good afternoon. i m sara sidner in for victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. the january 6th committee just released yet another big batch of witness interview transcripts from their investigation into the capitol insurrection. the new list includes interviews with 19 witnesses including the former president donald trump jr. and kimberly guilfoyle, christina baab, stephen miller and those to try to overturn the election like doug mastriano. cnn s paula reid is joining me now. you re going through this. i know it s a lot. there are hundreds of people with many, many pages of transcripts. what has stood out to you so far? reporter: well, we have the support of a big team combing over this. sara, i want to start with some of the revelations in the transcript from donald trump jr. specifically, the transcript reveals new details about text messages that the former president exchanged with then white house chief of staff mark meadows. we ve reported on some of these t
donald trump hated hispanics like the devil hates holly water and some believed donald trump was making a national ban on picante sauce and hispanics seemed to like donald trump. cognitive dis-dance is the term that dissonance is what happened next. hispanic voters in florida were mentally ill and also evil. as one miami harold columnist put it donald trump s cuban american followers follow from cuban supremacy syndrome . that was a diagnosis. cuban supremacist series and unknown medical condition like adhd or long covid. someone better call a doctor. this could be fatal. before the medical establishment could intervene to save hispanic voters from himself, this ailment spread like the virus it was first from florida and texas and across the country. by 2020, it was endemic. in the presidential election that year, donald trump, the guy that wanted to build a wall became the first republican in history to win sopotta can be county,texas. it s 94% hispanic and he won. it was
[ applause ] i think we, if you make the demand, here is what has ha to happen. all of you folks and i hope, and i m not being facetious when i say this, hopefully republicans hear as well, we got to make sure that this becomes a voting issue. that s president biden, sitting down with jimmy kimmel last night, after traveling to los angeles, to host the summit of the americas. we re going to have much more on that important gathering with world leaders. we are also following the latest in the debate of gun safety legislation as an 11-year-old survivor of the uvalde massacre and a parent to one of the students killed testified before congress. and it s here. a block buster night for the january 6th committee. as the first hearings into the capitol attack kick off this evening in prime time. we ll tell you what to expect. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, june 9th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. it was an emotional day on c
families by an average of $1,500 a year, put medicare and social security, medicaid excuse me, social security and medicaid, on the chopping block every five years. in other words, every five years, they re going to no longer exist unless they vote them back into existence. i disagree with that. what in god s name are they doing? i ll work with anyone, democrat, republican, independent, who have real solutions and savings for the american people. not take money out of their pockets. the other element i would like to address that has impacts on inflation is lower the deficit. the reason this matters to families is because reducing the deficit is another way to ease inflation. my friends on the republican side like to paint me as the big spender. let s look at the facts. facts matter. under my predecessor the deficit exploded. every single year he was in office. under my plan we re on track to cut the federal deficit this year, by $1.7 trillion. you hear me now. this year, $1
bipartisan policy on gun reform stands this morning. good morning, and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, june 2nd. i m jonathan lemire. thursday, june 2nd, i m sorry. still a long week, folks. thursday, june 2nd. thanks for joining us. just over a week since gunfire rang out in uvalde, texas, we begin this morning with another mass shooting in america. and four people are dead, and several others injured after a gunman armed with a rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a hospital in tulsa, oklahoma. the gunman who has not yet been identified apparently also died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound according to police. the chief of police there in tulsa said that officers arrived at saint francis hospital at 4:56 p.m., just minutes after reports of a gunfire were first called in. officers heard shots and made their way to the second floor. where they found the gunman and victims. at a news conference, tulsa s deputy police chief praised the quick response of office