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change. but they did feel as a community, as black men, especially, we need to be there for our boys because superman isn t coming in and the sight isn t going to change but they need to pass down lessons learned. give them some gems to bolster their standing in the community. even when it is tough, it is not getting better but we have to be there for ourselves even though we couldn t protect our boys we have to find a way to protect the next generation. how heartbreaking. trymaine, thank you for being with us. trymaine lee. the full special airs tonight at 10:30 eastern on nbc news now. thanks a lot. happy father s day. thank you, like wise. and eugene robinson, thank you as well. happy father s day. are you boys going to be home. one is nearby. so i ll see lowell and then aaron lives in berkeley. he s a father so i ll get to call him and wish him happy father s day. oh, good. so many grandkids do you have? two. well i may have your son call my son. i nee ....
He s a father so i ll get to call him and wish him happy father s day. oh, good. so many grandkids do you have? two. well i may have your son call my son. i need some grandkids. i m getting too old here. all right, gene, thank you so much. it is now just past the top of hour. 9:00 a.m. in the east, 6:00 a.m. on the west coast. we have jonathan lemire and katty kay with us and willie. what are we starting the hour with. let s begin with the key moments from yesterday s january 6 hearing. they are striking. the committee building the case that former president trump was, quote, pouring gasoline on the fire during at tack on the capitol. and how close to danger vice president pence was that day. the panel detailed the pressure trump sanz his allies put on pence to unlawfully over turn the 2020 election results. and showing new footage of rioters outside of the capitol ....
Talk to the committee. we had dick durbin on the show yesterday and he said this, the mountain of evidence i think is conclusive to me personally, i hope those who have to make the decision on criminal culpability see it the same way. we have the interesting news yesterday that the department of justice and prosecutors have requested depositions from the committee. we want to see how they could help fill in the blanks in their own case. do you sense based on what we know publicly and what you re hearing privately that doj is watching this closely and maybe looking at prosecutions based on what they ve seen. i think doj is looking at this very closely. i mean, the attorney general merrick garland said this week that he and his federal prosecutors investigating these january 6 cases were watching these hearing. i mean he just came out and said that and then added this additional tidbit about how the office of legal council didn t preclude him from opening an investigation into trump ....
Proceedings and white house officials i talked to have expressed private frustrations as well. they do say, ally, they ve been impressed. behind the scene footages and images so striking of pence as we saw yesterday and a damning case being built against trump. preview us where the committee goes next. what does next week look like when the hearing continue. they ve been weaving these different buckets of pressure campaign throughout the hearings. yesterday was all about the pressure campaign on mike pence. next week they ll move into the pressure campaign at the state level. having people like georgia officials like raffensperger come testify in front of the committee about the pressure campaigns sustained on them by the former president. again, keeping the focus on trump. even as they re introducing new characters, who was involved in the pressure campaign. and then of course we re still waiting for the hearing ....
They knew it was nonsense and they pushed it any way. and yesterday we heard that giuliani admitted to the white house lawyer eric hershman that he knew that eastman s plan was nonsense. and eastman admitted in mails that his plan was unlawful. and this is the theme. that all of the president s men knew that everything was illegal and they push add head any way. now the committee has to try and tie that together with the violence at the capitol and i m going to be very interested in looking at the pin ultimate hearing in last week of june when jamie raskin will lead a hearing about the militia group and the proud boys and the oath keepers and this is what the committee has been trying to do from the start. we reported back in january that the select committee was trying to try the political elements of trump s plan to the violence of the insurrection and the violence at the insurrection was mainly perpetrated and coordinated by the proud boys an oath keepers so. i think what we have to ....