so many travel nightmares ghislaine maxwell s 20-year sentence for sex trafficking underaged women for jeffrey epstein. and our exclusive with the tennis player who had the ultimate save announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone jaw-dropping testimony here in washington in today s short notice january 6th hearing focusing on former president donald trump s actions that day that may have included trying to wrestle away the wheel of the presidential vehicle in order to get to the capitol where his supporters were gathering we were also told today the ex-president waved off concerns about armed supporters at his rally that preceded the attack. trump quoted as saying they re not here to hurt me. let them in. let my people in. the stunning stories came from the day s only live witness, 25-year-old cassidy hutchinson, an assistant to former trump chief of staff mark meadows she was in the west wing on january 6th and is now offering pot
order to help people access the health care and abortion services that they need. i anticipate there will be more debate and discussion. or was interesting about the supreme court decision, it gave the authority back to the states to make these decisions. so now that the decision has been made, it will be up to each of the state legislators and people there to talk about their elective representatives about what their laws looked like. we also get a new look at how americans see this decision to overturn roe, from the yougov poll out this morning, it was 41% of americans approved, but nearly 16% 60% disapprove. 67% of women overall in the survey do not agree with this decision. you ve got washington, also in the meantime, still feeling the aftershocks on another topic, a week of bombshell testimony at the january 6th hearings. as folks now brace for more in the coming weeks, this morning, one member of that committee, congressman adam schiff lays out what he thinks the
lifting the gas tax is on the table. plus captured americans. russian state media shows two alabama men who volunteered to fight alongside ukraine in captivity held by russian-backed separatists. up first for us, nthe january 6h committee next hearing is tomorrow. fallen promises to expose donald trump s role in a scheme to sub in fake electors for the real ones. on cnn a committee member says part of the evidence will directly tie the former president to the plot. we will show evidence of the president s involvement in this scheme. we ll also, again, show evidence about what his own lawyers came to think about this scheme. we ll show during a hearing what the president s role was in trying to get states to name alternate slates of electors, how that scheme depended initially on hopes that the legislatures would reconvene and bless it. will we see that he directed it? i don t want to get ahead of what we ll show during the hearing. we did hear last week from the forme
bill: the court will decide its biggest gun case in more than a decade. at issue here a new york law that restricts conceal carry outside the home. a decision to overturn it could have a domino effect on several other blue states with similar laws. dana: religious liberty is on the docket. court taking up the case of a high school football coach fired for praying on the field. justices will decide whether that prayer is protected under the first amendment. bill: the most anticipated of all is dobbs versus jackson. that s the ruling on mississippi s 15 week abortion ban that could potentially overturn roe v. wade which would end nearly 50 years of precedent. a leaked draft in the month of may suggesting the court is ready to do just that. dana: that was ignited a wave of protests. some escalating into threats and intimidation. activists continue to march outside justice s home after an assassination attempt against brett kavanaugh. bill: inspiring dozens of attacks o
insurrection. also ahead, a travel nightmare for many americans as more than 3,000 flights were cancelled over the holiday weekend. why? no pilots, no labor, no fuel. there s new reporting this morning on the police response during the uvalde massacre. why one officer armed with a rifle did not fire at the gunman. the news keeps getting worse. and the latest on covid as vaccines are now cleared for the youngest americans. but we start with hearing number four of the january 6, select committee. set to take place tomorrow. we re expecting to learn more new details about then president donald trump s involvement in a failed scheme to overturn the 2020 election results. including the pressure campaign he waged on state officials. georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger is scheduled to testify before the committee, along with his top deputy, gabe sterling. some new poll numbers are revealing what americans now think about former president trump since the january 6t