more than 450 march for our live rallies taking place in cities or new york, to nashville, to austin. of course, in parkland florida where it all started four years ago with the first march for our lives. president biden making his voice heard with these marches in the backstop, calling on congress to pass a number of reforms including an assault weapons ban. let s turn now to our nation s capital where thousands assemble to call lawmakers to take some meaningful action on gun violence. let s bring in nbc s savannah sellers now, she is live in d.c. at this rally. savannah, i will ask you first, what are you hearing at today s event there in d.c., especially with the negotiations happening in the backstop trying to come up with some gun legislation? yeah, hey, aaron, we heard a lot about that and we saw a lot about that on posters all over the place. first, let me give you a little there are scheduled to go up until two, and 2:30 pm, this was full of the way back to the mo
revealing that the capitol attack was farm of former president trump s plans, not just a rally that got out of control. as chairman bennie thompson put it, quote, the violence was no accident. i represented trump s last stand, the most desperate chance to hold the transfer of power. officials testified that they informed trump repeatedly that he lost. former ag bill barr called bs on trump s election conspiracies. according to the committee i had three discussions with the president that i can recall, one in november 23rd, one was on december 1st and one was on december 14th. i have been thoroughly give and take out those discussions and within that context, i made it clear that i did not agree with the idea that saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff. i told him that it was according to the committee however, trump continued to meet with rudy giuliani and other election deniers. on december 18th, 2020, they talked about sending troops to seize voti
including during president trump s ellipse rally, indicating that elements in the crowd were preparing for violence at the capitol. over multiple months, donald trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated, seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the chance for a presidential power. in our hearings, you will see evidence of each element of this plan. that s the january 6th committee vice chair liz cheney laying out the case against donald trump in the first hearing into the the attack on the u.s. capitol. the committee presented new evidence and graphic, new video last night. we learned that, as trump watched his plan unfold on television, it was vice president mike pence who essentially acted as president, making calls to rush federal help to the scene. there is also new information on trump s staggering reaction to threats against his vice president s life. and how a republican congressman who assisted in the election scheme allegedly knew his a
tanks and aircraft. all kidding aside, he s come off the sidelines. he retired. he helped us get ahead of the challenges that arise at our ports, our railroads and on the road. this is about reducing costs for families. you know, i have to admit to you a lot of us elected officials have been in office for a while. every once in a while something you learn makes you viscerally angry, like if you had the person in front of you, you d want to pop him. i really mean it. there are nine major ocean line shipping companies that ship from asia to the united states. nine. they formed three consortiums. these companies have raised their prices by as much as 1,000%. so everything coming from asia, they get 90 something percent of stuff coming from asia. they ve raised it by 1,000%. that s why i called on congress and they re foreign owned shipping companies that raised their prices while raking in just last year $190 billion in profit. a seven-fold increase in one year. seven-fold inc
trading week. it s due to this morning s worse-than-expected read on inflation. now 8.6%. there were hopes today that it would bring signs that price spikes were easing. instead, they got worse led by that record surge in gas prices. we ll have a lot more on that. but on capitol hill, the house january 6th committee is getting ready for its next hearing on monday, which will focus on the big lie. the is committee will zoom in on former president trump s efforts to convince voters the election was stolen from him. next phase of the hearing comes after several major revelations during the prime-time kickoff. among the biggest, vice chair liz cheney pointing to testimony that when donald trump was told that rioters were chanting, hang mike pence, the former president said, maybe his supporters had the right idea and that pence deserved it. nbc news national senior political reporter, suehill kapur is on capitol hill. glenn kirschner is a msnbc legal analyst and former federal