candidate brian kelly. his initial appearance is scheduled for thursday at 1:00 pm, exactly the same time that the january 6th hearing begins. [laughs] so, histories moving fast on the subject. and the question remains in michigan politics as to whether being arrested for his purported role in the crimes of january 6th is going to boost him boost his chances in that republican primary, since apparently participating in that particular crime is a badge of honor. i don t know it helps you, somehow? we will await republican voters judgment on that. i have to agree with you, rachel, about a point you made. about this whole question of, will the january 6th committee send criminal referrals to the justice department? the attorney general said, i am watching the hearings, i am watching every minute of them. if i don t watch them live i play them back later. and he said, at the same time, what he called the january 6th prosecutors are watching. every sentence has been referred
reporter: chairman bennie thompson publicly claiming the january 6th house select committee will not refer former president trump or anyone else to the justice department for criminal prosecution. what i prefer that we complete our work and seal that work with the department of justice. and they will make that call after that. reporter: even without a referral, the justice department would prosecute. but some committee members feel those comments are premature. we have had a discussion about that. i thought we discovered that decision until we concluded our investigation, at least that s my understanding. reporter: vice chair liz cheney pushing back on thompson s statement. writing in a tweet, the january 6th select committee has not issued a conclusion regarding potential criminal referrals. despite the discord in the committee, attorney general merrick garland said he s monitoring its findings. i am watching. and i will be watching all the hearings. and i can as
political processes in the years to come, long after i have left this office. i looked at my own calendar this morning as i was working on this speech. it showed exactly 1361 days remaining in my term. i want these to be the best days in america s history. god bless america, and god bless each and every one of you. central to the problems faced by president nixon is the watergate tapes and their tangled history. fred graham traces that story. it all began suddenly when an obscure former white house official named alexander butterfield appeared as a surprise witness before the senate watergate committee. are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. when i got the confirmation that there was a taping system, i was elated. they would tell much more than i could even remember about what had happened in those conversations. my mind is not a tape recorder. it does recall im
peddled false claims of fraud even though he was told by his closest aides repeatedly, mr. president, you lost the election. daniela diaz is live on capitol hill daniela, do we know what bill steppian expects to say? reporter: we do not. he is testifying under subpoena. super notable he is appearing before the committee, and the second hearing that will take place later today starts at 10:00 a.m. we do also know was liz cheney said at the first primetime hearing that took place last week that this hearing will revolve around trump s effort to convince huge portions of the u.s. population that fraud had stolen the election from him despite the fact that numerous aides told him he lost the election. aides also told us that this hearing would show how trump s team pursued legal challenges in court and lost those cases and that trump chose to ignore the will of the courts and continued to try to overturn the election anyway. we are also planning to hear from chris stirewalt. he
for life. a doctor recounts wounds that are inflicted in movie theaters, synagogues, supermarkets, and most recently, fourth grade classrooms. john berman here in for anderson. today, members of the house oversight committee heard from people whose lives were changed forever in the mass shootings in uvalde and buffalo. i want you to hear from these witnesses, starting with miah, 11 years old, talking about the moment the gunman came into her fourth grade classroom at robb elementary school and her teacher tried her best to keep everyone safe. we do want to warn you that it s graphic and difficult to hear, but it s important to hear it unfiltered, because no matter where you stand on the issue of guns, this shouldn t be happening. we were just watching a movie and then she got an email and then she went to go lock the door and he was in the hallway and they made eye contact and then she went back in the room and told us, go hide. and then we went to go hide behind my teacher