♪♪ good morning. i'm lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york city. right now an alarming yet al too familiar trend in the new year. so far there have been more mass shootings than days in 2023. in a few hours, vice president

kamala harris heads to her home state of california. while she's visiting the community of monterey park, the suspect of the shooting in half moon bay will appear in caught. it's being described as a, quote, act of workplace violence. the agency revealing a personal grievance of some sort of is the single most common motive for mass attackers. the latest on the investigations in monterey park and half moon bay. intensifying drama on capitol hill. kevin mccarthy officially refusing to seat two predominant democrats on the powerful house intel committee. >> those members will have other committees but the intel committee is different. hakeem jeffries has 200 other people who can serve on that committee. >> how democrats are responding this morning and the pushback he's even getting from within his own party. but first in the next hour, president biden is set to give a

big update on the war in ukraine. nbc news reports that the biden administration is reversing course and will send tanks just as germany says it will send its own shipment of tanks with other european allies, expected to follow suit. we begin with that update we're expecting from president biden in the next hour. joining me right now, nbc news correspondent raf sanchez in ukraine, courtney kube, and former brigadier general. walk us through your reporting on the decision-making at the heart of it. >> as recently as about five days ago, u.s. officials here and the pentagon all around the biden administration were saying that there was no intention to send tanks to ukraine, logistical concerns, difficult to maintain, they take months for soldiers to train on, and there's this issue of exportable

versions. so the u.s. in order to provide these tanks to ukraine would have to give them a version that doesn't have all of the sensitive equipment that the u.s. military uses. so they would either have to be retrofitted or have to potentially come from private industry. that's what's happening here. the u.s. is going to provide them through a package called usai which means it's money and it's pulling from private industry. even though that's the case, it's still going to be a matter of many months before these tanks make their way into ukraine. not to mention, the training that i just mentioned. it's going to take quite a number of months before the military is trained on it. all of that as backdrop. the u.s. has been advising against sending these for those reasons for months, as recently as friday we also spoke with a senior administration official who indicated that the u.s. wasn't going to cave to german pressure, the germans saying they wouldn't send any tank until the u.s. sent their abrams. a couple of days later, we're in a position where the biden

administration is prepared to announce they're sending a couple dozen of these thanks. this comes as schultz said this morning that they were going to send 14 of their leopard tanks. we expect the u.s. announcement will be to send more than that 14, more than double that number, in fact. it's interesting how the u.s. only a couple of days ago saying it's not going to happen or it's not going to happen any time soon. we're now expected to hear from the president about it in the next hour or so. >> we've been having that discussion every day this week. what's the reaction been from ukraine so far? >> well, lindsey, it's partly relief that that diplomatmatic deadlock has finally come to an end. i cannot tell you how frustrated ukrainian officials, but also just ordinary people in this country have been watching what they perceive to be the western allies kind of going in circles, not really getting to yes on this question of tanks. they have now got to yes. we heard from president zelenskyy a little while ago.

he said he is extremely grateful but he said the key question here is how quickly can these battle tanks actually get here to eastern ukraine and be put into action against vladimir putin's forces. the ukrainian government is warning the russians are regrouping, they are preparing for a potential new offensive, possibly in the next couple of weeks and they really want these tanks to be on the front lines by them, whether that is realistic or not, remains to be seen. it's likely we'll see the leopard 2s arriving from poland long before we see any of these american m-1s deployed here in ukraine. this is a good news day on what happens to be president zelenskyy's 45th birthday. >> let's talk about these tanks in question and how much of an impact they could have on the front lines here, especially given some of the issues that raf and courtney has addressed, the training that's needed. will this make a big difference?

>> the tanks are important. and they won't in the beginning have an effect on the entire battle front. but they can absolutely play critical roles in tactics and areas in specific fights and attacks and counterattacks. as the number grows, then the ability of the ukrainians to expand, if you will, their attacks or counterattacks will grow. there will be challenges, courtney, and i think that the most important one is you have each one comes with a logistics train. different parts, different maintenance and so they will need to be in specific units. you won't have them all jumbled together.

you would have a leopard company, you would have in theory an m-1 company. there's talk about eventually battalion going in. several hundred parts are anticipated to be in the pipeline now that the -- now that the germans have consented. it will be up to another dozen european nation that will send them. you just don't arrive, you have to pull them together, organize them, continue to train crews, and commit them. but in the aggregate, this is a major shot in the arm for the ukrainians. it also pulls us together, the free-minded nations of the west, and it is also a powerful signal to vladimir putin and the russians who 11 months ago, we have to remember, commenced this

monstrous aggression on ukraine. that's the reason we're doing this and that's why it's so important. finally, as you see in your chart there, over time maybe months, you will get several hundred or more leopards. >> my thanks to all of you. i want to turn now to the gun violence gripping our nation. vice president harris is heading back to her home state of california today as it is reeling from three mass shootings that have left 19 people dead in a matter of days. the white house says she'll visit monterey park to stand and mourn with the community. the gunman killed 11 people and injured nine others this weekend. her visit underscores the epidemic of gun violence just this year. according to the gun violence archives, more than 70 people have been killed in 40 mass

shootings nationwide compared to 27 at this point last year. and the secret service just released a new report detailing trends in mass shootings and other attacks in public places. jake ward is near the site of one of the attacks in half moon bay. erin mclaughlin is in monterey park. jake, the suspect in the half moon bay shooting is due in court this afternoon. what more are we learning about this case? >> reporter: we know at 1:30 p.m. local, the suspect is intended to be in court. we're expecting him to be arraigned on seven counts of first-degree murder. we know at this point that investigators have essentially found him to be pretty cooperative. he's described some of the shooting to them and supposedly left a note for his wife in the

front seat of the car from which he was tackled at the sheriff's substation where that footage we brought you yesterday showed him being taken to the ground. in that note, he describes the shootings in a matter of fact way and asks his wife to take care of their adult child living in china. beyond that, lindsey, we're looking at what the authorities are doing here to try and pick up the pieces for the victims' families. as you know, these were all migrant laborers, a mix of latino and asian laborers that were killed in this case, and that makes, of course, the help that they need sort of difficult to provide. we just got off the phone with county officials who tell us that they will provide mental health services, food, shelter and some wage reimbursement to basically keep these families on their feet as long as needed. so we have here the combination of immigrant labor which is such an important part of how california puts food on the table and gun violence coming

together in this terrible, terrible way and made all that much more terrible considering that it is affected one of the most marginalized, most vulnerable populations this country really has, lindsey. >> erin, let's turn now to the shooting in monterey park. what more do we know about the vice president's visit and what else are we learning about that case. >> hey, lindsey, here outside of the dance hall where 11 men and women lost their lives, gunned down while they were dancing to celebrate the lunar new year on saturday night, there's a growing makeshift memorial to facilitate the grieving the process. the community put out a table with pens and paper and flowers saying take a flower, leave a message. monterey park, i hope you know how loved you are and people have been leaving notes and flowers by the hundreds. you can see over there, that memorial is growing. they've also put out the photos

of some of the victims, the coroner's office yesterday releasing the names and birth dates of all 11 victims. you can see here, mymy nhan, there's a note from a child. and there's a photo of valentino, his note says may you rest in peace and dance in heaven. last night there was a candlelight vigil. hundreds of members of the community came out to grieve together and many of the community members talking about gun violence and mental health. take a listen. >> the number one thing is to ensure we have less guns on the street, fewer guns in people's homes and, you know, anybody can go through a mental health crisis. people all over the world go through mental health crises. we have great resources to address those. we obviously need more of that. but the easiest thing is to have fewer guns out there.

>> reporter: at that vigil last night, a note was read out by a representative from the white house to let this community know that president biden is mourning with this community, that the nation is mourning with this community and we're expecting the vice president to visit this area later today to sort of reinforce this message. >> those notes are heartbreaking. thank you. thanks to jake ward as well. julia, these are the real-life impacts here of these horrific tragedies and i mentioned that secret service report on mass attacks here. what did they find? >> yeah, lindsey, when they scheduled this week to put this out, i think they had no idea how relevant it would be. but this comes from the secret service's national threat assessment center this. was begun as an organization to try to assess risk for places where, say, a president would be going. now they're sharing the data with the public. and they looked at 173 attacks that injured three or more

people between 2020 -- between 2016 and 2020. i also want to put that in context. that's far fewer than one per day. now you're looking at more than one a day just so far this year in 2023. but some of the key findings of this study showed that one quarter of the perpetrators were motivated by a conspiracy theory or some kind of hate-based ideology, whether that be anti-semitism, antigovernment sentiment, misogyny or racism and this would have included the walmart shooting that targeted the latino community in el paso, as well as the tree of life shooting at the synagogue in pittsburgh, targeting the jewish community there. they also found in the vast majority of the cases, there was a gun used, but that when guns were used, more than 80% of those attacks did result in a fatality. but when other weapons like knives were used, there was less than 50% fatality rate. a third of those that used guns were long guns.

it would be considered automatic or semiautomatic weapons and they also found, though, that the primary motivator was not hate, although that was the case in a quarter of them, but just personal grievances. and i spoke to the people who put this report together yesterday, it's hard to imagine how you rid society of personal grievances. but they want to educate people, whether they be the chief of a police department in a small town or any city across the nation, all the way down to the educator, to the parent, to the roommate, to look for signs. one-third of these attacks were planned with evidence. people saw signs of people planning these attacks, pulling away, coming up with the same kind of ideology that might have motivated them. they're hoping that people will pay attention to the signs and that there could somehow be more prevention of the tragedies that we're learning about today. >> all right, julie, thank you. coming up, the justice department is launching a

federal civil rights investigation into the death of tyre nichols. what the u.s. attorney said in just the past hour. homes ripped apart and cars flipped on their sides after tornados tore through the houston area. the latest on the damage. and what to make of the new revelations that former vice president pence also had classified documents at his home and whether the classification system needs to change.

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this morning, we're learning more about the federal civil rights probe surrounding the death of a 29-year-old man who died days after a traffic stop in memphis, tennessee. last hour, the u.s. attorney for the western district of tennessee briefed reporters on the investigation into tyre nichols' death cautioning that it will take some time. attorneys for nichols family said the early findings in an autopsy showed he was severely beaten prior to his death

earlier this month. police said they pulled nichols over for reckless driving. he ran away and there was a confrontation when they tried to detain him. priscilla thompson was at that press conference in memphis. i'm joined by joyce vance, law prosecutor at the university of alabama, co-host of the sisters-in-law podcast. what else did we learn in that press conference? >> we learned that the u.s. attorney did meet with the family of tyre nichols earlier this week and he promised them that this investigation would be thorough. he said that it would take time, but that investigators would go wherever the facts may lead them. i want to play what he shared with reporters today. take a listen. >> the department of justice cares deeply about potential violations of constitutional rights here in memphis and throughout america. this federal civil rights investigation will be thorough,

it will be methodical, and it will continue until we gather all the relevant facts. >> reporter: and the u.s. attorney also addressed the issue of the body cam footage this morning which the family has seen but has not yet been made public. he said it is up to the state and local authorities when to release that body cam footage but he hopes that when it is ultimately released, that any reaction or response to that video would be peaceful and nonviolent and that is a message that we heard the family of tyre nichols and attorneys saying earlier this week after they viewed the video and compared it to the beating of rodney king in the early '90s. we remember the outcry that came after that happens. but as for when this video will be made public, the district attorney's office has said that they intend to do that either this week or next, but that they want to ensure that the public release of this video does not

interfere with the ongoing investigation. lindsey? >> so, joyce -- priscilla, thank you. per the point about the body cam video that state officials are looking into this, what are they weighing here and why the delay? >> so there are solid legal reasons, but often sometimes just a desire by the agency to delay the inevitable that slows the release of body camera footage from a purely prosecutorive point, you want to speak to any of the offices who have been fired, but you want the opportunity to speak to those who are willing to speak, to see if you can develop a cooperator or more than one among the group before the video itself becomes public and it's the same reason prosecutors don't like to release evidence in their cases while they're still investigation. you don't want to give a road map to possible defendants, you

don't want them to have the opportunity to make their stories more consistent than they might otherwise be, but the reality is in this case, because of the statements made by the u.s. attorney in memphis and others, it sounds like the video is horrific. it sounds like the beating was horrific and criminal. and the fear here is that the release will lead to mass protests and violence in the community. i hope we see the community protests, what it sounds like is coming, i hope we see that happen peacefully and as a force for change. >> memphis officials haven't released a detail account either. it's been two weeks since nichols died. what questions do you have? >> my biggest question is whether the local and state officials will get out of the way and let doj do the prosecution. i think that that's probably the most appropriate thing here. doj has ample statutory jurisdiction. they can charge the civil rights

conspiracy crime, the punishment for a crime that results in death is very serious, up to and including the death penalty, more likely a life imprisonment scenario here and we heard the u.s. attorney say that he's working with the civil rights division which has assigned an experience prosecutor. that's where the investigation and prosecutor needs to take place. >> thank you. up next, since the last two vice presidents and the last former president have all still had classified documents once they left office, is something wrong with the system? experts weigh in on that and the potential issue of overclassification. plus, more of speaker mccarthy's fellow republicans have come out against his plan to boot key democrats from house committees. can they stay? the latest on that fight ahead. can they stay? the latest on that fight ahead not so smart. (cecily) nah, you're still a genius. but, there is a smarter way to save. (einstein) oh?! (cecily) switch to verizon! for a limited time,

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a, quote, small number were found last week at his india home after he asked outside counsel to conduct a search. pence's attorney says he was unaware of the existence of the documents and is cooperating fully. with me now kelly o'donnell at the white house, ken dilanian and matt miller, former chief spokesman for the dea. ken, what more are we learning here about how the pence team turned over these documents and also could this potentially rise to a third special counsel? >> that's the big question, lindsey. in terms of the logistics of what happened here, pence's lawyers are saying that out of an abundance of caution in the wake of the biden revelations, pence decided to have them search his belongings to make sure he didn't have any classified documents after he proclaimed that he was sure that

he didn't have any after he left the vice presidency. and they found four documents that contained documents that appeared to have classified markings. they say they turned them over to the national archives and then the justice department got involved and the archives said that the justice department bypassed traditional procedures and wanted to take possession of the documents and the pence team consented that they do that. it's unclear what the fbi and the justice department is doing here, whether they are reviewing, whether they are contemplating a criminal investigation and the question you asked about a special counsel is an appropriate one and a big one, because some might say, if there was a special counsel in biden case, why wouldn't there be one in the pence case. but if this was completely inadvertent and innocent packing of the wrong documents, there would appear to be no grounds for a criminal investigation and it would seem that they could rule that out. but we'll have to wait and see. >> what's the latest from the

white house? >> reporter: you might think that the biden white house would say welcome to the party, mr. pence. but they have not done that. they have taken the approach of wanting to distance this as they have with the matter involving the president and his papers from when he served as a senator and a vice president, deferring any comment to the department of justice and to the president's personal lawyers. so they're not engaging on this. even though it might suggest that there is in political terms some of the pain can be spread across a broader group of people. it might suggest that there is -- it will be up to the american people to decide this, if there is a more explainable, more understandable process here that even though there are hard and fast rules about the possession and retention of these kinds of documents, that maybe inadd very the answer can happen and maybe it will not have the political affect. it also, of course, involves the republican former vice president

who has been at odds with president trump and so it does make this less of a political issue in terms of party. so the white house isn't directly commenting on this. it will play out and we'll see if it has an impact and how people perceive this going forward. so many questions still to be answered about what the underlying content of these documents and each of these cases is, what is the subject matter, what is the material, what are the dates involved? is it material that is still directly relevant to current issues that are highly classified and so forth? so more questions than answers. and at this point the biden white house is trying to refer questions and not engage in this on a daily basis. >> here's what admiral john kirby and dick durbin said about the string of discoveries. >> we take that seriously every day. we don't need reminders to know that the proper treatment of classified material is something

that we all have to abide by. every single day that you come into work, you really can't do the job here without having access to classified information. >> we can have people in foreign countries who are literally giving us information for the benefit of the security of the united states who risk their lives to do it. and we shouldn't be careless in the documentation that comes from their cooperation. >> matt, more lawmakers and former officials are speaking out. they're saying america's system for handling classified documents is broken and far too many documents are classified. gatekeepers are charged with tracking the papers and they're struggling to keep up. do you agree, and if that's the case, what needs to happen? >> i think there are two problems here, one is that we certainly do overclassify too much information. it's a problem that has

bedeviled several administrations but it's a tough one to fix. there are millions of people with security clearances and the structures that exist incentivize you to keep things secret because you might make a mistake if you don't classify something that should be classified. there's a related problem that we're seeing play out in the biden case and i think we're going to see play out in the pence case and that's that the justice department is unnecessarily overlaying the criminal justice -- the criminal investigative process into what are innocent mistakes. i think ken is right when he talks about the pence investigation, that if the former vice president found this information himself, there's no sign of criminal intent and there really is no reason for there to be a criminal investigation. and i think the same thing was true in president biden's case. it's something that they found themselves, they didn't keep it secret, they didn't lie to the government, they reported it themselves and have cooperated.

there's no sign of criminal intent. and i think in cases like that, the justice department makes a big mistake in trying to institute this heavy-handed investigative process that should be reserved for cases when we know people intended to mishandle classified documents either because they wanted to keep them for some inappropriate reason, give them to a former government, leak them to reporters. that's what the criminal justice system ought to be reserved for, not what our ultimately unfortunate but innocent mistakes. >> do you see the appointment of a special counsel in the biden case as a mistake and do you see maybe the fact that biden and pence have these documents, there's no potential intent for criminality, do you see that in a different bucket as former president trump and the mar-a-lago case? >> look, i think the trump case is very different because you have evidence here. i think if he had returned to the documents once it was discovered that he had them, it would look very much like the biden case and the pence case

and there would be no need for a criminal investigation, but that's not what he did. he withheld those documents, misled the government and that's like other cases where people have been prosecuted for mishandling documents. i think it was a mistake to appoint the special counsel in the biden case. i think the career officials and the u.s. attorneys at the justice department can handle these cases. but i think having done so in both these cases, the precedent that merrick garland set is if you are a candidate for president, you will have to be investigated not by the sitting officials at the justice department, by the special counsel. they may be able to handle the pence case now through existing channels, but if he does declare a run for president, as i think most people expect him to do, i don't see how the attorney general avoids appointing yet another special counsel. >> kelly o'donnell, ken dilanian, matt miller, thank you. turning now to the intensifying drama on capitol

hill over committee assignments. house speaker kevin mccarthy is officially denying two predominant democrats seats on the house intelligence committee. adam schiff and eric swalwell. mccarthy is signaling he intends to push for the removal of minnesota democrat ihan omar from the international affairs committee. we know which republicans mccarthy has seated. it will be chaired as expected by ohio's jim jordan and the controversial panel will probe perceived wrongdoing by the federal government against conservatives. and on the new subcommittee on the coronavirus, marjorie taylor greene who has previously been suspended for social media platforms for promoting covid misinformation and has suggested that dr. anthony fauci should be in jail. garrett haake is following all of this. of course, kevin mccarthy isn't the first speaker to reject members from the opposite party from committees, nancy pelosi

did the same thing. but the circumstances are different here. when pelosi did it and now mccarthy doing it. talk about the pushback that mccarthy is getting from his own party. >> on the issue of select committees of which house intel is one, the speaker gets authority to decide who sits on a committee. it's unusual for a speaker to reject a member outright and that's what he's done there. mccarthy has been telegraphing that neither schiff nor swalwell would serve since last year, even before democrats moved in a bipartisan fashion to remove marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar from their committees for a different set of facts. mccarthy made this promise to his voters and members and last night he made clear he was going to keep it. democrats are frustrated by this move but really there's not much they can do. i asked pete agular, the number three house democrat about this at a news conference and here's what he said the caucus' reaction was to the move last

night. >> i think it's ridiculous that the speaker would kick two good members who know a lot about the intelligence world off of the committee while at the same time seating george santos and giving him two committee assignments. >> this is the argument democrats want to make, that if mccarthy says this is about members who lie, his argument, that these members had lied, they can't be trusted, democrats are saying, look, there's nobody up here that you even would trust less than george santos. mccarthy's counter point to that, this is not the intel committee that he's seating george santos on. they're not dealing with the nation's secrets. around and around we go. >> george santos is clarifying a $500,000 loan he made to his campaign. he's saying it didn't come from personal funds. >> one of the big mysteries here and perhaps his greatest legal exposure is on this question of

where did he campaign money come from? originally, he said it was a loan from himself. he now says it's a loan from somebody. it's not clear where this loan came from. i'm out to his campaign manager, we're trying to get some answers on what exactly is going on here, but this has been a focus of investigations both legal and congressional. mark this space, we're going to find out i think ultimately where this money came from. it could be a really key piece to the kind of santos mystery and whether or not he gets to stay in congress. the news conference last night, kevin mccarthy said if the ethics committee or any other group finds that santos did something illegal, that's when house republicans would likely act against him. this is an important space to watch. >> garrett haake, thank you. coming up, pushing for a breakup. why the justice department says google's domination of online announced leads to a monopoly and how they're pushing to break

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in the south, more dangers storms are expected after a spree of tornados ripped through parts of texas and louisiana. more than a dozen tornados reported in the houston area left a trail of debris and multiple people hospitalized. thousands of people there are still without power. parts of the midst and northeast are facing a winter storm threat with dangerous icy conditions. bill karins is standing by. take us through what areas are still impacted. >> so mostly now we're focusing on the southeast coast, also into areas of the great lakes in the northeast. but we have to take a step back. this is the peak of winter and we're talking about a tornado outbreak. i've talked more about tornados this winter than i have blizzards. this same line produced numerous tornados. 15 tornado reports in all. so far this month, we've had 157

tornado reports, even two in california. most of them all from areas of east texas and through the southeast. remember what happened about a week and a half ago in alabama with that horrific outbreak. if you're wondering how unusual this has been, this is the most active record number of reports of tornados we've ever had in january before. the records go back to the year 2000. it gives you a general idea. the average is typically 36 tornados. we've had 157 so far and we're not done yet. we could get some isolated tornados today. we have our tornado watch. the line of storms just cleared tallahassee. so i can give you the all clear. these storms will head towards lake city, eventually towards the east coast later this afternoon and that's when they could get stronger near jacksonville, savannah. here's the area of concern for the slight risk of storms today. the storms right now are heading through here and then they'll be intensifying this afternoon, even wilmington and the outer

banks. isolated tornado. more likely wind damage with the stronger storms. winter storm warns in indianapolis to detroit. we're starting to get that snow heading up through pennsylvania. so still a lot of trouble out there, but i don't think we're going to see destruction like tornados from yesterday. >> let's go over to maggie wes vespa. what are you seeing. >> reporter: you can see the snow is coming down right now in minneapolis. it started snowing overnight and officials wasted no time closing down schools knowing that the roads were going to get slick and they definitely have. people are taking it slow. as you saw in your intro, this is nothing compare today what so many people down south or dealing with. the video out of texas and louisiana is absolutely stunning. again, a reported 14 tornados in 24 hours. we've seen video of homes torn apart. we've seen cars and semis at that point, flipped on their sides and the stories that we're

hearing on the ground are absolutely jaw-dropping. take a listen. >> i thought it was a thunderstorm. but all of a sudden a building shook, everything. i thought the roof was going to come down on top of me. i've been through numerous thunderstorms, a couple of tornado watches, everything. this is the first time it's hit this close. >> and we are hearing reports of injuries again in both states, texas and louisiana. and then as you said, this tomorrow making its way through the midwest in realtime as it made its way through chicago, we saw slight cancellations and delays begin to stack up. just this morning, 200-plus cancellations at midway and o'hare combined. it's been the story of the season. obviously, if you are planning to travel today, the ripple effect of that likely to spread, so a good time to sign up for those alerts and download the app for your airline. this latest round of severe winter weather barrels east.

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congresswoman omar of minnesota. we see adam schiff back to the podium. he and swalwell spoke to the fact kevin mccarthy wants to kick them off their committees. he is taking questions. >> you should not be on the intelligence committee because he said you told lies. i want to give you a chance to respond. >> i could just say that mr. mccarthy's rationalizations, justifications keep shifting. the cardinal sin appears to be that i led the impeachment of his master in mar-a-lago, for withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid in ukraine, a nation at war with russia in order to extort that country into helping donald trump's re-election campaign. we proved those facts and got the first bipartisan vote in the

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right now on "andrea mitchell reports," president biden under pressure from germany, switching gears and agrees to send advanced american tanks to ukraine. a long-range deployment aimed at president zelenskyy gain leverage over russia and retake crimea. this hour, the mishandled classified documents controversy spreading to former vice president mike pence's home in indiana. the legal and political fallout just ahead. what about other former presidents and vice presidents? is speaker mccarthy retaliating against top democrats for leading