night the ritual maddow show starts right now, good evening rachel. president vladimir putin it's been a white knuckle day for democracy back here at home. in a congressional hearing today on the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol, there was no explanation. none. for why the national guard stood down for hours while the capitol was over run that day by a huge violent mob of trump supporters. the committee and the house documented 12 different requests to the pentagon that day, trying to get help from the national guard.ge 12 different requests while the attack was under way. five different times, the national guard was told that ua they needed to standby.

and maybe do something. but it was close to five hours before any national guard troops were sent to the capitol. at which point, the capitol was well and truly overrun. p today one of the pentagon e officials who couldn't explain that delay in dispatching the s guard on january 6, one of the officials who couldn't explain it, but never the less testified about it, was a general charles flynn. charles flynn is the younger brother of trump national security adviser michael flynn. who, of course, called on trump supporters to come to the capitol january 6.ja who publicly called on trump to declare martial law and have the military take over the country and rerun the election and swing states where trump lost. michael flynn's brother charlies on january 6th was the deputy chief of staff of the united states army, which he described essentially being the chief operating office of the army. after the attack happened on

january 6, when hard questions started to be asked about why the national guard wasn't there, why they took so long. request after request to the pentagon produced no help for hours and hours and hours. when hard questions first started to be asked about what happened there, the pentagon initially made false public statements saying that general charles flynn, mike flynn's younger brother, had nothing to do with fielding any of the requests for help or taking part in any of decision making about whether the national guard would be deployed to save the capitol. those were false denials from the army that charles flynn was involved. today general flynn explained to the house over sight committee he was involved in the decisions and in that planning.flex even though, like i said, he didn't have answers for what went so wrong and why it took five hours to get there. we don't know why the pentagon

lied initially about general flynn and said he wint involved in the decisions. we also don't know why the pentagon sat on its hands for hours instead of sending anyone to help, even though they very well knew exactly what was going on and were directly fielding er panicked calls from lawmakers asking for help. we also don't know whether general charles flynn and his brother mike flynn were in communication at all about anything on that day of the attack, or anything in the lead up to the attack. we don't know that at all. so, that's very unsettling. general charles flynn since been put in charge of all u.s. army t forces in the pacific. while his brother mike is currently touring the country, appearing at events marketed to

adherence of the qanonconspiracy theory. telling them there ought to be military coup in the country. to reinstall trump in power for pounding the fantasy to followers that trump will be puy back in as president sometime this year because the result of the election shouldn't count and won't count much longer.r that's one brother. while the other is running the u.s. army in the pacific region. after being part of whatever decision making process went so wrong at the pentagon on january 6 that resulted in there being no help from the national guardr to save the capitol for hours. while it was being overrun by supporters of the general flynn's mike and then president trump.rs like i said a white knuckle day. for democracy. here at home. simultaneously today fbi issued a warning to lawmakers that the conspiracy theory may get more o serious about trying to physically harm democrats and others who they see as their

enemies.s. we assess that some violent extremists adherence of qanon likely will begun to believe they have an obligation to ts change serving digital soldiers to real world violence, including harming perceived members of the kabul, such as democrats and instead of waiting for the actions of q-promised which haven't occurred. simultaneously, we're getting us that warning from the fbi. and we have the local press in arizona warning that qanon-adherence in arizona and around ve a new focus. a new obsession, wch is the so called audit in arizona where republicans in the legislator have taken the states ballots ha and votes machines and given them to trump supporters who support the stupid and wild

clams about the election somehow being invalid. these are coming together, it's unsettling.ou the fbi already considers qanon to be a domestic terrorism threat. warning that the folks are likely to move in to serious violence to try to start physically harming people as they see as enemies. and those are the folks who effectively given the ballots and voting machines in arizona so they can tell us what went wrong in the presidential election. "the washington post" reporting that whatever it is they are doing with the ballots in the voting machines in arizona appears to be almost done, which means they'll soon be saying publicly whatever it is they're going to say about the presidential election result last year in arizona. presumably, they'll call for decertifying the arizona result, which is not a thing. they'll say there was somethingi so wrong in arizona that the election can't count. or maybe they'll say they found

so much wrong, they can't explain it but the election result can't be trusted. maybe the election should be rerun in arizona, which is not a thing. today, we learned that when president trump was still president after the election, he tried to force that to happen. house oversight committee leased a couple hundred pages of e-mails obtained showing way cob more than we knew about how trump tried to use the power of the federal government and presidency to stay in power, despite losing the election. it is the striking thing.lo there it is in black and white. trump had a legal brief sent to the justice department on december 29, 2020. he told the justice department to file this brief with the united states supreme court about how the presidential election was invalid.ista the brief ends with this. prayer for relief.

the united states, meaning this should be done on behalf of the people of the united states, the united states respectfully requests that this court issue the following relief. declare the electoral college de votes cast by presidential electors in defendant states. pennsylvania, georgia, michigan, wisconsin, arizona, and nevada, cannot be counted. join defendant states use of the 2020 election results to a point presidential electors to the electoral college.nnto the brief actually says that part again. if. it just repeats it verbatim! trump hasn't wrapped himself up in the best lawyering. enjoying defendant states use oe the 2020 election results to d appoint presidential electors to the electoral college and e authorize the defendant states to conduct a special election to appoint presidential electors. that's what they were telling -- he wanted the justice department to tell the supreme court to do that. so that was sent december 29th. trump had that brief sent over

to the u.s. department of justice telling them to file fi this with the supreme court. so the u.s. government would be asking for all the presidential election results to be thrown out in all the swing states he -- trump lost. and that the electoral votes shouldn't be counted and the supreme court should order new elections for president in all of those states.in 44 states, you can keep your election results. these six, we'll redo it.x, and i guess maybe either the military per michael flynn would order the rerunning of the election in the swing states or the supreme court would do it per the justice department briei that trump wanted filed on his behalf. either way, the idea was to rerun the parts of the election that trump lost. the actual election results wouldn't be allowed.

there would have to be new elections in the swing states he lost. that was the plan.on and these e-mails just released today between the trump white house and the justice department, they areho shockingo see. they are billed as more evidence of jus exactly how trump and the white house were pressuring thea justice department to try to force the overturning of the election results to keep trump in power, even though he lost. they are that. they tell us more about the white house asking for. but what they also are, again unsettling, these new records we got today are a detailed record of justice department officials, not only receiving, not only entertaining this crazy stuff from the white house, justice department officials acted on it.rt they took in this crazy nonsense from the trump white house, but then they actually pushed it out to federal prosecutors to u.s. attorneys in

the relevant u.s. states. tt is one thing to be the victim, right? to be on the receiving end of white house pressure on stuff like this. it's another thing entirely to receive that pressure and decide not that you are going to absorb it and shield the rest of the government and the justice department from this sort of inappropriate pressure. it's another thing to not decide you are going to absorb it, but instead to pass it onto subordinates to act on it, because that's what the white house wanted? i mean, this would be like in the news business if somebody in politics was pressuring ld executives that i need to cover something differently than i did. the right thing to do in that circumstance is for the executive to handle it him or herself. right? to either tell the person to

buzz off or say yeah yeah whatever.r absorb it. the important part is never tell me to never actually pass on the actual pressure. some outside persons effort to effect the editorial freedom, our journalistic freedom. they aren't effective. but if that executive turned around and said i heard and they want you to do this differently, first of all, i would quit. second of all, i would know that person is not doing their job. that's what happened at the trump justice department. trump leaned on senior officials at the justice department to act on this crazy stuff and they didn't just sit on it.th they fielded it out to actual federal prosecutors and u.s. attorneys. they did it a bunch of times. this to me is a shocking part of the story. certainly the more urgent matter for the current justice department under merrick garland to act on and investigate to get

to the bottom of it, clean up and make sure it never happens again. we have it all in black and white. december 14, 2020.toagit the time stamp here is 4:57 p.m. subject from potus.ta it's got an attachment.fr this nonsense conspiracy theory stuff about michigan. a cover-up on voting crime. laws have been broken.e a capitol c cover up is happening. regarding the voting machines in michigan.th this is a seditious conspiracy. this is flier you find in a bathroom somewhere and make you decide to leave the place and not come back. the president of the united le states sent this to a top justice department official on december 14, at 4:57 p.m. what happened to it? two minutes later, 4:59 p.m.,

the principle deputy to the justice department official forwarded that attachment. the crazy michigan stuff to the actually top federal prosecutors in michigan. this is sent to the u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan and the western district of michigan. from the attorney general. see attachment. per rich donahue. senior level official at the justice department sending this forwarding this stuff out to the actual federal prosecutor in that state. being on the receiving end of crazy stuff is nothing you can't be blamed for. sending it on from the top ochs offices at the main justice down to federal prosecutors in that state, that is another matter altogether.ffices at thee down to federal prosecutors in that state, that is another matter altogether. that is a serious problem. is that being fixed? less than an hour after those two justice department officials, one receives it from the white house, and sends it to the michigan u.s. attorneys. less an hour after that happened, trump announced those

two officials were promoted to new jobs. they became the acting attorney general of the united states. congratulations, gentlemen. how are we doing with the michigan conspiracy? we fielded that out to the michigan u.s. attorney. yeah. good. u you got these new jobs. it happened in pennsylvania as well. moon bat allegations about the election being invalid in pennsylvania. top justice department official sent it out to the federal prosecutor in western pennsylvania, the u.s. attorney there. on january 1, trump white house chief of staff told the then attorney general to have another official look into nonsense moon bat claims about the georgia election being invalid. how did the then attorney general respond? he sent that other justice e department official -- in fact, the cell phone number of the u.s. attorney in georgia. that u.s. attorney gets called. we don't know what happened in

the call. within two days, that same official who also rang the bell of the u.s. attorney in georgia and pennsylvania is on the phone with the u.s. attorney in georgia and then sending that u.s. attorney in georgia a than you for his resignation. what did he resign over? what was he asked to do that he resigned instead of doing it? what we have now isn't just a record of trump and the white house chief of staff using the justice department to overturn the election and keep trump in power, it is the record of the justice department whining about it, but going along with too. which is way worse. over sight committee wants testimony from all the in w officials. that's a start. joining me now, is katie benner. she has been covering the justice department for the "new york times." she's way ahead of everybody else of pressuring the justice department.he she was the first to report on these documents from the

oversight committee today. nice to see you. thanks for making time. >> thanks for having me. >> i feel like a lot of the attention today has focused on the new information that the ne documents give us about how the trump white house and president himself were pressuring the justice department.el there's also been attention to the fact that justice department officials sort of complained among themselves as to what the trump white house was asking th them to look at and asking them to do. i feel there has been less attention to the fact it was farmed out to u.s. attorneys. i wonder if you have perspectivt on that, given what you know about the justice department. >> sure. i think we saw in the last few weeks before the january 6 attack, you saw officials agreeing with one another that they would not to do anything. they would take in material and forwarded it along. a wink wink nudge nudge. everybody knew, nobody was going to open an investigation or appoint special counsel.ec and placate the president the most generous read is that people really felt that they ou

needed to stay in their places because if they get fired or pushed out they would be replaced by who knew. there were real concerns it could be likere a rudy giuliani figure who would do things to never be done. another is four years of the justice department being attacked by the president. we saw him publicly pressuring officials and extraordinary ways. ways that haven't been done really since nixon era. and over the four years, we almost became numb to it. and i think that goes for people inside of the justice department. conversations reporting showed up in "the washington post." "new york times." and out lets show officials began to have conversations among themselves to the effect of if we don't do it, how bad is it? if the coup doesn't happen, how bad is it? we kept law and order in place. nobody knows this is happening in the public view.

we can hold it together. you really do get flavor of that in the e-mails. to your point, grumbling, passing things along, but nobody actually taking action, no investigation launched. everybody kind of just nodding as well as they can. >> the one person who resigns here about whom we still don't really know the back story, is bj peck who is the u.s. attorney in georgia. by are tightening the time line of things we don't know here. we see the chief white house chief of staff mark meadows sort of forwarding the moon bat georgia stuff to the attorney general within a couple days. he's sending more stuff and asking for a specific justice department official who seems inclined towards the president's view of the election to look into whaths going on in georgia. we know the attorney general

rosen passed on the u.s. attorney general's phone number to him. and within a couple days he resigned and thanked for his resignation by one of the senior justice department officials who was promoted. do we know anything more about bj pack was asked to do in or what led it his resignation? >> the documents one of the interesting things we see is oc there is a very tense meeting that "the new york times" reported on. that takes place that day. where you have the president o essentially deciding whether or not he'll keep acting attorney general jeff rosen in place or whether or not he'll replace him with the acting head of the civil division jeff clark. jeff clark believed the president won the election or fraud had so damaged the election the results couldn't be known.so clark was a true believer and trying to get other officials on board with a plan to do th something particularly in georgia, particularly in full -- fulton county.

we see time stamps coming out of that meeting. various officials are saying we don't have a full read out. we think he'll remain acting attorney general.fi t one email even said the cause of justice won. we're not going to have something who believes these conspiracy theories running the justice department.avg a lot of that meeting was about georgia.wa a lot of that meeting was about donald trump's true belief something happened in georgia. he had the call in georgia ru to brad raffensperger trying to get him to do something to find votes and fraud. to find evidence to cast doubt who had won the state. we see this really tense and awful meeting happen. it's after that meeting that yos see rosen's deputy e-mail bj pack. it's only after a few minutes after the entire justice department debriefed op what af happened in the meeting. the president's obsession with georgia is known. the fact something is going to probably happen to bj pack or e mentioned is known. and that point that the number

two official calls pack. and you can assume he likely explains to him what has just ca transpired in the meeting. and president trump's obsession with georgia. and he presents him with a a couple options.rg if you are bj pack, i don't know what you would do. b i don't know for sure what i would do. i will say one option being to quietly leave before i'm tweeted about and my reputation is utterly destroyed by president trump doesn't sound like the worst option in the world. you can say that this is still completely inappropriate and undue pressure the fact that option was on the table. that's interesting about the timing of pack's depart tour. it happens after the long meeting where you see every official at the top resign in protest because of what the president intends to do or wants to do around georgia. >> and, of course, the fact there is a criminal investigation under way by a

georgia state prosecutor now as to whether or not the president may have acted criminally when he tried to interfere in the administration of the election in georgia. it raises questions as to whether it might be another avenue the investigation maybe another avenue to figure that out, whether bj pack may be a witness in the state investigation remains to be seen. this is beat keeps getting weirder. thank you for helping us understand it. we have much more ahead of it on this busy night. stay with us.a se is having healthy gums. keep yours healthy with new crest advanced gum restore. it's clinically proven to detoxify below the gum line, and it restores by helping heal gums in as little as seven days. because you can't have a healthy smile, without healthy gums. advanced gum restore from crest.

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$4 billion to other charities. today, nearly $3 billion again in the first half of the year. she's given more than $8 billion in a 12-month period. incredible thing in lots of ways. there's another reason i sort of can't get this headline out of my head. mackenzie scott is was married to jeff bezos. he is the founder of amazon. he is by far the richest person on earth. they divorced in 2019. when they got divorced she got her own share of the fortune. her settlement in the divorce is sh holds 4% of amazon stock. when they divorced a couple of years ago, that meant she was worth about $36 billion. now, owning 4% of amazon stock means that she is worth not 36 billion dollars, but more like $60 billion. that is even with giving away $8

billion in a year. right? giving away $8 billion as fast as she can. amazon is worth so much as a company, giving away billions of dollars a year doesn't effect the fact her net worth keeps going up. it's not like she is jeff bezos. jeff bezos is worth something like $190 billion. he says he has so much money now the only thing he can think of to do with it all is to launch himself into space. i know yo think i'm kidding. he said, quote, the only way i can deploy this much financial resource is by converting my amazon winnings into space travel. that is basically it. so now he's doing it. funding a space tourism company and heading to space next month himself. the wealth that amazon, that

company generated is almost impossible to wrap your head around, especially the last year. because of the pandemic amazon which was already unimaginably giantic. they saw a huge upsurge in business last year. everybody was staying out of stores and staying home and ordering online. you take what they made in profit in the three years before the pandemic, and add those together. that's how much amazon made last year alone. they made three years of profit in one year last year. so, jeff bezos is making himself into a spaceman. and his ex-wife is giving away billions of dollars a year and still only getting richer as she does it. of course, the way that company is able to generate all of that concentrated wealth is that they have a huge massive army of workers who handle all the packages. they are the ones that make amazon all of the money.

along with the companies bottom line, the work force ballooned last year. last year between july and october amazon hired 350,000 new employees. that's more people than live in the entire city of st. louis, missouri. they added 350,000 new workers. just from july to october. right now, amazon is the second largest private employer in the united states. they are on pace to be the largest in the next year or two. last year, reporters of "the new york times" started talking to amazon employees, wherever they could find them. specifically, they started talking to people who have hourly jobs at this facility. jfk 8 in new york city. it's the only fulfillment center mozambique has for the largest city in the country. it's huge. the size of 15 football fields.

only fulfillment center for the new york city area. reporters from the "new york times" spent months talking to employees who work inside that facility. and today they published what they found. this is the headline. "the amazon that customers don't see." the times interviewed 200 current and former employees for the piece. many work inside the giant facility. and what they were able to thread together is a bluntly picture of working in that fulfillment center, especially during covid. here's one example from the castillo family. on the left is alberto and his wife and two kids. he had worked at jfk 8 for five years. when covid hit new york last spring. he and his wife talked about whether he should stay home from work to avoid getting covid. they are trying to buy a house and they needed the income.

he kept going to work. here is what mr. castillo told "the new york times." when he arrived to work on march 24, he heard the warehouse had a first positive case. he messaged his boss who replied yes i forgot to bring that up. he called his wife to discuss whether to head home. he finished his shift on the dawn drive back to new jersey, his throat began itching. he became severely ill with covid. he suffered permanent brain damage. doctors say he will never speak, eat, or work again. for a while, his family was receiving disability payments from amazon. but this was all of a sudden, they stopped coming without warning. his wife tried to reach somebody. to find out what happened. most calls went unanswered. finally she got someone on the phone who agreed it was an error and reinstated payments. then got an email addressed to

her husband from amazon that made no sense. under the circumstances, we notified your manager and hr rep about your return to work on october 1, 2020. what? he cannot eat or talk. how can he going back to work? especially since the company knows they are paying disability payments. his wife doesn't think the company ever understood what happened to her husband. she told "the times" she wanted to ask amazon are your workers disposable? can you replace them? spokesman for amazon expressed regret the family didn't feel supported. they said he and his entire family are in amazon's thoughts and prayers and the disability payments were prematurely halted error. due to a system. he's not the only employee to come down with covid in may another worker died of covid.

look at what "the times" is now reporting. amazon said it was disclosing confirmed cases to health officials new york records show no reported cases from the amazon facility until november. "the times" notes that amazon and city officials dispute what happened. believe me when i tell you that horrible confusion with the family, this discrepancy with reporting covid cases and facilities started the tip of the iceberg. this blockbuster in "the times" paints a picture about american workplace where employees have been fired by mistake and unable to find any real human being to fix it, let alone reinstate them. a company that suffers from immense turnover. the times" found even before the pandemic amazon was losing 3% of hourly work force every week, which means 150% turn over a year. the entire work force was completely turning over in less than a year.

one former amazon employee telling "new york times" about what it means for a company to churn through its entire huge work force once or twice a year. he says, quote. you need to have eight, 10 million people apply each year. that's about 5% of the entire american work force. the company is worried they will literally not having enough people to keep churning through to keep being the same company they are. the people who have been or will be employed by amazon represent a big slice of people in the country, given the size of the company and how big it keeps growing. but courting. but according to "the times" in particular it appears to be a problematic place to work. particularly if you are not a white person. according to internal records, black employees were 50% more likely to be fired than white

coworkers. more than 60% of the workers are black or latino. 70% of the company put in management positions were white or asian. amazon said it couldn't confirm the data without knowing specifics about its source. one former hr vice president who "the times" amazon intentionally limited upward mobility for hourly workers. which means if you are a core worker at amazon, the ones making it possible for jeff bezos to shoot himself into space, particularly if you are a worker of color at amazon, chances are you are not moving up in the company. the company is deliberately making sure there's no upward mobility for hourly employees, who are the ones that make the company its money. you are not sticking around for the long haul which is planned. that turnover is a structural problem at amazon by design.

according to that same employee, jeff bezos from the beginning didn't want hourly workers that would stick around for an amount of time. he said bezos saw, quote a large disgruntled work force as a threat. the official said the data showed most employees became less eager over time and jeff bezos believed people were lazy. and tell him, quote, the nature as humans is expend as little energy as possible to get what we want or need. apparently, the guiding philosophy at the company that is about to become the largest employer of americans. if you're an hourly worker, it doesn't seem like there's no future for you there, there's no step up. they will churn through you until they get someone else does -- to do your job. richest company on the horizon. company generating immense wealth. without a way for the people who create that wealth to

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too movement and abuses of harvey weinstein. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> why amazon? why did you pick amazon as the subject for the investigation? >> the ultimate question of the investigation is to how can amazon be so precise and sophisticated with packages and yet treat people so differently. for example, at amazon you can get a job abandonment notice just for applying for a leave, for a very routine leave. many people have gotten them and alarm workers. making them think something is wrong. like the notification you mentioned a few minutes ago when ann castillo and her husband was so ill. she got a message saying to that to her husband, saying when are yo coming back to work? even though for months she has been trying to tell the company her husband was very severely ill. >> one of the other things i found nightmarish in the report was the moment by moment

monitoring of amazon workers at fulfillment centers. their rate at which they accomplish theie tasks, and time off task. when they are doing something that physically the company in its automated systems doesn't believe to be productive movement. it seals sort of kofka-esque. >> the story of a employee who was regularly praised by her bosses. she was a good performer. 2019, she was fired. why? she had one bad day. a nightmare day one thing snowballs into another thing. she tried to stay on task and other things got into the way. and she had to pause for a minute. she told her job totals were too high and she was escorted out. that kind of practice has

created a tremendous amount of fear among amazon workers. people may heard the idea amazon workers cannot take bathroom breaks. that not literally true, it's not true. but represents apprehension the company creates in workers.but company creates in workers. actually, over the last couple of weeks we asked many questions and for a lot of response. and we went to them with the story from diana santos four times. and finally they came back with us and said they are changing the policy just a little bit so now nobody can be fired for one bad day. they will look at more of a kind of average over time. so this is also a fascinating part of the reporting becasue on the one hand, we found the enormous problems in the warehouse. on the other hand, jeff bezos recent le said he wants to do things differently. and the question is now how far he will go. >> reading about this is a business story. you can almost imagine a sort of evil genius on the business side

thinking, boy, i wish i had that, the ability to treat workers that dispose bli. to automate interaction at company. to have them get hired by a machine and fired by a machine. and not have anybody to call and complain. and i can churn through them and use them like tools. you can sort of imagine the evil business efficiency argument for this type of work. clearly, it's part of the secret of how amazon has been so profitable. the other thing i didn't realize before reading this reporting, is that amazon is starting to realize that they're operating this way at such a massive scale, they maybe burning their way through at least the american work force in a way that is going to force them to change, because they can't just keep doing this. 10 million americans won't apply for these jobs every year if is

what the jobs are like. >> some went on the record and on the story with karen wise. what they told her is they are deeply worried. worried about amazon running out of the workers and worried about scale. what they are saying is that some of the bezos ideas that workers are more or less lazy. and human beings want to expend less effort, et cetera, et cetera. they were seeing these were interesting ideas when you try them in a smaller workplace. when you try to scale them up to these gigantic proportions. in some cases with computers doing the work and some human intervention, but not always a ton. that is when the system begins to break down. and, yes, executives are churning through workers. that is what they are worrying about, is beginning to run out of workers. >> jody kantor, the

investigative reporter from the "new york times." who jeff bezos wants to shoot into space. i'm willing to bet at this point he's going to offer you his seat. don't take it. congratulations to you and your colleagues on this reporting. thank you so much. we'll be right back. k you so mu. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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wisconsin republican senator ron johnson had previously blocked this, but i guess today he got over it? the bill will now go to the democratically controlled house. it is expected to pass in the house. still tbd on when exactly, but after that, it is expected to be signed into law by president biden. it has been almost 40 years since the last new federal holiday was created. the holiday honoring reverend dr. martin luther king jr. that was created in 1983. but we're about to get another one. if you are one of the roughly 2 million federal workers in this country, starting next year, you can expect an extra day off for that federal holiday. as for the rest of us who don't work for the federal government, it is not only something worthy of celebrating, it is definitely something worthy of bugging your boss to give you the day off to celebrate it. juneteenth. [sfx: kids laughing]

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held at a place called park la grange. i think that's how you say it. i'm definitely going to say grange and not grange, which is what it looks like. it's a big park in geneva, switzerland. it has a big 18th century villa in the middle of it. it's going to be 7:00 a.m. eastern time for us, 1:00 p.m. local time tomorrow in geneva when it all starts. that's when putin will arrive. the swiss president will greet him at the facility and escort him into the villa.

then after putin, president biden will arrive. the swiss president will greet him and bring him in too. and then biden and putin will hold their bilateral meeting, and that's a very small meeting. it's the two of them, each side will have an interpreter, and then each side will also have their top diplomat so for biden, it will be secretary of state antony blinken. for putin, it will be russian foreign minister sergey lavrov but that's it. after that small chat, there's a second meeting that's expanded, an additional five officials joining the talks from each side. all in all, the talks are scheduled to last a total of four to five hours. former russian ambassador michael mcfaul says that at president obama's summit with putin, putin spent the whole first hour in a monologue, talking uninterruptedly about how much he hates the united states and how he feels very aggrieved by everything about the united states. so, i don't know if they've built in an hour for him to whine, but we'll see. after the talks, president putin will give a solo press

conference and then president biden will give a solo press conference after him as well. all we can say for sure is they will have a very, very nice backdrop, and it will all get started, again, early tomorrow morning, 7:00 a.m. eastern time. that is when it all starts. that's going to do it for us tonight. "way too early" with kasie hunt is up next. ♪♪ president biden says he is all set for this morning's highly anticipated meeting with russia's vladimir putin. with both leaders agreeing relations are at a low point. the question is will anything happen today to change that. new york joins california in lifting most covid restrictions as state reaches a 70% vaccination rate among adults. the question is -- does the so-called delta variant pose a new risk? infrastructure talks enter a new face as democrats chart a path forward with or without republican support. the question is -- how soon will we learn which path they will choose? it's "way too early" for this!