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 attack. our nbc news senior white house

correspondent chris jansing has been following this as well. before the u.s. never explicitly accused another government of a cyber attack. whatever they gleaned from this must have been convincing? >> reporter: without a doubt, ronan. you'll remember when the president first laid the blame at the foot of north krooorea there were a lot of analysts that didn't buy it and the white house said convincingly here's what they don't know they don't have the intelligence that the president got when he made this decision. so now what we've learned as you pointed out back in 2010 the nsa developed the system for essentially following north korean hackers. the cell has suggested there may be as many as 6,000 of them, they work essentially in an intelligence unit of north korea. the united states did not know in advance that they were hacking into sony but once that happened and once they learned it from sony officials, they were able to go in painstakingly

and follow it and get intelligence they felt was convincing enough to present to the president and which he agreed with and said for the first time that north korea, a state, had sponsored this kind of hacking. >> that's the big news on the national security front. another story everybody is talking about in washington these shots fired over the weekend outside vice president biden's home. what's the latest on that investigation? that happened in delaware but it is the talk of the town in d.c. today. >> reporter: it is and it's puzzling. i've been talking to folks both at the secret service and local police there. pete williams has been in touch with the fbi. they say they just don't know what happens. first of all, joe biden lives in a very exclusive area in wilmington delaware it's an estate 7,000 square foot house. it's not the kind of place as one police official put to me where people drive by at a high rate of speed and open fire. but that appears to be what happened both the secret service and local police gave chase. they didn't catch up with anybody.

so right now they can't even say for sure this might have been aimed at joe biden. his house is several hundred yards off the street. it is guarded 24/7 by the secret service. although the vice president and dr. jill biden were there this weekend, they weren't there at the time. nobody was hurt. there's no indication that the house or any neighboring houses were hit but the fbi seems to be leading this multipronged investigation to find out what happened. >> no hard evidence it was connected. we know you'll keep us posted. chris jansing, thank you. across washington all eyes of course are on the state of the union address to be delivered tomorrow. president obama and his speechwriters working around the clock to finish their draft of the remarks. there he is with cody keenan overnight. we know a slate of reforms aimed at closing tax loopholes targeting financial firms and the wealthy. that will be a tough fiscal message to sell as for the first

time in the presidency president obama will deliver this to a republican controlled congress. our luke russert is following reactions on the hill. based on early reactions you've seen will the people be able to make the reforms a reality? >> no that's the short and simple answer. the republican conference in the house and senate will look at this and it will essentially say that president obama is just a tax hiking liberal and this will go nowhere. where i think though these things that the president are going to speak about regarding wealth and in terms of the inequality that is seen there and how the top own 40% of the wealth in the united states. i think that's sort of trying to shape up what the democratic message is going to be for the future. democrats have tried to move forward on income inequality in the past few elections and weren't successful in 2014. president obama was successful to some degree painting mitt

romney in 2012 as being looked as out of touch. they are going to try to grab this mantra moving forward of the we willth discrepancy he at the top and .01% should pay more so everybody benefits. if you put that before poll groups and focus groups that actually works quite well. i think that could be called the elizabeth warren respect within the democratic party. can it get through this congress. they want to play on -- senate democrats want to play on and eventually hillary clinton from all indications are from what she said, she's trying to different shatate herself from the wall street past. >> and something you touched on in passing there, luke some republicans are even appropriating that sort of elizabeth warren tone and we'll tap into it later. >> it's remarkable. that will be fun. >> you can watch the state of the union here on msnbc tomorrow

night starting at 8:00 hosted by the lovely rachel maddow and equally lovely chris matthews. overseas we're watching fallout from the latest issue of quts "charlie hebdo" and the cover predicting the prophet muhammad. it's a reason why several countries are coming together in outrage today. groups of students in afghanistan's capital condemned magazine and called for the french embassy to be shut down. others playing out in pakistan and chech ya. chris, we interviewed several members of the quts charlie heb dough" that hoped that the all is forgiven headline would be considered as a conciliatory gesture. are we seeing reaction on that soid or it dwarfed by the

protest and outrage? >> reporter: no i don't think we're seeing much sympathy with the "charlie hebdo" cover of the people eternally outraged because of offense to the muslim world. if you go back years, decades, there seem to be constant eruptions in which american embassies get burned and one thing and another happens because of some insult or another to islam. is this because there's always a lot of spontaneous outrage or is this in fact the work of demagogues? i would argue the latter. the most con speck uous case of that is in chechnya there may have been 5,000 people in the streets, half of the population because why? because the dictator who is very close to putin wanted to

exploit this to make himself look like the leader of the 20 million muslims of russia. i think it's a political game and what happens when you take that to the streets is that there can be violence and people get killed and things get burned and that makes headlines but it's the work of demagogues more than impassioned muslims. >> we're hearing 42% of people in france are opposed to the cartoons. we've seen voices on the other side of the spectrum supporting "charlie hebdo" but a large contingent saying they are against this. what's the significance of that? >> well you know i think a lot of people in france don't think "charlie hebdo" is worth this much trouble. i think they know -- if they know the publication, they know it was kind of high school humor for a long time. now it looks like it's a sacred work. until november december it was in circulating maybe 18,000

20,000 copies a week. and was about to go bankrupt. you know the irony is that the terrorist saved "charlie hebdo" now it's getting a million euros in subsidyies by the government and will survive for years to come. >> that is an ironic twist. appreciate it. in nairobi five children had been taken to the hospital after children were tear gassed. they were protesting the playground in land grabbers and the private developers had placed a fence over their playground. the ensuing protest turned ugly and made for this upsetting video you're watching now, children screaming and coughing as tear gas filled the air. stay with us everybody, a wave of anti-terror raids are going on across europe. they went on this weekend and dozens of suspects already. eu foreign ministers ruled out

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bigger sweeping reforms on table here. >> europe is a very big place in the sense that you've got multiple numbers of players that's have veto over big sweep being changes. those states like belgium, france germany and greece which have been at the forefront of this are feeling the heat more than other member states. and the notion of what a citizen's rights are is something held very tightly among citizens there. there have been discussion not only withholding travel documents but finding easier ways to strip citizenship from people engaged in concerting with terrorists. that has fallen flat thus far. >> steve, we know countries across europe have ramped up arrests since the attack in paris. a 30-year-old algerian man will be in court over a possible link to the plot in belgium, but longer term, what do you see as the biggest policy shift likely to come out of this moment in europe? >> i think every element of the

intelligence apparatus of each one of these countries is on high alert. essentially watching for patterns of activity associations between terrorists in one part of europe with other parts of europe. they are looking at soft points in which guns like the ak-47s and grenades that were reported have penetrated into these countries that have very very tough and strict gun laws. i think they will look at all of this. the biggest fear that was arctic lated by a belgium defense official was they don't know whether the sweeps and pickups of people have helped push down the threat or whether this is animating the the threats and new cells they haven't seen thus far. they are walking an interesting line between being very concerned and watching and trying to disrupt and to derail potential terrorist threats, but they may in fact be waking and triggering up others that are not on their radar screen at the moment. >> france in a lot of respects

has been a litmus test interesting to look at french politics on the far right, wrote an op-ed and called the three crucial mistakes a lack of border checks and assimilation policy and wondering foreign policy in line with her general position of being anti-opening up borders there. are the criticisms fair though? >> well i think they are not fair in the sense that she attaches that to a lot of other language. in my opinion anyway when she talks about not having greater assimilation programs, she's really saying she throws and her party throws a lot of the followers of islam into one big bucket and basically looks at them as problems throughout. i think that's a big problem. she's also called for return to the death penalty and said they need -- that france it self needs to have much tougher

border restrictions. that would be interesting because that would put france at odds within the european union and dismantle that 1965 agreement which creates free travel among the european states. what i have a problem with marine le pen and her followers, there's a thin line calling for smarter policies and institutionalize something that is kind of a bigoted legal regime, which is a better problem for france. >> her kritcritics would say straight out racist. interesting time of change in europe. thank you so much. stay with us in the days after these attacks in paris, there's been a palpable sense of fear in one community in particular. france's jewish community. we spent time in one jewish neighborhood where residents say they face anti-semitism every day. meet the residents when we come back.

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in the days on the attack on a magazine and kosher grocery store, 10,000 forces have been dough employed against france. protecting france's 500,000 jewish men and women. in jewish neighborhoods across paris, the mood is still tense today. we visited one where residents told us something needs to change. the neighborhood in paris, home for jews in france since world war ii and enclave for working class immigrants of all types. but it's now also known as a breeding ground for terrorists home to the islamist group, the cell that allegedly recruited and radicalized the kouachi brothers. since the attacks, many jewish shops are closed until further

notice. >> patrick is a local jewish business owner and chose to keep his bakery open even after a close call. the kouachi brothers swapped cars just up the street from his store. >> france home to one of the largest jewish communities in the western world. many are leaving that community amidst economic woes and charges of anti-semitism, many neighborhoods like this one in paris, say they are worried. >> the number of french jews returning to israel is up. last year a record number left for israel. 6600 according to the jewish agency for israel. that's more than double the previous year. the jewish agency estimates there could be as many as 10,000 french jews i am greatingat i am greating to israel in 2015.

netanyahu visited france after the attacks and actively encouraging european jews to move to israel in speeches and statements and tweets like this one. to all of the jews of france and europe israel is not just the place in whose direction you pray. the state of israel is your home. for many of france's jews the decision to stay or go is heart wrenching. >> for now, patrick plans to keep his shop open despite the tension in his neighborhood. he said he's thought of leaving for israel but wants to stay in the country he calls home. >> a tense time for and creasingly embattled community there, in france and across

europe. rabbi jonathan sacks, a leerd leading voice in the jewish community. thank you for taking the time to join today. we heard fears and doubts from jewish people in paris. are you hearing same concerns elsewhere across europe? >> very much so. they are not new, they've been obviously ak sen waited by this current attack. there's been an undercurrent for the past ten or even more years. >> that's something we heard on the ground in paris as well people saying anti-semitism has been mounting for a long time but it's gotten worse in the last few years. what do i attribute that to? >> i think to some extent we're seeing the blowback from the politics of the middle east but let me make it absolutely clear. this is not directly related to israel. this is anti-semitism, the

targets are not israeli ones they are jewish ones. people killed are not israelis they are jews. we're seeing the return of anti-semitism as one of those signs of global crisis such as existed in germany before the second world war, when there's turbulence international turbulence, the easier recourse is for people to blame the jews. i think this is a bad sign not only for jews but future of europe itself. >> for many facing that anti-semitism in their daily lives, the dilemma is what we saw from the shop owner, to leave or not leave. what's your advice to those grappling with that choice? >> to imagine to live within living memory of holocaust and in a few days time we'll celebrate the liberation of auch wits. to think europe is not safe for

jews is inconceivable. many of the jews in france and europe are going to stay and fight. they have contributed hugely to europe. france wouldn't be france without its jews as the french foreign minister said. we stay and we fight because the hate that begins with jews never ends with jews anti-semitism is a symptom of something much larger and i think we have to stand together on this and fight it together people of all faiths and none. >> netanyahu's message that they should consider israel a possible home. some are saying he's exploiting fear to attract immigration. any basis for that critique? >> you know the truth is and the simple truth is that the existence of state of israel has made it different now from what it was in the 1930s.

in 9 1930s, jews had nowhere else to go. today they have a state of israel to go to. this is a sense of security wherever jews are in the world. yes, i understand that prime minister netanyahu says come to israel and probably 10,000 french jews will do that. but many jews throughout europe will stay continue to feel very loyal to europe and say to europe, you must fight anti-sem itism because in the end it's a threat to your freedom, not just to ours. >> an important moment for people to stand against the anti-semitism. we appreciate your time. >> thank you ronan. >> as america honors one of our most revered civil rights icons, some are looking to change how we remember his legacy. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ "here i am. rock you like a hurricane." ♪ fiber one now makes

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the boys and girls club. a lot want to do more than just remember sending hash tags like black lives matter trending. reminding us of events in ferguson and staten island. what's different about this year? >> you have a whole generation of protesters and activists and ordinary people trying to reclaim the narrative and legacy of martin luther king jr. he was actually quite radical in his day and killed during the poor people's campaign. he chose to show the world exactly what was happening in the south. and so while he was a peaceful man, he believed in militant nonviolence. in new york city and san francisco and oakland and st. louis, protesters are taking part in acts of civil disowe disobedience disobedience, just not picking up track and volunteerism there's something called black brunch in ferguson where they are disrupting brunch saying

there's no way black men and women are killed in the streets and you're eating comfortably your eggs. they are carrying on his legacy in a way that that is very appropriate for these times. >> a chance to not just look back but look forward. #mlkday and happy mlk day trending nationally. i think we have a rendering here and we'll get it when we can. there it is still at the top of most of the trends we're looking at. let's look at the other social media stories, american sniper blew out all expectations this weekend and it's been a viral hit as well over 200,000 tweets about the film so far. that's partly driven by controversy. take this michael moore original, my uncle killed by a sniper in world war ii we were taught snipers were cowards shoot you in the back. snipers aren't heroes and

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richer foreshadowed a big state of the union, president obama is poised to pose new taxes on the rich to help the middle class. live from the white house with us now, casey, good to see you. what was the republican reaction to the new focus on poverty? >> reporter: i think the reaction was more to this idea of romney doing a third presidential bid. if you think back to how he approached his run in 2012 you remember he first ran in 2008. he lost. he didn't win the nomination to john mccain. and then the sort of assessment of what went wrong then was romney flip-flopped too much tagged as somebody who couldn't stick to one position. when you saw him run in 2012 you saw him run under the banner of no apology and wouldn't back down from things he said or did, even if those around him were saying this might have been a mistake. you're seeing another go-round of that this time. in 2012 he made a couple of

major mistakes the 47% and second of all a lot of people looked back and said we never got to know mitt romney the man. if we had gotten to know him better, we might have been more likely to vote for him. that's what you saw in the speech. that clip you showed and then second of all you saw him talk about his mormon faith and how his wife had seen him interact with poor people and he hadneedy and help in his church. that's something we didn't hear in 2012. >> he's a very likeable person face to face, clearly internally some of the conversation is how do we show the real mitt romney. what we did get to know of mitt romney the last time around was very different from the kinds of policy lines he's advancing now, you followed him in 2012 when he accused president obama of dividing the country on economic issues. >> i think it's about envy and

class warfare, when you have a president based on 99% versus 1% and those people have been most successful will be in the 1% you've opened up a whole new wave of approach of this country. >> pretty big shift in tone there, casey. do you see other republican candidates following suit striking more of a populist tone there? >> you know ronan, i do. i think you're seeing this across the board. we heard it from my favorite example so far is scott walker also at that rnc winter meeting who talked about how he goes about getting the cheapest possible shirt at kohl's outlining to the crowd, i'm a normal guy like all of you and you're seeing it in the policy rhetoric from others. take marco rubio, essentially building a platform around this idea of the american dream, saying that people need to be able to bring themselves up and that's what has been missing. i don't think that romney is alone in identifying this as a

core important part of what we're going to be talking about in 2016. you mentioned elizabeth warren that's driving the democratic side too, this idea that average americans feel left out even as we see the stock market soar and wealthy americans make more money. >> you have the republican caucus pretty wired. how are they gearing up for that and reacting to economic proposals on the table. >> reporter: you saw immediate opposition so the plan the president came out. he came out of the gate pretty strongly in saying i want to raise taxes on the wealthiest americans to try to give middle class americans more tax cuts. in some ways that's setting the terms for a debate over tax reform and that's something that both sides had sort of agreed that they could find some common ground on. but i think from the beginning, you're seeing people like orrin hatch, paul ryan coming out and saying, this is a nonstarter. i think this is just one more example of how the president is taking something of a

confrontational tone with republicans as he heads into the last two years and first two years with an all republican congress. >> casey hunt always a highlight of every day to have you on. thanks so much. >> good to see you. >> all of this focus of income inequality as president obama puts finishing touches on the speech. the president will propose $320 billion in new taxes. that's the economic policy we're talking about here. that's going to include an increase in capital gains taxes, new fees on banks and closing the trust fund loophole. jared bernstein, always a pleasure. is the president going to propose middle class tax breaks? in particular, one thing that's been making rounds as a potential $500 second earner credit tripling the child care tax credit and making some community colleges free. what are you hearing about those proposals? and do you see those getting any

bipartisan support? >> yes, all of those are likely to be in the speech and there are a few more. let me tick through. i have my teleprompter here free community college, tripling the college tax credit balancing work and family. you mentioned the second earner credit education tax credits for college, auto enrollment in iras, that's a nice retirement idea for working people. look i do think there are some pieces of that that may be bipartisan. for example, an expansion of the earned income credit that's a low wage subsidy has been something that both paul ryan and marco rubio have mentioned. these college tax credits are something some republicans in the past have supported. closing this capital gains tax loophole, that's kind of new. but that was actually in bowles sim simpson. >> interesting and hopefully a chance tore bipartisanship in the reaction to this speech. i want to compare more broadly the economic state of the union when obama first took office to

the economic state of the union he's presiding over as president now. unemployment rate down that's one positive story here. stock market up. but on other hand the median household income is also significantly down. so some republican voices like grover nor quist have been saying it's too late. what are your thoughts? >> well no i think we're going to hear a very different president on the economy tomorrow night, not just on the first state of the union but in most states of the union, he's taken a position on the economy, it's getting better our stuff is working, but we're not there yet, we're not out of the woods yet. if you listen to him more recently he talks about an american economic resurgence. i don't think you're going to see that two-step pofivot, i think he'll say we have real underlying growth so let's go at this inequality problem. i don't think republicans have much of a policy agenda in that space. >> we were just looking at mitt romney doing a pivot in his

policy agenda talking about the rich getting richer in a negative context. of course, we've seen elizabeth warren gain popularity for her agenda similar sort of populism she stands for. do you see that kind of populist economic attitude coming back into vogue on both sides of the aisle? >> yes, but let me make a very important distinction, something i have yet not to hear at all from the republican side is the idea of actual concrete kind of granular policy solutions. and if you look at jeb, if you look at mitt no question that the rhetoric is changing but what's really i think a challenge for them is that historically, all they really had are trickle down economics, that's typically the policy agenda. so it's one thing to say now i'm going to talk about inequality and talk about poverty, but they have to have an answer to the question, what are you going to do about it. the president in a way is kind of getting in their face with this new tax plan which as you mentioned, raises over 300

billion on the wealthy and helps the middle class. let's hear gran you'lly -- >> when you make a call for a granular proposal the ryan budget didn't cut it in terms of specifics? >> it's goes exactly the opposite direction. that is robin hood in reverse. that's a policy that -- that's a budget that cuts literally trillions in spending for low income programs and literally electricals in tax cuts for high income people. that's the trickle-down agenda. it hasn't worked for mitt and ryan in the past and hard to see how it would going forward. >> as interesting as the contents of the speech reaction we'll wait for on the other side. we appreciate your helping us understand that reaction. >> thank you, ronan. >> up next questions about disturbing things happening inside saud dayi arabia a recent public beheading, causing many in the west to raise serious doubts and questions about the

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overnight, saudi arabian authorities arrested a man for something that country said is illegal under the cyber security laws. the crime? recording a video that shows government officers dragging a woman through the streets of mecca and beheading her in public. this comes amidst new scrutiny of human rights abuses in the kingdom. amid international outrage, saudi arabia a man sentenced to a thousand lashes and ten years in prison and creating a secular website and, quote, insulting islam. the group saudi arabian researcher savag joins me now. it is called mccob and

outrageous. is that being heard by the saerdan government at all? >> we hoping it is. we are not sure. because the flogging the second round was only postponed for medical grounds. as far as we know they are keen on continuing to flog him for 19 more weeks starting this friday -- or continuing this friday. >> so they say it is about health concerns not about the international outrage and you take them at their word for this potentially? >> there is no line whatsoever. basically our information is either we are very -- we are very, very to the point on this. we know the source of the information and we are certain that it is on medical grounds. so the official line is actually nothing whatsoever. we have not heard anything from the authorities, no response of any level of the authorities, be that inside or outside of saudi

arabia. >> this is a small glimpse of human rights violations. they executed 11 jailed dozens and there have been beheading. but saudi arabia is a close ally of the united states and what does that say to you. >> that says many things. it says there are clear double standards in terms of how western governments in general and the u.s. government in particular deal with principals human rights principles in their engagement with different countries and authorities. it harms the u.s. image and reduce their credibility and in terms of when they discuss oren gage with the people -- or engage with the people in the middle east and where they stand in terms of the interest. it is not about principles it is about interest. that is the bottom line until proven otherwise. so it is really disturbing. and as you just mentioned, it is not basically the first flogging

or there has been 11. last year in august within one month there were 30 beheadings within one to and we didn't see any reaction. there was minor reaction from iran but nothing from the major allies of saudi arabia. so it is absolutely disturbing and it blows the cover on the hypocrisy of it all. >> and what can people watching this and moved by the story do or is it simply too late? >> i think they should start questioning how this is being possible. how is this occurring and why the governments that represent their own will more or less that what the basis of their engagement with the saudi authorities. i think she should raise questions and demand action. in a way what they are demanding is their basic right, something their governments have signed up in terms of international treaties and international law

in terms of universal principles of human rights so they should be demanding the governments to do the right thing and to do that in whatever means available. obviously peaceful means campaigning and advocacy. >> thank you for your work. it is an important story. >> thank you. and that wraps up our r.f. daily. "the reid report" is up next. and stay tuned for joy. it's a pleasure to see you. >> thank you. you did a great job in paris. and coming up next bobby jindal wades back into the no-go zone and doubles down. and plus we'll preview the state of the union address. and on this mlk day we talk about the day and reveal new poll numbers on whether

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good afternoon, and happy mlk day. this is "the reid report" and i'm joy reid. today we'll look at how the nation is remembering dr. king and his vision for america. that is coming up. but first we'll start with the many unanswered questions in the investigation into gunshots heard near the home of vice president joe biden on saturday night. the shots were believed to have been -- the shots were believed to have been fired from a moving vehicle while the president and mrs. biden were away. the vice president was did not -- did not comment on the case. and this morning at a mlk breakfast in delaware as fbi continues to search for clues. casey hunt is at the white