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part of the grand jury investigation into the mar-a-lago classified documents. the former president escalates his rhetoric overnight. threatening, quote, death and destruction if he is charged with a crime. i will be joined by michigan congresswoman debbie dingell, one of the congress people who questioned tiktok's ceo. good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. we start with the u.s. air strikes by f-15s against what the u.s. said are iranian-backed groups in syria. killing an american contractor and injuring five u.s. service members and another american contractor. the pentagon says the deadly strike was from an iranian suicide drone. courtney kubie reports.

a rocket attack against another base in syria used by u.s. troops. president biden on his trip to canada ordering air strikes against the targets in syria in retaliation. right now, the president is meeting with canada's prime minister justin trudeau in ottawa. joining us now is white house national security council spokesman john kirby. why iran is doing this now knowing the u.s. is going to respond. >> iran has been long pushing back on our presence in syria and in iraq, quite frankly, andrea. this is not the first time they have launched striked against our troops and our facilities, our bases there. this one resulted in casualties, wounded but also a dead american citizen. the president acted swiftly and quickly to retaliate against this strike and to send a strong

message this is unacceptable and we will do what we have to to protect our people and facilities there. >> can you give us timing on this? was this done while he was in the air going to canada, before he left? >> he made the final decision to order these strikes against these targets last night on the plane on the way up here to ottawa in consultation, of course, with pentagon leaders. >> they are reporting one of the radars used to detect incoming threats was down for maintenance at the time of the attack. could that have somehow played a role? >> well, i won't speak to operational issues. i think i will leave that to the pentagon. we do everything we can to try to protect our facilities and troops as much as poll. there are air defense capabilities intrinsic to some of the locations. i think you can understand why i wouldn't want to get into too much detail. >> is there an investigation as

to whether there was insider involvement? >> i don't know the investigation in particular to this strike. it's clear to us and the intelligence community and the pentagon that this was an iranian one-way drone attack. we have been able to identify that with certainty. of course, that's what led to the president's decision to retaliate against iran-backed militant groups and their supporters in syria. >> they were talking about iran's drone program yesterday after the attack took place, according to our correspondent, he didn't mention it to congress. >> well, again, this attack didn't occur until later in the day. i don't know exactly what the time was. i think his testimony came before the drone attack. >> okay. we had heard a different report. thanks for clearing that up. armed russian jets have flown over u.s. military garrisons

nearly every day in march. that violates the agreement between washington and moscow. is this part of a broader conflict? >> there's no reason for it to be. we are not looking for a broader conflict. >> what further actions, diplomatically, might be taken through back channels? we know our colleagues, the brits and others have embassies in iran. are you reaching out to iran? is there any other warning that you care to discuss? >> as you know, we don't have diplomatic relations with tehran. we communicate through our protecting power. we made it clear and the president made it clear with this strike that these continued attacks on our facilities and our troops is unacceptable. we will defend ourselves as best we can and as much as we can.

we don't seek a conflict, as i said, with iran. we don't want a broader conflict in the middle east. but we will do what we have to do to protect our missions there. our mission against isis is vital, it's viable. we are still at that mission with our syrian democratic partner forces. we are going to do what we have do to protect ourselves and our national security interests against iran's decontin continu destabilizing activity in the region. it includes the fact that they are developing a ballistic missile capability. it includes their support for other terrorist groups. all of that continues. we have to make sure we are postured militarily to defend ourselves and our interests in the region. we will do that. >> i'm glad you mentioned that. i was going to ask you about the broader mission against isis. people think that is over. we don't hear very much about it. we have what i think has been acknowledged around 900 troops in country working with coalitions there. is that correct?

>> that's correct. there's less than 1,000 troops in syria. we have a small number -- a couple thousand troops in iraq that are partnered with the iraqi defense forces there. very, very discreetly aligned against the counter-isis mission. that's what we are doing in iraq. that's what we are doing in syria. in iraq particularly, it's about advising and assisting the iraqi defense forces and their ability to help defend against isis and defend their fellow countrymen. >> for that context and all the updates, we are grateful. we know you have to join the president at the parliament there in canada. safe trip. thank you very much, john kirby. joining us now, nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel and former national security advisor ben rhodes. let's talk about the impact. you know the region. you have been there. this is a war -- continuing war

and potential conflict in a large alphabet soup of coalitions from your vast experience. >> it is an ongoing conflict in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the world. this area used to be the isis caliphate. when isis had its state, which isis was using to organize attacks in syria, in iraq, in paris, in the united states, in france, it was based in this part of what was a bigger caliphate in iraq, but specifically in this area in syria. u.s. troops went in there and worked with local forces, particularly the kurdish forces, to destroy that caliphate. u.s. troops are still there. they are still fighting against isis. the last two isis leaders were killed by american forces in syria. the mission is not talked about a lot.

but it has been very effective, according to many military officials i have spoken to, current and former. i've been there. it is a small mission. it's elite. it's led by some of the best special forces in the u.s. military. iran hates it. iran hates this mission. iran saw american combat troops mostly leave iraq, and it wants american combat troops to leave there completely. it wants american troops to get out of syria as well. it sees those troops in syria and iraq as a threat to iran's influence. by carrying out these attacks, it's tries to raise the price for keeping them there. getting on the news, having discussions like this, getting the war into the american consciousness so that maybe one day american troops -- the administration decides to leave. president trump wanted to leave this area. it caused -- ben rhodes will know about this. he watched it. he knows what the fights can be like.

it caused a firestorm at the time. >> it certainly did. especially with the defense secretary mattis. >> he resigned over it. >> ben, we heard john kirby describing these concerns about this region. you know the experience firsthand. richard knows it from the ground. you know it from dealing with it. this was part of the creation of isis that happened after the withdrawal from iraq. >> well, this is the hub for a lot of activity for the united states both the support mission that we do for local forces on the ground, be they iraqi or syrian and kurdish partners that have carried out fighting. it's an intelligence capability. be honest. the united states has a small facility in a place like northeastern syria, that gives us the capacity to monitor events that we wouldn't have otherwise. i think with the iranians, part

of this is the tit for tat in this tough part of the world. they may be thinking, the iranians, that they want to push us out. or that the biden administration may decide at a certain point to remove those troops because though may feel like the mission is done. they want the appearance of iran having chased us out. there are a lot of reasons for iran to want to keep pressure on the u.s. presence in this part of syria. i would say one thing john kirby is right the united states is not looking for this war to become escalate and connected to what's happening in ukraine. i think from watching this from the outside, if you look at russia's behaior and china and iran's behavior, they aren't shy about dialing up their activities against the united states and our interests in many dimensions. you mentioned russian planes are buzzing. perhaps a more aggressive iran that feels its back pushed against the wall with protests

and u.s. sanctions and the collapse of the iran nuclear deal and their participation in the ukraine war. it does feel to me, andrea, that whether the u.s. wants it or not, that iran and russia are seeing this kind of tension connected to the broader geopolitical tension and the war in ukraine. that suggests we may be talking about more flashpoints between the united states and iran in the months ahead. >> with china now eagerly weighing in on that, by embracing vladimir putin and all that this entails, especially the iranian drones and they can get oil from russia and iran, of course, discounted oil at that. richard, i know you have seen them as well. i did interviews on the groups of women who are fighting against isis from some of those villages, women taking up arms.

were described by our commanders by some of the best troops they had ever dealt with, right? >> yes. the syrian democratic forces, kurdish fighters. they are close allies of the united states, close allies of all the troops who have served in that part of syria. they lost more than 10,000 people, men and women, fighting together on the front lines. there were some units that are all male soldiers, commanded by females. it's a truly integrated force. they have been working with the united states for a long time. they lost thousands of people. they are still deeply embedded in the fight. i think that's why when there's a suggestion that the u.s. should leave this part of the world, there's always that question, what would happen to our allies? >> this is a very tragic reminder for several american families as well today. richard engel, ben rhodes, thank you so much. death and destruction. not in syria but those are

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the increasing legal pressure on former president trump is causing the early 2024 republican primary frontrunner to escalate his online rhetoric to new heights. in a social media post sent after 1:00 this morning, mr. trump lashing out again, this time predicting, quote, potential death and destruction. joining me now, nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken

dilanian, sam stein and susan page. let's talk about the propriety of a former president of the united states, a target of a grand jury investigation, attacking an elected district attorney investigating him with violent language and now a trump attorney is asking for an investigation into alvin bragg, asking the state u.s. -- new york department of investigation official. >> andrea, were that to have happened when i was the u.s. attorney or federal prosecutor, we can be certain the fbi would have been knocking on that person's door to determine the nature of that veiled threat, if it's a veiled threat at all. what president trump has tried to employ in the past as it relates to people who would listen to what he says with regard to protest is he wants peaceful protest. he was surprised by what happened on january 6. now we know and he most

certainly knows the power and influence his words have upon a certain number of his followers. we know that some of those people will read those words and think it's a call to violence. when you marry that fact with the fact that former president trump is traveling to waco tomorrow, there's a very real concern that if violence does occur, if there's an indictment and someone is hurt, it may very well be connected to this call for violence or this warning for violence. that puts president trump in criminal law jeopardy as well. it's bad for the country and it's certainly bad for former president trump and for those who may believe that this is a just call to commit violence when it is not. >> i just want to give the context there why you were alarmed by him going to waco. any place he wanted to go in texas, but waco is a symbol of

the white uprising, the white militant uprising, armed uprising back when president clinton was in office. it led to a firestorm. janet reno and the rest, the attorney general at the time, accused of going into waco. it had been a hotbed of white supremacy. that is where there have been people. that's where trump is going to hold a big 2024 campaign rally in front of thousands of people potentially. susan page, you know the history. >> yes. this will be during the 30th anniversary of that tragedy at waco that has become a touchstone for those who hold conspiracy theories about the federal government. it's a very striking place for former president trump to hold

this rally. surely, cannot be an accident. you can't help but hear the echos of january 6th in the rhetoric we are hearing now from former president trump. the only thing that might be different, 1,000 people have been arrested in connection with january 6th. hundreds of them are in jail or awaiting sentencing. maybe that has an affect on the numbers who will be potentially swayed to violence by his words, andrea. we may be about to find out. >> sam, what donald trump is saying and the time of night, the misspellings, just sort of the rant that this is from reading it, it's got to be concerning. >> yeah. to a degree, some of this is just classic trump. he is not back on twitter but i think also this is a reflection of just how few guardrails are currently around him. he is down in mar-a-lago.

he has a few aides helping out with the campaign. it's much smaller than he had at the white house. there is virtually no one there to say, hey, maybe you might want to rethink the all caps call to violence post that you are talking about or the threats to the manhattan d.a. this is all stream of consciousness, very reactive. it's a tinderbox, frankly. he knows that, obviously. he lived through january 6. he is still dealing with the legal fallout from it. this is also just part of his political appeal is that he -- i hesitate to call it a counterpunch. he is not going to back down. he will try to bully his detractors into submission. that's what he does. it's very, very alarming for anyone who watched what happened on january 6. but this is what trump does when

he is backed into a corner. this is one of several legal fronts in which he is currently backed into a corner. >> ken, turning to the legal issues for donald trump, there's also -- but now abc news is reporting that a federal judge in a sealed order last week, before stepping down as the chief judge over these grand juries, had ordered that mark meadows, the former chief of staff, and other top former aides to donald trump will have to testify to the grand jury on the january 6th investigation, that they don't have executive privilege. she's basically piercing that, as she had earlier as we confirmed pierced the lawyer/client privilege for corcoran. this would include mark meadows,

stephen miller, the head of personnel, robert o'brien, national security advisor and democratic -- excuse me, department of homeland security official ken kuchinelli. this is a very big deal. >> it is, andrea. nbc news has not confirmed this reporting. but this is a sealed ruling in a secret battle going on about who can testify before the january 6th grand jury. i have to say, as a legal matter, it's not very surprising. we all remember that during watergate, a criminal investigation trumped executive privilege. richard nixon had to hand over the tapes. he was the current president. the former president has less claim to assert executive privilege. this is very clearly right in the ballpark of this january 6 investigation, what these people have to say about their dealings

with donald trump as the trump team was trying to overturn that election and trying to pressure electors and pressure mike pence. all these are witnesses -- they may know things about trump's state of mind and what was said. they are relevant witnesses. now they have to testify, unless an appeals court intervenes. the same judge has required in a separate case, the mar-a-lago classified documents case, is requiring trump's attorney evan corcoran to testify before that grand jury. this is a significant development. what this does is it underscores that this is not just about mishandling classified documents. it's about obstruction of justice. it's different than joe biden and mike pence. what corcoran we believe is being asked about today is who told him to execute a document and send it to the justice department saying there were no classified documents left at

mar-a-lago when, in fact, three months later the fbi found more than 100, including some sensitive ones in donald trump's office. >> in fact, he was involved in the documents but did not sign it. he had someone else, another attorney sign it. paul, there's a wealth of information that evan could give this grand jury, not just in testimony but he had apparently contemporaneous documents, his conversations, a phone call with donald trump. >> he is living a professional nightmare. no lawyer and no criminal defense lawyer wants to find himself in the position of having to testify about information provided to that lawyer by a lawyer's very client. the attorney/client privilege, confidential -- now, mr.

corcoran finds himself before a grand jury. perhaps testifying about those facts. a part of the information that the reports indicate that may be put forward leads to an audio recording. i never heard of a criminal defense attorney having that audio recording. it will be interesting to see who it is. the government wants to hear that. >> quick question. do you know the law in florida? i know every state is different. whether you have to have both parties' consent for a recording. >> i do not know. we don't know where it is this took place or whether or not it was across interstate lines as well. >> thank you very much. good point. that's why you are the attorney and i'm not. as always, so helpful. to all of you, we appreciate your help on this breaking news today. on patrol. our nbc news exclusive.

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russian warships passing in sensitive waters. for the navy, high alert. we spent three days, two nights on a priority nato assignment with a norwegian ship. watching over the vulnerable drilling platforms thousands of miles of pipelines and the maze of telecom lines that stretch from europe to america. the concern, russia could one day attack the internet and energy pipeline. it's 2:00 in the morning. the wind is howling. the seas are rough. it's very cold. the mission for this boat is to patrol around that platform on behalf of nato looking for saboteurs or unusual russian activity. it was last september when someone blew up the gas pipeline from russia to germany. so far, no conclusive proof who did it. nato says russia has since

increased its naval activity in norway's economic waters. an unusual interest in your gas and oil pipelines and infrastructure. >> definitely. they are around this area more than once. they go back and forth. they follow the pipeline. they have suspicious activity. >> reporter: this month, nato has been holding show of force exercises. norway defends its 123-mile land border with russia. right across that border, russia's biggest naval base. >> it is perhaps the world's largest concentration of nuclear weapons. >> reporter: this man commands the norwegian navy. nato's network of sensors has detected more unpredictable russian sub activity. >> they have maneuvers that are more aggressive. >> reporter: nato helicopters listen for russian subs. norway's foreign minister says

the world recognizes how critical the oil and gas fields are to the global economy. >> we really need to protect the whole infrastructure system and also the installations at sea. so we are prepared for everything. >> nato warship. >> reporter: our ship was pulled into a secret nato operation. off of our port side, we have had visitors. three naval warships have shown up. one, two, three. helicopters in the air next to that very important norwegian gas platform. this is about sending a message to russia. nato is on guard on patrol and takes this very seriously. how atop the biggest platform out here, the head of nato said they will protect. >> mr. putin failed in his attempt to use energy as a

weapon. >> reporter: with war raging in ukraine, the stakes in this expansive ocean are very high. >> tom costello joins me. tom, it was extraordinary. three days and two nights on nato patrol. a woman commander of that ship. and nato and norway has tremendous military as a part of nato. they are well recorded. >> reporter: they are a founding member of nato. for your point, yes, the foreign minister is a woman. the commander on the ship is a woman. the acting captain is a woman. that's kind of cool as the father of daughters. it was intensely cold up there. there's a lot of stress and tension up there. they very much are aware that there is this active russian activity right there in the north sea over the oil and gas pipelines, over the internet lines. they are very worried about it. what i didn't get to say is,

they are very worried about drone activity. mysterious drones coming in over their platforms, hovering, going over their pipeline areas and then disappearing over the horizon. they think possibly going back to a russian mother ship. this is another indication they are under constant surveillance. they have the biggest arsenal of nuclear weapons right there. >> has this accelerated since everything that's happened with ukraine and also the attacks still undefined? >> reporter: yes. there are a lot of alleged suspects. it could have been russian, ukrainian, the united states has been accused, the uk, norway. the swedes are investigating. it's not been formally decided by them who may have been involved in this. the activity that they have seen has dramatically ramped up ever

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>> has tiktok at any time collected from u.s. users? >> we don't sell to data brokers. >> joining me now is a member of the house committee, michigan democratic congresswoman debbie dingell. this was very contentious. tiktok's ceo trying to ease concerns his company is not a national security threat. at one point, it was extraordinary when he was asked about the influence of the communist party and whether he has been told by communist party members what to do at various times. he said, he talks to a lot of people and he doesn't ask them their party affiliation. there were more than one party affiliation in china. >> andrea, i do think that yesterday was a disturbing day in that he confirmed a lot of

people's suspicions in his not answering questions directly. i asked him if he would commit to not sell data down the road. he gave a non-answer, which he gave multiple times. i do believe that the committee is united that we must do something about privacy. there are members on both sides of the aisle that we believe we need to ban tiktok. me individually, i'm not sure i'm ready to ban one company. i think we need legislation across all platforms. people really do not understand what is happening to the data. it's being used in so many different ways. it becomes a weapon for your personal security and our national security. >> the president banned it from government devices. at the same time, there are concerns in the bipartisan bill

in the senate, it broadens the powers to ban or control it over many platforms, not just tiktok, for the precise reason you mentioned. do you have first amendment issues? >> i'm concerned about freedom of speech. but i know that i think people of all ages, but our young people the most, what they are seeing is being filtered by people. they are trying to make sure they get certain points of view. the data they are giving up on themselves. they have no idea how it's going to be used from tracking them to what health care issues are. we are starting to get health care information that can impact people applying for jobs, getting insurance, what kind of medicine they might get. it's a national security issue. i really do believe that people have no idea about what is

happening with how they use their devices every single day. it's why i don't believe it's only a tiktok problem. although, i will say tiktok has got a relationship with the chinese government. china is not always a friend of the united states. it does become a very serious national security issue. how do you balance freedom of speech with personal and national security? >> china does have a law that enables the government to reach down into these companies as a matter of practice. i want to ask you something else that's happening today, in the next hour. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene from georgia is leading a congressional delegation today to visit january 6 defendants held in a d.c. jail. two freshmen house democrats are going along to observe, to truth tell, because there can't be pictures taken. they want the texas congresswoman, a former public

defender, she wants to point out the comparisons to what she's seen in jails where brown and black people are held in texas. >> look, i think the january 6 -- my opinion has not changed. i'm very disturbed by the rhetoric that donald trump has been saying. he's been dialing it up. i'm worried about what could happen. people that are in jail are in jail because they violated basic laws in our country. they hurt and killed policemen. there are more than 120 law enforcement that are still paying the consequences. they came to attack our democracy. that's a reality. i admire these two freshmen dems for going so we get the truth. look at the picture.

look at what you saw happen at the capitol on january 6. people died. it was an attack on our democracy. how we need to pay attention to that. trying to encourage violence again. >> congresswoman debbie dingell from michigan, thank you. it's congresswoman crockette has been so eloquent on this. the chinese foreign ministry rejecting the criticism from that hearing. an msnbc exclusive. jose diaz-balart speaking to the head of the congressional black, hispanic and asian pacific caucus to talk about the economy and immigration and more. he is joining me next right here

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