firefighters that are fighting this blaze and then, of course, battling this heat. we re talking about a country that is not prepared for heat like this. the infrastructure is breaking down in certain locations, we re seeing that, where there s damage to runways at airports, seeing train tracks buckling. remember a lot of people in this country live without air conditioning which is why there s been such a concern for the public s health and safety. you can see people here doing everything they can to try and escape the heat, going to lakes, going to ponds, buying fans. but we know that not everybody is able to afford that and to do that which is why we saw top government officials meeting over the weekend for an emergency meeting to make sure ducks were in a row to care for schools, for example, that are still in session and without air conditioning. the elderly, nursing homes. but this is an issue that we re seeing all across southern europe, this heat wave that is just gri
response to the robb elementary mass shooting. and we re looking closer at the state of president biden s agenda amid more dismal polling with the midterms less than four months away. we ll discuss with senator lujan. we are going to begin with the major new developments in the investigation into the january 6 attack. nbc news has now confirmed the names of the two star witnesses who are expected to testify during thursday s primetime committee hearing according to a source familiar with the plans. they are sarah matthews and matthew pottinger who is a former member of the national security council. both worked in the trump white house and both resigned in the wake of the attack on the capitol. thursday will be the first time either will have spoken publicly to the committee. committee chairman bennie thompson is also revealing more of the panel s future plans which include likely releasing a scaled back report of its findings followed by a final report. each potentially in
the january 6th committee is not done, collecting new testimony for hearings to come in september. today we ll be seeing never before seen footage from key depositions including jared and ivanka. they are still seeking ginni thomas, wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, he was e-mailing john eastman, author of one of the failed plots to overturn the election. they say they may subpoena her. the committee is engaged with her counsel. we certainly hope she will agree to come in voluntarily but the committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she is not. cheney is not deterred by the prospect of losing her seat in congress because of trump s organized opposition as punishment for her role spear heading the investigation. if i have to choose between maintaining a seat in the house of representatives or protecting the constitutional republic and ensuring the american people know the truth about donald trump, i m going to choose the constitution and the t
so, when will ginni thomas tell the committee all she knows about the insurrection? as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. today the, january 6th committee made a powerful case about the relentless pressure donald trump and his allies put on mike pence to unlawfully overturn the 2020 election results. this afternoon, the committee presented detailed evidence revealing the intensity of that effort and the real danger pence was in on the day of the insurrection. mike pence, i hope you are going to stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of our country. and if you are not, i m going to be very disappointed in you, i will tell you right now. i m telling you what, i m hearing the pence, i m hearing that pence just caved no i m hearing reports that pence caved. i m telling you, if pence caved, we are going to bleep through the streets. [inaudible] bring him out! bring out pence!
stephanie ruhle. today the, january 6th committee made a powerful case about the relentless pressure donald trump and his allies put on mike pence to unlawfully overturn the 2020 election results. this afternoon, the committee presented detailed evidence revealing the intensity of that effort and the real danger pence was in on the day of the insurrection. mike pence, i hope you are going to stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of our country. and if you are not, i m going to be very disappointed in you, i will tell you right now. i m telling you what, i m hearing the pence, i m hearing that pence just caved no i m hearing reports that pence caved. i m telling you, if pence caved, we are going to bleep through the streets. [inaudible] bring him out! bring out pence! hang mike pence, hang mike pence! hang mike pence! [noise] hang mike pence, that s what they were chanting. today s star witnesses, two key republicans, pence s former w