good morning. you re watching chris jansing reports live from new york city. and just about a half an hour from where i m standing, investors on wall street are watching as the market crumbles. the dow, take a look at these numbers, off more than 800 points right now. we are teetering on the edge of a bear market. it s at its lowest level in more than a year after the fed announced the biggest rate hike in almost 30 years. what will it mean for you? but we have a start in washington, where the third january 6th committee public hearing is just a few hours away. today, the spotlight is on the danger former vice president mike pence faced that day. and the pressure campaign to convince him to overturn the election results. this morning, nbc news has obtained a clip of the interview with pence s chief of staff who detailed the weeks long pressure
how we could allow an ar-15 to be purchased by somebody under the age of 21 when, by the way, handguns require that you re 21 to purchase a handgun. so, i think these are simple things that the world doesn t understand, we don t understand, but it s our job to try to get as much done as we can possibly get done with the votes we have. and congresswoman, the house january 6th committee is about to hold its third public hearing today. you were in the capitol on that day. what are your thoughts and what are your questions as we go forward? you know, that was a terrifying day. not just for me personally, but for our democracy. i don t think that everybody understood because we didn t have the full picture that the january 6th committee has put together for us with these thousands of interviews and depositions and documents they have collected. we were so close to losing our democracy that day. and i think what the january 6th committee is doing in a