case. and the long overdue honor for a 102-year-old world war ii veteran. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone after holding the attention of millions of tv viewers this summer, the recent pause to the january 6th hearings into the attack on the capitol have turned attention now to the department of justice and attorney general merrick garland to provide what could be the next act in this american, legal, political, and constitutional drama with outside pressure mounting for indictments of mr. trum and some of his inner circle, i sat down with the attorney general today for an exclusive interview. the ag dismissing accusations his office hasn t moved swiftly enough to build cases against those at the top of the ladder and telling me concerns over further tearing the country apart would not deter his office from holding those criminally responsible accountable. let s start off and talk about january 6th. we just watched weeks of s
in a letter to colleagues, speaker of the house nancy pelosi gushed over what was happening saying we ve been moved by how many have channeled their righteous anger into meaningful action. they even got support from the white house. these activists posted a map with the home addresses of the supreme court justices. is that the kind of thing the president wants to help your site make their point? i think the president s view is that there s a lot of passion. laura: deputy white house press secretary andrew bates tried to kind of clean that up earlier today, tweeting jen psaki never encouraged people to protest outside justice s homes providing a transcript in which he highlights her saying protests have been peaceful to date. but he didn t include the whole part. so i know that there s an outrage right now, i guess, about protests that have been peaceful to date and we certainly continue to encourage that outside of judges homes. laura: when the angle recognizes re
politicians, some carrying zip ties and carrying gear. to come, a panel with who, what and why the insurrection. we ll present the evidence, the timeline, the money and the people behind the attempt to subvert democracy and keep the elections loser, donald trump in office. we ll have interviews with trump white house aides, campaign officials and members of the trump family. we ll hear from two people who interacted directly with the proud boys on and around the attack, one of them is british filmmaker nick queston, considered a firsthand fact witness because of amount of time he spent with the extremist group right before the capitol was breached. i am not allowed to say what s going to happen today because everyone is just going to have to watch for themselves. but it s going to happen. something s going to happen. one way or the other. the question at hand now is not just what these hearings will deliver but what will the hearings do to stop it from happening again? as
contain billions of dollars of sunken treasure. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. three weeks after the school shooting in texas, there are signs that some very limited gun control measures could be adopted by congress. democrats have been pushing for new legislation, and now, the senate republican leader, mitch mcconnell, says he hopes for a deal addressing mental health and school security. with regard to the ongoing issue about violence, senator cornyn, as you know, is representing our side in discussions with senator murphy. we re hoping to actually get an outcome that will make a difference in areas of mental health, school safety and things that are related to the incidents that occurred in texas and buffalo. so, what are the proposals on gun control that congress is looking at? so, here s what s on the table: enhanced background checks. further incentives for states to introduce their own red flag laws. more investment in school security. a
now the people at the center of them are begging and pleading with their elected leaders to do something and do something now. a bipartisan group of u.s. senators has been trying to strike a narrow, modest deal on gun reforms, one of the lead negotiators telling me in the last hour he is cautiously optimistic that they can get something done. despite ongoing talks on capitol hill today, it is still legal in most states for an 18-year-old to buy a semiautomatic weapon. josh campbell went to a gun range to show us just what such a weapon can do. they are known as assault style weapons. and have been used in some of the country s deadliest shootings. from uvalde, tulsa, and el paso, to parkland, san bernardino, and sandy hook, it has been the weapon of choice for many of the killers. line is hot. the los angeles police department demonstrates an ar-style semiautomatic rifle for us on the department s gun range. you have a 16-inch to 20-inch barrel. you have a stock that