OnPolitics: Trump knew he lost the 2020 election, says Jan. 6 panel

Happy Monday, OnPolitics readers!

The week began with a lot of news from Capitol Hill. Senators announced a breakthrough agreement on gun control legislation Sunday. Though negotiators did not release a specific bill yet, as many as 10 Republicans – the number needed to overcome a GOP filibuster –  have signed on to a framework proposal.

The group says the plan "increases needed mental health resources, improves school safety and support for students, and helps ensure dangerous criminals and those who are adjudicated as mentally ill can’t purchase weapons."

The compromise falls well short of President Joe Biden's proposals, which include banning assault weapons and high capacity magazines, raising the legal age of purchase from 18 to 21 and adding universal background checks. But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called the agreement "a good first step."

"We must move swiftly to advance this legislation because if a single life can be saved, it is worth the effort,” Schumer added.

Biden said he continued to hope that discussions in the Senate would "yield a bipartisan product that makes significant headway on key issues like mental health and school safety, respects the Second Amendment, earns broad support in the Senate, and makes a difference for our country."

It's Amy and Chelsey with today's top news out of Washington.

Jan. 6 committee tackled Trump's election fraud claims on Day 2 

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol presented evidence to the public that debunked former President Donald Trump's claims of election fraud after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Biden.

Trump has maintained the assertion over the last two years that the election was stolen, but the panel highlighted testimony from Trump's own aides who said they told the president the fraud allegations were bogus but he touted the claims anyway.

"This morning we'll tell the story of how Donald Trump lost an election and knew he lost an election, and as a result of his loss decided to wage an attack on our democracy," said Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss, chair of the committee.

In pre-recorded testimony, members of Trump's inner circle, such as former Attorney General Bill Barr, said Trump's fraud claims were unsubstantiated.

"As I walked out of the Oval Office... I said, 'how long is he going to carry on with this stolen election stuff?'" Barr said while describing a visit with Trump in November 2020.

Trump was encouraged to claim victory on the night of the election, before the vote counting was finished, by a reportedly inebriated Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City.

"The mayor was definitely intoxicated, but I do not know his level of intoxication when he spoke with the president," Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Trump’s re-election campaign. "There were suggestions, by I believe it was Mayor Giuliani, to go and declare victory and say we'd won it outright."

Want to know more?: Here's our live recap of want went on in the hearing room Monday morning.

When is the next hearing?: The Jan. 6 committee has scheduled its next hearing for Wednesday, June 15. Here's what to expect.

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Primaries in Nevada, South Carolina and more happening Tuesday

Voters in four primary states on Tuesday weigh in on issues that will animate general elections across the country this fall, from abortion to Donald Trump's political power to battles for control of Congress.

The key issue for Nevada voters: Droughts, extreme heat and raging fires have increased in recent years in the West, so climate change – and its effect on voters in Black, Latino and Indigenous communities – could play a deciding factor.

A poll in April by Suffolk University/Reno Gazette Journal found that a majority of Nevadans are worried about climate change.

Jollina Simpson, a Las Vegas resident and a home-birth midwife, was still researching whom she wants to vote for during Nevada's primary. She knew she wouldn't cast a ballot for any climate change deniers.

"When I look at politicians not talking about climate change as being something that is real, something that is here and something that would need radical addressing to keep us safe, I cannot brush that aside," Simpson said. "Because it affects every area of my life."

Latinos are more likely to live in rural areas where poor air quality is a problem – 24 million Latinos live in areas of the U.S. that are most polluted by ozone smog, according to the Latino Community Foundation. This is why environmental issues matter to Latinos, who "live and breathe the consequences of climate change,” said Jacqueline Martinez Garcel, CEO of the Latino Community Foundation, a civic engagement group mobilizing Latinos in California.

The battle over Trump in South Carolina: Freshman Rep. Nancy Mace's criticism of Trump over the Capitol riot landed her a Trump-backed challenger in Tuesday's primary election, even as Mace now scrambles to woo Republicans and prove that she does, in fact, support the former president, despite a vote to certify Joe Biden's victory in 2020.

Mace's maneuvering is about more than just her district, though. For people across the political spectrum, the race will help answer a basic question: How far can Republicans buck Trump and still survive in office?

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