before getting to where it all stands tonight, i want you to hear from these witnesses, starting with this 11-year-old talking about the gunman coming into her classroom. it s graphic and difficult to hear, but it s important to hear it unfiltered. no matter where you stand on the issue of guns, this shouldn t be happening. we were just watching, and then she got and she went to lock the door. and he was in the hallway, and they made eye contact. and then she went back in the room and told us, go hide. and then we went to go hide behind my teacher s desk and behind the backpacks. and then he shot the little window. and then he went to the other classroom, and then he went there s a door between our classrooms, and he went to there and shot my teacher and told my teacher he shot her in the head. and then she shot some of my classmates. when i went to the backpacks, he shot my friend that was next to me, and i thought he was going to come back to the room. so, i grabbed
w audio of what republican lawmakers were saying just day after. i want you to hear kevin mccarthy describing what happened and how he called the then president to tell him to call off the eye rioter. on the phone call to the president telling him what was going on. asking him to tell these people to stop, to make a video and go out. i was very intense and very loud about it. he did put a tweet out and later a video out. i told him i didn t like the video out later. the second day i wish the video was first. what they are saying then and what they are saying now. then it goes onto kevin mccarthy calls for a bipartisan to investigate the circumstances around the attack and to insist we cannot just sweep this under the rug. we cannot just sweep this under the rug, he says. this is from arkansas congressman french hill pleading with his fellow republicans to get the then president to do the right thing. all of you have such a great, wonderful, warm relationship with dona
thank you, laura, see you friday. this is don lemon tonight, on the eve of the first public hearing by the committee investigating what happened on one of the darkest days of our history, we have audio of what the republicans were saying after, comes from their book this will not pass, going to talk to them on this program, don t want to miss this. but hear kevin mccarthy describing what happened when he was evacuated from office and how he called the president so tell him to call off the rioters. i made a phone call to the president telling him what was going on, asking him to tell these people to stop. to make a video and go out. and i was very intense and loud about it. he did put a tweet out, later he did put a video out. i told him i didn t like the video but wished that video was first. what they said then, what they re saying now. and then goes on, kevin mccarthy calls for bipartisan commission to investigate the circumstances around the attack and to insist, i
war wounds, things that you see on movies. by the end of this year, we ll see prices dropping. it is frustrating, it is not ideal. and i think, you know, things are complicated in the world right now. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is thursday, june 8. today house committee investigating the riots at the u.s. capitol will start revealing what it has learned. this multimedia review of the attack will be unveiled for a primetime american television audience for the very first time. the bipartisan panel will show how huge crowds supporting the former u.s. president ransacked the capitol on january 6 of last year and they will try to convict donald trump in the court of public opinion saying he is responsible for major abuses of power. among the key witnesses, a capitol police officer who was hurt by rioters and suffered a major brain injury and yet she still prevented many from entering the building. and we ll hear from a documentarian whose
survivors and saw some of the bodies of the first dead children that they had at the hospital. his testimony, there are parts of it that i m not sure that every word he said about what he saw with those wounds got across. there is one word that he used that i m going to get you in this hour. it is a horrifying graphic ex description. there s been that discussion about should be photographs of this so that people can really understand it. well chris, there was language there in that hearing today that is beyond anything that you would actually expect to see in such photographs. i m not sure that it had any impact at all on the republican members of that committee. i watched a clip, a long clip of the individual you re talking about. it was incredibly powerful and i agree that that is as important for people to hear as any debate about these images. my father worked in gun safety activism and one of the things that you find in those circles is a lot of the most militant peopl