Let s use it. As a governor facing a rise in cases admits his antimasking law is hurting his state. Our cases were at a low point. Everything has changed now. And yes, in hindsight i wish that had not become law. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. I m chris hayes. The coup came closer to succeeding than we ever knew. And we know that donald trump plotted with his associates to overturn american democracy. He tried everything he could to keep himself in power over the will of the people. And day by day we ve been learning more and more about how comprehensive and how dangerous that effort was. But we did not learn the details of the single most damning piece of evidence yet until yesterday. And frankly i have to say it s so damning and unnerving i had to spend the last 24 hours scratching my head in disbelief it is not a bigger story. Because the document we learned yesterday should live in infamy as a truly villaininous text. And if the acting attorney general at
Stephanie ruhle. That does it for us this morning, as alex says. Stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage now. Sorry, stephanie. Hi, there, i m stephanie ruhle, live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. It is thursday, may 20th and there s a lot going on this morning. Today hopes for a bipartisan commission to investigate the january 6th insurrection appear to be fading, despite some surprising support in the house from republicans. Mitch mcconnell now telling republicans in the senate to vote it down when it gets to them next week. In israel, prime minister benjamin netanyahu shrugging of president biden s calls to dial back his military operation in gaza and ignoring international calls for a ceasefire. Remember, we thought it might end today. And we ve got breaking news on former president trump. A day after we learned the trump organization is now the subject of a criminal investigation in new york, the new york times reporting that trump s longtime cfo alan weitzeilburg is too. In
Families. A bomb squad was also going room to room after bomb sniffing dogs indicated that they detected the presence of explosives. Also a linked fire at the gunman s home. Authorities are investigating whether the gunman set his house on fire and if so why and how dangerous is that scene now. Multiple guns used in the shooting. The shooter is 57yearold man named samuel cassidy, an eightyear veteran of the association and all of the victims are his coworkers. President biden has ordered flags to behalf staff and he noted that this is the fifth time he s had to order the flags. As i mentioned. It is a complex story with multiple moving elements. We ll keep you updated as we learn more. As we continue to watch that, there is a whole bunch of stuff coming down the pike in terms of news. One of the things we are expecting tomorrow is president biden s nominee to run the post office. In previous times, you don t have to think too much about the post office. It was only in the time of trump
version. these county administrators are walking back the promises they made. show the tape. if you ain t got nothing to hide, show the tape. let s go live right now to north carolina and cnn s natasha chen joins us in elizabeth city. explain exactly how we got here and where things stand right now. reporter: right, ana, you just mentioned the death certificate that was obtained by our colleagues brian todd and producer devon sayers, and just to repeat, this is very new information compared to the 911 audio we ve been listening to for the last few days. again, this death certificate saying that andrew brown jr. died by a penetrating gunshot wound to the dead to the head and died within minutes of being shot. this differs from the 911 audio that we ve been hearing where an emergency responder was heard saying that he was found with a gunshot wound to the back. all of this extremely concerning to the family and community that have been gathered outside this public safety
natasha, first the family expected to see the video on friday. that didn t happen. then they thought they would see it this morning. then that was delayed. and now they re expected to see it pretty soon. what s the reason for the delay? reporter: yeah, victor and alisyn, they re actually inside the pasquotank public safety building right now. and a crowd gathered at the doors waiting for them to come out, perhaps to tell the rest of us what they have seen from the body camera footage, as you said, no one has seen more than five days after the death of andrew brown jr. part of the delay at first was the family being told that any really wanted to protect the integrity of the investigation. and then of course with the growing outcry of wanting transparency from this community, any started working on this to try to get the family at least a private viewing more expediently. today s delay was interesting because we saw a statement from the county attorney saying they needed mor