good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, june 21st, i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. we are now hours away from the fourth public hearing by the january 6th committee. this afternoon, we will hear much more about this infamous phone call. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. so what are we going to do here, folks? i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. that was former president trump calling georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger days before the insurrection, pressuring him to find the votes needed to win georgia. 11,780. raffensperger is one of three republicans testifying today. the other two are raffensperger s top deputy, gabe sterling and arizona house speaker rusty bowers who says trump and rudy giuliani called him after the election asking for help to overturn president biden s victory in his state. we re also goi
that day and previously said we respond to the information that we had, and had to adjust to whatever we faced. it seems like every day, a devastating revelation in shoot that shooting. meanwhile the full text of the gun bill could be out as early as today. sources familiar with the discussions tell nbc news, the deal is 98% done. lawmakers return to washington today, and still hoped to move the bill forward, before leaving for a two-week independence day break. the lead democratic negotiator, senator chris murphy gave an update on a podcast that was released yesterday. the heavy lifting was putting that framework together, there s a decent amount of detail inside the document that we put out and my belief is that everybody who is part of these negotiations is committed to putting that framework into the legislative text. i know there s a worry that republicans are never going to sort of get to that final step, right, this step of passage that
they are just coming to the border. we ve been trying to get funding, humanitarian aid here and unfortunately that congresswoman was holding it up. she voted against this aid. if she even voted against the democrats vote in the house just a little bit before, so i don t even know where she stands whent comes to this issue, that s what concerns me. mike: thanks so much for your time, have a safe independence day break it i will see you back on the hill. thank you, wish you all the best. mike: up next why pro-democracy vandal dominic vandalized hong kong s main legislative building today and how police responded.
winds from volatile global markets. so we still have a great deal of work to do to repair the economy and get the american people back to work. congress is leaving town for an independence day break, without extended unemployment benefits, leaving almost 2 million americans without a check. cnn s mary snow talks with one worker whose benefits are about to run out. reporter: 39-year-old leslie pink has been hitting the pavement since january, sending outs an estimated 800 resumes, but still no job. she has evened doumcumented he search on a blog site. her unemployment checks are running out in a few weeks, and she is hoping for an extension. i can get through summer, july, august and then i m really going have to think about my next step, whether that s leaving my apartment, whether that s leaving new york, moving in with family, i don t know what i m going to do. reporter: pink s fears are shared by many. without congress approving extensions that allow some states to provide b