january 6th hearing reveals that trump knew he lost but tried to steal the election anyway while cheating his maga supporters out of their hard-earned money. plus, some are calling the gun reform framework a good first step. that suggests more is coming. color me skeptical. we ll talk about all that have and more with karine jeanpierre in her first live primetime interview since she made history, become the new white house press secretary. but we begin with day two of public hearings by the house january 6th committee today showing how donald trump deliberately launched the big lie to convince his own voters that he won an election he lost using claims of nonexistent fraud and then seeking to corrupt the justice department, his own campaign team, his donors and our court system in an effort to cling to power. if you think he cooked up that plan after the election as a hail mary simply because he couldn t accept defeat understand that donald trump went into the election alread
but we know that one of the reasons that president biden said he ran for president was the charlottesville racist march and attack there, you know, and the violence that broke out there. we ve just recently seen in the state of idaho a group of white nationalists arrest who had were i mean, this is pride month around the country. there is still an extreme threat of white nationalism, and white nationalist rhetoric, domestic terrorism, in the country. does the administration feel that the justice department has been proactive enough, and that enough is being done, including by the doj and by lawmakers to protect the country against this threat? so, joy, you know, he has complete confidence in merrick garland and the work that he s doing at the department of justice. again, it s an independent agency. and we have to leave that to continue to be independent. and you re right. we have seen an increase of