trump s obsession and repeated false claims of voter fraud laid the foundation for the deadly siege. leading off tonight s hearing expected to run two hours in prime time, new video of the attack. as well as live testimony from a british documentary filmmaker, embedded with members of the proud boys who captured the chaos. the night s first in-person witness captain police officer caroline edwards. she suffered a brain injury after she was knocked down by rioters. those images, the smells, the yelling, the chaos, the blood, i mean it was that day was a war zone. reporter: the committee is also expected to show recorded testimony from some of the 1,000 other key witnesses interviewed including the former president s daughter ivanka and her husband jared kushner. trap allys have blasted the hearing. this is a smear campaign. reporter: but overnight new audio recordings provided by the book this will not pass reveal kevin mccarthy less than a week after the january 6
these witnesses begin talking. goodness. an 11-year-old girl. as a small circle of senate negotiators, democrats and republicans continue to work on the possibility of gun legislation. cnn has learned that a larger group in the senate are expected to meet in the next hour to discuss an emerging proposed package, following an emotional plea by actor and uvalde texas native matthew mcconaughey from the white house podium yesterday. can both sides rise above? can both sides see beyond the political problem at hand and admit that we have a life preservation problem on our hands? we ve got a chance right now to reach for and to grasp a higher ground above our political affiliations. the chance to make a choice that does more than protect your party, a chance to make a choice that protects our country, now and for the next generation. my next guest was elected to the senate as a pro-gun democrat in 2007. he voted to allow guns on amtrak trains in 2009 and everything changed
of a dead classmate and playing d dead. he shot my classmates, i thought he would come back to the front and so i got a little blood and i put it all over me. let s go straight up to cnn s lauren fox at the capitol. lauren is listening to that young girl, listening to the parents. it is heart wrenching. the question is, what will congress make hearing? reporter: yeah, john, i heard from the lawmakers, one thing you heard they had never, never seen this close to the tragedy the kind of testimony that we heard today. that coming, of course, from a 4th grader who was in one of the class roorms where her classmates were killed, where her teacher was shot. that is the kind of emotional t including the chair woman hoped would change the mind of her colleagues. we also heard riveting and heart breaking testimony from the parents of lexi rubio. this is what her mother kimberly said about her last moments with her daughter. i called her and told her we loved her and would pick
two children whose bodies had been pulverized by bullets fired at them, decapitated, whose flesh had been ripped apart. the only clue of their i decent is cartoons clinging to them and finding none. i thought he would come back to the room, so i put blood on me and what did you do when you put the blood on yourself? to stay quiet. what did you tell 911? i told them we needed help. because i could have lost my baby girl. she s not the same little girl i used to play with, hang around with and do everything. because she was daddy s little girl. some part of me must have realized she was gone. amidst the chaos i had the urge to return to robb. we had our car at this point and traffic was everywhere. so i then ran barefoot with my flimsy sandals in my hand. i ran a mile to the school, my husband with me. we sat outside for a while before it became clear we wouldn t receive an answer from law enforcement on scene. a san antonio fire fighter eventually gave us a rid
much for the latest. it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. we start this hour with the tears and the grief and the stories of terror from capitol hill today as people who have been deeply impacted by america s latest mass shootings testify to the house oversight committee. the youngest voice, just 11 years old, a 4th grader who survived the massacre in uvalde, texas. recounting the worst moments that she endured 77 minutes of living hell. she had to play dead. she had to smear her best friend s blood on her to hide from a gunman. there s a door between our classrooms, and he went there and shot my teacher and told my teacher good night, and shot her in the head. and then he shot some of my classmates when i went back to the back. he i thought he was going to come back to the room so i got blood and i put it all over me. do you feel safe at school? why not? because i don t want it to happen again. and you think it s