of the witnesses in the house investigation into the january 6th attack. plus, republican congresswoman liz cheney of the committee defending her work there during last night s republican primary debate in wyoming, as she fights to keep her seat in congress. and the latest in the debate over abortion rights. president biden says the senate should make an exception and suspend the filibuster and its rules to allow new protections to make it through congress. but does he have the votes to pull that off? we ll discuss it. and a brutal six months for financial markets, as wall street closes out one of its worst periods in a half century. brian sullivan joins us in a moment to look ahead to the next six months. with us this morning, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news katty kay. and pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. let s start with the questions of whether donald trump may be trying to influence wi
sky. beautiful. the sun just rose. and, of course, after the first day of summer. now we are a couple of days in. five days in and the days are getting shorter. brian: i feel bad for rhode island. every time something small or not big bigger than rhode island, not as small as rhode island. bigger than rhode island. it s the size of rhode island. everything is always compared to rhode island. don t you feel bad for them. steve: this is from new yorkers. in other words, our state could kick your state s butt. prior. brian: always an analogy. rhode island is always the small state analogy. ainsley: have you been to newport before. steve: yeah. beautiful. ainsley: restaurant black pearl, rhode island where they serve clam chowder and so good it s worth going. steve: if it was so good why didn t you bring us a t-shirt? ainsley: i know. next time i go i will. brian: envision the boat pulling up to the dock. how many claims do you need? if you have seafood in the m
when you look under the hood and examine the mechanics behind compromise, d.c. is showing signs of coming together not because of president biden, but in spite of president biden. the infrastructure bill was hard out by senate leadership. it didn t take long for the president to almost blow it to smithereens. what s not to like? it s a bad bad bad bill. brian: he was talking about the rubble of build back better. joe biden signed off on that something in december that he could have signed in june. i m talking about the infrastructure bill. then scenes like these outside supreme court justices homes. in fact several homes. they blew a bill to increase security for supreme court justices. when the biden administration was asked to comment on the assassination attempt on justice kavanaugh, their comments sounded like this [character it chirping] finally after two horrific. they held emergency sessions on a holiday to do what many people thought was impossible. come up with a
which laid out the case of who they said is at the center of the insurrection. here s congressman benny thompson. donald trump was at the center of this conspiracy. and ultimately, donald trump, the president of the united states, spurred a mob of tim aesthetic and the maze of the constitution. to march down the capitol, and subvert american democracy. any legal jargon that you care about seditious conspiracy, obstruction of a official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the united states, boils down to this. january 6th, was the culmination of an attempted coup. a brazen attempt, as one wanted to put it, shortly after january 6th. to overthrow the government. who heard that right? quote. donald trump was at the center of this conspiracy to overthrow the government. it also blew a hole into any idea that this protest would a march to the capitol that would unintentionally turn violent. instead, there was planning and strategy. including by the proud boys who skipped the r
good morning to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it is memorial day, monday, may 30th. i m brianna keilar with john avalon. john berman is off. on this day set aside to honor fallen members of the u.s. military the town of uvalde, texas, is preparing the first of many good-byes to the children and the teachers murdered last week inside of an elementary school there. this afternoon there will be visitation and rosary for 10-year-old amerie jo garza, her father told cnn that amerie died trying to call police and save her classmates. uvalde s funeral homes so overwhelmed that it will take weeks to bury all 21 victims. the president and first lady visited uvalde sunday to meet with the grieving families and comfort the grief-stricken community. president biden promised action on gun reform after the crowd pleaded with him to do something. the justice department is now planning to investigate how the police responded to this shooting. let s go now to cnn s ad