elementary school auto could have been stopped within three minutes if it wasn t for the indivisiveness of the on scene commander. in a special hearing with the texas senate, the state s director of public safety testified that police had everything they needed to take the shooter down minutes after he entered the school. at least seven officers were in the building. at least two of them had rifles. and the classroom door was likely never locked. instead, uvalde school district police chief peter aday dough ordered everyone to stay back and wait one error 1 hour and 14. that s how long the children waited torres could youd. and while they waited, the on site commander waited for radio and rifles and he waited for shield and then he waited for swat. lastly he waited for a key that was never needed. he also pushed back on jeff arredondo s handling of the response and insistence on the need to wait despite some officers openly questioning the decision not to immediately storm
on december 13th, an organization called the allied security group issued a report that alleged that the dominion voting machines in that county had a secret 68% error rate. he was adamant that the report must be accurate, that proof that the election was defective. that he in fact won the election, and that the department should be using that report to basically, tell the american people that the results were not trustworthy. one of just asking you to do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me in the republican congressman. the committee also exposed how a low level doj guy, jeffrey clark, was instrumental in trump s plan. clark and another trump loyalist were behind a draft letter to state officials down in georgia, calling joe biden s win into question. this letter claims that the u.s. department of justice s investigations have, quote, identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states. the departmen
and the supreme court on guns and with the supreme court going one way and congress going the other and we will tell you what it means for gun safety in america. and breaking news overnight from ukraine, after weeks of fighting, the ukraine officials say the forces have to withdraw from a key battleground in the east. we ll have the latest. all right. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, june 24th. i m sam, in for jonathan lemire. hearing number five into the january 6th, focussed on donald trump s efforts to get the justice department to legitimize his bogus claims of voter fraud, that includes his relentless pursuit of an attorney general who would go along with his election conspiracies. the pressure top leaders faced when they refused to do so and how those leaders band together and then prevailed. and pardons for the roles in the election scheme. first, trump s nonstop efforts to get the department of justice to sign off on the big lie. here
and we start the fourth hour of morning joe with the january 6 select committee holding the final public hearing before the july 4th recess and there were plenty of fireworks and a lot of drama. top officials from the justice department described then president donald trump s relentless obsessive efforts to persuade doj officials to join him in a plat to overturn the 2020 election results by just saying the election was corrupt and essentially act as an extension of his campaign. riveting testimony came from trump s former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. his deputy richard donahue and steven engel. how often did president trump contact you or the department to push allegations of election fraud? so, between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. so the common element of all of this was the president expressing his dissatisfaction that the justice department in his view had not done enough to investiga
of big news, joe, on capitol hill. what a significant day. and i will tell you, i was away from the tv for a good part of the day, and started getting breaking news alerts about the hearings, started following some i had to come back, rewatch the entire hearing all over again. it really, yesterday, about as compelling of any hearing we ve seen on capitol hill since the days of watergate. i was young when the watergate hearings were on. i was upset because we had only had four channels then, and i wanted to see the flintstones and mr. ed, but my parents were sitting front, watching watergate. like everybody. and it was so compelling. and you see those clips, and it s history and you don t think you re ever going to see anything like that again. like a movie. but actually, willie, we did see something and we keep seeing, every one of these january 6th hearings. you re looking at history, you understand it, because, again, it drives home the point that maybe we ve