pouring gasoline on the fire by tweeting that. the secret service couldn t control the situation and do their job to keep him safe. at 2:26 p.m., the secret service rushed vice president pence down the stairs. approximately 40 feet. that s all there was. 40 feet between the vice president and the mob. make no mistake about the fact that the vice president s life was in danger. the recent court filing by the department of justice explains that a confidential informant from the proud boys told the fbi that the proud boys would have killed mike pence if given the chance. that s just some of what we heard from yesterday s hearing into the attack on the capitol. as the committee detailed the close call for vice president pence, good morning and welcome to way too early. on this friday, june 17th. i m jonathan lemire. we re glad you re with us. the third day of testimony in the january 6th hearings focused on donald trump s efforts to pressure mike pence into overturning
justice system. bill: the rap sheet a mile ago. girlfriend accused him of assault and he served two stints in prison and under the los angeles d.a. policies he was let off the hook, put on probation. a year later and we have two dead police officers and a town that is reeling. dana: on the left side of your screen are the two officers. they were both husbands and fathers. bill: they are just two of the more than 150 cops shot in the line of duty this year. at least two dozen shootings were fatal. jeff paul begins our reporting live in los angeles with more from there today. jeff. bill and dana we re getting a better grasp of what happened leading up to the moment when the two police officers were shot and killed. we ve obtained new security camera footage that shows how chaotic the scene was as shots were fired. [sirens and gunshots] in the timeline of this shooting the portion of the video took place there was a lot of gunfire. the officers were responding to a pot
tonight, as wall street panics, mortgage rates skyrocket. how much more will a new loan cost you? tonight, the massive flood and new video from yellowstone national park, and the questions why about why the governor is nowhere to be found. plus the major flight cancellations and delays due to severe weather nationwide. tonight s other top headlines: a third american reportedly missing in ukraine. revlon files for bankruptcy. and finally, ahead of father s day, how a father-daughter bond led to a possible life-saving discovery. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this thursday night. today, we witnessed what some consider to be the most-important january 6 hearing to date. there was powerful testimony from one of the most respected conservative lawyers in the republican party warning ominously that the threat to democracy isn t over and that former president donal
In for alicia menendez. American voices will be back tomorrow. Welcome back to a Special Edition of velshi. We begin this hour with dysfunction in the house of representatives. The federal government will shut down one week from tonight, if House Republicans cannot figure out a path forward to perform their basic constitutionally assigned duties. This chaos and disorder is 100 avoidable in congress if they just do their job. Shut down now seems all but certain if speaker Kevin Mccarthy cannot find convince a faction of farright republicans to sign off on a deal from the government. Today on capitol hill, members of the Roads Committee discussed the path forward for Appropriation Bills that mccarthy plans to put on the house floor on tuesday. Speaker mccarthy is not relying on hope to somehow pull a rabbit out of a head for a solution. I always believe, when you get to the final deadlines, thats when the real crunch. Comes on believing in Human Behavior furthest that have been holding o