ashley parker, you started to cover trump at the "new york times." you have been one of the people he targeted early on with one of his first anti-democratic platforms. that was a war against a free press. i wonder if you can talk about what joe biden just put his finger on, that he has been at war against the democracy he leads since before he won. >> that's exactly right, nicolle. as i was watching those horrifying images with the rest of the world yesterday, i was struck by how disgusting and horrifying they were, but also how utterly inevitable and unsurprising they felt to anyone who has been paying attention. i was going back and looking at some of my reporting in 2016 when he was a candidate. you know, a colleague of mine we wrote a story in 2016 talking to trump supporters who were threatening a bloody revolution if donald trump lost to hillary clinton. i remember writing a piece about the first time that i as a member of the media felt unsafe at a donald trump rally when i witnessed violence swirling around me in early 2016. you can look at

amna: ashley parker from "the washington post" has rejoined us now. ashley, i want to ask you about something that candidate biden ran on the whole time. saying it was his relationships in the senate. that's what he was going to bank on to be able to stop the gridlock in washington and push thingshrough. when it comes to some of these key legislative items right now, what do we know about how much he's doing behind the scenes, who he's calling and what he's saying? ashley: well, one thing that came up in the briefing today that was somewhat surprising, was that his team has been passed with a lot of -- so you had brian deese reaching out to a bipartisan group of mayors, talking about an upcoming call on sunday with a group of 16 democratic and republican senators. but it is unclear, for instance, exactly what that personal touch biden promised is happening and when we're really going to see it and one sign that is potentially disconcerting for the biden folks is that if you look at his big ticket items, that anna was just discussing and you look at som

ashley parker, sam stein, admiral james stavridis. great thanks to you for starting off this week with us. coming up for us, it's the one thing that can stop the pandemic and yet it hardly seems like a priority for this president who hasn't talked about the pandemic since the election. will you get the vaccine sooner under president biden? we'll ask one of his top advisers. >>> and later, this isn't the first time twitter has banned disinformation. is there a lesson for today in the way social media silenced actually jihadis elsewhere in the world? all of this and more as "the 11th hour" is just getting under way this monday night. 11th hour" is just getting under way this monday night. because my body can still make its own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it, lowering my blood sugar from the first dose. once-weekly trulicity responds when my body needs it, 24/7. trulicity is for type 2 diabetes. it's not insulin. it isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't take trulicity if you're allergic to it, you or your f

let's bring back in anna palmer and ashley parker and mike memoli. anna, in talking about security, we saw mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer take the senate floor for the first time since senate was gavelled back into section today. and the first thing that mitch mcconnell said on his last day as majority leader was that the president is responsible for what happened. let's listen. >> it's coming. maybe it's not coming. all right. you know what he said. basically he said that they were provoked by the president and other powerful people. anna, mitch mcconnell saying and other powerful people, that got my sensors up. who was he talking about? >> it got my sensors up as well. but particularly given the fact that he called out the president in particular ahead of this impeachment trial, mitch mcconnell is a man of few words and he always uses them very carefully. so the fact that he was willing to say that the president actually provoked him and other powerful people, probably a nod to some of his colleagues who were partaking in that and were also kind

ashley parker, indeed i'd like to begin with something you wrote, something akin to the law firm we've now come to know at "the washington post" as rucker, parker and dossy. here is one line from that piece about the president's edited and awkward video tonight. this was not a concession so much as a grudging acknowledgement that his presidency would end. and, ashley, indeed, let us in on your reporting as to how it came about during what i know was a dark day in the west wing. >> it was a dark day, and it was sort of 24 hours that began with the president really trying to escape reality. i talked to a close advisor of his who said on wednesday he was watching that violent insurrection frankly that he encouraged from the white house with not enjoyment but bemusement that his team, his people were fighting for them. and then sort of the chips started falling apart. he originally didn't understand just how precarious his situation was. but i was told it was a combination of several factors, right? one was sort of the range of people who were dropping away from him. there were the cabinet

ashley parker, congratulations on your new gig. you have a lot of 7:00 hours intruded upon by this very show. thank you so much for being here. i am amused i have to say by this trump going away party no one wants to come to. starts tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. so desperate for a crowd, people can bring five additional guests. everybody is saying no, john kelly, no, mitch mcconnell, on and on. what is the thinking in the white house, forcing low level staff to go so he has a crowd or what? >> not just people saying no. look at the people, the invitations are sent to, just underscores the state of things. you have anthony scaramucci, you have john kelly, former chief of staff said if he was still in the cabinet, he would invoke the 25th amendment. you have mitch mcconnell who said he is open to impeachment of donald trump. not your top notch party guests for a traditional festivities. i talked to a senior white house official today that was saying they're not planning to attend either. this logic was different. why would i stand in

anna palmer, ashley parker, thank you ladies as well. and joining me now is democratic congressman veronica escobar in texas. she is a member of the armed services and judiciary committees. congresswoman, thank you very much for joining us. this security call that we're hearing about, one of your fellow lawmakers called it chilling and horrific. can you give us any more details about it, and how do you feel today? >> hi, katie. thanks for having me on the program. yes, i was on the call. yes, it was chilling. yes, it was terrifying. i cannot divulge details about it. i don't want to be a part of providing information to the terrorists who believe they are going to war against america and who have started a war against america. but suffice it to say that there has to be a lot more that happens in order to protect our country, to protect the capitol, and to protect the incoming president of the united states joe biden and vice president kamala harris. >> on the subject of impeachment, we're hearing a talking point from republicans trying t

ashley parker, the impeachment being a house vote, we know how uncertain any prospect in the senate would be for a conviction, there is increasing reporting, including from nbc news and "the new york times," you people as well, about whether the president will pardon himself or his family. and he is talking about it to aides. >> it's worth remembering, andrea, this is something, just the general idea of having sort of the consecutive authority to pardon himself as the president is something president trump has sort of, as a theoretical exercise, been intrigued with since when he took office. in the early days, before sort of everything had gone so awry and there might have been specific instances you could point to that he would want to pardon himself from, this was something he had discussed with aides back in the early days of his administration, this power he possibly had. he's always loved generally the power of the pardon. he came into the white house thinking it was a bit like a monarchy, it wasn't through legislation where you have to deal with lawmakers from capitol hill. the pard

. >> ashley parker i want to quote to you, the writing of ashley parker and she writes, quote, trumpns to inhabit an alternative reality of adoration and affirmation, his aides are at work to establish a trump fiefdom in the sunshine state aimed at the maintaining his influence over republican politics. what do you call what we have just seen for four years in the white house? and second is, is this just going to mean the southern white house for him, just like d.c., only warmer and with more covid? >> it's a great question and it's one that we truly don't know the answer to. in part because of the attack on the capitol, i want to talk about your show, weeks ago. we were discussing because president trump was discussing grand plans foran exit. he was going to have a huge competing rally, out in the country somewhere. he was going to have a competing event where he was going to announce that he, donald trump, was going to run for president again in 2024. and his lock on the republican party seemed inpenetrable, he would be determining primaries and people from the southern white house

ashley parker, neal katyal, frank figliuzzi. again, frank's new book is called "the fbi way: inside the bureau's code of excellence." and it arrives just about a time we could use a little bit more of the fbi way around here. thank you all. coming up, what the newly declared state of emergency means for the biden inauguration that we'll all be watching live four star general who warns us, it may not nearly be enough >>> and later, imagine you're watching live tv coverage when you spot a former co-worker in the rampaging crowd at the capitol. we'll talk to someone who did and find out what drives a person to attack the heart of american democracy. all of it as "the 11th hour" is just getting under way on this monday night. just getting under way on this monday night i feel like we're forgetting something. let me check. xfinity home gives you peace of mind from anywhere with professionally monitored home security built around you. no, i think we're good. good. so when you're away, you don't have to worry. the tent. we forgot... th

joining me now, ashley parker, white house bureau chief at "the washington post."tulations. and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and professor at the alabama school of law. >> thank you. >> ashley, first to you -- i should say chief ashley, this buy america plan represents a rare agenda item that is not fully out of sync with some of the trump policies but how is it going to be different under this president? >> you're right, it's not out of sync. but donald trump in his first year in 2017 also signed a buy america executive order on a background briefing call on with some of the biden economic team members last night. they were asked that question, what is different than what donald trump tried to do? they did not give any real specifics but they did point out with trump's executive order there was a lot of fanfare and a lot of talk about buy america and put america first but when it actually came to policies and to practice, very little changed. >> so the challenge for you guys is going to be -- for all of us -- to be following up and making sure something actua

ashley parker, reporter of that piece for "the washington post," she joins me now with evy poumpourasd former special agent with the secret service, also the author of "becoming bulletproof." ashley, amazing details in this piece. just break down how close this came. >> incredibly close. the two key numbers and figures are 60 seconds and 100 feet. again, as we reported, basically pence was spirited off the floor of the senate into a secure room, his office, just off the senate floor out of the chamber and exactly less than one minute after he was secured there, that mob of angry mob of trump supporters, basically, came up in that viral video we've seen that capitol police officer leading them away. when you see the officer look over his shoulder, he's looking at the area where the vice president less than 60 seconds prior was there and, again, it's 100 feet and 60 seconds and things could have been totally different. >> as someone who was in the secret service, what do you think was going through secret service's mind at that time and what would have happened if a mob had set upon the

joining me now from washington is nbc news correspondent mike memle and ashley parker and also with us is the president of the network and host of "politics nation" reverend al sharpton. everybody, welcome. we'll start this hour with joe biden at any moment signing the executive orders. rev, i want to start with you on this because joe biden is following through or trying to at least beginning to on the promises he made to a diverse coalition of americans who put him in the oval office. >> i think this is a deposit. certainly there is a long way to go and particularly the abuse that was suffered by these communities over the last four years. but to make the move in terms of the ending of privatizing of federal prisons and dealing with that aspect of incarceration to deal with housing where we saw a lot of retreating on housing fairness and equity based on race even though it was dr. ben carson i think is a step in the right direction. we have not addressed policing, we have not addressed some of the economic discrimination, as well as the zeen phobia he addressed here as well as what h

i want to read you this reporting from our friend ashley parker. senators and house members trapped inside the u.s. capitol begged for immediate help, they struggled to get through to the president who safely in the white house was too busy watching fiery television images of the crisis unfolding around them to act or even bother to hear their pleas. he sounds incapacitated, donna. >> i think that that part is part of the gist of trying to demand that vice president pence gather what remains of the cabin cabinet. problematic though, i'm glad the president frankly is not in the chain of. this is not a democracy when you remove the commander in chief. that is not a functioning democracy and i think all the more reason that the congress needs to act even if there's one hour left in this presidency to remove him from office. >> olivia, your group is putting money where all of our mouths are, pledging $50 million to defend republicans who support impeaching trump. i was struck by jim jordan today refusing to say he accepts the results of the election. h

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senior national security analyst, former cia director john brennan is here, also ashley parker, "the washington post" white house bureau chief and msnbc political analyst, and msnbc national security analyst frank figluzzi author of the book, "the fbi way." director brennan, i want to start with you on this alert. can you just take us through the strategy on the part of national security officials. >> i think it's prudent toia the system to make sure all officials are aware that just because the deadly assault on the capitol is behind us, that doesn't mean the extremists have gone home and still do not harbor grudges against the government and authorities. by issuing this bulletin, i think it's going to be up to the depend of homeland security to reach out to state and local officials to talk about what other measures might need to be put in place. the fbi as frank well knows and will tell you, they'll be in touch with their local law enforcement officials. again there's a lot of people out there who continue to harbor the violent aspirations. it's not directed against individuals wh

ashley parker, thank you so much. donna edwards, thank you for joining us this hour. >>> it is 5:00 in new york. we are continuing with our special coverage of the second impeachment of donald trump. the house voting 232 to 197 to impeach donald trump for inciting the charge, the charge of inciting insurrection against the capitol, that tallying includes 10 republicans who voted their conscience, the most bipartisan impeachment in our country's history. the articles of impeachment now sent to the senate which moments ago affirmed there will be no impeachment trial until after joe biden is sworn in as donald trump's successor. it is impossible to ignore today's proceedings were held at the scene of the crime, the halls of the u.s. capitol, exactly one week ago, were filled with a violent mob of insurrectionists, bent on overthrowing the federal government. today, they were replaced by scores of national guard troops there to protect our country's leaders from the ongoing threat of violence carried out in donald trump's

supreme court and ashley parker, pulitzer prize winning journalist with the "washington post." we welcome back while congratulating her on her well deserved promotion. she will be referred to here after as "washington post" white house bureau chief. how about them apples? welcome to you all. and ashley indeed, befitting your new title, i would like to begin with you tonight with what may be an unanswerable question. how tight remains the grip of a twice impeached private citizen sitting in florida over the grown men and women on the republican side of the u.s. senate? >> it is still an unanswerable question. one thing right now that is contributing to that is that donald trump, and it seems so simple and obvious, doesn't have his twitter feed. and that has very literally silenced him. so you know, on the one hand, you are seeing sort of reluctance to get to it. it seems like 17 senators to convict him, republican senators, in an impeachment trial. there is no one who really wants to defend his behavior on january 6th so you're seeing objections on the procedural grounds, questi

princeton university, al cardenas from the institute of politics at florida state university and ashley parkerst." ashley, i want to start with the pandemic, first on the vaccine issue itself. then we'll move to covid relief. you heard dr. osterholm there. we've got a lot of epidemiologists arguing that they need to call an audible with vaccine distribution. how ready is this biden team to do something like that? >> well, around the magnitude of the crisis they inherited. their view is we need to follow, as dr. osterholm said, what their scientists are recommending which is the two-dose vaccine regimen for pfizer and moderna that recommend that. they also believe they can do both simultaneously. they're no longer holding back vaccines behind two to three-day surplus, the stockpile as we originally conceived of it does not existed because they believe they can increase distribution and production to the point where they can send out all of those vaccines and still have enough for people to get their second doses. they've already increased it by 16%. that said, these are big promises, and we're

ashley parker, thanks for coming as well.ays love to have you. >>> up next, how much work can really get done on capitol hill if lawmakers fear each other? we're going to jump off with what we were talking about with tara. congresswoman pramila jayapal is with me after the break. nd crean the kids' juice aisle. [ fizz ] joining meeting. nd crean the kids' [ coughing ] [ gasping ] skip to cold relief fast with alka seltzer plus severe power fast fizz. dissolves quickly, instantly ready to start working. ♪ oh, what a relief it is ♪ so fast. >>> the fbi has raised the reward for the information for the person who placed pipe bombs during the capitol siege. and also raised suspicion saying that the bombs were posted before january 6th. "the washington post" obtained the security footage of a citizen carrying a backpack just after january 5th. joining me now is nbc news correspondent pete williams. pete. >> well, you're right. this is the new information that we have. that investigators have concluded that the bomb was placed the

. >> joining me now, nbc's tom costello and reporter ashley parker. tom, tell us about the lockdown and the threat level right now. >> reporter: well, listen, i think it's most people in the d.c. area are feeling pretty confident right now about security into inauguration. i mean, the level of security in this city is just unprecedented. we've got by inauguration day now the national guard saying 21,000 national guard troops will be here, thousands of them are already here as you know, creating a perimeter around the entire not just the capitol but the -- but blocks extending out from the capitol. then you have layers of police roadblocks and police officers. i mean, this city is on virtual lockdown right now and very safe. but it does underscore the threat that the fbi is talking about, the capitol police are talking about, ongoing multiple threats by these right-wing extremists and white supremacists and anti-semites talking about launching more attacks not just in d.c. or against d.c. but nation wild. by the way, in charging documents, you may have

an example of that, there was some reporting from our colleagues at the "washington post," ashley parker, phil rucker, josh dossy, familiar to the folk who is watch msnbc as contribute or the contributors, the president trying to say something on the night of january 6th. he did it a day later but say something that would calm tensions on the night of january 6th. there were three different versions according to "the post" of that videotaped and the one that came out was determined to be the most palate nl by aitds. that was the version that the president told those rioters he loved them and they were very special people. that speaks volumes about what is happening inside the west wing and what has been in the last week. this president did not want to be impeached the first time. he felt like that was going to stain his legacy. he was concerned about that. imagine a second impeachment. that is going to be, you have to imagine, the first line in the history books as this story is written. craig, i want to bring you in and reset where we are. have we gavelled that second procedural vote? i

are getting more details about what went down as we just reported from the "washington post," ashley parker, josh darcy, phil rucker a dream team talking about the details. we also have what's happening on capitol hill, potentially his second impeachment. can you talk me -- we are on a six to eight-hour timeline. what do we expect to see before close of people or before people go to bed tonight. >> it's going to be a late night here on capitol hill, hallie, because late tonight is when they are expected to vote on this resolution calling on mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment. that vote might not happen until 10:00 tonight. members are flying back into town, traveling back into town, to take that vote tonight, but, hallie, there's three crises that are happening at the exact same time that we're following. it's what's going to happen politically as far as how to hold the president accountable is the first, the second is covid, which is continuing to spread on capitol hill, it's only been exacerbated by those lawmakers who have been held in the same room on january 6th and then you have

washington post white house reporter and msnbc political analy analyst, ashley parker is here. also tim miller now political director of the group republican voters against trump and a contributor to the bull work and nbc news correspondent heidi. i'm going to hit all of you with breaking news. we got the first copy of the actual language. the language of the articles of impeachment for donald trump hasn'tpproved by nancy pelosi. she came out forcefully for impeaching him a second time. what do we make of the fact that the only thing that got the president to pretend to do anything inching toward responsible was it sounds like his white house counsel told him he could have been in legal trouble if he didn't. >> that's right. let's be clear it wasn't a concession. it's as close as he may come to a concession and he did agree to peaceful transition of power but it's not a concession. there were a couple of factors. we were told that pushed him there. he was stunned by the range of people coming out against him. he normally sort of feels he has a vice like grip on the republican p

ashley parker and phil rucker. "the day american democracy was brought to the brink." that caught my breath when i read it. there had to come a time late this afternoon on deadline when you put your thoughts together and your reporters notebook and sat down at a keyboard. what was that like to try to do what most of us have all day, if not several days to do and sum up what you just witnessed happen to your capitol and country? >> brian, it was a remarkable day and i spent it almost entirely here in my home in washington and i could hear the sirens out the window as police all afternoon were rushing up to the capitol and, you know, my assignment began to write about the theater of the day. i was going to write about the spectacle of the president leading this rally outside the white house and then cruz and holly and some republican senators going through these performative motions in the senate to object to the election results but of course, we knew what the outcome would be. never did i imagine there would be a mob, rioters storming the capitol vandalizing pelosi's o

. >> and yet we have this great article in the "washington post" by ashley parker saying those people have been strongly linked to donald trump are suddenly having trouble getting any responses on their linkedin. they're having difficulty finding work, they're having difficulty going home. rick, what do you think sort of the political environment of america should do with people who decided to stay with trump until the absolute last minute? it's one thing if you left in 2018 after the midterms, it's one thing if you left after charlottesville. what should they do with americans who basically hung out with donald trump until the last minute? >> this is in the category of if you bought the ticket, you get to take the ride. there was a thought that the whole world had changed, we were going to be this monopolistic party, and they've got stain on them. they backed them up in charlottesville. all these folks that can't get jobs now are the dead-enders, the hardest of the hard-core. they want to get out and work in hollywood, in the finance industry of corporate america. again, bad choice.

watching with us is ashley parker. white house bureau chief, a new post for her. dr. kavita patel is watching. and david plouffe. let's listen in. >> many familiar faces from yesterday. we are please the to have dr. fauci here with us as part of the president'smentment to have health experts lead the communication with the people about the pandemic. a run of show here, dr. fauci will speak at the top about the state of the pandemic, the status of vaccines, he'll take some of your questions. i will play the role of the bad cop when it's time for him to get and get to the work of the american people, then i will do a topper and answer a bunch of questions as well. there's lots to come after this. with that, i'll turn it over to dr. fauci. >> thank you very much. i'm going to spend a couple minutes just summarizing the status of where we are and then maybe addressing some of the things that i know are on people's minds. so, first of all, obviously we're still in a very serious situation. to have over 400,000 deaths is historic in a very bad sense. when you look at the nu

ashley parker, reporter for the "washington post," neil katyal, former acting solicitor general during the obama years. he's argued dozens of cases before the u.s. supreme court. and the former fbi assistant director for counter intelligence. notably he is the author of a new book, the fbi way, inside the bureau's code of excellence. good evening and welcome to you all. ashley, i want to read back to you your own work with your colleagues, rucker and dossy in the post tonight. the president safely ensconced in the west wing. this was during the riot. was too busy watching fiery television images of the crisis unfolding around them to act or even bother to hear their cries for help. he was busy enjoying the spectacle. trump watched with interest, buoyed to see his supporters were fighting so hard on his behalf. has there been an attempt for his cover story on his role, his behavior and his silence since? >> there hasn't. the story we reported in the "washington post" that just posted this evening was basically inside those six hours on the attack on the capitol wednesday from when the c