staggering casualty figures more than 1,000 people are thought to be dead. nbc hasn't confirmed that. we're in the process of doing that. sounds like according to local officials and members of the taliban that more than 1,500 people have been injured. that's why there's a race going on to try to find the injured people and bring them to safety and medical care. that's a challenge in the eastern part of the country. this is a rural mountainous region, sparsely pop lated and difficult to access. what limited information we have on the rescue efforts. a lot of the homes have been levelled by landslides triggered by the huge earthquake, a 5.9 on the scale as you mentioned. a lot of these homes were shoddily built to begin with, which means they crushed when the earthquake, which by western standards in countries like the u.s. that would be considered

relatively mild instead it's a massive death toll. it's the first challenge for the taliban since they took over the country a year ago in trying to manage the worsening crisis. peter. >> matt bradley keeping a close eye on that situation in afghanistan. thank you so much. this morning ukrainian troops are holding on as russian forces pound key cities in the country's east. the governor of the luhansk region said cities are fighting right now. what more can you tell us about the situation in the eastern part of that country? >> reporter: right now russian forces outnumber ukrainian forces and in some areas, ukrainian artillery, one shell is matched by six or more from russian forces, that's according to a spokesperson with the ukrainian armed forces.

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kornacki. he is at the big board. for those who missed it, what happened and why does it matter? >> mixed bag for trump you could say. start in alabama. trump was actually at one point in time or another backing both of these candidates in alabama. this is congressman brooks who loses big to britt. brooks originally had trump's endorsement. then trump pulled the endorsement. brooks made a big appeal to trump publically to get back on board. instead, trump said, no, i'm backing britt. britt led big in the preliminary. she blew out brooks last night. read into that what you will. he didn't get on board with britt until late in the game after she had established a big lead over brooks. she wins the runoff on the republican side in alabama. heavy favorite she is for the

seat in november. look here, republican primaries, runoffs actually for the house in georgia. a couple districts to note here. this is a race where jake evans, the losing candidate, two to one margin, endorsed by donald trump. we have seen him endorse candidates in georgia. against brian kemp, against raffensperger. in this race here. in the tenth district this runoff, vernon jones, a number losing in georgia. i would take these two losses with a bit of a grain of salt when it comes to trump. the winning candidates ran on very trump friendly messages. for instance, mike collins in this race, he put a video up saying he believes in only legal votes had been counted in georgia in 2020, trump would have won the state. he said it was a stolen election. all the trump rhetoric you hear about the election. mike collins was using that in this race.

a very trump friendly message. one other race in georgia of note. a potentially competitive district. held by a democrat for 30 years. republicans believe they could have a chance because of a little bit of redistricting changes to the district. they had hoped national republicans had, hunt would win. he will fall short here. losing to chris west. we will see what happened in this one. republicans nationally had been -- had big hopes on hunt for a chance of flipping the district. >> you make a good point. on if it's not a trump endorsed candidate, the republican party increasingly is candidates who are parroting donald trump. we appreciate you joining us. the commissioner of the nfl is in the hot seat. roger goodell is appearing before a committee that's looking into allegations of toxic workplace culture made against the washington

commanders, formerly the redskins. he addressed allegations against the team. >> it's clear to me that the workplace in washington was unprofessional and unacceptable in numerous respects. bully, widespread disrespect toward colleagues, use of demeaning language, public embarrassment and harassment. for a prolonged period of time, they had a deficient hr function. >> that was roger goodell moments ago. ali vitali is live on the hill with more. ali, a new memo was released today that shed new light on the owner's role in creating a hostile work environment. walk us through all of this. this is the latest and a long line of problems that the franchise here in washington, d.c. has been dealing with. >> reporter: a long line of problems for the franchise itself but also a long-term investigation for oversight

committee. they have been at this for several months trying to get these key documents behind the beth wilkinson investigation. that's one of the things you will hear about today in this committee hearing. it's been mentioned several times. this was an investigation done by a lawyer of the washington football team and the toxic workplace culture there. the nfl's commissioner today saying that they got oral reports on that. there's questions about why there's no written reports around that investigation. goodell says it's to protect the people who actually complied with the investigation. a new memo that you just referenced from the committee lays out several bullet points that puts the owner at the very center of this. i will read a few of the things. for example, they say that lawyers for snyder made a dossier with emails, texts, phone records and social media posts from others who made public accusations against the team. they also allege that during the wilkinson investigation, snyder

and his lawyers offered former cheerleaders hush money to dissuade them from cooperating. they also say that they had direct access, the lawyers, to nfl as well as the law firm conducting the investigation, effectively being able to look into what the investigation was saying in real time. i did just get in the last few seconds a statement from snyder's lawyers. i want to read it to you. they are saying it's clear the outcome of the oversight committee's investigation into the commanders was predetermined from the beginning. going forward, about the committee's decision to release the report. so they are aware of what's happening as this committee hearing continues on for the rest of the day. >> ali on the hill with the latest. that's going to do it for me on msnbc. "andrea mitchell reports" starts next. al. they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. woah! look out! [submarine rising out of water] [minions making noise]

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