and both investigations have expanded to former members of the trump administration. former acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, and ex treasury secretary steve mnuchin both testified before the january six committee this week. any day now, the committee could hear from former secretary of state mike pompeo. meanwhile, mike pence s former top aides, marc short and greg jacobs, testified before the federal grand jury convened by attorney general merrick garland, making them some of the highest profile witnesses to testify. they are questioning at those proceedings contributed to the news first reported by the washington post, that the doj is formally investigating trump s actions leading up to january 6th. possibly a step closer to a criminal probe of trump himself. more and more former trump officials have come forward since the january six committee s public hearings started last month, and congressman jamie raskin, who is a lead manager and trump s second impeachment trial
in uvalde, texas where president biden will be tomorrow, jeff to you. and the more we learn about the shooting, the more difficult it gets for in community to grasp what exactly happened at robb elementary school. despite what investigators had initially told the public. we learned the shooter was not confronted by anyone from the time he crashed his pickup truck and began shooting at the school. a minute before the suspected shooter crashed that truck, a teacher at the school had walked outside, propped open a door and then went back inside, and left that door propped open. we re learning that 19 officers stood in the hallway of the school for nearly an hour before a border patrol agent showed up with a master key he had found to open up the door to enter and then kill the suspect. and while the clock was ticking for that to happen. investigators disclosed children were calling 911 begging for operators to send in police to help. texas dps say the local incident commander
especially financially. and they know that they have you cornered and just speaks to her strength and integrity. all right. let s put a pin in this conversation and go now to capitol hill. senate majority dchuck schumer talking about the $1.7 trillion spending bill. pardon maternal care amazing. child care, increasing 30%. so many good things in the bills hard to get them all out as you know the electoral college was in and we funded lods of the promises such as the c.h.i.p.s bill and the the bill to help the veteran whose were hurt. the pac dec hurt by the burn pits. summer lunches for kids every
stand in the way of the entire democratic agenda, of the entire climate agenda. the proof is actually the chips bill, which is a big deal. i mean, that s make it in america, the president passed through the senate and the house, we passed a bill, presidents desk, it s gonna bring semiconductor manufacturing back into the united states, it s a lower prices because i would not depended on shipping things from overseas, that passed without a single democrat voting no. so, we need to talk about the times the democrats have been passed the american rescue plan, we passed infrastructure plan, we passed chips, and we re gonna pass climate, it s actually a pretty historic record if we get that done. one thing that the house passed, but the senate didn t, it was the pact act, the bill that would help veterans who worked in the burn pits in afghanistan and iraq. republicans voted against it, it failed in the senate. after passing in the senate earlier with 84 votes.
people know about agent orange, but unique, the burn pits in iraq and afghanistan, affected nearly every service member that was over there, they occurred where our service members, ate, exercised, slept. now events in washington began last night at national cathedral with the blessing of the motorcycles and also at the vietnam wall, the vietnam memorial where hundreds of bikers came out to fallen and their fellow teammates and squad mates and platoon mates. we re waiting for jon stewart, an advocate on the burn pits and noted that over a million americans have been fighting for freedom, half from the civil war, griff and it s notable over 7,000 have been killed fighting in wars in iraq and afghanistan. of course, this year there are no service members serving in afghanistan, only 2500 on the ground in iraq, noncombat war, 7,000 killed fighting those