continues our coverage. good afternoon, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. new video of the violence during the january 6 insurrection as well as new revelations about the potential inside help rioters may have gotten. also new reporting on how far the gop's war on voting rights is going. a tale of weather extremes. flooding in louisiana after a tropical cyclone hits and texas and the west are baking in the sun. all that and marking juneteenth today following ceremonies around the country. later this hour, talking to miss juneteenth 2020. but we do want to begin with that new video and new details about the ongoing investigation into the january of

insurrection. nbc news has obtained previously unpublished body cam showing a retired nypd officer thomas webster charging through metal barricades there in the red jacket attacking police with a flagpole protecting the capitol. you can see he manages to tackle at least one officer. to the ground. nbc news also got a holds of fbi interview print with webster indicted back in february. showing agents not only asked about the possible connection to groups like the proud boy answer the eatkeepers and asked whether the defendant had any connections to members of congress or capitol police. let's talk about this. joining me now to talk about what we can expect in the coming days and weeks as this probe is continuing, scott mcfarland at nbc 4 washington. scott? >> reporter: yasmin, the courts were closed yesterday and closed this weekend but court filings are piling up which is to be

expected with 500 cases and more expected in the d.c. federal court. two big cases that give us a sense of where next week is headed. likely to get the first sentencing next week. we expect a guilty plea of a florida woman not accused of damage here at the capitol january 6. she faces lower level charges and prosecutors say they'll ask for three years probation and supervision for morgan. she wants 40 days community service. we'll see what happens. we expect thomas webster of new york back in court next week, the man the feds say shown in this video assaulting, attacking a police officer outside the capitol and asking to get released from jail pending trial. the feds try to keep him there. we'll see what a judge decides and noteworthy in the ark. he says it was police who provoked this attack saying the police were mocking and taunting

people in the crowd. there are about 500 cases and the fbi director this week says to expect hundreds more as we are now approaching the six-month mark from the u.s. capitol insurrection. back do you. >> let's talk about this. joining me to discuss more is joyce vance, she is a msnbc contributor and also a former u.s. attorney. great do see you thank you for joining us this afternoon. i want to get into a bit of this idea that there's a possibility that members of congress helped some of these insurrectionists in the planning of this storming of the capitol. let's play some of pennsylvania congresswoman scanlon on my friend's show earlier today. >> i'm one of the members of congress who the day before the insurrection saw people in maga

gear given tours of the capitol. there had not been tours since march of 2020. it was noticeable. we have asked for an investigation of that. someone let folks in to the capitol. whether it was simply a violation of the covid regulations which was a problem at the time. people hadn't been vaccinated. whether the folks that came through on the 5th came back the next day based on what they saw. >> so there's a couple things happening here. first of all as she mentioned this was during the time of covid and restrictions of taking folks in the capitol. if they were breaking the covid restrictions that is one thing but how do they prove or figure out if the members of congress helped some insurrectionists upon the storming of the capitol a day later? >> it sounds like what

prosecutors will have to struggle with here is whether there are members of congress who joined a conspiracy to engage in the acts of january 6. like all things legal there's precise technical requirements that prosecutors will have to establish with evidence that proves them beyond a reasonable doubt to be able to indict people on conspiracy charges. they will have to show that there was an agreement to impede the functioning of congress on january 6 and that members of congress or others intentionally joined into that conspiracy. that they in fact wanted to keep congress from certifying joe biden as the winner of the election. when viewed in that context then the final thing prosecutors have to prove is what's called an overdakt in fourth rans of the community. if the tourists were an effort to help the would be sort of

invaders, more than protesters, invaded the capitol building the next day to show them where things were, that could be the final piece of evidence prosecutors would need. there's a possible innocent explanation but our takeaway from this reporting is that they're giving it a serious, hard look. >> how difficult is it to prove something like this and what would be the criminal liability if they were to find the connection? >> the criminal liability here can be very serious because if you engage in a conspiracy although typically there's a 371 conspiracy by federal prosecutors, that means the maximum sentence is five years but in a case like this there can be other forms of conduct. there could be if the members of congress involved in solis

sitting people to engage in criminal acts. there could be separate liability for that. we have to be cautious. we don't know the facts and whether there are members of congress actively involved a criminal sense but if they were the liability could be very serious. >> we're going to continue to follow this and bring you back as there's more developments. thank you as always for joining us. following the new reporting in the gop's assault on voting rights. "the new york times" detailing more than 200 bills in 41 states, republicans have introduced to giver legislatures more power over election officials. part of a takeover of election administration in gop led areas. the laws allow republicans essentially to remove officials they don't like. it reveals a pattern of black democratic casualties and fears of disenfranchise voters of

color. they're looking to block the latest effort to reform voting rights across the country. nbc's amanda gold is following this for us on capitol hill. good to see you. what's going on here? >> reporter: yasmin, it is as you laid out. there's a growing concern around the wave of republican backed bills across the country. the congressional democratic response is to push forward with hr 1 and now bringing it to the floor of the senate on tuesday but as you alluded to it's essentially dead on arrival and no republican support for this bill. no republican support let alone the ten needed to break through a filibuster to move this through the senate. it's still going to be brought to the floor by leader schumer.

trying to show that they can have a tactical victory with all of the democratic senators in support even if all republican senators are opposed and that's a reality with joe manchin issuing a compromise as to why he would support s 1 after saying he wouldn't and then backing the voting rights act named for the late john lewis. that was a more narrow bill with bipartisan support. he wants it to move forward in a bipartisan way and what he calls for is making election day a federal holiday and provisions of voter i.d. but the political reality is that there are not those republicans on board to sup important this. and we have sound from jim clyburn earlier coming from his view. take a listen. >> forget about. change the rules if you will coming to constitutional issues.

if you want to filibuster issues of legislation, those are not constitutional issues. filibuster them all you want. coming to my right to vote, as a citizen of the united states, you ought not to be subjected to filibuster of any one person. >> reporter: as he is not tiptoeing around this. there's increased pressure of the filibuster with the threshold needed to pass through the senate. whether to make reforms for vital packages like voting rights through and democrats' view and not enough senators on board to issue -- to come to the idea whether or not to make changes to or abolish the filibuster at this time. yasmin? >> if they can't get it through on a federal level it seems that the responsibility will fall on the department of justice to challenge some of these

restrictions putt in place. thank you, amanda. for the first time ever americans are commemorating the newest federal holiday today, juneteenth. celebrations are held coast to coast marking the day when the last enslaved people in america learned they were free in texas in 1865. two years after the emancipation proclamation was signed. marches and street parties and prayers have been going on and homage is paid to george floyd. nbc's antonio hilton and janelle ross are covering this. antonio, talk me through what you have been seeing out there today and the first celebration of juneteenth. >> reporter: across the entire city today there are celebration, prayer services,

festivals, cookouts but this is a community that's recognizing juneteenth for sometime. this festival has been happening more than a decade and while many of the organizers are happy that the rest of the country is catching up and it is a national holiday they see this as really not anything different from what they wanted to celebrate and bring attention to regardless and in the past. look at this t-shirt that many folks picked up. still freeish and still fighting. and that's really the overriding emotion here why don't be fooled by the dancing and the loud music and people hanging out. that emotion there is actually really at the core of what i hear from people. that this is just as much about the past or just as much about the future as the past and many people here feel that there is a long way do go before black americans have realized the full rights in this country and the

day started on a much more somber note. a statue of george floyd unveiled not far from where i am and people invoking the name to remind people this is not just about something that happened a century ago. listen to a conversation i had with an organizer. >> i'm glad to get juneteenth as a national holiday and a step. this year has been that we are more than laboring. what we are taught in schools was just about the slave trade and about all the things that people went through. this start it is process of what has happened after. >> reporter: it's important to remember that this holiday is now coming against the backdrop of a number of key national fights right now. you just talked about the fight for voting rights and access. people here have been talking about that with me all day and

then there are also more than a dozen states that are currently trying to make it impossible to teach about systemic bias or topics of race in classrooms and come up today, too, as people say we celebrate but what about the areas where people can't talk about it in schools so that's what i mean when i say this is about as much about the future as the past. yasmin? >> it really is incredible. you picked up on that so well. the fact that i was just talking about the voting restrictions put in place to keep black and brown communities from voting in this country. happening across the country, how people can't get together in d.c. to make sure that doesn't happen and then the celebratory mood on a day like juneteenth. that t-shirt speaking to what is really going on, the reality on the ground. janelle, you have actually been watching the events in galveston

with the reading of the emancipation took place. how are texans marking today? >> interestingly texans are marking today in the way that they always have. the celebrations are as antonia said, not new at all. in galveston where general order 3 first read in texas and the news first arrived that those enslaved were now free, there have been as you said reenactments of that. the readings of the general order, the proclamation and how people reacted to the news. postings of the order around town. and apparently according to newspaper accounts from that time certainly people were shocked. there was a lot of awe. there were some almost spontaneous religious services

and marches and then the general and most common tradition a large cookout or outdoor picnic in celebration. and if you have ever been to galveston as i have for juneteenth those are the things you almost always see and experience. there's a parade or march and a cookout. this year i think there's some added certainly significance in that the rest of the country has joined in recognizing the significance of this date. it is certainly important to note that there are many emancipation traditions around the country. that thing about juneteenth that's distinctive is the very last slaves freed in what was then the united states of america. 250,000 people who were held in bondage for two and a half years past the point of anyone else in this country. >> do we have antonia with us? are you still out there?

>> i'm here. >> yeah. so is at all kind of a conversation going on? i remember being on the streets in brooklyn with the conviction of derek chauvin and i worry now that folks think that now that the progress has been made on this one case that they will stop trying to change things. right? stop trying to move forward. to chip away at systemic racism, to work hard at it. is there at a conversation happening similar out there right now about sort of recognizing juneteenth and thinking that folks will think, okay, we have done our job? now we have recognized juneteenth and so nothing else needs to be done. >> reporter: absolutely. absolutely. in fact, the woman who sold me the t-shirt speak to me forcefully and bluntly about that.

she said basically that this holiday rings hollow and won't count for anything if legislators don't get to work and pass the voting rights act. she repeated that several times. i think she really was hoping to speak directly to the camera to leaders in this country that this isn't another excuse for a day off of work or a cookout with the family. this is a holiday that is also a protest. it is about black perseverance, black survival and black future and felt that people need to hear directly. the fight doesn't end tonight. this work needs to continue. yasmin? >> tell her to speak to us. tell her to come on. any day of the week. whenever she wants. my show is open to that. >> reporter: i'll tell her. >> that is the most important thing. that's our job, right, to get their voices out.

antonia and janelle, thank you. coming up later, i'll be joined by miss juneteenth 2020 of saniya gay. and then at 4:00 p.m. texas congresswoman sheila jackson lee joins me from the home state approving the holiday while largely opposing for actionable legislation for equality. you won't want to miss these conversations. after the break, everybody, this is new video we have in. damage done by tropical storm claudette. it's not the only extreme weather people in the country are dealing with today. we have live reports from louisiana and los angeles ahead. , and new ways for them to reach you... is what business is all about. it's what the united states postal service has always been about. so as your business changes, we're changing with it. with e-commerce that runs at the speed of now.

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flooding across the gulf coast and the governor of louisiana declared a state of emergency. how are folks coping as this thing is moving? >> reporter: it's hard to tell that there was a state of emergency in effect earlier today here. there's definitely sunny skies and no rain right now. earlier today and overnight we were drenched with rain and heavy wind gusts and slidell saw significant flooding inside homes. it's moved north and now alabama and georgia is the targets and then the carolinas. that tornado is really damaged that we can't predict always because these are sort of pop-up events as a result of the tropical systems. you don't have a lot of warning with these type of systems. to get into place so you need

vigilant. we know right now florida, alabama and georgia with warnings and watches in place. you need to be aware that those tornados can spin up and do quite a bit of damage and the continued threat going into tomorrow is what more are we going to see in terms of tornado? we expect more heavy rainfall throughout georgia and the carolinas before the storm ways the way off the coast but i think what we are seeing is the real threat of the storm was the tornadoes. another thing to be aware of is this is the first real landfall in the hurricane season and should be a drill for folks. this might have been sort of a dodged event sort to speak. not the worst of conditions. but that doesn't mean that they're not coming. we are in hurricane season and it does last to the end of november. if you don't have supplies in place and the loved ones that need assistance don't have evacuation plans in place you

don't want to wait because this season is in effect and the waters out there in the gulf are at high temperatures which means there's a lot of fuel for hurricanes moving into the season. >> just seems too early to talk about hurricanes. steve, on the west coast you deal with a different scenario and that is insane heat wave intensifying fires and drought there is. you have the governor declaring a state of emergency in california. how are folks coping there? >> reporter: yeah. this is brutal. this is dangerous. 40 million americans in some form of extreme heat advisory. 11 states with 100-plus temperatures. more than 100 heat related records broken in this heatwave. mitigation is all about public safety. getting out of the heat if they can and they go as fast as you can here to santa monica.

you can see people escaping the heat. a few places that's overcast and cooler than the rest of the region. our strategic placement here to keep the crew safe and show you the people taking advantage of this. mitigation is infrastructure. there's a broad concern that this extreme heat is putting too much stress on the electrical grid in the certain states especially in california with the state of emergency. there were a number of flex alerts to tell people to cut the power in peak times to avoid blackouts and something ongoing and mitigation for an extremely dangerous fire season. firefighters have been out in the winter trying to clear as much brush as possible and flexed up the amount of firefighters in the western states as there's more fires popping upsetting records for the number of fires already seen

in this early season. i spoke to a climate scientist what it may mean as a new normal moving forward. >> well, the reality is that even if we take aggressive action five orr ten years from now it is going to be warmer than tofd and the likelihood of temperatures like now will not be record breaking will be high ere but then the really hot record breaking events will probably be a degree or two warm than they are right now. >> reporter: all of this of course on top of the fact of the middle of a historic drought doing extreme damage to the economy and the cycle of heat and dryness feeding itself and making both worse at the same

time and a real situation that the west is dealing with right now. yasmin? >> catie beck, steve patterson, thank you both. appreciate it. still ahead, tough crowd. the former vice president jeered at a christian conservative coalition as they hope to corral the party in trump's absence. we are live with a preview. all potential 2024 presidential candidates. i said it. it's ahead of us. we'll be right back. you already pay for car insurance, why not take your home along for the ride? allstate. here, better protection costs a whole lot less. you're in good hands. click or call to bundle today. call a local agent or 1-800-allstate

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welcome back. so the calendar may say 2021 but it's 2024 on the minds of many republicans flocking to florida this weekend for a conservative policy conference. the state's governor who's made little secret of his presidential ambitions is set to make the keynote address

tonight. there was a rough reception. >> i want to thank my friend ralph reed for those overly generous words. >> traitor! >> you sold out! >> he knows me well enough to know the introduction i prefer is a little bit shorter. >> if you couldn't make it out there was a woman in the crowd and ali told me yesterday, a woman calling out to the vice president traitor. my understanding is that she was subsequently taken out. as i came in i talked about the fact that these are potential 2024 candidates which make my stomach turn thinking about that. as being around the corner but nonetheless -- >> reporter: i'm excited about this. >> talk us through what we're hering today and what we can

expect ahead. >> reporter: as much as the shadow primary for republicans is happening in ballrooms like this one, the focus of this conference is the path back to the majority for republicans. the tone of it is really a continue wags of what we heard over the course of the trump years stoking culture wars by talking about red meat as opposed to harder policy. for example, the idea of critical race theory is something that's mentioned and derided by most of the speakers here. that being a school of thought that acknowledges america's systemic racism. something that almost all of the speakers mentioned yesterday and i imagine pushing forward to today it is likely to come up. the border, a issue that's been mentioned. something that trump's contemporaries are continuing on with and speaking to the power

that trump has over the party, ideologically and trying to fit into the cult of personality. we have had this conversation of what does it mean for the party going forward? from the sense of the halls of congress to out here now on the could be campaign trail and i talked about it with ralph reed doing more than his fair share of presidential elections and this is how he sees it with the religious conservative base that he is so connected to. >> trump in a sense was the nightingale in this respect. he sang a song that the people responded to and even though these other potential candidates may not be trump they heard the song and saw the bay people reacted to it and will be able to kind of get behind his draft and learn from him. they don't need to be carbon

copies or try to imitate him but learn from him. >> reporter: and look. ultimately it may not matter. we don't know whether former president donald trump is going to run for president again but made clear to play a role in the midterms. starting up getting on the rally circuit this summer and others are doing the same thing. making visits to early primary states. if and when they throw the hat into the ring but as i've been talking to voters, i hear from some people that they're open to others and talked to a woman yesterday analysted the names of the potential candidates, she said, yeah, given that i'd still vote for trump and people out there still trying to figure out what direction to take.

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whittled down through the vetting process to 7 people who in the end posed no real challenge to him. that means that all the branches of power will be under the control of hardline conservatives ending almost a decade of dualism. official results here showed about 28.8 million people voted. raisi secured 17.8 million of those votes. a massive 14.1 million more votes than the nearest rooifrl. but this election was marred by voter apathy. turnout this time appears to have been just shy of 50% which is significantly lower than the 73% of voters who turned out for the 2017 elections. this is because many felt they didn't have a real choice. some people i spoke to said last time they voted for rowhani

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welcome back. something to celebrate. juneteenth carries an even more poignant meaning today as it's recognized as a federal holiday but even without national recognition an annual pageant promoted the holiday and empower young, black women. >> the juneteenth pageant is more than a pageant. it is a program that is going to institute truth and history of where these girls have come from and knowing why all of the history matters. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. i'm here representing texas. >> it's literally like watching the met mor that sis of a butterfly taking the ladies on. at the end of the process, they come out extremely self assured, empowered, ready to take on the world. >> i didn't really feel

comfortable in my skin. i didn't have the confidence i have now. it is very important to me because this is my history. this is what my and zesters wanted me to be and i'm seen in their eyes as their image. >> for the first time this past year the miss juneteenth pageant became a national event. i'm joined by the national juneteenth saniya gay. oh my god, look at you. you look incredible. what a crown. >> thank you. >> that is so amazing. wow. wow. i'm shocked and surprised to see you looking so incredible and i'm so happy that you're able to join us today. an honor. talk to me your reaction to see the president sign juneteenth into a national holiday.

>> my reaction was like, omg. i am so excited that it is officially now a national holiday. and we worked hard to push for it. we was going around telling people to sign petitions. even when i was hanging out with friends, i said, hey, you know, sign the petition. let's make it a national holiday. it's okay, you're just putting your name. now that the hard work has paid off, i'm so blessed and honored to be part of this history of making juneteenth day a national holiday. >> why did you want to be a part of the juneteenth pageant? >> i wanted to be a part of it because i wanted to learn more about my history and my culture because when i first started the pageant, i actually didn't know what juneteenth was, and i never heard of juneteenth or anything. so when i first joined the delaware pageant, i wanted to continue to learn more and the

juneteenth pageant is not just about beauty, it's about the needs that you're going to need in life, about your etiquette, how you speak, how do you engage with others. you're going to need that wherever you go, even if it's on a job interview or anything -- wherever you go, you're going to need those basic life skills. so just being part of the pageant, you're part of something that's historical and you're starting in something that you will use and you will need for the rest of your life. >> what are you setting as your goals in the year ahead? i know when you assume a role like this, when you now hold the crown, you're miss national juneteenth, it is a major responsibility, especially in a year like this. what are your goals as a young black woman in holding that

crown and moving ahead? >> my goals are to be role models to young ladies and also the adults because the adults, they don't really get to see a queen or a young lady who is achieving their goals, someone who's focused on education, what their focus and dreams are in life. i would love to continue to be a role model to young ladies and also adults to let them see that there is a light and that there is a way. you can always achieve your goals no matter what you do. and also to the youth, don't stop what you're doing, keep going, because it's going to be hard. trust me, being in the pageant is hard. you have to be determined. you have to be focused. you have to want it and be aggressive. being in the national juneteenth pageant has taught me a lot before i even started being in pageants. when i was younger, i said, mom, i'm never doing pageants and now

look at me in pageants. i'm part of history. i just want them to know to always chase your goals, achieve them, and don't stop after you've achieved them. keep going. >> keep going, keep going, keep going, don't stop. congratulations. what a huge accomplishment. thank you so much for honoring us and joining us today. good luck in the years ahead. thank you. >> thank you. coming up next, everybody, one of the chief sponsors of the bill to make juneteenth a national holiday joins me live, texas congresswoman sheila jackson lee at the top of the hour. what some health officials are calling a nightmare scenario, a more contagious covid variant spreading where vaccine skepticism remains high. what we can learn from these surges. where ore-ida golden crinkles are your crispy currency to pay for bites of this... ...with this.

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vaccinate at least 70% of american adults by the fourth of july. but it also coincides with the rising threat of a new variant, the delta variant, which the president warned is pretty dangerous for unvaccinated americans. nbc's elsa basher is in columbia, missouri, with more. >> reporter: the delta variant was first dedicated in branson may 10th a four-hour drive from where we are. that same week they detected it in the waste water in brookfield. it's been spreading across the state ever since then. >> i mean, with missouri, it's amazing. we're not talking about one continuous city. this is lots of small individual communities. so yeah, it's concerning that it's spreading so rapidly. >> i definitely hope that this surge has opened our community's eyes about the importance of the vaccine. we had a lot of interest in our

65 and older, but we have not seen as much interest in the 60 to 20, which is where we see most of our cases now. and they are getting sick, so we have had about a 14% hospitalization with this new wave that we've been dealing with over the last month. >> reporter: the university of missouri is working with the state's health department to test waste water samples from facilities across the state. not only can they identify whether covid is in the waste water and tell you if it is in a community, they can also detect exact variants. they say that the data they're seeing right now not only shows that the delta variant is prevalent in the state of missouri, but that it is spreading particularly fast in smaller, more rural communities where people are less vaccinated. here in lynn county, only about a third, less than a third, actually, of the population is fully vaccinated. yasmin?

>> nbc's allison basher in columbia, missouri, thank you. we're approaching the top of the hour and you're watching msnbc reports with yasmin vossoughian. hi, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. for those of you still with us, thank you for sticking around. if you're just joining, welcome. new details this hour on the gop war on voting. fresh reporting today from "the new york times" revealing just how far republicans have gone to keep people away from the ballot box in the states that they control. it comes after there was some renewed hope of a breakthrough in national voting rights legislation with a major move from moderate democratic senator manchin. mitch mcconnell tried to extinguish him as quickly as he could. >> i've taken a look at the new state laws, none of them are designed to suppress the vote.