And gun violence victims from you faulty Texas in Buffalo,
New York testified on Capitol Hill yesterday
and appealed to lawmakers to push for stricter gun control laws
in gut wrenching testimony,
witnesses offered horrific details of the massacre in Uvalde
where 19 Children and two teachers were
murdered at Rob Elementary School last month.
In the real that keeps scrolling across my memories.
She turns her head and smiles back at us to acknowledge my promise
and then we left.
I left my daughter at that school
and that decision will haunt me for the rest of my life.
On Wednesday,
the House of Representatives passed a wide ranging package of
gun control legislation in wake of the recent mass shootings.
Among the other things,
the package would raise the age to buy certain semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21.
We should note the measure likely won't pass the Senate
due to widespread republican opposition to stricter gun control,
but Senate negotiators are weighing a narrow set of changes
and that includes bolstering state red flag laws and
also allowing juvenile records to be searched in background checks
and elsewhere.
A man armed with a pistol,
a knife and other weapons is in police custody today after being
arrested Wednesday near the home of the Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
He has been charged with attempted murder.
Now Nicholas Rosky said he traveled from
California to kill a Supreme Court justice.
According to federal officials.
According to a court filing, Rosky told the police quote,
he was upset about the leak of a recent
Supreme Court draft decision regarding the right to abortion
as well as the recent school shooting in Uvalde texas.
Rosky indicated he believed the justice
that he intended to kill would side with
Second Amendment decisions that would loosen gun control laws
if convicted. Rosky could face 20 years in federal prison
And with the world of politics waking up this morning,
Ariel Hickson is live in our nation's capital,
bringing us the biggest stories unfolding there and Ariel all
eyes on the big January six hearing tonight in primetime.
That's right bigger.
The House Committee investigating the January six attack
on the Capitol is holding the first in a
series of hearing revealing the findings of its
investigation to the American people later this evening,
the tea will be spilled.
So we have to break down exactly what to expect here,
aides to the select committee said that we can expect to see quote substantial new
audio and video material from the day of the attack that hasn't been seen before.
The hearing will also feature testimony from two
live witnesses and a handful of prerecorded interviews with
some of the over 1000 witnesses The committee has
spoken with in the nearly year long investigation.
The two witnesses appearing live this evening. Our U. S.
Capitol police officer Caroline Edwards and documentary filmmaker Nick Quested.
Now Edwards is believed to be the first
law enforcement officer injured in the attack.
And Quested was embedded with the extremist group,
the proud boys throughout the day of the attack.
Committee aides say the two will recount what they saw
heard and experience on the day of the attack.
Members of the committee have said that the goal
of sharing what they've learned is to show the
public the full scope of the effect to overturn
the 2020 election and ongoing threats to democracy.
So Ariel having said all that, can we expect to hear anything about future hearings?
Given that this is sort of the first one that's just planned so far.
Absolutely,
Committee aides said that the aim of this first hearing is a function as a sort
of opening statement for the entire effort to
share the investigation with the american people.
Committee chairman Bennie Thompson and vice chair Liz Cheney will lead
the presentation tonight and we'll preview
upcoming hearings and the broader narrative
the committee has discovered in its investigation. Yeah.
And there are reports potentially brad Ratzenberger,
the Georgia secretary of state likely going to testify as well.
Ariel Hickson live from the White House. Thank you so much Ariel
and breaking this morning the biden administration announcing a new plan
for vaccinating Children under five years old for Covid 19.
The White House has already procured 10 million doses for younger
Children and will secure millions more in the next coming weeks.
Now.
Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are expected to be available this week of june 21st,
As long as both the FADA and the CDC find
them to be safe and effective for kids under five.
The administration
is estimating about 85% of Children under five to be within a five mile radius of
a vaccine site.
Like other Covid vaccines, they would be available in primary care offices,
Children's hospitals and local pharmacies.