>> welcome. back i'm cory -- in for yasmin vossoughian. we continue to follow breaking news overseas. the final moments of a deadly plane crash caught on camera. and to special counsel investigations involving a current and former president leading to heated rhetoric on sunday shows. >> they apply a special counsel. how many agents do they apply to that and president trump as well? this is just hypocrisy. >> we want equal treatment here with respect to hell former president trump and current president biden are being treated with the document and

she. >> it's important to point out that the biden push was very different. a very sharp contrast to donald trump's handling of the situation. >> in a moment i will talk to congressman jim clyburn, a member of the democratic leadership, about that and the looming debt ceiling showdown with house republicans this week. plus more calls for the removal of serial liar george santos from office. we will look into his mysterious political fortune. in missouri, democratic women fight back against an effort to police what they wear. >> i spent 1200 dollars on a suit and i can't wear it in the peoples house because someone who doesn't have the range tells me it's inappropriate. and that's not why any of us were elected, mister speaker. none of us. >> and that is state representative rachel who will join me this hour to talk about her battle to bear arms. we start this hour at the top here with president biden and his allies defending their handling of classified

materials as a third discovery comes to life. let's get to washington post senior political reporter, aaron blake. as we mentioned, this is the third announcement here. you get the sense from people around the president that they are confident this could be a last discovery here, given that latest batch of documents found? >> if you look at what they said yesterday in their public release, they don't sound all that confident in that because they left open the possibility explicitly so that there could be additional documents that are found, they said they were unsure whether this was the extent of them. we have documents that we were found in a -- starting from early november until just last week. i think they are playing this careful, they don't want any future revelations to undermine them, especially since they are under heat for how they have handled this so far and they did leave open the possibility that there are more, i imagine there is a very extensive search going on for that as we speak right now.

>> let's get into the politics of all this. i want to read a headline from you guys at the post. quote, biden trump cases aren't alike. the political system doesn't care. this seems to be the general consensus here but don't think he differences between these cases matter? not only for the political record but for voters? >> there's no question that it matters. this does provide a very good opportunity for republicans to muddy the water by basically putting these cases in front of people and arguing that they are only superficially similar. what we know is that there is a difference according to what we know now in the volume of the documents, the effort to keep them hidden. there were subpoenas, they were efforts by the national archive to give the documents back. there was a resistance there. when you see these republicans on the sunday show talking about a double standard here, i would imagine if joe biden had hidden documents and not responded to efforts to get them back, we might have seen a

similar situation. the situations aren't completely analogous on that front. you can argue that there should have been more transparency when the documents were first found in president biden's office back in november. according to everything we know now, there are still significant differences between these two cases. it does provide a very good opportunity for people who didn't show a lot of concern about donald trump's documents to suddenly argue that this is fair play. >> you wrote a piece about the sudden proliferation of special councils. here's something on that. quote, our countries polarization and a growing mistrust of federal law enforcement, particularly on the right, have pushed this to the forefront. this begs the question, is the special counsel even necessary? it seems to be impacting decisions after criminal justice. >> it's worth emphasizing that merrick garland in his news conference last week said that this was something he was looking at even before the public knew about this.

when he appointed attorney, u.s. attorney laotian to look at this issue back in mid november, he said that was with a high courts whether there would be a special counsel here. i think the fact that there is another probe involving a special counsel and a president having documents certainly applied pressure here. you are right. it's unusual for us to have this many special counsel's. we have six now, or for now in the last six years. whereas, in the entirety of the 20th century, we had about ten, if you look at actual alleged scandals with administrations. i think one of the lessons from here is that the appointment of the special counsels creates this environment where if there is anything that looks like it might fit the criteria of having somebody who's independent from the justice department to look at things, it may create a situation where that option is more readily used. i think that is certainly the case with this, given at least of those superficial similarities to the special counsel that was appointed for

donald trump just a couple months ago. >> erin blake, senior political reporter with the washington post. erin, thank you for starting us off. i would like to bring in south carolina representative and assistant democratic house leader, jim clyburn. thank you so much for being in with us today. we appreciate it. republicans are planning to dive right into investigations of the biden administration. does this discovery of these documents give those investigations more credibility? >> thank you very much for having me. i don't think so. i think the attorney general did the appropriate thing. i'm not going to say it's the right thing to do because i know that there is a difference with the law. when you are dealing with politics, sometimes the appropriate thing may not necessarily be legally required. i think he did right to do this. i think everybody can see the

stark differences between what joe biden it is being looked at for and what donald trump was investigated for. he was asked to return documents that he claimed to be his own. he was subpoenaed. there were, reportedly, videos of people moving documents from one place in his primary residence to another. it's nothing analogous about these two incidents. what we need to do, though, is have these investigations, get to the bottom of it. then let's go forward. there is no criminality here that i can see. >> let me ask you this, representative. do you think biden and the white house should cooperate with the house investigation that is promised to be launched against him? >> well, to the extent that the

house investigates trump, i think that this white house should respond accordingly. for the house democrats to be talking about investigating these issues involving joe biden and ignoring all that's going on with donald trump is laughable. the whole country can see that. it's downright laughable. they ought to really get a hold of themselves. >> let's talk about the looming that issue. congress needs to raise the debt limit by thursday. republicans gearing up for a fight. the huffington post writes, it's not the debt, per se, that bothers him or his gop allies, it's spending programs and taxes that finance them. congressman, can democrats work with moderate republicans on a deal that raises the debt ceiling but protects the social security of those programs? >> i certainly hope so.

the last time we were confronted with this question, we saw that mitch mcconnell sat down with the leadership of the house or the senate, democratic leadership for the senate, schumer, and they walked this route which everybody -- and move forward with making sure this country is -- never get called into question. maybe they should do the same thing this time and send their work over to the house and not do -- there are enough republicans to get this done. we cannot play political games with the full faith and credit of this country. we have always paid our bills.

it's most likely to do so. we should continue to pay our bills. the american public should understand, this is not about spending in the future. this is about credit already incurred. all of that and pay our bills. this, everybody can understand. >> speaking of political gamesmanship, what's your assessment of how these last two years are going to go? republicans have passed a slew of controversial bills that are most likely to die in the senate but also refusing to work with democrats. what's your take on all this? >> i would hope that what we see going on on the other side now, the republicans doing what they feel they need to do to satisfy promises made and some expectations from their base. either way, i think they will

get beyond it very soon -- running the country in a very responsible and mature way. right now, that's not what they are doing. hopefully, this will get behind them and we can work together to make this country as great and successful for everybody. >> congressman, before you go, i want to play some sound from president biden's remarks in atlanta a short time ago. as today marks martin luther king junior's birthday. >> it's a constant struggle between hope and fear, kindness and cruelty, justice and injustice. against those who traffic in racism, extremism, insurrection. a battle fight on battlefields and bridges from court houses and -- to pulpits and protests. >> the fight for voting rights is still very much ongoing. earlier this month, we saw a federal court in south carolina ruled that the first congressional district had been drawn using a, quote, stark

racial gerrymander. how is this resonating with you today in this fight? >> as you probably know, i knew doctor king. i met him as a 19 year old college student. on the same day i met john lewis, by the way. >> that was a good day. >> i'm sorry? >> that's a good day. >> yeah, thank you. in fact, i had lunch with him eight months before he was assassinated. i thought that when the president did today in the pulpit from which dr. king spoke often as a pastor of that church was very appropriate and should remind people that -- a more perfect union ought to be continued and fundamental to the march is for everybody to have an unfettered vote in his

or her possession. that, to me, is very important. if you don't remember anything else, it would have been the 94th birthday of martin luther king junior, that we should remember. >> representative jim clyburn, thank you for your time today. we really appreciate it. >> thank you very much for having me. >> we will continue following that breaking news out of nepal now where at least 60 people are dead after a twin engine turboprop plane crashed into an airport in the central part of the country while trying to land. the final moments of the crash caught on camera. nbc's wally hunter is in london with the latest. any new information from officials there? >> cory, still no update on this. we understand there were 72 people on board in total. 68 passengers and four crew in that number 15 foreign nationals. we know from the authorities that 68 confirmed dead.

four are unaccounted for. we don't know what exactly the details or circumstances maybe around those for other people. aviation authorities have told us this plane last contacted the airport at 10:58 am this morning and crashed shortly after. ing aneverything we know is from basically two videos. we see one video, it's about ten seconds, showing this plane. this is a routine flight. it is 27 minutes from kathmandu to this resort. it shows this plane basically banking left, careening and rolling over, basically 90 degrees. at the end of the video, you hear the crash. the other video we see is at the crash site. pieces of the fuselage, very steep ravine. you see investigators search and rescue on the scene. according to police authorities, -- they will resume tomorrow morning. when you look at those pictures, it's really hard not to see the

media has gone from search and rescue to recovery already. the prime minister spoke earlier. he said the incident was tragic, the full force of the army and police have been deployed for rescue. there will be a full investigation looking at all evidence, including the black box, of the flight recorder, as well as additional videos that we haven't seen. eyewitnesses, corey, talk about a big plume of black smoke, fiery crash. we can see that video from minutes after the crash. a big picture -- the record is not great historically. this is really, sear yes. this is the deadliest crash, the deadliest aviation accident since 1992, cory. >> those images very upsetting to look at. molly hunter, thank you. still ahead from resume lies to mysterious campaign finance. we will look at all the possible consequences facing republican george santos. first, female lawmakers call

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return to missouri's house of representatives this week with a new dress code. the result of a 100 and 5 to 51 gop majority vote as part of a new rules vote. that republican led house now recurrent -- to cover their arms on the house floor. democrats denounced the dress code change. take a listen. >> i spent 1200 dollars on a suit, i can't wear it in the peoples house because someone who doesn't have the range tells me that it's inappropriate. that's not why any of us were elected, mister speaker. >> you saw her right. they're now state representative raychel proudie joining me. a democrat serving missouri's seven either district. thank you so much for being with us, representative. we really appreciate that. in defense of the stricter dress code, one republican said, quote, all we're trying to do is take the same rules that we have and make them more clear. explain to viewers what this dress could really mean. >> sure.

representative shields actually did make the house rule more clear to be forthright. we always had to cover our arms. what is wild to me is that the commentary around this assumes that if we are not in constructive blazers than we are walking around the peoples house with spaghetti straps. that certainly isn't the case. there is articles of clothing between bare arm and blazers that women can wear. we did make it more clear, what he did was restrict the wearing f cardigans with buttons. i personally asked him the amendment maker to the house rules what he meant by it, and that's what she said. we can read. no one, since i've been in that body, has been almost five years, has ever come in there with spaghetti straps or something like that.

i'm not sure if this was just posturing but it was certainly uncalled for. >> that was my question. has this ever been an issue that they feel this was one of the first things they need to take up when they come to the session? you've answered that. what is the consequence for coming into work sleeveless? >> excellent question. that's where you found my caucus, the democratic caucus, we're concerned. it can cause the speaker of the house did not recognize us while we are in the middle of speaking or advocating or offering an amendment or speaking on behalf of constituents. another member can call a point of order which would stop discussion because we would then be out of order if we weren't in a dress code. there are concerns about disenfranchising women specifically if we don't look or professionalism, which is subjective, isn't it here to

buy this particular member. >> what are some of the issues missouri house republicans should be focused on instead of this? >> one of the first comments that we got is that they are trying to make our dress code match the men's. it's good for them, it's good for us, et cetera. if we want to make things equitable for women and men, what we can do is make paternity leave time equitable. i have never heard of any gentleman or any man say they could potentially help their mates or be a better father when those legislators in missouri would cover their arms. we could focus and not taking professional line sensing for individuals who after the pandemic are behind on child support, so that they are able to continue to work and take care of their children. our infant maternal mortality rate in missouri, some places in rivalry, rivals that of third world countries. we want to focus on that.

we want to talk about making things equitable for men and women, and there are myriad things that could and should be done. instead, we are trying to ban cardigans. it's patently ridiculous and quite frustrating. frankly, it's embarrassing. >> embarrassing. that's a good way to put it. the fact that we have to have this conversation. sorry to ask you this, but last question, not that it's going to be the focus, but fifth check, what are you planning on wearing to work tomorrow? >> we are off tomorrow for martin luther king but i do have a crispy saint-jean, i would like to wear a saint john cardigan on tuesday, you know, for freedom. representative shields did put it back to where it was by adding the word cardigan in it. hers was clarifying, the first version was the cardigan caucus will meet in missouri. we will discuss our attire going forward. >> probably get a heck of a lot

more done than what has been done by your legislature in the first week in office here. state representative raychel proudie, thank you for being in. we will have to have you back on to not talk about clothing but to actually talk about more of these policy issues, which are important, as you laid out for us. >> that would be my absolute privilege. >> coming up right here on msnbc, how -- this day that george santos represents dealing with a serial lies and how it compares to republican leaders in washington. plus, -- >> ♪ ♪ ♪ >> look at the fuji's. the now viral dog watching business in alaska that is taking three friends on the right of their lives. and i'm still working. in the kind of work that i do,

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continues to resist calls to resign, evidence of his deceit has only continue to grow. now the question becomes how did he do so many people and what will that republican party do about it? now nbc capitol hill correspondent ali vitali reports. >> it began as so many political stories do. a newcomer without back running finance making the jump to congress. >> more defiance tonight from embattled congressman george santos. >> that wasn't actually george santos's story. after election day, it became clear that nearly his whole pitch to voters was not true. he never went to a prestigious new york private school. nor did he attend the baruch college. he was also not the start of that colleges volleyball team. he didn't work at citigroup or goldman sachs, though he told voters he did. he touted his jewish heritage, emphasis on the-ish, as it turns out. >> as i always joke, i'm jew-ish. i grew up and raised roman catholic. >> only one media outlet was on

dos santos before the election. a -- north shore leader. >> how did we not know this stuff but you guys? did >> we did! we broke this story back in september. we really knew he was a fraudster for months prior to that. we expected other people to -- not until months later. >> santa's popped to embellishments but told the new york times he did nothing unethical and apologized on fox news. >> i made a mistake. i'm having to admit this in national television for the whole country to see and i have to convert -- courage to do so. >> -- keith and kevin mccarthy's victory, which may be why he is key to let the issue play out. >> the voters of his district have elected him. he is seated, he is part of the republican conference. >> meanwhile, campaign finance watchdog groups and members of congress are raising red flags about how he financed his campaign. according to a complained -- to the federal election commission, santos had only

$55,000 to his name in 2020. in 2022, loaned his campaign more than $700,000. the campaign legal center culling his new windfall, quote, vague, uncorroborated, and non credible in light of his many previous lies. nbc news reached out to santos's office about the filing but did not receive a response. back home in nassau county, republican leaders want him gone. >> george santos's campaign last year was a campaign of deceit, lies, fabrication. >> eight congressional republican lawmakers now echoing that demand. >> but santos -- >> i was elected by 142,000 people, until they tell me they don't want me, we will find out in two years. >> some voters telling him exactly that. >> i want this man out. this is as low as you get. i mean, really. this is beyond reproach. >> it may be too long years until the voters voices are heard. >> if you are a republican, you should be outraged that that

represents you. mccarthy, i don't care if you want his vote, you are losing all the other peoples votes. >> for more on all this i'm joined by kevin fine, washington correspondent for new york one, along with new york times reporter alexander burson. thank you so much for both of you being in today. welcome in. kevin, let's begin with you. you spoke with a gop -- she said, this is going to play itself out. how are conversations playing out between local and national republican leaders and really how can they stand back and hope it all goes away? >> there is a couple different dynamics that. play when it comes to new york's republican fortunes, at this last midterm was a very good years for them. they wearable to flip several seats, including several of the rank and file republicans within congress, many of the freshman calling for him to resign. you see at least a fine ick wanting to letting it play out, seeing how this all proceed and telling me that he was a duly elected congressman.

similar to what we are hearing from kevin mccarthy, speaker of the house as well. there is the dynamic of matt. new york helped push republicans, give them a buffer when it comes to how big they are majority is, which is already very, very slim. we've seen how difficult it was for mccarthy to even become speaker. if he were to encourage him to resign, for example, that would also set up the possibility that that thick strict could flip back to blue because it is actually a favor biden district by eight percentage points in 2020. that district obviously did not exist. but if you compare the math today and is now. there is a risk that they would lose another seat and make that margins even slimmer. >> let's talk about the investigations into campaign finance, alexandra. you have the reporting about one of santos's biggest donors, a group called the redstone strategies, that raised more than $8,000 for him. his group is not registered with the federal elections commission. what do we know about it and santos's involvement? >> i'm not sure we even know that they are donors.

what they are was a group that was purporting to be raising money on his behalf right before the election. they had said they raised hundreds of thousands of dollars and we're going out to some of his biggest donors, people already maxed out, contributed the most they were allowed to give, and asking them for much more money, hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on what they said was going to be campaign advertising. santos, our recording shows, he had been involved in some of those pitches. this is a potential issue with campaign financers. also a question of where that money went. we were not able to actually find any of the advertising spending they had said they were going to do. there was also a question because there is supposed to be a separation between the campaign and and these outside groups, there is also -- you also have to disclose to the -- if you are doing this work, which they do not appear to have done.

>> alexander, your call eagles are reporting that somewhat connected republicans and santos had lied about the background, didn't do anything about. it staffers reportedly quit. does it seem like there is willful ignorance within the party to get him elected? >> what my colleague was reporting was that there was a group associated with his campaign that had done this background research. that's some of the campaign staffers actually quit over this. they bought him a new group. santos said, you know, made comfortable with this information. we have spoken to folks, some people who had concerns who felt like they were being lied to by santos. we talked to donors, a lot of people who did not necessarily have any concrete suspicions. they feel now, a lot of people do feel quite betrayed. folks in the party, the leadership feels like there's -- this taints that whole republican party there.

there is concern about that. >> kevin, something you mentioned was and the electoral map in that district. that could easily -- i shouldn't say easily, that's really my question here. if santos is out, there is a special election that governor kathy hochul would have to call. how easy would it be able to be picked back up by democrats, that seat? >> as i mentioned, the district is a plus for biden back in 2020. it's pretty dramatic in the other districts around new york city for example around the midterms. this is not a shoe in for the democrats. it's not a shoe in for the republicans either. you see the nasa republican establishment, elected's there, the leaders there trying to call on him to resign, trying to move themselves and separate themselves from him as much as possible and this could be a hypothetical if this he does not resign and he sticks around even though some of his colleagues on capitol hill i talked to are calling it an

embarrassment. they don't understand how he will be able to get anything done because of these allegations. >> i have a feeling that this will not be the last from the updates of the santos camp. kevin fry and alexandra -- for us this afternoon, thank you both for this conversation. coming up next, relentless rain in california is creating dangerous conditions across the state. leaving millions under flood watch with thousands without power. live report from some of the hardest hit areas after the break. break.

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continue to batter large areas of the state. at this hour, millions of californians remain under a flood watch. over 13,000 still without power. at least 21 people have died in the storms and estimates for the damage are in the tens of billions. president biden this weekend declaring the crisis a major disaster and authorizing federal aid for the recovery efforts. let's bring in nbc's scott conan -- thank you for being back with us. tell us the latest on the conditions. what are you hearing from residents on the ground there? >> and this unrelenting rain may finally be relenting. we are expecting another system to come through this afternoon and overnight. and then forecasters think that we are going to get a break in the pattern. what that is going to reveal as the waters subside in places like the san lorenzo river which runs through felton, there's just a big muddy mess. the river here tends to fluctuate wildly as it comes

through the santa cruz mountains. the neighborhood around here called felton road has flooded about three times in the last three weeks. residents in that neighborhood say this is clearly getting old. >> it has been tough. it is always tough. you go through this emotional rollercoaster. it's going to be okay, it's not okay. but, frankly, with my troubles in life -- i consider myself blessed and lucky. a lot of people in this world are going through things much tougher than this and they don't even live by a river. >> a lot of people in california are going through things that are even tougher. cory, as you said, 21 people at least have died. the damage expected to go into the tens of billions of dollars as they now begin the cleanup

and questions about what to do about the infrastructure in california that really was built for an era before climate change. back to you. >> scott cohen reporting out of the bay area. thank you, scott. up next, during his tribute a dr. martin luther king junior church today, president biden says is at an inflection point. reverend al sharpton -- dr. king's legacy on what would have been his 94th birthday. >> hey there, i'm ayman mohyeldin. tonight at nine eastern on ayman we will discuss's of the controversial book growing calls the supreme courts liberal justices should retire while democrats still control the senate and the white house. that is tonight, nine eastern, right here on msnbc. nexium 24hr prevents heartburn acid

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protecting our democracy. i'm remembering that our job is to redeem the soul of america. >> that was president biden in atlanta today, honoring director martin luther king junior whose life and legacy we officially commemorate tomorrow. the president attended a pre-mlk day church service at the ebenezer baptist church, led by senator raphael warnock. he became the first sitting u.s. president's peak as the monday -- sunday morning services. there was no one better to join us today then national -- nbc's politicsnation. reverend al sharpton, revenue, welcome in. president biden scheduled to join the national action networks annual mlk breakfast tomorrow morning where nancy pelosi will also be honored. rev, how do you feel about where the biden administration is in terms of police reform and voting rights, and also where the country is when it comes to mlk's goal? >> i think, clearly, the biden

administration has been very aggressive around the issue of voting rights, about a year ago this weekend, i'll never forget president biden went to atlanta and made a very passing it speech about passing the john lewis voting rights bill, which had passed the house. the republicans blocked it in the senate. they've been aggressive on that. they made sure the infrastructure bill as well as the inflation reduction bill, that there was a real pursuit of making sure that communities that had been neglected, leaders of color, black communities, were included and were covered. i think their work has been applauded. i think the tone we are seeing in the country is alarming. we see a rise in hate crimes, a rise in hate speech. we have seen this in the last year. blacks shot down for being in a

supermarket in buffalo because of their skin. we see synagogues shot up, lgbt clubs, lgbtq night club shot of latino places. we need to aggressively deal with the fact that hate has been on the rise and has gone unchecked by some in elected office. i think with the president, what he has done is exemplary. what others have done is frankly disgusting. >> this is a very difficult question. how do you deal with that? >> you deal with it by fighting back. if there is one thing we should learn from martin luther king's advocacy and legacy is you don't give up. he was stabbed, he was hit in the head with bricks. he kept going. he kept fighting. ultimately, he was assassinated and said in his last speech that we must continue to fight, go to the promised land. if he had not given up, we would have never --

moved from the back of the bus, to sit where we want it on the bus. we would have never gotten accommodation. we have gone from martin luther king fighting to get the voting rights act -- john lewis and jose williams, to having a black president of the united states elected and reelected. as we talk today, to have a sitting black woman vice president and a black woman on the supreme court by this administration. i have seen too many victories breakthrough every now and then to give up when we go through the valleys in between the mountain tops. >> you mentioned kings words. i would like to get your thoughts on congressman chip roy invoking one of mlk's most notable quotes when he was nominating congressman byron donalds for speaker. get your thoughts on it. >> for the first time in history, and there've been to black americans placed in the nomination for speaker of the

house. we do not seek to judge people by the color of their skin, but rather the content of their character. >> what do republicans miss when they use one of the only quotes any of them seem to know from martin luther king? >> and they take one line of dr. king, not the whole context of the speech. because the content of the character is based on how you treat others equally and fairly. whether it is this gentleman that they nominated, byron from florida, or whether herschel walker, they used in georgia saying it was two blacks running for the senate seat, what are they representing? are they standing for the things dr. king stood for, equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, fighting against wars and the military industrial complex. if they are not standing for that, maybe they -- ought not be quoting dr. king,

they are assuming america will not read the rest of the speeches they're quoting from. >> last few seconds i have with you, i have to get your comments on keenan anderson. a gentleman who called police in l.a. for help after a car accident. he ended up being tased to death. he could be heard yelling, they are trying to george floyd me. what are your thoughts on this? >> extremely disturbing. no way to justify it. they are trying to criminalize him when in fact the only crime that i see is to tase a man to death while he is screaming for his life. it reminds me of george floyd, it reminds me of eric garner. it is inexcusable. >> sickening. national action network president reverend al sharpton, thank you for your time tonight. we will be looking to tomorrow. you will be talking with martin luther king the third and his wife coming up on politicsnation at 5 pm eastern. everyone should for that as well. on tuesday, -- chris hayes and try mainly as they host national day of racial healing.

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