Trump says that the man he wants nickname Sloppy Steve can testify.

The lead starts right now.

The January 6th Committee is back in action and planning to lay out the role of violent

extremist groups such as the Oath Keepers had in the January 6th 2021 insurrection, including

a death list and potential connections to top Trump allies.

But how incriminating are those connections?

Then, New Testimony from the Uvalde, Texas Sheriff about the bungled law enforcement

response to the school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers at the end of May

and new details about what the 77 minutes of school hallway surveillance video shows.

Plus, a new COVID variant spreading at an alarming rate throughout the United States and this

one is not deterred even by recent infections, so how do the vaccines hold up against it?

Welcome to the lead and Jake Tapper.

We start today with our politics lead and members of the January 6th Select House Committee

now publicly suggesting they will use tomorrow's hearing to draw direct links between the

extremist groups who stormed the U.S. Capitol and have been charged with seditious conspiracy

and people inside Donald Trump's orbit.

We are going to be connecting the dots during these hearings between these groups and those

who were trying to in government circles to overturn the election.

Well we heard Cassidy Hutchinson testify along the lines of Trump telling Mark Meadows the

chief of staff to talk to Roger Stone and others, Mike Flynn, and Stone and Flynn had

relationships with some of these far right militia groups.

Are those the dots you're talking about connecting?

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