♪♪ good day. happy thanksgiving. i'm chris jansing in new york city. this hour, frustration within the january 6th committee. new reporting on liz cheney and her focus on former president trump. what committee staffers are reportedly worried about as the panel preps its final report. also this hour, we are live on the scene of those two recent mass shootings.

two communities reeling after senseless agents of gun violence just before this thanksgiving holiday. families marking the day without their loved ones. an update on the busy post-pandemic holiday travel, the weather you can expect throughout the country and a live report from the macy's thanksgiving day parade route. we begin with that turmoil within the january 6th committee. the focus of the frustration, company vice chair liz cheney. "the washington post" is reporting that current and former committee staff members are raising red flags over her overwhelming focus on former president trump for the committee's final report. joining me now, ali vitali and harry lipman. this builds off a report from earlier this month which said the former president was expected to be much of the focus of the final report. he is now pouncing on this new

"washington post" story, slamming congresswoman cheney. what do we know about what's happening behind the scenes as the committee gets ready to present a final report to the nation? >> surprise, surprise, on the former president's reaction here, not shocking that he is not a fan of congresswoman cheney. of course, this is someone who put her career on the line and will now be leaving congress in a matter of weeks because of the fact that she was one of the few republicans to stand up and point the finger at donald trump for the role he played with january 6. i think it's also not surprising, as we get into the waning weeks, where they are writing the final report, to have these conversations about what's going to be in and not in. they have four teams looking into multiple prongs of what happened on january 6. it's everything from the fund-raising pieces of this to the militia groups, extremist groups. of course, trump himself, the focal point of all of the hearings that we saw over the course of the summer and into the fall. we shouldn't be surprised that a large part of the focus of this

final report is going to be on the former president and based on my reporting and understanding of the committee over the course of the last year, yes, congresswoman cheney is one of the key people who have been consistently driving the committee to focus on the former president. but it's also inevitable that the focus would be on trump, given the fact that he was the president on that day, the person continuing to perpetuate the election denialism across the country. it makes sense the focus is on him. what our reporting has been and what "the post" has built upon is the idea he is a focus and other thing wills be left off the table. the other thing,while there's frustration around cheney. what could end up happening -- the conversations i have had with committee members is there's a push for transparency here. will they release the transcripts in full? will they post things to the website? there are ways they can put this information out there.

it doesn't just have to be in the final report. there's a bunch of different ways to do this. we don't know what it will look like. the other thing we are looking ahead to is they have teased the potential for some hearing when they do put this final report out. there's a bunch of different mediums they can message this out through. i think this is sort of like the swell before we actually see them come out with this report that will be trump focused. duh. but also have other things that are a part of it, too. >> in terms of what we might learn, we talked a lot in the months around the january 6th committee, about the difference between what they're doing and their ultimate goal to release this report and what doj is doing. many of the same witnesses. obviously, many of the same facts. and yet, the question there is whether or not it will lead to some criminal charges. are there things potentially that doj would not want them to release for one reason or another? >> you know, information is information, chris. i don't think they care if it's released. but i think ali is dead on.

this is a really unsurprising story. there are people in washington, they gave up important, high paying jobs to come for the most important work of their lives. they are on the purple team or the green team. vice chair cheney is actually very unusually deciding what's going to be in there, not leaving it to the staff. very understandable they are chagrinned about it. this has to be the call of the representatives. and i think just as ali says, it makes all the sense in the world. there's a scandal about the fbi. there's the funding piece. there's the terrorist piece. this is the most important dereliction in presidential power in our history. if this report is sprawling and tries to be too much to too many people, i think it's going to really blunt its effectiveness. i think her firmness in sticking to the trump trope is sensible

and predictable, even if there are staffers behind the scenes now chagrinned and talking to "the washington post." >> i want to mention the reporting less than 24 hours ago from "the new york times" that federal prosecutors want to question former vice president mike pence as part of their january 6 investigation. is there any valid claim of executive privilege here? should former president trump try to step in to slow down any potential talks pence is reportedly open to? where do you see this going? >> the short answer is, no. pence says he is open to considering it. that's nice because at the end of the day, he has to do it. there's issues of waiver. biden said it's okay. at the end of the day, he's important evidence and the law will be that has to yield to any claim of executive privilege, which there probably isn't at all. it's a funny -- it's a very typical washington story. pence wants to be able to sort

of be there but not at the knife point of the department. it's a big test of jack smith. he wants to move quickly. how much will they do this sort of dance? at what point do they say, mr. vice president, it's time to show up? he is going to try to have some kind of voluntary appearance rather than subpoena, for example. that could work out. unless it takes too long. then you will see doj pushing the issue. >> i think you could argue both sides, doj and the january 6 committee, have time lines. doj doesn't want to get too close to the presidential election. but then you have a very real time line at the end of this session of congress for the january 6 committee. are you hearing any angst, any concern within the committee that it's just not enough time, ali? >> they never felt like they had enough time, which is to say, they were still actively fact

finding, they are still talking to people. we have reported, i think just last week, they had just brought in bobby engle, one of the key secret service agents that can speak to what happened on january 6, what the former president was doing, make potentially corroborating some of the things that cassidy hutchinson said in her explosive testimony. all of those pieces are still actively coming together. the question that you and i have talked about before, chris, but that i regularly ask members on the committee is, at what point do you stop actively fact finding and just accept at this point you know what you know, you have a strong narrative here that you have bolstered with a lot of evidence and you can release that to the public and show a good public accounting of what happened on january 6? there's a lot of threads that are still kind of hanging out there unresolved. i know pence was asked to appear. he says he is closing the door on that. it's a lot harder to close the door on the department of justice than it is on a congressional committee. it's entirely possible that his openness there ends up yielding to something that he does go in

and speak to them. it's a different investigation and the nature of it is different. there's also the hanging threads about subpoenas they put out to sitting members of congress on the republican side, five of them, who ignored the subpoenas and now are going to be in the position of wanting to do their own investigations with their own subpoenas. you sort of end up in a situation where the shoe is on the other foot. it's why several republican members initially voted for contempt referrals for people like steve bannon because they wanted to show a congressional subpoena has teeth and should be respected and enforced so when they had subpoena power they would actually get people to obey their subpoenas. republicans are now in a situation where they ignored january 6 committee subpoenas and some of those same lawmakers are going to be issuing their own subpoenas, potentially to democrats, potentially to members of the bidn administration. there's a precedent if you think it's too partisan, it can be ignored and fought in court. that's something i'm looking forward to.

what happens in this next congress? >> the plot thickens. thank you. news today in the wake of the two recent mass shootings. president biden says he is eyeing the current lame duck session of congress to potentially pass new gun legislation, including a ban on assault weapons. >> the idea -- the idea we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick. it's just sick. it has no, no social redeeming values. zero. none. not a single solitary rationale for it except profits for gun manufacturers. >> those comments as we are learning more about the victims in virginia whose deaths have left families and friends devastated this thanksgiving holiday. we are learning more about the gunman responsible for this horrific act. what's the latest there, julie? >> reporter: at this hour, all

morning we have families, community members, people who weren't even in this walmart coming to lay flowers, a memory leave to remember those six people who senselessly lost their life on tuesday night. there's also a 16-year-old boy who lost his life by the gunman. all of these people were employees of the walmart behind me. the gunman, of course, that we learned an overnight manager who worked at the company for 12 years. literally, every minute we have people walking up here, community members. i spoke to one woman who works at a walmart an hour away who said she had to come because this can happen anywhere. that's the message we are hearing all morning. in terms of the investigation here, there are officers around the clock, even though this is a holiday, working to process the scene. it could take a couple days for hem to find what the motive was here. we know that the gunman, an

employee himself, ended up killing himself after he shot those victims, we know that all the victims that died were employees of the store. we don't know however why he did it. why he chose tuesday night, two days before thanksgiving, to do so. you can see people laying flowers for those who lost their lives. it's that day here on thanksgiving when people should gather with family, now some of them going to have six empty chairs at the dinner table. i should note, there are four that are still in the hospital, including one in critical condition. >> julie, thank you for that. up next, a biting and stark editorial from the "denver post" after the shooting in colorado. the woman for one congresswoman, stop the intolerance. we will be live in colorado springs. 1,000 tips but no suspect. police investigate the murder of four college students in idaho. >> we have told the public clearly from the beginning that

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the 22-year-old accused of fatally shooting five people at a coloradolgbtq nightclub will remain in jail without bond. he sat slumped during his first court appearance. today, as devastated families of those victims spend this thanksgiving without their loved ones, calls are growing for things to change. right wing media figures and congresswoman lauren boebert are doubling down on dangerous

homophobic rhetoric. boebert was called out for hateful speech writing, words matter. joining me now from colorado springs is nbc's steve patterson. five more families with empty chairs at the table this thanksgiving. what are we hearing from the victims' loved ones? >> reporter: just a particularly difficult time, especially right before a holiday. unimaginable loss. unimaginable tragedy for these families. really just heartbreaking for the community in general. colorado springs, a place where from what we have heard, there aren't that many safe places for the lgbtq community. this one behind me was not only the biggest, it was the brightest. it was thought to be the safest one and have that taken away, especially with a lot of

families in this community, a place where that would be a welcome space to gather if somebody didn't have a family, i think it's that much more difficult, especially here in this community. then for the families, my gosh, i think there's this assumption that i had as well -- not having a tragedy of this level in my life -- to where you would assume that mourning comes immediately. covering the mass shootings i have covered, i can say that, there's a period of shock first. you expect that family member to walk through the door in every room you are in. that's what was explained to me with the mother of raymond green vance, the 22-year-old killed inside the nightclub just a few days ago. i spoke to his family, his mother. the pain, the loss, of course, difficult to hear. i think important to hear. here is what they told me.

>> it's very hard to know that raymond, who was always happy, was a happy man, he was always thinking of doing things, joining the air force. never wanted anything from anybody. he was a free spirit. >> reporter: i want to plug something if i can. my colleague maura barrett, she's doing a story on "nightly news" tonight, about what i was speaking about, how they will get through this and what's being done to sort of commemorate not only the lives that were lost but to celebrate and try to remember them in that way as well. that's tonight. this community is still broken. from what everybody told me, it will heal. >> i hope we can show that tomorrow.

thank you for working on this thanksgiving day. idaho police looking into reports that one of the four college students who were brutally murdered may have had a stalker. officials acknowledge in spite of conducting extensive interviews, they have not been able to confirm those reports. in fact, they are reporting little information, even while sifting through more than 1,000 tips. with fear and frustration growing in moscow, police still have no suspect and no motive. nbc has this. >> reporter: for the family members of the four students brutally stabbed to death nearly two weeks ago, this will be a thanksgiving filled with grief. >> devastating for the community. >> reporter: a city official emotional about the toll the case has taken. >> moscow is my home.

i know we won't be defined by tragedy but how we respond to it. >> reporter: with no suspects named or arrested, frustration is growing, including among family members who worry investigators fell behind during the crucial 48 hours of the case. >> we all want to understand why this happened. >> reporter: others are raising concerns about the lack of information coming from officials, though police say protecting the integrity of the investigation is a top priority. >> we don't want to put our investigation in jeopardy by releasing what we have. >> reporter: police say the case is complex. involving more than 100 personnel from local, state and federal agencies. they have conducted 150 interviews and processed more than 100 pieces of evidence and more than 1,000 tips. police also looked into reports of kaylee having a stalker, receiving hundreds of pieces of information on the topic. they haven't been able to identify a stalker. >> we obtained information through some interviews that kaylee made comments about a stalker. we have not been able to corroborate it. we're not done looking into that piece of information.

>> reporter: the university is upping security for the foreseeable future. until the killer is found, police are advising vigilance, traveling in pairs and awareness. >> maybe we should as a community have always been doing that. this took our innocence. >> reporter: a loss of innocence, safety and four young lives. joining me, retired seattle police chief car men bestin. thank you for being here today. i want to play something else officials had to say at the press conference yesterday when they were asked why they aren't releasing more information. take a listen. >> there's always a balance between what you are willing to release versus what you are trying to gather. we have told the public very clearly from the beginning that we are looking for a knife. we have told the public very clearly from the beginning that we believe it was a targeted attack. i mean, to be honest, you are going to have to trust us.

we're not going to release why we think that. >> you are going to have to trust us. for a lot of residents of moscow, who worry this investigation is going nowhere fast, and frankly, who have only heard from police three times in 11 days, even though they are on edge, a lot of college students who left and may not come back, was that the right message? >> first, chris, let me say happy thanksgiving. it's coming on the heels of a violent last couple of weeks, including this latest set of murders in moscow, idaho. the police -- while the public wants to know what happened and officers want to be as transparent as possible, they do have to hold some of that information close to the vest, so to speak. this isn't a case where the suspect has been identified as is the case in some of the other mass shootings we have had over the last couple of weeks. there's going to be a lot of information that they're going to have to sift through and try to ascertain what happened.

the fact that there were two people in the home that were unharmed, there's no apparent forced entry, there was a dog in the home. did anybody hear the dog barking? they're going to have to try to figure out first what happened. start with people who were there. then they're going to be looking at all digital evidence. what's on the cellphones of the people who lived there? what were the places they were? what's the digital footprint? what camera information can they get from neighbors or where they were last seen? there's a lot to sift through. they called in the federal investigators. these are experienced law enforcement officials. they can't make arrests until they have probable cause. they're not going to put that information out there early on. i know that has to be frustrating. i am very curious about some of the things that went on here. but there's going to be a lot to ferret out. it takes time. it's not an instant who done it.

they have to have probable cause. >> understanding this could be a complex case -- there's a lot from the outside looking in, granted, outside looking in that doesn't seem to make sense. for example, did the dog barking not wake up the other people who were in the house? how did the other people in the house not hear what was happening when it was clearly a violent attack? lots of questions. they have conducted 150 interviews. they have processed just over 100 pieces of evidence. they have 1,000 tips. help us put those numbers into some kind of perspective. is that a lot in an investigation like this? how long will it take to go through that kind of evidence? >> every investigation is unique. we know that. they brought in a lot of outside help to ferret through all the information. but as they interview people, depending upon the length of the interviews, the amount of information coming forward, locking people into statements they made, making sure the statements align and that there aren't any gaps and where there are gaps they have to figure out

why is this a gap, is this someone didn't remember or is someone not being honest? there's a lot that comes forward. we don't know what all they have. we know that they know more than they are releasing to the public at this time. we want them to have a very fair and thorough investigation where the facts lead them to the culprit here. while i understand the frustration, i do understand the need to also secure all the evidence and all the investigatory needs in a case like this. >> let me give you one example. maybe it can help folks understand the flow of an investigation. at yesterday's press conference, police said they are still looking for surveillance footage from local homes and businesses. i wonder if video evidence would typically be a higher priority, especially in an area where at least from the look of the video that we have seen, it wouldn't necessarily see a lot of foot or car traffic in the middle of the night. if there is video out there, it may indeed provide important

clues. yet, they still have said, as of yesterday, they didn't have all the video evidence they out in was out there. >> yeah. people may have left. there are different things. go door to door, go to every establishment, figure out who has a camera, what information might be on those cameras. review all the video. see if a car was seen one place and then maybe someplace else or a person or anything suspicious. it does take time to go through these things. i am not here to defend the agency. i just know that it takes time to ferret through evidence. with something as heinous as this, you want to make sure you have everything that you need to get the right conclusion. >> bottom line, we hope they bring the culprit to a fair conclusion of all of this and the community that it happens soon.

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we do have changes in the forecast. we had a beautiful start. no weather problems in terms of change. we are watching heavy storms today. we will see active weather over the next several days. we are looking at that heavy rainfall in the southern plains. where you see brighter colors, yellow, red, orange, that's telling us where the heaviest rain is falling. we see thunderstorms as well. through dallas, oklahoma into arkansas, missouri, the southern plains into the lower mississippi valley, we will see snow really developing, becoming heavy overnight tonight into tomorrow. you can see blue in new mexico and colorado. that's where the snow is falling. we have tricky travel today. otherwise, the east coast looking good. west coast looking good as well. sunny and nice throughout the great lakes, ohio valley. lots of sunshine from new england down to the southeast. we have a few showers along the gulf coast. the west coast, 70s and sunshine. we have windy conditions in

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71 in new orleans. sunday, this is a tough day. we are looking at heavy rain throughout the northeast, great lakes and the ohio valley. back to you. >> good day to stay home and read a book. yesterday, everything looked really good. how is it today? >> reporter: it looks good again today. it's really great to travel. the down side, and what we have been sensing stress and anxiety about here at the airport today, is people worried about whether they will get home from wherever they are going in time for dinner. that's the big thing. the weather is wonderful across most of the country. airlines have been on notice about the upcoming thanksgiving holidays after the problems during the spring and summer. they braced for this. they seem to be responding. it's a fragile system. the tsa has said that waits are under a half hour, 15 minutes or so. of course, all that is great

depending upon where you happen to live or wherever you happen to be traveling to or from. we spoke to a family here at the airport. a big family. they are doing a reverse travel. they came to new york from florida last week. they're going home today. here is what they say their travel experience has been like. take a listen. >> it has been pretty uneventful for us. we have had no delays or anything like that. the hotels had plenty of availability. it's been a great time. we have really enjoyed it. it seems like traveling is really starting to come back post pandemic. >> reporter: you have a big family. if you can do it, anybody can do it. if they can do it, anybody can do it, five kids, a nanny. i have a 14-year-old and i -- that's traveling chaos enough. >> that baby looks chill.

that baby was like, yeah, just hanging. going back home. >> reporter: they did it at that moment. they have a long way to go. they seem to have everything under control. bottom line, it's a great day to travel. fares are cheaper today as well. it's the race to get where you are going in time for dinner. hopefully, they and everyone else will make it. happy thanksgiving. >> you too. i hope you make it home to your 14-year-old. happy thanksgiving. just 510 votes. that's the lead for the democrat running for attorney general in arizona. now republicans are taking that fight to the next level with a lawsuit. do they have the case? a bitter winter hits ukraine. the european union is turning up the heat on russia with new sanctions. we're on the ground in the region as this war enters its ninth month. you are watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc.

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in his first public comments since the election, arizona's governor is promising an ordinarily transition to his successor. the outgoing republican meeting with the democratic governor elect last night in phoenix and saying the people have spoken and he respects their decision. arizona still has one outstanding statewide race. that's heading to court. the republican candidate for attorney general filing a lawsuit to block certification and declare him the winner, though he trails the democrat by 510 votes. there will be a mandatory recount. back with me, harry lipman. he is alleging mistakes by election workers. he says some voters were denied an opportunity to vote. from what you have seen, does he have a case? >> 510 votes is not a lot. what's most important here is

what he is not alleging. he is not alleging intentional fraud or big lie stuff. i think probably he doesn't. it's close. this is the kind of case that could have been brought 20 years ago. it's the same number that separated bush and gore in florida. he is saying there were about 300 -- so still not even quite enough -- ballots that were were mail-in. that's because the same people were found to have voted in person. that's a valid reason to have disallowed it. there's going to be a recount, as you say. i think probably he can't get there. he can't get a court to declare him the winner. the bigger thing is, this is not the kind of crazy stuff. compare kari lake down 17,000. not a hope in the world. might press on. this is a reasonable suit that

like most when they start behind, he probably won't get there. you can understand it. >> do you think it gets thrown out? does he have any other options? >> there's a recount. i think possibly the court says, well, we will look at the reasons. the state board will say, here is the reason we don't count these. these people voted twice. you can only count one. then it gets thrown out. he will hope to win the recount. i don't see his winning this lawsuit. but again, i just want to emphasize, even though the rnc joined it, it's not a return to the crazy lie that was so endemic after 2020. >> an important point. happy thanksgiving to you. >> same to you and everyone. president biden today promising not to walk away from ukraine after russia unleashed this new round of missile strikes, targeting the country's power grid.

>> i signed another drawdown, over $300 million. there's no time to walk away from ukraine. not at all. >> president zelenskyy is accusing russia of crimes against humanity in his late latest address before the u.n. security council. electricity is being supplied to all regions in ukraine, but that doesn't mean everyone has power. volunteers have converted buildings into warming cents fa zero. ellison barber joins us from kharkiv. what are people telling you? >> reporter: you know, russia's ministry of defense, they say that this massive barrage of missiles that hit multiple regions across ukraine yesterday, that it was targeting military infrastructure, supply lines, electricity, all of it tied to the military. the people who have been

impacted by this, they are not members of the military. it's regular people. today in kharkiv, we visited a church where volunteers were frantically trying to convert the basement into a warming center so people during this blackout and ones in the future can get access to some bit of warmth. they know that they will need places like this in the weeks and months ahead. one of the problems at that particular warming center was that these blackouts limited their ability to get resources in they were hoping to have today to get this warming center up and running. instead, they were working with what they had but dealing with the fallout of the blackouts and not being able to get more of what they need. listen to some of what we have heard. >> there's no electricity. we don't have cellphone coverage, we don't have internet. we have a truck with humanitarian aid coming to kharkiv. we can't get in touch with people in the warehouse.

we had to bring generator for heating where we went. we couldn't bring the generator because we can't get in touch with people. everything is rescheduled permanently. we just have to get used to it. it's a mess. >> reporter: ukrainian officials say energy is now being supplied to all regions in the country but that it's going towards critical infrastructure first and then they are gradually starting to get power electricity back on for customers. for a lot of people, that has not happened yet. the majority of the city is dark. we have seen people today at that warming center, people coming there to help without electricity, without power at home. we visited a place that was a dormitory. we watched as they lined up waiting for meals in the dark because the entire building is without electricity. >> you know, it's almost

impossible to believe that this has been going on for nine months and that for many of the people in ukraine, they have been living under the threat for nine months now. i remember in the early days, as i'm sure you do, that one of the things we heard repeatedly from the folks in ukraine was appreciation for what the united states was doing, for what the international community was doing. i wonder if they are telling you what they feel like they need now and are they worried the international community, the united states will lose its will to continue to help them, even though we heard from the president just today that we will not walk away from ukraine? >> reporter: i think that tends to be the thing we hear from ukrainians the most. i started hearing it from ukrainians in the summer, in june and july, is they say, don't forget us. we don't want to be forgotten. they will talk about needing more aid for military equipment, more funds for humanitarian efforts. they don't want to be forgotten.

it's interesting, too, because by and large, what you see are regular ukrainians stepping up to help each other, doing the best they can to make do with what they have. at this point, very determined to keep doing that until this war ends. >> ellison barber, thank you for spending your holiday away from your family. we do appreciate it. take care out there. baby yoda, the green giant, minions, oh, my. it's a favorite american tradition. the macy's thanksgiving day parade. reaction from folks lucky enough to see it all up close next. you are watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. unlimited hotspot data. (woman 2) you know it's from the most reliable 5g network in america? (vo) when it comes to your business, not all bars are created equal. so switch to verizon business unlimited today. power e*trade's award-winning trading app makes trading easier. with its customizable options chain, easy-to-use tools,

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you have reindeer with you? >> reporter: we do. amazing thing about the thanksgiving parade, starts out with thanksgiving and then it ends up with christmas and santa. so we found these lovely ladies. where are you girls from? >> spirit of america productions, pompano beach, florida. >> reporter: you're from florida. i'm always amazed at the strength of the performers that can walk down the parade route dressed in not a whole lot of clothes. are you guys freezing? >> very much. >> reporter: what was your favorite part of today? >> just walking in the parade. seeing all the people. >> reporter: did you ever dream you'd be doing this? >> honestly, no, but now it's -- now it's, like -- real. real, yeah. >> reporter: and now that it's real and you're in front of radio city music hall, maybe some rockettes in the future? >> all: yes! >> to be honest, yeah. >> reporter: that's the plan. you heard it here first. thank you. you were great today!

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