discuss piece arrendondo, after we re hearing stunning reports of law enforcement just outside the classroom. and on nbc news, a top kremlin official broke russia s silence on the two u.s. veterans captured in ukraine. we ll get the latest from moscow. primary elections in virginia and washington, d.c. with runoffs in three other states. steve kornacki will break down what you need to know. and we are just three hours away from another key hearing by the house january 6th committee. the panel plans to lay out an elaborate effort by former president donald trump and his allies to pressure state lawmakers and election officials into defying the will of the voters. and overturning the election he lost. today, we ll be hearing from arizona house speaker rusty bowers who resisted the pressure from trump and his allies and georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger who trump tried to push to find votes just days after the attack on the capitol. moments ago nbc news learned
joining us with the very late jake sherman co-founder of punchbowl and msnbc contributor. jake, good to see you. on capitol hill, the team says the deal is 98% done. what do you hear? reporter: your capitol hill team is excellent, and you re right, the deal is very, very close. there s a couple of things to keep in mind. number one, time is of the essence. they want to get it done before the july 4 recess. if we accountant to see text today, tomorrow, somewhere in that time frame, we re headed into a weekend session on capitol hill or next week. those things are possible. although the leadership would like to avoid it. they might not be able to. number two, there are odds and ends that need to be tied up. number one, we reported in punchbowl news, and there s some disagreement over the hite amendment.
if i could begin with you, kim, how significant is to see rick gates, someone who worked both closely with paul manafort, but people might forget he worked closely with the president, both to plead guilty now but also to cooperate with robert mueller? well, it s significant. because the indictment reads like a me too. that is manafort and gates worked side by side. so it s hard to know what manafort can know now in addition to what gates said. that is gates has ha lot of information. but i think in macro level it s important to keep in mind here. three people close to the president who have now pleaded gie guilty to the felonies. in the white water we accountant come close to this in the level and scope. and it s serious to integrity of the government and i encourage everyone to read the indictments. they read like a crime novel. yeah. you make that point. so three people now, david gergen, close to the president, with the association s,
sybrina fulton, trayvon s mother who may be coming back to the stand in. yeah. you know what, we expect her to be recalled and shown some evidence. what s happening right now, by the way, inside the courtroom is fairly interesting. there s a problem with the evidence locker we re told and it seems as if the problem could very well be that, you know, whoever usually has the key, isn t around. they ve had to call in locksmiths to get into the evidence locker. we accountant when they get into that evidence locker that at some point they ll call sybrina fulton and show her evidence. but we also don t know when that s expected to happen. judge nelson, who is known for running a fairly tight shift, typically when she calls a recess, it s 10, 15, maybe 30 minutes. if you just heard there, a few moments ago, this is sort of an indefinite recess because of these technical issues. we should note that before testimony started today, both attorneys, attorneys for the defense, both attorneys, att