i'm katy tur. the january 6th hearings were in full swing today where the committee unexpectedly said it will delay tomorrow's hearing. what is behind the day? it was set on a fan to corrupt the doj. on thursday, they plan no examine the pressure campaign to get vice president mike pence to stop the certification of the election. there was also word of a new witness. j. michael luttig, a former federal conservative judge who had advised mike pence. while the wide question swirls around tomorrow's delay, yesterday's was focused so intensely on former president trump's refusal to accept the truth the election was fair and he lost that there are real questions about what the committee will do with all of the evidence. will they send a criminal referral for the former president to the department of justice?

chairman benny thompson says no. >> but you don't, just to be clear, you don't anticipate that the committee, itself, will offer up a formal referral? >> no, that's not our job. our job is to look at the facts and circumstances around journal 6. what caused it and make recommendations after that. >> but is ranking member liz cheney saying maybe. she tweeted the january 6th select committee has not issued a conclusion regarding potential criminal referrals. we will announce a decision on that at an appropriate time. all right. the committee laid out a case for the why when the president refused to accept the results beyond just a hurt ego. yesterday, we heard about alleged grit that the trump campaign spent months fundraising off supposed election fraud even as it knew there was no election fraud. campaign aides and lawyers

admitted that they did know it under oath and said they told the president the truth as well. all while, all the while, millions of dollars were pouring in. an investigator for the committee said $250 million was raised off e-mails asking supporters to pitch in for donald trump's fight and other fundraising attempts. instead that money went to trump home chains, trump associated on their payroll and the political action group save america pac, a political action group, still controlled and used by donald trump. joining me now is nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitale, washington post congressional reporter and msnbc contributor and a former federal prosecutor legal analyst. so, ali, we asked this question of the number of people on the panel yesterday. is this about a criminal referral? they dodged it? it's not their place to tell the

doj what to do? i am interested, though, in what liz cheney is treating. because there was a time a few months ago when she mentioned criminal referrals or criminal charges maybe as well? >> reporter: yeah. i think it's a really important thing to point out. that just because the committee is saying that the point of their committee is not to ultimately criminally refer anyone, they don't actually have to. the work of their committee can both be to prove that there needs to be account ability and result in other than legislative changes the committee is working to go forth with. i think there is an interesting dichotomy within members of the committee, have you people like liz cheney as you mentioned saying this is something still on the table. congressman adam schiff yesterday live on the air after the hearing saying he does think the department of justice should look into anyone, including the former president, who appears to have done something worth investigating that could be

criminal. i think this has always been the question that looms over the committee, which is their goal seems to be a paint a picture of who should be accountable for january 6th. the next natural question on behalf of the rest of us, what happens when you succeed in that goal and all eyes turn to the department of justice, starting to wonder, what will accountability look like? it seems like at this point thompson is taking a different route than schiff and cheney. there does seem to be a difference there. nevertheless, if committee's work until the end is trying to lose the narrative around what happened on the 6th. >> do we have any idea why the hearing tomorrow was delayed, what the delay is all about? >> reporter: that's a really good question. just because i'm deep in this history, actually i'm writing ability criminal frills, i want to answer the question. but, one of the endurance secrets from watergate that only became public in 2018 was the

actual report, the watergate road map. that prosecutors sent to congress 50 years ago by the watergate special prosecutor after he declined to indict president richard nixon. instead of indicting him, he shared that sealed report. that laid out all of the evidence, the documents the grand jury had collected. that is called the watergate road map. that is ultimately what this city has to decide if they want to follow in that vein and present the report without explicit comment to the department of justice or if they want to make a big public statement and say these are the crimes we think the former president committed or his co-conspirators and really make a bigger show of it. but as for today, the public reason that we heard from zoe lofgren very seemed like she had rehearsed that one this morning, was they had video issues, they

needed changes, they needed more team with. yes, this is really exhaustive work. after all, there are over 1,000 videotapes and recordings of depositions that these producers working with the committee have to go through in order to put together what we have currently seen last thursday and yesterday. but there's got to be more here. there always is. we haven't quite figured that out yet. regardless, we know that thursday, we're still going to have that hard of hearing about the pressure campaign on mike pence and the hearing on the department of justice in question next week. >> deep in the history of watergate. it looks like you are deep in a bunker some. where you got to meet somebody in a trenchcoat who is going to whisper all that information to you? where are you, jackie? >> reporter: if you have any secrets for me, i'm in the house gallery. >> it looks like you are in a sound booth. cynthia, in the way that they are laying out their case here, trying to say the who, what, when, where, why, and if motive,

how do you think it's going so far? and what gaps are missing as of now for the committee? what have they now not yet proved? >> reporter: well, i think a couple -- first of all, they're proving everything in a solid now chronological way, which makes me happy. i will say this, i think one thing that's mais missing that i am looking to hear in the doj decapitation scheme is where did clark get the power and the thought to go to trump all by himself and set up this entire scheme where he would become the attorney general and rosen and donahue would have to take a backseat and follow his lead and send out these letters to all the states? that's sort of a shocking thing. and he's kind of a nobody lawyer in the environmental division. he doesn't have the sort of political chops to do that. and there has to be some background information to that. that's what i am really hoping the reason why they put off this

hearing on wednesday is that they have more information about that. otherwise, when it comes to the who, what, where, when and why, they're pretty solid on exactly what happened. >> i think congressman adam kinzinger, someone in his office might be watching this show. because just as we were leading into this hour asking what exactly is behind the delay, here is what he tweeted. just to be clear, tomorrow's hearing has been moved to next week. this change was made to space out the january 6th hearings, nothing else. and my phone, there it is, i look forward to leading this hearing and presenting our findings to the american people. ali, you were waving your arms. is that what you had to add? >> no, katie, maybe one potential explanation, they want more time to read a new book that came out today? i don't know. >> oh. i like that. i leak that. you can come on my show any time if you are going to act like that, just kidding, ali. thank you very much, yes, the

book is coming out. let's get back on topic. i am very interested in the dynamic between benny thompson and liz cheney here. i wonder, why are committee members saying i am not so sure this is our place and liz kane saying, hold on, wait, is there a concern they might be sending a message that no matter what donald trump should not be facing any criminal charges? i'm just trying to think of the dynamic there. i am curious about the conversation behind the scenes about how to address reporters' questions about this? >> reporter: i mean, we had known for months now there had been a little dissension in the committee talking about whether they wanted to make trump's criminality central to this. i do think we've seen them take again divergent paths. i think it's more the question of they've tried to keep these hearings and frankly the work of the committee broadly above

partisan politics. it's where republicans regularly go back to saying this is a political committee. it's not correctly put together and done in partisan ways. that's regularly the republican refrain. i think for committee members, as far as they can stay away by making political by saying they're going after trump, it allows them to elevate their work to a moral level. though i do think this is where the obvious train was taking us to the station of what does accountability look like when you lay this kind of blame at the feet of the former president. >> messageing is so important. let's talk about the fh word, cynthia. i mean fraud. when they're advertising to your supporters that you need money to help fight for the election, to help fight against fraud and then that money is not used in that fight, is that, in, itself, fraud? >> reporter: it looks like fraud. it certainly is enough to open a grand jury investigation into whether or not it is. we have solved the mystery on

why kimberly guilfoyle was dancing there january 6th in the room watching, somebody had just given her $6000 bucks to say something for to two minutes. it looks like fraud and the department of justice should open an investigation. whether there is an open referral or investigation, the department of justice has an investigation. they've already issued subpoenas in the elector case. i think because they have issued the subpoenas in the grand jury case, that will ultimately lead to eastman, which will ultimately lead to pulling the this red on the sweater, will lead to eastman and pence. so it's a moot point on whether or not they send a referral or not. because it's already opened. what they need to do is issue a really good report for history and then let the department of justice do their work. >> jackie, as we are launching this, there are so many people in the country who believe in the big lie. they are still being told by

prominent politicians from the republican party running for office that there was fraud. that it was stolen. this is all still out there. the committee has a really tough task in trying to, although they're laying it out clearly, convince people who are being deliberately misled by the people that they look up to. >> reporter: yeah. and you know i should add that some of those politicians were continuing to propagate these lies that were really methodically dismantled and torn apart yesterday by some of the to be republicans in the country are being advised by some of those people, including bill stepien who said time and time again throughout various clips referenced in two hours yesterday, that he told the former president there was no claims of election fraud and he shouldn't declare victory. there were no such signs to support that and he had to professionally distance himself from the effort to overturn the election. he did all of this quietly,

privately, again still is consulting and advising those election deny years. that being said, yes, therein lies the rub of the committee's challenge. they've spent 11 months. they've collected a mountain of materials that how today to effectively communicate this to people whose opinions are hardened or aren't listening. we seen the committee so far take a multi-media approach, using a lot of video footage and getting republicans in their own words, republicans whose constituents may not be familiar with, like bill barr, who was the star witness yesterday, make the argument for democrats. it seems like the committee has decided that is far more effective in penetrating the american voters than having lawmakers say that, themselves. >> ali vitale, thank you very much. jackie thank you as well, cynthia, appreciate it. still ahead, stocks are

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on with the economy. i appreciate it. if you are trying to rent right now, people across the country are competing for dwindling apartments and homes. the pedian rent in america surpassed $2,000 in a month. you do not want to know what that number is in new york city. the national average is higher. sam brock is in florida, where rent hikes have left many tenants in a crisis. >> reporter: the only thing hotter than the south florida summer sun mate be its real estate market. which can jolt families. did you have any sense that this was coming? >> no. i saw what was happening. but i didn't think it was going to hit me. >> reporter: she had been renting this ae ventura home for two years when the jaw breaking e-mail came. the $4,000 represent would riese rise to $6,500, a 63% increase.

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remarkably calm here as they are sailing towards drafting this piece of legislation. everyone from the ten republicans to the ten democrats all the way up to senate leader chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell have been slu positive in getting it done this week to process it next week before that july 4th recess that begins at the end of next week. the only choppy water they need to watch out for are drafting certain provisions of the bill that will be complicated. specifically red flag laws. they know it takes gun rights away from anybody, background checks e check proceedings, each state deals with this differently. so they will have to address all of those complexities. there are other provisions that are sticking bills in the past. the background registering as a

licensee, which would force background checks. they have to avoid the past disagreements that scuttled them. still remains optimism. they found a way to do that. there is a break through moving forward. the republican senators will be key here, sound quite optimistic about getting there. let's have a legsen to what self of them have to say. are you optimistic? >> yeah, i am. it's a good piece of legislation. >> the bill looks like it's in the best posture to get passed. >> i think senators murphy and cornyn and other colleagues involved in the package seem to have done a pretty good job developing the framework, which is all that i've heard about. >> reporter: now dock connell for his part told reporters a few moments ago he is comfortable with this gun legislation framework and if the final legislation reflects that, he will be supporting that. it's the strongest endorsement so far.

at this moment it looks like it will be the first congress does something significant to try to prevent gun violence. it's been since 1996, that was the last time this happened. it reflects a c-change in the political landscape if they mapping to pull this off. >> thank you very much. 31 members of a white nationalist group have been arrested in idaho over the weekend. they have now been bailed out of jail. police say they plan to violently disrupt a pride event there. all will make court appearance over the coming weeks. the police chief says members of his department have received death threats since the arrest. his team has gotten close to 150 calls related to the incident. half he says were threatening and abusive. joining me is director of the polarization and extreme research and innovation lab at american university. she is also the author of "hate in the homeland." just the basics for me first.

what exactly happened here? law enforcement found them in the back of a truck? >> yeah, they were reported by a citizen apparently who saw them loading into the back of a truck and got concerned and called the police. so you know it was a citizen tip. and that interrupted, it looked like a little army apparently, they were all dressed similarly. that set off red flags and they were interrupted on their way to the march. >> what do you make of this gathering of men, that they came from a number of different states? what do you make of where they were headed? what do you think? >> yeah. this was obviously highly coordinated, planned in advance. i think it's a lot of things people don't understand many white supremacist extremists is they have a broad range of targets. we're seeing a broadening, anyone who might interfere with their goal of increasing white

birth rates, you know, that that includes the lgbtq community and abortion and reproductive rights. so you know there is a range of supremacists thinking here, there are intersections. it is no surprise particularly with the kind of mainstreaming of lbgtq and ideas and policies that we see this become normalized within the extremist spectrum as well. >> what do you make of the reaction of the threats to law enforcement all over the world? >> also not too surprising. i mean, once again, not only do we have anti-government tendencies and a lot of these extremist groups and whether the white supremacists are explicitly anti-government in nature. they will attack anybody who they deem as an men i to their goals. and so in this case, the police are a bar year to them achieve whack they want, which

is propaganda, first and foremost. this is a group nope for their propaganda. they probably wanted to take video to use it to recruit and market themselves. so they will target anyone, including law enforcement, who stands in their way. >> i was struck by the number of threats and the doxxing of police officers listening, trying to find their home addresses, threatened their loved ones, saying they've come after, they're messing with the wrong people. they don't want to mess with us. my go, it reminded me of just the plot of the watchmen and why officers, the new version, why officers wear masks. >> yeah. in fact, this is also we are hearing this in the january 6th hearings as well, the kind of threats that people are receiving among elect officials, election officials, law enforcement, school teachers, school board officials. all of that is rising. so a part of that is a broader

tendency towards political violence, also a lower barrier i think to some of the online harassment that makes it easy to relatively easy to dox and threaten and spread phone numbers or encourage followers in an extremist chat to call law enforcement. those are the kind of things easy to do. >> it's scary. it's concerning. great people who are watching out. what if they missed it? where is the fbi on this? why is this not something that they caught? >> yeah. the fbi is apparently standing by and ready. we don't know exactly whether there will be more charges coming related to other kind of things that the fbi could be involved with. i will say your point is spot on that what we are seeing again and again are these things being narrowly averted or not averted at all and failing because of the law enforcement response

that can't always match up. whether in buffalo or texas through they'll failures because they are met with people better equipped and prepared. so investing 100% in a law enforcement response is a risky endeavor. we are not investing sufficiently in the prevention that would stop people from radicalizing into these groups to begin with. >> it's important. a conversation we should flush out in the coming days. thank you very much for joining us. coming up, he is one of ten house republicans who voted for impeachment. now congressman tom rice is staying in office. we will go to south carolina, where that primary for his seat is under way. readily accessible. parents sound the alarm on the dangerous breach drug dealers have on social media. >> do you realize just how easy it was for her to have drugs delivered basically to our door. >> how easy was it?

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"the washington post" reports that more than 100 primary candidate who's have won their races did so in part by backing donald trump's false claims of election fraud. the question today is whether that trend will continue as primary voters in nevada, south carolina, maine and north dakota head to the polls. joining me is nbc correspondent and from south carolina nbc news' vaughan hilliard. what do you see in there. >> katie, well, you have the candidates in the republican party endorsed by donald trump as the front runners whose got the governor's race. today republicans determine who will face governor sisolak and the front runner guy lombardo endorsed by president trump. the incumbent senator kathy cortez masso will be facing the

republican that will be chosen today. adam endorsed by donald trump is the front runner, adam lacksaw a former attorney general from nevada has supported trump and supports the idea there was election fraud. in fact, the member%, voters that have shown up today tell us they do believe there was election fraud and the people that are coming here to vote because they say they want to change are blaming the democrats for the problems they are facing in the state of nevada. this year, what do the vote verse to say? >> if you like $8 a gallon gas and you like continued rising costs on every single type of goods that we every day people depend on, every day, then vote democrat. but if you like $2 gasoline and lower food prices and jobs flourishing. tell only reason there was an issue was because of the pandemic. otherwise, this country was

flourishing under, you know, donald, president trump trump. and i would vote anybody he endorses, his endorsement is good enough for me. >> reporter: now, a lot of attention today is focused on republican who's are choosing candidates that will move onto the mid-term elections. the question will be here in and-a-half once republicans select their candidates, assuming adam waxall. what will happen when adam laxalt has to win over the votes of non-partisan voters in places where one-third of the voters, more than 100,000 are non-partisan, will someone like adam laxalt, encoursed by donald trump and ron desantis, win over those non-partisan voters something we would see when we get to the mid-term election, katie? >> just curious, it's quite obvious a guy in the trump hats are going to say democrats are

terrible. are there voters saying, i don't think i want to vote democrat any longer. we will see. vaughan, same thing to you in south carolina, means mace stood outside of his former home, trump tower and sung his praises. what's going on in that race? >> i think we should take it in context. a lot of republicans that ran away from fights in 2022. adam kinzinger, richard burr, rob portman, other individuals, other republicans disagree with donald trump after january of 2021, in which they separated from the now former president. but there is a small list, including liz cheney and two members here in south carolina tom rice and nancy mace who decided to go for it, running for re-election despite gop challengers.

that donald trump came here to south carolina, endorsed and campaigned for. you mentioned nancy mace. she took a big u-turn in the way she has not only talked about donald trump she's largely avoided trying to talk about donald trump, after he claimed she was going to be a new voice in this republican party and said that donald trump put members of congress in harms way january 6th. whereas, tom rice, the congressman in the greater myrtle beach area, he has remandy forceful in his denunciation of donald trump. just yesterday saying he believes donald trump should not be the future of this party and turned his back on the constitution. ultimately, lit come down to the voters, whether these incumbents can convince enough republicans to reject donald trump's candidates and back them. take a listen to a few of the voters we talked to. >> i actually voted for -- >> reporter: why? >> i just like the way she is acting.

mace, i'm a graduate from senator, so see mace has always been one of my favorites. >> reporter: why? you didn't vote for her? >> no. >> you voted for arrington, did trump have something to do with it? >> a little bit. >> reporter: why did you vote for trump? >> because she's not like nancy mace. i felt she betrayed both the people, her constituents and president trump. >> reporter: what did president trump's endorsement affect your decision in this rice? >> none. >> >> reporter: you voted for? >> i voted for nancy. >> reporter: how many of these republican voters leak you just heard that gentleman will stand up an ultimately vote for tom rice and nancy mace against donald trump's wishes and ultimately will it be a signal to other republican voters and republican incumbents? including the likes of potentially liz cheney in her august primary, if they're willing to stake a stand against donald trump, they still got a

shot in their primaries. >> vaughan, thank you. coming up next, everybody is on social media, that does include drug dealers. what parents should look out for.

how easy it is to purchase potentially deadly drugs with nothing more than a smartphone and social media apps. dealers are easy to find. senior national correspondent kate snow is here with more. >> hey, so for those of us of a certain age we may remember buying drugs on a street corner. increasingly, the younger generations is simply connecting with a dealer on social media and those sellers are pedaling substance has often contain deadly fentanyl. we wanted to better understand how it's happening and we were surprised to see drug content in close proximity to ads for products you use every day. >> reporter: americans died of an overdose last year than any other time in history. the biden administration calls it an epidemic. 66% of those deaths involved fentanyl and it's not hard to find. where was your daughter getting

drugs? >> so often she used social media apps to find dealers. so she could pretty much find someone no matter where she was with her phone. she had constant access. >> you realize how easy it was for her to have drugs delivered basically to our door. >> reporter: how easy was it? >> it happened like calling an uber. >> reporter: deb and stu lost their 18-year-old becca in 2020. she loved her guitar and visiting presidential libraries with her dad. she planned to attend the university of richmond. >> you just keep wishing you could turn back the clock and i know you can't. >> reporter: she used various social media channel toss reach dealers and buy drugs. they shared some of her direct message conversations on snapchat. i'm tweaking she wrote. need stronger mgs, referring to

milligrams, a dealer offers oxy 15s. we wanted to understand what people like becca seeking drugs can find using social media. so we met up with eric feinberg, vice president of content moderation at the non-profit coalition for a safer web. this is your fee. >> this is my instagram feed. >> reporter: five years he created an instagram account that follows drug dealers. >> my profile picture is a mannequin. >> reporter: dealers are easy to find once you know what terms and emojis to look for. a plug means a dealer can connect you with the drugs are looking for. your news feed is drug after drug picture. he exchanges direct messages with people who are, obviously, looking to sell. >> hello, if you are interested purchasing drugs without prescription add me on snapchat. >> reporter: here is what he really wanted us to see. so this is something else you

are following. there is a picture of drugs. what's below it? >> peloton. >> reporter: a peloton ad. >> reporter: above or below posts about drugs there are ads. >> more drugs, more drugs, more drugs. a watch. >> reporter: these are major brands? >> yes. >> reporter: this is somebody trying to sell you weed, marijuana. >> disney plus cheaper by the dozen below that. >> reporter: a tv show for kids? >> yeah. >> reporter: ads for pizza, fast food, even a trailer for a movie produced by our own parent company nbcuniversal. because feinberg set up that instagram account using a real email address advertisers know a lot about him. ad buyers purchase space on instagram in bulk and target particular audiences. feinberg is seeing ads for products the advertisers think he might be interested in. separate and apart from the drug content he is following. do you think most advertisers know that their ads might be

running around content that's advertising fentanyl pills? >> there is always risk. there is no perfect filter. >> reporter: andrew is ceo of the institute for advertising ethics. a group pushing for more self-regulation from advertisers using social media to reach customers. >> i believe that it will require more human active moderation. >> reporter: that doesn't exist right now? >> not now. they have outsourced the editorial function to machines. >> reporter: any illegal are drug content alongside legitimate advertising normalizes criminal behavior and the illegal drug sales have consequences. >> our daughter is the consequence. and how many more beccas, you know, are there before those in control take responsibility for this? >> instagram says it has disabled the accounts of dealers we found. the sell of drugs is prohibited

by instagram and snapchat. they say they are proactively detecting and reel moving drug content. snapchat has made changes since 2020 when becca died. and they did have their account shut down in march. we reached out to peloton, disney plus and nbcuniversal, all of whom had no official comment. >> thank you so much for bringing it to us. and now a point of personal privilege from me. i am going to put it up on the screen. i have a book out today called "rough draft." for those of whou have bought it, thank you very much. it is a wild adventurous tumultuous sometimes scary sometimes funny bock about a childhood growing up in the news and where we are today with the news and the current situation we find ourselves in. if you are interested in it or learning more about it, there

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