we're a few seconds into overtime, so that is tonight's last word. the 11th hour starts now. >> >> good evening, i'm chris jansing, it's day 385 of the biden administration. the republican parties divide over the january 6th insurrection appears to be deepening. justices gop members are intensifying their efforts to take back the house and senate. today, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell publicly rejected the republican national committee's resolution that censured liz cheney and adam kinzinger for their work on the january 6th committee. mcconnell also pushed back on the rnc's characterization of the capital riot as, quote, legitimate political discourse.

>> we are here, we are here. we saw what happened. it was a violent insurrection with a purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next. that is what it was. whether or not the hour and see should be singling out members of our party who may have different views of the majority, that is not the job of the rnc. >> we were here, we saw what happened. but mcconnell's counterpart in the house, minority leader kevin mccarthy, today defended the rnc censure, which was largely backed by allies of donald trump. >> [inaudible] everybody knows [inaudible] caused the damage. that's what we said from the very beginning. [inaudible] about this, the six rnc members from [inaudible] who were subpoenaed and were in florida were not even there that day.

>> mccarthy could eventually be the target of a subpoena and is a target of the committee. rudy giuliani was asked for testimony and documents and move to have mark meadows referred to the justice department after he failed to appear for a deposition. tonight, committee chair bennie thompson told nbc news that the committee is focused on the next steps for both men. >> we know giuliani obviously didn't show up for deposition today. what is the plan? >> we will discuss that in our friday meeting. >> our subpoenas on the table? >> subpoenas are always on the table for discussion. >> you mentioned yesterday that mark meadows might be more central than he seemed before you. since communication broke down have been finding out more in all this? >> well, we would want to

see based on some of the material whether or not there is information in that that we could perhaps ty meadows even closer with. although, as you know, we've already made a referral to doj. so, he can always say, look, i'm ready to talk. >> do you revoke the referral? >> if we got an inkling that mr. meadows would want to talk, then we would probably make the request to doj to defer until that conversation occurred. >> thompson also said that former trump doj official jeffrey clark to the fit a bunch when he spoke to the committee last week. the chair said that members are now talking about possible immunity for witnesses who plead the fifth. meanwhile, nbc news reports that investigators have learned trump demanded to talk to his vice president on the phone on the sixth. but he can't reach him? there is also new information tonight before the those e downtown t so whil bor >> do you revoke the referral? >> if we got an inkling that mr. meadows would want to talk, then we would probably make the request to doj to defer until that conversation occurred. >> thompson also said that former trump doj official jeffrey clark to the fit a bunch when he spoke to the committee last week. the chair said that members are now talking about possible immunity for witnesses who plead the fifth. meanwhile, nbc news reports that

investigators have learned trump demanded to talk to his vice president on the phone on the sixth. but he can't reach him? there is also new information tonight on the role of extremist groups leading to the sixth. sources tell nbc news that house investigators are scrutinizing rallies as far back as a year before the capitol riot in an effort to identify a broader network of causes of the attack, zeroing in on members of domestic extremist moments movements like the oath keepers and proud boys. those events could include armed rallies and stop the steal rallies before january 6th. and then the word is that there is investigation of a meeting on january 5th, 2021, in the downtown washington d.c. garage. it happened between stewart rhodes,

the now indicted founder of the oath keepers, and other far-right groups. meantime, there is the pressing business of actually running the federal government and today the house approved a spending measure. that measure now goes to the senate. >> i intend to the senate to have it taken up quickly and in time. so while negotiations are a full year before the agreement is continuing, we will in the meantime avoid costly and when this government shutdown. >> diplomatic efforts to avoid a war in ukraine also moved forward today. french president emmanuel macron met with president zelensky in kyiv. president putin has so far showed no signs of removing the troops alongside the ukrainian border. macron says putin said there were no plans to escalate the crisis. but there is pushback on suggestion of progress. with that, let's bring in our lead off guests,

yamiche alcindor, anchor moderator of "washington week" on pbs and contributor for msnbc and nbc. alexi mccammond, political reporter for axios. barb mcquade, a veteran federal prosecutor and former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of new york. she worked with usa during the biden transition and he's a professor at the university of michigan law school. she co-hosts the podcasts "sisters in law". great to see. well yamiche, there is a rejection of the rnc language. a person who spoke to mcconnell said he was frustrated that the party was focused on the only liability we have when he believes republicans are otherwise well positioned to win in the november midterms. talk about the liability that you are hearing about. >> while mcconnell is saying is that the republican party is continuing

to be the party of trump but it is now the party of insurrectionists. after january six on number of republicans resign. you saw people, though they were not backing the idea of impeaching trump, they were saying it was wrong to break into the u.s. capitol. now you see the rnc call this legitimate political discourse. and mcconnell is saying we should not be tied to these attackers as republicans. that being said, in some ways it's a losing battle. you had the republicans who, while continuing to lie about the election, they could at least say it is wrong to beat a police officer, it is wrong to break the law. it is wrong for people to trespass and try to bring american democracy to its knees. and now, you have a republican party that is

backing even that sort of behavior. and i don't think it's a coincidence because it is all happening after vice president mike pence said very clearly that trump is wrong and you cannot overturn an election. so i think this is a growing rift in the republican party but i can also tell you that i talked to conservatives. and this is still a party that is led by former president donald trump. even with mcconnell saying this, he is in some ways still going against the majority of the republican party and certainly the republican base. >> yeah, the majority have not come out and announce this kind of language. barbara, the january 6th committee does appear to be focused on certain people like giuliani and meadows. as well as those groups on the right.

what might head indicate about

>> yeah. and give me your take on these activities that they are looking at, like militia or extremist groups. and these reports that they are meeting in a garage the night before january 6th. people like folks leading the oath keepers and the proud boys and other far-right groups. >> yeah, it's really interesting that we see here. we know the oath keepers and the proud boys were involved in january 6th. and now for the first time we see them core dating together just before the attack. and so it's an obvious point of investigation to determine whether this was not just a couple of small conspiracies but one larger one. >> i mean, it sounds like a bad movie. they are meeting in a garage the night before? [laughs] >> yeah, as we used to say if the justice department, we don't catch the smart ones. sometimes people cannot help themselves in engaging an activity. so, at the moment, it was simply a meeting. but it's absolutely worthy of pursuit to determine what happened at that meeting and also talk to people that were there. and also, to go

back to january 6th. this is not just about january 6th. but also about what the oath keepers said before, after, and during january 6th. this conspiracy, and anyways, is still ongoing. the focus of the next election is there as well, continuing this idea of insurrection. replacing the government elected by the people with one that was chosen by the insurrectionists. and so i think that the fbi is now looking at these militia groups as a potential threat that is ongoing. >> and alexei alexi, all of this is potential fodder for how the elections can be presented. there is disagreement about that on both sides. i know you have been talking with democratic congresswoman cori bush. and what did she tell you about messaging in the midterms? >> that's right, i had the chance to speak with congresswoman bush today with a small number of black reporters on the hill. we talked about the 2022 midterms, of course. and the investigation of january 6th.

we are seeing some republicans trying to shift the focus, to try to blame capitol police. and then you have democrats really focusing on some of the issues around this, the larger legislative issues, like police reform. that is something they have been focused on. and congresswoman cori bush told me that in spite of colleagues asking her, since the 2020 election, to stop using the phrase defund the police, because it's hurting them in elections, she says she is going to keep using it. and she is going to keep using it until the house and the senate and the federal government passed some sort of federal police reform legislation into law. she said point blank that if republicans take control of the house majority after the midterms, that legislation is all about dead at the federal level. and to her point, in maintaining the activist groups, she sees how the outside organizers and the groups are

continuing to fight for voting rights when things are stalling or fizzling out, as she put it, in congress. >> and yamiche, you cannot talk about donald trump's hold on the republican party without acknowledging speculation about his intentions for 2024, which is why this new pew poll is really fascinating. it shows that in january of this year, 52% of americans -- i am sorry, january of 2021 -- 52% of americans blamed trump largely for the capital capitol and now it is down to 43%. and what is going on? here are republican successfully reframing the narrative? could this be the result of fatigue, of talking about these things all together? which may also mean that the rnc censure and resolution may mean nothing? how do you fit into the upcoming elections? >> it is a great question. and really, it is in some ways looking at those numbers as a head-scratcher. what you have now is a portion of the population vying into the idea. at least in the rnc level, but not some of the people in the minority, like senator

mcconnell. but this idea that the gop is selling largely, which is that the january 6th incident was a kind of tourist visit. you even had former vice president mike pence say that at one point the media is saying too much about january six. there is a downplaying of january 6th, even among people like mike pence who were running through the hallways as insurrectionists were screaming hang mike pence. and they said it was wrong for him to say that he could overturn the election. but there is not at this point real consequences being faced by the people who are what critics would say are at the top of the leadership. and what they are thinking about president trump. or rudy giuliani, or steve bannon, people speaking at the rallies. we have seen hundreds of people arrested and prosecuted but there is this sense among -- there is a sense that they were

people on the ground, who took it too far, who are not listening to the leaders, clearly in the rally. and of course we heard former president trump at this time say, look, you need to go to the capitol and you need to stop the steal, quote unquote. of course that was a lie. but it's interesting, if you go to 2024, and what president trump is going to be selling, is he going to be selling this sort of rally out of hand? he is talking about pardoning people and that is putting him at real odds with some of his loyalists when you take a look at someone like senator graham. saying that that's wrong. sayin that that's wrong. all impacted by -- voting rights fights, right, barbara? the high court's decision to black second -- and alabama has renewed alarms

over the future of voting rights, this is the way the ap reported. it is 54 decision, late monday, the supreme court said it would review the case in full. a future legal showdown in months to calm that voting advocates fear could for their gut protections in the landmark era law. talk about how this could impact voting rights, >> this is a very alarming protections long term. development, it's one of those things that come up in the courts shadow docket, so doesn't always get the attention it deserves. but this was a claim brought indoors standing of the voting rights act, based on racial gerrymandering. sometimes the court says that you know how parties want to drop lines. but racial gerrymandering is illegal, it's a violation of the constitution. the lower courts say that this was a violation of the laws, a violation of the voting rights act. and the court stated in order that states that the maps that are illegal are going to be, in effect for the august

primaries. if you just look at this map, chris, you can see the blatant gerrymandering of it. it's an effort to -- gerrymandering is sometimes called packing and cracking, where you either shove all the minorities in one district, where you rank them up so you can get the power. and they have all been shut into one district with two claws reaching way out to hit birmingham and montgomery, alabama, because their majority black cities. in doing, so they have clustered all of the black folks to reduce the voting power of black voters in alabama. it's interesting because justice roberts, chief justice roberts, joined the dissenters and this opinion saying that this is in violation of the law. what is on earth is happening? here i find it ironic because it was justice roberts that wrote the majority opinion about 90 years ago in his own shelby county that gutted section five of the voting rights act. that's the one that required preclearance from the justice

department four states that had a tradition of discriminating against voters based on race and that was the case where justice ginsburg famously wrote in her dissent, you don't throw away your umbrella in a rainstorm just because you're not getting wet. and throwing away that protection back in 2013 has really opened the floodgates now for all the gerrymandering that we are seeing. >> and there's fight, after, fight after, fight in state, after state, after state. let's see, whether it's redistricting fire job boxes and how they can be used, how are progressive civil rights voting groups approaching this battle? what are you hearing about how they are going to press their case as these multiple fights continue across multiple states? >> we as you talk to them, they'll say over and over again that they have been stopped doing the work that they plan on stopping doing the work. but they will keep on organizing. i know folks are still looking

at things like executive orders that might be able to get done, some people of course are looking at things on the hill, like the electoral count act to get done. but people in the states are organizing, and more than, that democratic governors around the country are stepping up and proposing their own voting rights plans, secretaries of state, of course, are taking on new important roles as we have seen them evolve in all of this mess around voting rights and election security. so i think that is going to be interesting to watch for 2022. i think for 2024 it's the popularity or the increasing popularity of governors and statewide executives and it might shift the focus on the house and state candidates. >> thanks to all of you. and coming up, leading republicans now, taking sides over the insurrection, so we're gonna talk to former senator al franken and mark mckinnon about that growing rift at the rnc. and later, was what's happening in canada right now inspired by the events on january 6th? an expert on the dangers of disinformation is standing by. the 11th hour just getting underway on a tuesday night.

>> the rnc has every right to take any action and the position that i have is that you're ultimately held accountable to voters in your district, voters who represent, and we are going to hear the views of voters quickly this year. >> another demonstration there of the divide within the gop. that's elise stefanik whom we just heard from. she's currently in the gop leadership house, the position once held by now censured liz cheney. but as we mentioned, the leader of the senate, mitch mcconnell, today, denounced the move. with

us tonight, a former minnesota democratic senator al franklin who hosts of the podcast bearing his name, and mark mckinnon. he's also among the co-hosts of the circus. good to see you guys. senator franklin, what do you make of this split in the republican party? you worked with mitch mcconnell, do you have the sense that he is sincere or sincerely worried at least? >> if i were him, i would've been the with the republican national committee. they basically announce that they are kind of crazy. no one can look at that and go, that was legitimate political discourse. gouging out the eyes of police which capitol police say they did. police lost the fingers, they had dramatic brain damage, they have broken vertebrae's. people went in there, smeared feces on the walls. american people saw that. i believe the republican

national committee voted that unanimously. i think they are showing with the republican party which is in the thrall with donald trump. and that maybe the vast majority of the republican party, but republicans are democrats are looking at that and going, it's very dangerous. it's very, very dangerous. >> it's interesting, i was looking at the union times article, mark, and they were quoting doug heye, who is a communications consultant. he worked back in 2010 at the rnc. and he's quoted as saying, the worst days when i was at the rnc was when we were the story. i mean, do you want to be the story? >> that's a great point that he makes, chris. the reality is, this is a strategic train wreck for the rnc. and everybody knows it. and when

mitch mcconnell steps up and his slapping around his house colleagues, you know something is up. and at least stefanik is saying they can say whatever they want. sure, they can say whatever they want. they say whatever they wanted, it's very stupid. and now everyone is trying to cover it up because, mcconnell's point again strategically is, they want to put this in the rearview mirror. and the rnc just put it on the windshield, and to ducks point, that has become the story. and it's not about joe biden or the problems with biden, or covid, or anything else. they are talking about people standing up and saying that it was just a normal political discourse when, as senator phil al franken just pointed out, i have to do is roll a video. >> let me play devils advocate a, little, could this split in the gop, positively give the democrats heading into the midterms. or, as midterms voters tend to be strong based boaters, art is this a calculation? fire up the base, and this could be a knot opportunity to take on a democratic base that is not so fired-up. >> i want them to

watch me and hear them say, that was really smart republican national committee, keep doing it. >> that's your message tonight. >> i think this is incredibly -- >> i mean, you've got lindsey graham talking to mcdaniel saying, what is going on? you have got her uncle saying what is going on? but obviously there is some calculus there. >> i don't think there was some calculus there. [laughs] i think that's the problem. i don't think there was any calculus. i think that they are not only dangerous but they are kind of stupid. >> all right, mark -- >> yeah, i mean look at the fact that no one has taken

ownership of that particular line in the press release. no one can figure it out who got it in or why. and there is a reason. >> yeah, there are articles tonight about how steve bannon did not with that initially. there apparently is another draft that is not in there. so, we don't know where came from. let's go back on the ground, because this is where this is going to play out. talk to us, mark, about what is going to happen in the ohio senate race and what it may tell us about trump's impact and maybe even the rnc impact on primaries around the country. >> well, i mean, it shows a couple of things. one is that donald trump is still important in republican primaries. and that's a problem for the republican party. they cannot cut that anchor loose. you cannot win a general election without trump or a primary without trump. and that is what is happening in ohio. we saw j.d. vance tried to do a three 60 after he had said critical things about trump in the past. and now it is coming back to haunt him. josh mandel is putting up a lot of ads reminding people about what j.d. vance said in the past.

and he cannot hide from those statements. i think this is real karma for j.d. vance, because it is coming back to haunt him. but it is also going to haunt republican party because they're going to nominate the worst possible person for the election. and even the ohio republicans will have a strong democratic nominee in tim ryan, who i think will be a very competitive race with josh mandel, if that's how it turns out, which is what it is looking like. >> all right, al and mark have but a greed to stay with us, perhaps they talk about thoughts i may have any pushback. and we will talk about whether the democratic senator from west virginia will get on board with his colleagues to extend a key program that helps millions of families when "the 11th hour" continues. ues.

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full child tax credit benefit because monthly checks accounted for only half the payment. still with us, former senator al franken and mark mckinnon. mark, democrats haven't given up on extending the child tax credit. here is senator michael bennet earlier today. >> senator manchin has not slammed the door on this. we now know that people who spent the money the way we said they were going to spend the money, which was to buy groceries, pay for rent, that it was really important to pay for childcare so they could stay at work. >> but joe manchin says he is not part of any ongoing discussions about this. what are the chances, do you think, that he might get on board? how important is extending the program for democrats? >> how -- he has been fighting for this for years, senator bennett. and i give him credit for his where

zillion's in trying to fight for this. and now we know it is truly meaningful. and i think that when senator manchin sees the actual data that it will change his mind. because i think he was misled into thinking about how this money is spent. but also the impact it is having. and i was really struck by, chris, some data about the jobs market. and it is really encouraging when it comes to the job market, at least four men. but not for women. and that has to do with childcare. this is something that has a direct impact on that. and has an economic boost all around. so, joe manchin should be supporting it. so should the republicans. >> in the meantime, now, there is another fight that is going to be upcoming. and that is for the supreme court nominee. we know that former alabama senator doug jones started his

work today. he is a nomination advisor president biden. we are now just three weeks from the president self-imposed deadline, to name whoever she may be. what happens between now and then? >> well, first of all, do i think we will have it sooner than three weeks. but what happens once he names here, is that he is the sherpa and that means he and that is the tradition. he is the former colleague of -- and a very moderate democrat. i think he is the right person for the job. he is an amazingly great lawyer. and then we will go through that process. >> what do you think it is going to look? like what is that process going to look like? if i have time i would like to get both

of your takes on that. >> i was on the judiciary committee. and i would suspect that a number of the republicans on the judiciary committee are going to make it somewhat unpleasant. i can name a few. theories crews cruz and hawley and cotton and a few others. but from what i understand the candidacy is considering are incredibly qualified. and i am sure that this woman will get through. >> in some cases, mark mckinnon, republicans who had previously voted for these nominees, they had voted for them previously. but what do you think the strategy is going to be? >> well, it is all upside to joe biden. it changes the narrative for weeks, if not months, into a story that is

very good for the president. he is clearly going to nominate someone who is well qualified. so, republicans will work on some opposition. but i do not think that, at the end of the day, it does not look good if a woman is clearly qualified, which i know she will be. and it is just going to look bad. i think the opposition will be minimal and i think that at the end of the day the nominee will get through and it will be a big win for joe biden. >> al franken and mark mckinnon, great to see you both, thank you so much. coming, up what we are hearing from republicans here in the u. s. about truckers in canada as they take their protest against vaccine mandates to a whole new level. when "the 11th hour" continues. continues

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deserve to be harassed in their own neighborhoods. they do not deserve to be confronted with image of a swastika flying on a street corner. or a confederate flag. everyone is tired of covid. but these protests -- these protests are not the way to get through it. >> they self-described freedom convoy protesting vaccine mandates and other public health measures partially blocked the busiest border crossing and major trade artery between the u.s. and canada today. as the societal press notes, the suspension bridge carries 25% of all trade between the two countries. and canadian officials say the country could have supply chain implications due to the interruption. but president trump backed the truckers. >> the canadian truckers, you have been reading about it, they are resisting bravely these lawless

mandates, doing more to defend american freedom than our own leaders by far. and we want those great canadian truckers to know that we are with them all of the way. >> back with us is clint watts, west point graduate, army veteran, former army special agent and distinguished fellow at the -- research industry institute. freedom seems to be the key word repeated over and over again by these folks to try to justify these protests. but who or what is really driving what way are seeing in canada? and are there any ties to what we have seen here in the u.s. with the alt-right movement? >> grace, it is remarkably similar as a pattern. and we talk about january 6th and it similar pattern. but we should look back at the yellow vest movement in 2018 in france. you might remember it was a blue

collar, populist movement, a very similar in the sense that they kind of seized the capital through protest and they stop the wheels of government from turning. i think what you see in all of these -- and it's particularly unique in canada -- there are social activists who lead the charge. but then there are other groups and even authoritarian nations that. and in. and you have a pretty solid movement. but there is a contagion. you are already seeing news about trucker convoy is wanted to come to d. c.. it is also surfacing in australia. and we are worried about i. but do they have -- are we next? >> i think so. and you start to see opportunity

draw in conflict and people against each other. what is damaging about this is the connective tissue of the alt-right or far-right movement which stretches all the way from moscow to sydney and melbourne. you can see this influence, due to the social media in the eyeliner byron meant. the most ironic thing is that some of these conspiracy theories adherence are worried about 5g. but without this technology that would not be able to bring these congregations together at these capitals. so with this technology they can mobilize in a way that is difficult to defuse. and also there are knee-deep or hidden

manipulators behind the scenes. >> let me ask you about the mobilization. because the guardian reports that the leader behind this movement, and admitted conspiracy theorist who also endorsed qanon has long been a french figure. and this is the reporting in the guardian. -- announced last year that truckers crossing the u.s. canada border we need to be fully vaccinated against covid-19. this supposed plight of the truckers proved to be a compelling public relations angle and attracted underway of fellow travelers. how good are these fringe movements? how adept are they messaging or attracting followers? and what isn't being done? what needs to be done to counter them? >> with all these movements, particularly when they get into the online environment, they are noteworthy around what would be private groups of social media. facebook would be one of those people. but it could be whatsapp or could be other sort of social media applications. but what tends to happen is that when they move to the public they can be amplified by things like social

bots, which we have talked about for years. or other influences, celebrities, politicians, other outside voices. as soon as a politician or a celebrity with a big following grabs on one of these movements and elevates it, you will see a massive increase in their following. when that happens, it triggers the next phase, which is financial opportunism. there has already been discussions of troll farms in vietnam, possibly another one in bangladesh that are being identified or taken down, because they see opportunity to get into what is a popular movement that is moving like rocket fuel in the social media environment. all of this together goes to crowd funding. and i think that that is a big part of it. these groups, whether social activists or fraudsters, are using crowd funding mechanisms and websites resource themselves. and organize and mobilize. this is not different from anything we have seen in the u.s. or even on january 6th last year, where we saw groups organizing for

everything from travel to weapons to funding. and i think that that is where we really need to watch this. it is a dangerous phenomenon that comes up quickly. it is difficult for police to be aware of and it is a huge public safety issue. >> and the minute we have left, prime minister trudeau accused protesters of trying to block a canada's democracy. and another canadian official described the u.s. republican support as foreign interference. is that dangerous? >> it is. it is one of these fascinating things that is happening, chris, which is that leaders in different countries are more lined along people, parties and issues rather than nation states. they are now having an outsized impact in other democracies. that is part of the challenge that you see even today, i divided america, i divided nato and europe struggling around the issue with the ukraine and russia right now, with the invasion. separately, you look at the invasion canada. and they are surrounding the issue of the convoy over their borders. i think these leaders are damaging their countries. -- >> clint watts, always great to have your perspective. and

coming, up more state decisions on mask mandates, when the 11th hour continues. hour continues

as covid numbers continue to drop, look for another state to make changes to its mask-wearing rules. while new york will reportedly extend its mask mandate in schools tomorrow, the new york times reports that governor kathy hochul is expected to drop indoor mask mandates for businesses. and the governor of illinois may soon roll back regulations there as well. meantime, there is new concern on the vaccine front over johnson & johnson's decision to slow production. our report tonight from miguel el maguire, nbc news correspondent. >> tonight reports of a critical

supplier of covid vaccines to much of the developing world, johnson & johnson, quietly shutting down a plant overseas, amid growing concern that the virus will continue to -- mutate, especially if developing countries do not have access to the vaccine. j&j says it continues to manufacture its vaccine around the clock and around the world. it all comes as omicron sub variant ba. 2, even more transmissible than the original highly contagious mutation, now accounts for nearly 4% of new cases in the u.s.. >> even if the united states is highly vaccinated, if other countries remain unvaccinated, that adds two variants that can accumulate and cause us to have surges. >> but tonight it is a turning point for the u.s., where cases are down 65%. several states announced a plan to end mask mandates, among them california, we are effective a week from today, mandates for the vaccinated will be lifted, though counties like los angeles and san francisco say that masks will

be required, as they are in schools k through 12. >> given the increase in immunity, it makes sense. >> tonight our nation is facing a new stage in the pandemic. masks will still be required for the super bowl in los angeles, though fans have ignored the regulation in previous games. >> miguel almaguer, thank you for that. coming up, an apology was over covid dispute during a capital commute. when "the 11th hour" continues. hour continues.

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tonight, democratic congressman joyce beatty took to twitter this afternoon to describe a altercation with a republican colleague on the u.s. capitol subway system today. she said, while heading to the house floor to votes, i respected fully asked my colleague, or representative hallie rogers to put on a mask. he then poke my back, demanding i get on the. train he then said kiss my expletive. this is the kind of disrespect we have been dealing with for years, and indicative of the larger issue around keeping our staff safe. the congresswoman went on to demand a policy from rogers. and according to the washington post, rodgers obliged. in a statement, rodgers, 84 said he had personally apologized. -- my words were not acceptable and i express my regret to her, first and foremost, roger said. baby's colleagues in the congressional black caucus spoke with reporters on the congressional steps to demand more public apology from

congressman rogers. >> who and held his roger think he is? how dare he? >> bring it! >> how dare he put his hands on anyone, man, woman or child? how dare he assault joyce beatty? >> beatty cares about the health and safety of everybody. in this environment we should be applauding her for trying beatty to protect everybody's health. >> this was the an incident featuring a woman in leadership, a black woman. he put his hands on her. for some reason there seems to be this attitude of not accountability. like, i can say or do anything i want. today we are standing together. it stops today. >> after the press conference, congressman rodgers updated

repeated his apology in a tweet and congresswoman beatty accepted the apology. that is our broadcast for this tuesday night. with our thanks for being with us, on behalf of all of my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, goodnight. night. >> tonight on all in -- >> i am not -- >> donald trump's rnc drives or wedge into the party. >> we saw what happened. it was about an insurrection. >> tonight, the choice all republicans face as cracks in trump support begin to grow. then what we are learning about the call to mike pence on january 6th and new details about trump's morning calwood jordan. plus, the supreme court's attempt to strangle the voting rights act by way of alabama. and why vladimir putin needs to learn from the crowds in the