condemned trump that day are still working for him. also tonight, democrats were accused of lying about a 10-year-old pregnant rape victim. now that the story is confirmed, what it tells us about the terrifying future of reproductive rights in america. jfk said the torch has been passed. now another generation of young americans is saying loud and clear, pass the torch to us. we begin the reid out tonight with january 6th committee s eighth public hearing. the final chapter for now of a damning and horrifying story about donald trump electrifying a violent mob to block the transfer of power on that fateful day. one must imagine trump is watching or rather hate watching every second of these hearings. i mean, they are about him, after all. now we are learning about trump s attempt to possibly influence witness testimony. this week congresswoman liz cheney revealed that trump called a witness in the panel s investigation after one of the previous hearings. today chairman be
january 6th hearing reveals that trump knew he lost but tried to steal the election anyway while cheating his maga supporters out of their hard-earned money. plus, some are calling the gun reform framework a good first step. that suggests more is coming. color me skeptical. we ll talk about all that have and more with karine jeanpierre in her first live primetime interview since she made history, become the new white house press secretary. but we begin with day two of public hearings by the house january 6th committee today showing how donald trump deliberately launched the big lie to convince his own voters that he won an election he lost using claims of nonexistent fraud and then seeking to corrupt the justice department, his own campaign team, his donors and our court system in an effort to cling to power. if you think he cooked up that plan after the election as a hail mary simply because he couldn t accept defeat understand that donald trump went into the election alread
victims of recent mass shottings testifying before congress today. we heard from the mother of 21-year-old zaire goodman who was wounded and survived the mass shooting at a buffalo grocery store last month which was motivated by racist hate. she described her son as pure joy and calling the person who shot him a domestic terrorism and says domestic terrorism occurs is because america is inherently violent. my son has a hole in the right side of his neck, two on his back and another on his left leg caused by an exploding bullet from an ar-15. if after hearing from me and the other people testifying today does not move to you act on gun laws i invite you to my home to help clean my son s wounds so that you may see up close the damage that has been caused to my son and to my community. we then heard from dr. roy guerrero, the only pediatrician in uvalde who described the horror that he witnessed two weeks ago in the city s emergency room. two children whose bodies had been
creating liabilities for people who provide access to firearms to kids. these are things that can be done. it s just requiring some politicians to put the politics aside and put the children and their needs and lives first. well, nicole hockley, i know that this is a difficult time for you as you wrote in your op-ed, retraumaized, but i thank you for spending a few minutes with us to help us understand what s ahead for these families and what you believe should be ahead for our country. nicole, thank you. thank you. it s the top of the hour, on cnn newsroom, i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota in uvalde, texas, here at the scene of yet another hideous school shooting. victor, here we are again. i m in front of robb elementary school, the scene of the carnage where 19 kids, 4th graders, 3rd graders, 2nd graders were killed in their classroom. we just heard the texas lieutenant governor say in the last hour that there will be plenty of time to analyze what hap
we begin on capitol hill here the house is expected to vote today on a resolution to hold attorney general merrick garland in contempt of congress for refusing to hand over video tapes of an interview with president biden. this comes before one day when president trump is set to head to congress for meetings, including senator mitchell mcconnell. joining us now is ali vitali. does this have any change of passing? reporter: house republicans say it does. two house committees, oversight and judiciary, passed this contempt referral out of their committees and left it open to leadership to bring to the house floor. there was a lot of pressure being applied on house republican leadership, including speaker mike johnson, to do that. there were some moderate republicans who were reluctant to vote for this. though it seems based on the conversations that leadership had with reporters that they have their ducks in a row and have the votes needed to hold the attorney general in conte