flynn and piatt recommended for d. c. guard to stand by. start drafting a plan for courses of action. but the key point is that in that call, where they are saying hey we need people, the national guard does not get sent and from the beginning there's been a question of why not. >> there's been a question of why it took so long for national guard troops to get to the capital building and defend the capital. the defense department internal watchdog, its inspector general released a report earlier this year. was basically exculpatory. essentially said that the pentagon did everything that it could have done. that senior pentagon leaders were doing their best and that this day on the whole looks good for the u.s. military. what we have emerging now is a counter narrative not from the pentagon, but from the d. c. national guard. the actual group of troops who were called to respond to the capitol building. of course we had general walker's testimony and now in this new memo that i obtained, we have colonel matthews, who was on that 2:30 call am

nbc has reached out to general flynn and piatt for comment.rady said m in a statement that the service's actions on january 6th have been well documented and reported on, and general flynn and lieutenant general piatt have been open, honest, and thorough in their sworn testimony with congress and d.o.d. investigators. this all comes as general flynn's brother, remember him, trump ally mike flynn, just received a brief postponement on his deposition before the 1/6 select committee. it was supposed to be hitoday.so that's according to a committee aide. the committee subpoenaed michael flynn last month as it examines trump's allies' roles in the al 2020 insurrection. the numerous and growing ro questions still swirling about what happened at the pentagon ih where we start this hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends.or ben rhodes is here, he served as deputy national security advisor to president obama, now an msnbc contributor. jackie is here, "washington post" congressional correspondent andpo author of t early 202 newsletter. mile

dr. points off to marcell at dementia. piatt was hit by a bottle of friend from the stand last month lesson to match his into the series in england. little they'll need a sporting never called to have any chance of winning the ashes. they so get more punishment against australia on day 3. at the 2nd test and we've lost 6 wickets, the just 54 runs and they were all out for 200. 36 australia finished the day of 45 for one in their 2nd innings and late by 282 runs. and that is always foot from may . 5th, out, back to you kamala, they thank you jemma, you know, outside people everywhere tonight, for as i said, cut a national day and for the final a very multicultural society here in dunbar. and this is of course going to be the 1st well cup to be held in the middle east. it will be a brand new experience for a lot of football fans who make the journey to come here. santa hamish speaking earlier to the ceo of the world cup organizing committee, asked him if there might just be a clash of cultures. generally, i think um, people, when they travel to other countries, they quickly understand

if you saw tahoe carson bit last week, he played the clip from victoria's linked phone call jeffrey piatt one thing she said as i got word from jake sullivan that vice president biden is on board to get on the conference call and give coup plotters and out of boy make the deeps stick, she said. that's the famous phone call, they are not moving fast enough on this coup so we will go ahead and do it without them vice president biden is helping us do it. it was that in 2014 that led to the loss of the crimea peninsula and led to the war in the east of ukraine that skilled more than 10000 people so the fact that he's now diffusing a crisis he helped create, he gets credit for that but only half. kennedy: chris? >> i give him credit for afghanistan. frankly every president including president bush who started the work has said they would try to do it. granted it was messy and horrible, we lost lives and afghans, they are suffering as a result but it did have to end so i do give him credit. i think the biden a administration has a hard time taking that credit because of the way the withdrawal l

>> yes, general charles flynn and general piatt, both of them are still senior generals. >> i thoughtrles flynn from previous reporting who of course is mike flynn's brother. >> that's correct. the memo does not mention mike flynn, but yes, they are brother. >> and charlie sooiks, the "new york times" writing about efforts in congress to make changes to the electoral count law of 1887. this is the law trump and his allies through the john eastman memo were trying to use to overturn the election. republicans have blocked past efforts to change this law. what possibility is there in this 50-50 senate that this law could be changed? >> well, of course it's going to be difficult without breaking the filibuster, but i think it's important to underline how important this is for congress to address this particular issue. of all of the issues that we have talked about -- and i've mentioned this before -- of vote suppression, the attacks on democracy, this particular piece of legislation is absolutely central to any attempt to overturn the election, and what you're seeing around the country, o

the actions on january 6th have been well documented and reported on and general flynn, and general piatt have been open, honest, and thorough in their sworn testimony with congress and d.o.d. investigators. it would be interesting to know how an army spokesperson knows that to be true. we also learned today that justice department has sued texas over republican-drawn voting maps. d. o.j. suit alleges that new congressional and state house maps disenfranchised latinos and other minorities in violation of the federal voting rights act. meanwhile, the president hours away from a critical meeting with russian president vladimir putin, they're going to hold a video conference tomorrow. think of it as a kind of high stakes face time, and it comes amid growing concern russia could be preparing to invade ukraine. biden is prepared to tell putin that there would be consequences should russia take military action. >> we have been working in lock step and in coordination with congress with countries, our nato partners with transatlantic partners to prepare a range of steps that could be detrimental

colonel matthews calling piatt and flynn liars that day. the memo was reported from "politico," an army spokesperson tells nbc news, the actions of general have been documented. let's bring in national correspondent betsy woodruff swan. what more can you tell us about this memo? >> the statement that you just read from the army that says the army's actions on the day of january 6th were well documented. one key allegation is one of those documents which is called the u.s. army report on january 6th is in the words of the memo's author. colonel matthews goes aggressively after a secret document that's not yet public but it's cited by the generals who matthews calls liars. this has been produced by the pentagon of a way of white-washing, the way the pentagon handled the january 6th chaos. so when historians look back that day, there will be this false narrative and what matthew tries to do in this memo is to put where -- the official story that comes out of the pentagon. what we are seeing is two stories. and now we have a second version of e