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Today, the House is poised to pass and send to President Biden legislation that aims to stanch mass gun violence through modest new firearms restrictions and mental health and school security funding. While the bill includes the most significant new gun restrictions since the mid-1990s, its expected passage comes amid the controversy over Thursday’s Supreme Court decision that will probably make it easier to carry guns in many of the nation’s largest cities.

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Meanwhile, fallout continues from Thursday’s hearing from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. The testimony focused on President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure the Justice Department to overturn the election and revealed the names of several Republican lawmakers who allegedly sought presidential pardons in the aftermath of the attack on the Capitol.

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The latest: Documentary footage of Roger Stone sought by DOJ, Jan. 6 panel

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The Justice Department and the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol have asked Danish filmmakers for video footage recorded as they followed Roger Stone, a confidant of former president Donald Trump, in the weeks after the 2020 election, according to emails and interviews.

The Post’s Jon Swaine and Dalton Bennett report that during the past three months, the investigators have repeatedly sought access to a 170-hour cache of footage shot for director Christoffer Guldbrandsen’s forthcoming documentary on Stone, a founder of the “Stop the Steal” movement that culminated in the rallies preceding the Jan. 6 attack.

Our colleagues write:

That footage was cited in a Washington Post report in March that described Stone’s activities that day, including inside the Willard hotel where he and many other Trump allies were staying. The footage showed that Stone communicated on an encrypted messaging app with leaders of far-right groups, and that he claimed at the time to be in contact with Trump.

You can read the full story here.