right now on "andrea mitchell reports," donald trump today ignoring new january 6

committee evidence that he played a central role in a widespread plot to overturn the election. today lashing out at the panel without saying how he will respond to their subpoena. more behind the scenes footage of nancy pelosi and republican leaders while the rioters were running through the capitol to make sure the electoral count would survive the insurrection. tonight's debate in georgia. the first face-off between herschel walker and senator raphael warnock, with control of the senate hanging in the balance. joining me here, pennsylvania democratic candidate for governor josh shapiro on his race with republican election denier and january 6 protester at the capitol doug mastriano. fred guttenberg, the father of jamie, one day after a florida jury recommended the killer get life in prison, not the death penalty.

good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. the fallout from another january 6 hearing. including donald trump's reaction this morning. questions about why the secret service and the fbi appear to have ignored early warnings of violence. never before seen footage of house speaker nancy pelosi shot by her daughter, a documentary filmmaker, being told president trump wanted to come to the capitol. >> at the moment, he is not coming. but that could change. >> i hope he comes. i want to punch him out. >> i would pay to see that. >> i have been waiting for this, for trespassing on capitol grounds. i want to punch him out. i'm going to go to jail and i'm going to be happy. >> joining me now, ali vitali,

jonathan lemire and former florida congressman david jolly as well as former federal prosecutor paul butler. welcome all. ali, the committee wanted to make sure they told everyone this hearing was not the end of their work. what do we expect in the coming months before a new congress is sworn? we're waiting for an interim report and a final report, which would be presented at hearings. >> reporter: most likely would be presented at hearings, at least chairman thompson yesterday going into yesterday's hearing said that they could have information released sometime before the midterms. he said you could call that an interim report. it makes it sound like that's not going to be presented with a hearing if that's what the committee ends up doing. we know this is likely the last hearing before election day. once election day passes, this is a company turning its attention, yes, to subpoenaing the former president, that subpoena will officially go out early next week, i'm told, but also to their final report.

you have been right in the past to liken this to things like the 9/11 commission report, which will be published, the lasting testament of the committee's work. that's what's going to happen at some point in december. while this was the last investigative hearing from the committee, we do expect them to present their final findings in something that looks a little bit different format-wise than what we have seen from them in the past, but would be a public hearing of sorts, nonetheless. that is what they are pushing ahead to in december, even after they work through all of the lingering threads on what to do with the congressmen who are defying subpoenas. what will happen with the former president and what he ends up doing with his subpoena? of course, if they ultimately end up satisfying vice president mike pence as well, there has long been this view that as they have talked about trump and pence, they knew subpoenaing trump looks different than subpoenaing pence, especially when you have pence in the past

saying, if subpoenaed by the committee, he would consider coming before them to talk. we know from people liz cheney that they are having conversations with pence's counsel as well. >> a follow-up on the subpoena issue. for them to vote on it is one thing. it has to go to the house rules committee and the house floor. they did check in with nancy pelosi. they let you know that as you broke the story yesterday. clearly, they got the go ahead from her that they can get -- they have the majority in both the rules committee and on the floor right now. >> reporter: right. pelosi was given a heads up before the committee publically went to work yesterday in voting to subpoena the former president. but look, there are open questions about what happens if he openly defies this. we have seen them decide in some cases to move on criminal contempt referrals to enforce

their subpoena power. we have seen them decline to do that. we have seen in the cases of mark meadows and peter navarro and others, steve bannon, that they have moved those criminal contempt referrals. then when it comes to the other ones, we haven't seen them go that route. we will see what happens with trump when he gives a response. >> indeed. jonathan lemire, president trump posting the letter he is sending to chairman thompson. it's a string of a dozen of his false claims. we have heard them many times over the last two years. he continues to defend the rioters. that's interesting. despite the footage in the last year, all the evidence. >> yeah. it's 14 pages. we should note, many are just pictures. former president does issue a response. it's notable what he doesn't address. he doesn't address the subpoena. he doesn't address the unanimous vote. he makes no mention whether he would be willing to testify in front of the january 6

committee. there was reporting around mar-a-lago circles last night that perhaps he would, he would want the opportunity. people i have talked to say that's highly unlikely he would be authorized or permitted to go talk. there's no good in it. we know trump had suggested just as one example that he would sit down with robert mueller and then backed away from that. he likes to say things but doesn't follow through. in terms of what is in the letter, it's a defense of the rioters. it's a defense of the size of the crowd on the ellipse in the minutes before the riot at the capitol. it's a repetition of his totally debunked claims about election fraud. in short, it's the big lie over and over. it's trump not giving an inch. he has not changed despite the revelations and, frankly, effectiveness of the january 6. trump is not changing his story one bit. which is not a surprise. but certainly comes as a dismay to some republicans who are in the stretch run of the campaign.

this is last thing they want to talk about. >> david jolly, i want to play more of the footage -- new footage we saw last night. these highlight mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy with democratic leaders as all of this was unfolding. >> this cannot be just, we are waiting. we need them there now. whoever you got. >> pretend for a moment it was the pentagon or the white house or some other entity that was under siege. logistically get people there. you have some leadership of the national guard there. they have not been given authority to activate. >> david, that's a great illustration of what was going on behind the scenes. them working together yet they refused to impeach the president.

they knew at the time exactly what was going on, how he was playing that central role and not calling them off. >> yeah, andrea, two powerful elements to that video. one is it lays to rest the republican argument that nancy pelosi did nothing to try to enhance security, that somehow she was responsible for a lax security posture. secondly, the most powerful thing is, guess who is not addressing the violence that's occurring in that moment, and it's donald trump. you see leaders from both parties saying, this is a grave matter of national security, our republic is at risk, the capitol could fall. the one person who is watches, rooting it out, who could restore calm and add his voice to that is donald trump. the power of the january 6 committee, we did not know going in the story. but they chose to leave a searing indictment of donald trump as the actor behind all of this, who laid the predicate,

issued the invitation, gave the charge to go to the capitol. in the face of violence, did nothing while the speaker and leader and majority leader and minority leader of the senate were trying to stop it. the january 6 committee, whatever their fate, however the controls of congress go on november 8, has left a searing indictment of donald trump for the american people to consider. >> i want to bring in donald harbin, former chief of homeland security and intelligence. let's turn to this big concern that congressman schiff presented in his portion of the hearing yesterday about the secret service's knowledge of what was being planned informed as well by the fbi before the insurrection. they had a lot of warnings, specific warnings and tips. you know, what do you make of that and of them not acting on that intelligence? >> i think it substantiates all

we have been saying for some time. the intelligence was out there. it was shared. it was -- there was a lot of intelligence. the fact that they didn't move on that i find disappointing. there's a report the secret service met with both leadership. all this and they knew there were weapons in the crowd. they planned to bring weapons and there were weapons that day. i never met with a secret service intelligence person. we shared the information but i think that the january 6 committee is doing its job in bringing to light all the intelligence that was there and the failure to heed that intelligence. >> in fact, julia ainsley had confirmed there were a lot of contacts between rhodes, the head of the oath keepers, and the secret service. they are claiming that was routine. when protest groups are coming to washington, they let local authorities know how many are

coming, where they can be, to establish parameters. is that correct from your experience? >> it's routine if you don't have the backdrop with the information that rhodes and his group are bringing guns and planning on infiltrating the capitol, that they are planning on stopping the electoral problem, sharing information with other violent groups about how to penetrate the capitol and sharing maps and tactical plans on where to cache weapons and have a quick response force. it's routine if you don't have that other stuff in the background, but you do. i would love to hear what that conversation was like and what was exchanged to walk away from a conversation with a known hate group that's planning on coming to the capitol to do what everyone knew they were planning on doing, because there were saying it out loud in open source social media. it boggles the mind.

i'm still stunned. >> i want to just put a point on this. from julia's posting, she also quotes frank figliuzzi, former fbi. he says, it's common prior to events, which is what the secret service said to her today. but for law enforcement to talk to potential protest groups, with acting groups, that's one thing, but regular contact with a militia group raises a lot of concerns, which mirrors what you are saying. let me bring in paul butler. we have seen how the criminal referrals for steve bannon and mark meadows played out. do you expect similar referrals of key trump allies now? it would subject there would be possible obstruction looked at from the hearing itself. are we in a different phase of the process? >> i think with some key witnesses, the house panel has to figure out very quickly what it wants to do. with donald trump on the other

hand, he is never going to appear before that panel and answer questions. the only real suspense is whether trump will dis congress by ignoring the subpoena or whether he will try to fight it in court. ignoring it is consistent with the disrespect for the legal process that trump has demonstrated. but there are interesting constitutional issues that trump might want to get before the supreme court. not that he has a winning record. the conservative justices might be sympathetic to the separation of powers issue that his subpoena issues. but, frankly, the house itself doesn't have great options for enforcing any of the subpoenas at this point. it could vote to hold trump in contempt and then refer the case to the department of justice for possible criminal prosecution. but that would take more time than the committee has. it's unlikely that trump would ever appear and that doj would prosecute trump for contempt in

any event. >> of course, he already, yesterday, commented online on his social media that, why didn't they do this a long time ago, and other people are saying they should have voted on the subpoena before now. we will have to leave it there for today. ali, jonathan, david, paul, donald, thanks to you. the big face-off. the one and only debate in the georgia senate race is just hours from now. what the candidates are saying and what to expect next. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc. orts." this is msnbc. this is the moment. for a treatment for moderate-to-severe eczema. cibinqo — fda approved. 100% steroid free. not an injection, cibinqo is a once-daily pill for adults who didn't respond to previous treatments. and cibinqo helps provide clearer skin and less itch. cibinqo can lower your ability to fight infections,

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controls the senate. joining us now, ellison barber in georgia where the debate will take place, sara riggs, who ran for senator in georgia and eugene daniels. welcome all. ellison, a new poll shows the race unchanged despite the negative headlines against herschel walker. what are you expecting tonight? this is the first time they have a chance to go at each other. >> reporter: first time we have seen them debate and likely the only debate we will see in this race. it's going to be interesting. there are a lot of topics that will likely get addressed. warnock's campaign manager said the senator will try to lay out for voters how they say he is fighting for all georgians in washington, d.c. and he will highlight some of the bipartisan legislation he has worked on. he will push to have walker defend what he and his campaign see as walker's out of step positions and lies.

a source close to walker's campaign tells us walker will focus on the economy. he will talk about crime. he will try to tie warnock to president biden. that source told me walker will try to push warnock and demand he explain why he talks about being an independent senator but votes with biden 96% of the time. the two have very different positions on abortion. we expect that to come up. warnock is a supporter of abortion rights. he talks on the campaign trail about how he believes that there's not enough room in the doctor's office for the doctor, the patient and the united states governor. walker is an opponent of abortion rights. in the primaries, he said he supported an all out abortion ban, no exceptions. he since walked that back and said he supports georgia's controversial heartbeat bill which includes some exceptions. walker's personal issues are heavily looming over this debate. it's hard to see a world where the moderators do not ask him about that allegation that he encouraged a former partner to

have two abortions and he paid for one of them. >> republicans have stood firmly behind walker this week. it seems the negative headlines have not hurt him, at least in this polling. we don't know yet how the voters are responding though. >> that's true. here in georgia, we know there's a clear choice between senator warnock and herschel walker. time and time again, herschel walker has shown us that he has the absolute inability to tell the truth with simple things, whether where he studied and if he graduated from college. the kinds of businesses that he ran and their success. the number of children he has. time and time again, herschel walker has lied to georgians. meanwhile, senator warnock has been in washington delivering for the people of georgia, whether that was the chips act to protect our auto industry and ev battery industry or the american rescue plan or the

bipartisan infrastructure package. there could not be a clearer contrast here in georgia. i think the consistent polling showing warnock ahead in the race demonstrates that georgians know what will be best for our state. it's not herschel walker. >> eugene, why do you think the polling -- a new poll shows inflation is the most urgent issue facing georgians, 43% say that inflation is most important, abortion lower at 14% and you are just back from georgia. what is your take on how this race is going? >> when you talk to voters, one of the first things they bring up is the economy. that's always going to be true, especially when people don't feel like the economy is going in their way, that things are much more expensive for them, especially black georgians that i talk to. a lot of them over the last five days when i was in georgia, they didn't really bring up abortion. they did bring up the fact that they think that this debate

we're going to see tonight probably isn't going to change a lot of minds. so much of who herschel walker is very baked in and has been for a while, the same thing with raphael warnock. i talked to a strategist yesterday. they told me that -- they said, eugene, warnock -- herschel walker has kind of shown people who he is. both republicans and democrats. republicans want to win back the senate. you are not going to see people running away from him. this debate, even as herschel walker has set expectations very low for himself coming into today, that is not going to change a lot of minds. when you talk to those voters about, have you seen raphael warnock, do you want to see him attack walker, they don't. that's not something we will see. he stayed out of that fray, being the reverend that he is, talking about that it's his issue and that his candidate --

the other candidate has a little bit of an issue with the truth, but not attacking him like other democrats are. you are not going to see that change. >> eugene, just to follow up on that, is anyone focusing on the fact that herschel walker has so much difficulty talking about issues, answering substantive questions? he keeps ducking them, it seems. >> yeah. they say that he doesn't have a grip on policy, these voters tell me, that they see him as someone in kind of the vein of very obviously of donald trump, who is running as a celebrity candidate, someone with a personality and history of being in the public eye as opposed to someone who really cares about policy. that's something that is probably not -- that's probably not going to change tonight either. >> so fascinating. we will be watching. ellison, sara and eugene, thanks to you.

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his 14-year-old daughter was gunned down. joining us now is fred guttenberg. i know this has been incredibly emotional. three-month trial. i watched you yesterday reacting in real time to the verdict. tell me what you were feeling when the foreman -- by the time they got to jamie, i guess you knew what was going to happen. >> yeah. she was number 16. first, hi, i'm happy to see you again. it's been a bit, because i have been in the trial for the past three months. out of respect for the process and respect for the jury, i have chosen to be doing no interviews while this trial was happening. for the past almost five years, i have prepared myself mentally and physically for this day. so i thought i was prepared to

hear anything yesterday. but i think that may well have been because i expected to hear the death sentence. i realized yesterday, i wasn't prepared to hear something else. i sat through that trial with these jurors. if there was a day i wasn't there, i listened to it later on in the day. every word of testimony i heard. how there could have been a juror who sat through that trial and didn't come to the conclusion that this is the most acceptable use of the death penalty ever is beyond me. they all agreed the state proved the case. they all agreed with all the aggravators. and yet, somebody came into that process determined to say no. >> we should point out that the defense lawyers were arguing the shooter had brain damage as a result of fetal alcohol

syndrome. do you think that was enough to mitigate it? obviously, you don't. >> it isn't. they argued it. in fact, their witnesses fell apart under cross examination. the state put on witnesses showing that actually had nothing to do with this. i would also say to every single human being who suffers with mental illness, who may have a parent who had mental illness, that doesn't make you a mass shooter. the defense's implication that we should blame what this evil human being did to my family and 16 others on that is something that i will forever have anger about, because it had nothing to do with it. he is an evil human being who wanted to kill, who planned to kill, who still sits in his jail

cell thinking of people he wished he could kill. that testimony also was put on in the trial. so, no, the defense failed to prove their case. there was a juror who, for whatever reason, was determined to say no. it only took one. >> how do you move on from here? >> that's a great question. i actually was talking to a friend of mine this morning who asked me that. i told them for the first night in months last night, i slept through the night. maybe the reason is, i didn't have anxiety over what the testimony would be or the outcome. maybe the fact that i slept last night also means it's time to turn the page, close that chapter. he will go to a general population in a prison now.

he will have to deal with the consequences coming directed at him from other prisoners. i will put him out of my consciousness for the rest of my life until i read a news report the other prisoners handled it. >> fred guttenberg, we are not mentioning his name deliberately on any of our coverage. >> thank you. >> we think of jamie as a 14-year-old, a brilliant dancer, a beautiful child, growing young woman. >> she is. >> she lives on in all the ways that you have presented her to us. thank you, fred. >> she was the best. i miss her every second of every day. >> our hearts are with you. >> thank you. coming up next, we will turn back to politics. the keystone state, the split there, pennsylvania's attorney general who is running for the governor's office, the subject

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deniers -- across the country in battleground states, which will be critical coming up in 2024. >> you know, andrea, i'm running against by far the most dangerous and extreme candidate in the entire country. we know where he was on january 6. he was part of that violent mob that breached police lines. when the police held up steel barricades, the violent mob he was with ripped it out of the hands of law enforcement and kept on marching. police died that day. in the days thereafter. it's one of the reasons why so many in law enforcement have rejected my opponent and support me. there's a reason why he was there that day on january 6. it wasn't to hear a speech or peacefully protest. he was there to stop the votes of pennsylvanians from being counted in the last election. it's not just what he did in the past. it's what he has pledged to do in the future. he said he would use his power

as governor to review the voting logs in 2024 and, quote, decertify certain voting machines around pennsylvania. those are his words, not mine. his point is that he can use his power as pennsylvania governor to decertify enough voting machines so he gets to pick the winner. i will be damned if i'm going to let him thwart the will of the people. i battled against the former president over 40 times in court back in 2020 to protect the votes of the good people of pennsylvania. we won every lawsuit. we stopped them from stealing the election. i'm not going to let doug mastriano take away the vote and voice of the good people of pennsylvania. >> let me ask you about another issue, which is anti-semitism. he has been going after the jewish day school that you have your children attending. he says he rejected anti-semitism in any form, but that's only after he was criticized for paying a consultant who runs an

anti-semitic website to be a consultant on his campaign and share to followers. how big do you think anti-semitism is an issue for pennsylvania voters? >> let's examine his record. he has made clear that unless you think like him, unless you look like him, unless you worship like him, unless you marry like him, then you don't count in doug mastriano's pennsylvania. he is extremely dangerous. i want to be a governor that brings all people together, no matter what you look like or where you come from, who you love or who you pray to. he is someone -- the only candidate in the nation who is actively recruiting white supremacists to be part of his campaign. he is actively recruiting people on a website known as gab, which i know it was used by the killer in the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh and murdered 11 people while they worshipped.

that's where the republican nominee is going for support. he routinely uses racist slurs and anti-semitic slurs. he, of course, is a candidate who stood on the grounds of the u.s. army war college just a few years ago, wearing the uniform of the confederacy. that's the uniform of the traitors, the uniform of those who went to battle to defend slavery. that is who he is. he has shown us time and time again that he is someone who is trying to exclude certain pennsylvanians from the conversation. i'm trying to bring pennsylvanians together and make sure that they are part of our collective future. >> you have a problem in pennsylvania as a candidate, a democratic candidate, where the president, even though he used to be so strong in pennsylvania, is not as popular as he used to be. inflation is much stickier than

anyone projected, especially the white house. costs are going up. a lot of problems that are headwinds for democratic candidates. how do you deal with that? >> first off, i don't look to washington, d.c. for answers or information. i look to washington county, pennsylvania. i take my cues from inside our great commonwealth. i'm focused on the issues that matter most to the good people of pennsylvania, including how we can cut costs. obviously, the governor and legislature didn't create inflation. those are broader national, international, geopolitical issues. we have a responsibility to address it. it's why i put forth a concrete plan months ago on eliminating nuisance taxes in the commonwealth, like cellphone taxes, help seniors stay in their home, a gas tax rebate for those who own a car to put money back in their pocket. we have to make it easier for pennsylvanians to deal with rising costs. as for the political issues happening in washington, d.c., i pay no attention to that.

i'm focused on building a broad coalition here in pennsylvania. this say campaign built of, by and for the good people of pennsylvania. it's one of the reasons why we're so proud to have a campaign that includes not just incredible support from within our democratic party, but independents and republicans who continue to join our campaign as well. they recognize we can bring people together and tackle these big challenges. >> attorney general josh shapiro running for governor, thank you very much. we have an open invitation for doug mastriano, the republican, to join us if he so wishes at any time. battleground wisconsin. chuck todd joins us into why wisconsin is a critical state to watch in this year's midterms. a shocking seen at london's national gallery.

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wisconsin voters have geographical, political and cultural divides, making their elections true toss-ups. that's why our chuck todd went there. you dug deeper into the mystery of wisconsin. >> before donald trump. before donald trump there was polarization in this country. there was scott walker in wisconsin. >> remember those capitol rallies and protests. >> in fact, that state, all these folks, i can't tell you how many people i talked to and, boy, they thought that was the most divisive moments in politics. now those who fought each other think, boy, those were the good

old days. i got all these folks to say -- first, is wisconsin patient zero? they agreed that it is. the problem in wisconsin and why it's not solved, here's the big conclusion i've come to -- >> let me show the voters you talked to. >> fair enough. >> i think about tommy thompson. those were really arguably the good old days. it's when there was a republican governor and a democratic legislature. i believe divided government creates a different way -- >> you notice it these four years. >> it's the difference between do i listen to you, do i work with you or do i bring you a take-out meal and tell you this is what we're having? >> america is very polarized. wisconsin, patient zero, do you accept that? >> yeah. look back even before i was in

office. go back to 2000, the difference between george w. bush and al gore and then bush and kerry, it was less than one vote per ward. >> it's fascinating to look at them now, scott walker now. >> it really is. scott walker was seen as this divisive figure. i brought back to him he's the one that got out of the presidential race to try to stop donald trump. it's yesterday's divisive figure might be today's bridge builder. >> the senate debate there. >> here's what i determined coming away from wisconsin. it was after talking with a lot of folks. i mean it was tommy thompson, jim doyle. two irish guys in a bar, where else do you want to have that conversation? when you're so closely divided and you lose, you don't accept

you did anything wrong. when you lose a 59/41 race, you think if i just ran one more ad or this or that. even when you lose, you think, oh, but i can win next time. in wisconsin that does happen. you find that swing voter that swings, although the real swing voter is somebody who decides between voting and not voting. here's what you don't get, you don't get a party that says are we doing this right? did we lose because we had the wrong message? when you lose closely, both parties decided, we're right. they're wrong. let's register another voter. >> when you look at the senate races around the country, nobody is saying, wait a second, are we doing this wrong?

are we not thinking about the issues? one thing that's notable is the party is putting money into sherry beasley's race. i said why is the democratic party not supporting some of these races where you could win? >> three races they're ignoring -- ohio, north carolina and florida. it's the mindset. the democratic party looks at some of these states and say we can go to 47. we don't know how to get to 50. so we walk away. the republican party looks at virginia or colorado, we can't get past 47. let's see if we could get a different candidate. >> mcauliffe agreed with me. >> i don't get it. when val demings is at 48 and she loses by a point, are they going to wonder if they spent a dollar or three dollars.

in north carolina, they missed a two-month period where what they were able to do to dr. oz, which is why fetterman is surviving, they dug a deep hole for oz. they did it in pennsylvania. they didn't in north carolina and it may be too late. >> chuck todd, we'll watch all of this on "meet the press reports." you have so many titles. i try to keep them straight. the new episode of "meet the press reports" is available on demand. of course, you can always catch chuck todd at 4:00 eastern on nbc news now and on sunday. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow us on facebook and online. have a great weekend.

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