i m poppy harlow. and i m jim sciutto. tonight the january 6th committee will begin to lay out its evidence. after 11 months of interviewing witnesses, scrutinizing thousands of hours of video, more than 100,000 pages of documents, the panel will hold its first public hearing, this one in prime time. it will make a case, that the former president was at the center of a coordinated multistep effort to overturn joe biden s 2020 election win. the committee will present, it says, never-before-seen material. and chips of taped interviews with family officials, and witnesses who had an up-close view of the rioters in action. many leaders like kevin mccarthy, have been all over the air waves, trying to downplay and denigrate the committee s work. leaked audio from just five days after the insurrection, coming from mccarthy himself, reveals that he really wanted a bipartisan investigation into the attack. listen to part of that. we can t just sweep this under the rug. we need t
know you have a busy day before you. still to come, political disagreements going to the extreme and getting more violent. what this says about the state of discourse in america. and the republic a replica. look at those shoes. you remember seeing them. the replica of a uvalde member s green converse shoes have been a sim symbol for the tragedy and the call for action on guns. wore green high top converse with a heart on the right toe, because they represented her love of nature. they re the same green converse on her feet that turned out to be the only clear evidence that could identify her after the shoot shooting. how about that? next, hrer cousin joins us o
on how i can best serve. i choose to make this announcement at the freedom tower because it is truly a sim symbol of our nation s identity as the land of opportunity. despite our troubles we have it in our power to make our time another american century. in this very ram five decades ago, tens of thousands of cuban exiles began their new lives in america. their story is part of the larger story of the american miracle. as far as their talent and work would take them, a collection of immigrants and exiles, of former slaves and refugees together built the freest and most prosperous nation ever. you see, for almost all of history, power and wealth belonged only to a select few. most people who have ever lived