discovery evidence. they only have a third of what they intend to submit to the court and all three will remain behind bars for a bit. thank you for joining us. msnbc will continue can katy tur right now. good evening, i'm katy tur. mark meadows will soon become the shortest member of congress since 1800 to be considered for federal prosecution for contempt. members made an abrupt 180, cutting off communication with the committee, citing executive privilege, but not before first turning over thousands of e-mails and text messages. they include, we hear, damning texts as saying they had no idea there were left wing rioters.

a warning, these messages contain some swear words. >> as the violence continued, one of the president's sons texted mr. meadows, quote, he's got to condemn this shit asap. the capitol hill police is not enough. donald trump texted, multiple talk show hosts knew the president needed to act immediately. he is destroying his legacy, laura ingram wrote. please get him on tv destroying everything you've accomplished. quote, can he make a statement, ask people to leave the capitol, sean hannity urged? >> why did they think that only donald trump could call them off if they were actually left wing plants? their messages indicate they knew what this was from day one. the president's son knew it, some of his backers at fox news

knew it, mark meadows knew it. now they're trying to rewrite their own words, and in doing so, rewrite history. in addition to those pleas, meadows also received a flurry of text messages from people inside the capitol with their lives in danger. >> one text mr. meadows received said, quote, we are under siege here at the capitol. another, quote, they have breached the capitol. in a third, mark, protesters are literally storming the capitol, breaking windows on doors, rushing in. is trump going to say something? a fourth, there is an armed standoff at the house chamber door. and another from someone inside the capitol, we are all helpless. >> we now know who sent those messages on your screen. he will join me in just a moment

live. liz cheney twice in the last 48 hours has described donald trump's actions as a potential crime. >> these non-privileged texts are further evidence of president trump's supreme dereliction of duty during those 187 minutes, and mr. meadows' testimony will bear on another key question before this committee. did donald trump, through action or inaction, correctly seek to obstruct or impede congress' official proceedings to count electoral votes? >> don't sleep on those comments. it is not a coincidence cheney repeated them today nearly verbatim. obstruction of congress is a crime. as "politico's" kyle cheney, no relation to liz, pointed out, that's the same language prosecutors have used to describe january 6 defendants

they charged with obstruction. remember, this was more than just a riot. this was a months-long effort to overturn election results, first by pressuring republican officials in swing states not to certify results, to send trump electors to congress instead of the biden electors, and then leaning on gop members of congress to object to the certification on january 6, claiming widespread fraud, fraud we know that did not exist. joining me now is nbc news capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell, "punch bowl" founder jake sherman, and former u.s. attorney joyce vance who is also an msnbc legal analyst. jake, you've broken this story. the text messages were from you to mark meadows. tell us, did meadows ever respond?

>> i hope to put this to bed after this. i was doing from actually this seat, katy, i was sitting in the seat in this room i'm currently in, and we were having people bang at our doors and, you know, we felt scared. i'm not afraid to admit it. i felt frightened for my safety, my colleague john bresnan's safety, the press corps i've been a member of 12 or 13 years. i've known mark meadows a long time. he was a main character in a book i wrote three or four years ago, and it was -- i felt like it was my duty, it was my responsibility to try to communicate the status of the situation as much as i can to somebody who had the ability to possibly, although he did not, to possibly act on it. so all that being said, i sent him a message, and that message

is now out. i told him what i was experiencing and hoping he can do something about it, which he did not do. i will say this, katy, i'm sure there were a lot of text messages to mark meadows. he was texting with members of the media, people on television. i was just looking to get a message to the white house which they were -- as we know, they did not send guard troops. they were slow to respond to the situation that we were in the middle of, and i was trying to communicate that it was a pretty dire situation, and i did what i knew how to do, which was to reach out to somebody who had the ability to do it. and to the idea that i should have sent this publicly earlier, i'm not sure what good that would have done. it's very well known, katy, that the administration did not respond here and did not take

this situation seriously at all. so the idea that i sent this message to the white house chief of staff begging for help on behalf of the whole press corps and the entire congress that somehow that was -- i should have -- maybe i should have sent it earlier, i'm not sure if i should have sent it earlier, but all that being said, that help did not materialize in a meaningful way, and that's that. >> jake, i know it's an uncomfortable position to be in to suddenly be thrust into the middle of this and, frankly, to relive that moment where you felt like you're life was in danger, but bring us up to speed on what the committee is doing right now. it seems like they have a lot from mark meadows, and my question is if they have that much from mark meadows, and as you said, he was in communication with so many different people, what other lawmakers are going to potentially be exposed here? >> the interesting thing is he clearly decided to cooperate and later decided not to cooperate.

i wonder what happened, and joyce would probably be better off at explaining that, but he clearly made a conscious decision to turn over some text messages, and my text messages were part of that, and liz cheney read those last night. all that being said, he decided at some point it was no longer his decision to cooperate. we want to know why he made that decision. if i were donald trump or any of his allies, they have people who have not been subpoenaed who are cooperating here and have laid out that road map as to how to conduct this investigation. >> they've been talking to a lot of people. joyce, try to flush that out for us. why would mark meadows cooperate and then stop cooperating? >> it's hard to get into mark meadows' mind, and i'm sure we

jump into speculation. what is the impact that he stopped cooperation? i think this is liz cheney's analysis from last night where she was clearly making an argument not just to hurt fellow members of congress, but also to the justice department about why they should ultimately indict mark meadows. it turns on the fact that he stopped cooperating. some people might say, well, he turned over a lot of documents, we're just quibbling about a few things, he shouldn't be prosecuted about that. cheney's analysis is a lot more sophisticated. she said, he turned over documents. he conceded they are not privileged and now he's refusing to testify about those documents. we don't know why, but the fact he's doing that, that is contempt of congress, that is something that doj should prosecute. that will play out in the weeks ahead. >> mark meadows is not steve bannon, mark meadows was the chief of staff. there have been people out there

arguing that he does have the argument to make that he is covered by executive privilege, and yes, he did cooperate for a time. so i wonder if you're merrick garland, what's the calculus in going after -- agreeing to go after mark meadows or deciding they don't want to? >> this is a much more difficult case than steve bannon. you'll recall that doj and the bannon indictment references repeatedly the fact that bannon did absolutely nothing to comply with the subpoena. ultimately i think that meadows does end up getting indicted and here's the reason. i think even if doj concedes that in all the cases where meadows asserts a privilege that they won't look at those any further, you know, katy, in many of those instances, the way he suggests that the documents are privileged is very speculative and he's probably wrong in many cases, especially about executive privilege.

but if you just look at this universe where he has conceded no privilege exists and then turns over the documents, there is no reason to refuse to testify. and, in fact, you can't just say i have executive privilege and not show up. you have to appear when you're asked to testify. you have to listen to each question, and for each question consider whether you can answer it or whether it's privileged. it's meadows' failure to participate and play by the rules that ultimately means, at least in my judgment, that doj will perhaps, after a great deal more time than with bannon and a lot more angst, decide he should be prosecuted. >> leigh ann, i'm still curious about lawmakers and former lawmakers who might get tied up with this who might have had communication with meadows. what more can you tell us about that? >> reporter: i'm super curious, too, katy. the lawmakers whose text messages were read have not been named.

some of these text messages to mark meadows were after january 6 saying they were sorry they couldn't do more in their objection, and they're sorry nothing worked. another lawmaker says that vice president mike pence as president of the senate should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all. so there are lawmakers who were still wanting this to work and had a role trying to overturn the election. now, after the select committee adjourned last night, i asked bennie thompson who those lawmakers were. he denied to say but he said those names would come out. i asked if they would be subpoenaed. he didn't answer that just yet, but there is also something else interesting he said. he said staff are also caught up with this as well, congressional staff. there is still a lot more that we don't know, even as so much of these bombshells over the past 24 hours showing just what sort of central role mark

meadows had here. >> leigh ann, and this contempt vote, what time are we expecting it? >> great question. it could be as early as 5:00 this afternoon or as late as 7:00 p.m. it depends on procedural tactics by the republican party, but we do know this contempt vote is going to happen, we know it's going to pass. i'm looking for how many republicans vote for it. for the steve bannon contempt vote, nine republicans voted to refer that to the department of justice, so i'm wondering if it's going to be more or less. that's why we have to wait to see if this vote takes place this afternoon. >> leigh ann, there was a note that came out to the gop. mitch mcconnell said something to the effect of, we're all watching this unfold on the house side and we will reveal participants inside. that was a shortened version of what he might have said.

mitch mcconnell is an interesting player here, because he was very outspoken against donald trump after january 6, although he did not vote to impeach him. what sort of position is he in right now with what is happening in the house and this committee? >> yeah, mcconnell is an extremely interesting character. he took a decidedly different path from leader mccarthy. while he also did not support the creation of a commission to investigate january 6, he swore off the former presidents. he doesn't mention his name. actually a year ago tomorrow is the last time he spoke to the former president, and it's also the same day he said joe biden legitimately won the election. so while mcconnell is not part of this investigation, he seems to be watching it closely, and it's interesting because just over the weekend, senator lindsey graham, a member of his conference, said that it is impossible to lead the senate if

you do not work with the former president, donald trump. so he publicly -- it doesn't happen that often, but he publicly called out his current leader, saying he needs to do more to work with the former president if he wants to win in 2022. so mcconnell has taken a very interesting path, trying to be very hands off of the former president while also not playing in to what he says or the democrats' political agenda sometimes for this commission. >> lindsey graham, the night of january 6, said he was done with donald trump, he couldn't do it any longer. then i guess when he realized, he needed donald trump's voters, he turned around again. it was said to the reporters, it will be hard to reveal all the participants involved. still ahead, the latest from illinois where osha is investigating the amazon warehouse where multiple people died over the weekend.

ahead, new symptoms of what to look for with omicron. and ethan crumbley's parents went to court and they could be receiving even more charges. t a receiving even more charges.

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victims caught in this storm. we learned that a two-month-old was taken off life support today. there she is on the left. chase's parents on the right are still in the hospital with critical injuries. in bowling green, 11 of the 15 people killed by the tornadoes were from just two families. among the dead there are seven children. joining me now is nbc news correspondent ellison barber. ellison, gosh, what can i say other than how are people doing? >> they are still not only looking for people unaccounted for, but they are trying to rescue a dog here, a little chihuahua that is trapped in this closet. i was trying to get this dog earlier. the person who lives here is in the hospital. they heard the dog was stuck, you hear him barking inside here, as this man -- these are people who don't know who lived here, but they heard about the

dog, and they were trying to not only get this dog some dog food but get it out for help. you can see what this community is up against right now, but as you walk through here, you see all sorts of people just doing their best to help each other, even though everyone here has lost everything. the coroner for this county says that at least 13 people have died, but we know many more are still unaccounted for. i spoke to one woman just a minute ago who was part of a group trying to get that dog out from the closet. she told me her brother-in-law lived in one of the apartments that way. he did not survive. another brother-in-law who lived in this same duplex apartment community, she said he survived, but they were coming back to try and see if they could help others. you look at all of these cars, all of these homes. we scoped a woman who lived right across the street over here. she showed us where she was hunkered down in her bedroom and pointed to the truck that is

turned over near her home, and she told us that truck, she had no idea where it came from. people are doing their best here to salvage anything they can, but as you see, an example with that dog over there, they are still just trying to see what animals might need help, what people might need help, and there are still so many people unaccounted for that you can't even begin to put into words the devastation, the fear, the immediacy, the need here even though it's been days since this tornado came through. katy? >> god, that is so hard. that dog -- just to be clear, that dog we heard barking, that dog is trapped under that building right now and they're trying to get it out? >> reporter: yeah, so the dog was in some sort of cage or crate in the closet in the back room there. the owner -- it looks like it was a master bedroom. the owner was home with the dog when her house collapsed, and so right now what we're being told

by neighbors, other community members, you see them there with gloves trying to go back in that came with dog food, different things, trying to get that dog out and get it some help, because it has been there a couple of days. the woman, again, the owner, hospitalized. >> oh, my gosh. ellison, please give us an update of what happens with that poor dog and that poor dog's owner who is still hospitalized. ellison barber, ellison, thank you. osha is now investigating the collapse of an amazon distribution center in edwardsville, illinois. the collapse killed two employees and injured one other. the few employees who survived are now talking about what it was like inside during the storm. >> i was concentrating on one thing and that was breathing. because i was being crushed by that wall. it started to crush my head at the end and that was scary. >> when i went around to the back area, that was completely destroyed. it was like somebody just blew

up the whole back area. >> reporter: joining me now is nbc news correspondent meagan fitzgerald. tell us what's happening there. >> reporter: they're wondering if amazon followed the guidelines that osha has in place to try and ensure the health and safety of employees at the workplace. they'll be looking at things, for example, like the structural integrity of that building. was it built to code? they'll look at things that led up to this horrific tragedy. we know this investigation will last up to six months, and if they find violations, they could cite amazon and amazon could be forced to pay some hefty fines. amazon says they're aware of this investigation, they welcome it, they will be cooperating, but they also say they did everything right. i want to read to you two of the statements they released to us. first they said osha

investigates all workplace fatalities and we are supporting them. the other one a little longer. it says, we are deeply saddened by the news that members of amazon passed away as a result of the storm in edwardsville, illinois. our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their loved ones and everyone impacted by the tornado. we also want to thank all first responders for their ongoing efforts on scene. we're continuing to provide support to our employees and partners in the area. now, amazon says they have also launched an investigation in here into what happened, and that joins the state of illinois, katy. >> meagan fitzgerald, meagan, thank you so much. omicron is spreading all across the u.k. there is also word that new symptoms could be associated with it. the word white house officials are assisting with this new variant. and the first person in the united states one year later.

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today is actually a pretty important day. it is the first anniversary of the day we can breathe again. december 14, 2020, we all watched as a new york nurse named sandra lindsay became the first person in the united states to receive the coronavirus vaccine outside of a clinical trial. it was an awesome day. since then 2.2 million americans have been vaccinated against covid-19. that's 60% of the total population. amazing! but also pretty depressing, only 60%. now another variant is leading to a tidal wave of restrictions. there's been a rush to get

everyone vaccinated, jo. how is it changing with this new variant? >> reporter: there is a lot when it comes to vaccine delivery. they are transporting the vaccines in early this morning. you can see the bustling action of the vaccine being transported. each one has this bluetooth tracker on it. it's been about 300 million vaccine doses transported so far, and yes, the ups and downs of volatility in weather certainly presents a challenge, and i asked fedex how they're dealing with it. how do you handle the fluctuating volume? >> we meet regularly with the u.s. government, we meet regularly with the key manufacturers and the key distributing companies. we get a forecast of the coming weeks, coming months, around the holidays and particularly around expected surge announcements, whether it be a booster announcement or pediatric authorization. they start to give us an

authorization saying, here's the orders we expect to see and we start to operate our business to meet that need. >> reporter: katy, they have vaccines in their custody for about 20 hours on average, so you can see all that talk from the early days of having frozen storage and all of that kind of equipment is no longer necessary. but they say as they continue to move forward in the omicron variant that they plan to continue to be able to use the existing pipelines to deliver the vaccines, however many or however few are needed out there. meanwhile, we are standing here at lax and we're here in california where they have reinstituted a mask mandate. that actually goes into effect tomorrow per governor newsom for the next month regardless of your vaccination status. of course, enforcement here in california really depends on where you live, as you know, so a lot of new developments here when it comes to this variant here in los angeles, katy. >> thank you very much.

world health experts of the omicron variant will soon become the dominant strain in europe. with omicron found in 33 states here at home, new data suggests that the strain is not far behind. >> we are now detecting it in the states here, about 13% here in new jersey and new york. it's rapidly becoming the more predominant strain. >> there is no evidence yet that the more transmissible omicron variant is more severe, that's the good news, but experts fear that any surge in cases would overwhelm the country's already burnt-out health systems as the pandemic enters its now third year. a biden official told "axios" that a surge is coming. it won't be as fast or severe, but regrettabregrettably, there still be more hospitalizations.

dr. hotez is talking to me from texas children's hospital. doctor, it's worried there will be other symptoms for omicron. for delta, there is a cough, a fever, a loss or change in taste and smell. a dry cough, extreme tiredness, mild muscle aches and night sweats. these are things that have to do with seasonal allergies and other issues you might be facing in your life. how do you determine that these are covid variants symptoms and not just sneezes from winter allergies or something like that? >> that's right, or a cold, so this is going to be very hard. indeed, a lot of coronaviruses are one of the causes of the common cold, so it's going by

this playbook, although it could cause severe disease. one of the pieces we're not talking about a lot are a lot of pediatric hospitalizations in south africa, and they're starting to see this in the u.k. as well. that's another thing i'm looking out for. in some cases even a rash among kids. so you have to have a pretty low index of suspicion or high index of suspicion in terms of recognizing that a lot of the non-specific symptoms could be covid and have a low threshold for getting your child medical attention, especially with the numbers that dr. michelle walensky mentioned today. 3%, that's pretty high, because if you look at the rate of doubling in the u.k., it's every few days. so that suggests this may be going up faster in the u.s. than i might have expected. usually after the alpha or delta wave that occurred in the u.k., you had four to six weeks to prepare for the same one in the u.s. this may be occurring a little

faster. the last thing i'll mention which i think is very important is we are seeing those breakthrough cases of covid-19. even in those who are fully vaccinated with two doses, certainly, and some with three doses. and the reason i bring that up is i am concerned about all of our health care providers. we have such a fragile health system to begin with, our icus get so easily overwhelmed, i worry about our health care work force having symptomatic covid. even if they're not going to the hospital, that could be enough to knock them out. that's a real flash point, danger point, that i think we need to give more attention to and look at our options of how we'll manage that one as well. >> what about the covid-19 pill, the pfizer pill, was found to be 89% effective at preventing high-risk people being hospitalized or dying? that sounds like really good news. >> it's really good news. the problem with antiviral drug therapy is you have to get it when the virus is replicating.

that means very, very early on in the course of the infection. it only has that high effectiveness rate if you catch it super early, evening that the minute you have any whiff of covid symptoms, you get tested, you're positive and you get treated. you sit on it a couple of days, then you risk the second phase of the illness, which is the inflammatory phase, and by that point the drug is much less effective. the reason i bring that up is you're hearing a lot of buzz on the internet, on social media, that people think this is a substitute for getting vaccinated. why do i have to get vaccinated if i have the treatment? that's playing with fire, because a lot of times you don't catch it early enough to have an effect, so it's no substitute for getting vaccinated and that has to be emphasized. a good backstop, maybe, but not a replacement. >> we don't have easy access to home test like they do in the

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actually pushed the preliminary exam until the new year, because as the prosecution puts it, as they're working to place blame on the two parents saying they know their son was dangerous, providing a weapon to him, that they have already submitted 500 pages of discovery to the court, and they said that's nearly just a third of what they ultimately will have when it comes to witness interviews, securing video, other evidence that the detective and the sheriff's office is collecting right now. that's a lot of video and witness interviews to go through, they say, and they're also noting that the funerals for the victims have just wrapped up this week, and they don't want to put the victims' families through this during the holiday. the next hearing for the crumbley parents won't be until february 8th in the new year. ethan crumbley, the school shooter, also had his hearing yesterday and his next hearing was also postponed to the new year because of the sheer amount of evidence that they're going through. as all this happens, you

mentioned the four counts of involuntary manslaughter and the maximum fine there, but investigators are still looking at whether or not the parents had help avoiding authorities. remember, they were avoiding authorities for several days, ultimately found in detroit about 40 minutes south of oxford area schools. it was looking suspicious, so they're still investigating that and whether or not the man whose building they were found in have any connection with them. as the investigation progresses, more charges could be filed as the trial date is officially set in newt year, katy. >> it's amazing to see them walk into court today in handcuffs and prison uniforms. maura barrett, thank you so much. a cruise is investigating whether a woman fell off a balcony. now authorities are trying to determine whether it was an accident or foul play. nbc correspondent gadi schwartz

has the story. >> the cruise ship sits in port, now a scene of investigation. broken glass and a broken divider on deck the only evidence seen publicly after a woman fell nearly ten stories to the water below in the middle of the night. the woman still hasn't been identified, but passengers say they was traveling with her boyfriend and a family member. they were told a security camera captured her fall. >> i can't believe that happened to her. a sweet young lady, a sweet soul. she's gone. >> reporter: the fbi now investigating as to whether this tragic incident was an accident or foul play, releasing little information on what they know. >> it's scary. i hope they find out, did she jump, was she distraught, or was she pushed? i want to know what happened. she's too young. >> reporter: patricia taylor said she met the woman on the three-day cruise from long beach to encinada, mexico.

>> she has a baby. that baby will never see his mom. >> reporter: the coast guard and mexican navy spent 31 hours searching but couldn't find her. passengers say they saw search boats being lowered after the alarm sounded. >> they went out on the balcony and looked and saw immediately they were throwing life preservers out. probably about 30 minutes later after that, they lowered a life raft. >> reporter: experts say overboard incidents aren't as rare as you might think. >> in 2018, there were 25 people overboard. in 2019, there were 29 people overboard. >> a 2010 law requires overboard systems that you see here that uses infrared cameras when something falls off the ship, but there's been little to no regulatory enforcement. carnival cruises aren't saying whether such a system was in place, but they said, our thoughts are with the woman's family and our care team is

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that guy needs to chill out! this was a cold call! hundreds of sexual abuse survivors have some closure in their legal battle with usa gymnastics. they reached a settlement yesterday, one of the largest of its kind. more than 500 women and girls will be given portions of the money including some of gymnastics' biggest names like simone biles, aly raisman and mckayla maroney. it covers abuse by anyone associated with usa gymnastics including larry nassar and also gives the survivors a seat on the board of u.s. gymnastics. joining me is retired gymnast dominique dawes a four-time olympic medalist and founder of the dominique dawes and ninja academy. i want to go to a ninja academy. that sounds like a lot of fun.

thank you for being here. let's talk about this settlement. specifically the seat on the board, what is that going to mean? >> usa gymnastics needs to be disband. these athletes are not looking necessarily for a seat on the board. the $380 million or this settlement for over 500 survivors is going to be part of healing, it's a lifetime of healing for each and every one of them. they not only went through the abuse of larry nassar but the abuse of being a part of toxic culture, verbal, psychological and physical abuse. now that there has been an agreement made with regard to the larry nassar scandal, it's time for a lot of these organizations to start looking at these private coaches. they have damage and abused many young people and those young people need to know they are more than enough, and they need to be on the road to healing as

well. >> the survivors have said, listen, yeah, thanks for the money, yeah, larry nassar is behind bars, but the people in charge when larry nassar was doing this are still okay. the fbi who didn't report or didn't take any action on the reports of larry nassar's abuse didn't do anything. they want to see more of the people who swept this under the rug held accountable including federal law enforcement. >> yes. i know that simone biles and a number of top athletes, maggie nichols, mckayla maroney and aly raisman have demanded an internal investigation and i don't know if that has come to the forefront and come public. we need to know who knew what went. tom forester, who was in charge of the selection process with usa gymnastics, has stepped down and simone biles had a tweet saying it's not tom forester is the problem. much more will be revealed and we need to know who knew what

with regards to larry nassar and look at the big picture, the level of toxicity in the sports of gymnastics, full of rampant, verbal, psychological and emotional abuse and needs to start now. i opened my first academy in maryland and we're doing things the right way, building up young kids' self-esteem and not tearing them down and i will be opening up my second facility in rockville, maryland in 2022. i'm excited to be a part of this positive change to plant positive seeds in each kid that walks through our doors and not planting seeds of doubt, shame and guilt. >> if you want to be an athlete you should be able to be an athlete without fear of being sexually abused. that's the baseline. dominique dawes, thank you so much for. >> abuse in any way. >> appreciate your time. that's going to do it for me. hallie jackson picks up our coverage next. it's an entire trading experience. with innovation that lets you customize interfaces, charts

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