how they were able to get away, and it s so important because you want to prevent other inmates of escaping in the same way. we know they escaped from the pulaski county jail in southern georgia. it s two hours or so south of atlanta, much closer to makin. you can see five inmates there all lined up, and those are the five police are looking for right now. about two hours or so from atlanta, they escaped from the jail. that area is a much more rural part of the state there, and they escaped in a white kia van. they were able to get away. there s the information if you happen to be in that area and you are looking to see if that s the vehicle, if you happen to come across them, though, authorities say do not approach them. as you mentioned, fred, they are known to be very dangerous with violent criminal histories. let s take a look at the three facing the most serious charges. you have a williams is guilt offy home invasion, and another man accused of killing two men, and then
into a mass casualty event. one of the officers describing what went on at the time when then asked the concert to accept, multiple people were on the ground in cardiac arrest and with other medical issues, and medical personnel doing cpr on these individuals, that medics and police were completely overwhelmed. here s how one concertgoer described it. take ap listen. all of a sudden, people just compressed up against each other and were pushing forward and backward, and as the timer got closer to coming down to zero, it just it got worse and worse, and i looked at my boyfriend sam and i told him, we have to get out of here, because i just felt having constant pressure on my chest, constant pressure on my back. i looked at my boyfriend, said i have to get out of here. he said, i can t. we can t. we couldn t. then i just remember looking up and passing out. reporter: a lot of very intense moems. i talked to one man describing it as a mob. his survival instincts kick
not intervene. the judge seemed not to buy his lawyer s argument that there was, quote, no legislative purpose to the request replying january 6th happened at the capitol, literally, congress s house. and are you really saying the president s notes talking points have no bearing on the investigation? as it tries to piece it all together the committee listens to more voices behind closed. liz cheney telling politico they have completed over 150 interviews with a whole range of people connected to the events, connected to understanding what happened. that just gives you a sense it is a range of engagement, some formal interviews, some depositions, there really is a large amount of work under way. john eastman, of whom we learned even more stunning details this week, what he was planning before, during, even after the violent attack. the washington post reported that a pence aide while in hiding in the capitol basement with the vice president was told pence s action was to bla
that outlined a path for vice president pence to toss out the election results on january 6th. the memo formed the basis for the pressure campaign by pence on trump by eastman and others. eastman was just caught on camera defending that memo saying that trump had intended to go to the capitol that day and referring to the insurrectionists who stormed the capitol hags quote, our guys. he was caught by a legal activist lauren windsor who approached him at a event saying she was at the rally on january 6th and that she was a sporter of his. watch. all your legal reasoning is totally solid? no question. it was a set-up. unfortunately, our guys walked into the trap. he would have gone down there if it hadn t been for the violence? yeah. like he decided not to go because people were engaging in violence and breaking stuff? yeah. raises more questions than it answers, doesn t it? nbc news reached out to him, that was eastman, and he had no comment. little fact check he
we ll bring you the latest as well as the conversation with arizona democratic congressman. also we re keeping an eye on merrick garland s system before the house judiciary committee on the january 6th insurrection and other issues. meantime the fda authorizes booster shots for the moderna and johnson & johnson vaccines as we learn more about the effectiveness of the pfizer booster shot. and we are live on the ground in haiti, as the search continues for 17 american and canadian missionaries, including children, who were abducted by a haitian gang. and on this latina equal payday, take a closer look at the huge pay gap between latinas and white non-hispanic men. we begin on capitol hill, democrats are once again grappling with how to pay for their multi-trillion-dollar social safety net bill, and arizona senator kyrsten sinema is apposed to raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations to president biden and democratic leaders said is key to funding their reconcilia