knew he lost the 2020 election and that their scheme to overturn the results was illegal. and yet, they attempted it anyway. president trump rejected the advice of his campaign experts on election night. and instead, followed the chorus recommended by apparently inebriated rudy giuliani. to just claim he won. and insist that the vote counting stop. to falsely claim everything was fraudulent. and there are an lies the true nature of these hearings. to truly hold trump and his fellow coup plotters accountable. the committee has already uncovered evidence that trump may have committed serious federal crimes. but it s up to the justice department to bring criminal charges. as neil cocktail argues in the opinion page of the new york times today, attorney general merrick garland could bring a charge of conspiracy to defraud the united states even if trump truly believed in what he was saying. and it wasn t just democracy at stake, but lives as well. vice president mike pence fa
and hour-long descent to where we are. we now know that donald trump knew what he was asking mike pence to do was illegal. and we are left to wonder about just how much danger donald trump knew mike pence was in when he was sending anti-pence tweets to the smartphones of the trump mob attacking the capitol. by 2:24 pm, the secret service had moved vice president pence from the senate chamber to his office across the hall. the noise from the rioters became audible, at which point we knew they had gotten into the building. then president trump tweeted, mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving states a chance to certify a collective set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. usa demands the truth. bring out pence! the situation was already bad. and so it felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire by tweeting that. 30 seconds later, rio
we begin this hour with these incredible images from all around our country. today, thousands of protesters took to streets at more than 450 rallies, from washington, the sea to parkland, florida, austin, texas, new york city, all to push congress to take action on gun violence. one party, and only one party has heard the calls for those actions. this week, the house oversight committee held a hearing on gun violence, where members heard from survivors of recent mass shutting s, including maya cerrillo, a fourth grader at robb elementary in uvalde, texas. he shot my friend, and i thought that he would come back to the room, so i covered myself in blood and put it on me. maya, who is just 11 years old, speared her classmates blood on her face to protect herself from a gunmen. also this week, the house passed a series of petrol bills that would raise the age to buy most semi automatic rifles to 21. it would ban high capacity ammunition magazines and create a federal red fla
all to push congress to take action on gun violence. one party, and only one party has heard the calls for those actions. this week, the house oversight committee held a hearing on gun violence, where members heard from survivors of recent mass shutting s, including maya cerrillo, a fourth grader at robb elementary in uvalde, texas. he shot my friend, and i thought that he would come back to the room, so i covered myself in blood and put it on me. maya, who is just 11 years old, speared her classmates blood on her face to protect herself from a gunmen. also this week, the house passed a series of petrol bills that would raise the age to buy most semi automatic rifles to 21. it would ban high capacity ammunition magazines and create a federal red flag law. more than 200 lawmakers, almost entirely republicans, voted no on these measures. the good and bad news, the votes no matter all that much because those bills will never pass the senate. don t get too discouraged, a bipa
law abiding citizens. moscow s advance in eastern ukraine is continuing, russian backed forces are getting more ground close to a strategic town in northeastern donbas. and are close to encircling several important cities. this governor has warned that ukrainian forces may have to retreat to avoid being captured. that is it for me. my headlines at the top of the hour. my headlines at the top of the hour. now on bbc news, the media show. hello and welcome to the media show. we are going to talk about partygate in this week s edition because sue gray s report or investigation into what happened in downing street during various lockdowns is now out. the prime minister has been responding, the media, of course, is covering it. and we are going to be exploring the role the media has played in this story from its beginning in early december, all the way through to this week of the report coming out. but before we get to that, we are also going to speak to anneka rice because the ve