congress, and democracy itself. this is another member of the ex presidents inner circle. he was indicted, and republicans are caught on tape planning to dispatch an army of activists to polling sites to target and potentially overturn votes in democratic precincts. the reporter who understood those tapes joins me later in the show. plus, the lawyer who scored an unprecedented victory for sandy hook families against the gunmaker in that case has turned his attentions to the gun maker in the uvalde texas massacre. i will talk to him about that legal strategy that could be the turning point in the war over guns in america, and what you might not know about how the gun industry markets directly to young men. then, day 101 of the war that vladimir putin plans to wrap up in three days. i will talk to lieutenant colonel vindman about how russia s war of choice in ukraine has changed. what is likely to come next, and likely, today, by the way, is the first day of the general electio
former attorney general bill barr, was seen exiting the january six committees conference room. this would have been at least the second time that barr has met with the committee. back in january, chairperson thompson confirmed that barr had spoken with the panel and has cooperated with its investigation. it remains to be seen if barr or any other high-ranking trump official will testify in front of the american people as part of the committee s public hearings. the justice department, by the way, isn t just working on g involving the twice impeached ex presidents former aide, they are working to prosecute his insurrection supporters, to. yesterday another member of the far-right extremist group proud boys pleaded guilty to a felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding. joshua pruitt is facing up to five years in jail, for taking part in the mob that ransacked the capital, and endangered the safety of members of congress. in court documents, he admitted that he near
For refusing to appear for deposition. that is despite the fact that navarro never seems to stop talking. in every appearance, trump s former trade advisor is running his mouth a mile a minute, even though he can never seem to form a coherent thought. he is the second trump loyalist to be indicted for contempt of congress. earlier this year, stephen bannon surrendered when justice department the justice department brought similar charges against him. at this point it appears to be the only ones to face criminal contempt charges. the new york times is reporting that the justice department has declined to pursue charges against mark meadows and dan that s convene oh, two top trump officials. the response to that news, general six committee chair person thompson said in the statement, quote, we find the decision to reward mark meadows and dance given oh for the continued attacks on the rule of law puzzling. but it appears at least one key trump administration figure is cooperating with so
Press. bella next we have the national correspondent for msnbc contributor, good morning to you about. see let s talk about the january six committee and what is going on there. this is about to be a very big week. you and i have discussed this before. but there is some needle to move here that the committee would like to move, right. they would like to sort of explain to you what happened, how it happened, and perhaps how changes need to occur to our system, to our election protection architecture, to make sure january six doesn t happen again. i get the impression the point that they are going to be making is, would happen on january 6th absolutely could happen again. that s right. but they also want to communicate is that was very much something that wasn t random, wasn t out of the blue, but rather that trump and his close allies had spent months fomenting the conspiracy theory, and the lie that the 2020 elections were going to be insecure. it is not very hard for them to make