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
as a law enforcement officer, i would find myself in the middle of a battle. that s capitol police officer sharing her harrowing experiences with the insurrectionists on january 6th, as she testified in the first hearing into the attack on the united states capitol. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, june 10th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. the committee investigating the january 6th attack began laying out its case in vivid detail last night. it was searing, powerful, at times hard to watch. but very necessary to do so. offering never before seen video and new evidence that investigators say shows donald trump and his advisers new that he lost the election fair and square, and yet still sought to overturn the will of the american people. committee vice chair liz cheney also presented evidence of how trump s actions led to the planning of what happened that day, that the white house knew in the days leading up to the attack that t
and we ll get a live reaction from the white house. but we begin with the house committee investigating the deadly january 6 capitol insurrection. holding its first in a series of highly-anticipated public hearings last night. the panel released previously unseen footage of the riot. and featured damning testimony to make the case that the january 6th attack was the direct result of then president donald trump s desperate attempts to cling to power. the chairman of the committee congressman bennie thompson said at tack was the culmination of a attempted coup coordinated by extremist groups like the proud boys and answering trump s call. ally, after ally, claim that the election was stolen from him were false. including testimony from his former senior campaign aide, his elder daughter, his former attorney general, we want to warn you, we did not bleep the curse word bill barr used in his deposition. i made it clear i did not agree with the idea of saying the election was st
revealed. right now, the nation s focus returns to the u.s. capitol as we await the most comprehensive account yet of crimes committed against the united states on this sacred ground. welcome to cnn special coverage of attack on democracy here on cnn. i m jake tapper, about an hour away from the rare prime time presentation on this committee and let s be clear, what will happen in the hearing room tonight is not just about the mob that stormed the capitol on january 6th, specifically, it is a month s long campaign and conspiracy to undermine democracy in america. it s about a president and those around him desperate to hold on to power at any cost, even if it meant destroying the american experiment. committee aides say we will hear and see interviews conducted with trump insiders for the first time. we expect that to possibly include members of the former president s family, as well as former senior administration and trump campaign officials. the hearing will showcase l
deadly weekend in america. since friday there have been ten mass shootings across the country, no area immune from the violence of course. the shootings happened at high school graduation parties in south carolina and texas, at a funeral outside a church in kentucky, multiple shooters then firing into a crowd on a busy street in philadelphia killing three people. and in tennessee shots rang out at a nightclub, all told 15 people were killed, dozens more hurt in these mass shootings. the gun violence archive now says there had been 246 mass shootings in the united states this year. the math not fully calculating the pain. 33 of those that we are talking about here just since the uvalde school massacre nearly two weeks ago. cnn s polo sandoval is live in philadelphia starting us off at this hour. another city in pain, another investigation into deadly gun violence now under way. polo, what are you learning? kate, unlike those calculated and planned massacres we have seen rece