china. erin? will ripley thank you very much for that amazing report. thank you for joining us. anderson is now. one for the history books tonight. former vice president mike pence testified today before the federal grand jury investigating the former president s actions surrounding the january 6th riot and attempts to overturn the 2020 election. i m john berman in for anderson. just pause and listen to that again. a former vice president just testified in an investigation about whether a president, his running mate illegally tried to overturn an election. so much has happened the last few years, it s easy to get numb to the mind-bending historical explosions taking place. it s the first time in modern history a vice president has been compelled to testify about the president he served beside. to add to that, he might run against trump in 2024. it s also the first time that this vice president has testified under oath about the day where rioters were seen yelling hang mi
at this hour, the usual suspect, the federal arrest made possible by an unlikely source, the dna left on a partially eaten burrito. the senate just voted to repeal authorization for the gulf and iraq wars, but how likely is it to pass the republican-led house. also, home prices are cooling for the 7th straight month. we ll dig into latest numbers. and gun safety bills were just introduced in the last couple of hours. we have an exclusive interview with the congresswoman behind them, and two gun violence survivors from her district. our nbc news reporters are following the latest developments. let s start in d.c. where congressional lawmakers are deadlocked when it comes to gun laws. that doesn t mean they aren t doing anything. nbc s julie tsirkin is on the hill with new action this afternoon. what can you tell us? reporter: yeah, that s right, chris. i actually just sat down with congresswoman slotkin, who was in a press conference with two students from her district
Whether there are grounds for a Criminal Investigation or an ethics investigation against the president of is the United States of america. For example, Rachel Crooks is one of the 16 women that we know of who have come forward. She said that President Trump, before he was president , quote, kissed me directly on the mouth. It was so inappropriate that he thought i was so insignificant he could do that. Jo hart, said he absolutely groped me, and he just lipid his hand there touching my private parts, end quote. These are just two examples of unwelcome sexual advances. I think were he on the subway or in a restaurant would not either or both of these incident be enough to get him arrested . In your experience as the number two most important Law Enforcement officer in the United States, but before you answer that, how about these cases . Kristin anderson in an interview said, quote, the person on my right who unbeknownst to me at the time was donald trump, put their hand up my skirt. He
stuff, we don t see eye to eye. i think as a prosecutor, i would be very wary about that. he has written about the conversations in his book. so what more could be revealed? a lot more. when mike pence is writing a book, he gets to decide how much he puts in there, how far he wants to go. if i was a prosecutor, i would absolutely read that book with a big yellow highlighter in my hand and use everything he says in that book as a starting point. i would say okay, you tell us this detail about the conversations. but how long was that conversation? 40 minutes? 20 minutes? tell me everything. so the book s valuable to prosecutors, but they need to go way deeper. you know, andy, you ve been involved in a lot of investigations. generally speaking, and i ve learned this from people like you and elie, when you re doing an investigation you, work your way up there. is no one really higher on the food chain than mike pence here in terms of their job status. i m not sure what role they play
the affidavit goes into detail about, you know, there are four hot sauce packets as well. everything that was left, and i that took the dna, swabbed the burrito, got dna off it, sent it into a lab, and it was a match to the dna found at the crime scene and on that mason jar. this arrest took place in boston, actually at an airport. this individual was set to leave the country on a one-way ticket. the feds were able to pick him up, just before he left. i mean, incredibly serious charge, but in terms of the investigation you, can t make this stuff up. ryan riley, thank you for that. appreciate it. the tensions between president biden and israel s prime minister spilling out into the public. what it means for u.s. relations with our top ally in the middle east. plus a new twist in a case that captivated the nation. why the subject of the serial podcast just got his murder conviction reinstated months after his release. and a new study raising