like to see from the government, giving more water to the cities and less to the farmers. right now they're having a problem securing some of the water and what they would like to see is more water storage in the state of california. it's tough for those farmers that are trying to survive. hallie, back to you. >> steve patterson with that, thank you so much. i appreciate your reporting and all of you for watching this hour of msnbc reports. find us on twitter, @hallie on msnbc. chris jansing picks up our coverage right here. good morning. i'm chris jansing in for craig melvin. a haunting question, does anybody have a plan? on january 6th that's what one police lieutenant asked over and over again during the chaos. there are more harrowing accounts like that one in a new 93-page, bipartisan senate report out in the last couple hours. the report's conclusion is

scathing, ticking through a laundry list of failures -- a breakdown in leadership, muddled intelligence channels, officers ill equipped as they crashed with rioters. what we're learning about why this happened and how we make sure it doesn't happen again. plus, we've got our eye on the global stage. right now vice president harris starting her meeting with mexico's president fresh off her visit to guatemala where she told would-be migrants do not come. the first foreign trip in office, addressing the migrant surge at the border and at her meeting which is about to get under way with mexico's president, will be watching for an interesting dynamic. he has criticized president biden in the past over the border so we have our eye on these live pictures for you. monica alba is in mexico city where vice president harris will meet with mexico's president any second now and nbc's gabe gutierrez is in mexico across

from mcallen, texas. we're on these live pictures. monica, mexico's president is a key but let's call him a complicated ally. he has said the u.s. can count on mexico, but also blamed president biden in the past for the increase in migrants at the border. what's the messaging tight rope that vice president harris has to walk today, and what's her specific goal? >> it's a tricky one, chris. you're absolutely right. we did just watch vice president harris walk right over my shoulder here in for the meeting with the mexican president who had a cozy relationship with former president trump. it is a high wire act meeting she is about to walk into. if yesterday's visit with the guatemalan president is any indication, we will be honest, quite frank, the word she used, and perhaps a little bit confrontational on areas where the united states would like mexico perhaps to do more and on the areas of cooperation, they

do feel that really attacking these root causes of migration is in the interest of both of their countries in helping the northern triangle with millions of dollars in aid and helping to eradicate a little bit of the poverty and violence and corruption, again, something that both leaders will certainly want to talk about. we got a bit more insight into what her overall goal is for this critical test, her first foreign trip in that exclusive interview she did with lester holt. >> it's in the best interest not only of your neighbor but yourself to help them out, right? that's how we think about this work. what is the united states' interest in this? we're prepared to show up and do it in a way that is motivated by the best interest of diplomacy and democracy and goodwill. there's not going to be a quick fix. we're not going to see an immediate return, but we're going to see progress. >> reporter: yesterday that

message that was so stern, that warning of migrants telling them essentially please do not come, do not come, emphasizing something the administration has been saying for months, but that is clearly not been working. the vice president banking on that message in person which she will also deliver again today we are told will help at least resonate a little bit more strongly. as gabe knows well on the border, it doesn't match up with the reality we're seeing. this is something in terms of the timeline here, chris, the vice president very clear she doesn't believe there's going to be any immediate fix to this in the short term. it's going to take years. some experts think even decades to really solve this issue. the other extremely hot button question here, will vice president harris ever visit the southern border has republicans have called on her to do. she told lester holt that maybe at some point she would go, but that she wasn't interested in grand gestures. we can expect that political pressure to ramp up, that's something we're also watching closely here in mexico today. >> we're watching the live pictures we've seen two of the things we were expecting this

morning. one is that the vice president and the president of mexico signed an agreement essentially for a strategic partnership. we also saw that photo on as they were standing in the beautiful hall. as you mentioned, monica, the overriding issue here that's causing a lot of back and forth in the united states is, what about the border? so gabe, where you are there are about 700 migrants stuck in limbo crammed into tents where crime is a problem, cartels are an even bigger problem. tell us more about where you are and what life is like there for those migrants? >> yes, chris. vice president harris coming with that message do not come to the united states, but chris, the question is, will these migrants listen to that? are they even getting the message? as you mentioned this is a migrant camp in re know sa, mexico, and as we look around we can see just how many tents are here. this is recently sprung up hundreds of migrants and many

children as you can see are here at this camp. nearby shelters are also overwhelmed here. this is something that has been continuing over these last couple of months. many of the migrants here were actually expelled from the united states. they tried to cross and were expelled because of what's known as title 42. those are covid protocols. many of these are parents with children. actually, chris, we just spoke a few moments ago, going to try to speak with her quickly once again with one woman who was deported from the united states, just this morning. several hours ago. and she's here. [ speaking foreign language ] i'm asking her what just happened over the last couple hours. [ speaking foreign language ] >> okay. so chris, we've spoken with her a little bit ago.

this is a very devastating time for her but what she said was just a short time ago, she was returned to the united states, she left honduras because her father and her sister were killed earlier this year. she has two young children here and she was told that she would be able to stay in the united states. chris, that's something we're hearing over and over again. many migrants are hearing from smugglers they will be allowed to stay in the united states. that's not really the reality here. the change in policy is being exploited by the human smugglers. that woman and another woman in her group that were returned they paid thousands of dollars, up to $11,000 funded by american relatives to be able to make this journey and they have just been returned here. so the question is, some of these families, chris, some of these parents are now having to make the agonizing decision on whether to separate themselves from their young children and

essentially send their young kids over into the united states where they will be allowed to stay and reunite with relatives in the u.s. as you can see this is something that's growing here. there was another camp just across from brownsville that was dismantled several weeks ago, two months ago. we visited there as well. that one was dismantled but this one has sprung up. another one in tijuana, mexico, is also growing larger. there is large concerns, especially as we head into the summer months, what's going to happen next to these migrants? that woman in our earlier conversation says she has no money, she doesn't know how she's going to get one of these tents to allow her children to sleep tonight. it's a very urgent, desperate situation for the hundreds of migrants in this camp right now, fueling some of the criticism, why vice president harris did not visit the border. she says she is focusing on the root causes in central america which my colleague kerry sanders has been reporting on. as you heard from monica, speaking to leaders here in

mexico. local leaders in this part of mexico are overwhelmed. this state in mexico is refusing to accept young migrant children under 7 years old and that's putting the u.s. border patrol in a tough spot if they can't return those families, some of those families are being allowed to stay, but some others with older children are being sent here. this is the result. chris? >> gabe gutierrez thank you for what is a powerful and devastating view into the situation on the border as it remains. monica alba, thanks to you as well. you will follow the meeting between the vice president and the president of mexico. i want to dig deeper with two export voices, the former deputy director of hispanic media for hillary clinton and a msnbc contributor, duncan wood vice president for strategy and new initiatives and senior adviser to the wilson center's mexico institute who spent nearly two decades as a professor in mexico city and gives testimony to congress on u.s./mexico

relations. it's great to have both of your voices with us right now. duncan, first, i want to get your reaction to what we just saw gabe show us, the little snapshots into the life that people are trying to flee, the devastation and violence, but if you can put night the context of the meeting that is just about to get under way between the vice president and the mexican? >> thanks so much for having me. i'm speaking to you from mexico city because i've been down here a few days observing the elections here that took place over the weekend. i have to say that here in mexico city, just as in washington, there is a regrettable lack of understanding of that reality on the ground. as your colleague just showed, this is a humanitarian tragedy. people are moving up and i'm not saying that that justifies illegal immigration. i'm just saying that there needs to be more attention paid to

this. those immigrants and migrants trapped in mexico are not just living in deplorable conditions. they are prey to organized crime. we all know that organized crime is a major issue in mexico and in particular in the north of the country up by the border. so these people are heil vulnerable and the earlier that we can help them in one way or the other the better. having said that i think the folks on the biden team who are dealing with this situation, they do understand that. i know them personally. they have been down there themselves, even though there has been krilts sism of vice president harris not going. there is a willingness on the part of the biden team to negotiate and to collaborate with mexico to try to prevent this. that's where we come to today's meeting, which is that we are in a very delicate situation in the bilateral relationship between the united states and mexico. we have a mexican president who was very happy to collaborate with president trump, but since trump has left office we've seen

many more nationalistic messages being sent from the mexican president and mexican government saying to the united states stay out of our business, at the same time they say they're willing to continue collaborating on migration. it's a delicately balanced relationship. what i understand of today's meeting vice president harris is here to try to continue to construct a positive and forward-looking relationship. it's going to be very different than the conversation in central america where she was much tougher. with mexico, which is an essential partner in trying to get a handle on this migration crisis, i think we're going to see a much more softly approach. once we get to the point where there is a solid relationship where it is a relationship that operates on multiple levels, then i think the united states can begin to push harder. but for now, the united states desperately needs ongoing collaboration from andres manuel lopez obrador and his government

in mexico. >> and as duncan points out, this is a hot potato here at home in the united states when you talk about, for example, the decision not to go to the border, the way that vice president harris answered that question, the immediately the reactions started including from alexandria ocasio-cortez who among other things tweeted we can't help set someone's house on fire and then blame them for fleeing and then you have this other pressure point which is, the quinnipiac poll from mid may showing president biden under water when it comes to immigration compared to other issues like coronavirus and the economy and some of those numbers we have even more updated numbers which are even stronger for the president. obviously you can't please everyone. we all know how long immigration has been a hot potato. let me get your take on how you think the administration is handling this issue so far? >> i think when you say such a

blunt comment like do not come to this country, i think that statement is simply completely detached from the reality on the ground that we just heard, but also detached from u.s. law and international law. right. i think what alexandria ocasio-cortez was trying to say is that by our standards, every single human being has a legal right to seek asylum in this country, right. that is what we stand for. that has always been the story of this country. there is some form of detachment between what we heard from the vice president and the reality. she's in mexico right now. mexico in this moment is the second most dangerous country in the world for transgender folks. mexico has the second highest total rate in all of latin america and the caribbean. every day 95 people are murdered in mexico. every single day just during the campaign season mexico just had, there's been at least 90 politicians that have died. so as long as that is a reality, as long as fear exists and human people want to survive, migrants will come to this country. so perhaps the question that is

being reflected in the polls you're seeing where people are dissatisfied with the president's approach to the immigration, perhaps it shouldn't be so much why are people coming to this country, but people from the left want a different question, how can we welcome in a better way, how can we receive migrants in a better way? i think it's the lack of definition where he's being too tough for democrats and perhaps not tough enough for republicans, it's that lack of definition that i think is being reflected in the polls. >> let me play, because i don't want to just paraphrase it, i want to play vice president harris' interview on lester holt about the pressure she's facing with the calls for her to visit the border. take a listen. >> we are going to the border. we've been to the border. so this whole thing about the border, we've been to the border. we've been to the border. >> you haven't been to the border? >> and i haven't been to europe. my focus is dealing with the root causes of migration.

there may be some who think that that is not important, but it is my firm belief that if we care about what's happening at the border we better care about the root causes and address them. >> obviously paola addressing the root causes is critical, i guess, does that mean you ignore the border or you can't do both at the same time? is there something to be said about the visual of the vice president at the border considering how important or are we making too much of this? >> no, i think it's important. i think what she's doing is incredibly important, but i think once again, when you're telling people to not come to this border, then perhaps it is a good idea to go to the border and ask the same question, ask the my grants that question, why did you trek? why did you go through this incredibly treacherous journey to come to our border? not only visually it's important and politically, but the vice president as the daughter of immigrants, she is the right person and important messenger

we can have to have those conversations out there. >> thanks to both of you. we are keeping our eye on mexico city where we do expect that formal bilateral meeting between vice president harris and mexico's president to start any minute now and we will go there live for their comments when it does. plus, does anybody have a plan? that's the quote from one desperate capitol police officer as officers tried to hold off rioters on january 6th. what a senate report just revealed about the riot. the ceo of colonial pipeline is testifying before the senate, just after the doj announced it recovered millions in the ransom payment the company paid to hackers. what he's saying about paying ransom, how they got the money back and the threats that remain. ahead. t remain ahead.

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a mob was able to form, mobilize and attack the capitol and all others say they didn't know. what is going on in washington? what are they doing between breakfast and lunch? it's time they do their job. >> that was a fired up lieutenant general russell honore reacting on the january 6th insurrection. this new senate report sheds light on the extent of security

failures and warnings that were ignored. it includes this quote from one capitol police officer. we were ill prepared, we were not informed with intelligence, we were betrayed. nbc's intelligence and national security correspondent ken is poring over this report as is garrett haake. i want to bring in clint watts, research fellow at the foreign policy research institute and an msnbc national security analyst and contribute. good to see you guys. ken, this report adds new scrutiny of the current acting police chief who, as i think most people know, was named to the post after the prior chief was forced to resign the day after. walk us through some of the key revelations here. >> that's right, chris. rohan pittman was in charge of the three intelligence branches in the months prior to the january 6th event and those branches come into serious criticism in this report as having received significant intelligence information about people wanting to bring guns to

the capitol and people sharing maps of the capitol tunnels online but failing to pass that information up the chain to senior leadership and down the chain to the rank and file officers who turned out to be unprepared on the day. and it's just one example of how this report says there was a massive intelligence failure where it wasn't just the capitol police but the fbi and dhs also had access to this information and did not distribute it, did not act on it. the report also points out that pittman, now the acting chief, contradicted herself on the question of whether the capitol police should have known that violence was imminent on january 6th. at one point she said we knew there was violence and congress was the target but she has said, we didn't have actionable intelligence and in a statement in response to the report the capitol police said there was any intelligence. we've seen social media posts with people promising to bring

violence to the capitol on january 6th. >> how likely will this report ignite the calls for a commission based on the questions unanswered in this report about the riot, including the role of former president trump. what are the senators behind the report saying about it this morning? >> it has reignited that debate. we heard it on the floor from the majority and minority leader having that argument saying this report sheds a lot of light on what happened but not everything about why it wasn't stopped sooner. the report by design doesn't go into former president trump's role in that day at all. although notably, one of the apens disease of the report is the unannotated text of the speech that the president gave on the ellipse that day, which tells you something about the way the authors looked at it. even the authors of the report, the four senators, the two chairs and ranking members of the relevant committees, disagree about what the report should tell us about the necessity of the commission. take a listen.

>> our job was not to go back and talk about what happened in terms of the motivation. it was about okay, once it happened, you know, what did we do here in the capitol and how could this have happened and how can we ensure it never happens again. >> doesn't somebody need to look at the how, not just the why. >> yes. >> we don't agree on this point. our country needs this 9/11-style commission. >> and you heard a little bit from senator portman there, and he's right, this particular investigation was not designed to do more than it did. it only goes so far. remember, chuck schumer has said he has left open the option they could bring back up the issue of the commission even with changes with amendments to how it might be structured at a later date if the politics might be different this time around. >> the capitol police released a statement in response to this report. i want to read just a little part of that statement. neither the capitol police or fbi, u.s. secret service,

metropolitan police or law enforcement partners knew rioters were planning to attack the u.s. capitol. the known intelligence simply didn't support that conclusion. it sounds like depends on what meaning of actionable intelligence is. what's your take on this, clint? >> this is exactly what i know my research team, many others, thought was going to happen at some point. this was starting back at election day. we saw qanon supporters showing up in philadelphia with weapons. it was quite a buildup and openly available on social media for many people to see. it was not a surprise to anyone that had been doing any research on the topic. i think it really just comes down to how they can skate around this issue of what is actionable. it was very clear. to be honest, i really think for the law enforcement folks that were working there that day, they didn't have tremendous amount of support. they had not been trained in this. their intelligence fnkions are

not trained the way the federal government governments would be. only large police departments have this. they had cognitive dissidents. they didn't believe the president's supporters would try to break into the capitol. they did not believe it. the intelligence was there. whether they took that assessment and prepared for it, it just does not seem like they did. that's what caused a lot of confusion in terms of the d.o.d. response, why it took so long to get federal support into the capitol that day. >> if the goal, though, is, clint, to make sure that this doesn't happen again, that what mistakes were made don't get made again, what about the things that the report doesn't address, like the attackers motivations, the extent of president trump's involvement, how important is it to get to the bottom of those details? >> it is. you can see it in the recommendations. they say, the fbi, dhs should look at how they report on open social media warnings and how they issue intelligence. i can tell you in the federal

government, this is like walking on egg shells. no one wants to talk about domestic extremism or mobilizations. look back i think it was 2009, dhs put out a report about former u.s. military people may be radicalized to join militia groups or do domestic extremism. that was met from capitol hill with extreme resentment and was essentially pushed back on the department. they had to retract it. that's been a consistent beat, if you're in the federal government, that if you're reporting about activities of americans, if you're talking about domestic extremism, what we already saw just with this intelligence community bull tip just in the last couple months is people pushing back from capitol hill saying why are you reporting on what americans are doing. just imagine if they had done an intelligence report on this day, a bulletin, the way the memorandum is saying today, sent it out around the government that said, president trump supporters are talking about the following on social media.

that reaction would have been outrageous. we would have been talking deep state, spying on the trump campaign. it would have been the same things we heard over the last four years. it's a very difficult lane for dhs and the fbi to tread in the domestic space. >> clint and garrett, ken, thanks to all of you. it's election day. well in two states anyway. steve kornacki is here to break down the primaries for the races in new jersey and have a and what they could say about the rest of the country. in new jersey they're calling in the national guard to work the polls. we'll explain that as well. o woe polls. we'll explain that as well my plaque psoriasis... ...the itching ...the burning. the stinging. my skin was no longer mine. my psoriatic arthritis, made my joints stiff,

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not backing down, moments ago, senator joe manchin left his meeting with the naacp and other civil rights leaders and looks like despite their talk, he's not changing his mind when it comes to his opposition to his party's sweeping election overhaul bill. the for the people act. >> change your mind? we he had a great, respectful, very informative, very good conversation we had and it's the starting of a good relationship. it really was. >> manchin has thrown his

support behind another voting rights bill, john lewis voting rights amendment act. new nbc news reporting shows that bill faces an uphill battle with one republican backing it. msnbc is on capitol hill with that reporting. talk about where things stand right now. >> that's right, chris. the s-1 bill democrats have prioritized does not have a path to a majority due to manchin's opposition. he supports the john lewis rights bill, which would not roll back existing laws in states like florida and georgia, but require many states to get federal permission to make future laws. that bill faces a steep uphill climb to 60 votes in the senate. it only has one republican senator on board, lisa murkowski of alaska. i asked what the path is to 60 and she doesn't know. she said it will be a serious challenge. her fellow moderate republican

senator and friend susan collins did not say yesterday when she stands and another of republican senators did not believe federal intervention was necessary at all and was skeptical or opposed. this bill is facing a tough climb to 60 votes and it's not exactly the bipartisan panacea senator manchin might have wanted for voting rights. speaker pelosi and other democrats don't view the john lewis bill as a substitute for s-1. they believe that needs to pass anyway. this is a bind democrats are in now. neither of their major voting rights proposals has a path to passage while the filibuster remains and manchin has made clear he is not backing down in his opposition to the for the people act and resolute against abolishing the 60-vote threshold in the senate. >> thanks so much. appreciate it. it's primary day in new jersey and the state had to get creative to find people who would actually work the polls. >> we were at a point just prior

to the announcement where we had some locations had no poll workers. >> no poll workers. >> so what did they do? the state enlisted nearly 600 members of the air and national army guard to become poll workers. it's not the first time they've been called upon for new jersey elections. last november hundreds were brought in to help the state count mail-in ballots. this time they will be at voting locations dressed in civilian clothes. new jersey's not the only state holding primary elections today. voters in virginia are picking nominees for governor and more. steve kornacki is back at his post at the big board, saying the first time we've been in this studio. walk us through what we expect to see in today's races. >> happy primary day to you. two states here, virginia and new jersey, let's just take a look at what's at stake potentially in november in both states. let's start in new jersey here. there's an incumbent governor, democrat phil murphy running for re-election, unopposed in the

democratic primary. on the republican side, jack ciattarelli looks like the most likely winner but we will see what happens. the official organizational endorsements in the new jersey republican party are all behind ciattarelli. he's got a couple of different opponents. you see one of them here, hirsch singh who tried to alone themselves closely with donald trump. keep an eye as you see the results in the new jersey republican primary. does ciattarelli have any unexpected trouble there? whoever emerges on the republican side there was a recent poll that put murphy's approval rating in new jersey at 57%. that's a very healthy number for an incumbent. then just this, the political tilt of new jersey, this is the presidential result there. last november biden carried the state by 16 points. this has been the story of modern times in new jersey. the burden will be on ciattarelli or whoever the republicans nominate to prove they can make this unexpectedly a race. murphy certainly will go into this as the clear favorite for the fall. the big test everybody is going

to be looking at about the trump-era -- the biden era political climate this november will be in virginia. this is an interesting setup here. the republicans race here already settled. they had a convention last month. glen young is going to be the republican nominee for governor in virginia. the democratic side today is going to be a primary. you see the five candidates, the front runner according to the polling out there, the clear front runner in the polling is terry mcauliffe. terry mcauliffe, the former governor, there's a one-term limit in virginia. he's seeking another term after sitting out for four years. terry mcauliffe, all the polling suggests the heavy frontrunner coming into today for the democratic nomination. we will see if there's any surprise in that democratic primary, but if, indeed, it is mcauliffe versus youngen, everyone will be watching this race closely in november for a clue about whether the political climate has shifted since donald trump left office with joe biden

in office. virginia, a state trending blue, a state that biden won by ten points. the democratic strength in virginia in recent times it's been the d.c. suburbs, increasingly the richmond suburbs, northern virginia, richmond suburbs. this will be the question in november does youngen trying to strike a moderate image there, that's what he's trying to do at least, can he win background that republicans lost in areas like that? can he win that back with biden as president? if he can make it a real race in have a, if he can win in virginia, republicans would take that as a major sign of hope heading into 2022. conversely, if he fails to make up any ground, if he fails to win back the voters and sitting there losing the state something like trump did, democrats would take that as a very encouraging sign for them heading into the 2020 midterms. >> always get a surprise on a day like today because the turnout is low and doesn't take

a lot to swing something in an unexpected direction. >> we've seen it happen before. this morning the ceo of colonial pipeline is testifying before the senate on the hack that hit his company. what he's saying about paying that ransom and why the fbi warns more attacks could come. but first, sticky, sweaty, muggy, whatever you call it, it is hot. 20 million people under heat advisories today. so far roads have buckled under the heat in minnesota. people are hitting the beach in vermont. and lots of schools had kids back home doing remote learning. not everyone seems to mind. >> i'm pretty excited, so i can get home early and just relax for a little bit longer than i -- little bit longer than i normally do. >> get home early and relax. the heat is supposed to break later this week in the northeast. but it is set to last through the weekend in parts of the midwest.

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. it was a frustrating morning for people trying to read the news, shop on-line, or just really browse the internet in general. millions woke up to find hugely popular sites like amazon, reddit and twitch unavailable. so were multiple major news sites including the "new york times," cnn, and the bbc. an american cloud computing service provider said called fastly said it applied a fix about an hour after it saw the problem, but it's not clear exactly what caused that outage. just hours before the ceo of colonial pipeline was set to testify this morning before a senate committee, ransomware hackers struck again. this time their target wasn't oil, it was congress. the hackers attacked a vendor that provides services for the house of representatives. the vendor said it took measures to make sure the attack didn't affect the house network.

colonial pipeline's ceo joseph blount jr. just finished testifying before the homeland security and government affairs committee after the justice department announced it recovered more than half of the ransom that the pipeline paid russian hackers to get back online. here's what he just said about his decision to pay the hackers more than $4 million ransom. >> i believe with all my heart it was the right choice to make, but i want to respect those who see this issue differently. i also now state publicly that we quietly and quickly worked with the law enforcement in this matter from the start, which may have helped lead to the substantial recovery of funds announced by the doj this week. >> nbc capitol hill correspondent lee ann caldwell is following this hearing on the hill. i think he also said what a tough decision it was to make. >> yeah. >> what stood out to you from the hearing? >> that's exactly it, chris. he apologized. he said that it was one of the

hardest decisions he had to make in paying the cyber attackers, but he just left the hearing and talked to reporters, including our producer julie, and he said if he were in the same position again, he would do the exact same thing and pay that ransomware sum of money. that is something that's very controversial among the committee, the chair of the committee gary peters of michigan, is very skeptical of that, in his opening statement, that he doesn't think that ransoms should, in fact, be paid say that it only incentivizes criminals doing the exact thing to get more money. we also know that there is legislation that gary peters and other members of the committee are discussing and that's one of the things banning ransom payments, something they are discussing. joseph blount came under some pressure in this committee today as being unprepared, as not having the security apparatus necessary in order to protect his company from such cyber attacks.

let's listen to house -- new hampshire senator maggie hassan grilled him. >> did you have a plan for cyber security response that included guidance about ransomware? >> senator, specifically no, no discussion about ransom and action to ransom. >> and did your team do tabletop drills, for instance, to go through an actual simulated cyber attack? before this happened? >> senator, yes, we do participate in those with various groups. >> reporter: blount also said that he declined reviews from the government in order to go through their cyber security measures, and so there is some fault to be had here of them, but that he says that they've learned their lesson and his company and every company needs to do better, chris. >> leigh ann caldwell, thanks so much for that update. well, after a year cooped up attending school remotely, some boston high schoolers are finally getting together for their graduation and they

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schools. this is fenway park, the high schoolers get to graduate there. it is so exciting. i want to show you this. this is a ceremony about to begin. excel high school. that is their school up in lights. and a lot of these students are red sox fans. this is where they live and have grown up. when the red sox heard they were looking for a place that was adequate and outdoor to graduate, they opened up their doors. how do you feel about your kids graduating here. >> yea! >> the kids are excited. listen to what he said. >> what is it like to get to be with your friends in person after not being with them for a while? >> this is the greatest moment right now of my life.

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