insurrection, the january 6th committee plans to focus on donald trump s repeated pressure on former vice president mike pence to block the certification of the 2020 election results. remember what trump told the crowd just hours before the attack on the capitol. mike pence, i will tell you right now, i m not hearing good stories. i hope that our great vice president, our great vice president comes through for us. he s a great guy. of course if he doesn t come through, i won t like him quite as much. hmm. the committee s going to make the case trump s pressure campaign directly contributed to that day s deadly violence. new photos obtained by abc news show pence and his family in hiding after the former vice president was rushed off the senate floor by secret service during the insurrection. let s begin our coverage with cnn s ma nu raju live on capito hill. walk us through exactly what we ll watch later today. reporter: the committee will try to lay out the time line
he came out for tighter gun laws after buffalo and uvalde and is now going to be out of a job. i ll speak exclusively to republican congressman chris jacobs and i ll sit down with mass shooting survivor and activist gabby giffords. hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is hopeful. we have breaking news this morning. a bipartisan group of senators is on track to announce the outlines of an agreement to address gun violence as soon as today, according to sources familiar with the talks. the sources tell me and manu raju that it is an agreement in principle only at this point and that legislation is not yet written. and because getting any changes to gun law is so dicey, sources say that negotiators are working to get ten republican senators to sign onto an agreement before it s announced to show they can get a filibuster proof 60 votes. here s what sources involved tell us the plan includes. funding to incentivize states to implement, quote, red flag
so president biden just released a statement thanking the negotiators and saying, quote, obviously it does not do everything that i think is needed, but it reflects important steps in the right direction and would be the most significant gun legislation to pass in decades. the sooner the legislation is written and comes to his desk, the sooner he can sign it. senators agreed in principle to these measures. first, funding to incentivize states to implement, quote, red flag laws, implementing a 10 state pilot program to mental health on all 50 states, allowing juvenile records to be searched during background checks for those under 21, strengthening the background check system and increasing funding for school security. the outline does not include the renewal of the assault weapons ban or raise the age to purchase a firearm but does boast the support of ten republican senators. you look at them. john cornyn. tom tillis. roy blunt. richard burr. susan collins. lindsey graham, m
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