this is all in an effort to capture what happened on the ground that day and show the afacts attempt to whitewash what happened that day from many of the forces of allegiance to former president trump. our potential of experts is here with me standing by to discuss what we expect to haeshgs the politics of it all and more. let s start on capitol hill. what more do we know about the opening statements? the opening statements are expected to set the tone for an emotional and dramatic day of testimony from the four police officers, two capitol police officers, two d.c. police officers who defended the building that day throughout the day s testimony will be never-before-seen footage, body camera footage of what the officers experienced and this is all part of an effort of what the democrats say and the two remembers who are a part of the committee saying in an effort to tell the truth about what happened that day. pushed back on the conspiracies about we re hearing from a lot
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i m pamela brown in washington. you re live in the cnn newsroom on this busy sunday evening and we begin this hour the same way we did last night with america s gun violence epidemic but with a completely new set of shootings to tell you about and that should say all you need to know about the crisis getting harder to ignore. nine states are grappling with mass shootings as the u.s. nears 300 incidents this year in which four or more people were shot excludeing the shooter and as the summer arrives, police departments and communities across the country are bracing for this cycle to keep repeating with no help from politicians and washington expected to come any time soon. cnn evan is tracking these stories once again for us. tonight, this trend sadly continues this weekend, devin. reporter: that s right, pam. a lot of us are looking forward to this summer to take our mask off, congregate again and do the things we like to do but there is another public health crisis touchin
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