and we ll get a live reaction from the white house. but we begin with the house committee investigating the deadly january 6 capitol insurrection. holding its first in a series of highly-anticipated public hearings last night. the panel released previously unseen footage of the riot. and featured damning testimony to make the case that the january 6th attack was the direct result of then president donald trump s desperate attempts to cling to power. the chairman of the committee congressman bennie thompson said at tack was the culmination of a attempted coup coordinated by extremist groups like the proud boys and answering trump s call. ally, after ally, claim that the election was stolen from him were false. including testimony from his former senior campaign aide, his elder daughter, his former attorney general, we want to warn you, we did not bleep the curse word bill barr used in his deposition. i made it clear i did not agree with the idea of saying the election was st
live look at l.a. just about the top of the fourth hour of morning joe. we ve got a lot to get to this hour, including the revelations from the first hearing by the house select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. using never before seen graphic video and unveiling new evidence that the committee presented their case for a conspiracy led by former president donald trump. we ll speak to january 6 committee member congresswoman stephanie murphy about last night. as well as what is in store for the additional hearings next week. also ahead, the latest on that highly anticipated inflation report released just moments ago. the may kpur price index shows prices jumped 8.6% compared to this time last year. which was worse than economists expected. stephanie ruhle will join us ahead to make those numbers down
taking some sort of action, what they re trying to do here is lay out the facts and so for posterity, we know what happened here and therefore there is a verdict over time in effect that said that what happened here is not what the framers envisioned when they wrote our constitution. chief white house correspondent for the new york times, peter baker, thank you very much for your reporting this morning. and ahead this mauer, member of the january 6 select committee congresswoman stephanie murphy will be our guest. plus, the school police chief in the uvalde, texas, who has been under intense scrutiny speaks out for the first time. meanwhile a new report finds uvalde police waited to confront the gunman even though they were aware of the injuries inside of the school. and later, we ll talk to the director of the national economic council brian deese about the rising rate of
necessary. what i am trying to do is to make the case to the american people that our democracy is fragile. there is nothing self-sustaining about this. and to have them come to the table and be open to these facts, because it doesn t matter if you re a republican or you re a democrat or an independent, you should want your vote to count. and it can t just be that when you re side doesn t win you forgive people who try to take power by force. because that makes us no less than some tin pot despot banana republic. member of the select committee investigating the january 6 capitol attack, congresswoman stephanie murphy of florida, thank you very much. and coming up, this morning s inflation report showing prices rising 8.6% from a year ago. the fastest rising increase since 1981. stephanie ruhle joins us next. and we ll speak with one of the
steal rally at the ellipse. joining us now, member of the house january 6 select committee democratic congresswoman stephanie murphy of florida. there are so much to pour there. but let s stick with the what we heard from the british documentary filmmaker. what does he help prove, do you think? it is great to be with you. and i think what he provided for us and for this hearing was videos that hadn t been seen before. and the evidence that this wasn t a spontaneous riot that just broke out because people gathered to protest. but rather this was a part in a culmination of an effort to replace the will of the american people with the will of the sitting president to remain in power. and i think the videos and the firsthand testimony that we were able to show last night, you don t have to take it from us, you could hear the people around trump and the folks who planned