good morning, it's saturday january 16th i'm ali velshi live at the fortified capitol of the united states of america. the dark backdrop for the final scene on a harrowing attack on democracy. joe biden will be inaugurated president of the united states in four days, this coming wednesday. the outgoing president hasn't resigned or criminal charged for his role in the attempted coup but he has, however, been impeached with one article of impeachment for incitement of insurrection. donald trump is now the only

president in the united states history to have been impeached twice, and he has become so delusional, so vengeful and angry and isolated in the white house that he's now resorted to taking advice from people right off the street. mike lyndell, rapid conspiracy theersist, right to claim making pillows with foam in the right wing less than a month after calling on trump to invoke marshall law on swing states won by joe biden. a topic of discussion yesterday as well because snippets of his notes you see on the screen captured by a "washington post" photographer including "insurrection, act now, at the result of the assault on the end." then you see, marshall law if necessary upon the first hint of any -- you see -- foreign interference in the election. trigger eligible powers. make clear, this is china, iran. that was apparently the advice the pillow guy gave to the insurrectionist president yesterday around the same time

donald trump slis is the advice on authoritarian methods of staying power from the pillow guy. and house speaker nancy pelosi tasked retired lieutenant general russell honore, famously took over the botched hurricane katrina rescue of new orleans after messed up by the bush administration, he's now leading review of the u.s. capitol security in the wake of the january 6th siege. a new report from the "washington post" revealing that an internal capitol police investigation warned three days before the siege congress itself could be a target of violent and angry trump supporters. and now capitol police tell nbc news that there is an investigation into alleged tours that were given by some congressional republicans to would-be rioters the day before the insurrection. tours described as "reconnaissance" by congresswoman, a veteran u.s. navy pilot. >> shocking as you mentioned

visitors aren't allowed in the capitol complex. you know, since march. since the start of covid that has been shut down. all tours are shut down. it was so odd to see them that my chief of staff called the sergeant and arms to say what is going on and he reiterated the only way these people could have gotten into the capitol complex was with a member, or member's staff, and we now know that those violent groups that attacked the capitol complex had inside knowledge of the capitol grounds. >> despite the fact we are days removed from a deadly siege on the capitol many republicans are playing tantrums including screaming, cursing and in cases threatening capitol hill and the media because of these new security measuresut in place following the siege such as metal detectors, bag checks. basically airport security. on the other hand, the ten house republicans who accept reality and voted for impeachment are now fearing for their lives.

>> colleagues now traveling with armed escorts out of fear for their safety. many of us altering routines, working to get body armor, which is a reimbursable purchase that we can make. it's sad we have to get to that point, but our expectation is that someone may try to kill us. >> this is the state of the united states of america amp four years of donald trump. a country with a reputation so tarnished abroad that the foreign minister of luxemburg and several top european union officials rejected a request by secretary of state mike pompeo to meet. a country with fewer jobs than at this time four years around and a new surge on unemployment with new claims once again nears 1 million per week. a country despite having the world's best medical resources continues to have the world's worse covid-19 response with around a quarter of a million new cases each day. around 4,000 americans are now

dieing every day. tens of thousands each week. before the weekend is over, as prohibited months ago, the country will be right around 400,000 covid-19 deaths. all in less than a year. it appears this is going to continue to get worse. the cdc warns this new and more contagious covid-19 variant will likely cause another major surge by march. the vaccine rollout continues to be slow and affected by avoidable issues things experts and scientists would know about the outgoing, about, if the outgoing president would actually meet with them instead of people like the foam pillow guy. we are a country with a vengeful, outgoing administration seemingly bent on sabotaging the incoming administration before it even gets started. the country be damned. joining me now, pulitzer prize winning reporter with the "washington post" and msnbc contributor carol lennik, author of "a very stable genius: donald j. trump testing of america." carol broke the new piece in the

"washington post" revealing existence of a 12-page internal capitol police intelligence report dated january 3rd, just three days before the attack on the capitol, warning that congress itself could be a target of violent and angry trump supporters. good morning to you. who else knew about this report? the capitol police had it. did they doing anything about it and sharp that information with anyone? >> those are the critical questions. you know, as we learn more about what's happened. people are saying, how in the world could they not have secured the capitol better? everybody and their mother knew that pro-trump protesters were getting angry and were swelling towards washington. well, i guess what we've also learned, ali, in this most recent report that i did last night is that they did try to take some steps, but they were very, very small, and insufficient. this memo that came out january 3rd, it was dispatched to all of the capitol police command

staff. so captains and higher. the chief saw it. everyone was provided this document, even though it was law enforcement sensitive, it wasn't circulated widely. it was circulated widely inside the top ranks of the capitol police. and what it basically said and predicted was exactly what happened. that there would be desperate, angry protesters, thousands strong, encouraged to be armed, egged on by president trump and that they had a new target unlike other targets in the past. they were coming for congress. and you know, it's chilling to read, because they talk about some of the online chat groups for militias and forums for white supremacists where they are talking about the armor that they will bring. that they should bring guns of any kind. that they should have them unassembled to reassemble on the scene. there are discussions of

bringing reinforced bullet-proof vests usually used to stop rifle rounds, ali, in a military combat situation, and also to bring gas masks. so you know, the capitol police knew there was a group coming that was likely going to be prepared for war. as for your other important question. what did they do about it? well, the chief decided on sunday when he got this report that he would ask his bosses the next day. the sergeants at arms for permission to put the guards on emergency standby. in other words, activate the guard. his bosses said, no. they didn't like the look of that. weren't sure leaders would approve it and suggested he not ask for that emergency backup, and it proved -- well, it proved fatal. >> yeah. and useful to note both of those bosses, the sergeant-at-arms at the senate and house both resigned replaced by acting bosses in that sense.

thank you for your amazing and necessary reporting in this time. i kind of thought people like you would have a bit of a break in the time between the election and the inauguration, but that break is not to be. we'll talk to you again soon. pulitzer prize winning reporter author of "a very stable genius: donald j. trump testing of america." house speaker nancy pelosi hasn't said when she will send the article of impeachment to senate for a trial which will take place sometime in the early days of the biden administration. joining me, the congresswoman from the united states virgin islands. one of nine impeachment managers that will lead the prosecution in donald trump's second impeachment trial. representative, good to see you. article of impeachment overwhelmingly passed in the house. it's your job and the job of eight others to make the case in a trial. it don't know when it will take place, but a trial in the senate to convince senators to vote for removal of the president. how does that work given the

president will probably be gone by the time the trial takes place. >> well, you know, members of congress have a duty to uphold the constitution and to defend it against enemies foreign and domestic. in the house, we believe that this president is a clear and present danger, and so the house acted. as you said, overwhelmingly, in a bipartisan manner which has never been done in history. we all were witnesses to what happened on january 6th. and it is our duty to act on it. we will take these, this article of impeachment over to the senate and try the actions of donald j. trump. that caused almost a coup d'etat, attempted overthrow of a democratic process. it is important that that get done. important for us to send that message, that this will not stand in this democracy so that it cannot be done again. so that others cannot believe that it can be done again.

if you recall in the last impeachment hearing, there were senators that said, he's not grog to do this again. he's learned his lesson. obviously, not only has he not learned his message, but those individuals who attempted to terrorize the members of congress, kidnap, assassinate people did not learn that lesson. we are there to teach them that lesson that democracy rules in this country. >> so a lot of people associate impeachment with removal of the president. in fact, we learned from the last impeachment, reminded impeachment is the prosecution, the charges, and then the trial is the decision to remove the president. if there is no president to remove, or if that president does not face the sanction of removal, what is the sanction that donald trump faces by impeachment? done for democracy or done for donald trump? >> i think it's done for both. correct? because you're sending a message that things are not actions that americans will tolerate, that

this is something that has to be stopped. which you are also sending a message to donald j. trump potentially by the second act that the senate may do, which is to impede him from running for office again or to have the trappings that our past presidents may have after they have left. ali, remember, that this has happened in the past. there has not only been a trial after someone has been removed from office, but the house in the 1800s impeached an individual after they had left office. the house in this instance impeached the president while he was still in office. and in the 1800s, that case was taken to the senate, and that individual was tried after they left office. thare some acts so egregious that justice must be done before healing can take place. >> good to see you again.

thank you for joining me. democratic representative stacey plaskett, impeachment manager in the forthcoming senate trial against donald trump. joining me now, nbc news presidential historian michael beschloss. latest book "presidents of war: epic story from 1807 to modern times." i've lived in this beautiful see washington, d.c. two times in my life and lever seen it like this. actually looks like a city, a country in a state of war. no civilians. there are police, national guard, military vehicles. a big fence behind me. you cannot get anywhere near the united states capitol. this sort of hurts for democracy. >> it does hurt. and the problem is that the war is not from outside. the war is on our democracy by our president of the united states. you've got this demented, malicious man who is now president for another four or five days. hates democracy. loves power, and abuses power.

the problem we've got, ali, is that the next four or five days he still has tremendous power at his fingertips. he can use nuclear weapons in some way. i hope there are constraints against that. he could get us involved in unnecessary military action, but i think the biggest thing for us all americans to watch against is that he will do something that he's hinted at for four years. remember, ali, you know, he gives speeches saying, i've got powers that are so awesome that i'm not even allowed to talk about them. i think what he's talking about is his power in emergencies, and he is of the view that if there are disorders in the cities, especially washington, d.c., that he could declare marshall law, and use emergency powers, and maybe, i'm speculating here, even use emergency powers to stay in office past noon on wednesday. we americans have to be guardians of democracy. we have to watch this every single minute until joe biden

takes the oath. >> you know, mr. rogers always said in times of tragedy look for the helpers. this one's almost turned on its head. you have to look for the enablers of donald trump, because there are things he might do but some things people let him get away with including republicans in the house of representatives and senate behind me. >> they let him get away with this for four years and that's the reason the country is in this trauma and why our children are in dangered today. this was not necessary. the way the system is supposed to work as you know as well as anyone or better than anyone, ali, the fact that if you've got a crazy president who hates democracy, congress comes in to check him especially members of his own party. that has not happened. it's now happening belatedly a little bit but we are going to be in danger every single hour until this guy is gone. >> we were sort of making light of the idea that the foam pillow guy was at the white house and the "washington post" photographed something he talks about marshall law.

it is worrisome. michael flynn brought the suggestion up. foam pillow guy is talking about it and we're surrounded by the military at the moment. donald trump is looking for something to light that flame. so he gets to exercise the last power he's got the next four days. >> yes. every single sign we have suggests that he wants there to be disorder in the state capitals of every single one of the 50 states and elsewhere so that he can say, you know, there is not law and order and it's my job as president to restore it. we americans have to prevent him from doing this. there has to be a peaceful transfer of power. this must never happen again. >> michael good to see you as always. thank you. michael beschloss. presidential historian mts stay well. >> thank you. author of "presidents of war c the pepic story from 1807 to modern times." a remarkable book and more relevant in times like this. washington, d.c. we discussed looking more like a secured military zone. security very tight here with more threats of violence ahead

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we're live now from the nation's capital this morning. washington, d.c. with inauguration day on wednesday. this city has only four more days to prepare for this event. security's remaining top of mind for all law enforcement after the siege we saw at the capitol on january 6th where hundreds of lawmakers and the vice president were put in harm's way. thousands of national guardsmen sent here this past week as reinforcements with the defense department authorizing 5,000 more just yesterday. meaning as many as 25,000 national guard troops are estimated to be in d.c. for the inauguration. they're everywhere you look here. this comes as city officials, washington, d.c. city officials, have shut down key areas in the city including much of the

national mall and more than a dozen metro subway stations. my nbc colleague ellison barber is tracking the situation. what's the situation here and what's happening here? >> reporter: ali, no matter who you talk to from d.c. whether lived here 5 or 50 years, even if they've been to inaugurations before, the presence of the national guard, never seen anything quite like this. checkpoints all around washington, d.c. a block away down the street, another one. limiting traffic and stopping vehicular traffic in the area as you get closer and closer to the capitol. we have seen this security footprint, this security perimeter, extend in recent days. you can see the cement barricades, just past that the capitol you can see in the distance and some of those rudge -- roughly nine-feet tall barricades. on the eastern side of the

capitol, some fences actually have razor wire on the top. secret service is up there, capitol police as well as soldiers and airmen from the national guard. the national guard says right now they have about 7,000 guard members on the ground. deployed from 13 different states and the district of columbia. by the time inauguration day comes around, there will be at least 25,000 members of the national guard protecting the nation's capitol, and we are told they will be deploying from all 50 states, three u.s. territories and the district of columbia. all of this hopefully enough to deal with potential threats. we know the fbi director says they have been monitoring extensive online chatter. hoping that nothing like what we saw on january 6th happens again. ali? >> ellison, thank you. of course, some of the state capitals need their guardsmen too. ellison barber with me in

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ashes the nation still reels from that violent assault on the capitol just ten days ago questions remain how such an attack happened and why law enforcement seemed so unprepared. the fbi said last week had had no intelligence suggesting the pro-trump rally on january 6th would be anything more than a law ffl demonstration. the "washington post" came up with a series of reports pointing to the contrary. three days from the insurrection an internal intelligence report warned of a violent scenario in which congress to are a target of angry trump supporters and

new dozens on the agency's terrorist watch list came to d.c. and participated in the riots. further reporting found an fbi field office picked up direct online threats made against the capitol. go there ready for war. nothing will achieve this goal, quote/unquote. fearful the rioters were abetted by far right congressional colleagues. members of congress. more than 30 democrats requesting a probe from both acting sargents and arms from capitol hill. one from the house one from the senate. suspicious behave other january 5th the day before the capitol attacks, tours allowed. and yesterday an investigation into that alleged tour. this is a different investigation looking at removal of all panic buttons from ayanna

pressley. and an nbc analyst and executive director of the terror asymmetrics project on strategy tactics and radical events and "how team trump embraced our enfris, compromised our security and how we can fix it." malcolm a lot of what i said in the last couple of minutes reminds me of 9/11. different agencies responsible for different things that had different information and somehow it didn't get shared. still in early days. don't know if that's actually the truth. bottom line, that's the situation. capitol police, d.c. police, fbi, secret service all sorts of people involved in security around here. seems that a few of them new something. >> right. well, unlike 9/11, 9/11 was clandestine operation, which only 19 people were involved operating in total secrecy across three continents. what happened here in terms of failures was something was widely seen. i, myself, actually warned about the potential for an

insurrection and insurgency in late november. what we saw while monitoring right-wing extremist communications throughout all of december was everything was focusing on january 6th, after the december 14th certification of the election came out. donald trump himself said that he wanted people to come to the capitol. it's going to be wild. anyone who was in the intelligence community who had anything to do with domestic intelligence would know that all of his most rabid supporters would be showing up. we had already receive add template from the state of michigan for the indictment of the six men who were going to kidnap the governor of michigan. most don't realize in that indictment was a plan b. and plan b was they were going to take the capitol of state of michigan with 200 men during a protest lay siege to it and execute all the democratic members of the michigan state

assembly. this plot was very well-known. for them to magnify that on a large scale on january 6th was just simple. i saw the same warnings many terrorism researchers were putting out warnings that january 6th, they were going to lay siege to the united states capitol and they were going to attempt to stop the counting of the certification of joe biden as president. >> so malcolm, spell it out for me, then. if this stuff was all out there on parler, on twitter, on social media. monitoring, folks at the capitol had some instinct this was going to happen, how come it wasn't shut down? is it that it's nobody's job to do it? we need joint terrorism task forces? need to take white extremism and call it what it is? call it the racism and extremism that it is? >> well, yes. you have to call this out for what this is. let me be quite frank, and i mean, i have been doing this for 35 years.

i have seen governments overthrown overseas by people power. this is more akin to the kind of rally you would see in zimbabwe, right? run by a dictator who would go out and use the mobs to effect, you know, to knock down his opponents. this was simply put a rally for donald trump and the united states government disarmed itself, because they thought the protesters would be white, conservative and trump supporters, and that if the president was out there pushing this, then these people would come out and be friendly. they would essentially be allied forces and they wouldn't do the activities that the government used an enormous quantity of resources to attack antifa and the black lives matter protesters. so the fundamental bias here was the bias of the color of the crowd. i mean, i'm saying that as an intelligence professional. i'm not saying that because i'm

african-american. it doesn't matter. they disarmed themselves. the event at the capitol should have been a national security special event. the vice president of the united states was in there. the president-elect of the united states was there. the speaker of the house, president of the senate pro tem in a joint session of congress? it could literally have decapitated the united states government, and if they had been killed, captured or incass tated that day, left donald trump sole monarch of the united states. >> something to think about. malcolm nance, naval intelligence executive director of the terror asymmetric radical ideologies and msnbc terrorism analyst. whether or not any house republicans were explicitly involved in the capitol riots, all but ten betrayed democracy refusing to hold donald trump accountable and impeach him for a second term. that's ahead. erm. that's ahead.

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the last year's been hellish for most americans, plagued by the coronavirus pandemic, endless racial strife and an administration that just won't quit, literally's in four days joe biden and kamala harris will take over the white house and on that day donald trump leaves office with the ultimate stain ps two, actually, on his political record as the only president in history to be impeached twice. while the impeachment was a little bipartisan, ten house

republicans voted in favor of it, 97 republicans did not support the measure. 197. look for you. more than 500 federal lawmakers endured the same violence. the same riot. the same insurrection on capitol hill behind me. almost all fearing for safety. seen images and by heard the words used trump used inciting the siege led to mayhem and ultimately five people losing their lives. after all that nearly 200 republicans voted against ip peachment. it was to vote in fager of democracy. a value every member of the house and senate took and oath to uphold. to solemnly swear to support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic. lawmakers are supposed to be custodians of democracy. at this point republicans tacit and overt support of trump demonstrates abdication of duty. i want to bring in tim snyder, professor at yale university and author of multiple books

including one very important called "on tyranny: 20 lessons from the 20th century." thinking about this a lot. tim, you tweeted something on january 13th. you said, the more we learn the less this looks like a coup bound to fail and the more it looks like plain luck that all of our legislatures and our vice president were not murdered. tell me more about why you say that. >> yeah. there are two levels here. two ways this was an inside job. the first is -- the larger obvious -- congressmen and member of the republican senate lessons don't work basically calling their own rights and protection -- that's the

larger -- the more we realize -- these peoplethed to paramilitary and some people in a larger -- ream armed and the more we know -- the more we realize the vice president-so america got lucky. >> tim, one of the things i want to point out. sorry. point out you also tweeted malcolm made this point saying when black people and allies exercise freedom of speech it's called violent insurrection. when white people call out violent insurrection it's called free speech. with black lives matter, cops were all over it. >> and what governments do, so policing you see in free speech -- free speech reality.

you talk about it that way, from stability to not making the necessary preparations. it's obvious that -- protests and -- our whole government is incapable of recognizing as almost everyone knows, in the united states -- that's just a fact. the fbi's recognized that. homeland security recognizes that. still you see what's going on, blowing up in your face. >> people don't want to make comparison the to hitler for obvious reasons. you point out the way germany and the nazi regime started to undermine institutions in order to get to the point where they

were able it take control. you write in the "new york times," like historical fascist leaders trump presented himself as the single source of truth. his use of the term "fake news" echoed the nazi smear, "lying press." like the nazis referred to reporters as enemies of the people. like hitler came to power in a moment when the conventional press had taken a beating. making the point that donald trump did convince people, many of them we saw here, 8,000 of them we saw here on january 6th, that don't worry about what everybody else says, what you see with your own eyes. i'm saying this and you need to believe me. >> yes. this is what we're talking about. less local news bias, and -- when local news goes away -- saying what you want to hear, it makes you feel good.

[ inaudible ] if you have local news and -- media and the situation -- reminds me of -- someone tells a big lie with little truth that big lie gets people to act and once they act they immediate nor lies -- can't see reality -- leading to acts of violence. a lie -- [ inaudible ]. >> tell me how you work again? who actually is supposed to work against it? republicans are enthralled with president trump despite the fact he has been fomenting a coup. is it the media's job? is it everybody else who believes the truth? how do you actually solve this problem once you have large portions of the population believing lies? >> what you have to do -- divert

them -- rebuild the local -- [ inaudible ] needs fixing. simply tell the truth. republicans -- to the country -- all of us in the media, all of us have to recognize the value -- [ inaudible ] you can't actually have democracy with -- so the moral -- [ inaudible ]. >> timothy, thank you for joining me. professor timothy snyder, history professor at yale university. i recommend you follow him on twitter and read his arms. he's written about and studying for decades what's happening right now. the conspiracy cesspool that was parler is effectively

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last week americans witnessed a direct attack on our democracy when a mob stormed the capitol. this week congress is back in the capitol impeaching donald trump for incitement of the riot making him the first president to be impeached two times by the house. as agencies track down those that terrorized the capitol acting district attorney for district of columbia says there are 275 open investigations with 98 people so far charged. the justice department has 100 criminal cases linked to the attack and now we learn how many of those who swore to protect and serve this country are actually participants in the terrorist attack. as of yesterday nearly 30 law enforcement officers suspected being a part of the crowd that stormed the capitol.

internal police department investigations under way in seven states and majority leader steny hoyer at the capitol said there are at least 15 instances of misconduct by capitol police under investigation. fbi director chris wray warns of more attacks of potential armed protests leading up to the inauguration and as social media platforms copt to remove accounts affiliated with qanon and the january 6th attack, one researcher warns the movement "isn't something we will delete from social media. extremists will become further radicalized pushed into less known websites." experts like my next guest knew where to look. joining me now, nbc's senior investigative producer anna schechter. great to see you. malcolm made the point a while ago there was nothing secret about this. a little unusual everybody didn't have their about the

together, but these extremist conspiracy theories grow online, they're published online. this whole event was recruited for online. >> that's exactly right. for months in advance we were seeing extremist content and the stop the steal steal conspiracyy was really a driver and it actually recruited so many people into this way of thinking and enraged so many people who were trump supporters and there was a difference between that and extreme views and we've seen this corrosion between that dividing line. it seems to not exist anymore. i was in parlor which was extremely easy to download and you are immediately in an echo chamber. you don't even have to get inside one of these chat rooms like we've seen on telegram. parlor was shut down on monday in the wake of the january 6th siege on the capitol, and you saw this huge uptick in membership in some of the most

extreme telegram channels. so if you download telegram on to your phone it's really easy to get inside these chat rooms if you know what to look for, and you're seeing qanon conspiracies which give way to people posting, for example, what we found in -- we've been monitoring for months is a u.s. army manual for bomb making, for munitions making and these are extremely, extremely dangerous things that are being shared openly on these channels. unbelievably, but in an unprecedented way, telegram did shut down a host of these channels and we followed up our reporting with that. this was an unprecedented move for u.s. channels. remember, telegram was the app favored by isis and now it's really the place for far-right extremists, conspiracy theories and sadly and unfortunately

calls for violence. they were building up to calls for violence on january 6th and now recalibrating and planning for january 20th, inauguration day. >> ana, experts in this field differ on whether it's good that twitter, faceback and mainstream social media are clamping down on these groups. last week i was talking to the professor for m.i.t. and they were are worried to at least see, now maybe going into narrower and narrower channels. you've been studying this for years and you've lived in these places where these conspiracy theories come from and is there some danger of them being squeezed out of the open? >> absolutely. it's a double-edged sword. on the one hand, there is some hope that when people switch platforms it creates an opportunity for mistakes to be made, where people can reveal identifying information even when posting under an anonymous

name or pseudonym. however, you're forcing people into darker and darker corners of the internet and it's harder to find them. so if you wipe out parlor then you see this huge influx into telegram and it's a game of whack-a-mole, and what i've seen extremist posting in telegram saying we're not going away, and you see these backup channels. so you're in some of the worst channels where hitler glorification, calls for violence are just popping up in your feed, so to speak, and all of a sudden it's, like, okay. we might not have a long time here so here's the backup channel and here's the backup to the backup channel. so these guys know that they're being watched and they've created ways to go elsewhere and bring their audience elsewhere and sadly, radicalize more people in this climate where it is so polarized. there's so much anger and there's so much mistrust that as you saw on january 6th, too,

people who were at that rally probably wouldn't have gone a few years ago and now they're taking that step and taking that step inside the capitol unlawfully, people who you never would have thought would do that under normal circumstances and that's so troubling. >> ana, thanks for your great reporting on this. ana schechter, senior investigative producer and this special of velshi is just getting started. in the next hour we'll have a conversation with lettisha james over the use of excessive use over the george floyd protest last summer. tiffany cross is joined by incoming white house senior adviser cedric richmond and the joaquin castro and congressman bonnie watson-coleman who tested positive for covid-19 after being in close quarters with maskless republican colleagues during the capitol siege. velshi: attack on democracy continues after a quick break. n continues after a quick break.

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good morning. it is saturday, january the 16th. i'm ali velshi joining you from washington, d.c., nearby the capitol building, it was an ongoing coup attempt by donald trump and his supporters. this morning the investigation into the capitol siege, shocking new details revealing what might have happened should things have

gone differently. capitol police may have been warned of the attack on congress itself three days before it occurred. an intelligence report with key information raising questions of why it wasn't shared with other agencies and why further precautions were not taken. "the washington post" also reporting how the violent mob of insurrectionists came perilously close to encountering mike pence in the halls of congress. the v.p. and his family were cleared out by secret service agents just moments before rioters would have come into contact with them. they're openly worrying far-right colleagues may have helped plan or guide the attack. representative, a u.s. veteran navy helicopter pilot formerly requesteda an investigation after she said she saw lawmakers at the capitol. video of the siege says there was possible intelligence gathering between the rioters. listen to this.

>> what's the floor plan? >> there's a door to the right. >> downstairs. >> guys, i've been in the other room. in the other room on the other side of this door right where they're standing, there is a glass and it's broken. you can drop down into and there are two doors in the other room, one to the right as you go in. so people should probably coordinate together if you're going to take this building. >> it's unclear when that rioter was in the other room or how any of them got that information, but it's striking especially alongside representative cheryl's concerns. democratic congressman tim ryan of ohio chair of the appropriation subcommittee which overcease the capitol police have confirmed there is an investigation into allegations that some members gave tours to groups that later besieged the building and there is troubling