grateful that you are starting your weekend with us. it is a day of activism across the country. very good point. because we start with the national call for gun reform. hundreds of march for our lives rallies are being planned in nearly all 50 states today. they re demanding lawmakers address the epidemic of gun violence in the country. high-profile mass shootings from uvalde, texas, to buffalo, new york, have put renewed pressure on lawmakers on capitol hill to take action. washington, d.c., new york and parkland, florida, among the more than 300 cities where protests will be held. they follow the 2018 march that was organized by former students at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland. you may recall in february of 2018, a former studentered the school near fort lauderdale and opened fire killing 14 students and three staff members. i think the march will serve as a reminder to everyday americans and politician as like that there is serious momentum within
Next, stage, israel air strikes ahead of the likely invasion as fears grow the region could be drawn into the c conflict. What is israels plan. Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee mike turner joins many he. And lifeline. More humanitarian trucks poised to enter gaza carrying desperately needed food and water and medical supplies. These trucks are not just trucks. They are a lifel line. But are conditions about to get much worse . Plus at odds. With future aid to israel on the line, the republicans are back to square one in the speakership as they plan for more votes could anyone unite the conference . Liz cheney is here for her first interview in more than a year. Hello, im jake tapper in washington where the tate of the union is grieving, so many pain and loss of life. This morning the Israeli Military is stepping up air strikes against hamas in gauze and the idf hit a mosque to prevent a imminent Terror Attack as we learn details about the brutality of the hamas Terrorist At
and his experience. but we know that vice chair liz cainy is teasing out the hearings. she said in the first prime time hearing on thursday and they said the second hearing at 10:00 a.m. as you said boris will focus on trump s massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information about the election. but really the bigger picture here, boris, is the goal from the committee is to really weave that narrative and show the american public that former president trump incited the violence on january 6 with his actions and his words and he was trying to overturn the election results and the 2020 election results and put pressure on state officials to do just that. now we expect to see more testimony, more depositions from the committee. they ve worked the last 11 months behind the scenes. have interviewed more than a thousand people as we saw from that thursday hearing. they aired clips from an interview with then attorney general bill barr who told
pelosi s office, they emerged from that and i asked liz cainy directly if she s concerned about being reprimanded? have you been told you ll lose your committee assignments? i have not been. but again my only, my duty and all of our oaths and duty is to the constitution and that will always be above politics. reporter: so she indicated she was not concerned about any punishment she may ultimately receive here. the question is which republicans that mccarthy will ultimately choose. does he have the option of not picking anybody but we re hearing that it is more likely that he will choose people to be part of this panel. but republicans up and down the line who we talked to over the last day or so really have zero interest in serving in what they view as a lose-lose proposition. they politically think this is fraught, it is a big fight and they could be crosswise with president trump on this issue so where will mccarthy go, will he choose the republican
appoint five but speaker pelosi has veto power. manu raju is on capitol hill this morning. manu, republicans are saying this assignment is no gift. and after all the leader himself lobbied against the bipartisan form of this. liz cheney is going to be on it as appointed by pelosi. what happens to her. reporter: that is the big question here. she could potentially lose her two committee assignments on the house, privately kevin mccarthy told freshman lawmakers at a lunch this week that anyone who does take a pelosi offer could lose their committee assignments. later when i asked her about that yesterday, mccarthy said he did not threaten anybody but said he is shocked that anybody would take a assignment from a democratic leader, typically you get your committee assignments from your respective conference and that did not happen here. and yesterday when we saw liz cainy for the first time meeting with the democrats who are on the select committee, in nancy