next month. that visit coming as his administration is facing mounting pressure following record inflation and, of course, a surge in gas prices. president biden spoke about the trip at the joint base andrews in the last hour. take a listen. everything i m doing in the middle east, lays it all out, i m focused on labor all right, the president there also the major story we re following this morning, the january 6th committee set for another public hearing tomorrow morning. it was president trump s false election fraud claims that were the focus yesterday. several witnesses painted a picture of how trump and his allies used lies of election fraud to allegedly scam his supporters out of $250 million. question, though, this morning, will this committee make any criminal referral to the justice department? we ll have much more on that in a moment. a key inflation measure slowed slightly last month, but prices remain uncomfortably high all across the board. our chief bus
system by adding additional disqualifying items. if we re serious about finding common ground and building consensus, those sorts of things will stand no chance of passing the senate. a lot there of what they won t do. that is john cornyn of course chief negotiator for the republicans in these bipartisan talks on a gun safety deal. a limited deal to be clear, but one that is now building momentum in the wake of the uvalde school massacre. so what is off the table? raising the minimum age to buy a semi automatic weapon like an ar-15. but republicans say that they looking at changing criminal background checks to include essentially scouring the juvenile records which would create an enhanced waiting period. so what is on the table? creating incentives for states to pass red flag laws, those are the laws that when actually used properly can keep guns out of the hands of people deemed a danger to themselves or others about also at issue, improving the background check system t
innovating things like the city of kansas city is doing, sowing among gun manufacturers here. and in cincinnati, we re working with atf, department of justice, to use data back science, in order to take implicit bias out of it, and put more violent criminals behind bars. we re also sending mental health professionals to nonviolent 9-1-1 calls. but we can t do this alone. we need state action. we need federal action. because this is a federal problem. you know, all the rhetoric, all the blaming, that s for d.c.. mayors have to drive results in our cities, and republican and democratic mayors are saying, we need help from the federal government and from our capitals, to take guns off the street, not put more guns on the street. since therei mayor, aftab pureval, thank you very much for your time tonight, sir. thank you. that does it for all in on this monday night. rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, chris, thank you my friend. much appr
city for the u.s. embassy, but ambassador bridget brink is going to be joining us for an exclusive interview from kyiv. in just a few minutes. i hope you will be there for that. back in 2010, the u.s. justice department arrested and indicted nine people in michigan and ohio, and indiana. nine people who are all members of a group that called itself a militia. the indictment, back in 2010 charged that these nine people intended to murder a member of law enforcement, possibly the family of a law enforcement officer as well. and then, when lots of other law enforcement officers would come from all around the country to be there for the big public funeral that would result, this militia decided that they would mount a big attack on the funeral, to kill as many law enforcement officers from all across the country as possible, and then that larger attack they planned on the funeral, they planned not to just use guns, but ieds. this was 2010, there already had been years of extensiv
enhanced i.e.d. against u.s. troops, again to absolutely devastating effect, enhanced i.e.d. with a shaped projectile that used these improvised bombs to penetrate armor. they were called an explosively formed projectile, it was a sort of super i.e.d., and in 2010, these militia guys in michigan and ohio and indiana, according to prosecutors, prosecutors said in their indictment in 2010 that these militia guys exchanged information about not just i.e.d.s, but how to build those kind of i.e.d.s specifically, the kinds of explosively formed projectiles that would be used against u.s. troops by iranian backed militias in the iraq war. they exchanged information about how to build those kinds of i.e.d.s, they amassed the materials they would need to build those kind of i.e.d.s and mount what they hoped would be a catastrophic large scale attack on law enforcement at a high profile public law enforcement funeral of a law enforcement member they intended to kill. and they hoped the