january 6th committee, and i think they just need to continue to do their job. that s bring to light for the american people how much planning went into this, how you know, what kind of intent went into trying to overturn our democratic process, to keep a president in office despite the will of the american people. i think that s what people need to understand. this wasn t simply a protest gone awry. this was thoughtful planning that went into very strategically trying to overturn our democratic form of government. congresswoman sherrill, what does it say if your counterparts in the senate kill this legislation? do they do republicans care more about their assault weapons than they do kids? this is legislation that addresses what happened. mika, i ve been spending the past week with my community, hearing from parents who are scared for their children,
i didn t carry my assault weapon from the military with me. the reason was is they are vastly different weapons that are designed to do very different things. these are weapons of war that we re talking about. hay don t belong on our streets, our occur champions, our communities, and our synagogues. that s why mikie and i worked hard to try to push to ban these weapons in our communities. congresswoman sherrill, you served in the united states navy. we heard this argument from your republican colleagues lately. they say, you can be 18 to join the army. you ought to be able to hold a weapon if you re 18 and not in the army in this country. they used the second amendment as a defense of that. having been around these weapons, fired these weapons, what s your view about whether, say, an ar-15 or any other semiautomatic rifle should be that easy to get in the united states? well, willie, like jason, i grew up in a hunting culture. my father is a hunter. he s the one that taught me how
happened that day, preventing something like this in the future, that is more important than my worrying about re-election or political future. and i understand, you know, being a democrat that represents a district that leans republican, that this could be unpopular amongst people in my district. you ask i hear from people. when i m in the community, the most common thing people walked up to me to say is thank you for your work, thank you for your work on the committee. if there is a question about whether this will cut through with the american people, there are people who come up to me who are unlikely for those to be the first things they say to me, but it is. i think people are paying attention. member of the committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol, congresswoman elaine luria. thank you very much. thank you for your service. still ahead on morning joe, two more members of congress with experience handling weapons of war. army veteran jason crowe and nav
our grandchildren. that s what i veen committed to do. congresswoman sherrill, democrat of new jersey, navy veteran, thank you for your time and thank you for comingte backo put the other book end on this story and we will continue to watch it as it unfolds. thank you. rachel, thank you for staying on this. t as you can tell, i think it is incredibly i important. so thanks. have a great night. all right, stay with us. we ll be right back. night. all right, stay with us. we ll be right back.
incited this violent crowd. those members of congress that attempted to help our president undermine our democracy and i ll make sure they are held accountable and if necessary make sure that they don t serve in congress. those accusations at the time ignited a firestorm, demands from the right from congresswoman sherrill and an ethics complaint from none other from laudermilk himself who claims the allegations were false and the republicans on the committee of which, yes, laudermilk is a member claimed reviewed security footage that they said proved there were no such tours in the days before the attack. today s letter, the select committee review of evidence directly contradicts that denial. that bombshell comes as wooe learning from axios in the last hour. donald trump s former a.g. bill barr is in talks to cooperate with the committee and to sit for a formal transcribed