just a moment. right now, as well, millions of people across the country and around the world, really, continuing to experience this dangerously high temperatures. we re going to break down the latest on the sweltering heat wave and what can be done. also, to capitol hill. democrats in the house eyeing a measure to ban assault weapons, but the bill facing pretty strong opposition from republicans and slim odds of passing in the senate. we ll talk about that. we re going to speak with the highland park mayor who testified before the senate about her town s recent tragedy. that s coming up. hey, everybody. we re going to begin this hour in washington, where ten hours from now, the house january 6th committee is going to hold its latest hearing in prime-time, a season finale of sorts to this initial batch of hearings, with even more expected later on this year, possibly in the fall. tonight s hearing is going to dive into those crucial 187 minutes the committee says it took
wanted to happen that day, that it was the pre-planned and desired result of a wide-ranging coup attempt by donald trump and orchestrated by him and his close allies and just like they did in other hearings, the committee will use team trump s own words to describe what happened on january 6th with video of trump s own advisors and trump s own allies and trump s own lawyers and trump s appointees, a sneak peek was posted by committee member adam kinzinger who will be co-leading alongside his colleague congresswoman elaine luria shows trump officials in effect corroborating one another, each of them testifying to the fact that as vice president mike pence and lawmakers fled from a mob of trump supporters filled with white supremacists and domestic violent extremists, donald trump was in the dining room watching tv. watch. was the president in that private dining room the whole time that the attack on the capitol was going on or did he ever go to the oval office or the white
Destruction still raging today. Later this afternoon President Biden will hold his first News Conference since hamas carried out the Terror Attacks and escalating threats from iran target u. S. Forces in the region. A bunch of things moving on that front as we say hello. Im bill hemmer. Here we go today. Dana im dana perino and this is americas newsroom. Hamas terrorists also trying to infiltrate israel from the Mediterranean Sea and foiled by the israeli navy. A whos who of top officials of hezbollah, hamas and Islamic Jihad holding talks how to achieve total victory over israel. The pentagon revealing more than 14 attacks, one more than yesterday against u. S. Forces based in the middle east in the last week. The white house trying to connect the dots saying all these militia and all these Terror Groups are working hand in glove with tehran. Iran is certainly complicit here. Without them there is no hamas or hezbollah, without them there is no Militia Groups firing rockets at our tro
was played around the world. that has sparked some of the widespread angen has sparked some of the widespread anger. you talk to people here in this very diverse neighbourhood, who say, how many other people has this happened to? how many other young people have been targeted by the police? the heart of this is what people say. it is a real problem when it comes to the police here in france, who they say, are racist. you heard from the united nations today, all quebec is a win that, saying the french police do need to deal with what they say is a problem of racism. we heard from the french government a few hours later, saying there were no foundations in what there were no foundations in what the un said. many people here, whether they believe in the violence happening, orwhether whether they believe in the violence happening, or whether they say it shouldn t be happening, either way, there is that deep rooted problem about the relationship that people have with the police. until that
but when there is violence directed at a community that she targets that can t be separated for the purposes of republicans saying i didn t say do that, it is all part of the toxic mess of hate and unstable people with guns. well, it is. and i think that what you see here is that hate crimes are on the rise. we ve known that for the last couple of years, have been like double-digit increases in hate crimes, and particularly directed at the lgbtq community. and you can see the linkage between the violent rhetoric and these crimes attacking this marginalized community. and i think it puts all of us at risk. and i have to say, i have real questions about these platforms like twitter that continue to amplify and allow this kind of hateful language that then plays into violence happening. i think, you know, it has to