undetected, before he opened fire. the shooter has been identified as a 20-year-old thomas matthew crooks, but his motive remains a mystery. officials may learn more clues now that they have obtained his phone for examination. later tonight, president biden rather earlier tonight , president biden addressed the nation from the oval office, denouncing political violence in any form. this kind of violence, any violence, ever, period , no exceptions. we cannot allow this violence to be normalized. the political record in this country has gotten very heated. it is time to cool it down. let s go to george the lease in butler, pennsylvania. darkness, there, now. let s talk about what you have been hearing, george, from some of those people who attended the rally and witnessed the shooting. that tone and tenor the president took in the oval office, and a lot of that is what we heard right after the shooting occurred. you heard people who said this has gone too far. this rh
activity this specific response of the support of the after action but yes, law enforcement was responding to check on several suspicious occurrences. or the other suspicious occurrence? what will be part of the investigation. you said you re close to identifying the shooter. could you at least confirm he is from butler county, pennsylvania? is there anything else? did he have any affiliation with that company do you know? again we are not prepared at this time to provide the identity of the potential shooter we are in the process of doing the confirmation but once we have a confirmation we will lease the name official each of the press. but at this time we cannot give any further information on the potential. what else needs to be done question. it is a matter of doing biometric confirmations there was no identification on the individual as an example. and so we are looking at photographs right now we are trying to run his dna and get biometric confirmation. laurie
what resources are asked of this agent. i can see them, congress and others, subpoenaing the correspondent between the agent obs the ground and headquarters, what are they asking for, did they get what they asked for. that s the second component. did the agent on the ground get what they asked for, did they get the manpower that they needed. then the next step s going to be what happened the day of the event. did everybody perform as they were supposed to perform? did countersnooiper do their job, what was missed? was it local police? it s so early to tell, because i know the finger pointing theg agency that has responsibility, yes, it is the u.s. secret service. the thing is, they t don t do it alone, and so they have other entities in place, local law enforcement, state police that also help them. so there will be an assessment there. did something happen there? it s going to be all these different layers, so the director s going to have to come in prepared and ready but
we feel like we know this story and we have heard from some of those police officers, not all of them, and we have seen so much of the painful an agonizing video and we ve had six months of coverage of it and so what s new could today bring and it was all new. it was an experience like we ve never had watching any congressional hearing in history. i agree and you covered a lot of them. and those who capture best the motion of what would it be like to be at the united states capitol today is about to be on your show. yes, we re gonna have a full hour and much more coverage is going to be on that hearing. have a good evening lawrence, . thank you, ali. well, in today s story house hearing we heard things that we have never heard before in the history of congressional hearings. we heard, on live television, on this network words that have never been said on this network before and those words are going into print tonight. in the new york times where those words have ne
information. reporter: on covid misinformation, what s your message to platforms like facebook? they re killing people. plus, a day after meeting texas democrats in d.c., why is joe manchin going to raise money with republicans in texas? and as the mega drought continued in the west, why the biden administration just rolled back a ridiculous trump era regulation. when i take a shower i want water to hit my hair instead of drop, drop. it is hard enough, my hair, without all of that. all in starts right now. good evening from chicago. i m chris hayes. january 6th was, of course, a truly horrible day for our country, but what is getting more and more clear day by day by day is that it all could have been so much worse. we just learned the country dodged another metaphorical bullet through a federal indictment of two california trump supporters, ian rogers and jared copeland. according to the indictment, prompted by the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, r