january 6th committee member james raskin joins us to discuss what the committee will reveal in hearings to come, and it's a growing cancer on our nation. right wing extremists now targeting the lbgtq community, and not just in idaho where 31 of them were unpacked from a u-haul and arrested, and the first polls are close right now in a south carolina primary as trump seeks revenge against two incumbent republicans. steve kornacki will join us from the big board. >>> and first one of the big misconceptions from the trump presidency, that there were no adults in the room. that's not true. there were plenty of adults and couldn't contain him and didn't want to. the so-called adults are sharing what they really feel about trump's pursuit for power. we're talking about trump's closest allies, his own people narrating the case against him, star witnesses that included none other than attorney general william barr, a man who spent years defending and serving trump, not the american people, but who via video testimony had this to say about the president'slize. >> bogus stuff and based on misinfo

think that this could be a turning point, you know, as this is truly exposed as we're told by james raskin and others as a conspiracy that went all the way to the president of the united states and the republican party including elected officials to literally turn our democracy upside down and destroy it. hopefully that bad faith will no longer be allowed. thank you both. appreciate you. >>> powerful words at the white house about the uvalde victims from a native son, actor matthew mcconaughey. >> wore green high top converse with a heart she had hand drawn on the right toe because they represented her love of nature, camila's got these shoes. can you show these shoes, please. wore these every day, green converse with a heart on the right toe. these are the same green converse on her feet that turned out to be the only clear evidence that could identify her after the shooting. how about that. >> this as the senate appears to be moving closer to a deal on guns, but will it really address what victims families want? i'll ask the daughter of buffalo shooting victim pearl young. "the reidout"

january 6th committee member james raskin joins us to discuss what the committee will reveal in hearings

. >> good morning, and thank you, chairman raskin, ranking member mace, -- my name is james whitfield, i'm a husband and father of three amazing children. most recently, i served as a high school principal in northeast tehran county, texas, a suburb just outside of dallas. i'm here to tell you today there is reason for concern. i chose a career in education because of my school experience. above all, i want school to be a place where students feel like they belong, and they are excited to be each day. where staff are empowered, inspired, and equipped to serve each day. and where families feel connected and have the highest levels of trust as they send their young people into our buildings each day. i've witnessed what can happen when and that environment exists. it is such a beautiful thing. but i've also witnessed how toxic things can get when people with nefarious agendas come to town. the lies, the bigotry, the intolerance, the racism. never mind the fact that they don't know you, or even care to know you, they have an agenda, and your mere existence threatens that. so they come af

his name is james goldsmith and we'll talk about him in a second and i want to show you first what jamie raskin said today in an interview with "the washington post". >> we are going to tell the story about conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election and block the transfer of power. so this is an extraordinary and unprecedented event in our history. you really have to go back to the civil war to understand anything like it, but of course, there the confederates never denied that abraham lincoln had actually won the election. they just wanted to secede from the union, but here we had an effort to lie about who won the election and then a concerted, multi-step effort to overturn the results of the election and all of it was backed up by a violent assault on the u.s. capitol which drove the house and the senate members out of our respective chambers and shut down the counting of electoral college votes for the first time in american history for several hours. >> so, claire, because trump has been impeached twice and investigated for the first two years of his presidency by fbi director r