that same judge issued a landmark ruling earlier this year finding it was more likely than not that trump and a conservative lawyer committed a crime and strikeategizing to overturn the election. trump is not charged with a crime and denied any wrongdoing. he continues to down play his involvement and bashing the committee s work as another quote witch hunt. january 6th. what a lot of crap, it s another con job like russia. reporter: committee members say trump was decar on his duty and republicans pleaded for trump to intervene and text messages to his white house chief of staff. i think mark meadows is the ms mvp for the committee. reporter: denver helped decode meadow s text among the 2300 messages obtained by cnn. donald trump junior texting he s got to condemn this shit asap. meadows responding, i am pushing it hard. i agree. it took trump over three hours to release this recorded video. so go home, we love you. you re very special. look at the totality of th
landmark ruling earlier this year finding it was more likely than not that trump and a conservative lawyer committed a crime and strategizing to overturn the election. trump is not charged with a crime and denied any wrongdoing. he continues to down play his involvement and bashing the committee s work as another quote witch hunt. january 6th. what a lot of crap, it s another con job like russia. reporter: committee members say trump was car on his duty and republicans pleaded for trump to intervene and text messages to his white house chief of staff. i think mark meadows is the mvp for the committee. reporter: denver helped decode meadow s text among the 2300 messages obtained by cnn. donald trump junior texting he s got to condemn this shit asap. meadows responding, i am pushing it hard. i agree. it took trump over three hours to release this recorded video. so go home, we love you. you re very special. look at the totality of the evidence, it s pretty apparent
versus what lawmakers are willing to do. i m going to talk to a key republican negotiator next. and the fbi stepping in after an overnight arrest near the home of supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. we ll have the latest on the shocking threat. plus, pro golfers putting their reputations on the line for a paycheck. some say is blood money. ready to key off with saudi arabia s new lead, ignoring the country s record on human rights and the murder of a washington post columnist. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with the upsetting testimony describing the human toll of gun violence in the united states, front and center on capitol hill today. families of victims from the mass shootings in buffalo, new york, and uvalde, texas, described before the house oversight committee not just the horrific attacks but what they want to see congress do to prevent such tragedies from happening again. we also heard from the only pediatrician in uvalde who rushed to th
talk. why this uvalde teacher now says he s angry at law enforcement who he heard in the hallway while 11 of his students were being killed. and office ultimatums. return to the office or lose urjob. the tough decision more workers are now facing. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead today. president biden now getting involved as a key democratic senator says negotiations with republicans on gun reform have reached a, quote, critical stage. that democrat, chris murphy of connecticut, visited the white house today to give president biden a rundown of where bipartisan negotiations stand. before murphy headed back to the hill for yet another meeting with his fellow lawmakers. they have expressed growing optimism a deal for a narrow targeted bill could potentially be reached as soon as the end of this week. so what remains on the table? well, incentivized states to pass red flag laws. potential waiting periods for 18 to 21-year-olds buying
now. statements from authorities today only added to the confusion and criticism and the concern from parents. correspondent jeff paul is live in uvalde tonight with the search for answers, good evening, we now know from the time the suspect crashed his truck it took him about 12 minutes to get inside this school but it s the hour that took place between when officers first engaged with the shooter and they killed him that is now raising more questions than answers. life will never be the same again. never. piecing together the puzzle of tuesday s mass shooting in uvalde as a small texas community warns a painstaking investigation into what happened before and during tuesday s massacre. we now know there was not an armed school security guard and the gunman walked through an unlocked door. it was reported that a school district police officer confronted the suspect that was making entry. not accurate. he walked in unobstructed initially. police say the gunman was insi