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day, another allegation of lying has been levelled against george santos and every new week, if not every new day, kevin mccarthy has been asked what are you going to do about george santos? >> did you meet with santos today? >> i did. >> what was that about? >> if every single new person brought into congress was elected by their constituent, what their constituents had done was lend their voice to the american public so those members can all serve on committee. >> are you standing by him? if you resign, that could cost you a seat. >> no. you know why i'm standing by him? because his constituents voted for him. yeah, we will be done with -- all committees. i never know about his resume or not, but i always have a few questions. >> who has more power?

joe biden or george santos? >> that's just some of the times he's been asked about it. now it appears that mccarthy might have done something about george santos after a closed door meeting with the speaker yesterday, today, george santos announced that he is stepping down from his two low level committee assignments. what he told reporters about why he is stepping down and for how long in a moment. also, a brand-new denial from santos. we also have new polling from his home district, which doesn't look great. and an exclusive interview with the most powerful person out there, bruce blakeman joins us later to tell us what will happen if santos does eventually resign. which by the way he is calling for. joining me now is nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent, garrett haake, and white house reporter and msnbc political contributor, a man usually wearing a great turtle neck, although not today.

eugene daniels. you surprise me, sir. >> it's a baby mock neck. >> we are going to move past the mock neck and talk about george santos, who some ha accused him of mocking congress by continuing to serve. he's not going to serve on these committees. what's going on behind the scenes? what happened in this meeting with mccarthy, garrett? >> love the turn there, katy. the meeting with mccarthy was probably the end of a series of discussions and realizations for santos that perhaps the best way to turn the pressure down on himself is to make himself less of a target by doing less in this congress. he will be recusing himself from his two committee seats. he says in a statement that his office just put out a few minutes ago that he'll be doing so until his name has been cleared. he points out he's the target of investigations both sort of for himself personally and for

potential campaign related issues, but by all accounts including from kevin mccarthy's, this was santos' decision, not the speaker's. here's what mccarthy has had to say about that over the last 24 hours. >> i met with george santos yesterday and i think it's an appropriate decision until he can clear everything up. >> was it something you asked? >> we had a discussion and he asked me if he could do that. >> did mccarthy tell you to step away? >> nobody tells me to do anything. i made a decision on my own. >> i think it's highly impossible that part of this decision here is just to prevent more interactions like that from happening. if santos is less in the middle of anything, he's less likely to get accosted day in and day out about any of the myriad things that he has said. i can tell you that his decision to step down was greeted warmly by the chair of the small business committee who said santos has been a distraction.

seemed pretty happy this morning that he won't be a distraction to the work of that committee. at least in the short-term. >> he's still going to get questions from reporters and mccarthy is still going to get questions about santos. this might cool things off a little, but it's not getting rid of them. and there are so many calls for him to resign. it's not just from democrats. it's from republicans. put up polling of what the new york third thinks about santos and 71% of them say mccarthy was wrong for seating on him congressional committees. 78% say he should resign from congress. he said he was going to listen to his constituents. eugene, this is his constituents talking as best they can because there's no referendum process in new york. >> exactly. and they're speaking loudly.

everyone who's talked about this issue has said the same thing and a lot is because they feel lied to. all of the things that have come out about santos have come out after he won election most after he was sworn in into congress. especially some of these more issues of ethics. i think that is something that's going to -- not go away. mccarthy's going to have to continue to talk about this and for mccarthy, this is kind of the best of both worlds. you get to keep the vote for now and he hopefully for mccarthy, becomes less of a distraction. whether that actually happens is to be seen. i will say the stepping back is a bit surprising because for a while there, it seemed like he was going to keep going with the kind of donald trump book of how to handle a scandal. kind of doubling down. look like you're enjoying it. play with the media a little bit. that was clearly too much for him and the republican party. not just the folks, but his

colleagues across the republican party are collectively breathing a sigh of relief saying this is something they were hoping was going to happen. >> donald trump had a lot of support from his base is that wasn't going anywhere regardless of what he did. republicans were sticking by his side. santos doesn't have either of those things so it becomes harder to continue to do the donald trump act when there's not that back stop behind you. he's going to step back from these committees until the investigation is over. we'll see what happens after that. coming up in a little while, we have bruce blakeman on. he's going to talk to us about what happens if george santos resigns. garrett and eugene, thank you guys very much. we're going to turn now to news in the documents probe where senate democrats are now joining republicans in applying pressure on the justice department to turn over more information on what was found at the homes of

president biden and former president trump. both sides are saying they're no longer content with the doj's request for patience. >> we're not asking them. we're asking for the intelligence community to share with us classified information we have access to but can't identify that were improperly stored in the private homes and/or think tank of at least two former government officials. >> it does not give us any additional guidance of when we can fulfill our obligation. not much different than what i've been hearing over the ensuing, proceeding weeks. >> all right. garrett haake is still with us to talk about this case because he is our man on all things capitol hill. also joining us is julie ainslie, our nbc news correspondent who covers the justice department often for us. julia, senators are not seeking information about what is in the

documents, but they're seeking information about the level of sensitivity of the documents so that they can do a damage assessment. why is doj saying no to this? >> yes, what you saw senators rubio and warner responding to there was a letter sent over from the justice department trying to reassure the senate intelligence committee that they are working on trying to share what information was found in the searches of the homes of current president and former president because as senator rubio said, it's not that they don't have access to classified information, they just can't identify what classified information may have been improperly stored and they think it's a matter of national security that they know what may have been leaked and improperly handled. the justice department said they're working hard to try to share that information with the committee, but as you can see, that was the response from the two leaders of that committee saying they were not relieved at all by that and that essentially

senator warner is saying this is the same thing they've been telling us. time is up. we need to know what national security secrets might have been compromised and that it's imperative on the justice department to be giving them the briefings now because so much has changed since the last time the justice department attempted to brief the committee in september simply on what was found in mar-a-lago. now you have another committee. you have two special counsels. you have another investigation. there's a lot more to cover here and these senators and this committee wants more. >> and it's their job to oversee the intelligence committee. that's what both mark warner, democrat, and marco rubio, republican, want. we had tom cotton says until there's more information, he's going to hold up nominations. turns out there are a lot of democrats siding with this as well wanting more answers. so this goes to delaying

nominations, are democrats going to get on board with that to get more information? >> well, they might. they don't have to. any one senator can slow down the process of moving even non-controversial nominees extensively. cotton has done it before. josh hawley has done it before. it's a not uncommon tactic. so regardless if democrats join or not, cotton alone, who is on the intelligence committee, can do this to hold things up and senators are upset about this and they point to recent precedent in the form of the mueller investigation where you had a parallel investigation going on by a special counsel where the senate intelligence committee was still getting briefed in realtime. they say guy, we have proven we can do this in a way that responsibly handles the nation's secrets while they're still able to do their jobs and so i think you're going to see this mounting pressure both on the pressure of nominees, intelligence community funding for some of these various

branches. there's various ways that senators can turn up the heat. not least of which is simply to continue to bang the gong on this publicly. not the situation the doj or intelligence community want to be in, being accused of not doing their jobs here. >> and i'm sure the white house does not like the idea of democrats holding up the pressure. julia, you have new reporting about an fbi search of the penn biden center. what can you tell us? >> that's right. we have just learned from two senior law enforcement officials that fbi actually did conduct a search in mid november of the penn biden center. that would be after when you're looking at the timeline, after the biden team notified the justice department there was some classified material that turned up in that office as they attempted to clear it out. remember, a lot of these documents were taken from the white house as president biden was on his way out from being the vice president. former president obama. this would have been their response. the fbi came in. we do not know if they found

anything material or classified in that search, but we do understand that the biden team was fully cooperative, allowing the fbi into those offices. no search warrants were needed or used. seemed to be very cooperative which stands in contrast to the fbi's search on mar-a-lago. >> that is a contrast the white house will continue to push. we cooperated. we were not stone walling. you didn't find more documents after we did searches. with the doj at least. thank you very much. this time i will say good-bye to you for good for this block. and joining me now is new york law school professor and former assistant district attorney for manhattan and director of the michael v. hayden center for intelligence policy at george mason security, larry is back with us. a former cia chief of staff and former senior director of the white house situation room. so, larry, is the white house

stopping doj from cooperating with senate intel? >> wouldn't surprised me if the intelligence community and doj is finding themselves stopped by political purposes by the white house from being more fully cooperative. >> why not? >> well, i would imagine, my best speculation is that the biden team believes that this is ultimately going to be a nothing burger and when the investigation is completed, it's going to be determined it was an accident, that the likelihood of anything being compromised was minimal and that no sources or methods were hurt. they're banking on that being the conclusion. they'd like that to define the story rather than having a continual drip, drip, drip or perhaps having certain members of congress from the other party cherry picking material that they're getting briefed on and disclosing that or insinuating about it. >> but it's also democrats who are saying we need this

information. this is our job to figure out what sort of damage might have been done or was done from these documents. it's their role as a separate branch of government. doesn't the white house or doj risk, i don't know, upsetting the apple cart in that way? not allowing the separate branch to do their job of oversight? >> i'm sure that there is some amount of risk as garrett was talking about before. you know, appointees being slowed down. perhaps money being embargoed until greater disclosure occurs, but it appears they've made a political calculation that that damage is going to be minimized ultimately by a finding by the special counsel that there was minimal damage and nothing really going wrong here. ultimately, these people at these agencies take their responsibilities to keep congress fully and currently informed very seriously and i think that the professionals, the folks who are there from administration to administration, are finding

themselves a little bit like in a meat grinder between these tech tonic plates. >> never fun to be in that situation. rebecca, another outlet is reporting that two people who did the search at mar-a-lago for the documents found there have gone in front of a grand jury. nbc news has not confirmed this and we have reached out to the trump and justice department and have not heard back. why would a grand jury. why would these two people sit for a grand jury? what sort of information would they get? >> if there's a grand jury that's hearing information on this, then the key questions are not necessarily what's in those documents, but what was intended at various different points and sometimes witnesses are critical in order to establish intent of whoever was involved with moving those documents, keeping those documents an keeping those documents for as long as they were kept away from those who were asking for them. so i think that what they would be asked was you know, what were you told, when were you told

that and you know, how did you follow those directions because those simple questions are key ways to prove intent of those who are involved. >> what do you, what does it signal to you about where the investigation into the trump documents currently stands? and when we might see a conclusion to it? >> you know, it tells you that this is not done. i don't think it gives us really good insight into a timeline, but i think it does suggest that the question of whether or not there was any criminal activity or any obstruction of justice involved is not over. because if it were over, i think these kind of inquiries would no longer be being conducted and certainly not under oath in front of a grand jury. >> how does the doj successfully navigate all of this? you've got the trump documents, biden documents, pence documents. you've got congress asking for more ability to oversight.

how does the doj deal with it all? >> i think it's a really difficult thing from the perspective of the doj, from merrick garland's perspective and the special counsel's. that's because there are so many issues and interests to balance here. there's a legitimate interest congress has in oversight, but there's also concern both about the integrity of the underlying investigation and about potential plitization that comes from congress. so we've been so, we've had our eye on this question of to what extent does the white house try to control what's going on in the department of justice, but congress also has some levers and power as we were discussing. i think there's legitimate concern and even going back to the russia investigation, there were allegations there were leaks and they were motivated by political interests of partisans involved and so here, you see congress acting as it should be as a branch in its institutional interest, but there are individuals there who may not

have that interest at heart. so it's a complicated question and very, very hard to navigate. >> it is. and we're watching as they attempt to do it. rebecca and larry, thank you very much for helping us understand more about the documents. still ahead, more fallout after the fatal police beating of tyre nichols. what three more officials who responded to the incident did or rather what they did not do that led to their dismissal. plus, a week after getting the tanks they needed, ukraine is pushing for more. what they now want from the west and what president biden is saying about it. and for missing monkeys to suspicious deaths of an endangered vulture, a string of truly bizarre incidents has everyone asking what is going on at the dallas zoo. s zoo. listen, i'm done settling. because this is my secret. i put it on once, no more touch ups!

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more first responders in memphis are facing disciplinary action including two additional officers who have been removed of duty. three fire department employees were fired on monday after an internal investigation. the memphis fire department said all three violated multiple department policies and protocols in their patient response to nichols on the night of january 7. nbc news reached out to long, sandridge and whittaker for comment and those requests have not been immediately returned. joining me now, ellison barber. what is the department saying these first responders did not do? >> reporter: hey, katy. they say the lieutenant was the one who was driving the fire apparatus and she did not leave the car though we're learning she herself at least has the basic level of emt training. the other two emts, one who was

at a basic level, the other who was an advanced emt. according to the fire chief, when they arrived on scene at that second point and first made contact with nichols, they failed to do their own assessment of the patient and instead relied on the initial information they had in the call that it was an individual who had been pepper sprayed and relied on information that an officer gave them at the scene. because of that, there was a window from that moment when they arrived to that place where nichols had been beaten. he was handcuffed, propped up, almost sitting against that police cruiser. it was 15 minutes from when they arrived at that scene to when an ambulance with paramedics actually arrived. >> it's their duty to get out of the car, do their own assessment regardless of what police officers tell them happened? >> reporter: right. and based on what we know from

what the fire chief is saying, they failed to do that. the two emts, they got out of the car. robert and jhamichael there. they got out of car and did a preliminary assessment if you will, based on what we know. spoke to an officer, but didn't follow their protocols to do their own and the words they used specifically is they say to do, to conduct an adequate patient assessment of their own and then the lieutenant there, michelle whittaker, did not leave the car at all. >> given that, you've got to ask the question of whether or not this is truly systemic and beyond just the police department, systemic as a whole into the response into these sorts of events. ellison, thank you very much. republican lawmakers here in new york want to see george santos gone. what happens if he listens? nassau county executive, who

some have said should run himself, joins me for an exclusive interview in a couple of minutes. first up though, ukraine's new push. they got tanks. what do they want now? they got tanks what do they want now?

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less than ukraine received a slew of tanks, ukrainian leaders are asking for more. this time, they want f-16 fighter jets. the president said yesterday the answer is full stop no, but france is currently a maybe. joining me from kyiv is raf sanchez. explain the maybe from france. >> reporter: hard no from president biden. hard no from germany, but maybe from president macron of france under certain conditions, he says. one of those conditions, he does not want western fighter jets to be used to attack russia itself. he sees that as a major escalation. western jets striking inside russian territory. he also says he will not send jets if he feels that will diminish france's own capacities

but the ukrainians are pleading for these jets. the ukrainian military there dependent on the western allies to send them equipment, but also on crowd funding. we met a man earlier today who like president zelenskyy is a former comedian, but he has turned into a fund raising power house here in ukraine. he has raised some $100 million for the ukrainian military to far to buy drones, night vision goggles, sniper rifle equipment. i want you to listen to a little bit of our conversation here in kyiv today. >> what are they using drones like this for? >> in different ways. of course, that's like for intelligence. also drones helping to coordinate the fire of artillery systems. and sometimes they are like bombers. >> actually dropping bombs. did you ever imagine you'd raise

$100 million? >> never before. we are stay here united like never before. and that's exactly the answer why we still fighting. and why victory will be on our side. >> reporter: he says if he could crowd fund his way into getting f-16s for ukraine, he absolutely woud, but that decision lied with president biden. it is worth saying we have been through this cycle several times before where the ukrainians ask for a weapons system, the allies say no right up until they say yes, which is what happened with battle tanks and what the ukrainians are hoping will one day happen with this question of fighter jets. >> and poland is trying to cut the training time in half for ukrainian troops who are going to roll out the leopard tanks. got the u.s. bradley trangs that are going to the front lines.

. >> reporter: a teenage boy was killed by russian artillery fire there earlier today according to ukrainian authorities and the big question for ukraine's commander is do they continue to hold their ground in that city. it has really turned into a meat grinder for both sides. one ukrainian official said the ratio of casualties, russian to ukrainian, is 7-1. we can't verify those figures, but we know both sides are losing a lot of people there. the danger for ukrainians is they eventually get encircled inside and lose their supply lines. so the question is do they continue to hold on to this area. we know russia is determined to eke out some kind of victory for putin ahead of the one-year anniversary of this war on february 24th. the reality is bakhmoud is not a

strategic city. it's why they're sending wave after wave of troops there. >> hard to believe it's been a year with no end in sight. thank you very much. joining me now is democratic congressman for the state of washington. adam smith. ranking member of the house armed services committee. thank you very much for joining us. let's talk about russia an their adherence to the most recent nuclear treaty with the united states. senator wicker and fishers and rogers and lan m have said they're not complying. what's the assessment of your committee? >> i agree. i think it's clear russia is not complying with a wide range of treaties. i think the really important thing there is we have to get back to the point where we're in a dialogue with russia over major arms. certainly over nuclear weapons. we need that with china as well. it's a very dangerous situation

right now. you have different weapons being developed and we're not talking with russia or china for that matter so i think getting an arms control dialogue going should be a huge priority. >> let's talk about the fighter jets. president biden said no full stop. france is saying maybe given the parameters raf just laid out. is it a problem for the united states if france sends f-16s? >> first, most important thing here is how the f-16 is not really the most important weapons system right now. it's going to be a difficult time surviving in the battle space over ukraine because russia has number one, very strong air defenses. frankly, ukraine has strong air defenses as well. that's why russian air power has not been as big a factor in ukraine and also the f-16 can't go up against a russian fifth generation fighter. so the f-16s are not what's really important to ukraine right now.

what's really important to them are first of all, their own air defenses. making sure they have the munitions to continue to supply their anti-aircraft munitions that they have and then also artillery. that's what's important. and then tanks and the bradley fighting vehicle and striker that will enable the ukrainians to be movable. so the f-16's getting a lot of publicity. it's far from the most important thing. >> why is ukraine asking for it if it won't be as effective as you say? >> i've met frequently with ukrainian officials. went to ukraine, met with president zelenskyy. i do video calls with some of his top aides as well as ukrainian parliament members. they have a long list and they are rightfully asking for everything they can get. so the reason they're asking for f-16s is they're asking for everything. but again, in terms of what the priority is right now and the fight, it's artillery and also your report pointed out the importance of drones.

drones that can actually spot the enemy and help with the targeting. those are the real crucial munitions we need to get the ukrainians right now. >> former comedian who's raising money for those. i want to ask you about an op-ed written by a special forces soldier in "the new york times." he says the afghans he trained to fight are now fighting for putin in ukraine. we should have seen it coming, he says. we abandoned our closest partners wholesale. what choice were they left with? if they fight for russia, their families might live under better conditions. they might earn recruitment incentives and citizenship. do you have a response? >> absolutely. there's no question it's a problem the former afghan fighters are fighting for russia but the idea that if the u.s. continued to spend billions of dollars and lose countless american lives, injured, killed,

and wounded in afghanistan, that that would be the right strategy. would we like to have american troops in afghanistan fighting and dying and would it change anything? we spent 20 year, i forget how many trillion dollars. over 4,000 lives lost and did not get to where we wanted to be in afghanistan. we did not have a partner to work with. if we had stayed there, we would be in worse shape and have more american lives lost and still chaos in afghanistan. i hope people understand that. the ideal scenario, would have been stayed in afghanistan, would have been a peaceful place to work with, but after 20 years, president biden finally had the courage to understand that wasn't going to happen. and it was time to pull out. not an easy situation to be sure, but again, would we really rather be back in afghanistan right now fighting and dying without being able to accomplish objectives. the answer is clearly no. >> still a pretty bitter pill to

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including 71% of republicans. santos has been under fire from democrats and republicans for lying about pretty much everything and while he says he will step away until his issues are resolved from the committees that is, santos also says he is not going anywhere. >> are you considering resigning? >> no, i'm not. >> he's also denied that he's lied about much of what he's been accused of. akeman. me now i thanks so much for being here with us. >> thank you. >> what would you say to george santos today if he called you up? >> well, george santos has said he's not going the participate in committees. he's going to recuse himself, whatever that means. and that he's a distraction. he admits he's a distraction. so i don't think the distraction is going to go away. he's doing a disservice to the people in third congressional district. to nassau county.

by the way, he's doing disservice to the house of representatives. he's a stain on the house of representatives. he should not be there any longer. he should resign and move on with his life and try to rehabilitate his life. >> i want to play kevin mccarthy talking about george santos and the calls for him to resign. >> yea, i met with george santos yesterday and i think it was an appropriate decision until he can clear everything up, he's off the committees. >> is it something you asked him to do? >> he asked me if he could do that. >> do you think mccarthy's doing enough? >> well, they have a process in the house of representatives. there's an ongoing investigation now so i think speaker mccarthy probably wants to let the process play out, but that shouldn't relieve george santos of the responsibility to the people in his congressional district who overwhelmingly want him to resign. i don't want anything to do with

him. i'm the chief executive officer of the county and by contrast, we have a rookie congress member in the southern part of the county who's already delivering on grants and other things that are necessary to the people in his congressional district. so george should do everybody a favor and leave, go get some help. there's something wrong with you. you're not normal. and try to rehabilitate your life. >> the state of new york does not have a referendum process like california does, but this polling we've shown is pretty clear. the vast majority of all of the constituents including republicans want him to get out of congress. if there is a special election to replace him, if he does eventually resign, he said he's not going to, are you confident the gop can keep that seat? >> well, i think it's a fair fight district. i don't think the issues have changed since the election so i think that the republicans would have a reasonable chance of

retaining that seat. you never know. you have to see who the candidates are. but i think basically the issues are the same. look, not a lot of people voted for santos, the individual or who they thought was the individual. people voted for policies and they voted for issues. basically, i think the congressional district would do much better without him. >> here are some people that have been floated. you are also one of them. >> rule that out. >> you can rule that out entirely. >> completely. >> got it. okay. glad we got that out of the way. let's talk about whether tom swazy runs. he was a pretty popular congressman in that district. he ran for governor again. he's the democrat who held that seat for a while. if he gets back into the race, you think republicans still have a good shot? >> he's a credible candidate.

he's been a go getter for many years, but he's also lost a lot of important elections and quite frankly, he didn't do very well in his gubernatorial primary against governor hochul in his own congressional district. he lost his congressional district. so he's for midable, but definitely not invincible. >> thank you very much for coming on and thank you very much for answering unequivocally that you are not interested in that seat. county executive is a pretty good job. >> it's a great job. thank you. coming up next, two monkeys kidnapped. making a bit of a left turn. a vulture suspiciously dead and a big cat missing from her has been tat. what is going on at the dallas zoo? been tat what igos ing on at the dallas zoo? i just switched to verizon business unlimited. it's just right for my little business. unlimited premium data. unlimited hotspot data. (woman 2) you know it's from the most reliable 5g network in america? (vo) when it comes to your business, not all bars are created equal. so switch to verizon business unlimited today. woo!

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they're known for their trademark mustache and considered friendly to humans and are very popular on the black market. >> you can take an animal out of the wild, but you can want take the wild out of the animal. for anybody who thinks i can turn this into a good pet, you're wrong. you're wrong. >> reporter: it's the dallas zoo's fourth animal mystery in less than a month. on january 13th, a leopard was missing. on january 21st, an endangered vulture was discovered dead. >> what we found was deemed to be very suspicious, not a natural death. >> reporter: there are issues a causing other zoos to analyze their own security. >> my fear is that it's going to get so bad we have to make so many different types of barriers and security that we lose the ability to do what we were meant to do. to connect people to animals and that's really a sad state.

>> reporter: they have installed additional security cameras and increased foot patrol since this first incident happened with the leopard on january 13th. they are working with dallas police, but of particular concern is the fact that the weather has turned here in texas. the zoo's closed today due to inclement weather and they were closed the day the monkeys were reported missing. certainly not the sub freezing conditions we're seeing in texas with currently sleet falling down in force. experts say should these little animals be exposed to these kind of conditions? it could prove to be fatal. back to you. >> let's hope whoever did it, if it is a someone, brings them back. that's going to do it for me today. hallie jackson picks up our coverage next. today. hallie jackson picks up our coverage next.

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