leigh ann, waibt to -- i want to co to you. talk about how this connects to the january 6 commission and cod discussion there is. and what are things looking like there? leigh ann: as far as the commission is concerned, it looks highly unlikely unless senate democrats can find three more senate republicans, there was six who voted for it, senator pat toomey missed the vote but said he would have voted for it if he were here. so let's say three more senate republicans. are needed. until mcconnell gives any sort of signal that he would support a commission, there is very little chance that it is going -- they're going to find the 10 republicans needed for it to pass. and, you know, there's a lot of land mines in that commission. people are under questioning what was the big deal about creating a commission to look into what happened? but for republicans, there was a lot of problems with it. for one, the final report could implicate a lot of members of their own party. so they obviously don't want that. republican leader kevin mcc

leigh ann caldwell is joining us from capitol hill as well. we talk about what this means for the affordable care act. it's upheld as of now. we talk about some of the reactions on the democratic side of the aisle, democrat schumer saying this affordable care act is definitively here to stay, and they're going to make it bigger and better. the party has worked for years to dismantle the affordable care act. anything from, for example, mitch mcconnell, kevin mccarthy? what are you hearing? >> hallie, we're expecting to get statements. they're slow to come in. this is a decision much more beneficial for democrats, something that's much more challenging for republicans, how they're going to frame the issue of health care, especially politically leading in to the midterm elections. as you mentioned, this is something the republicans have been trying to dismantle for years after dozens of attempts to repeal obamacare in the house, and, of course, that very fateful vote in the senate where senator john mccain saved obamacare. since then their strate

i'm leigh-ann gerrans.ore options for u.s. tourists. the european union has lifted a travel restriction for american residents, adding the u.s. to its so-called white list of countries from which non-essential travel is allowed. the new rules mean that eu countries are able to allowed quarantine free travel from the u.s. independent of vaccination status. also added were hong kong, lebanon, serbia, and taiwan. iranians are voting today in a presidential election expected to see a hard-line conservative replace the more moderate hassan rouhani. that could complicate efforts to restore a landmark nuclear accord that has major implications for middle east security and oil markets. the election turnout is expected to be at a record low and will all but ensure the victory of abraham raisi. emergency repairs forced the shutdown of a pipeline. repairs on june 4 released 2.7 million cubic meters of methane. the environmental defense fund has said that has about the same short term planet warming impact of 40,000 in

sahil kapur and leigh ann caldwell a big day. we'll keep an eye on the senate floor if we hear from chuck schumer or mitch mcconnell. significant not for what it says but what's to come as it relates to the senate rule changes. >>> we want to get to other news developing to morning you get first here on msnbc, a big headline breaking in just the last hour. nbc news reporting that biden administration is preparing to acknowledge it will probably fall short of its goal of partially vaccinating 70% of american adults by independence day, by july 4th. but they'll point out there's been substantial progress in their view made in the race to vaccinate. mike memoli is breaking the story at the white house for us and joined by senior medical correspondent dr. john torres. mike, this is something if you've been tracking the numbers and looking at where the country is, many experts said it was very ambitious to look at that july 4th deadline for 70% of americans and now the white house it seems, mike, is getting ready to acknowledge that v

i'm leigh-ann gerrans. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> once again today, the united states supreme court upheld the affordable care act in the face of another legal challenge. so let me say definitively, the affordable care act has won. the supreme court has just ruled the aca is here to stay. lisa: majority leader chuck schumer speaking after that supreme court ruling having to do with the obamacare act. we are looking at washington, d.c. we had a fantastic conversation coming up with congressman sean casten. i'd love to get a sense of how significant the move has been as we hear jim bullard of the st. louis federal reserve speak on cs and bc -- on cnbc. they talk about officially opening the paper discussion, putting a coda on this week of said speak, to say yes, we are talking about tapering, and how it is going to begin is really a big question now. romaine: these are pretty aggressive comment here. we did see s&p futures dip about 10 or so points. it was already down about 10 or 15 points. it will be interesti

nbc's leigh ann caldwell. thank you for your great reporting as always. >>> merrick garland is on capitol hill right now. he's testifying about the budget. this is an opportunity for people to ask questions of the attorney general, and democrats in particular may have the toughest questions for the leader of the budget department. in the past week, some of garland's decisions have raised eyebrows. e. jean carroll has accused former president trump of assaulting her in the 1990s. and a memo formed bill barr's decision not to pursue obstruction of justice charges against donald trump. joining us now is law professor and former attorney barbara mcquade. she's also an msnbc legal analyst. barbara, i think it's fair to say that biden supporters hoped garland would want to settle the score with donald trump and bill barr. what is your reaction to something that is opposite what a lot of democrats hoped? >> i think merrick garland is demonstrating what independence and nonpartisanship looks like. it doesn't mean you'

i am leigh-ann gerrans. bloomberg. ♪ >> today the biden administration announced their investment of $3.2 billion from the american rescue plan as part of covid-19 antiviral development strategy. it is a whole government effort aimed at developing the next generation of covid-19 treatment, as well as preparing us for future threats. lisa: dr. fauci, niaid director speaking about the path forward. the european union open to travel restrictions for u.s. residents, marking the reopening of the transatlantic corridor. the question is it too soon? andrew pay cost -- andrew pekosz, with all of his animals behind him, there is a sense it is over that we could be setting us up for a failure or some sort of escalation and a third or fourth wave. how realistic is that? andrew: the positives are the numbers across the u.s. are looking good. infections are going down. the testing of samples is going down. everything looks good with respect to the pandemic at this point in time being controlled in the u.s.. we have to un

leigh ann, there are two parts here. there is the testimony itself and sort of the practical i am replily -- and what do we know about what he said? >> reporter: after a two-year battle where he defied repeated subpoenas to come and testify. there was an agreement in the justice department to bring him before the committee, so democrats jumped at that opportunity. the chair, jerry nadler, called it a vindication of congressional oversight. regardless of what comes with this, this is a precedent-setting motion by the house judiciary committee to ensure they do have the ability to conduct oversight. and that's approximate -- what they're recall glg to bely. he was mention itted over and over again in the mueller report. echls -- so these are questions the committee is supposed to ask him to see if, in fact, there was more than what was in the mueller report, geoff. >> joyce, help us understand how this testimony from don mcgahn could clarify the public record as it relates to what donald trump was up to behind closed doors

and leigh ann caldwell is joining me with more. good to see you. what i guess are fraying bipartisan negotiations. what are you watching for ahead of the meeting? >> so there is a couple meetings happening today that we're going to be watching for. let's just start with this heating with speaker pelosi and leader schumer with white house officials. democratic senator tells me that they are going to be discussing everything really. that is because senator schumer reiterated again that he is on a two track process for infrastructure. on one track is a bipartisan bill that is currently being negotiated. the other track is this partisan infrastructure bill that could be upwards of $6 trillion including this human infrastructure component. so we know that is going to come up in this heating because that is what they are working on behind the scenes. and as for the bipartisan group, they are also meeting with white house officials for the second day in a row trying to hammer out details and try to come to some sort of agreement on how to row. as you ment

what more can you tell us about that leigh ann? this section of 242 which is the criminal standard for police officers. now senator tim scott is reviewing draft legislative text about the issue. he thought that second 242,ing which that is a red line for him, was going to be put aside, not addressed at all in these negotiations. but in the draft from senator cory booker's office to senator tim scott, there are changes to this criminal accountability component. it adds four crimes for police officers that they could be punished or prosecuted, if they commit those that include obstruction of justice, sexual misconduct, use of excessive force and theft. and senator lindsey graham told us last night this is unacceptable, a nonstarter. so they're going back to the drawing table on this issue anyway and figure out a path forward. craig. >> all right, leigh ann caldwell on the hill for us. thank you. >>> meanwhile, newly unsealed court documents are shed something light on some of the earliest planning of january 6th insurrection of the c

>> leigh ann caldwell, thank you very much.es are going up, but the labor department confirmed today that prices for things you buy like gas and food are rising. it jumped 5% from one year earlier. that's higher than what wall street expected and the biggest jump in almost 15 years. robin, it's great to see you as always, friend. the white house and the fed say this is ray temporary situation as we work our way out of the pandemic. what's the story here with this inflation? >> geoff, you know, it's all about that base. what is the base we're coming off of last year? we were in a kind of seasonal depression in the throws of 2020. when we snap back from that, we don't know what that is. for instance, core pricesjumped by kind of its largest. is this sustainable inflation? there are lots of doubts about that. >> so companies have apparently -- they're passing the rising prices of raw materials and wage increases on to consumers. there is a ceo of a food manufacturer who tells the "wall street journal" that he doesn't see an end in

nbc's mike memoli is at the white house, leigh ann caldwell on capitol hill, heidi presbala at a crumbling school and eugene daniels. he is an msnbc contributor. good to see you. mike, in a couple of hours, president biden will sit down with the lead republican negotiator. take us through where both sides stand on this. could this meeting be a -- be a make or break opportunity to get something done? >> reporter: absolutely. this is only the latest meeting between the white house and key republicans as they try to find a bipartisan path forward on infrastructure. it may well be the last. that's because after weeks of offers and counteroffers, we have seen the white house move their price tag down to $1.7 trillion, republicans move up to north of $900 billion. there's other differences in how to pay for it. the white house wants to increase corporate taxes. republicans want to repurpose covid relief money as well as user fees, something the white house called a red line. there's differences in the substance of the proposals.s was on traditional roads and bridges. the white house wanting to i

leigh ann, let's start with this. senator manchin says he's not going to change the filibuster and he doesn't want the we the people act. we could talk six ways to sunday about manchin's motivations here, but let's talk about, if you're a democrat, how do you even go about dealing with this now? what does this now mean for the democratic agenda at large? >> reporter: geoff, it's an excellent question and it's obviously a question that senate majority leader chuck schumer is having to grapple with. but the reality is this was always going to be an uphill battle for leader schumer to get any of these democratic priorities passed. while joe manchin has made a lot of news in the past couple days, he just reiterated his position that he doesn't support eliminating the filibuster and that he does not support the for the people act, sb-1, in its current form. so this timing is really interesting and important, as schumer says, that these are pieces of legislation that he's going to get to in this month of june. so schumer ha

government recommendation that they do not do so, leigh ann caldwell is on capitol hill.re joined by msnbc contributor chuck rosenberg, former fbi official and u.s. attorney and lee ann, this wray testimony is significant for a couple reasons. it's the first time we're hearing from him since the ransomware attacks we mentioned and if we look at that live shot you saw he is there and he hasn't started speaking yet. number two, it's his first time in front of any lawmakers since that senate report on january 6th came out, lee ann? >> that's right, hallie. we don't have access to his opening statement yet so we don't know what he's specifically going to say, but my sources tell me that he is going to be grilled especially about ransomware. wray said a couple days ago that he equated the ransomware attacks to 9/11, talking about how importantly dangerous this is and it's something that the government has to get under control. not only responding to it, but preventing as well. so that is definitely going to be a topic today. as far as the january 6th report, that is going to b

>> leigh ann, thank you. let go to mike at the white house. leigh ann touched on this. so much attention being put on republican support, for example, senator joe manchin, et cetera. what's the expectation you're hearing from your many sources inside the west wing on this? >> well, hallie, what's so interesting about what we're going to see unfold in the next hour is we've had the top advisers camped out really on capitol hill, working with this bipartisan group, trying to come up with what is now being called framework of a deal. not necessarily sure we have all the details pinned down. that's set president biden up to be the closer, to make sure they have everything in place on this track. we began the week talking that theite house thought they had -- it's been an either/or situation. either the bipartisan bill or reconciliation, democrats go it alone move. the white house will have to grapple with the fact that democrats want both. part of what senator schumer spoke to there is the likelihood that they're going to try to do both. this sets up the president, former m

leigh ann caldwell. how soon could we see a deal?an talks on police reform. things are looking good actually. my sources tell me the biggest sticking point, qualified immunity is mostly settled. once they have that down and if they have that down, that really clears the way for them to reach a broader agreement on all parts of this legislation. my sources also tell me that they could start drafting legislation and have legislation released in the next week or two. so everyone i'm talking to is extremely optimistic about it. they warned that things could still fall apart. nothing is settled until everything is settled. but, craig, at this moment it's looking good. >> i understand you just got back from this rally at the supreme court, members of congress and activists got together to urge the senate to pass the "for the people act." i have a feeling they were focusing on one senator in particular. >> at the rally they switched their attention from senator joe manchin who said he would not vote for the act and tried to blame republican

leigh ann, over to you. president biden backing down from his original proposal to raise the corporate tax rate. now he's saying he wants to offer up a 15% minimum tax on u.s. corporations. basically he wants to establish a floor that every company has to pay when it comes to taxes. how will this be received, do you think? >> reporter: that's right, geoff. the white house is downplaying this a little bit saying the corporate tax is nothing new, but president biden in his meeting with shelley moore capito yesterday presented that as an option, i guess, instead of focusing on increasing the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%. mind you, that increase of corporate tax rate is something that was dead on arrival for republicans. it also left some consternation among some democrats as well. so this was an offering and a proposal to senator capito saying, look, we don't have to undo some of the taxes in the 2017 republican tax cut bill which debt republicans, especially which senate minority leader mitch mcconnell h

joining me from capitol hill is leigh ann caldwell and frank figliuzzi, former fbi director and msnbctributor. i want to play what kasie hunt did with the sergeant who was there that day. i think people need to be reminded of just how harrowing the experience itself was. take a listen. >> whatever i think there were findings inside the stage that was a construction site that you saw ripped apart, using that as a weapon, throwing them. it was unbelievable, unbelievable, the crowd, they wouldn't listen to anything that police were saying at all. they continued to say we are here because our president, president trump sent us here. we won't listen to anybody else but him. >> i wanted to start the conversation there, this is a person who says president trump told him to be there. it looked like this report was all about compartmentalizing and, frankly, blaming the victim. >> it was definitely about karmtalizing. that was the point of this report, chuck. there were some things to celebrate in the sense it was bipartisan, which is something that is very rare here but it was also very limite

leigh ann caldwell just behind me on capitol hill, mike memoli at the white house. leigh ann a make or break week in the senate for key democratic priorities, infrastructure, voting rights, police reforms and today maybe more clarity on the bipartisan infrastructure plan, right? >> that's right. last week white house officials are talking to house democrats saying they were going to get these bipartisan talks another seven to ten days to see if they work out. we're coming up against that deadline and why is there this deadline? there' not enough time to get all the priorities done for the biden the administration. they are waiting to see if the group can come to some sort of aagreement. we're waiting for their proposal which totals about $1.2 trillion over the next eight years including assumed and new spending. the biggest problem why they haven't released their proposal after weeks of negotiating they can't figure out how to pay for it including if there should be a gas tax tied to inflation moving forward something the white houses has set is unacceptable or this

joining us, msnbc correspondent leigh ann caldwell. don't we start with this police reform bill because i know you've been doing so much reporting on it. where do you think things stand and can they get the framework out and can they get things done while others are away? >> i think that's absolute the question, kasie. i think they can agree to this framework, and i think that's the goal to do so. they're saying june or bust. well, today's really the last day of june in senate talk because they do leave town after today as you mentioned. but the question is what is in this framework, and are both sides really going to be happy? as you implied in your opening, the democrats have always been much more pessimistic about the opportunity for some sort of agreement than the republicans, and i'm a little skeptical that both sides are going to walk away thinking that this is, in fact, complete. now, there's a major issue that are the most difficult t final issues, to work out. and that has to do with this criminal liability for police officers

thank you, leigh ann caldwell. thanks very much.itol hill, the growing reaction to president biden's endorsement of a bipartisan senate scaled back infrastructure package trying to parallel a much larger democratic bill with more social programs requiring only 51 votes. it's a strategy with no recent precedent and the likely opposition of republican leader mitch mccon who has successfully blocked so many democratic priorities over the last five years. will the coalition hang together? joining me now sam stein, politico, matt messina for president obama's re-election campaign, and michael steele, former chairman of the rnc. president biden saying we have a deal and our capitol hill team is saying the deal is possibly in jeopardy and even republicans are not happy that democrats are insisting that these two things be tied together and the president made it very clear yesterday that there's no deal without both being passed. >> correct. this is already getting quite complicated. what we see is republicans saying that the tighe of the t

leigh ann caldwell is at her post on capitol hill.ed bipartisanship time and time again. now it seems like it could be the members of his own party that are hurting this negotiation. how is this new pressure shaping the work that the bipartisan group of senators is trying to do? >> reporter: that's right, craig. there's members not only from the progressive left, like representative alexandria ocasio-cortez but also others who are calling on the president to let go of talks and for democrats to go it alone. they don't think a bipartisan agreement is comprehensive enough. there's talk among members saying if you bring in republicans, you are going to lose democrats. it's going to be very difficult to get the number of votes necessary, 60, to agree on a bipartisan package. the reality also is, craig, that they don't -- democrats don't have the votes right now to do a partisan package either. they are in a very difficult place. the bipartisan talks are actually buying them time to get their ducks in order. there's another issue that is r

leigh ann caldwell is on the hill covering this. there's going to be a transcript that's released from this hearing. in what ways could his testimony be used by the committee, even by congress down the line? >> reporter: craig, mcgahn was one of the president's -- the former president's closest advisers and often protected the former president from his worst instincts as well. mcgahn became a central character in the mueller report. his name was mentioned hundreds of times. what mcgahn did is he refused to direct then deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to fire mueller, despite demands from the former president. he also defended the former attorney general jeff sessions, the first one, for recusing himself from the mueller probe. he knows a lot, craig. after a two-year battle with mcgahn where he defied subpoenas issued by the house judiciary committee, well, mcgahn is finally here today. back to your question, what is the committee and what is congress going to do with it? it's kind of unclear. it's not like the congress is goin

leigh ann caldwell is on capitol hill. a lot of talk about negotiation and compromise.ht? >> they are, hallie. new day, a new step in these negotiations. so after the meeting broke up last night, we got pretty matter of fact but bland statements from both sides. they were described as frank conversations. senator shelley moore capito went back and held a telephone briefing for her five republican senators who weren't in the room and what we found out is that what president biden wants is a trillion dollars in new spending from these republicans. you might be confused saying i thought the last republican proposal was $928 billion. that's not so different. well the difference is, he's talking about new spending, the last republican proposal had just $250 billion of what we call new spending here. the rest of the spending is assumed that's going to be passed because of the normal budget process. so that's a big, big difference in this spending level. in addition, president biden told senator capito he wants it to be paid for with new tax increases, mostly on corporations.

. >> leigh ann kald wahl is on capitol hill.re turned off by, one moderate democrat raising questions about, right, and senator lindsey graham who says in his words a "suicide mission." >> reporter: this is a very fragile coalition and going to be difficult for this coalition to stay intact and lindsey graham is one of the next round of republicans saying they were going to support this bipartisan bill but things are tenuous on capitol hill for two reasons. you have to watch the republicans and you have to watch the democrats. let's start with the democrats, as you mentioned, it's going to be very difficult to keep the moderates on board as well as the progressives, that contingency that you talked about, combining this massive reconciliation partisan multi-trillion-dollar bill, tieing it to the bipartisan package is what is expected to keep the progressives tethered to the rest of the party, to move this forward. now, the moderates, moderate democrats, they want this bipartisan win and then they're willing to perhaps support th

pete williams, capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell and jake ward who is covering the tech anglel join us in a just a moment. pete, what do you know about what happened here and can you help us understand how significant this is and whether anything like it has ever happened before to our knowledge? >> well our understanding is as you laid out, that in 2018, the justice department sent a subpoena to apple looking for data on we think about 12 people, the two congressman you mentioned and their staff and family members and child looking for family members in case folks were using their children or family members phones for communication. now what exactly apple was asked to provide, we don't know because the members of congress say they don't know either. so we don't know if this is cell phone records, text message records, email records, some combination of all three, but we do know that according to officials familiar with the subpoenas, it was not for the actual contents of any of those, but what is known as the metadata, which is the phone numbers and the emails and that kind o

. >> leigh ann, when you talk about all of this back and forth do you have a sense of a time line how this is going to play out? >> it's interesting because democrats say they want to move to this commission, or some investigating power to get to the bottom of this, but it's already been almost six months since january 6th, it's been taking some time to even come up with the entity, the right entity to look into this. and republicans were worried that this was going to, the creation of a permanent select committee was going to spill into the election year, that's most of the reason, especially in the senate, why they opposed it. but it's looking like this is definitely going to spill into 2022. regardless of what form this investigation takes. something that republicans did not want. but now, with democrats in control of the process, and republicans refusing to participate at this stage, it's going to be a very political process that will definitely have an impact in the midterm elections and will definitely be a topic in those elections as well. >> nbc's leigh ann caldwell, thank you

. >> they don't have the votes, leigh ann. how important is it that he will vote yes to break that filibuster on s 1 today? what message does it send to the broader party? >> reporter: it's really big for democrats. it's important for democratic unity not only morally speaking but also for their messaging, as well, now democrats can say that it's not republicans and one member of our party who voted to block just opening the debate on this legislation but it's just republicans. so this is really, really critical for them to stay united on an issue that is so important to the party. as sam mentioned, there are members progressive members who are frustrated with the white house. thinks that president biden should do more on this. that he should be giving a huge speech on this today, is what people want to see. of course, he's not doing that. this is going to be a battle that is not going to go away, in part, because the outside groups and some of the progressive members of the party are going to ensure that this continues in the

nbc's leigh ann caldwell, thank you for being with us.ly appreciate it. >>> let's go now to this pretty incredible story. the u.s. government flipped the script on some hackers. >> the department of justice has found and recaptured the majority of the ransom colonial paid to the darkside network in the wake of last month's ransomware attack. >> nbc's own pete williams reports on how the doj was able to pull this off. >> reporter: what thousands of americans didn't know as they waited in long lines for gasoline after colonial pipeline revealed that it was hit with a ransomware attack is that the fbi was also investigating darkside, the group in russia blamed for carrying it out. colonial, it turns out, quickly told the fbi about the attack and agents were able to find the bitcoin account where the ransom was sent. the fbi figured out the password and took nearly all the money back out, says the deputy attorney general lisa monaco. >> today we turned the tables on darkside. >> reporter: colonial paid 4.4 million to a bitcoin account in nort

i'm hallie jackson in washington along with our nbc news team, leigh ann caldwell, capitol hill and kel i-o'donnell at the white house. this is a new day in d.c., right? the path forward on voting rights seems very difficult. it seems like there might be some movement on infrastructure although even that is facing some hurdles. and the biden agenda, the democratic agenda really on the line. >> that's absolutely right, hallie. it will be very difficult for democrats to clear the issues they're trying to get through congress and the congress of course is the road block. the voting rights vote failed last night. democrats are continuing to say the fight is not over, this is just the beginning but they don't have a lot of options on this issue. they don't have ten republicans who are going to join them and they don't have the democratic votes to get rid of the filibuster, so what do they do next? they keep talking about it and that's something they vowed to do. senator amy klobuchar is head of the rules committee said she's going to hold hearings in georgia out in the field to bring this is

leigh ann caldwell reports a split between different factions of law enforcement as a possible bipartisan agreement in danger. it comes as a critical vote in the house tomorrow on whether to create that select committee to investigate the january 6th riot. democratic majority makes passage likely but not without vocal objections from republicans. we'll have more on that just ahead. we'll see the former president back at the southern border tomorrow as trump heads to south texas and the rio grande valley. he'll be with texas governor greg abbott who has promised to complete trump's wall with state funds and private donations. some house republicans plan on joining the trip. also tonight, concerns, of course, are growing about the rapid spread of this delta variant across the globe and in our own country, cdc now estimating it accounts for 26% of new cases in our country. world health organization and notably l.a. county health officials are recommending masks indoors, even for those who have been fully vaccinated. dr. fauci says it will be unlikely that the cdc will also change its guidanc

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joining me is nbc news white house correspondent peter alexander, lee leigh ann caldwell and moderator. i want to talk about cyber attacks hitting meat and transportation sectors. the white house is warning leaders you have to take this threat seriously. what more can you tell us? >> that's the bottom line in an open letter the white house sent to business leaders and executives. notice the significant rise in these ransomware attacks. here is part of that letter -- they note that no company is safe here regardless of their size and location. you will remember that just yesterday the fbi indicated that it was russian cyber criminal gangs responsible for the latest hack on jbs, the world's largest meat provider. i asked jen psaki if she believed president biden could stop it. here is what president biden said when he was pressed on the matter yesterday. >> mr. president, will you retaliate against russia on this latest ransomware attack? >> i am looking closely at this. >> do you think putin is testing you? >> no. >> you could hear his blunt answer there, no. this comes less than two we

. >> joining me now is leigh ann caldwell. you have some new reporting just in about what the democrats know was taken or looked at and what they don't. can you explain? >> they don't know a lot. that's part of the tension rising up right now. they don't know what sort of subpoena -- what sort of information was subpoenaed beyond the fact it is meta data which is a broad category. they can't get this information from the department of justice. they say they have asked department of justice many questions since they found out about this in may, about the scope, about what all of this meant. there is a long list of things they want to know and things the department of justice is refusing to tell them. this is not the trump department of justice refusing. this is the biden department of justice. there is a lot of frustration and tension right now between the intelligence committee and d.o.j. and that's part of the reason they are backing an inspector general report to look into it. it has not been announced there will be congress

there ain't going to be -- >> joining me is leigh ann caldwell and nbc news co-anchor peter alexanderhings happening simultaneously. i have never, in my experience, going back to the hill, seen anything work this way with this caucus breaking off. you have the house, the senate, republicans, democrats divided caucuses. how is this going to work? >> it's an excellent question, andrea, and we keep asking every senator we see how is this going to work in practicality? how will you commit to passing a $2 or $3 trillion partisan infrastructure bill on human infrastructure alongside a bipartisan traditional infrastructure bill and be sure that one does not leave the other behind and that's because progressives are demanding that. they do not want to agree to this bipartisan bill unless they have an agreement that partisan one can get through. so some senators are saying perhaps there needs to be a blood oath to get commitment from all 50 senators that they'll agree to both things and senator elizabeth warren and going back to her campaign day saying we all need to pinky swear to ensure that

and a big part of this as our colleague leigh ann caldwell reported is a split between law enforcement sheriffs and police unions about police accountability, this is a problem a huge part of the police reform effort is to raise the standard of accountability for police officers, and potentially make them criminally liable for certain actions of misconduct and that is creating a problem in terms of getting enough congressional support from both sides of the aisle to get this done. congresswoman karen bass who has been as you noted a lead democratic negotiator, i spoke to her just moments ago about this and she sounded skeptical if not pessimistic about the prospects going forward. let's listen to exactly what she said. karen bass did not put a hard dead line on negotiations. the time something thin. these have gone on for months and getting close to put up or shut up time. big picture, this was one of the glimmers of hope in terms of potential bipartisan agreement on not economic issues which have to go through the 06-vote threshold, economic issues covid relief and infrastructure, saf

leigh ann caldwell, our thanks to you award. >>> the teen who regarded was awarded a pulitzer. courageously recording the murder of george floyd. a video that spurred protests against police brutality across the world highlighting the crucial role of citizens in journalists' quests for truth and justice. >> frazier who is now 18 kept her cell phone camera trained on four police officers. it highlights her courage as she spoke truth to power which frazier describes as her duty during testimony during derek chauvin's trial earlier this year. that's it for me today. my colleague ayman mohyeldin picks up the cover right now. >> good afternoon, everyone. i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york. attorney general meritt garland finishing up a speech on rights. more on that in just a moment. >>> the inspector general looking into the department's use of subpoenas and other authorities to obtain communication records of members of congress, journalists and others after several recent disclosures, including a "new york times" report that the trump justice department sought such records from seve

joining me is correspondent leigh ann caldwell and debbie wasserman schultz. congresswoman schultz is the share of the committee and sits on the house oversight committee. welcome to you both. what can you tell us about the meeting the speaker is having with committee chairs and any plans they have to move forward? >> reporter: so those committee chairs and the speaker have been meeting for an hour and ten minutes, still huddled in there. we haven't gotten any news yet what they've decided or are leaning towards. they do have some actions and there's a couple of them including having another vote on the creation of a january 6th commission by potentially making some changes people like senator susan collins, republican of maine, wanted. they can create a select committee, they can have the standing committees authorized to continue to investigate or they can deputize one specific committee to take the lead on these investigations and that would be something like the homeland security committee. now that seems to be an option that a lot of democrats do like and

joining me now is capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell, ashley parker, michael steele and alsobarbara mcquaid. a lot to get to. but i first want to watch what the former vice president said last night about january 6 and donald trump. this was at a republican event in new hampshire. >> president trump and i have spoken many times since we left office. and i don't know if we'll ever see eye to eye on that day. but i will always be proud of what we accomplished for the american people over the last four years. [ applause ] and i will not allow democrats or their allies in the media to use one tragic day to discredit the aspirations of millions of americans. >> michael steele, let's remember rioters chanting hang mike pence as he was whisked away by secret service. and there he is in new hampshire underplaying what happened on january 6. what is going on? >> well, it is what you expect. he doesn't want to get sideways with trump again as he did on january 6 that led to trump supporter calling for his head. i thought brian williams put it best last night when he said -- >> doesn't

mike memoli and leigh ann caldwell, thank you for starting off us with. we have brand new reporting about what may have been known leading up to the january 6th attack on the capitol. according to a february investigative report, an fbi agent acknowledged that angry trump supporters openly discussed bringing guns to the capitol to start a revolution in the days leading up to that january 6th insurrection. interesting development. we heard the fbi director christopher ray and other officials essentially downplaying any intelligence warning of potential violence on january 6th. and in the weeks and day and runup to the i how does this new reporting fit with what we already heard? >> that's right. you're right. the sentence you read from that court document would surprise no one. something that nbc news and other organizations reported. even before january 6th, we reported that people were threatening violence in the days leading up to the riot. they down played the value of that chaert. that's why they didn't write an intelligence bulletin. but now we have

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talking about this and more, correspondent ali vitale in west virginia and leigh ann caldwell.ternoon to both of you. ali, let's start with you and some of this organizing that is really starting in the grassroots in west virginia, right? talk about the message they're trying to send, and perhaps more important, ali, how much joe manchin is willing to receive that message. >> reporter: well, the activists here on the ground are hopeful that manchin is going to listen to their message, but they're also prepared to keep pushing if necessary until their message is heard. really, what this comes down to, hallie, is pressuring him not just on specific policy items, like the 15 there are minimum wage and the right to equality, but really this is a push to get those items voted on in the senate. manchin is one of the key senators on the hill who stands in the way of reforming the filibuster or getting rid of it altogether. by getting rid of it, that would put on the table a whole slew of democratic priorities to be able to be passed by a simple majority, a much more tall order than th