pauses to remember dr. martin luther king jr. and his vision for america. >> to memorialize martin luther king as an idea and selma as an idea of what can happen with strategy with discipline and with love. good day, everyone, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. after recent events in france and belgium, e.u. leaders are calling for an anti-terror alliance with arab countries and violent protests have taken part in the muslim world in places like pakistan afghanistan, all in reaction to quts"charlie hebdo"

putting the prophet muhammad on the cover again. richard, what do we know? this crackdown and immediate reaction to what happened in paris or is this -- are these raids that had been planned, surveillance that had been ongoing? >> well a little bit of both. in some cases these were people who had been under surveillance for a long time. generally europeans or european nationals or european residents i should say, who traveled to iraq and syria and because they did that they put themselves on the radar screens of different intelligence agencies. and then after paris, the authorities decided it was really just too dangerous to leave them on the streets and started to round people up. that's what we're seeing roundups all across europe belgium, greece investigations in spain, ongoing arrests in france germany and when you make arrests then occasionally they lead to more arrests. i don't think we've seen the end

of this. >> and on a related but -- not related but also troubling issue yemen, what can you tell us about what is happening in yemen today? i know it's still in process. >> reporter: yemen has been in a state of civil war and state of political deadlock for about a year now. when a rebel group called the hoojys took over a large part of the capital sanai, you have the u.s. backed government in certain government buildings, one of them the office of the president and then this rebel movement known as the huthies controlling everything with checkpoints all around yemen. what we saw this morning was a

breakdown of this very ten youous status quo. they took over and there were exchanges of gunfire and there were shots right by the buildings of the presidential offices. officials in yemen said it was a coup attempt. then there were reports of a ceasefire. what it all boils down to is the situation in yemen is completely unsustainable. you have the government, the u.s.-backed government which only controls parts of the capital and this rebel movement controls most of the capital and they are trying to operate in a -- operate kind of together without leading too much blood shed and today the system collapsed and we almost saw the government of yemen collapse. >> which, of course would be troubling on all sorts of levels but importantly because al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, one of

the organizations that apparently inspired one of the kouachi brothers if not both is head quartered in yemen. yemen is ground zero for al qaeda's most important -- >> you're talking but i can't hear you anymore, i've lost audio. >> sorry about that. richard engel, we will follow up right now with the british ambassador to the united states. thank you very much. of course, as i was just trying to say to richard engel, the importance of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula head quartered in yemen is critical. who leads yemen is a very important issue. >> very important. worrying developments this morning as richard has been explaining. is this a coup not a coup unclear? there can only be a political settlement between the different players and it does need to stable i'dilize stabilize, not only for the people in yemen, but also

because of that is a breeding ground for one if not more than one of the terrorist organizations to which we are all victims now. >> one of the things that your prime minister david cameron said during his trip here the last couple of days when he was here on friday was that there are recurring threats that london as well as the rest of the u.k. is on alert. how high is the alert. >> this is true. and prime minister was clear about that. that's one of the reasons why one of the task forces which he set up with president obama last week was to look at ways in which we can counter the threat of domestic extremism violence in both of our countries and with our other partners, we've had to raise states of alert and issue a warning to jewish organizations and individuals late last week because we were concerned that something similar to what happened to the kosher supermarket may happen in the uk, we have to expect that something similar or horrible could take place in the uk.

we have gone up a notch and looking carefully at all threats and having to look at foreign fighters coming back from isil territory, iraq and syria, and home grown terrorist activities sometimes carried out by lone wolves who vs very hard to detect in advance. >> there is a meeting in brussels, of the 28 foreign ministers today. what needs to come out of the meeting? >> we're looking at several different aspects, one is to try to get the european government to talk to each other more effectively on passenger name records people traveling on aircraft between different countries. there's an overall need for us to be better at exchanging information, better at passing on information when we've got something that is worrying and needs to be looked at by our counterparts. that is one of the top priorities today. >> we want to ask you about iran when david cameron was

here he and the both president both in their news conference made it clear they believe it could disrupt the talks if congress were to pass sanctions, legislation currently pending and has a lot of support in democratic and republican leaders and that david cameron had been lobbying senators against passing it. what would be the harm in passing sanctions legislation that is stand by sanctions only if the talks were to fall apart? >> well what we think is fresh sanctions ought to be the result of negotiations collapsing. it ought not to be fresh sanctions that promote that collapse. so we've got to get things the right way around. the problem in the moment is that if we come up with fresh sanctions, there's a risk of the iranians look at this as an act of bad faith as the president said last week we're not supposed to be an acting new sanctions legislation during the existence of a joint plan of action, the interim deal which is what is there in place and while we negotiate a more

permanent solution or try to find the right solution. i think that if we go ahead with new sanctions now, if you say here's a sort of -- it strengthens the hands of the hard guys who are opposed to coming to a accommodation with the rest. we don't think it's necessary to do that. everybody knows if the negotiations fail and we can't get a good deal or satisfy ourselves that iran is not getting a nuclear weapon there will be a further sanctions afterwards. to do that now while negotiations are in course would be unhelpful. >> it does seem the negotiations are stalemated. there was a six month extension, now a second extension. no indication that some of the major obstacles are being cleared. >> i don't think they are stalemated. there's just been a meeting of political directors and the people who were there said they were tough but useful. so i think what good progress -- progress of a sort is being

made. i think we're still a long way from having any confidence that there will be a deal but those negotiations are continuing and i think it's important that we give the negotiators on both sides every chance to reach an agreement. for the united states congress to do something, which is unilateral, the risk is also that it undermines the multilateral nature of the negotiations. there are after all six governments working on this thing together. it's important that we stick together. it's been an extraordinary degree of co-heerns and cohesion that has got us this far. let's see if we can get a good deal because the alternatives frankly to a deal that makes sense are all bad. >> thank you so much. thanks for being with us today. >> thank you. >> there was breaking news out of washington last night when "the new york times" reported that a secret nsa program -- a cyber conference earlier this month that fbi director broadly

hinted at this bring pointing a finger at north korea. >> i thought it was very important we as a government and we as fbi said we know who hacked sony. it was the north koreans who hacked sony and call out that conduct and explain it. that is why we have as much as we can tried to offer our atrib bugs and the destructive nature of that attack proves everyone has to take cyber security seriously. it could happen to anyone in the room. we at the fbi and entire intelligence community previously attributed the attacks to north korea and we continue to believe that is the case. >> the correspondent who broke the story last night, we were able to confirm it but stand in awe, david, you're of course one of the people who broke the iran story. let's talk about this.

first of all, the gist of the story is that the u.s. starting in 2010 was able to pen straight these computer systems in north korea. what i was told and what you were reporting also is that they didn't have advance warning of the sony attack but were able to confirm it after the fact. tell me about that because someone would say, well wait a second, if they are really looking in real time at north korea's cyber war efforts, why didn't they say what was happening to sony and either prevent it call a whistle or do something? >> andrea, it's a question that always comes up when you've got implant some kind of malware sitting on another country's system. we wrote a story about the terror attacks in mumbai were very much the same thing happened, there were indications but they didn't put them all together. in the sony case in september,

the hackers had attacked sony with a spearfishing attacks, one of the e-mails that you get that you click on by mistake and puts malicious software on your computer. the way intelligence officials put it to me, there are a lot of spear fishing attacks that go a lot of places in and out of north korea. the connection they didn't make was that north korea had of course issued some threats that releasing this movie "the interview", the comedy about a cia plot to assassinate kim jong-un would be an act of war. it wasn't until the destructive attack on sony began on november 24th that people began to say, oh, i think we've probably got the data on this. >> so then they go back in and pumt the pieces together and that is why the president was so cat gorical, this is north korea and the fbi director as well. >> andrea we have covered the white house for a long time. this is a very cautious president who doesn't come out

and make intelligence pronouncements. in the case of cyber attacks, atrib bugs usually takes months if not longer and then usually uncertain. when he came out that hard and certain, we knew he had to have seen something. the question was, what did he see? and the snowden documents for people who have been looking at them as they have gotten released and there was interesting ones in the german magazine just this weekend, that also pertain to north korea. you would see that there's a fair bit of evidence that american intelligence was inside north korea very hard target starting about four years ago. >> and with -- with that evidence, why would anyone confirm this? is this a way of saying to north korea, we have eyes on you so watch out? >> well i never understand completely why people confirm things or don't. but the combination in this case of both documentary evidence the statements mr. comy made

which had to do with the evidence outside of north korea. he was very careful and referred to how they had identified ip addresses, internet protocol addresses that north koreans had used. most of those are in china. he didn't discuss the evidence they found inside north korea. >> if they are in their computers, why should we not think that we have the ability, u.s. intelligence has the ability to do what they did to iran. we slowed down their nuclear program as "the new york times" first reported and slowed it down bit inserting malware into their centuryrifugecentrifuges, screwing it all up to be blunt. why couldn't we slow down their missile programs? why couldn't we slow down the north korean nuclear program? could any of those failed missile launches over the last few years been the result of u.s. intelligence malware? >> it's an interesting question. when i was doing reporting on

the bigger program olympic games, which was part of i had a number of people say to me it was a mystery to them we hadn't done as much in north korea. it's a question of what system you're in. you might be in a system that's involving say the leadership where you might see evidence of an order to go do something like sony. it's a different thing from being on the command and control system for the missile program or for the nuclear program. so just because you're in one system doesn't necessarily mean you're in others. and then deploying a malicious piece of software that can do damage, requires a little bit of different artist tri than doing espionage. >> to those people who have been in social media saying you see, the u.s. hacked first, that shows we're the bad guys first. what is the difference between us going into their computer systems to find out what they are doing on cyber war and them going into sony? >> it's a difference between

espionage and destructive software. what made the attack on sony different was that it was one of the first cases of a major destructive attack on an american target not just lifting out their data stealing intellectual property the kind of thing that happens every day in the cyber world. >> david sanger again, hats off. >> thank you. >> the president will be highlighting his domestic initiatives for the middle class, including community college tuition and family leave and state of the union speech tomorrow night and today the white house revealed who is going to be joining first latddy michelle obama as featured guest in her box. they include students and working mothers and wounded warriors and teachers astronauts like scott kelly, scientists and allen gross, along with his wife judy gross, i was of course released from cuba last month after being held in detention for five years. his release coincided with the president's change in policy to the island nation which promises to free up trade and travel

relations to a level not seen in more than half a century. tune in here tomorrow night -- tomorrow for a special edition at noon we'll be live from capitol hill. among our guests senator john mccain and nancy pelosi and patrick leahy just back from cuba and former senior adviser david axelrod. coming up now, shots fired outside the vice president's home in delaware. the vice president is fine but the investigation into what happened is hitting roadblocks. more coming up ahead. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports," only on msnbc.

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the secret service is on an even higher lert than usual

after a mysterious shooting outside the home of vice president joe biden. they were shot from a speeding car saturday night on a road outside the perimeter of the biden home. the vice president and mrs. biden were not home at the time. secret service and local police chased the car but the vehicle got away. joining me now is former agent dan begnino. it certainly gets attention. what was the level of danger from a car being able to shoot from the perimeter? i know the house itself is set back quite a bit from the road. >> well andrea there's always going to be danger from something like that. it's important the public and media understand what the secret service does. they minimize the threat of an incident like this but they can't eliminate it in a country we're not a toe tal tear yan regime there's no way to stop an incident from happening. you can minimize but you have to maximize the response. and that's what the secret service does and did in this

case. >> and is there any way that -- put yourselves in their shoes, they are trying to figure out whether this was an unrelated incident but this is not a neighborhood you would expect to see shots fired from a speeding car, criminal activity gangs. this is quite an exclusive section of wilmington delaware. >> sure. the writing on the wall is probably not good. it certainly looks like when you combine all of the evidence that this probably could have some malicious intent towards the vice president but no one can say that conclusively at this point. it's going to come down to getting the perpetrator, to admit what his motive was and in turn finding out what that motive was, some form of pathology or terrorism, we don't know that yet. listen, the probability is low that this was some kind of just stupid act by some random person. but that's still out there as well. >> and of course they recently in perhaps an unrelated issue,

they ramped up the protection at new castle at the national guard air strip where the vice president lands and takes off because of other kinds of issues as part of the counterterror alert. >> i don't know if the public understands because secret service certainly doesn't advertise all of the threat streams that come into the president and vice president daily. but the threat assessment and threat footprint around these two individuals is pretty significant. and the secret service mitigates a lot of this by again, what i said in my opening, by minimizing the threat of an incident but not eliminating it. they can't but maximizing the response to it and trying to prevent these things from happening by good investigative work before these things -- before these things happen. >> thank you sofrp for being with us. the new england win against the

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unlike the heart stopping nfc playoff between the packers and seattle, a fourth quarter nail biter the afc game was a blowout for the patriots over the colts. now the coach belichick's team is being investigated amidst that the footballs that the patriots use may have been improperly deflated to provide a better grip during a rainy game day. what would be the impact if any? ron mott joins us now. this is one of the most bizarre stories i've ever heard. why deflating a football for one team would have not had the same benefit for the other team. >> reporter: well, hey, dr., andrea, these stories seem to follow the patriots.

if you deflate the football as a quarterback it's easier to grip and easier to have control of the ball when you throw it through the air having played high school football myself. as a receiver those balls are easier to catch than fully inflated balls. if the patriots were playing with balls that were under weight they would have an advantage over the colts. the way the rules in the nfl rules book says that the home team is responsible. they may not in practice do this any longer but the home team is supposed to be responsible for bringing officials a set of game balls and there's a separate set used for kicking. they are marked with the letter k and there's a different runner on the sideline who is holding those kicking balls with a k and different runner holding game balls. she's wearing a vest with an x on it. the official throws his hands out and the football gets put into play. what happens is and this is the question for the league as they investigate this, what access

did the patriots sideline have to the a lotment of balls going in and out when the patriots were on the field? when people hear about stories like this that involve the patriots they immediately run back to 2007 which was the spy-gate controversy involving bill belichick and the patriots taping the jets during the football game taping defensive signals. presumably they would alter their offensive play and win the game. the league investigated and they fined bill belichick a half million dollars and fined the organization $250,000 and perhaps the biggest penalty of all, they actually took away their first round pick in the 2008 draft, which turned out to be the 31st player picked in the draft because patriots went on to go undefeated that season in 2007 until they ran into the new york giants in the super bowl lost that super bowl to the giants by three points. so controversy seems to follow the patriots. they are very successful

franchise with the super bowl 13 days away it seems the league will want to put an end to this right away so folks can focus on the game itself in 13 days. >> as though the nfl this year has not had enough problems this is what tom brady had to say today. >> that's the last of my worries, yeah -- i don't even respond to stuff like this. >> we should point out, 45 points, it was a blowout last night. but is this a serious deal? we know belichick as you pointed out has taken all sorts of steps in the past really aggressive that spy-gate thing follows him. but wouldn't this be so over the line it would risk his whole career and risk the patriots in the super bowl? >> reporter: i think if you're comparing this to spy-gate for example, spy-gate was a very serious deal that the league handled quickly. this seems to be -- much ado about nothing because the game itself was not competitive. the patriots were clearly the

better team. whether they had soft balls or not they won convincingly. this should be resolved fairly quick a and the investigation will come down to what access the patriot sideline had to the footballs if any during the course of the football game last night. >> ron mott appreciate it. thank you very much. she now has more world cup wins than any other skier in the world. given what the last two years have been like for lindsay vonn that's pretty amazing. we'll talk with the new champion live coming up next. this is andrea mitchell reports, only on msnbc. and aleve is proven to work better on pain than tylenol arthritis. so why am i still thinking about this? how are you? aleve, proven better on pain. latte or au lait? cozy or cool? exactly the way you want it ... until boom it's bedtime! your mattress is a battleground of thwarted desire. enter the sleep number bed. save $300 on the final close-out of the c3 queen mattress set.

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gold medalists comes after a pair of terrible knee injuries that sidelined her from the sochi games last year. a new documentary airing this sunday on nbc, fresh off her big win today i'm joined by lindsey vonn from austria. congratulations. we're really in awe of you. tell me about today, the triumph and pressure competing after all of your rehab and surgeries and your hard work. >> thanks. today was so incredible. i've had a bumpy couple of years with back to back knee surgeries and missing the olympics which is what i worked so hard for and just fighting my way back. and now i'm back on the top and i definitely felt a lot of pressure the last two wins 62 tieing the record and 63 breaking the record have been really tough for me. everyone has been talking about

it, the media putting pressure on me. i tried to ski my best and i'm thankful that i passed the record and now hopefully the pressure will be off and i can just ski and not feel the weight of the world on my shoulders. >> how is it psych logically you're in this incredible race trying to break a record and at the same time are you always thinking about that horrible accident which was so terrible for all of us to witness or are you past that? is that what an olympic champion is you get past the bad stuff and go on and think about the goal? >> well i mean ski racing is a pretty dangerous sport. i crashed a lot in my career. even though the crash blew my knee out, i never thought about it again. i just tried to work back from it and after the surgery just focus on the olympics and then after blew my knee again focus

on coming back and breaking this record and world championships at home in vail. as a ski racer you have to have a short memory and get over your crashes quickly otherwise you won't be fast anymore. >> in your long road to recovery, did you ever doubt you could be back at this level of competition? >> well, i wouldn't say i doubted myself but you know, after two knee surgeries and being away from competitive skiing for two years, it's a long time and a lot of things can change. so i still always believed in myself but did i think that getting back to being on top would come so quickly? absolutely not. that was definitely a pretty big surprise for me and definite a pleasant surprise. but i think it just is a testment to the hard work i put in and also my team and everyone who supported me. it's been a long road but it's been worth it. >> and the climb the documentary

which is premiering on sunday on nbc at 3:00 eastern, you show what it took to get back into shape. tell me about having them document that effort. >> well i mean it was supposed to be originally a one year documentary coming back to the olympics but ended up being two years. i think it's kind of -- it's tough to fit two years into one hour segment, but you'll definitely see the road to recovery, how painful some of it was and after surgery going into surgery all of the things that you wouldn't normally see. it's -- it was grueling. it was a lot of hard work and you know, you'll see all of the people that helped support me like my sisters and physiolindsey and my boyfriend and red bull. a lot of people supported me through this whole process. you'll see how it went and it was a tough road. but like i said i'm thankful to

have so many people that supported me. >> speaking of boy friends, that was a big surprise at the finish line today. tell me about that. he knows something about tough surgeries and recoveries. >> yeah, i was really really surprised. he definitely got me really good today. i was so thrilled to see him. he came all the way over to watch me for a few hours then flew all the way back home. he's got a tournment coming up. i didn't expect him to be there at all. it was a really nice surprise. my family was there, my dad and step mom and mom and step dad and also my sister laura. it was a really special day for everyone in my family and me and my man. >> and your man, tiger woods, of course. thank you so much and congratulations again. good luck in beaver creek and we'll be watching on sunday "the climb" the documentary on nbc. thanks lindsey vonn.

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tomorrow night is the state of the union, the annual address and comes at a pretty good time for president obama politically. a new poll shows the president climbing back to a 50% approval rating. momentum boost after a tough 2014. joining me now for our daily fix, jonathan capehart and "washington post" editorial writer susan page and greg ip cnbc and policy writer at "the economist." one thing we know is that the president will be announcing middle class tax relief and higher taxes on the rich. greg what's the economic rationale for that at this point in the recovery? >> basically he's trying to

address what has been a theme of his presidency since he came in six years ago, inequality. you have a situation where underlying forces have meant that the wealthiest have done well and middle class hasn't done better at all. he basically used tools of the tax code to raise taxes on wealthy and move some of that money to low income and middle class families. it doesn't address the causes of inequality they have to do with globalization, he addresses the symptoms by redistributing within the tax code. >> and susan, what is the political outlook for this? it goes against what republican leaders have been calling for, although some of the things he's proposing dave camp retiring ways and means chair had proposed. but according to releases from the republican leadership there was no conversation with orrin hatch and no negotiating or no

conversation. if this were the kind of tax reform that had succeeded in the past reagan year tax reform long negotiations is not what he's proposing. >> long negotiations and history of trust. the first time the president will address a congress totally controlled by opposition republicans. most people look at this and say these are not proposals enacted by the congress in the next two years but perhaps they are ideas and approach that will be considered, maybe the start of a conversation that will go on durng the 2016 presidential campaign and perhaps even during with the next president about what we need to do with our economy so that the middle class starts to benefit from the recovery in a way that only the wealthy are doing so far. >> jonathan capehart 2016 is on everyone's minds hillary clinton tweeted for the first time in 45 days and seemed to be trying to reposition herself, attacking financial reform is risky and wrong, better for congress to focus on jobs and wages for middle class families. there are a number of points here. you've got the elizabeth warren

wing of the party on one side. she's maybe trying to reposition herself. her husband of course was part of the deregulation in the '90s which many say worked but is now under attack. dodd frank is under attack and her own relationship with wall street. >> right, and so what she's doing as you said elizabeth warren wing of the party is exerting itself and they want to make sure that their interests are talked about, paid attention to and as long as president obama is in the white house possibly enacted. but i want to go back to something that you said in your question to susan, which in terms of negotiation about what the president is doing, which is part of this larger conversation including the hillary clinton tweet, and that is presidents always use the state of the union address as a way of laying down a marker for negotiations to come. i don't think anyone in the administration believes for one minute that these proposals that

the president has laid out over the last ten days or so are going to be automatically accepted by the gop dominated congress but it does show congress and american people where the president -- where he wants to lead the country in the last two years of his administration and certainly in the opening months of the republican controlled congress. >> and what about the capital gains tax increase that he is proposing? does that make good economic sense? >> there's actually two pieces in there. one of them goes after a loophole that allows the wealthy to pass on assets never subject to capital gains tax to their children. that protects it almost forever for taxes. by closing that loophole he addresses a glaring inefficiency in the tax code. one of the reasons why actually obama himself and hillary clinton's husband, bill clinton, agreed to lower the capital gains tax and later stick with a lower dividend tax rate is

because corporate profits under the current tax are taxed twice. the better treatment of those is meant to address that inefficiency. in essence, by proposing that rate go back up it becomes a little bit more inefficient. i don't think anybody would argue that when george bush lowered those rates we had a boom in investment as a result. i don't think we're going to get a collapse in investment if that rate goes up. >> and the susan, the politics of all of this the legacy issues for this president against a republican white house our own wall street journal poll indicated in a word cloud that 40% believe that the country is divided, the state of our nation is divided. 23% recovering 19% troubled. 19% deteriorating. 16% broken. only 16% hopeful. >> well that's the mood of the nation. >> i actually think that's so

much more hopeful than we been. to the fact that one in four say it's recovering that is a real difference. that means people are beginning to say yes, we've come through this financial crisis things are starting to get better. i think you see it also reflected in his approval rating. that may help the president's ideas get more traction if people are looking at his presidency and saying yes, things are going well and he deserves some credit for that. >> if i can add one thing, what will be interesting what we will not be talking a lot on tuesday, the state of the economy. it's perhaps the first time in the president's term that the economy is basically a wind at his back and takes away an important talking point for the gop as well. that will drive the conversation towards some of these forward looking policy issues instead of a finger pointing blame. >> thank you so much greg and susan and jonathan stay with us don't forget to tune into nbc's live coverage of the state of the union anchored by chris

matthews and rachel maddow. what do you think the state of the union is? share your thoughts using the #sotuis. next, the dream and legacy of martin luther king jr. this is "andrea mitchell reports," only on msnbc.

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on this holiday, his legacy is more relevant than ever. voting rights are still being litigated and cast and crew of the oscar nominated film "selma" including oprah and david oyelowo oyelowo, attended before a screening. >> our prayer is that this just

won't be a spectacle for a moment, but that this will be a day beyond which selma is changed. incredible things happened here. and this place deserves to move forward. >> msnbc contributor and "washington post" opinion writer jonathan capehart is back with us. there was a very big turnout in a special commemoration today in san antonio, texas. we have some pictures of that. it turns out we were told as many as 100,000 people marching we can't see it all in this view but significantly there are commemorations around the country. you've got the president, michelle obama and the cabinet, vice president all going to special service day projects around the country today. that said there are legal challenges to voting rights in more cases than the legal defense fund has had to deal with any any time in decades.

the fight is unfinished. >> right, 50 years in march, march 7th was that first march in selma, 1965 when congress now congressman john lewis and others were beaten. dr. king went back led another march, the 12th or 21st might have my numbers transposed but 50 years later while they achieved a lot by putting their bodies on the line for constitutional rights as americans, there's still a lot of work to be done. you outlined a lot of them the voting rights act and people marching all over the country because of the deaths of eric garner and michael brown in ferguson and tamir rice in cleveland, his death in november of last year. there's a lot of work to be done. and if there's a silver lining in all of this demonstration, these demonstrations is that people are not come place ent and waiting for someone else to

be the solution. it's not just african-americans who are taking up the cause. it's all americans. >> and so we should all pause and take a moment today, this is not just a day off work for many people or day off school. this is an important commemoration of a dream unfinished. thank you very much jonathan capehart. that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." join us tomorrow a very special edition live from capitol hill among our guests senator john mccain and nancy pelosi and patrick leahy just back from cuba tonight and former obama adviser, david axelrod. follow the show online and on twitter. my colleague ronan farrow joins me next. >> terrific show. we have a big hour ahead. ministers convening in brussels to decide what the path ahead will be for a europe on edge. i'm going to take you inside one of the communities feeling most threatened. that was european jews telling us that they are considering

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hello, it's good to see you. we're following a lot of stories. first up new details today on what u.s. officials knew before the sony hacking attack and why they knew it. nbc news just now confirming that "the new york times" had reported earlier today and we've confirmed that the report that the national security agency broke into north korea's computers back in 2010. u.s. intelligence agents aren't saying that is the case and we're hearing in particular that that top secret penetration of the computer systems there, the knowledge they gleaned from it at the time was the foundation for u.s. officials so confidently laying the blame on that regime for the sony hacking