hi, everyone, thanks for joining me. i m amara walker in today for fredricka whitfield. and we begin this hour with mass d demonstrations nationwide calling for tighter gun laws. more than 300 rallies happening today. some like the event in d.c. underway right now. that is david hogg, he is one of the co-founders of this rally march for our lives and also a survivor of a mass shooting that happened at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. this is renewing calls to lawmakers to address the gun violence epidemic after a series of horrific mass shootings. moments ago, manual oliver, the father of joaquin oliver, killed in the parkland florida shooting had this powerful call to action. listen. and today, from this stage, and alongside joaquin, we want to announce a new kind of call to action. because i think it is time to bring a consequences to your inactions. if lawmakers who have the power to keep us safe from gun violence are going to avoid taking actio
they ve said they re going to take you through minute-by-minute what was happening around donald trump. we do believe some top officials, some top officials will be making public testimony next week. but we just do know now that the committee is promising many more details that we vchaven t learn before and we ll have to stay tuned for the blockbuster hearings. kaitlan, thank you very much. joining us now, cnn contributor and former nixon white house council john dean. from water print, blue for scandal. thank you for joining us. just curious to know what you thought about thursday and how effective liz cheney and panel was and opening the case to the american public? i thought it was very effective. to flashback to watergate, 50 years ago, they started very