from death threats. when donald trump made james murray head of the secret service, donald trump knew he was going to need the secret service to help him hold on to the presidency. we will be talking about other things in this hour, you will hear from stacey amen, when she joins us, about the ban on abortion in georgia. which went into effect today. you will hear what happened in the steve bannon trial today. when federal prosecutors confidently rested their case after presenting just two technical witnesses, and you will see and hear, the mother of the mass murderer in uvalde texas, who was confronted by other mothers, today, mothers of the murdered children. telemundo captured that confrontation on video and we will present it later in the hour. but we begin tonight with james murray. the director of the secret service who has remained in that position during the biden administration, even though he was appointed by donald trump. the first director of the secret service app
just a moment. right now, as well, millions of people across the country and around the world, really, continuing to experience this dangerously high temperatures. we re going to break down the latest on the sweltering heat wave and what can be done. also, to capitol hill. democrats in the house eyeing a measure to ban assault weapons, but the bill facing pretty strong opposition from republicans and slim odds of passing in the senate. we ll talk about that. we re going to speak with the highland park mayor who testified before the senate about her town s recent tragedy. that s coming up. hey, everybody. we re going to begin this hour in washington, where ten hours from now, the house january 6th committee is going to hold its latest hearing in prime-time, a season finale of sorts to this initial batch of hearings, with even more expected later on this year, possibly in the fall. tonight s hearing is going to dive into those crucial 187 minutes the committee says it took
insurrection. then we learned in great detail how trump himself caused it, all of it. tomorrow we ll watch the season finale when we will get the inside story of the 187 minutes donald trump spent reveling in the violence that he caused while doing nothing to stop it. that is what we begin tonight. over the last six weeks of these public hearings the january 6th committee has put forth an exhaustive record of not just just what happened on the day of the insurrection but everything leading up to it, spelling out the former president s scheme to sell the big lie, summon the mob and light the match of violence. they have accomplished that using live testimony from more than a dozen witnesses and recorded depositions from people who would know, republican former white house officials and members of the president s inner circle. his own legal team both in the white house and on the fringe all of whom paint a damning portrait of what the twice-impeached disgraced former president
sort of jams that narrative up and here is why. the first request for prechb r prechb race of records came from congress on january 16. the email migration happened on january 27th. and our understanding is that they were told in december and then again on january 25th how to preserve those records, that if they were going to do it, they would need to do it themselves. basically one of these emails made that you might get at your own office from your chief information officer saying we re moving to a new system, so you are going to upload your documents, you have to do it yourself. right now the secret service again continues to say, look, we re doing everything that we can to rectify this. so for example, they have handed over about 10,000 records to the house select committee. they have this cover letter explaining what they are trying to do to rectify the situation and what they can expect to see in this 10,000 records. they also say that they are continuing to do this for
requests from congress. plus a house vote puts same-sex marriage one step closer to becoming federal law. now democrats must peel off ten republicans to sends a sweeping civil rights bill to the president s desk. would you vote for that? i m looking at the bill. i probably will. if and when he brings a bill to the floor, we ll take a hard look at it. and can democrat tim ryan turn ohio blue again? we ll talk to him live in just a couple of minutes. up first, new credibility questions for the secret service. the agency is alarming the january 6 panel by turning over just a single text message in response to a subpoena. the committee tells cnn this morning that they did receive radio traffic and emails from the service. tomorrow, though, the panel returns to primetime to focus on the 187 minutes of donald trump s inaction during the insurrection. but today we have more evidence that the former president is still engaged in an active plot to subvert the 2020 election