teachers at the end of may. and new details about what the 77 minutes of school hallway surveillance video shows. plus, a new covid variant spreading at an alarming rate throughout the united states, and this one is not deterred even by recent infections. so how do the vaccines hold up against it? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and members of the january 6th select house committee now publicly suggesting they will use tomorrow s hearing to draw direct links between the extremist groups who stormed the u.s. capitol and have been charged with seditious conspiracy and people inside donald trump s orbit. we are going to be connecting the dots during these hearings between these groups and those who were trying in government circles to overturn the election. what we heard cassidy hutchinson testify along the lines of trump telling mark meadows, the chief of staff, to talk to roger stone and others, mike flynn, and stone and flynn ha
at the barrel of a gun. russians have orchestrated sham referendum votes in four occupied regions in ukraine. plus, calling trump s bluff. the former president and his lawyers publicly suggested the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago. now the trump appointed or approved special master is daring them to make that claim in court. we begin at the white house. notably this is a political venue for president biden s speech moments from now. what are we expecting to hear from the president? this is all part of the amped up political activity we ve seen from president biden as he is anticipating and describing what he believes will be a very tight midterm election campaign. that is why the president is using these types of political events to, one, try to tout some of the legislative accomplishments his white house has achieved, things like infrastructure, bipartisan agreements when it comes to guns and also the recently passed inflation reduction act which touches economic, clima
tomorrow s january 6th hearing, what president trump s former white house counsel may have told lawmakers. plus steve bannon s last-minute offer to cooperate. presidential palace under siege, the remarkable pictures tonight. why these protestors stormed the residence of the president of sri lanka. elon musk versus twitter, the social media stock plunges after the billionaire pulls his $44 billion bid. how this saga could end. and an honor 77 years overdue for an american hero. god bless america. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us as we start a new week together. tonight in california a fast-growing wildfire in yosemite national park is threatening the park s famous giant sequoias, some of the largest and oldest trees in the world. these national treasury have survived everything for thousands of years and are in jeopardy because of climate change. hundreds of firefighters are battling flames under brutal conditions with heavy terrain, blistering tempera
willing to testify before the january 6th committee. what impact if any does testimony could have on his criminal contempt try oh. plus, we will break down what to expect at tomorrow s january 6th hearing. in the next hour, president biden will pass a gun safety law and what it means for the national gun violence epidemic. gun violence activist and father of highland park shooting victim will be with us this morning. meanwhile, it s been one year after a crackdown on protest for freedom in cuba. the crackdowns by the regime continues. we will talk about what is next in cuba s fight for freedom. right now out west, firefighters are working around the clock to contain a wildfire at yosemite national park. we will bring you a live report. report. we begin this morning with the latest on investigation into the january 6th attack on the u.s. capital. attorneys for donald trump stan steve bannon and eight courtroom hearing. he is facing contempt of congress charges for refusi
pacific. i am jose diaz-balart and president biden commemorates the historic gun safety law , the first of its kind in years. members of congress who voted for the bill and people who have been impacted by gun violence will be attending the ceremony. there are bipartisan measures for states to implement their own red flag laws and enhance background checks and mental health and cracking down on purchases. joining us with the latest, what is the message from the white house this morning? there was urgency with this important bipartisan legislation and that led to the president signing it into law without the ceremony we will see here today. there was the effort on the part of the white house to mark this moment as the most significant piece of gun safety legislation to be passed since president biden was senator. he wanted to mark this moment to celebrate with members of congress for getting this over the finish line but also families whose lives are impacted by this as well