good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. two former trump white house officials will be key witnesses at thursday s january 6th hearing on trump s 187 minutes of inaction during the violent riot. nbc news has learned, former deputy national security adviser that will testify in person. he resigned after the insurrection, and has already given closed-door testimony to the committee. one of my staff brought me a print down off a tweet by the president, and the tweet said something to the effect that mike pence, the vice president, didn t have the courage to do what should ve been done. i read that tweet. and made a decision at that moment to resign. that s where i knew that i was leaving that day, once i read that we. also appearing on thursday, former deputy press secretary, sarah matthews. she also resigned after the riot, and testify to the committee behind closed doors already. we had all talked about, at that point, about how it was bad, and you know, th
and it s not just mass shootings, it is every day violence. we ll take a deep dive into the gun epidemic breaking our country. as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. two two former trump white house officials will be key witnesses at thursday s january 6th hearing on trump s 187 minutes of inaction during the violent riot. nbc news has learned, former deputy national security adviser, matthew pottinger, will testify in person. he resigned after the insurrection, and has already given closed-door testimony to the committee. one of my staff brought me a print down off a tweet by the president, and the tweet said something to the effect that mike pence, the vice president, didn t have the courage to do what should ve been done. i read that tweet. and made a decision at that moment to resign. that s where i knew that i was leaving that day, once i read that tweet. also appearing on thursday, former deputy p
siblings. that s what the data tells us. and ryan, texas is a big gun state. i want to understand, everything happening and you holiday steeply port and to that community. obviously, to those families. it s also a hugely important national news story. but take me to your average texan outside of the uvalde community, are they focused on this? oh, absolutely. i think this is dominated local news coverage across the state, ever since it happened. and i expect it to continue to dominate coverage. you know there s so many elements of this, the failed police response, and there s so many politics now starting to come into it with the texas department of public safety, finally forming an internal, an internal committee to begin investigating how its own officers responded to the scene of, you know, you said there were nearly 400 officers who responded, well, nearly 100 of those officers were with the
consider cover, concealment, acquiring your target, who is behind the target that you might hit, what are the ways people who get hurt with what you are doing, all in a split second. so it s extremely rare that even a trained officer can hit someone accurately in a split second, let alone have it happened with civilian in a crowded shopping mall. it was a miracle, quite frankly. and again, do we want people to have more guns out there, when the data tells us that more guns means more stolen guns, moore lost guns, more guns getting into the hands of very young children who think their toys, and end up shooting their siblings. that s what the data tells us. and ryan, texas is a big gun state. i want to understand, everything happening in uvalde and to that community. obviously, to those families. it s also a hugely important
frankly i don t blame them. leslie, you are out in california. i hope that you purchased a firearm. if you need advice i am happy to give it to you. is that what is happening, california is a big gun state now of these policies, because folks in san francisco are nearly uninhabitable according to people coming on this channel. stores being broken into eight times. is that why people are buying guns? you have to arm yourself to defend yourself? okay, j.j., love you, in california, with gun ownership for a long time, even among my fellow democrats. i m not a big gun person. i ve two teenagers that have a love-hate relationship. i just want to say i want to laugh at beverly hills that has a 50% lower violent client domain crime rate than the rest of the country, live in gated communities with security details, dogs, and also inner and outer security systems want guns on top of it.