tonight that swimmer sharing her story in an nbc news exclusive. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening an unsent letter described as a murder-suicide pact by a former trump white house lawyer stood at the core of testimony in today s january 6 committee hearing. three former top justice department officials describing former president trump s efforts to enlist help from the department to perpetuate his unsupported claims of election fraud, including pressure on the doj to send an official letter to georgia election officials. that letter falsely stating the justice department had identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election. when doj leaders refused to sign it, the president reportedly telling them just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me today s hearing focusing on the actions of former assistant attorney general jeffrey clark who witnesses say stood ready to do mr. trump s bidding. let
good evening, i m mehdi hasan, tomorrow morning the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on our capitol. will hold its second public hearing, if it s anything at all at the first hearing, it s set to be explosive. tomorrow the panel will zero in on trump s lies, his efforts to spread debunked claims about the 2020 election, witnesses include b.j. pak, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of georgia fire him for not backing his election lies. i ll schmidt, the republican city commissioner of philadelphia, that there wasn t fraud in his city. and bill stepien, and trump s 2020 campaign manager, in thursday s hearing and everybody seen video interviews, we learned the former president s inner circle as well where the big lie was just that. alive. attorney general bill barr revealed that he told his boss, allegations of election fraud were quote, bs. trump s own daughter of rank agreed with that assessment. putting the committee that she respect
the proud boys and the oath keepers. we re gonna go more on that point later on in the show. but we also learned a lot more about what was happening in the white house, in the lead up to the insurrection. testimony from donald trump s lawyers, his attorney general, his son-in-law, and his daughter. also just saying that trump knew what he was doing, and he knew it was wrong. for example, trump knew that he had lost the election to joe biden. how do we know that? because his own top data analyst came into the oval office and told him specifically. according to his campaign insider, jason miller. i was in the oval office. and at some point in the conversation, the league that a person was brought on. and, i remember, he delivered to the president in pretty blunt terms that he was going to lose. but trump, reportedly, argue that his legal challenges over election fraud would change the result. the only problem? there was no such thing as election fraud and the white house kn
proposal which was announced just a few minutes ago. press release was sent out by senator chris murphy s office. he is the senator that has been leading this effort for almost ten years now since the sandy hook shooting. he says a group, a bipartisan group, ten republican and ten democratic senators have come to a resolution, an agreement in principle on this proposal. i will read a couple of the details that are included in this proposal to you now. one thing is incentives for states to implement those red flag laws that would allow weapons to be taken away from people deemed to be a danger to themselves or others. enhanced background checks for people between ages of 18 and 21. one source tells our team that a new system will be set up for this age group that does not exist for any other age group in the u.s.. it would require gun sellers to check with local law enforcement before being allowed to sell a firearm to that age group. as well as more funding for school securit
parents of one of the wounded who say their son is just not the same. and u.s. president joe biden promises to keep battling inflation as prices for everyday items continue to spiral upwards. there is a growing sense of urgency among some members of congress ahead of monday s second hearing on the january 6th investigation. the select committee has planned six more hearings this month to present its preliminary findings. they say their investigation paints a damning portrait of then president trump as the central figure behind that failed coup. one committee member previewed what s to come. well, we re going to go methodically through each of the major problem areas with the former president. for example, examining his claims of fraud. that was important because it was false. we know that he was told that it was false. and yet he continued to stir up the american people with false narratives. now the former president donald trump firing back after the panel used his own