the committee is also expected to take a deeper drive dive into the lies that led to supporters violently storming the capitol. we are by the president of the united states! he personally asked for us to come to d.c. that day. and i thought, for everything he is done for us, the only thing that he is asking me is it is hard to know right now just how much east trumpy detail we heard on thursday moved the needle among the 20 million americans who tuned in, according to nielsen s rating data. whether it was learning that former attorney general bill barr thought that trump s elections were quote, bs, or whether ivanka trump agreed. or that trump reportedly told his staff that vice president, quote, deserve to be assassinated. or even the never before seen footage of just how violent trump s riders were. the full impact of the hearings has gets to play itself out. still. congresswoman liz cheney had a stark warning for recalcitrant republican politicians who continue
And later, a sunday sit down with jon hamm on the sometimes bumpy road to mad men fame and now life after don draper. You always think im never going to work again. Thats really what it is, for me anyway. Im just like, i will never work again or i will never work at that level again. You live in that fear. I try not to live in it, but its always there. Our sunday sitdown with jon hamm plus a return to orlando one year after the pulse nightclub shooting a bit later in the show. Lets begin this morning with the Ongoing Investigation into the trump campaigns alleged ties with russia. And news that attorney general Jeff Sessions has now agreed to face the Senate Intelligence Committee Days after former fbi director james comey did the same. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is in branch burring, new jersey, not far from the president s club where he is staying this weekend. Kelly, good morning. Reporter good morning, willie. When the attorney general sits down with members of the Senate Intelligence com
woke up to the devastating news that the gunman had killed 49 people, and left 53 injured in a mass shooting at the orlando nightclub, pulse. at the time this was the deadliest mass shooting that they had ever seen. it still stands as the most deadly lgbtq+ massacre in american history. there have been more mass shootings since then. with uvalde and buffalo. proving that, unfortunately, not much has changed since pulse. joining me now is barbara pullman, owner of the pulse nightclub and founder of the pulse foundation. barbara, thank you so much for coming to the sunday show. thank you so much for having me today, jonathan. so in the wake of the shooting six years ago, you
there are some family members of the victims who do not like the idea of the scene of their loved ones being a, quote unquote, tourist attraction. they do believe that their loved ones should be remembered. what do you say to those family members who might be uncomfortable with pulse being an attraction in that way? well, it is not an attraction it s a place of history. something horrific happened there. the lives and the story should not be erased. this was a terrorist attack on our country. the largest attack on the lgbtq+ community and that should not be erased. it is not an attraction in that way. it s a marker of history, a way to remember and honor the lives that were taken away so viciously that night. and in the wake of uvalde and buffalo and i believe there