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The January 6 Committee says it will show how Trump’s pressure campaign on Mike Pence to refuse to certify the legitimate 2020 election result ‘directly contributed’ to the Capitol attack. That, as the panel plays a video showing GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk giving a Capitol tour on January 5 to a man seen threatening lawmakers the next day, screaming, “We're coming in like white on rice for Pelosi, Nadler, Schumer, even you AOC. We're coming to take you out. We'll pull you out by your hairs”.

A recession in the US is inevitable within the next two-years according to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who joins Don to discuss his prediction. Plus, President Biden signs an executive order on LGBTQ rights to combat laws passed by GOP-led state legislatures, including protecting children from conversion therapy. And, the mother of an alleged ‘patriot front’ group member speaks out after her son’s arrest for conspiracy to riot at a Pride event in Idaho and the emotional ultimatum she had to give him.

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January 6 Committee member Rep. Adam Schiff joins to discuss the possibility of referring GOP members, including former president Trump, to face criminal charges for their roles in the insurrection. Primary election races in South Carolina and Nevada test Trump’s grip on the GOP as voters go to the polls following dramatic testimony at the second January 6 Committee public hearing that revealed what happened at the White House after Trump was told he lost the 2020 election, but refused to believe it.

Plus, the House passes a bill extending security for immediate family members of supreme court justices, Republicans and Putin are blamed for rising consumer prices and severe flooding forces Yellowstone National Park to close.

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In its second public hearing, the January 6 House Select Committee hears testimony from Trump's inner circle, with a former Trump campaign official saying Rudy Giuliani was “Definitely intoxicated” on election night, and advised Trump to claim an early victory against the advice of his campaign lawyers, private sector lawyers and the U.S. Attorney General, who says the then president had become “Detached from reality”.

Plus, a bipartisan group of Senators reaches a framework on gun safety legislation, Idaho police officers receive death threats after arresting 31 men with ties to a white nationalist group for planning a riot at a pride parade, and inflation rises at its fastest pace in 40 years.

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The January 6 Committee begins to present its initial findings in the first of a series of prime time public hearings, with protesters testifying that Trump called them to the Capitol, Trump officials conceding he lost to Joe Biden in 2020, and Committee Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney saying Trump had a “Seven-part plan to overturn the election”. Former police officer Mike Fanone, who defended the Capitol during the riot on January 6, and suffered multiple injuries and a heart attack as a result, responds to the Select Committee’s first hearing.

The New York Times reports on transcripts of law enforcement officer’s body camera footage who were at the scene of the Uvalde massacre, in which an officer says, "People are going to ask why we're taking so long”. CNN Counterterrorism Analyst Philip Mudd joins to discuss the reasons why there was a delay of up to an hour before the classroom at Robb Elementary was breached.

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