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bombmaker accused of killing people when the plane exploded in the air over scotland 34 years ago will be appearing in federal court in washington next hour. the first of the accused terrorists to face justice in the u.s. on capitol hill, time is running out as lawmakers race to avoid a government shutdown friday night. will they get to election reform before congress adjourns? and party progressives accuse kristen sinema with sanders calling her a corporate democrat. we'll have a live report as well as that severe winter weather slams the west and that is starting to head east, eventually impacting more than 50 million americans throughout the week. and brittney griner takes a few shots. starting with a dunk on a basketball court at brook army medical center in texas as u.s.

diplomats marvel at her adjustment. calls for paul whelan's freedom now grow louder. good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington where the former libyan intelligence on rative accused of making the bomb responsible for the deaths of 270 people in the 1988 pan am flight 103 attack. he's in u.s. custody nearly 34 years after the deadly bombing and two years after former attorney general bill barr announced federal charges against him. 35 of the passengers on the flight were syracuse university students flying home from a semester abroad. i'll be joined by victoria, whose husband, john, was among the victims, and spoke out moments ago. >> the u.s. apprehension and arrest of the terror suspect is

the first tangible step made by the u.s. department of justice in 34 years to hold any suspect accountable in u.s. courts. today's arraignment that will happen against massoud in the courthouse in washington, d.c. is the first significant step to begin to address this three-decade long miscarriage of justice. justice delayed is justice denied. >> joining me now, nbc justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and molly hunter. ken, first to you. what do we expect from the suspect's first court appearance? it's not an arraignment. there won't be a plea. we get to learn how they got him. some of the families claim he was released from a libyan jail or captured from a libyan jail after so many years. was there any cooperation with

the libyan officials? >> as you know, justice department officials have been very tight lipped on that question and i am told we will not gain significant insight into that at this hearing, which seconds ago, we were told by a senior justice official that hearing has been pushed to 3:00 p.m. and i'm also told the indictment in this case will be unsealed at the conclusion so we may learn more on the indictment, but as for this hearing, it's going to be a typical first appearance where a magistrate judge will read him his rights and make sure he understands the charges against him. we're told he will be there in person at the washington, d.c. federal courthouse. and then the issue of bail will be discussed and undoubtedly the justice department will argue he should be held without bail then the judge will inquire about his capacity to hire a lawyer and may appoint a public defender. but we're not going to learn anything significant about what

they are calling a loss of transfer. it's very mysterious how they got their hands on this former libyan intelligence official. the criminal complaint in this case which was released in 2020 when they announce he had been charged shows the case relies heavily on an interview he allegedly gave to a libyan official in 2012 where he essentially confessed in building the bomb in in horrific attack. the libyan investigator wasn't even asking about that. but the criminal complaint say it is person who conducted this interview is willing to come into u.s. court and testify and it seemed that will be a crucial element in making the case against him. >> quick follow up. would that be admissible in a u.s. court? i know this wide belief this was a real confession, but we don't

know under what conditions and doesn't u.s. law apply so that a good defense lawyer, you know, would be able to challenge that kind of a confession? >> i think you're absolutely on to something. that will be the center piece of the defense. that and perhaps the conditions under which he was brought here, but absolutely. an interrogation in a country where there wasn't even really a government at the time under uncertain circumstances. the doj presumably has something buttoned up where they believe they can come into court and show this was not a coerced confession, but a lot of questions remain on that. >> and molly, this horrific attack. it was just a sering attack. full remember it galvanized not only this country, but the u.k., the world. it was one of the worst terror attacks in history. on an aircraft. and in scotland, 11 people on the ground died.

as well as of course those 35 students from syracuse university. the pain has to be still fresh for those families. >> so fresh. and you could hear it, andrea, of course, in the woman's voice that you just played in your introduction, of course. so fresh. not only did this attack of course hit this sleepy scottish town, one of the biggest british terrorist attacks on british soil, and then of course you've got not only 190 americans. you mentioned those 35 syracuse students. we have people from all over the world on the flight. as we look back at the history of these 34 years, the victims as you just heard again, that delayed justice is denied justice. everyone has been waiting for this and the big question is why did it take so long for british authorities. scottish authorities. there has been one conviction in this case. back in the initial trial in 2001. it was three scottish judges in a netherland court.

i think the question from victims' families here and in the states is why did it take so long. >> molly, ken, we're all staying on this and ken, we'll wait to hear from you from the courthouse and i'll be speaking with the widow of john cummock this hour. millions of americans are going to experience severe weather. nbc national correspondent, miguel almaguer, joins us from truckee, california. miguel, the storm packed a major punch. >> reporter: yeah, andrea. this storm just walloped the west. they were expecting heavy snowfall. that's exactly what happened saturday. in a matter of about 48 hours, they got about 48 inches of now.

so in some areas, it's upward of 5 feet deep. the wind speeds hit 169 miles per hour. that created whiteout conditions on the road. it was just treacherous. long stretches of i-80. the popular interstate that connects california and nevada was shutdown for several hours. it stranded motorists in freezing and whiteout conditions for many hours. it was brutal on the roads. and at the lower elevations in the san francisco bay area, some cities and communities saw 5 inches of rain from the same storm system. it also brought some rain to southern california. we were expecting flash flooding and even localized flooding and landslides because of just how quickly all of this water came down. back here in the sierra, which really took the brunt of the storm, i want to show you how much snow was on these tree tops. the snow has been accumulating here for a couple of days and they were concerned that all of the snow weighing down these

branches could actually snap them down on to powerlines and cut electricity to people who are in this region. that would be awful news here adding just more misery to the chaos is that they're going through here. the temperatures right now are close to the sing digits. it's about 10, 11 degrees here so if they lose power and heat, that's a whole other problem and disaster this area doesn't want to face. the good news is the storm system is moving east, but they're still going to have to dig out. >> that's going to be a lot of digging. that's just extraordinary. thank you. and let's get a check on the forecast this week from bill karins. >> andrea, this has been another megastorm and this just adds to the list. an incredible start to the rainy season on the west coast. one area in tahoe has picked up 7 feet of snow. we desperately need water in

california. we need to fill the reservoirs, which are only one-third filled. so we need these big snow and rainstorms, but then it causes problems, not just with travel, but wind gusts that we saw on the coastline of oregon and the mountains. where from here? currently, it's moving sbut intermountain west. we've had about a foot and a half outside of salt lake city. numerous areas in colorado that are going to pick up between 6 to 12 inches tonight and tomorrow. getting hammered in jackson hole, yellowstone. this is around tahoe. soda springs, 5 feet of snow. all of the mountainous areas down through sierra picked up a lot of snow. from here, the storm's not done. not even close. we have a lot of winter weather.

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senator bernie sanders is blasting senator sinema as a corporate democrat after she announced she was leaving party to become an independent. sanders reacting with dana bash on cnn on sunday. >> it's probably a lot to do with politics back in arizona. i think the democrats there are not all that enthusiastic about somebody who helped sabotage some of the most important legislation that protects the

interest of working families and voting rights and so forth. she is a corporate democrat who has in fact along with senator manchin, sabotaged enormously important legislation. >> joining me now, two former members of congress. democrat donna edwards and david jolly of florida. so, donna, when bernie sanders calls you a corporate democrat, that is a real slur from him as far as he's concerned. we should note bernie sanders as i say is also independent along with angus king. do you agree with his criticism of sinema? he's attacking her motives. >> senator sinema has really corded the corporate wing of industry from pharmaceutical companies and all the rest so i don't think it is an unfair charge. what i will say is that senator sinema right now doesn't enjoy the majority support of every

single demographic group in arizona. there's not a one and in fact, her highest unfavorable numbers come from hispanic voters over 50. and so i don't think that whether she's a democrat or republican or independent matters because none of those folks in arizona really care for senator sinema. she has gotten in the way of some important democratic priorities, particularly around voting rights and sort of sabotaged those efforts. so while you know, senator schumer and other democrats are trying to speak nicely of senator sinema right now, i think that should she choose to run for re-election, i don't think it's going to matter because she just doesn't have the support in any group in arizona. >> well, david, let's talk about who might run against her and what the party might do.

congressman gooig has been named at a challenger. on "morning joe," he took a swipe at her. >> she really doesn't match arizona values anymore and i'm going to go back and listen to the constituents of arizona. as a matter of fact, i have a town hall tomorrow. i have consistent town halls, something that she hasn't really had in three years. >> just saying. so, david. let's talk about the political reality on the ground. there are more independents than republicans or democrats in arizona, but if someone like ruben run, wouldn't that spotlight the vote and elect a republican? >> well, we will see. breaking up with your party's hard to do and it comes with some unpredictable journey. i bear those lessons having left mine and what i would tell you is even though there's a large

contingency of independent, unaffiliated voters in arizona, data scientists would tell you often they actually perform pretty regularly as either democrats or republicans. but you never know in an independent race. we saw some crazy dynamics in utah where the democrats against mike lee decided not the run a candidate and you see the independent evan mcmullan crested in the low 40s. i don't think we'll see that from sinema. early polling would indicate she places three out of three in a three-way race between a trat democrat, republican, and independent. sinema is now entering though a very unpredictable world where i think the challenges to re-election are going to be pretty grim. >> and donna, was that joe biden do? do they help her? in the interest of a cleaner

re-election, try to clear the field on the democratic side or is it a free fall which could elect a republican? >> democrats are going to nominate a democrat. and so i think that you know, the real test for national democrats is whether they're going to support a democratic nominee in arizona. and i suspect that both on the fund raising side as well as from sitting members that they're going to be supporting the democratic nominee. i really just don't think there's any place for sinema to go should she choose to run for re-election and you know, we'll see how that comes out. >> and to both of you, the deadline to fund the government is friday. and we know we go through this all the time and it could end up as a continuing resolution, but clearly, the leaders, chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, they want to get this done while the house is still in democratic hands. so donna, what happens this week?

>> well, you know, we may get to friday and see a cr to carry through the weekend while negotiations continue. david and i both know we've seen this before. but i also think there might be an interest in senator mcconnell to get this done as well. given that he will have the deal with a very fractured house. however their leadership shakes out in january and he may fair better in terms of making sure to have a hand in negotiating you know, a funding bill at the end of the year. you know, i'm not surprised by this. this is kind of how washington operates, but i suspect that they're going to get it done. >> and david, i want to get your reaction to marjorie taylor greene doing it again. she said that about the january 6th attack over the weekend, she said that if she and steve bannon had planned the attack, the rioters would have been armed and would have won.

and this is someone who's going to get a very good committee assignment. to negotiations with kevin mccarthy. >> that's right. yet another dangerous statement from marjorie taylor greene. someone who deserves center from the house in an ethics referral. this is a story as well about kevin mccarthy and his embrace of her for his own ambition to become speaker of the house. we knew he would negotiate a way a lot to members to try to get their votes including moving closer to impeaching joe biden, promising investigations of hunter biden, but this notion of embracing violent insurrection, this is on mccarthy and he should be pressed on this. >> thanks to both of you. and the remains of grant wahl are back in the u.s., arriving in new york today.

the 49-year-old collapsed and died in qatar while reporting on the world cup on the match between argentina and the netherlands friday night. his wife, dr. gal ender, well-known infectious decide specialist and part of the biden covid advise board, writing on twitter, i am in complete shot. secretary of state blinken tweeting i so appreciated grant wahl whose writing captured not only the essence of the beautiful game, but the world around it. i send my deepest con dole senses to the family -- he made headline last month when he was detained last month for wearing a rainbow shirt to a match in a show of solidarity to the lgbtq incident. i spoke with him at the time. >> you were told by soccer officials that wearing a shirt

with a rainbow flag would not be a problem. take us through what then happened. >> yeah, that was ahead of the tournament when fifa and u.s. soccer officials told them that qataris told them rainbow flags and shirts weren't going to be a problem. i arrived at the game last night showing a shirt you just showed and immediately was not allowed in by security officials who told me it was because of my shirt, they demanded i take it off. i refuse. >> he was so extraordinary. grant wahl is survived by his wife and family. he was only 49 years old.

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brittney griner is finally adjusting to freedom, getting a haircut, shooting some hoops at the army medical center. she's on the military base where she is getting treatment for her physical and mental health. rick roger carsten from the state department who led the release describing her reactions after the prisoner swap when

greiner boarded the u.s. government plane for that 18-hour flight to texas. >> actually tried to give her some space to say look, you probably want to decompress after ten months in a russian prison. she said no, i want to talk. i want to relate to people. and i found someone who was wonderful. kind, generous, above all, authentic. >> joining me now is "washington post" columnist, eugene robinson. however you feel, it's great to celebrate that brittney griner, an american prisoner, wrongfully detained, is now able to you know, dunk a shot on a military base in texas. getting haircut and reunite with her family and friends. and she's going through this very well calibrated medical readjustment that has worked so well for other hostages and for combat veterans that we do down there that the u.s. army does so

well. but you wrote a column titled training brittney griner for an arms dealer was a good deal, but you're worried it could set a precedence. what are your concerns? >> look, the obvious potential precedent is that other governments would feel that they could get confessions from the united states by snatching u.s. citizens who happen to be on their soil. and detaining them and then using them as leverage. now, but that's always been there. that possibility has always been there. there's nothing kind of new. i thought and continue to believe that this was not only the right thing to do morally. to, this is what our government should do. we should get, try to get americans home who are being wrongfully detained in places like russia and iran and other

such places. but i also just on a tit for tat basis, i thought it was a very good deal to trade brittney griner for viktor bout, who is a very, very bad person. who the merchant of death they called him, the arms dealer, but who was only convicted of specific crimes in the united states. was given the minimum sentence by the federal judge who presided over his trial. the minimum which was 25 years and the way federal prison sentences work, he had been in for a decade. he was going to be out probably in six years. and so that's really what we were trading. he was not convicted of all the other arms dealing crimes that he we believe he committed.

we're sure he committed, but we keep people in prison for what we could prove in a court of law they did. not what we think we know they did. >> funny about that. that is the u.s. system. the american system of justice. and then you got a lot of criticism, especially from potential, currently announced candidates, donald trump, mike pompeo potentially for the republican nomination in 2024. both saying that pompeo said when he was secretary of state, they opposed trading viktor bout for paul whelan. this was on fox. >> the trump administration was always very clear. we weren't going to trade bad guys for celebrities because it creates the wrong incentives for the bad guys. >> he's not pointing out they were willing to bring the taliban for camp david for negotiations before there had been a peace deal, but that said, pompeo saying that freeing the russian, viktor bout, jeopardizes national security

and trump is weighing in on his social media site. but the fact is he's saying they could try to track him. it's clear he can reconnect even with tried up sources and his network is pretty much shutdown, but he can recreate that. he's close to putin, or at least he has connections to the kremlin. he's part of the intelligence services. what does this mean for paul whelan? because the russians claim he's a spy. the u.s. and he denies it and the russians want a spy for a spy and the u.s. says we don't have a spy. so putin said over the weekend, yeah, we want to make more deals. clearly, the u.s. does. how do you do this? call somebody else, you know, a hacker, call them a spy and i'm done with it? possible? >> i have no idea. i have no idea, really. how we do it. they have a thing about paul whelan. the russians do. and it is very clear, i guess,

at one point it seems they were willing to trade him for viktor bout, but were not i guess, but pompeo and trump were not. i would have made that deal at that time. to get paul whelan home, but given that the russians have put him in this special category and will only take back a russian spy that we say we don't have and we can't pry, i guess somebody in german custody they were kind of interested in as part of the deal, but that's for the germans to decide. it's, so i really don't know and that is the one sort of depressing bit of news out of this otherwise very happy situation. brittney griner's home, yes, and that is great, but we cannot cease efforts to get paul whelan home. he is been unjustly held. >> and they say that and the top

negotiator called whelan on friday, the day after they got back. promised that very thing. thank you so much. >> thanks, andrea. justice delayed. she lost her husband 34 years ago on that horrific pan am flight 103. up next, she joins me on her decades long fight for justice. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc. watching "andreal reports. this is msnbc. itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now, i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq. rinvoq is not a steroid, topical, or injection. it's one pill, once a day, that's effective without topical steroids. many taking rinvoq saw clear or almost-clear skin while some saw up to 100% clear skin. plus, they felt fast itch relief some as early as 2 days. that's rinvoq relief. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb.

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families of those killed. >> within the last hour, victoria cummock, who lost her husband, john, 34 years ago in the pan am flight 103 attack speaking about the suspected lockerbie bombmaker. she now joins me. she's the founder and ceo of the lockerbie legacy foundation. victoria, thanks for being with us. i can only imagine the con conflicting emotions. you live this all the time, most notably in december. start by telling us how you're really feeling today after so many decades waiting for the u.s. government to do something and now having this man about to appear in court. >> well, andrea, this is really the first time in 34 years that i along with all the other american victims' family members

feel a sense of hope that this first step made by the u.s. department of justice in 34 years to hold any suspect accountable in the u.s. courts is actually going to happen. you know, u.s. federal courts have jurisdiction to prosecute crimes on board u.s. aircrafts regardless of the location and multiple jurisdictions do try criminals under the applicable national laws. but aside from issuing the 1991 criminal indictments against two libyans and then the 2020 criminal charges against massoud, u.s. authorities have never arrested on prosecuted any suspects in 34 years and to the victims' family, this felt like a betrayal by our authorities, but u.s. authorities, to the thousands that regularly pledge allegiance to america and its flag. so today's arraignment in the

courthouse in washington, d.c. is a significant milestone to begin to address this three-decade long miscarriage of justice. so it's the victims' families fervent wish for the u.s. criminal trial proceedings to begin immediately because we know justice delayed is justice denied. the victims' family members are keenly aware that after 34 years, witnesses die. memories fade. and evidence can deteriorate or disappear. so, on behalf of my family and also the pan am 103 lockerbie family members, we want to express our gratitude to president biden, a syracuse university alumist that there were 35 syracuse university students that were killed on the flight. we also want to express our gratitude to the u.s.

authorities for today putting into action, putting actions behind their 34 years of pledges because the time for justice for pan am 103 is now. >> victoria, do you know anything about the circumstances? there were some reports he had been taken by a militia, gotten out of jail. that he was released from jail. maybe a month ago. and do you know anything about the circumstances under which the u.s. government got him back? >> i really don't. you know, we rely on the victims notification process through the department of justice website and they did not give us any details. immediately, yes, when i received the e-mail from the department of justice, i called them and finally when somebody was there to pick up the phone, the only thing they had mention

ed in the morning was that he was in route to d.c. that the plane was scheduled to land within the next hour and that you know, he was now in u.s. custody and would be probably arraigned today, which we know will happen at 1:00 p.m. >> now they've actually delayed that a couple of hours so we'll continue to cover this, but victoria, how important is it to get some sort of a verdict in this case because he's entitled to all the rights under the u.s. system and we actually have no way of knowing so far the conditions under which he made this supposed confession two years ago. >> well, we as americans and family members can only hope that justice, the whole judicial proceeding will be held and

justice will prevail. i don't know if they're going to let this statement become admissible into court, but for us, it's so important that any of the perpetrators that killed our loved ones stand trial in the u.s. justice system. you know, when fema and -- were brought to trial, they were brought to trial under scottish court and law. >> alleged co-conspirators. >> that's right. and their laws are very, very different. they're different on the admissibility of evidence. on the admissibility of witnesses. so it's very different than the u.s. court system. we also know that the scots don't have life imprisonment without parole and although he was given a life sentence, life sentence in u.k. means 20 years.

so it doesn't matter if you've killed one person or 270 people, you get a life sentence of 20 years. they certainly don't have the death penalty. and furthermore, the ability to get released under compassionate grounds, which he did get released after eight years, doesn't exist here. so from my perspective, i don't think that what happened in at the hague and that whole trial was any step closer to finding out who was involved and bringing justice to the murdered victims. >> i know that you and all the other families are hoping that this will be a very different situation in the u.s. court. victoria, thank you for being with us today. >> thank you.

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and right now president biden and the first lady are at fort myer radios the river in northern virginia outside washington for a u.s. marine corps. toys for tots event ahead of the holidays. after speaking, the president and first lady will be sorting the toys with spouses of senior members of the department of defense. happy holiday to them. the latest fbi report on hate crimes in america appears to be shockingly incomplete. only 65% of police agencies reported their data for 2021. numbers from the nation's largest police forces in l.a. and new york were missing. available data show 65% of the victims were targeted for their react and ethnicity, 16% for sexual orientation, and 13% for their religion. a separate academic study shows hate crimes jumped 20% last year. joining me now is andrew weissman, former general counsel

at the fbi. let's talk about this. the drop in reporting. no data from new york and l.a. two huge police jurisdictions. why is this so underreported? >> well, there is a partial explanation. that is because the fbi for many years has been trying to transition to a new and frankly better system. every year the fbi collects national data. but they wanted to have a system where they collected a lot more information about the alleged perpetrator, about the victim, and so this year insisted people report under that new system. now, this has been in the works for many years. there's been lots and lots of money spent to help various agencies do that reporting. so it's not unanticipated. but with that being said it

dropped from 93% to down in the 60s. the number is lower than that. if you look at full compliance, there's 50% that actually gave full data for 2021. so it's very, very hard to use this data in any meaningful way. which is it is vital to law enforcement interests to really have excellent effective data in order to do their job and protect the public. and the adl is calling on the fbi to do better collecting these data. 7,000 hate crime incidents in 2021 according to even the in complete fbi report.

>> not only slurs, graffiti and threats, all of which are abhorrent and unacceptable, but also physical violence against our jewish brothers and sisters, sometimes deadly. muncy, poway, pittsburgh. and people on the streets simply because they're kieger a kipa. >> you see anti-semitic flyers being posted and leaflets going on in all kinds of neighborhoods. >> well, i think it's important to note that what appears to be anecdotal evidence of increased hate crimes not just based on religion but based on sex, sexual orientation, gender

identity, race obviously, national origin. a whole slew of things. there's a lot of anecdotal reasons for thinking about why this is happening. but it is really important to have the hard data. and i think one of the things i would be asking is who is responsible for making sure full compliance goes forward. in order to do your job effectively, in order to know where you want to spend your very limited law enforcement resources to combat the worst hate crimes, you have to have data. otherwise, you're really not doing your job for the public. and so that's the real problem with this report. it highlights this deficiency. >> andrew weissman, thank you

for your expertise. as always, it's good to see you. >> thanks. and that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." tomorrow my exit interview with dr. anthony fauci after nearly four decades of service. chris jansing will take over after these short messages. aftes what should the future deliver? (music) progress... (music) ...innovation... (music) ...discovery? or simply stability... ...security... ...protection? you shouldn't have to choose. (music) gold. your strategic advantage.

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