you re a few feet away from me and you re not helping me. reporter: and so tomorrow afternoon we expect to see uvalde county sheriff talk about or at least answer questions presented to hip by texas lawmakers for a texas house investigative committee looking into that law enforcement response and really we hope to learn more about that video. what happened in those 77 minutes? phil? still so many unanswered questions. nadia romero, thank you for the reporting. and still ahead in texas where abortions are illegal with very few exceptions, one health clinic is closing its doors and working to continue to offer abortion services. we ll talk to the founder and ceo of that clinic next. you re live in the cnn newsroom. isn t that right phil? sorry, i m m a little busy. what in the world are you doing? i m in the metaverse, bundling my home
goes in and does it for real that would be huge. we re so far away from that still. he basically gave bannon the cover so that he, bannon, could go to the committee and make this offer. let s be clear, phil. he hasn t agreed to anything yet. he hasn t promised to go in and give a deposition. he s given an offer with conditions. he says he wants to do a hearing, a public hearing. do you really think that the committee members are going to give a platform to someone who is a well-known purveyor of all kinds of conspiracy theories about the 2020 election? as you mentioned he has a criminal trial next week. this could be part of a strategy to undercut the prosecution, make it look like he s trying to cooperate when he is accused of illegally refusing to cooperate. he wants to do it public.
they ve been through a tremendous amount. this just happened a few days ago, so to say that things are going well would not be a great characterization. things have been very difficult for the families and they ve been through a tremendous amount of trama. yeah. totally understandable they re still struggling physically and otherwise after this trama. let me ask you about this investigation from the texas house. small committee. three people. most of the testimony is going to happen in private behind closed doors. what is your degree of confidence in this committee s work? well, you know, i think that when you have a committee looking at issues as extreme as what we ve experience in texas with uvalde and southernland springs, it s time to open the doors and know the questions being asked and information they re receiving.
around and result in the election and there s a lot of questions who is responsible and involved. i won t make a judgment but want you to know that we ll probably be a lot of americans are going to be seeing for the first time some of the detail that occurred. with us now, cnn political director david in new york here with us. good to have you. hi, guys. obviously, the committee is hoping for a big audience. what is at stake here? what is at stake is history. that s first and foremost because the committee is trying to put forth the definitive narrative of what occurred leading up to the sixth and on 6th. the president said i m not going to make a judgment who is to blame here. that s him trying to like not step in it as he had in the past where he leaned into saying he wanted the department of justice to prosecute people that defy
they are this is not like going and playing in one tournament or us buying gas or something like this. this is phil actively leaving his life and livelihood to go to another one he knows of course, the history of mbs. he knows where the money is coming from and doing it willingly and helping, mabs to bun niche his image. he s been bribed to be part of the p.r. machine of the saudis and so, you know, let s call it what it is. he can do that if he wants but there is no doubt phil is doing that and trying to make it sound like something different than that. crisgreat to talk to you, th you. breaking news out of michigan the police officer in grand rapids that fatally shot a 26-year-old black man during a routine traffic stop has been charged with murder. we have details ahead. the texas house investigative committee looking into the uvalde massacre today behind closed doors. we ll discuss next with the lawyer representing four of the families whose children were