speaker mccarthy made to get his new gig? fellow republicans calling on house speaker kevin mccarthy to make his secret deals public as the party makes its first legislative move since taking control of the house. also this hour, president biden at the podium in mexico city only to be overshadowed by questions about multiple classified documents found in his private office. from lively discussions to bipartisan friendships to physical confrontations, the new push to turn on the c-span cameras the full time onto the house and let the whole world see what really happens in the people s house, just like we did last week. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead. the main issue today, what exactly are the extents of the details, the promises that kevin mccarthy made to those republican hard-liners to get their votes to become house speaker and why is he hiding any lists of those promises from not only the public, but from his own rank-and-file.
Radicalization. A figure with maximum street cred with extremists. Stokes fear based on racial stereotypes, accuses marginalized populations of being terrorists and then throws in more rhetorical bombs and thats where we findous today. Unchartered territory pap clear escalation in the specificity and repetition of Donald Trumps violent rhetoric in recent days. Donald trump has called for the countrys top Military Official to be executed. Donald trump targeted a court clerk with a baseless smear that throwed a gag order. Hes repeatedly gone after the prosecutors who charged him with 9 1 felony accounts in total and now attacks on White Supremacist rhetoric. On this program we try our hardest not to ever amplify his most dangerous comments but were going to play them for you here today right now, because we believe you should hear the comments from the man himself. Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from and we know they come from prisons, come from mental institutions ins
before seen. reporter: in a matter of seconds a country music festival turned tragic with a storm of gunfire raining down on an innocent crowd. he was shooting everybody and there was dead people everywhere and i don t even know what was happening. it was just shooting, randomly. reporter: it began a massive loss of life and hundred injured in the worst mass shooting in modern american history. the 2017 las vegas shooting was the worst mass shooting in modern american history. 58 people were killed, several hundred were wounded and two victims later died from their injuries. there have been more than 3500 mass shooting since then according to the gun violence archive. the las vegas shooting remains the deadliest and there is a reason for that. the shooter used a bump stock. america is the most unfriendly democracy in the world, yet even here it is illegal to own a fully automatic machine gun. but a bump stock essentially transforms the average semi automatic rifle int
the question will become will this turn into something that the justice department will ping and actually prosecute, not just the hundreds of insurrectionists, but people, you know, from the leadership down that were involved in the planning of this, and so far frankly merrick garland has been supercede in some instances by judges who thought that the justice department s recommendations for sentencing for people who were on the ground climbing through the cap toll were too low so i really hope i hope the justice department is going to wake up like the american people and see what a threat this is because, aprila, this is bad news not for my generation necessarily but for my children and my grandchildren. we ve enjoyed democracy that is people choose their leaders for over 230 years. when that goes, we all will lose, not just democrats. everybody will lose. and the threat hasn t passed as you point out. it s not over just because trump is now out of office. congressman, mitch mccon