more than 1,000 people dead. later this hour we will break down the results from tuesday s primary election. steve kornacki will join us from the big board. the big board. this morning, the house january 6th committee is preparing for its next public hearing, tomorrow, one day after hearing powerful testimony about former president donald trump s efforts to intimidate state lawmakers and election officials into overturning the results from the 2020 creeks. testimony from someone who detailed phone calls from trump and his allies pressuring them to find votes for trump or send fake protesters to washington. the trump team never produced evidence of fraud. he got emotional when he insisted he would method violate his oath of office. for me to do that because somebody just asked me to is foreign to my very being. i will not do it. some of the most emotional testimony came from a former georgia election worker and her mother who have been harassed and threatened after the
killed saying i have been shot and i am dying. he arrived, ruiz, on campus, tried to get in through the hallways to rescue hess wife. according to dps they took his gun, detained him and removed him physically from the premises as he is trying to save his wife. the dps officer didn t specify have agency did this but many want answers to why this would happen between a family crisis a community crisis and the one man trying to save the person he loves the most? no doubt about that. it s just got to be so devastatingly difficult, catherine, let s talk about this. you know, in the heat of the moment it is understandable why the officers that were there would not want someone coming in and you know acting unilaterally, but no one else was acting. yeah. what that s telling me is somebody was in charge. even though the chief, i know,
try to obtain the body camera footage from inside robb elementary school because clearly right now there needs to be more transparency, there are so many questions that haven t been answered and local officials in uvalde feel like it is not fair to put them on full blast and not provide that kind of insight and information. sam, of the many things we heard yesterday in the hearing at the senate was that that door, i think 111, not only, was it unlocked. it didn t work. it wasn t work. it wasn t even closing properly. meanwhile, there is a yesterday they talked about that police officer who received a call from his wife who was inside that classroom, had been shot and was dying. tried to get in, but he was stopped from going in? it is hard to even understand how this unfolded. but according to dps and its director rubin ruiz, who is a school police officer there, he got a phone call, jose, from his wive, one of the two teachers