we will put into context just how devastating it was for certain rights, some of which originated with thomas jefferson. and later, florida schools rolling out lgbtq restrictions as the states don t say gay law takes effect. it s impact already being felt. all of, that and more is coming up. and they re good saturday morning to. you i am katie phang. if you are one of the millions of people flying or hitting the roads this holiday weekend, pack your patience. sky high gas prices, canceled flights, and picketing pilots are just a few of the travel woes americans are facing ahead of their vacations. it s live from reagan national airport with what we can expect. gary? katie, if you needed any indication the pandemic is over in the minds of many of mayor cans, look no further than the airports and the roads this week. according to aaa, 40 million people are going to be taking to the skies are hitting the roads this weekend. just yesterday, 2 million people walked through tsa
of what we can expect to hear. we will show evidence of the president s involvement in this scheme, and also show evidence about what his own lawyers came to think about this scheme. and we ll show courageous state officials who stood up and said they wouldn t go along with this plan to call legislatures back into session. let s begin with manu raju who is live this morning on capitol hill. so manmanu, walk us through whoe we expecting to hear from today. reporter: we expect to hear from four witnesses who will talk about the intense pressure campaign launched by donald trump and his allies to overturn the electoral results, the pressure they withstood re rejecting those efforts. and also the real life consequences, particularly facing a georgia election worker, former georgia election worker who will testify later today about the real threats to her personal safety, to her family s safety, because of what she says were lies that were pushed by donald trump, by rudy giu
children s lives. stunning new details and the images this morning on law enforcement s response to the mass shooting at a school last month in uvalde, texas. we are learning that 11 officers responded to robb elementary school within three minutes. they were armed to the hilt. they had protective gear, bulletproof protective gear, but still waited. why? this image obtained by the austin american statesman shows an officer with a ballistic shield, 11:52 a.m., 19 minutes after the gunman first entered the school,. another image obtained by the texas tribune shows officers with rifles, ballistic shields, and an ax-like tool. so they had all of this, but we do not know, we should note, at this point, what point in the standoff this image was taken. this morning, a father of one of the students killed in the mass shooting tells cnn he cannot fathom why officers would wait so long to act. they re supposed to be trained professionals, bulletproof vests, heavy automatic weapon
law enforcement response an abject failure. the sending you details, as we get the first chilling images from inside the school that day. the surveillance photo you re looking at shows cops with rifles and ballistic shields in the hallway, but they waited another hour to storm the classroom. this photo was taken at the same time, but now you see it is a different angle and it also highlights that officers were ready to go in, but didn t. at the end of those 77 minutes, 19 students, including the daughter of one of the officers stationed there in the hallway, and two teachers, where dead or dying. others sustained serious physical injuries. the emotional and psychological harm will be lifelong for survivors and their families. it was the deadliest school shooting in texas history. jimmy, in stark contrast to those officers that waited over 90 minutes until he was actually shot, when s.w.a.t. came, there was 4 minutes between him arriving and being shot dead. jimmy: there a
and we start the fourth hour of morning joe with the january 6 select committee holding the final public hearing before the july 4th recess and there were plenty of fireworks and a lot of drama. top officials from the justice department described then president donald trump s relentless obsessive efforts to persuade doj officials to join him in a plat to overturn the 2020 election results by just saying the election was corrupt and essentially act as an extension of his campaign. riveting testimony came from trump s former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. his deputy richard donahue and steven engel. how often did president trump contact you or the department to push allegations of election fraud? so, between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. so the common element of all of this was the president expressing his dissatisfaction that the justice department in his view had not done enough to investiga