yet to be identified as police work to determine a motive after a gunman killed at least ten people at a dance hall saturday night in monterey park, california. the shooter a 72-year-old man a fixture at that dance hall. police say armed with a semiautomatic weapon and extended magazines and died sunday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. it could have been so much worse. shortly after the attack, he went to a second location where a man there disarmed him, and this morning he described their frightening confrontation. i needed to get the weapon away from him. needed to take this weapon, disarm him or else everybody would have died. when i got the courage i lunged at him with both my hands, grabbed the weapon and we had a struggle. we struggled into the lobby, trying to get this gun away from each other. he was hitting me across the face, smashing the back of my head. i i was trying to use my elbows to separate the gun away from him, create some distance. finally at one
as they fell, you know. it was carnage. it was chaos. it was an emotional night for police officers like carey dunne and brian sicknick s partner brought to tears, reliving the horrific day. carey dunne will join us just ahead. the committee also used testimony from trump s own attorney general, and his daughter and adviser ivanka trump to show president trump was told repeatedly his claims of election fraud were a lie or as bill barr put it, bs, and he did not abbreviate. and committee chair bennie thompson previewing more damning testimony, linking extremist groups with people in the trump orbit. member of the january 6th committee, democratic congressman pete aguilar of california, congressman, thank you so much for being with us. that s where i want to start right there, with what chairman bennie thompson said to our jake tapper last night. listen. there is people in the hallways outside. that describe actual conversations between these extremist groups and anyo
here. from all of our colleagues across the networks of msnbc news, thank you for staying up late and i will see all of you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow now it is a top of the hour. we are looking at live images of the cannon caucus room at the u.s. capitol. members of the january six investigation are about to enter the room and take their seats. in terms of what we are expecting, here betty thompson is expected to gavel the hearing in the session. as i was mentioning we expect opening statements both from chairman thompson, and from the republican vice chair liz cheney. we also know that there are two live witnesses, who are slated to testify tonight. capitol hill police officer who was injured, and the attack. also documentary filmmaker, who captured footage on january 6th that we will be seeing for the first time tonight. he is and that it with the pro trump paramilitary group, the proud boys that was a subject of a seditious conspiracy, federal felony indictment earl
20, 30 minutes later. according to interview they gave to abc, he said most customers had left their lunar new year not quite paying attention to the front door then heard the door close. saw this man with a gun and thought that he might die in that moment. he heard the sound of metal rubbing together, looked over and really had that moment of recognizing that he needed to do something and got up the courage to stop him to try and get some distance between the man and his weapon. ultimately taking over that weapon. a really incredible story, and when, you know, asking, called a hero. you ve been applauded for your courage. he said the real courage now has to be shired with these family and friends of the victims and the injured. that is going to be where the real courage lies in the coming days and weeks ahead, brianna. they re trying to make sense of this.
i was called a lot of things on january six, 2021, and the days thereafter. i was called nancy pelosi s dog, called incompetent, called a hero, and a villain. i was called a traded to my country, my oath, and my constitution. in actuality, i was none those things. i was an american, standing face to face with other americans asking myself how many times how many, many times we had gotten here i had been called names before, but never had my patriotism or duty been called into question. i, who got up every day, no matter how early the hour, or how late i got in the night before, to put on my uniform and to protect americas symbol of democracy. i, who spent countless hours in the baking sun and freezing