turned from protesters, to rioters, two insurrectionists. not only did president trump refused to tell the mob to leave the capitol, he placed no call to any element of the united states government to extract that the capital be defended. i can just remember my breath catching in my throat for her, because what i saw was a war scene. tonight i say this to my republican colleagues who s are defending the indefensible. there will come a day where donald trump is gone. your dishonourable remain. good morning. it is saturday june 11th. i m michael steele in for michael velshi. this morning we are bringing you a special hour on the first ever public hearing on the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack. we know more than we ever have about how the attack was planned and carried out. house investigators made it clear this week that they believe, and intend to prove to the american people, that the intent to overthrow the government originated with one m
nor did he have any issues to order. joining me now from uvalde, texas is nbc s correspondent antonia hilton. walk us through these new details and revelations. who was actually in charge at the scene that they? good morning michael. that is really the question, right? i think one really stuck out to me about that interview with the was that he did not know that he was the incident commander. in other words he had no idea that he would be in charge. you also mentioned that he left his radio behind, he said that was because he wanted to hands free to handle his firearm. he also described praying as he tested a key, after key, and it took him a while to find one that would actually work for the right classroom. law enforcement experts when the tribune gave them all these details, they were pretty shocked. from their perspective they say that the leader of a school districts law enforcement, the chief of police should know that they would be incident commander in this kind of
she accepted it bill barr s conclusion that the 2020 election was not stolen. according to nelson, 20 million tuned in to watch the first public hearing. the next one will begin this monday. msnbc news we ll have the latest on monday. joining me now is former congressman, carlos cobbles of florida. the host of the digital show ryan unfiltered. and jason johnson with a word with a jason johnson podcast and he is a political contributor. because your onset with me, jason, i will kick it off with you. i know that we are saying over 1 million watched. this is a lot of people. let s put this in contrast. 120 million watch the super bowl. this is a big contrast. what did you learn that you did not already know? i did know a lot of this reminded me of the impeachment hearings. there is still an appetite and a level of curiosity that the american people had. i tweeted this. this was amazing to me. before the hearings, i got a text from my barber who said get your popcorn ready. i
from msnbc world headquarters. welcome to alex witt reports. we are beginning this hour with breaking news as thousands of students are leading marches and rallies early across this country demanding action on gun violence. survivors of the 2018 parkland school shooting are leading another push for a change in our gun laws. among those taking place at rallies today, younger students summoned in austin texas, saying that they are traumatized by active shooter drew drills and use of school shootings. this gathering took place in nashville in the last. our students were joined by moms demanding action. in new york city, moments ago, mayor eric adams joined those marching to demand action from congress. there s also pay paid tribute to ten killed in a racially charged shooting in buffalo last month and 21 tilde at robb elementary in uvalde. and one organizer said that more voices need to be added to the discussion. i m speaking for the places left out of the conversation about
the january 6th committee hearings. an in-depth look at the committee s dramatic first public hearing this week. donald trump was up the center of this conspiracy. president trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack. but committee providing a wealth of material, including never before seen footage of the riot as it unfolded. [noise] they were peaceful people. these were great people. the crowd was unbelievable. there was love in the air. i had never seen anything like it. an emotional testimony from the capitol hill police officer who nearly died trying to hold the line. there were officers on the ground, they were bleeding, they were throwing up, they, i mean as a friends with blood all over their faces. i was slipping in peoples blood. it was carnage. it was chaos. the committee, laying all of that blame squarely on the feet of one, that donald trump, using words from his own loyalists and family to make the case that he knew