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covid, flu and rsv, a disturbing number of kids are getting a a nasty even life threatening form of strep. and the u.s. is finalizing plans to give ukraine one of the biggest asks. a patriot missile system. how could that impact the war with russia? barry mccaffrey will join me in a minute. we start on capitol hill where just this morning we got two big updates from the january 6th committee. one, that the final report is scheduled to be at the printer now as we speak. and two, that decisions on criminal referrals are done. we expect to get the details on who, and why on monday. while all of that is playing out, congressional decisions are running about running the government are being complicated by political fractures along multiple lines. you have democrats versus republicans, house vs. senate and among republicans themselves. the newest flash point, the

senate's attempts to pass a short-term bill to avert a partial government shutdown and give lawmakers one hr week to come up with a funding bill that covers the entire year. >> truly bipartisan bill without poise pills is ready for final passage by late next week, then i'll support it. for our armed forces particularly. otherwise, we'll be passing a short-term continued resolution into the new year. >> but that's where it gets tricky because if this doesn't get resolved before house republicans take over next year, things could be a lot more difficult. ali vitali is on capitol hill for us. joyce vance is a law professor at the university of alabama and an msnbc legal analyst. and tum miller is a writer at large for the bull work anden apt msnbc political analyst. ali, what is the nature of these referrals? do we know what went into

deciding them? >> reporter: we know this has been a live conversation over the course of the last few weeks,s personally as the committee has been doing their investigating and their work, the concept of if they were going to issue referrals has always been something that has loomd over the entire process. be but what we're learning is we'll learn all this on monday, but the nature of the referrals is something that could be wide ranging. yes, we could see some referrals that are criminal in nature and as joyce and had of our other prosecutor friends will tell you, it doesn't necessarily matter if this committee sends over a letter that says we're criminally referral people. they are going to do what think want to do regardless. but still for a committee that's focused so much of their attention on what key players and the former president of the united states did in the lead up to january 6th certainly that's one we're looking very closely at. but there could also be others that are ethical in nature or referred to the bar association for lawyer who is did things

that were either unethical or illegal over the course of their time working for the former the president in the lead up to january 6th. the other thing is how they are going to deal with their fellow lawmakers here who ignored the subpoena request that were sent by the committee. you heard kevin mccarthy, the top republican say yesterday he didn't think he was going to be criminally referred, but that doesn't mean they couldn't refer other lawmakers who bucked their subpoenas to the internal ethics committee here in congress. that's going to set a precedent too now that republicans have subpoena power in just a few weeks, we're going to see what democrats do for lawmakers who ignore subpoenas because now the shoe could be on the other foot in a few weeks. >> such a whole range of possibilities here. we have speculated about criminal referrals before, but is there something that you'll be looking for that you think could potentially add pressure to doj, essentially kind of a very public push to make it much

harder for them not to act? >> doj is hard wired to resist external pressure. it will make its decisions based on the facts and the law. and i think really the recommendations that come out of the subcommittee, out of the committee will be symbolic ones. where doj is concerned. but at same token, there's no reason to undervalue symbolism and something that this committee has done has been to create a little bit of societal movement, a little bit of change in the way americans largely view what happened on january 6th by presenting very specific evidence. by putting faces on much of the testimony. so that it became more relatable to americans. doj might not feel pressure to indict certain people. it mugt not do anything differently, but the mood might be more aware of what's going on at the justice department and perhaps view it less as a

political move and more as something that's evidence based. so the the role that the committee plays here is one that we should not really underest hate. they have consistently outperformed expectations and a big part of that has been moving evidence in front of the american people in a very understandable and relatable way. >> there's still everyday business to do, if that's what you want to call funding the government. where does that stand right now? >> doesn't get more basic than that. how do we keep the lights on? we know the government funding deadline is tomorrow. the house did their part in this last night passing a continuing resolution that would allow them to fund the government just for an extra week through next friday giving negotiators the time they need for the longer funding be bill they are still working on. they say they have an agreement on it. they are going to start working through the top line and all of the key numbers associated with it, but they need the time to do

it. that's where the senate comes in. we are watching for senate magic that kicks in. the closer that you get to the end of a week when all the senators want to go home, the question is if all 100 of them come together and say they can do a quick and expedited passage of this continuing resolution, they are working that out now. whether there's going to be amendments, that's up for discussion. but really they are under the gun here because they do have to do this by friday. that's when government funding runs out. if for some reason that doesn't happen, they would likely just be able to pass it on a longer timeline that could mean some kind of a shutdown over the weekend, which wouldn't have super tangible impacts, but that's not where we are. the view here is that everyone wants to avoid a shutdown. it's a question of how they actually get there in terms of the procedure and timing on the senate side. >> when you look at the long run here, and actually funding long-term, i know kevin mccarthy has said he doesn't want to do anything he doesn't have to do thl he takes control.

what had he thinks will be of the house. is this a fight that kevin mccarthy wants? what's in it for him? or is there something in any fight he takes on that puts him up against the democrats? >> i don't think this is a fight that hes right now. and his status is still ten wous. he doesn't have 218 votes at this point. and this isn't in previous government shutdown fights that were driven by folks on the right, there was an idea lolk call consistency. at least along the caucus in the obama era, they wanted to cut spending dramatically. that was the motivating factor of the tea party. that's not really true of the current caucus. there are some that want kevin mccarthy to focus on negotiation

on these investigations and to hunter biden and the other nonsense. there's some that come from the spending side. anything that divides his caucus at this point is abomination of desolation for him. and i don't see him wanting to pick this fight, at least put himself at the font of the fight unnecessarily until he has the 218 votes. >> let's talk about that. because there was a reporter who ask him that question. let me play it for you. >> when you ever president trump lobbying on your beof half, members of the freedom caucus, the votes aren't there. why is it so hard? >> spending time with my conference, it's amaing to me here we are with the biggest things on the spending, i can always count on you for the most inappropriate question. >> i'm not sure he answered the question. i think the question of whether

or not he becomes speaker is probably important to the future of congress. having said that, what do you make of these holdouts and what do you see happening here? >> i think there was there's a certain group of holdouts that want specific things. and that is this more maga, more trump-oriented group that really wants, as i said, investigations into hunter biden and the doj and fbi and some of these are much more sympathetic to the january 6th rioters and investigate into the way that the january 6th committee did its business. so they want to pressure him as much as possible up to the last minute to get as many concessions as only. then there are a couple performers. they like the attention. i put matt gaetz into that category. and then i think there are a very small thunderstorm of moderate who is also want the to

be convinced that he will actually do husband work. those three groups with the narrow house majority make it hard for him to manage. i think he will probably get the 218, but this is reflective 06 what his life is going to be like for as long as he's the speaker. >> we did see kind of a really lovely moment when had they ub vailed temperatures np's portrait. former speaker john boehner gave an emotional tribute. here it is. >> madame speaker, you and i have disagreed politically on many things over the years, but we were never disagreeable to each other. and i have to say my girls told me -- tell the speaker how much we admire her. you have been incredibly effective as the leader of your caucus. the younger generation has a saying. game recognizes game.

>> kevin mccarthy didn't even show up when she said good-bye on the floor of the house. is that sense of bipartisanship, that graciousness that we just saw something that's gone forever? i was thinking, couldn't john boehner or a paul ryan even get elected now? >> i'm getting a little per clemsed there. >> i'm not going to hold my breath, but go ahead. >> there's no interest for that right now within the republican voters. republican voters don't want somebody being nice to nancy pelosi. the part of the clip was talking about how much trouble he got in even back in the relatively more glory days of bipartisanship compared to now. he got in trouble for hugging her. this moment that he talks about that he took a lot of heat over that. and so we're to a place now where showing any affection towards nancy pelosi or any

democrat is just a nonstarter among the republican base. until that bottom-up element change, we're not going to, unfortune ily, see a lot of graciousness. >> we got yet another set of bad poll numbers for donald trump. the latest ones, his favorability is at a seven-year low. tough go back to 2016. 70% in this poll don't want to see him as the nominee. are you hearing concern among republicans that they have tied themselves to the sinking ship? >> not that hay will say publicly, but what you can tell based on the way that especially house republicans, who you look at this conference and the way that this conference has really been remade in donald trump's image, the way that they are trying to take the ideological points, the red meat he would throw to his base and use that as their guiding light going forward without trying to comment on whatever news of day trump does, you have seen this

time and again, both when we were asking about dinners that he had with kanye west and white supremacists, other points, they have not wanted to comment on the trump of it all. when you look that the things they are trying to focus on, those are things that trump popularized with the base. they are trying to take the trumpism and potential lu leave the trump that's going to be hard when he's still running for president. >> thank you both so much. joyce is going to stay with me. nearly two dozen tornadoes ripped through the new orleans area in the space of less than 24 hours literally pushing homes off their foundations and leaving at least three people dead. czech out this video from st. charles parish where first responders had to navigate downed power lines, gas leaks, to try to reach devastated neighborhoods like this. one woman says her daughter warned her just moments before the storm hit.

nbc is in st. charles parish. those pitures are devastating. how widespread is the damage you're seeing and are people starting to get help? >> chris, here this is one of the tornadoes that came through. we saw some of the damage in the dark and then we imagined that when the sub came up this morning, we would see this. so this is an entire neighborhood where some homes have been completely destroyed. others had the roof blown off. right behind me rgs there's a vehicle that was parked about 40 feet away and you can see what the tornado did. it completely flipped it over. and what you see behind, that was an rv camper that was parked even further down, both of these were picked up just look at the way it's been bent at the frame.

this is the type of damage we have seen here. and i'm going to move over to the side of this vehicle. you can see behind me, there's worker from the power company. they are working on some of the power poles that were knocked down. they have been here since last night. a lot of these communities where tornadoes hut lost power. you can imagine because of this type of damage. this is one of the tornadoes. we were reporting on this yesterday when we looked at the map at some point during the day, it was overwhelming to see the number of tornado reports all across the state. there were images coming out of where another tornado affected some structures. authority hs to rescue some of the people that were trapped. they lost power there. and there was another tornado that hit part of new orleans and tornadoes were just popping up al over the map. there's something like close to 50 reports of tornadoes. now those have to be confirmed,

but that's what the storm was like. the weather has improved. and this is what neighbors here are coming back to. you can see some residents down there assessing the damage. and essentially, this is what's happening across the state and the areas where these tornadoes came through. neighbors coming back to look at the damage and see what the next step is going to be as they try to recover from this. many of them coming become to homes completely destroyed. but what used to be a home now just piles of debris. >> thank you so much for that. our best wishes to the folks there that have a long road ahead. severe and fatal infections spiking among kids as the white house scrambling to tackle the covid wave. damning revelations about how they handled the early stages of covid and the bleak picture it paints for the next pandemic. and an adventure at sea turned into a nightmare.

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which we told you at the top of the hour is at the printers right now. and this from michigan. three men convicted of taking part in a plot to kidnap governor whitmer has been sentenced to lengthy prison terms with a minimum of seven years. the men were found guilty of providing support for the terrorist plot, felony firearms charges and illegal gang membership. two other men convicted of leading the plot face life in prison. as if the triple demic isn't enough, american hospitals are reporting a worrying spike in severe strep infections among children after the deaths of at least 15 kids in the uk. and covid numbers are continuing to rise here. in just the last two weeks, cases have increased by nearly 45%. deaths are up 22%. the biden administration woried enough that they now rolled out a winter preparedness plan that will include once again offering free at-home covid tests through

the mail. we want to talk about it all with dr. patell. always good to see you. hospitals are reporting that concerning rise in severe strep a infections in kids. what is strep a? and given what we're seeing in the uk, how worried should parents be here? >> group a strep is the cause of these infections is a type of bacteria known as a strep throat infection. the bacteria that causes that. it can cause a number of other things such as toxic shock syndrome, these are words that sound scary because they are. and along with that, we're seeing a four-fold rise in children's hospitals in the united states with this infection. it's transmitted. this is why we're seeing it like all other infections with droplets, coughs, sharing common food con taunters. i hate to say it, but it goes

along with why we're asking everyone to take precaution not just for covid, but even back tier ya like this, which can follow a viral infection. >> let's talk about the rise in covid cases. since thanksgiving it's been bad news for those already overburdened hospitals, health professionals they have been strugging to deal with the surge of rsv and flu infections. how worried should folks be heading into holiday gatherings over the next few weeks? >> they should wour in the same sense you wouldn't think about getting into a car without a seat belt. that's how we need to approach this holiday season. we need to take all the same precautions that we're tired of, but if you get one of these infections, even if you're young and healthy, you don't know if you'll need to sake sikh out care. what is the worst thing that happens when your calling your doctor and can't through get through and need to go to an emergency room and you're told it will be a 24-hour wait.

that's what we're talking about. and so for all those reasons, we're trying to take preventive measures now. >> we have been following the fact there are more and more cases of long covid and now there's this new cdc report that says long covid contributed to the deaths of 3,500 americans. what do you see as the is significance of this study? what does it tell us about long covid? >> so this tells you a couple things that we have always had a gut feeling that long covid is not good and we need to do things to avoid it. this study confirms because when we look more into this, we're going to find other things that do lead to i hate to say it more deaths. so long covid, the short story of it is a mild case can lead to these symptoms and then i think on top of that, it's all the more reason we need that infrastructure to be able to monitor and then have clinical

models to be able to take care of patients with long covid. . if you have long covid, you're largely piecing it together. the notion that we could try to prevent this, we should try to learn from the cdc report should be able to get congress to fund some of the long covid efforts. >> doctor, thank you so much. always good to see you. we have an nbc news exclusive now. a house intelligence committee report that found u.s. spy agencies were warning early on about the impending pandemic. but those warnings were missed presenting a lost opportunity to better understand the disease because they failed to start spying on chinese health officials who are by the way were lying. the report also said there stul needs to be, quote, fundamental changes for the next pandemic you want to bring in en dilanian, who has this exclusive report. this finding is completely different than what then president trump claimed that

intelligence officials described the virus this a very nonthreatening, matter of fact manner. what do we know about this? how big a missed opportunity might it have been? >> so this report does a great job of showing that donald trump was not leveling with the public about what his intelligence agencies were telling him. that's not really the purpose of this report. they call that a policy failure. what they were doing here was looking at whether the intelligence agencies succeeded or failed. the intelligence agency delirium tremens a good job of calling the pandemic early on based on public reporting and what they were seeing coming out of china. they predicted early in january this had would become a global pandemic. but they want the report says they failed to pivot and train their multibillion dollar spying apparatus on the chinese government to penetrate the wall of misinformation that's coming out of china. so when white house officials in the early days were asking, the

chinese are saying there's no human to human transmission. is that true? what's happening in china? the spy agencies were unable to answer those questions because they weren't positioned to do that kind of work. this report says they are still not prepared for the next pandemic because there's a cultural issue. they still don't see biothreats as a top tier national security issue, even though a million americans were killed in this pandemic. >> ken dilanian, thank you so much for your exclusive reporting. the u.s. most sophisticated form of air defense likely headed to ukraine. russia is calling that a provocative move. i'll ask retired general if it could be a game changer in this war. we have that, next. have th, att what will you do? ♪ what will you change? ♪ will you make something better? ♪ will you create something entirely new? ♪ our dell technologies advisors provide you with

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continues attacks on krit ka intrastructure as temperatures drop. in recently lub rated areas, heavy shelling wiped out power and killed three ukrainians including an 8-year-old. with me now is barry mccaffrey. it's been six or seven years since we have seen each other in person. it's great to have you here. thank you. what would patriots mean at this time for the ukrainians? >> it's important and symbolic, among other things. 70 kilometers, it's a high altitude system. 24 kilometers up in altitude. it will definitely get cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and russian bombers. it's a $4 million missile. it doesn't make a lot of sense to go after iranian drones that cost $50,000 a piece nor will it be effective. the other thing it's one battery. the u.s. army has 50 batteries.

so it's a toe in the water. it's going to take them six months to absorb this and integrate it into their defense. >> so when vladimir putin says this is a provocation and it makes vague threats, what do you make of it? >> they are in trouble. the russian armed forces basically come apart. the ukrainians have this initiative where they are hammering them with long distance rockets. i personally think the next step we cannot allow kraun cain to just get bludgeoned with civilian targets being destroyed by the russs. they need offensive systems. i am hopeful in the coming year you'll see a missile in the 300-kilometer range so they can go after some of the deeper targets. >> we have talked for awhile now about how russia seems to be backed into a corner. at the same time, the white

house spokesman for national security said yesterday let's not get ahead of ourselves. there's no indication this war is going to end quickly. the u.s. is planning to ramp up some of its training of ukrainian troops in germ thi. what does that say to you that they are doubling the number of troops?any. what does that say to you that they are doubling the number of troops? >> ukrainians have fought with incredible brilliance. their volunteer force, it's a nation with a million people in uniform. so they basically matched the russians and backed them down. on the other side of the equation, russians have terrible moral. , stupid leadership, suffering huge casualties, great equipment losses and their economic base can't keep up with the war thr fighting. i'm optimistic, but it's a brutal situation in particular this winter. >> i want to switch gears

because you were also the drug czar during the clinton administration. there's a harrowing report about the number of americans who are being culled by fentanyl. so they analyzed the latest numbers from the cdc. here's what they found. from 2019 to 2021, fatal overdoses surged 94% and an estimated 196 americans are dying each day from the drug. the equivalent of a fully loaded boeing 757 200 crashing and killing everyone on board. every single day. away are we do about this? >> it's a tragedy you can situation. it's unbelievable. i'm still very much involved in that world in terms of treatment and prevention. last year we had 109,000 americans die from overdose. predominantly it was opioids, but also methamphetamine now

surging. in addition, over 101,000 died of alcohol abuse. these are losses that far exceed the annual rate in world war ii. if you talk to an emergency room doctor or a police officer or social worker or a judge, it is devastating. we're not focused on it. and part of it had been in my view the normalization of drug use. i tell people if you're an employer, if you're a parent, if you're a schoolteacher, you have to have a message that says in this group we don't use drugs. that includes marijuana. >> but is that going to deal with the immediate problem, which is you have the equivalent of a plane load of people dying every day? what do we do for those folks now? >> we have a seemingly magic drug, which you can reverse fentanyl overdose and bring somebody magically back to life

if you get to them in time. but i personally believe at the end of the day, it's a community prevention and education program that brings this under control. the treatment programs are sophisticated. aa is out there. narcotics anonymous is out there. but once you're chronically abusing an opioid like fentanyl, you're in trouble. so prevention, education, parents, talk to your kids. a lot of these kids have no idea that they are taking fentanyl. 80% of the pills floating around out there now aren't what they say they are. they are laced with fentanyl. so it's almost murder or suicide using an unknown pill. >> general mccaffrey, what a pleasure to have you here. i always love having you on the show. but having you in person is fantastic. happy holidays. >> same to you. >> thank you. and in idaho, more than a month since the murders of four college students, family members of one victim worry this case

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intruder in the middle of the night, trying to communicate to 911 that he's definitely in danger, but refers to the suspect as this gentleman. you can hear david in the background say the name is david. they really just the scene is so chilling. then there's the body camera footage, in which you see police officers arrive at the house. they each have a hand on the hammer, but it's only when the officer says drop the hammer, that's when he veers back and strikes this grandfather in the head. at this point, we know that the trial will go forward because of this evidence and we know that david had designs on far more than the speaker's husband. the actor tom hanks was on his list, governor newsom. it's not clear he had had the power to go after these figures, but they were certainly on his list. that's what he's been telling investigators. so new details in this court appearance. >> so joyce, the defense lawyer indicated that he may have been

vulnerable to misinformation. yesterday the district attorney shut down that strategy. take a listen. >> i'm not in a position to assess his mental state, other than to say he clearly had a plan and acted on that plan. >> but is there a viable defense strategy in vulnerability to misinformation? >> i think a lot of people would like to take advantage of that sort of a defense, but no, it's not. in reality what the defense lawyer is hinting a at here is that maybe some sort of hen tall incapacity or perhaps even an insanity defense in the works. those are difficult to put forward. obviously, they depend upon the facts and on medical analysis. the da says the right thing here. obviously, she'll have to deal with that defense if it is raised in a sustained way. but she points out that there's a very deliberate plan by someone who is able to carry it out, who acted deliberately in

the face of police presence. no reason to believe he wasn't competent at the time he committed this crime. >> and just after that hearing in the pelosi case, doj announced an indictment of a man suspected of threatening an arizona state election official. there were these series of voice mails. allegedly he said, quote, a war is coming for you and we will stop at no end until you are in the ground. on the other voice mails, prosecutors say he threatened your days are extremely numbered and you'll pay with your life. given the political climate now, is doj sending a message that threats are taken very seriously, even if they come from across the country? >> yes, that's the only way to read this prosecution. doj has durs gymnastics because of the nature of this particular threat. we have to have a system that protects our election workers. we already know that in some

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>> i never heard wind so bad my whole life. it sounded like the devil was out there. >> 40-foot waves crashed into their vessel. leaving them with no power, no gas, no food, barely any water, for ten days. the rescue effort started after frantic family members called authorities. leaving the coast guard sunday, on a search by air and sea, that spanned more than 20,000 square miles. finally on tuesday, a crew member from an international cargo ship spotted the boat, 200 miles off the coast of delaware. >> he came around and he picked us up. it was amazing. it was like finding a needle in a hay stack. >> finding them was one miracle. getting them on board the massive oil tanker was another. and an intense effort that took three hours. the cell phone video captured the crew using a cargo net to rescue the weary boaters. the captain of the ship calling the rescue a divine

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