the house select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol will hold its first public hearing. before that happens, on the house floor this morning, members will take up new gun legislation focused on red flag laws a day after the house passed a broad package of gun restrictions and hear testimony from survivors and families of the young victims of last month's elementary school shooting. we will begin hearing from you about either topic. give us a call if you want to hear about the hearing tonight or the gun law bills moving to the house. phone lines split by party. republicans, (202) 748-8001, democrats (202) 748-8000, independents, (202) 748-8002, and you can send us a text at (202) 748-8003. if you do, please include your name and where you are from. catch up with us on social media, on twitter, @c-span2 bj, and on facebook -- the houses in a 9:00 a.m. eastern. this is how they describe the proceedings tonight. they are working with a former abc news executive. all the networks say they will air the proceedings live. not since trump's impeachment, they write, has a singular event captivated capitol hill in such an all-encompassing manner. adam schiff, member of the committee, this is his preview -- we will show how close we came to losing our democracy and why it it is at risk. and what we must do to protect our democracy now. adam schiff, that was yesterday afternoon in his series of tweets. republican liz cheney, one of the two that are part of the january 6 committee, this was her tweet about tonight's select committee hearing, saying this is a moral test for the republican party because of the threat we face and now there are too many in my party who are failing it. the former republican conference chair liz cheney in her tweet this week. the current republican conference chair, elise stephanie of new york, had this to say about -- [video clip] >> praying the nations will focus on the partisan witchhunt instead of the pocketbooks. the january 6 committee secretly hired the former president of abc to produce this shameless show, the same producer that covered of victims of jeffrey epstein. this further solidifies what we have known from day one. this is a smear campaign against president donald trump, republican members of congress, and trump voters across this country. it is unconstitutional, illegitimate, not put together according to the rules of the house and not about finding out why nancy pelosi left the capitol so ill prepared that day. host: elise stefanik tonight. expected to be a half dozen or maybe seven hearings. we do know there will be a second hearing monday night, but tonight's we know for sure start that it :00 p.m. eastern -- starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern we will have several cameras covering it gavel-to-gavel. ending can watch online at c-span.org -- and you can watch online at c-span.org. the house comes in at 9:00 a.m. eastern today dealing with morgan legislation. it is a serious of red flag laws the house will be voting on today. yesterday, they passed a package of gun restrictions. it was the protecting our kids act that was passed yesterday in the house. that seeks to raise the purchasing age of semiautomatic weapons from 18 to 21, outlaws high-capacity magazines, outlaws bump stocks, regulates the storage of firearms. in addition, the law has a series of other provisions, including cracking down on gun trafficking and straw purchases and subject to ghost gun purchases to background checks and other requirements. that is the protecting our kids act. that passed yesterday. not expected to pass the senate to overcome the filibuster as the washington times notes in its headline today in their coverage. the senate negotiations are about a less ambitious package, negotiators i more money for school security and -- saying that one guy that voted for his wife was proof that donald trump did win the presidency. the start of the iron pipeline, to quote rudy giuliani, i have seen him complain about florida being the iron pipeline, and one other thing if you don't mind. -- there's a lot more to these situations that c-span lets on. host: the legislation moving through the house, republican jim jordan on the house floor yesterday previewing some of the arguments against those read blogs since yesterday. [video clip] >> tomorrow they are bringing the so-called red flag law to the floor. someone who doesn't like you can file a complaint. within 24 hours, there is a hearing you are not allowed to be at. they can take away your second amendment liberty. that is the bill they are going to pass tomorrow. frankly, this shouldn't surprise us. for 18 months, democrats have assaulted the first amendment. it shouldn't surprise us now that they are coming after the second. host: ohio republican jim jordan yesterday on the house floor. democrats making their impassioned arguments on the house floor for more gun restrictions, among them, speaker nancy pelosi. [video clip] >> even more communities have been hit by gun violence. americans watched in horror as shootings unfolded. as the data shows, the challenge of gun violence goes much further than these mass killings. every night on our streets, americans are being killed, and every day, our nation loses americans to suicides and accidents. this is a tragic daily massacre that rarely makes the headlines or the evening news but it is there. so here we are for the children. when those who were advocating for gun violence or perpetrating it went into the classroom, they crossed a line. it was terrible the gun violence that we have in our country, but that they would go into newtown and shoot children barely out of diapers, and again, now, in texas, these beautiful children in elementary school, and everything that happened in between, it was an assault on the culture of our country that our children would not be able to go to school without fear or concern about their safety. our children are, as president kennedy said, our greatest resource and best hope for the future. they are our precious treasure. and everything we do is for the children. for the children we must stop this gun violence in our country and restore their confidence and their safety wherever they may be. host: need to see pelosi on the house floor yesterday beginning her remarks referencing the number of mass shootings in this country, the washington post using the gun violence archive as their source of statistics. there have been 250 mass shootings so far this year. 256 people killed in mass shootings, another 1010 injured through the end of may. back to your phone calls. ivanka, milwaukee, wisconsin, democrat. good morning. caller: i'm calling because i'm concerned about the january 6 hearings. it is important that we take our democracy seriously. our democracy is the backbone of every other right we have. if we don't have democracy, we don't have to worry about gas prices, gun laws, voting laws, abortion rights. all that would disappear if we don't have a democracy. i am concerned about our democracy. everybody should be concerned. if you are not, maybe you need to go to another country, but this is the foundation of our freedoms, so we need to find out who was part of it, if there were lawmakers involved. we need to have names. we need to find out where they are from and they need to be expelled from congress and from the senate if they were -- had anything to do with the planning and carrying out of the insurrection because you cannot have people who want to tear down your government. host: oliver is next in falls church, virginia. independent, good morning. caller: good morning. i am 68 years old. i have lived in the washington, d.c. metropolitan area all my life. i was born in alexandria, virginia, and i have never seen our country so torn apart. what i attribute that torn apart to is donald trump. donald trump, i really believe, for a man who reached the heights that he has, he has continued to try to tear this country apart and make americans hate other americans. i will tell you, even though i'm a little disappointed with some of the things in the biden administration, if black people don't vote for joe biden and support democrats, we are -- black people in this country will be in trouble. donald trump is here to destroy this country with the support of russia. the american people have to wake up. host: that's all of her falls church, virginia. this is randall in idaho. good morning. caller: a few points. the community looking -- the committee looking at this january 6 so-called insurrection i find totally one-sided. there are two so-called republicans that are on it, total rino's, not even part of republican committees, and i find that you bring up 250 people have died in mass shootings. that is terrible. absolutely terrible. it shouldn't happen but i think we have to get to the root of why this is. i am in my mid-50's and over here in idaho, having rifles in the back of your pickups as kids was no problem. we never had any of these issues. now we have issues of fenton lowell -- of fentanyl, hundreds of thousands of people dying from drugs coming into this country over borders that are out of control. why is our current government complicating mass immigration and allowing these drugs to come into the country? we have a mental health problem in this country. we don't have a gun problem. triggers do not pull themselves. this is ridiculous. this is just another grab for democrats to attempt to control the people more and more and more because they are scared of the ability for the citizens to stand up for themselves. host: that's randall out of idaho. your next -- you are next. caller: i watched as police and all the questioning on the program before. i will say something about a january 6 committee tonight. i don't see how any american that believes in god and the 10 commandments. right now, i am a democrat. i was an independent until trump came in office. he said before -- what before we voted on the presidency that he was going to lose. he was going to lose. he was going to lose. he was setting it up so he could do this because he did feel like he was going to lose. i will tell you i have been sick from listening to his filthy mouth. host: are you planning to watch tonight? caller: yes, because i know -- i have watched tv on all channels, even fonts. ever since he came into office, before, i watched all of it. host: let me ask you. you talk about -- caller: i am very interested in politics. my father was. i am not a goody two shoes but i am a christian and i do not believe in talking down to people and putting people down and being two-faced about i like you when you like me and i don't like you when you don't and that is the way trump is. and i'm sorry. he deserves to be punished for this insurrection. host: anne in north carolina this morning. plenty of members previewing tonight's event and we have covered them throughout the week. plenty of political action groups getting involved as well. one of those, the republican political accountability project. this was an ad they put out this week. [video clip] >> president trump told in the election was stolen. the -- he told them to go and fight. when it was under attack, why did it take him 187 minutes to respond? january 6 committee beginning thursday, june 9 at 8:00 p.m. now it is time to learn the truth. host: that ad from the republican accountability project. 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight. you can watch on c-span on our mobile video app, c-span now, and c-span.org. the second hearing set for monday at 10:00 a.m. eastern, also on c-span. we are expecting seven hearings by the end of the month. the dates have yet to be formally set by the committee but we know the first two. we will cover the first tonight on c-span. jerry, detroit, michigan, your next. caller: good morning and greetings yet again from motown. i have a feeling regarding the january 6 committee hearings that you will be hearing a lot of white republicans tried to downplay -- republicans try to downplay and whitewash what happened by trying to create what i think are. equivalency's -- equivalencies between the attack on the capitol and the black lives matter movement. i'm sure you have heard them. they claim that somehow attacking me capitol is the same as -- attacking the capitol is the same as vandalizing a walgreens but they cannot prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that those committing the violence were members of black lives matter. were they wearing blm t-shirts, blm molotov cocktails, where they armed with blm weapons? you'll also be hearing from white people like that randall guy from idaho i think -- host: i am not sure the caller said what race he was. caller: you can tell by the voice that he was a white man. host: next, an independent in virginia, good morning. caller: i am a truck driver and to get a license you have to be tested for drugs and alcohol and continuously tested for this kind of stuff. and now in america, there are too many drugs everywhere. somebody out of their mind or not in the right mind to own a gun and go purchase a gun, you know, i think this is what the problem is, and, you know, there should be a license to get a gun and you should be tested regularly, yearly, to make sure that you are not using illegal drugs, because if you go out of your mind, then, you know, you could do some crazy stuff and i believe this is what we need, you know. to drive an 18 wheeler, you know, you need a license and you go through all this just to make sure that the public is safe. so the same thing should happen with guns. you should get a license and you should be tested regularly and made sure that you are in the right mind to own a weapon that can kill people. host: to phoenix, arizona, this is christian, a republican. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i want to get some facts straight, ok? number one, we are not a democracy. we are not a democracy. we are a republic with a republican form of government, article four, section four. i don't care how many times republicans say it on that day is tonight -- that dais tonight. we are a republican form of government. all this talk about insurrections in treason and -- insurrections and treason and mutiny. the justice department has not charged a single person with insurrection. you can go to justice.gov and look at the indictments for yourself. and the last time i checked, just because their party affiliation -- the party -- the party affiliation of the protesters was republican doesn't mean that warrants an insurrection. how many times have the democrats interrupted directional procedure -- interrupted congressional procedure? nobody calls it an insurrection when they interrupt a congressional hearing. then finally, the whole reason why we are going to have this whole theatrical -- you could call it a ceremony, is because the democrats cannot frame this particular argument the correct way because of all the things that have happened after january 6 and because of the fact that they accomplished distracting the country from being able to object to the presidential electors. under more than -- over more than half of the country is still under this illusion that it was an insurrection when it was not. host: a few of the op-ed's out about tonight's hearings. here is one from the president of citizens united, former deputy campaign manager for former president trump. the headline of his op-ed in the washington times. "january 6, americans have graver concerns. to name a few, inflation, baby formula, crime and the border crisis." one more from the op-ed pages of the new york times. jacob bacharach is the writer of this piece. he said "the capitol ride hearings may well be a dud. even if they manage to drag a few million eyeballs away from the streaming platforms for a few evenings with some measure of spectacle and some promise of comeuppance for minor and expendable figures in the trump world, the effect is likely to be nominal. the democratic party has not shown itself capable of transcendent political showmanship and the televised hearing as a genre has been in decline for a long time. democrats, liberals generally and a few anti-trump republicans have been burned before from the breathless report of robert muller to two impeachment hearings to a steady drip of disclosures out of president trump's circle. do not expect must-see tv." diane out of ohio, you are next. diane, are you with us? lawrence, massachusetts, this is james, a republican. good morning. caller: i believe i called on the democrat line. host: james is a democrat. back in order. caller: there are a few things that bother me with the contradictions. they want to raise the age from 18 to 21. the problem i have with that in massachusetts is they also want to lower the voting age to 16 in massachusetts and they are propagandizing and indoctrinating our children to the transgenderism and everything going on with that in kindergarten, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to me with this age thing. the other thing bothering me was that on august 21, 2021, the fbi came out with a report that said there was no insurrection and you guys haven't mentioned that once and i was wondering, with all the reading that you do finding articles, if you could find that, because it kind of bothers me that we are getting half the story here and we cannot make any judgments on it, so i want to thank you for your time and i appreciate it and i will hear your comments offline. host: you are calling on the line for democrats. it seems like there're a few aspects of the democratic platform they are working on that you disagree with. what makes you a democrat? we lost james. greg, mechanicsburg, pennsylvania, republican. caller: why would you ask that question of the last caller? host: just interested -- caller: maybe he's a person who called on the democrat line and has a different opinion. do you think there is something wrong with that? host: no, it is interesting. i do that a lot when people call on one line and disagree with the party platform. caller: i cannot remember you ever doing that to a republican who went democrat on the call. host: i promise you i have done that, but what do you want to talk about, greg? caller: i don't think so. let me go to january 6. i am 73, almost 74. i have been watching c-span for a long time. no one has mentioned the arrest of the person who admitted he wanted to kill justice kavanaugh. so my question to you, mr. mcardle, is, if it had been sotomayor or ketanji jackson brown or kagan, would that have been the topic? host: likely will be on with the new book about the supreme court and -- mike lee will be on with a new book about the supreme court and certainly we will talk about it with him. it is in the news. "man showed up with gun and kavanaugh's home." give us your thoughts about it. i think we lost the color. tammy, good morning. caller: is that sullivan guy going to be? what else? let's see? host: we don't have the full witness list. tonight, it is expected just to be opening statements from the heads of the committee. we have been promised there will be witnesses over the course of these seven hearings over the next few weeks, but i don't have a list for you now. caller: [indiscernible] are you telling me he's going to be there? host: i don't know who will be testifying right now. caller: this is the second thing i have to say. i am calling on all trumpsters, all patriots, to boycott c-span, abc. do not watch this soap opera. it is a freaking soap opera and justice is coming. it is coming, democrats. it is coming. host: going back to that man arrested outside of justice brett kavanaugh's home yesterday with weapons, including a gun into knife. the senate majority leader -- minority leader, mitch mcconnell, taking the floor the morning after that incident was ordered to call on