white house language, cause panic. >> there was a real dissonance inside the hospital. >> it is hard to put into words what everybody on the front lines went through and i'm so glad you did in this new book called the "the desperate hours" . one hospital's fight to save a city on the front lines. thank you marie brenner, it is incredible. in the next hour, the white house covid czar joins us for a live interview. we pick up the coverage right now. good morning, it is 10:00 a.m. eastern time and 7:00 a.m. pacific time.

we look at the allies of former president trump. in the next hour, president biden meets with new mexico's president where immigration will be among the topics discussed. right now addressing the rising covid cases and with the highly transmissible new variant. we will speak with the coordinator. new and stunning images from a space telescope and what they could mean for the universe ahead. universe ahead. we begin this hour with what is expected to be another hour of explosive testimony from the january 6th committee. they will kick off the seventh

public hearing focused on the extremist groups that stormed to the capitals at stake and their ties to donald trump allies. it will be led by jamie raskin florida congresswoman stephanie murphy. there will be a spokesperson from the extremist group, the oath keepers. and stephen ayres who admitted storming the capital. he admitted saying it will be wild. another major focus will be taped testimony from pat cipollone who testified for several hours last week. he spoke to the committee after bombshell testimony from cassidy hutchison last month. >> he said something to the effect of, please make sure we

don't go to the capital, cassidy . we are going to get charge with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. >> joining us to start our coverage this hour. we have our national security contributor and the leader for the show. you have in exclusive interview with maryland senator jamie raskin. what did he tell you about what we can expect to see today. >> we expect to see the committee focus on how the mob was amassed at the capital that day. they will take us through the timeline starting with this meeting december 18th between trump with outside legal advisors and internal white house lawyers. it was described as one of the craziest meetings of the trump white house. it

was described as hot-blooded and intense. from there a december 19th tweet from donald trump himself telling people to be there and be wild on january 6th. that will be the focus of how the tweet percolated through white ring groups and to the actual insurrection on january 6th. part of the story will be what the former white house counsel, at the time, recalls from that meeting and others. i asked about the nearly 8 hours of testimony from pat cipollone. it's something the committee wanted badly and that they got last week. now they are watching real time as they amend their hearings to better incorporate that information. here is why. >> i was there for most of it and did not hear him contradict any other witness. well, i certainly didn't hear him contradict cassidy hutchinson. you know, i think

he had the opportunity to say whatever he wanted to say, so i didn't see any contradiction there. >> we will see him tomorrow in the hearing? >> you will be part with taped testimony. >> it's the first time we see the testimony from pat cipollone inc. in the hearings. the fact that he corroborated the broad strokes of everything we have heard from past witnesses in these hearings is notable. and the fact that he did not contradict any points of cassidy hutchison's testimony. one thing he may have been able to speak to is the idea that if she were to allow the president to go to the capital that they would be charge for every crime imaginable and that testimony is critical to the committee. >> indeed, this testimony comes

two weeks after the cassidy hutchison testimony. how pivotal was her testimony? >> well, i think the testimony was important in terms of continuing to attract the public's attention and prevent present new information that shows the american people and brings them into the room with what was happening and goes behind the scenes. in terms of building momentum and creating the sense of closing in on the truth, i think the committee was able to move the ball in that regard. it has been something they have been able to do throughout the hearings which is provide new, thorough, and sort of expensive accounts of what was going on. hearing from different people in different parts of the administration. today, what will be interesting will be the president of best tweet that was mentioned earlier. it is a tweet put out in

december of 2020 in which the former president basically said there would be a rally in washington and that it was going to be wild. it was the president's tweet that set off these militia groups to go and begin planning for january 6th. they really sort of galvanized them towards this event and help them attract more people to come. it will be interesting to see how the committee lays that out and can show the impact that the tweet had on the amount of people that came and what they came to washington to do and what they had in mind. >> yeah, if they are able to somehow tie in the tweet and a reaction specific to it, i think it would be incredibly significant. >> well, i think at the heart of the entire committee's work

showing the hand of donald trump and the role he played in assembling the mob and galvanizing the mob and leading the mob to do what they did, and in keeping with the anatomy of the mob, a key moment is this tweet from the president. the president had basically exhausted all the legal avenues he had tried. he tried everyone he basically had, and he failed everyone he had. he was unable to back up the allegations of fraud. at that point, i'm pretty sure the committee will make the argument that the president and his allies toward turn using the mob as their last way to up and and overturn the election results. >> what are you going to be looking for and today's hearing? >> i think the word of the day

is conversions which is a word that congressman raskin has been using. it is not just some sort of secret handshake. the committee will be looking to see if the proud boys and oath keepers and other conspiracy groups were connected to the trump administration and its allies. although not necessarily direct lee. we know, for example that mike flynn and roger stone have their own connections with the proud boys and they are considerable. on the evening of january 5th, the president asked mark meadows to call flynn and stone. what are the connections between those two? this is what i look for from the committee today. >> what do they need to tie together legally for a clear indication of the relationship?

>> one of the things i think folks have been talking about at the department of justice is to stop moving from the bottom up which is typically how the department of justice approaches a prosecution. to think of it as a hub and spoke. one thing i'm looking forward to today and the department of justice needs to show is to show that the president and his allies had the capacity for violence and the willingness for violence and through intermediary as they encouraged and stoked the violence to get them off to do what mike was referring to earlier, to be that apparatus where the legal avenues that they had pursued had failed. >> thank you so much, appreciate it. today it noon and 9:00 eastern time tune in right here on msnbc .

just over one hour from now, president biden will malcolm mexico's president. they will discuss migration and the southern border. this a month after the mexican leader skipped the summit because they do not invite the leaders from cuba, venezuela and necker wallowa. and now let's go to our correspondent at the white house, what are both sides hoping to get out of today's meeting? >> the president has a more ambitious agenda. he was speaking out of the window of his hotel room to supporters. he wants voluntary emigration with 300,000 work pieces per year for mexican nationals. he

is speaking on behalf of the undocumented immigrants here in the u.s. and get them legalized. and the other countries not invited to the summit is one of the reasons why he snubbed president biden at the summit. and senior administration officials have said there focus is more on that than specific numeric commitment. there are controversial topics and the u.s. wants energy and trade commitments with mexico. we will see what happens at the charged meeting today at the white house. >> it is interesting that there is no press conference between the two leaders after their meeting at the oval office. that is usually done when a

foreign leader is received at the white house. >> that's right. there was not a press conference the last time they met and no press conference this time. many think that both countries are trying to steer away from the controversy of the topics that i'm bringing up. asking why he snubbed his neighbor at the summit and trying to steer away from getting numbers on immigration and commitments on immigration. even from him saying that he would advocate with the u.s. to be light on a sentence of the founder of wikileaks. we know if the u.s. is not light on the sentence that the statue of liberty should be dismantled. there are controversial topics and they are clearly trying to steer away from them. >> and andres manuel lopez

obrador is not happy the united states is supporting ukraine and assaying the money should be headed to mexico and central america. and the administration extending temporary legal status for venezuelans in the u.s.. but thousands who arrived after march of 2021 will not be eligible. and bob bennett has criticized the physician in a strong statement saying that today's decision relegates hundreds of thousands of venezuelans into vulnerability and marginalization in the united states. why had they decided not to extend it until after march of 2021? >> it's a difficult decision for any administration two. one of the reasons is if they keep accepting the last venezuelan who came in, what

would stop the next one to come or for more venezuelans from leaving their home country for the united states. they put a limit which is what they are doing now amidst all of this controversy. >> thank you so much for being with us this morning. up next poll numbers reveal who voters do not want on the 2024 ticket. we look at the focus of both parties. we will chat in just a second. and later the white house covid czar, ashish jha breaks down the white house plan to attack the new variant spreading like wildfire. jose diaz-blart reports. jose diaz-blart reports. and the announcer? he's not checkin' his stats, he's finding some investing ideas with merrill. and third as you know in baseball means three.

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donald trump and 64% of democratic voters want to nominate someone other than joe biden. age and job performance are among the main reasons that democrats are looking for somebody else. but in the polls, donald trump still beats is beaten by joe

biden in head-to-head polls. he believes he can beat defeat donald trump. and joining us as the california congresswoman it's a pleasure to see you. 77% of americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction and the top concern is paychecks being squeezed by higher prices for gas, groceries and other items. what you tell people about the impact of rising prices? >> there is another president that president biden can draw inspiration from and that is harry truman. he needs to go out around the country fighting for working issues. he needs to make it clear we are up against a do- nothing republican senate and it do harm republican court. we

need to bring manufacturing back to america. the president is saying let's build solar manufacturing here and clean energy. republicans are blocking it. and the democrats want to tax big oil and the republicans are blocking it. that's how we are convinced the republican senate is to blame. >> what is it that president biden that you see needs to change? >> he's got to get out there and get out of the bubble. i've seen the president connect. when he is with working families, he connects. forget the horses in the race, let's talk about the issues. where is china bringing production back? there has to be a bill the passes the house and the senate to bring semi

conductors back here. mitch mcconnell is blocking that. the president has a plan to give us the lead on solar energy in a clean climate and congress is blocking that. the president wants to make sure women don't lose their rights and it's the republican supreme court taking it away. in poll after poll, there are issues. the republicans are standing in the way and if he goes like harry truman and campaigns against the supreme court and the senate, we are going to win in november. >> and you sit on the armed services committee and jake sullivan made news yesterday when he said iran is preparing to provide russia with several hundred drones that could potentially be used in ukraine, what is your reaction to that? >> we need to make sure that

those drones do not get to russia and make every effort to make sure that it is stopped. i have confidence that jake sullivan and the president will do that and have appropriate sanctions. >> is that something that would be further sanctions on iran? how would anybody stop iran from sending drones into russia ? >> well, look, this is why we needed the iran deal that was designed to prevent these kinds of things. if they are going to be taking that action, we need to look at escalating the consequences. it is something against the american interests and against international law. i don't see how anybody would be arming vladimir putin when he is murdering women and children in ukraine. they are making themselves more

and isolated state i taking this action. >> thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >> the biden administration is telling healthcare providers they must perform abortions if the life of the mother is at stake. a federal law dating to 1985 takes precedence over state laws banning abortion. this at the request to allow birth control pills to be sold over- the-counter. stephanie joins us with more. how soon could the fda have a decision on that. >> not as soon as people would like to have a decision. people are grappling with reproductive health with the supreme court decision to overturn roe v wade. they have been working on this for years and the timing of

this application is just coincidence. >> when the birth control pill was first approved, it ushered in a sexual revolution. >> the birth control pill provides women the choice. >> reporter: now asking the fda to approve and over the counter version just weeks after the overturning of roe v wade. in the decision, the supreme court said the right to contraception would not be impacted. but clarence thomas suggesting it should be. they started the process seven years ago and the timing is coincidental. >> do you think that women will go to the doctor less because they need no longer go to the doctor for the pill. >> there is concern that women go to the doctor because they need birth control. it's not right to hold birth control hostage with a prescription when not scientifically necessary just to get people into cs.

>> reporter: there is increased action on reproductive rights issues and potentially declaring a public health emergency over abortion. >> it is something i've asked the folks and the medical people in the administration to look at. do i have the authority to do that? what impact would it have? >> the american college of obstetricians and gynecologists is helpful. >> it will be helpful for everyone and certainly helpful for those marginalized in our country. >> and a prescription to get birth control pills could soon be a thing of the past. >> the process could take around 10 months and we are talking sometime next year although there is pressure to speed the process up. the biden administration will not add to the process and allow the fda to take it's time . still ahead, new calls to

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30 minutes past the hour. a frightening scene at a north carolina little league game when gunshots rang out during the tournament. >> get down! get down! . everybody get down! >> the coaches and kids hit the dirt in the chaotic scene. the good news is nobody was hurt. they are searching for the gunmen as well as the motive behind the shooting. meanwhile and you faulty mac taxes, amounting dispute over the release of the 77 minute video from the hallway camera from robb elementary school on the day of the shooting. according to the austin american statesman, the video shows the moment the gunman enters the school hallway and highlights the mistakes made

during lot enforcement handling the shooting. the chair of this house committee announced the panel will convene at 2:00 p.m. and you faulty mac on sunday. joining us now we have and investigative reporter from austin american. you seen the video i describe it is haunting . take us into what you saw. >> it's about 77 minutes in duration and it is, in fact haunting. you see the 18-year- old gunman entering rod elementary school unimpeded. carrion and ar-15, you see him turned to walk down the hall. he is not interrupted by anyone . although, i want to say there is a small child who appears to be exiting of bathroom and you

see the small child peek around the corner. when the gunmen makes it to the classroom, he opens a barrage of gunfire. according to the video, you can see a number of local police officers within about three minutes, arrive at the school and they do make and attempt to try to apparently enter the classroom. there is in exchange of gunfire and in the video, you see the law enforcement officers being flown back by the gunfire. what is striking and i think will be disturbing to people is that for the next hour, you see law enforcement in the hallway as they get more protective equipment and more firepower. yet, there is no effort in 12 12:50 p.m. and keep in mind the gunmen and did at 11:33. at 12 p.m. they go into the classroom and

take down the gunmen. >> does the video have audio? do we know? >> there is some audio on the video. you can hear the gunfire as the gunmen does open fire in that school. it is sad to say, and in fact it is disturbing that you can also hear screams. later, as law enforcement converges on that hallway, you cannot necessarily make out the entirety of what they are saying . i am told that law enforcement , as part of their investigation, is largely drawing on what can be heard audibly on body camera footage to create the timeline of exactly what happened. >> so, a couple of questions, you say he walks in with no interruption in the child peek

sober for just a second. >> right. >> when he opens into the school, how does he get into the door? does he literally just open the door? >> so, i want to say that when you see this that the classroom is a pretty far distance from this hallway mounted camera. you cannot exactly see what he does with regard to the door. what i can tell you is the point is ar-15 at the classroom and opens fire and then you see him walk into the classroom. the sound of gunfire continues for about two minutes or maybe two minutes more. officials say he fired more than 100 rounds during that time. >> it is just a tragedy.

how are the folks in you faulty mac doing? >> well, we hear that this is all just grief compounded by more grief. i do think there continues to be a strong pursuit of the full unabridged truths by the family members of the community and by people here in taxes and for that matter, across the country. people who want to know exactly what happened that day and hopefully take steps to stop it from ever happening the in. >> thank you so much for being here. we are following breaking news and nbc news has learned that a airstrike has killed the top isis leader. you are watching jose diaz- blart reports on msnbc. az

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it is 40 minutes past the hour and we are following breaking news. and isis leader has been killed in the u.s. airstrike. this is a big deal. >> reporter: it is actually a huge deal for the u.s. military and the u.s. central command that is been planning this strike for weeks according to u.s. if visuals. it may not be somebody americans have heard of as we have heard of the head of isis, but first off he was the number one isis leader in syria and also somebody planning attacks, according to u.s. officials, or attacks outside of syria. that could include attacking u.s. and western ally targets in syria and europe and even as

far as the united states. that is why it is a big deal. you don't know a lot about it other than it occurred in syria with the u.s. charone. he was the number one isis leader in syria it signed can unclear if the deputy was injured or killed but both were targeted in the strike earlier today in the northwest. >> when you say he was traveling with his number 2, does that imply he was mobile and in the house? >> that's the question i asked and i don't have any answer yet. the two of them were alone when struck and there were no reports of civilian casualties or others killed. when i first

heard from u.s. officials and hour or two ago, they were literally getting updates as they were occurring and i think we will get more information. turning now to japan where they said there vinyl good by to the former prime minister, shinzo abe. krause yelled his name as his body traveled through the streets for the funeral today. the suspect in custody and shinzo abe was the country's longest-serving prime minister . coming up photos taken by the james webb space telescope. more on how the images are looked on back in time by billions of years.

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it is 47 minutes past the hour and the white house announces a new plan to manage the omicron variant of covid. nationwide cases have increased 80% with the seven day average for new cases growing to more than 128,000 daily infections. those figures do not include the at-home tests many are using now. joining us is the white house covid-19 response coordinator, dr. ashish jha . what is the white house doing? >> we've been tracking the sub variant for weeks now. it is spread in other parts of the world and we have watched as it has become dominant in the united states. it is highly immune invasive meeting people are getting reinfected after being infected a few months ago. people who were boosted or

vaccinated five or six months ago, many are having breakthrough infections. the good news is that our vaccines, especially if you were vaccinated recently, a is doing a good job of keeping people out of the hospital. the big point is we have the tools to manage variant ba.5 . we want to prevent people from getting infected and people from getting sick and dying. >> people i know personally who have gotten covid in the past weeks, some of been hit pretty hard. thankfully no hospitalizations, but 14 days out of work. what do you see the summer being like ? >> it's important we cannot minimize the infections. thank god the people you know did not end up in the hospital because it's always critical. it can

have a big wallop and really knock people down. we know we have a set of tools for preventing and action. if you've been recently vaccinated, that's important. wearing masks indoors and ventilated spaces. improving indoor of the country where it' going to be very hot this e it' summer, people will spend a lot of time indoors, really have to do everything we can to try to keep infection level down in those places. >> doctor, let's talk a little bit about things like what we can and should be doing, because i've got the tell you, i don't see anybody wearing a mask. you go on an airplane, 80% of the folks don't -- aren't wearing a mask. is there something we could be doing? i'm thinking, also, people that are under 50 that can't get boosted, is that going to be changing soon? >> jose, let me talk about a few things americans can do right now. if you're over 50 and you have not gotten a shot this year, in

the year 2022, if you have not gotten a covid vaccine shot, you need to get one right now. that's the best thing you can do to protect yourself and prevent serious illness. for people under 50, we've been looking at the data, having conversations. whether those individuals become eligible for a fourth shot, that's an fda and cdc decision. i know fda and cdc are considering this. i expect we'll have a decision from them relatively soon, but we will see. obviously there are all the other things we can do to prevent infections. last wu not least, jose, one more important point, we've worked really hard to make treatments widely available. if you're over 50, you get infected, talk to your doctor. go to covid.gov and find a site. treatments are also a really important way of keeping people from getting very sick. >> so if you get treatment, get paxlovid, for example and get

covid now and you get covid in three months, then you can't do paxlovid? >> no, that's not true. >> no? >> no. if you get infected now and you get paxlovid -- anybody who is at elevated risk of a bad outcome should absolutely have that as a consideration. and then if you get another infection three, four months from now, that does not make you ineligible for paxlovid again. the truth is paxlovid is keeping people out of the hospital, keeping people from the icu and worse. we should be making sure that everybody who has got elevated risk has access to it. and that will continue. >> dr. ashish jha, thank you very much. clearing up a lot of questions i had. i'm sure a lot of folks watching do as well. appreciate your time, sir. thanks. >> thank you. any moment now nasa is set to release a set of stunning new images taken by the james webb space telescope. the first full color images

including data taken by the telescope offering the highest resolution view of the universe ever captured. take a look at this one, this image here released last night by president biden. it is so distant in the cosmos that it displays stars and galaxies as they appeared 13 billion years ago. it takes time to expose a picture. joining us is former nasa astronaut jose hernandez. i'm wondering when you see these images, what do you see? >> jose, man, i get so excited because to think that we have a picture, a window of how our universe was 13 billion years ago, and people say, well, how far is that, imagine the sun, between the earth and sun, 95 million miles away and the light takes 8 1/2 minutes to get here. that light took 13 billion years

to get here. we're seeing it as it was 13 billion years ago. imagine how far those galaxies were. pretty amazing stuff. >> i'm just wondering as the technology gets better and we're able to see those images, what do you think, jose, it means searching for signs for life beyond even earth or our solar system? >> first of all, we're uncovering it little by little because that picture you just saw, jose, is -- you say how much of the universe is ha? if you hold a grain of sand and hold it up in the sky, that's the area that that picture is covering. imagine how many more pictures we have to take to learn about our universe. i think it's great because this is going to uncover a lot of the mysteries of what our universe was and what perhaps it's going to be. it's going to help us understand

basically the creation of the universe and hopefully not the end of the universe. >> jose, just before i let you go, there's an upcoming film centered around your life. you're a hero to many of us. what a journey you've had, jose. i'm thinking that 10-year-old boy holding the antenna for your dad and mom so you could watch some space exploration firsts when you were working in the fields and you'd look up to the sky, how could you could imagine what you've accomplished. tell me a little bit about your american dream. >> absolutely, jose. america is great for the opportunities it offers for people that really want to work and move ahead. yes, i was a migrant farmworker with my parents, and it once until a second grade teacher told us to stay in one place that we made stops at our home and watching the last astronaut walk on the moon is what inspired me.

after 11 rejections from nasa, on the 12th try, i got selected. now there's a movie by amazon called "a million miles away" to be released in 2023 on the amazon platform. so thank you. >> jose, thank you very much. really appreciate it. all the best. >> thank you. before we go, congratulations in order for the rolling stones. the legendary band celebrates 60 years on the road starting today. the rockers played their first ever show in london's marquis club, july 12, 1962. they're still at it. take a look at these pictures from last night in brussels. they're on their 60 european tour right now. congratulations to the boys. mick jagger turns 79 this year. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can reach me on twitter and instagram, @jdbalart. thank you so much for the privilege of your time.

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good morning. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. we're just two hours out from the next hearing of the january 6th committee, and we're starting today with how the committee is pushing more open conversations at the justice department about former president trump's conduct.