evening. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, june 9th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, white house bureau chief at politico and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. we ll dive right into the house investigation into the january 6th capitol attack, which kicks off tonight in primetime. an aide tells nbc news the committee will present evidence never shown before which shows president donald trump at the center of a coordinated effort to overturn the 2020 election. the aide says tonight s testimony will serve as sort of an opening statement, and that the information we hear could go beyond the testimony we hear from live witnesses. as we ve reported, this evening s witnesses include a filmmaker who is embedded with the far right group, the proud boys, and a capitol police officer who was injured in the attack. the new york times reports the committee will also play video excerpts of the testimony from j
friend. i thought he was going to come back to the room, so i grabbed blood and i put it all over me. reporter: she says she smeared that blood from a fellow classmate on herself and played dead, hiding from the gunman. what did you do then, when you put the blood on yourself? just stayed quiet. then i got the teacher s phone and called 911. what did you tell 911? i told her that we needed help and to send the police into our classroom. reporter: law enforcement would not storm the classroom and take out the gunman more over an hour, amid growing outrage from officers. the justice department announced a review of the police response to the shooting. if there was something that you want people to know about that day and about you, or things you want different, what would it be?
reminder, votes on the bill could impact donations of if nra s victory fund. during a news conference, scalise, who is a victim of gun violence himself, shared more of his thoughts on the legislation in response to the uvalde shooting. what we saw, unfortunately, in the minutes and hours after by some people here in washington was a movement to promote their political agenda on the heels of that tragedy. what they were talking about the night of the shooting was trying to get congress to move a bill that had passed the house, a gun control bill, hr-8, that would have had absolutely nothing to do with the shooting. instead of focusing on some fundamental questions that ought to be asked every time there is a tragedy in this country, why did it happen? are there things we can do to prevent it? and i go back to september 11th. because on that tragic day, the country made a clear realization that dots weren t being
finding none. reporter: the mother of lexi rubio in agony, as lexi hours before the shooting at the awards day. she promised her daughter they d get ice cream to celebrate after school. i left my daughter at that school, and that decision will haunt me for the rest of my life. reporter: lawmakers debated new gun restrictions that many republicans oppose. what happened in uvalde, buffalo, tulsa, is as wrong as wrong could be, but the answer is not to destroy the second amendment. reporter: everything will depend on what happens with bipartisan negotiations in the senate. we spoke with everhard after her testimony. her son, goodman, was shot at that buffalo supermarket. do you think today s testimony will change any lives? i hope so. they re trying to figure out what they can deal with and what they can t deal with. for me, that s a step forward. we said something today that struck a nerve with them. you heard in neighbor s
connected. terrorist attacks were happening, and the country didn t have the right focus on the fundamental core problems that were creating those attacks. airplanes were used that day as the weapon to kill thousands of people and to inflict terror on our country. there wasn t a conversation about banning airplanes. there was a conversation about connecting the dots. how can we try to figure out if there are signs we can see to stop the next attack from happening? where to begin there? next week oh, my god. scalise almost died in a mass shooting during practice for the congressional baseball game. so we ve heard prairie dogs and varmints and ferrell pigs and what about hunter biden and now why didn t we ban planes after 9/11? this is unspeakably stupid. you know, this really is. for people who really aren t