republican senators signaling it could be strong enough to overcome any threat of a filibuster. the new legislation coming in the wake of several mass shootings across the country, including an attack on a texas elementary school that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers. now, this framework of the agreement includes modest gun restrictions, and broader investments into mental health and school security. we have team coverage of these developments. joe johns is with the president in delaware. let s begin with daniella diaz on capitol hill. what can you tell us about this compromise? well, it just broke a little over two hours ago. and it is just a framework as you said, no legislative text yet. but i m going to talk a little bit about what this proposal includes. it would have support for state crisis intervention orders, investment in children and family mental health services. protections for victims of domestic violence. funding for school-based mental healt
signaling it could be strong enough to overcome any threat of a filibuster. the new legislation comes in the wake of several mass shootings across the country including an attack on a texas elementary school that claimed the lives of 19 little children and two teachers. for the latest let s bring in daniella diaz on capitol hill. this is significant. what do we know about what is in this potential new bill? amara, i want to emphasize the point you made. this is just a framework. no legislative text yet. but important to note that there are ten republicans that supported this framework signed the press releases that were sent out when that news broke a little over two hours ago. i m going to talk a little bit about what s in this framework. it has proposals to support a state crisis intervention orders. investments in children and family mental health services. protections for victims of domestic violence. funding for school-based mengts health and supportive services. fundi
and to, quote, connect the dots between the former president s election lies and the violence that unfolded that day. images are still so shocking. tonight is expected to include never before seen video leading up to the capitol attack and as it unfolded, as well as clips of taped interviews with trump administration officials and family members, their testimony. we also expect to hear live witness testimony from two people who had an upclose view of the rioters. and this is just the first round. more hearings are scheduled over the several weeks coming with the committee releasing a final report in september, that, of course, a couple of months before the midterms. let s begin with lauren fox on capitol hill. so, lauren, walk us through what we expect on the first day of these hearings tonight. reporter: well, this is the first opportunity for this committee to come back after months of work behind closed doors. we expect all of this is going to kick off with an opening
begin on capitol hill. the committee will hold the first session at 8:00 eastern tonight. committee members are promising never before seen footage and testimony and that includes video from a documentary film maker named nick kwequested th abc news obtained. i m not allowed to say what s going to happen today because everyone will have to watch for themselves. but it s going to happen. something is going to happen. one way or the other. that film maker will be one of the witnesses to testify tonight. he had unique access to the far right group, the proud boys and he captured video of the rioters inside the capitol as they screamed for speaker pelosi. a member of his film crew capturing the scene outside nancy pelosi s office. the vast majority of the footage tonight has not yet been seen publicly. the goal is to make the case to all americans former president trump was at the center of the coordinated multi step effort they say to overturn the 2020 election. c nrk
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