committee as it releases preliminary report on the mass shooting at robb elementary. nbc s priscilla thompson is there and covering it for us. priscilla, as always, good to talk to you. talk us through this, because this obviously has been, since it s incredibly tragic shooting happened, such an emotional time for these families. and, as the details have begun to trickle out more and more, even more so emotional. now, the release of this report to family members in the community there. talk us through what we may learn today. yeah, yasmin, another emotional day here with that meeting between committee members and the family set to get underway in just about a half hour here. an hour or so here. well we re learning, just from the spokesman a short while ago, was that that report was going to be 110 pages. he says that 18 to 20 family members have picked up a copy of the report, they re still working to get a copy to the family of the victim who is still hospitalized. he also
i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. this week, as voters in five states cast their primary ballots for upcoming midterms, the message from republican voters was really loud and clear. election denialism is alive and well. in north carolina, republicans chose ted budd as their candidate for the senate. last year, budd voted against certifying the 2020 election results. as recently as this week, he refused to say that president biden is the legitimate president of the united states. for the record, in case there is anyone out there who doubts it, joe biden is the legitimate president of united states. in pennsylvania, far-right state senator, doug mastriano, won the republican nomination for governor in a landslide. of course, mastriano attended the rally before the capitol riot on january the sixth. he was actually subpoenaed by the january 6th committee to provide testimony. you guessed it, he has ignored those requests. here is why this is a story of national importance
electors plot here. joe wine-banks, if my memory serves me, you are the first person to suggest on this show that rico charges could be imminent. your sense of what kind of charges could be coming out of georgia? well, we are hearing a lot about rico and fani willis, yes, very successful in using that. it stands for racketeer influence organization. it requires a conspiracy and an overt act. something done in of the agreement. and you certainly have exactly that. there were many people involved in just the coal to brad rustburg. and then you have the call to the governor. so there were plenty of things that she could be inditing him for, under that criminal statute. there are many other cases in addition to hers, but that is an amplifier of the penalties. and so it is a very good one to
to the rioters. so, we are expected to hear from those. kinzinger said that they have filled in the blanks. so, it will be a very detailed account of the actual day of january six. yasmin? joe, let s talk through some of the stuff. first and, foremost i kind of want to address secret service and try to acquire these messages by the committee. a radio statement from the secret service spokesman, anthony guglielmi. insisting, in a statement, that the agency is fairly cooperating with the inspector general s review. that some text messages were, in fact, erased before they were requested. he goes on to say that the expected general s office had been notified of the data loss on some phones and confirmed that none of the text that was seeking had been lost in the migration. how can they be, jill, so sure of this? that none of the texts are seeking had in fact been lost?
saying one agent told me that, are not a, who may or may not have been in the car, that angle was grabbed. the driver was there. let s hear from him, and let s hear from them under oath. only cassidy hutchinson has been brave enough to come forward and say it under oath. so, i don t give any credit to secret service for saying, well, someone will say something different. if they will, let them do it under oath. otherwise, it doesn t count. you do have all these other, people who have no reason to lie, who should be called. and, then you put it all together. so, the tax, though, are important because a contemporaneous, written document is the most credible evidence. joe wine-banks, julia jester, thank you both for dealing with me in my voice this afternoon. we re going to get it fixed, i promise, everybody. feel better! still ahead, thank you. still just how close major