this nation, democrat and republican. allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of our democracy. president biden last week addressing thursday s primetime hearing of the january 6th committee investigating the attack on the capitol. and we re hours away from the committee s second public hearing. at 10:00 a.m. eastern, the house panel will lay out how the big lie got started. also ahead, a compromise on capitol hill. senators from both sides of the aisle agree to what could be the most significant gun safety legislation in decades. we ll tell you what s in the deal and how soon it could get to the president s desk. one of the leading negotiators, senator chris murphy, will join us live right here on morning joe. we re also keeping an eye on wall street, as the markets are tanking ahead of the opening bell. looks like a bad day ahead. good day to go to the track. we ll get some insight on what is fueling this latest sell-off. plus, the average price of gas hi
those 20 million who watched, they ll retain what they saw. there is no way you cannot think and remember and visualize the first several minutes of that film clip where you had police officers and security guards, capitol police officers and washington, d.c. metro police officers, being attacked by the mob. horror movie. a mob described by a republican member of congress, more or less, as a group of torists. tourists. people retain the violence. it is a visual reminder of what the day was about, jonathan. the video was the centerpiece of the first hearing. a lot of the footage never before seen. beating up cops. police officers, lives in jeopardy. compounded with the testimony from that officer who, herself, suffered a traumatic brain injury. described in graphic detail tending to her wounded
committee, led by or this group of senators led by chris murphy is something to applaud. but the level of relief with the accomplishment that they came up with over the weekend has to be combined with a level of frustration that is just endemic in the united states senate. we just heard chris coons say that the urgency is now. the urgency is now is defined as getting this bill through the united states senate as written at the end of july. that s five weeks from now. so far, it s the 13th of june. there has been, by definition, a mass shooting every single day of june thus far, with the exception of only one day. so the united states senate haas done something, or are on the verge of doing something. the bill hasn t been written yet. if you have a wrong adjective or something, you may lose a republican senator. who knows? but the level of frustration