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even in defeat, cheney remained defiant. >> we must go forward based on truth. we cannot both embrace the big lie and embrace the constitution. >> meanwhile, the house oversight committee convened a hearing on the january 6th riot in which former acting defense secretary christopher miller said he was concerned about sending in troops over fears that it could be perceived as a military coup and jeffrey rosen who replaced bill barr in december after he publicly said there's no evidence of election fraud, declined to say whether he spoke with the president about overturning the election results. president biden assembled the congressional leaders for the first time since taking office and was asked about the republicans purge of cheney, watch. now for his part, mccarthy, who

led his party against certifying the elections said, the issue is settled. >> i don't think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. i think that is all over with. we're sitting here with the president today. >> later this hour we'll hear from the president again when he talks about vaccinations and the administration's pandemic response. we'll bring those remarks when they begin. anna palmer, "new york times" correspondent luke broadwater who has reported extensively on the capitol riots and capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell. luke, let's begin with you. let's play that exchange with connelly, who basically dodged questions about what the president asked him to do about overturning the election. watch. >> did you have conversations prior to january 6th with the

president of the united states, urging you to question or overturn, or challenge the election results in 2020. >> when you ask me about communications with the president, i, as a lawyer, don't get to make the decision on whether i can reveal private conversations. other people make that decision. >> did you meet with the president at the white house on january 3rd? >> i did. >> so, rosen either didn't answer or deflected a number of questions. what do you think we should take away from that exchange? >> well, i guess there's two ways to view that. former acting attorney general is citing what he said was attorney/client privilege and didn't want to get into the details of certain conversation s he had had with former president trump. lots of lawyers will give a similar answer in that setting. so we can give him the benefit of the doubt in that instance. however, he did answer other questions on other topics and

said certain things that he felt comfortable talking about. and, you know, the democrats knew he should have answered these questions and should have said whether or not donald trump pressured him to try to overturn the results of the election and he refused to do so. so, he received quite a bit of harsh criticism from the committee, from the democrats on the committee over that. >> anna, let me play for you what liz cheney had to say when she was asked after the vote if she was worried about donald trump returning to the white house. take a listen. >> i, uh, will do everything i can to ensure that, uh, the former president never again gets anywhere near the oval office. we have seen the danger that he continues to provoke with his language. we have seen his lack of commitment and dedication to the constitution, and i think it's very important that we make sure whomever we elect is somebody who will be faithful to the

constitution. >> what do we know about liz cheney's strategy to achieve that goal, the coalition around her, if there is one? >> she's a person who doesn't have a ton of friends in the house republican conference but she is speaking with a loud megaphone now, despite being thrown out of leadership. she did an interview earlier today with your colleague, savannah guthrie. she said she's going to run for re-election. and she's going to continue to hammer the former president on these issues. she is not going away. she's clearly ready for the fight. and i think she has this mantle now and really feels as if she has a responsibility to continue to press this issue that the president acted in bad faith on january 6th and that the election results should have been certified, and he should have been impeached. >> leigh ann, quite remarkably, the president said he can work with kevin mccarthy, despite this internal gop leadership

battle. is that even realistically possible, given that mccarthy and dozens of other republicans voted to overturn the election results? >> well, ayman, president biden and leader mccarthy aren't necessarily close. this is not the first time the two have spoken since president biden was inaugurated, it's one of the first times. and their working relationship is likely not going to be particularly close moving forward either, simply because leader mccarthy is the least the real republican he needs a relationship with is senate minority leader mcconnell and rank and file republicans, especially over in the senate. and what mccarthy's goal is and what his plan is moving forward is to oppose the biden agenda. shortly after they ousted cheney from her leadership position

today, representative scalise, the number two in republican leadership sent out a memo to the leadership team, saying now we are focused on rejecting whatever democrats and the biden administration does, calling it the socialist democratic agenda, calling it obama times ten. mccarthy sent out a fund-raising text to his supporters, calling president biden corrupt and asking him to donate to his re-election and to the party's re-election and midterm elections moving forward. ayman? >> luke, one of the interesting moments the former defense secretary, who initially pointed blame at president trump for seemed to be hedging a little bit. what happened there? >> that's right. former acting secretary miller said he believed president trump

encouraged the protesters that day before they marched down on to the capitol and became an angry mob that overtook the building, injured so many police officers and caused so much mayhem that day. he walked that back slightly. he said he still stood by some of those statements but that he had reassessed things and now he believed president trump wasn't solely responsible, that some of this had been planned ahead of time and he had new information that prompted a lot of pushback from the democrats on the committee, who thought he was now showing more fieldty to president trump. >> anna palmer, luke broadwater and leighann caldwell, thank you for your time.

repeat the discredited claim that so-called agitators arrived on the scene. watch. >> he said it was a beautiful day, peaceful, faith-filled support for free elections when acknowledge at a timers rolled in and began to coordinate a very different agenda, the location where the president started his speech, where the speech took place. it's a 45-minute walk from that location to the capitol. so if the individuals who were at the speech were involved, they would have had to leave before president trump even started his speech. we've heard reports of buses of these individuals rolling up. who were they? >> just a quick fact check for our viewers here, there have been at least 440 people that have been charged by authorities in the january 6th insurrection. there is no ambiguity over who attacked the capitol on had an day. joining me now is california

democratic congresswoman jackie speiers, member of oversight reform and arms forces. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> you were at today's oversight committee hearing. what do you make of representative hice reading that letter from an unidentified person saying, quote, it was a beautiful day of peaceful support? what was that day like for you? do you remember it as a beautiful day? >> ayman, i was in the gallery. i was one of the members that was locked in the gallery, fearing for my life, afraid i was going to lose my life. and to have these members really carrying on a master class in cya and deflection and finger pointing, and really to come up with a brand new narrative is astonishing to me and should be for everyone who was here in the capitol that day. it was a frightening experience for all of us. and they came very close to

overturning this government. >> i know, congresswoman, you had the chance to question the former attorney general today about law enforcement's perceived inattention to the riders posting about their plans online and quite frankly independent journalists were tracking and monitoring beforehand. were you satisfied with his answers? and are you still concerned under the biden administration that open source information, whether it's on social media and what have you, is not being critically evaluated? >> well, as a member of the house intelligence committee and also on the house oversight committee, i am deeply concerned that we don't take open source information and recognize that it has value. what former attorney -- deputy attorney general rosen said is it's not his job. my god, if it's not his job to help protect democracy by being

alert to all of the various posts -- there were hundreds of thousands of posts about coming to the capitol and fighting for the president. and if we just get into the capitol, we can prevent the vote from taking place. i mean, this was right there in front of our eyes, and yet he did not raise it to the level it should have been raised to alert capitol police, somehow suggest it was the capitol police's responsibility. we rely on the department of justice for intelligence, the fbi. once again i thought he was passing the buck, like many of his colleagues did today. >> we're kind of living in this real-time experiment with how disinformation spreads. let's talk about that for a moment. every social media post from former president trump used to be shared or commented upon tens of thousands of times. nbc news has done an analysis of the social media data found the

current president's platform, his entire new blog has so far received a little over 212,000 engagements across social networks and some are saying that makes the case that deplatforming is an effective tactic in eliminating disinformation. what do you think? is that an infringement on the president's first amendment rights? >> he's able to blog and go on cable tv shows and espouse his positions. section 230 really requires us to stop protecting social media platforms from any kind of consequences if they spew out disinformation. and the fact that the former president was deplatformed suggests it does have an impact.

social media is part of the communication super structure in this country now and we have to recognize it needs to be regulated much like other platforms are regulated. >> let me ask you about your colleagues across the aisle and what happened today, congresswoman liz cheney voted out of her leadership position. i know you serve on the arms services committee with ms. cheney. what do you think about her ouster? >> i nominated her for a profile in courage, because she has shown extraordinary guts. she is putting country first. and we should all be very grateful to her for speaking truth to power. she was willing to lose her leadership position because she wanted to protect the democracy and our constitution. most of her colleagues on the other side of the aisle are not

capable of that kind of courage. >> congresswoman, finally you're introducing a chain of command bill about sexual assault in the military with the family of vanessa guillen. this is a personal issue for you. do you expect it will have broad, bipartisan support? >> ayman, i just returned from a visit to ft. hood last week. i visited it eight months before, right after that horrific murder of vanessa guillen. and i believe more now than ever that taking sexual assault out of the chain of command is a must-do this year. and i believe my colleagues, both on the republican side and the democratic side, realize that what we've been doing for the last ten years, spending over $10 billion on prevention isn't working when 20,000 service members every year are sexually assaulted and only 5,000 reports, because they fear retaliation and, therefore,

predators continue to roam in the military. it's time to be as concerned about those inside the wire, as they say, and protect our service members so that they can fight outside the wire. >> congresswoman jackie speier, thank you for your time and insights. >> thank you. in a fresh round of israeli/palestinian fighting, israel says it has destroyed this multi-story building, housing members of hamas. we're on the ground there and in gaza after the break. plus, brand new sound from president biden that he just delivered at his town hall with my colleague, lawrence o'donnell. we'll play that for you once the tape is turned around. we'll talk about that with mary gay scanlon of pennsylvania. that's coming up next. you're watching msnbc. coming u. you're watching msnbc. ou now... real pants. find amex offers to save on the brands you love. one of the many things you can expect when you're with amex.

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this attack demolished a multi-story building which israel says housed hamas members. 350 palestinians have been killed including 14 children according to the gaza ministry of health. officials say seven people have died including a 6-year-old boy. antony blinken discussed the latest round of violence in the

region with benjamin netanyahu over the weekend. mark, let's begin with you. give us an update on what's happening on the ground both in israel and in jerusalem where you are. >> ayman, there are three strands to what happens happened and continuing to happen over the past few days. there is the ongoing strikes on gaza, very, very heavy military air strikes throughout the course of the day. you mentioned that multi-story building. it's an office building used in the last gaza war in 2014 to house media. since then it's used has changed. we had an interesting insight today. we were talking to a family who said they were in another building yesterday. they received a call from

israeli intelligence, telling them to get out of the building. they did, and a short while later it was hit. so an insight into the methodology of the israelis as they say and clearly were trying to avoid civilian targets but they can't be avoided all the time. of course, gaza is a small place. there isn't really anywhere safe to go. at the same time, tonight and through the day today, hamas rockets have been hitting israeli cities. as i understand it, that onslaught is ongoing this evening. that's the first round. the second round is the diplomacy. antony blinken, secretary of state, has sent his envoy here to the middle east. quite what he can do, i'm not sure. he can talk to the netanyahu administration. they have a good relationship. not quite as good as the trump administration but it's good.

mahmoud abbas, but they, the pa, don't talk to hamas really. it's difficult to know what's going to happen there. the qataris and egyptians will play a part. it's not making the headlines really. it's another problem that is unfolding here in israel proper. in arab israeli towns across israel, we're seeing serious clashes between arab israelis, palestinians of israel and jewish israelis. it's happening now, it happened last night. arab israelis are clashing with the police as well. it's a very, very difficult situation. >> martin, i wanted to follow up on that point you raised, very quickly. the volatility of the situation, do you get a sense from palestinian officials that they're trying to tamp down the tension you were just talking about or quite the opposite? do you get a sense that perhaps

there is incitement of these communities toward one another? >> first of all, it is really tense. we were in a situation today in central israel where my palestinian colleagues with me were unwilling, because they were frightened to get out of their own vehicle to be able to be with me, talking to israelis in that town. this is a town that, once upon a time, was majority arab, is no longer. that is a real extraordinary moment, i thought, in israel where they were like, i don't want to get out of the car. i went to do the interviewsish israelis on my own as my colleagues were worried. yes, many people are saying benjamin netanyahu is inciting or stoking this, to push himself further to the right to try to stay in power as prime minister. arab israelis, in large, say that the jewish israeli mayor is bringing in people to incite

violence. on the surface, publicly, i think there is trying to calm things down but this country that's always been divided is really tense tonight. >> walk us through what you've been seeing the last few days. describe for our viewers what the conditions have been on the groundment we know access into the gaza strip is obviously very difficult. rarely do we get a chance to hear what is happening on the ground. >> thank you, ayman. yes, i am in gaza. what i can tell you is that gaza has been under fire and under destruction for the past 48 hours, since the koran cycle of escalation between groups and israel. i have witnessed massive bombardment of residential buildings over gaza city. as you just mentioned in this

program, a multi-story building was destroyed completely by israeli air force today. my building where i live is shaking because of the massive bombardment in different neighborhood of gaza city. it seems to me that, unfortunately, we are approaching further escalation between hamas and israel. no one is willing to stop firing at the current moment. and both israel and hamas are threatening with further destruction, with further violence in the coming few hours. >> tell us a little bit about whether you see these negotiations that are taking place going to produce some kind of breakthrough in return to calm. i know yesterday the leader of hamas said that they were declaring victory. they felt this was the end. but today we've seen another round of escalation. so, do you believe that, or do

you see any movement on the negotiations leading to a return to calm and quiet? >> my understanding is that a mum of countries have moved and started effort, mainly egypt, and qatar has tried to mediate and have a cease fire between hamas and israel. up to this point it doesn't seem to me that either one in succeeding in convincing israel or the palestinians to stop firing. today, the israeli defense minister benny gantz said there will be no cease fire until there is complete quietness or cessation of all missiles from the gaza strip. in the meantime, hamas is not backing off. hamas also said that they will revenge for the destruction of multi-story building today and for the killing of six

commanders of brigades, the military wing of hamas. unfortunately, even though egypt, the u.s. and probably the u.n. are trying to mediate a new cease fire, but unfortunately these efforts have not succeeded so far to put an end to this current round of violence. >> live for us in gaza at 10:27 p.m. thanks. >> thanks to mark stone from jerusalem. >> thank you, ayman. posts being deleted on twitter and blocked by instagram. raf sanchez has been looking into this for us and joins me now from london. walk us through what you learned about what happened. >> reporter: ayman, all week, palestinians you speak to, that i speak to, say their posts on social media about what's happening on the ground are being suppressed.

one example, last friday israeli police raided the al aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in jerusalem. when they tried to post under that hash tag, they weren't allowed to. instagram has confirmed that in a statement they said the al aqsa hash tags were restricted in error. these restrictions have been lifted and they go on to say we sincerely apologize to all of those, especially our palestinian community, who felt like their ability to have discussions were affected. if you weren't able to post under the hash tag george floyd or black lives matter, that's how palestinians feel. i could give you other examples on twitter, instagram. each time the social media companies said they weren't deliberately restricting

palestinian voices. this was either a mistake or a technical problem. i spoke from "access now," a digital rights group, who said that is just not good enough from the social media companies. take a listen. >> the so-called technical errors are a convenient excuse that does not absolve tech companies from their responsibility to respect their users' fundamental rights, including the right to express themselves freely, especially at a time when activists and protesters rely primarily on social media to document human rights abuses, police brutality and what's happening on the ground. >> so, even if it wasn't intentional, palestinians say social media companies are severely curtailing their ability to speak out about injustice. ayman? >> all right. raf sanchez, covering an

important aspect of this story as well. thank you. president biden is scheduled to speak in a few minutes from now on his vaccination efforts. minutes ago he spoke with my colleague, lawrence o'donnell, for a town hall that will air tonight on msnbc at 10:00 p.m. eastern. the president talked about meeting earlier with the top democratic and republican leaders in the house and senate, and their discussion about paying for his infrastructure plan. watch. >> did you have an exploration of possible revenue with them, actual paid for? >> no. i didn't get into that. i got into what constitutes infrastructure. i want to make it clear. i want to get a bipartisan deal on as much as we can get a bipartisan deal on. and that means roads, bridges, broadband, all infrastructure. but i'm not giving up on the fact that we have 2 million women not able to go back to work because all the daycare centers are closed. they're out of business. and so they can't go back to

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>> we'll bring you those remarks as soon as they get under way. new voting restrictions in states around the country. today, they try to rewrite the history of the capitol riot january 6th, downplaying the violence and denying president trump had any responsibility during a house hearing today. last night, ahead of her anticipated ouster from leadership, congresswoman liz cheney defied those like kevin mccarthy and elise stefanik, who are casting doubts on election results. >> the election is over. that is the rule of law. that is our constitutional process. our duty is clear. every one of us who has sworn the oath must act to prevent the unraveling of our democracy. >> joining me now is pennsylvania democratic congresswoman mary gay scanlon,

vice chair, and member of the judiciary and rules committee. thank you so much for your time. first i wanted to get your reaction to congresswoman cheney's ouster and how that changes things. how do you see this playing out for the republicans? >> well, it's pretty consistent with what we've seen from the republican party. most of the republican party since january 6th, which is an unwillingness to look at why january 6th happened as congresswoman cheney happened. they're trying to silence anyone who wants to really look at the facts and who wants to call out the fact that the former president has promoted this big lie about election integrity. i think it is rae worth noting. a lot of them left and didn't want to hear what she had to

say. >> condemning the violence but also seemed to take issue with how the day was described. watch this. >> our democratic colleagues and friends in the mainstream los angeles media fondly describe january 6th as an insurrection or rebellion. was it an insurrection or could it be more accurately described as a mob of misfits, vandalism, unlawful entry, civil disobedience, et cetera? >> what is your response to his comments there that maybe the insurrection should be characterized as, quote, mob of misfits as if they had no motivation, just simply bad behavior? >> it points up why we need, why did an attack on joint session of congress counting electoral college votes, why did that

happen? was it incited by the former president? were these people invited to washington, d.c. on january 6th and told to come and have a wild protest? we really need to have the kind of clarity for the nation that a commission would provide. and it needs to be bipartisan, because we need to have the public be able to confront the truth, no matter how painful that may be, but because the public needs to know the truth. >> how has your relationship changed with your gop colleagues? has it become more common with those who deny the election, those who are willing to go along with the lie and those who are in reality? >> i think it's very difficult in some ways. for example, january 3rd, all members of congress, all members of the house were sworn in based on ballots that just three days later over 100 of our colleagues

claimed should not be accepted. so, it is disturbing when we have to move forward to legislate for the people. how do you find common ground with folks who essentially were willing to overturn the election? you know, the peaceful transfer of power through democratic means is a hallmark of the united states. and when we've seen efforts to disrupt that, it does make it hard to work with people. >> let me ask you a question about don mcgahn for a moment. a tentative deal to allow former white house counsel don mcgahn to testify. how significant is this development? what are you hoping to get out of his testimony? >> well, again, the american people deserve to know the truth about what happens in their

government. don mcgahn was an essential witness who, in the mueller report, in his interviews with the special counsel indicated that former president trump had tried to undermine the investigation into his conduct with respect to the 2016 election. don mcgahn had that evidence. he was subpoenaed two years ago and still hasn't appeared. it's really important that we hear what happened. >> and i know earlier this afternoon, congresswoman, the house administration committee held a hearing with the architect of the capitol, christopher vaella where he said the capitol, quote, excuse me, lacked emergency policies and procedures. what was your take away from that hearing? >> well, it's consistent with what we've had in a series of hearings now, involving the capitol police and now the architect of the capitol that there were gaps in the policies and procedures here to respond

to emergency situations when there were procedures, they weren't always followed. and people didn't talk to each other. so there are really serious concerns about the response to the attack on the capitol that occurred january 6th. i want to make a couple of things clear. first of all, it's the leadership, the planning, the policies that are under scrutiny here. we're not saying that the men and women of the u.s. capitol police or d.c. metropolitan police did anything wrong. those folks responded with bravery to protect our democracy, to protect everyone who worked in the capitol. and they did so under really extreme conditions, but the hearings have been focused on the response to january 6th but again that's why we need a commission. it's not just the response to january 6th but why did january 6th occur in the first place? >> all right. congresswoman mary gay scanlon,

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river. the government is looking into the identities of the suspected covid-19 victims. in neighboring nepal, oxygen tanks typically using for chiming mt. everest might now be redirected to local hospitals to help treat patients if he can't with the coronavirus. as we wait for president biden with an update on national vaccinations, the effort to get americans to take the vaccine is facing resistance in the united states senate. ron johnson said that his recent covid diagnosis led him to decide not to take the vaccine and that he opposes efforts to get every american to take one. >> i decided, at least for the time being, i'm not going to get vaccinated. i'll reconsider this later on. this should not be a controversial issue. i'm the champion of right to try legislation, but the correlary of that is right to choose as well. we shouldn't be shaming or pressuring, or mandating anybody

get this vaccine. >> joining me now to discuss this, nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli and professor and vice chair at the fineburg school of start with sr johnson saying he has the antibodies that makes the vaccine unnecessary and heard a similar story from rand paul about masks. what's the reality here? >> the reality is that what we know based on the science is that vaccination provides more robust antibody protection. certainly individuals that contracted the virus are at lower risk for a period of time but we don't know how long that protection will last and we recommend vaccination. >> one other question for you,

doctor. senator johnson made false claims about deadly vaccine side effects. set the record straight for us. >> people tend to lean in to these conspiracy theories that align with their position. we know that these statements by him are not true. the cdc is tracking very closely any unexpected vaccine side effects, even monitoring rates of illness and death. one thing they haven't been able to do thankfully is tie vaccination directly to deaths in individuals in most cases. the exception being some of the rare adverse events with the johnson & johnson vaccine which then triggered the appropriate response to pull it and step back to see who it can be delivered safely so the statements are not true and the best things to do to combat this type of misinformation coming

from friends and even public figures is to really confront them with the science. we have great science right now about all the aspects of the covid pandemic. >> mike, let's talk about the president. he is invoked the words of senate republican leader mcconnell who encouraged republican men to go out and get vaccinated and then here you have another republican senator advocating against everyone being vaccinated. does the white house recognize how big of a challenge this poses when republican leaders are speaking to their followers and encouraging them not to get vaccinated? >> reporter: absolutely. that's a thing we saw from the president this week is that bipartisan meeting with governors yesterday. three democrats but three republican governors. it is a busy day in washington. a lot happening and at the white house with already that bipartisan meeting with congressional leaders and the

interview with lawrence o'donnell and the white house likes to have the president once a week speak to the nation about the state of battle against covid and today the remarks we expect them to focus on the news from the cdc following the fda in recommending the use of the pfizer vaccine for younger children and use this as an opportunity to talk about the efficacy, the safety for young adults and being able to get this an having a sufficient supply and the white house that yes the pace of vaccinations slowed some but marking a milestone of for 100 days he raised that bar to 200 million vaccinations and now close to 250 million since the president took office. something that he expects to be touting in the near future but one of the takeaways of the meetings with governors that i think the white house has taken to heart is that government officials are often not the best messenger to reach individuals to get the vaccination who

otherwise haven't been. that's why the white house is relying on faith leaders, community leaders, nongovernment officials in the media and celebrities to try to get the message and doing everything to give states and local communities resources to get vaccinations to those that need them. >> doctor, to mike's point about supply, multiple states have requested fewer doses from the federal government just this week. is a lack of demand the sole reason behind the plateau? is there anything else in the way of vaccinations for that final 43% of adults and the adolescents that are now eligible that the administration is targeting? >> i think what i'm hearing right now are a lot of creative efforts. not just having elected officials in positions serving as vaccine ambassadors, but having trusted community members

speak to those communities of individuals who are hesitant about vaccination. a recent report came out to show that there are still individuals who are seeking vaccines but do not have access. those individual who is are less likely to be vaccinated despite wanting vaccination are those without internet connections, those who have transportation problems or otherwise isolated why in this next stage of vaccination to reach the remaining individuals we need to come up with creative strategies, setting up vaccine tents or vaccine stations at places where people tend to go who are typically isolated from our health care system. >> mike, very quickly, i know you spoke to white house aides about outreach. what are you learned? >> reporter: when the president's meeting with the big four lawmakers typically that's the big meeting in a week of

negotiations but in terms of the president's infrastructure package the meeting tomorrow with senator of west virginia ian five republican colleagues is going to be a crucial moment as the white house is looking to make progress in negotiations by memorial day. so clearly as much as the focus of today tomorrow just as important. >> and tim scott working on the police reform bill, as well. thank you both. we have exciting news to share. the newest member of the show's family yesterday megan gave billionth to madeline and is a sweet little 7 pound 4 ounce bundle of love. we are all are wishing you the best and lots of sleep. that wraps up the hour.

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