right now the calls for a cease fire ignored. we're live in the middle east as the conflict goes from bad to worse to even worse. another night of israeli air strikes are hitting the heart of gaza. president biden leaving the white house for a trip to michigan not stopping to talk with reporters on his way out the door, but he is supporting a cease fire, but not demanding it.

new developments in the battle to create a commission to investigate the insurrection. the top republican lawmaker now coming out against the bipartisan house bill. we're going to have more on that in junction a minute. i'm with richard engel in the west bank, shannon pettypiece joining us. richard, what are you seeing in the west bank? >> the demonstrations started with palestinians throwing stones that are still stationed on a hill behind me and these are some of the protestors who are still here. it started with the palestinians throwing stones. they responded with tear gas. it escalated just a little while ago. there was gun fire it seems like from the palestinian side. they responded with live ammunition from their side, and

a young palestinian was just shot in the leg and taken away by ambulance. this has escalated. not just a protest movement. there are violent and potentially deadly clashes here in the west bank here. all of this has to do with what is going on in gaza. they came out here to protest, to clash, because they say they want the world to see that the palestinian situation has reached a breaking point. that they can no longer accept years of humiliation and occupation. many here don't support hamas but they think they had the impetus to come out and make their point and make their voices heard. also the arabs with israelis are also demonstrating.

they are continuing to fire rockets, more rockets were fired this morning, and at least two israelis were skilled in those attacks. i think you have president biden who is just getting off of air force one. we know that he is having expectations -- getting criticism from even his own party. what is really, this potential split screen moment, right? the president looking too put the focus on an economic recovery here at home while at the same time he might face protests. talk to us about what the white house is doing. >> right as you mentioned he is just not traveling to anywhere in michigan, it is deerborn,

michigan. the president does not have any plans or schedules at this point to address the conflict during this visit. nothing like that on his agenda. going toward a forward plant. of course a secretary of state not able to avoid this issue. he took questions from reporters just a little bit ago. here is what he had to say, the question that housed these, take a listen. >> we did seek further information from israel on this question.

>> still a lot of questions remaining there. do you want to see the president take a firmer stand. they continue to say they are not engaged in diplomacy behind the seens with the violence saying a lots of the things behind the scenes may not be going on in public but they are working behind the scenes. >> turning now to capitol hill. a dead end for a commission to investigate what happened on january 6th you have the top house republican, kevin mccarthy saying he opposes the legislation on that. it is set for a vote tomorrow.

looking to see if nancy pe low say has anything to say about this. and tell us what they have to say. we are hearing what he said about this. they are negotiating with democrats on this legislation. remember the problem was with this scope, republicans wanted the scope to be broader than just january 6th. now we finally hear from mccarthy saying he doesn't support this commission in part because of the scope. he says there are enough investigations going on currently in congress. there is money for independent investigations.

he goes on to say given the political misdirection that marred this process. given the now duplicative. and i cannot support this legislation. what this does as far as the future of the commission we expect it still to pass the house of representatives. it just needs democrats in control. there are some underlying things here as well. representative liz cheney said last week, own another member of congress said over the weekend they expect leader mark mccarthy to be subpoenaed as a witness in any sort of commission that is created because of his conversations with the former president on that day. so there could be some a tier

your motives i node speaker pelosi is holding a press conference at this moment, walking into that press cove for instance, but they are not surprised by the cowardace of mccarthy. >> so it is significant, or interesting at least you talk about the 9/11 commission still likely to move forward, what will that look like if that is the case. who gets a say, esz? >> speaker pelosi made some concessions. it will also have republicans and democrats that both have subpoena power.

those were two sticking points. as for the scope the most controversial component of this commission is that republicans wanted to include pro-racial protests and investigations into black lives matter and antifa. democrats did not want that and the scope of this commission is more limited. but the language says that it can investigate anything leading up to january 6th which republicans say is not broad enough. they si that is a littlely way to progress it it iffive commissioners think it is necessary. despite mccarthy's opposition, maybe 10 or 11 republican votes before it goes to the senate. we're hoping to hear from mitch mcconnell this afternoon about what he think bt about it.

>> can you explain how this fell apart, right? they were deputized by kevin mccarthy to go negotiable and i find it hard to manage that leader mccarthy was not in the loop as to what the guy he put on the affect to do this was doing here. where is the disconnect. was he not empowered on this? do you think there was a jump factor at play here? as they continue to try to toe the line between pledging his limit to former president trump? >> we're trying to still discover what happened, but we caught up with leader mccarthy and asked him about it and said that he had not yet herd and he had not yet been read in on this scope of the commission. he said he was texting with them and said that the scope would be

broader than just january 6th. now after reading it it appears that he is still not satisfied despite the fact that -- we're going a lot of reading to figure out what the trump factor is, what changed, and if what cheney said down the road regarding this commission played a role. >> i will let you get to that reporting. thank you for that, we appreciate it. we're expecting to get a big update from the district attorney looking into last month's deadly police shooting of andrew brown junior. he was shot and killed by deputies trying to serve drug related warrants. what are the expectations and what have we heard from andrew broup's family?

the expectation is to finally hear from the district attorney. they have decided not to release the body cam footage of this case. will they announce this case is going to the grand jury. we're just told they will give us a update and we will be able to question them on camera. i think the big question is why is the diskrip si so different between the brown family and their respectives and what i that said in court weeks ago. after watching a larger snippet of that video they said that is shiply not true.

and that is a really critical point in this case. so i think that is one of the top questions they will be faced with today. why is there such a large discrepancy. >> casey, i know you're going to keep us up dated throughout the morning. >> we have been showing you nancy pelosi at her news conference. but the other topic on that, of course, members of the asian american caucus talking about the vote on a hate crimes bill later today. they will join us live in a couple minutes. and then the democrats from the vp short list that will challenge marco rubio for his seat next year. >> and they are ready to brief

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what is set to be one of the most high profile expensive races. they are confirming that val demings will make it official. she is now a big player in police reform talks on capitol hill. i want to bring in mark murray. >> it means that we're watching florida, hallie in the next year and a half or so. and it could control the united states. the senate right now is deadlocked at 50/50. and that tie breaker val demings

expected to run to pick up this saett and in some ways it's a counter move that republican governor johnson sinunu will be changed. and it adds up to being an incredibly tight and competitive battle for control. and they have as much as five opportunities and just three for republicans. it is sort of a fair way to put it. talk about the current status of the state, what are the indications that he could be successful or not. >> the only more successful

democrat was barack obama who won florida in 2008 and 2012, beyond barack obama's victories. it has been a political graveyard for democrats. they lost gubernatorial races. they lost key competitive senate contests in 2016 and 2020. all of them pretty close, but it has given, even after the joe biden defate, oh my gosh. they will keep playing, and democrats will keep playing in florida. the good news for them is the races are usually very close. they have not been able to get over the hump. >> mark, thank you. we have some news in the word of politics. top republicans in the state's biggest company standing up

against former president trump's lies for the 2020 election. they are now denouncing the so called audit or review. it was ordered by the former president and it is being held by signer ninjas. that alone was raising a lot of red flags. then we started getting more details. >> they're looking for traces of bamboo in the paper, according to the washington post saying they were illegally smuggled from asia. now maricopa county are doinl.

they say there has been some absolutely banana things. >> there is hundreds of thousands of chickens at his farm and then purposely incinerating them. >> it's time to be done with this craziness and get on with our county's critical business. >> i supported an audit. i supported cooperating with the senate. what i did not support is a mockery. >> i just want to pause for a second and make sure that viewers saw one of the conspiracy theories. someone is accused of feeding ballots to their chickens and then on purpose burning up the chickens to hide the evidence. can you talk about if that was

the last straw and why are they speaking out this week. >> the chickens were not the last straw to use barnyard language. that happened a few months ago and the county supervisor that brought that up opens one of the largest egg producers in the southwest. this was a slander against his company. it appears the county board of supervisors that are majority republican reached their breaking point in the last few days. they picked up allegations by the senate. alleged crimes committed by the county board that offended them greatly, and the letter they repuced yesterday is because they were given a deadline to respond by the state senate.

so they reached their breaking point and the question is what comes next? >> can you answer that question? i don't want to put you on the spot, but what comes next and how does this end? >> that is a good question, i think i got some of the question yesterday, the county board jack sillers says we have drawn our line in the sand. is this an ultimatum? are yo going to court? and they said they're going to let this playout. there is a little bit of a political solution to help end this audit. i have to say that appears very unlikely and we'll know more this afternoon when the senate president responds to the 17

page blistering letter issues yesterday afternoon that attacked her yesterday. >> you're on the ground there. you have been resporting on this for weeks and months. what else have you heard that is being raised as potential security concerns or reason for concern here? >> if you read that 13 page letter what they're doing is putting on paper what real election experts have been telling me and other reporters that there is this is a real aud did. nothing they're doing comports. it is a level that was an attack on the basic confidence.

>> but they don't have the room to do it, right? this is the most part of the hand count. that is the video you have been showing. that's the most visible part that stopped on friday because somebody else had a contract to use that coliseum space. they moved on to another building, they're now in a trailer in a warehouse. and they will resume next monday. but again, they cannot give you any kind of a deadline. and they say you have a deadline and you follow it. where does congress stand on passing any kind of police

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officers or their departments can get sued. i want to follow up with garrett haake. you just had a conversation with senator corey booker on this that has been leading some of these talks. what's going on here? >> i caught him on his way into a meeting on police reform with the other major play players. they are meeting this morning and the three key negotiators met for two hours last night. they're working very hard on this and is often the case nothing is settled until everything is settled. it feels like this qualified immunity is a major ticking point. they want to make sure there are some changes to potentially sue police officers in the most egregious cases of police abuse. this was floated by tim scott,

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new reporting from "the new york times" on just what the trump justice department was secretly up to in the last months of his presidency, taking on mean tweets, trying to unmask or identify who was behind a twitter account dedicated to congressman devin nunes, who was a close ally of the former president. and here is an example of one of its more pg tweets from court filings. a meme accusing nunes of believing in and pushing conspiracy theories. the account is one of a few that anonymously troll the congressman on twitter. he's tried mostly unsuccessfully to sue them for defamation. this is the first we're learning the government under president trump stepped in going so far as to get a grand jury subpoena to try to reveal the identity. let's unravel this. what are you learning from the court documents, and what explanation is the doj giving

for this subpoena? >> so this court filing shows that in late november after president trump had lost the election had obtained a criminal grand jury subpoena demanding information that would identify who was behind this nunes alt account that makes fun of devin nunes and gagging twitter from telling anyone it had received this request. twitter was puzzled by this. they did not see any tweets by that person that looked like anything that could be the legitimate subject of a criminal investigation. it looks like an abuse of a first amendment and using this account, so they asked the judge to look into the basis for this

subpoena. and the government itself, it says, told them only that it was an investigation regarding a certainly criminal law that makes it a crime to threaten people using interstate communications. twitter didn't see anything that looked like a threat. when it asked what threat are you talking about, the government wouldn't point to anything. and so fast forward now, the biden administration's in charge of the justice department and it dropped the subpoena, i am told. the justice department is not talking about whether this investigation remains active or whether there was anything legitimate there in the first place or, indeed, whether twitter was right that this was an abuse by the trump justice department of its power over criminal law. >> to be clear the doj at the time was basically trying to say this had nothing to do with the fact that, for example, congressman nunes was a big defender of the former president especially when it kams to things like the russian investigation? >> all doj said was we've gotten the subpoena.

you have to give it to us. when twitter said what this is all about? this smells wrong to us, this looks fishy. they did not look at the attempts by devin nunes to use civil lawsuits to sue them for defamation. what's going on here, all doj would say we're looking at the criminal statute about threats but not whether there is any threat. they say they've been careful to never say anything threatening. that's all we know at this point. >> any response from congressman nunes? >> congressman nunes never responds to us when we ask him for comment, and this is no exception. >> charlie savage from "the new york times," thank you. the covid hate crimes act, which looks to address the rise of anti-asian hate crimes, is up for a vote in the house today, just a few hours from now, after sailing through the senate. it's one of the few bills getting significant bipartisan support there. 94 votes in favor.

one of the sponsors of the bill is talking about its significance. this just happened in the last couple of minutes. >> the past year and a half has been one of pain and struggle marked by despicable and sickening acts of hate and violence against the asian-american community. we are here today to say that congress is taking action. >> outside groups are making a last-minute push for house members to oppose the legislation specifically lgbtq groups arguing this bill fails to provide resources to address the causes of anti-asian bias and ignore violence against black and brown communities. with me is the chair of the congressional asian-american and pacific. have you been in touch with any of these groups that we just talked about ahead of the vote, and how do you respond to their concerns?

>> of course we've received their letter. i would have to say, though, that this bill does not provide any new funding to law enforcement but reallocate funds to very important causes that will combat hate crimes. first of all, there's tremendous underreporting of hate crimes to law enforcement so we don't have a very good picture at all what's going on in the nation. there are 15,000 local law enforcement agencies and only 15% report anything to the fbi. so this would vastly improve our hate crime reporting system but also it will provide resources so that law enforcement can actually have a policy regarding hate crimes, engage meaningfully with the community, and have actual training on how they deal with hate crimes. believe it or not, for decades

none of this has been addressed. >> what needs to happen next then, congresswoman, assuming this bill passes, that the president signs it as expected? where does the conversation have to go from here? >> so we need to make sure that there is speedy implementation of this bill and remember that the operative words here are meaningful engagement with the community. the asian-american community feels like a target is on its back, that they are the ones that are bearing the brunt of the hate and anxiety with regard to covid-19, and they need the resources so they will feel safe. and so law enforcement needs to engage with the asian pacific islander community and feel safe in reporting these hate crime

incidents to them because right now there's been so little accountability with law enforcement that nonprofits have to take over the function of being the recipient of these anti-asian hate crime reports. it's 6,600 and that's probably an underreporting to nonprofits. >> before i let you go, congresswoman, i have to ask you about this new statement from the house minority leader, kevin mccarthy, opposing the bill scheduled to be on the floor tomorrow. mccarthy saying it would interfere with and undermine ongoing prosecutorial efforts. let me ask you, do you believe it would undermine going forward without his support? >> i think we need this commission as soon as possible. we need it for the sake of this country. we need to know what really happened on january 6th, and this commission is totally bipartisan. it has an equal number of

republicans and democrats on it. all we want is the truth behind what happened on january 6th, and we will not have that unless we have an authorized commission right now. >> thank you so much for being with us ahead of what i know is a busy and important day for you on capitol hill. thank you very much. and thanks to all of you for watching this hour of this show. right now craig melvin picks it up. and a good tuesday morning to you. craig melvin here. this hour we're following a number of big stories with some equally big unanswered questions. as we speak president biden is in the air. he is set to land in michigan for the next 30 minutes. we expect to hear more about his $174 billion plan to invest in electric vehicles and an electric ford f-150. the president going to get a