i ll give you this preview, the president didn t do very much, but gleefully watch television during this timeframe. we will present a lot per than that. i can only imagine, i know what i felt as a u.s. congressman and if i was a president sworn to defend the constitution and that includes the legislative branch watching this on television i know i would have been going ballistic to try to save the capitol. he did quite the opposite. s we ve discussed many times on this program in the past, more than three hours, 187 minutes, to be exact, elapsed from the time donald trump leaves the rally on the ellipse to when he tweets out a video asking his supporters to leave the capitol. congressman elaine luria who will be leading thursday s hearing alongside congressman kinzinger said they ll be going through a period of time minute by minute. take a listen. not only was it a situation that he was not doing anything and at one point the infamous tweet at 2:24 he egged people on b
trump electors. we are going to hear from four witnesses this afternoon, including the secretary of state for georgia, brad raffensperger and his chief operating officer, gabriel sterling, big public figures in the wake of the november election in 2020. the committee says it s going to show evidence that former president trump put undue pressure on legislatures to try to put forward alternative slates and electors. for president trump, the strategy did not work, legislatures did not go along with it. you see betty thompson taking it there, much of the questioning will be handled by california congressman adam schiff as he questions the witnesses and makes the majority of the presentation. liz cheney there seated to betty thompson s left-hand side, adam schiff on the right-hand side. we expect the hearing will last at least a couple of hours. let s pause now while chairman thompson gavels in today s hearing. the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the u
citizen s arrest. hearing number four the attack on the capitol marked by testimony of violence and threats against elected officials who refused to help donald trump overturn the election as well as against election workers targeted in the former president s big lie. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday it snot monday. it is wednesday, june 22nd. i m jonathan lemire. it s been a long week. we re glad you re here. the fourth public hearing into the january 6th capitol attack examined what s described as former president s donald trump personal and direct role in pressuring state officials to help overturn the to 2020 presidential election. the committee demonstrated how trump and his team leaned on state officials to throw out biden votes, find trump votes or to replace biden electors with fake trump electors. rnc chairwoman mcconnell, mark meadows, senator ron johnson and congressman andy biggs were also mentioned with helping with this scheme.
police calling law enforcement s response to the rampage a, quote, abject failure. plus, the latest on the bipartisan effort to pass new gun legislation as the legislative text on a narrow set of provisions is released. there is hope. and we re keeping an eye on the markets as stock futures plummeted overnight after yesterday s rally. this, as president biden prepares to call on congress to approve a three-month gas tax holiday. we have a lot to get to, mika. we talk about the bipartisan gun legislation. we had chris murphy on, a democrat who s been a champion of gun safety reform for quite some time now, certainly since 2014. it s a small step forward, but it is a step forward. the senator corrected me and said, no, actually, this is a significant piece of gun legislation. i think it s something that, again, when we re looking at the federal government, you look at the impact of the january 6th hearings, how effectively they ve been run over the last several weeks and
january 6th hearing reveals that trump knew he lost but tried to steal the election anyway while cheating his maga supporters out of their hard-earned money. plus, some are calling the gun reform framework a good first step. that suggests more is coming. color me skeptical. we ll talk about all that have and more with karine jeanpierre in her first live primetime interview since she made history, become the new white house press secretary. but we begin with day two of public hearings by the house january 6th committee today showing how donald trump deliberately launched the big lie to convince his own voters that he won an election he lost using claims of nonexistent fraud and then seeking to corrupt the justice department, his own campaign team, his donors and our court system in an effort to cling to power. if you think he cooked up that plan after the election as a hail mary simply because he couldn t accept defeat understand that donald trump went into the election alread