house announcing it will send another $360 million in humanitarian assistance to ukraine, as well as 400 million more in military equipment to help slow the russian onslaught in the eastern donbas region. and, to support the people affected by russia s war. while on capitol hill, the january six committee is gearing up for another hearing this tuesday. after securing testimony from a key witness. yesterday, former trump white house counsel pat cipollone, sat down for a marathon seven and a half hour interview before that panel. so joining us right now, nbc s laura barrick in delaware, liz mclaughlin and highland park illinois, and janice mackie flare from tokyo. welcome to you all, more we re gonna start with you here. talk about the abortion protests, but first, what do we know about the january 6th committee s hours long interview with former white house counsel pat cipollone? well, this is something very generous its committee has been waiting months for, to hear that te
liberal republicans like john cornyn helped write it. so the question is , will the second half, will it makehe community safer? emphatically yes, said joe biden, quote, it s going to save a lot of lives. how many lives exactly when the characteristically modestct words of connecticutrd senator chris murphy quote, what we are doings will save thousands of lives, thousands then makes a kind of sense because now that we re going to have red flag laws in all l 50 states, laws that allow the government to disarm you byn force, that charging you withit a crime without bothering with due process. once we do that and we bith are doing it, mass shootings like the one we saw in buffalo this spring will never happen again. that s what they promised a us . and the media assured it wased true . every word of it. what they everwa mention was it was not only ridiculous and false, it was provably false. ybecause actually gun control does not stop bad people from usingon guns. it s not a tal
to protect the integrity of the investigation. doj lawyers opposing a move by media organizations, including cnn, to unseal the probable cause after thefidavit that waso get the search warrant last week. in a separate trump legal drama, a source says eric herschmann has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating january 6. he might remember his blunt testimony before the january 6 committee. now i m going to give you the best free legal advice you re ever getting in your life. get a great fing criminal defense lawyer, you will need it. reporter: that is herschmann talking about how he pushed back on trump lawyer john eastman s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. also the new york times reports a top trump organization executive charged with participating in a year s long tax scheme is nearing a plea deal with prosecutors. the times says alan weisselberg will now be cooperating in a broader investigation. and also rudy giuliani has been named a target of
justice department says it s trying to protect in its investigation of documents taken from donald trump s home at mar-a-lago. in a way, these are the most expansive comments yet from the justice department and they come in a court filing opposing the release of the affidavit that lays out the case for searching mar-a-lago. now, senators on both members of the intelligence committee and media companies including cnn are pushing to see that information. new reporting this morning from the wall street journal revealed attorney general merrick garland deliberated for weeks before approving the warrant for the mar-a-lago search. senior doj officials met frequently at that time. he now faces a more consequential decision of whether or not to pursue that. katelyn polantz joins us from washington with the very latest. katelyn. brianna, the justice department filing saying they don t want the release of what backs up it and hints to the seriousness of the information. and those