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look yet of the attack on the capitol. a new report reveals capitol intelligence trump supporters were discussing ways to get through the tunnel under the capitol, and that intelligence never made it to capitol police officers, who soon would be surrounded like sitting ducks pleading for help that took hours to arrive. listen to what one officer speaking in his own capacity told my colleague, kasie hunt, this morning. >> the crowd, they wouldn't listen to anything the police were saying at all. they continued to say we are here because trump sent us here, and we won't listen to nobody else but him. >> that was sergeant benell. he said they used whatever they

could get their hands on to beat officers. today is the second day back on the job after he suffered injuries that required surgery. much of the fallout today is not from the report reveals but rather what it does not. it recovers what and how of the insurrection, but not the why. no mention of the role donald trump played in fueling the attack. the report does not deal with the instigation or coordination, and it's akin to blaming the homeowner and their security system and not the robber that is committing the crime. joining us now, leann caldwell, and nbc 4 washington investigative reporter, scott mcfarland. this report, as you know, it

doesn't look at the root causes of the attack and doesn't use the word insurrection to refer to the attack, and what then -- what purpose does this report then serve? >> that's an excellent question, jeff. the committees that did this report, the republicans and democrats on the committees say it was to look at the intelligence and the security failures to the leadup and on the day of january 6th, and the intent of the report is to be very limited in scope. they didn't go into it thinking they were going to have some sort of comprehensive look. this was the purpose of the report and this is what we got. it was a very damning report as far as security is concerned. talks about how there was on the day of and even in the height of the violence on january 6th, there was just a lack of communication, a lack of direction from capitol police leadership. this is really a report about

law enforcement to protect this capitol and the people inside of it. as you have said, it did not question why those people -- the mob came on january 6th, and didn't talk about the former president's actions and didn't talk about some of the actions of some of the members of congress either. the report did its job. it was a comprehensive look of that day on the security component, but it was very purposeful in that it was very limited in its scope, jeff. >> also joining the conversation is a "washington post" national reporter and msnbc contributor. it's good to have you as we have the conversation about the report. i want to ask you the same question i put to leann. what purpose do you think it serves and what takeaways do you have after having a chance to read through it? >> it strikes me as this report is as described, very purposeful

and surgical, if you will, looking almost exclusively on security, intelligence and preparation. the rules and homeland security committee zeroed in on three terrifying facts. they are, number one, there was advanced intelligence warning of how seriously people were targeting the capitol, that they were planning violence and they were urging people to bring guns, and they were urging people to consider the maps for the entrances and exits and tunnels of the capitol. this intelligence while sometimes unverify and sometimes just chatter was different than conversations in the past, and very specific. the other thing that is really chilling, i have to say, is this element in which they talk about the chatter two weeks before january 6th in which rioters talk about how they can basically close off exits to

trap lawmakers. that's pretty specific and pretty concerning that that was not shared more widely among the capitol police and among the fbi and all of the people that had to respond to this event. >> scott mcfarland, there was a point that was written up to the days to the attack, this is do or die, bring your guns. nor the fbi or dhs took those threats to be credible. what point does the report make about future attacks? >> it's unequivocal the communication has to improve, and there was the norfolk field office warning on january 6th that violence was possible, and d.c.'s chief said it was e-mailed to police. the chief says don't send me an e-mail, pick up the phone and call me to underscore the

importance of such warnings. that's a note. but the integrity speaks for its self, and if the senators want to improve the capitol police, the senators are the ones that must do it. the capitol police have one boss, congress itself. they are the once that have to effect change. >> leann, i mean, to scott's very point, neither the doj nor homeland security complied fully for the requests for the report, and is there anything other than a commission where senators would have to improve and have the power and teeth to get to the bottom of what happened? >> absolutely. a commission that senators did not approve would be able to subpoena, would be able to have the authority and the power and the resources and the time, jeff, to deeply look into these issues. now one of the complaints that i am hearing from senators on both

sides of the aisle, actually, is these two committees did not use their subpoena power, the subpoena power they do have to compel the department of justice and to compel the house sergeant of arms, the person in the house in charge of security on that side to come and testify, they did not fully comply with this report and this investigation either. as far as next steps, if this is going to be a replacement for the january 6th commission, and it looks like that, and this has emboldened the democrats to say we need a investigation with a bigger scope, and republicans are saying it's good enough, doj is investigating and charging more than 450 people here that day is enough for the investigation. one more thing, i asked senator ron johnson that is raising a

lot of concerns about what congressional leaderships' role was on january 6th, and that's something only a january 6th commission could look into, and that's something he doesn't want. >> one officer told senate investigators, he said we were ill prepared and not informed with intelligence and we were betrayed. how does capitol police leadership grapple with the feelings of betrayal, and it's already under staffed and underfunded and there are recruitment and retention problems. >> absolutely. such an important issue to focus on, because this has happened for several law enforcement agencies when they have a fairly humiliating and painful failure on a security front, and they are often under staffed when that happens and they lose more people after because of the morale issue. on multiple layers this police

force was ill prepared and ill informed. again, not all of them who were action commanders and battalion commanders that day had any idea about the violence that was targeting the capitol, the map sharing and the request to bring your guns. they had no clue about that. the second issue is, it was very scarring to go through this experience, because no matter how well equipped and how well staffed the capitol police were that day, there was no way they would be able to fend off eight to 10,000 protesters coming at them with their spray and flagpoles and pipes. this team needs a leadership that will promise that not only will they give them the training, but the enforcement they needed, like the national guard. they will bring out the reinforcements that are always available in d.c. for an

emergency or for a crisis kind of protests. >> my thanks to the three of you for bringing your insights to this conversation. meantime the cloud computing website is blaming a technical error for an outage that took down much of the internet today, and many were temporarily down, and there's no indication the incident was the result of a cyber attack, but it raises new concerns about what a malicious actor could do if they targeted the services that basically hold up the internet. that's especially relevant in light of the recent slew of high profile ransomware attacks, and that's all in addition to a number of other recent ransomware incidents impacting meat processing plant, jbs.

>> it was our understanding that the decision was solely ours as a private company to make the decision on to pay or not to pay, and considering the consequences of potentially not bringing the pipeline back on as quickly as i could, i chose the option to make the ransom payment. >> former fbi senior official and former u.s. attorney, two msnbc contributors. welcome to the two of you. there's a handful of companies that control much of the internet traffic, and how vulnerable are we given that all of the traffic is being routed through just a handful of companies? >> i think that what we have seen from the intelligence community, from the justice department and the fbi and leaders there is that all

companies are extremely vulnerable to cyber attacks, and when you look at companies basically running the internet it's essential that they invest in the security they need so they are not attacked and they understand they need to work with government as soon as possible should something happen, so systems cannot only be online quickly and attackers can be identified as you saw in the colonial pipeline case, and you saw colonial quickly reach out to the fbi for assistance immediately upon learning their computers systems had been taken over, and there's not a large company in the united states that is not vulnerable to this because cyber attackers decided it's more profitable if they attack a company and take over their system for ransom rather than trying to steal the ip. >> and then the pipeline ceo defended his choice to pay the ransom and he said it was the hardest decision he ever had to

make professionally, and it struck me going forward companies might pay the ransom especially now that the ransom was recovered. what is your view? >> he had two awful choices, jeff. it's not like he had a good choice and a bad choice and made the bad one, but he had two horrible choices and i don't know if he got it right. sounds like he got it right. hard for me to second guess that sitting here. your other point i think is really important. are we creating some traverse incentive. criminals already have incentive enough, and they are going to find a case point to get in. every company is vulnerable. if you think about a neighborhood, criminals will go to a house where the backdoor is unlocked or garage door is open, and they will find the vulnerable company, and if the ceo of that company decides to

pay ransom, and if they don't then they move on to the next company or the next house. i actually feel for the guy and i don't think it's an easy choice, and you will be criticized either way but the criminals are going to continue to do this, because we are as a nation and economy, as an infrastructure vulnerable to exactly this kind of behavior. >> and there's software being used on capitol hill for constituent services and that was subject to a ransomware attack. how should the federal government work with the private companies, especially federal contractors to help them shore up their vulnerabilities? >> i think the colonial pipeline case is an interesting example here when we look at what the ceo did. to chuck's point, it was a very difficult decision, and he contacted the fbi right away. the fbi put out its affidavit yesterday, and he recovered a

large portion of the ransom that had been paid, and he walked us through what that looked like, and on may 7th, he said we have been attacked and the hackers want ransom from us, and the fbi must have been knowledgeable they paid the ransom and then the fbi watched them moving from account to account and landed in a account where a federal judge was able to give them access to that and recover most of the funds. if they think money getting paid in the electronic currencies, it will only be recouped and taken from there, there's a disincentive. >> we know the bitcoin of it all, the bitcoin and cryptocurrencies should be regulated and banned. what is the upshot of doing

that? is that a remedy here? >> if the goal, jeff, is to prevent bad guys from getting money from good guys, i'm not sure that will work. bad guys have been getting money from good guys for a long time long before bitcoin and the internet existed. colonial pipeline, according to its ceo left an old piece of hardware open and it was the mode of attack and the entry point for the bad guys and a mistake. looks like the bad guys made a mistake, too, because the bitcoin, i understand, was perhaps on u.s.-based servers, and so look, criminals get better, and i guess really we ought to think about that as getting worse, but they learn from their mistakes and they tighten up their operations going forward, and good guys, companies like colonial pipeline

learn from their mistakes and tighten up their operations going forward. i am not sure shutting down one way of paying bad guys will end ransomware attacks or ransom for that matter. >> great point. bad guys are going to do what bad guys are going to do, and we good guys have to shore up our defenses. thank you to the two of you. and president biden accused donald trump of using the doj like a private law firm, so why is the doj willing to defend donald trump. first, we go live to mexico. the vice president defending the fact that she's not going to the border, not just yet anyway, during a trip for the border crisis. >> you have not been to the border? >> and i have not been to europe. i don't understand the point you are making. >> our own gabe gutierrez show

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do you have any plans to visit the border? >> at some point. you know, we're going to the border. we've been to the border, so this whole -- this whole -- this whole thing about the border, we've been to the border. we've been to the border. >> you have not been to the border. >> and i have not been to europe. i don't understand the point you are making. i am not discounting the importance of the voter. >> kamala harris is fighting off some of the criticism she's gotten on the immigration crisis. today she aims to tackle the root causes for migrants from central america seeking asylum at the u.s. border. the vice president is looking at

why migrants leave in the first place, and families escaping violence and the affects of climate change. joining me is gabe gutierrez. monica, kamala harris and her team has looked at the portfolio and they are looking at the root of migration, and she's focused on the leadership of the northern triangle region, and that's perhaps why she was bristling a bit. give us a look at her focus as she meets mexico's president. >> republicans have been asking when will the vice president herself go and see the conditions at the u.s./mexico border, and this is an

administration that said that's not what our priority is going to be, we are going to try and speak with the governments in central america and mexico and see what we can do in terms of crafting a strategy to help stem the flow of migrants, and this is something that maybe got under her skin a little bit here, and she was asked why she had not gone to guatemala yesterday, and she said she was not a fan of grand gestures and instead she wanted to come to places like this and speak with the leaders directly. here in mexico city she did spend several hours with the mexican president, just the two of them for a couple hours, and then in discussions with a couple interpreters and aides, and the vice president sees the need for the u.s. and mexico to strengthen their relationship,

and this president has been critical of president biden, and from here she will also go meet with female entrepreneurs in the country and labor leaders and trying to broaden it out and make it about economic development. the u.s. is pledging more than 1 million surplus doses to the country, and millions more to latin america and they aim to district 80 million this month as part of their global vaccination strategy. >> and gabe, what is the like on the ground there? >> reporter: well, jeff, this is the new bottleneck at the border. as you can see behind me, there are plenty of tents here and several hundred migrants, and this is one of the migrant camps that sprung up, and another one

in tijuana, as my cameraman can give you a better picture of what things look like here, and there are several migrant shelters across the border from texas are nearing capacity and advocates have concerns about the safety conditions here inside of this camp. many of the folks we have spoke to have been returned to mexico from the united states because of trying to cross over, and it was title 42 that the trump administration put in place and the biden administration also kept that in place. and they are educating migrant children here, and we asked what the biggest concern was about the camp. >> how dangerous can it be? >> two weeks ago there was six kidnappings in one night, and kidnapping, they come on to the plaza, they drag a person off,

you hear the person screaming for help and everybody stands around and watches, which is understandable and nobody wants to die and they have their own children they are looking out for, and they put the person in their truck and driver off. >> and we have others faced with the agonizing decision. one woman we spoke with earlier today, she just had been returned and she had two young children and she said she was fearing for her life in honduras, her sister and father were killed earlier this year, she says, and she regrets not separating from her two younger kids and letting them go into the united states, because under the biden administration policy they would be allowed to stay as unaccompanied children, but they were brought back, and her children are older, 15 and 11. this mexican state told authorities they are not receiving children younger than seven, and these children were older and brought back here.

we just spoke with her minutes ago, and she is trying to find a tent, and that's difficult and she has no money, and she cannot return home. >> thanks to both of you for that really important reporting. nbc news has new reporting today on the efforts to reunite migrant families separated under the trump administration's zero tolerance policy. only seven children, seven kids have rejoined their families since president biden took office. that leaves more than 2,100 children still separated from their parents to this day. on a phone call with reporters a. senior biden dhs official blamed the delay on numerous errors and misinformation in trump administration data. up next, not backing down. joe manchin still opposed a voting rights bill even after today's meeting with civil rights leaders. two of them will join me in

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what we had was a great, respectful and informative conversation we had and it was the start of a good relationship. it really was. >> joe manchin would not say his mind was changed after the meeting with civil rights leaders. manchin has called for an elusive bipartisan solution and made it clear he favors the narrower house electricitition known as the john lewis act. nancy pelosi said the party will

proceed with both bills, writing in a letter to colleagues that they are not substitutes for one another. joining us now are the president of national action network and the host of msnbc's "politics nation," reverend sharpton, and we'll start with you. what was your message for the senator today and did you accomplish what you set out to do? >> well, i think that this meeting was set up before the op-ed piece that senator manchin wrote saying he was against senate bill 1, because we wanted to talk about the voting rights bill, which is senate bill 1 and the john lewis bill coming through the house, and the george floyd justice and policing act. we talked about all three. clearly the senator did not commit that he was going to change his now public view on senate bill 1.

we challenged that. we gave him the history of the racist history of the filibuster and how we should deal with that, and it laid out the importance of our vote. i brought up about the george floyd justice and policing act and the importance of the voting, and the people that died with fight for the right to vote, and he did commit he would support the george floyd justice and policing act. >> did you get the sense there's any movement that manchin would be willing to make in the coming weeks and months? he's written an op-ed, and he articulated work he stands on, and he said this is the beginning of a relationship. do you think future engagement would move the needle with him at all? >> we are committed to future engagement and to moving the

needle, and it was a productive conversation. in the first conversation by us with joe manchin as the leading civil rights organizations in this nation. we went in understanding there would be differences on how to get what i think are some shared goals, and we didn't walk in with any expectation that this one meeting would resolve or, if you will, identify a pathway forward, but we are going to meet with him again. we are not going to give up. we're not going to give in on the idea of the notion of the necessity of s-1, the people's act, and the john lewis bill and the george floyd justice and policing act. these bills, all three of them have wide support among the

american people, significant polling on both sides of the aisle in all regions of the country, among all ages and races support the bill. while there's a discussion of bipartisanship in the senate of the united states, and what is clear there's a bipartisan coalition of the american people that wants to see these things happen. >> i'm told that senator mitch mcconnell at his weekly press conference just now as we have been speaking, he said he does not support the john lewis voting rights act bill. that suggests to me, reverend al, if you have democrats that don't support blowing up the filibuster, and only republican i know that will support that act, there's no way to get to 60 votes on the piece of legislation should it come to the legislature. so what, then, is the backup plan? >> that's why i think it's

important that senator manchin said he wants to keep talking and he'll be back in touch before the week is out, because the backup has to be laid before the democrats, including senator manchin and you will have to go and get some republicans since you insist on bipartisanship, and it clearly seems like they do not on the republican side want to be bipartisan, or you are going to have to agree, at least in these two or three bills to do what you have done in other singular bills, and then you say for this we are going for the majority vote, which if all 50 democrats are there and you break the tie with vice president harris, you can get it through. we have done this before, and if you can't get rid of the filibuster, can you agree that these bills will be put aside and vote on the lines of a

majority vote, which has happened. >> i want to say this, jeff, and this is important, because you just shared with us what mitch mcconnell said this morning. this is a betrayal and reversal by mitch mcconnell who has supported the extension of the voting rights act in the past. he has prided himself in conversations with me that he's never cast a vote against a major civil rights bill. now, this is an important development and i believe your reporter should ask senator mcconnell why is it now in this stage of his career with the challenges in the country that he would reverse course having supported the voting rights act extension the last time it came up, why he would change course and not support it now? you see, this is what is important. he is sending a signal that he's not interested in bipartisanship. he's not interested in working, if you will, to find solutions to difficult problems.

so we're going to -- this is not easy, jeff. this is a tough sledding in the united states senate. but the civil rights leadership of the nation, we're not going to take a backseat in this work and in this fight. we're going to meet and we're going to discuss and we're going to press our case with anyone, anywhere at anytime because it's that crucial for the future of this country. >> absolutely. ceo of the national urban league, marc, and reverend sharpton, my deep thanks to the both of you. coming up next, defending trump. by the department of justice wants to defend trump. this is a gamechanger,

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oval office interview in 2019 saying, quote, she's not my type. now, a district judge initially rejected an attempt by trump's justice department to represent him, and under merrick garland the doj is appealing saying everything trump did as president was an official government action. good to see you both. matt, we will start with you. the doj balancing institutional interests is paramount for them, and you know that given your past experience, but is the biden doj making the right call on this specific issue, do you think? >> you are right, jeff, it's a tough call for the justice department in the first months and first year of a new administration. you are always struck kind of trying to balance the traditional interest and prerogatives of the justice department that always wants to

represent the executive branch, and they have moral beliefs on what might have happened, and we struggled to get that right in the first year of the obama administration, and you are stuck with the cases where there's a crush of litigation and sometimes you have to make decisions when you consider all of the options that you might have considered if you had more time, and i think the interest of the justice department, the career people at the doj are always telling you have to defend the presidency, and there are times when doj needs to return to first principles, which is no one person including the president is above the law. over time they might get there and i wish they would have gotten there in this decision, and when the president attacks

somebody's appearance over a case, i think the doj would have come up with a position that defended the position of the president while still arguing that case could go forward. >> as women across the country are standing up and holding men accountable for assault, the doj is trying to stop me from having that same right. i'm angry. i am offended. what does the justice department gain by representing trump in this case? >> we have always wanted to have a return to the rule of law, and we had years under trump where we did not feel like we had that, and the legal analysis that goes into the appeal and the sustaining of the appeal the doj have taken on, and look, i don't begrudge that part of the analysis is was trump making the

statement at the time at the scope of his appointment? yeah, but it addresses conduct that took place before he took office, and i think that there's a fine line that the doj could have actually walked and elected not to continue this appeal. the president is a government official. i also agree with the garland doj on that proposition on that legal point, but when you have a president that acts outside the scope of his employment when he makes these kinds of statements, there has to be accountability. i don't think it should be a president where the press corps can't ask presidents for fear of some type of culpability, and there was a legal and moral mistake by the doj. >> appreciate you coming in.

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largest in the state is at dangerously low levels. you can see almost the bathtub ring affect, and that's the level the water used to be at. what is being done to mitigate this, the governor has declared a drought emergency for 41 of the state's 58 counties but it's up to local municipalities to tell their residents to conserve as much water as possible. the other way is by limitations. limiting water usage from places that use a high amount of water, and that means farming is taking a big hit. i spoke to a farmer in the central valley yesterday, and he said he had to lay off workers and leave fields because he did not have enough water to irrigate some of his key drops. >> i estimate we will lose 30% of our income. >> 30% of your income? >> yes. >> because we are losing 30% of

the acreage. >> what does that translate into dollars? >> it's in seven figures. >> wow. >> i'm pretty scared this year, actually, yes. we have never been in this kind of uncertainty before. >> you can multiply his story by the dozens. this region in california, the central valley responsible for about one-third of all the produce in the entire country. the worry, of course, now is about what happened last year, that historic fire season. scientists are worried conditions will be even worse this year and it shows no signs of letting up. >> nbc's steve patterson, thank you for that reporting. up next, returning to the office to find employees are not sold on the idea of going back. stay with us. don't like surprises? [ watch vibrates ] proactive notifications from fidelity keep you tuned in all day long. so when something happens that could affect your portfolio, you can act quickly. that's decision tech, only from fidelity.

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right now vice president kamala harris is in mexico city, set to meet with entrepreneurs as part of her first trip overseas following this morning's bilateral meeting with president obrador of mexico where the two discussed the relationship between mexico and the united states. nbc news anchor lester holt will join us momentarily to discuss his interview with the vice president. >> you haven't been to the border. >> and i haven't been to europe. i don't understand the point you're making. i'm not discounting the importance of the border. >> this comes as a new senate report says capitol police leaders knew that trump supporters were planning to breach the capitol complex and failed to act. this afternoon we're learning that the assistant chief of police at uscp, chad thomas, resigned from his post yesterday. the latest al