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i appreciate the reporting, ben collins, a senior reporter for nbc news.e appreciate your time, my friend. >>> coming up next, a growing split on the republican party from january 6th, and what voters are going to make of it come election day. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. >>> it's been five days since the national republican party official by don doned the january 6th mob on the capitol calling those attacks, quote, legitimate political discourse with censuring two members for the temerity of what actually happened that day by joining the january 6th committee. but now, we're starting to see some republican senators offer some qualified pushback. >> i think the rnc is -- >> i think all of us up here want to talk about forward and not backward. >> we've got issues that we should be focusing on besides censuring two members of congress because they have a different opinion. >> they said in the resolution, they wanted republicans to be unified. that was not a unifying action. >> anything that my party does that comes across as being stupid is not

ben collins, thank you for helping us unpack it.break, another democratic house retirement. congresswoman kathleen rice announced today she will not seek re-election. her south shore long island district is a d plus 8. her decision means three of the four house seats will be open in november. rice is the 30th house democrat who will not seek re-election this november. that's nearly 14% of the entire caucus. on as we've said before that high number is not a sign of confidence for the party heading into november. that's all we have for us this hour. we'll be back tomorrow with more "meet the press daily." in an hour and a half we will be expecting to hear from president biden with an update on ukraine. also my colleague hallie jackson has a busy show. she will talk masks with dr. anthony fauci. masks, fauci, biden, ukraine in the 3:00 hour. my friend katy tur will tee it all up in the next hour right after this break. no, right now. sorry, katy. >>> thank you, chuck. i'm katy tur. the allied west says it is doing everything it can to

reporter ben collins here at nbc news is something of an extremist experts.es in among those weeds and he's up with fresh reporting out of how investigators of the january six investigation in congress are trying to piece together the origin stories of these two extremist groups in the hopes that it will shed light on the capitol riot. quote, the committee's investigators are zeroing in on events attended by members of domestic extremist movements like the proud boys and oath keepers in 2020. those events include covid lockdown protests, counterprotest essential justice demonstrations, armed protest activity focused on state capitals across the u.s., and stop the steal rallies that occurred prior to january 6th, 2021. we the investigators aside to the domestic in extremism inquiry are split into two teams. the red team is concentrating on the events that took place on january 6th. and there is a whole separate team, the purple team, looking into how those anti-democracy factions formed in the months before january 6th and how they evolved in the year since. a

moment when they had forced my reporter ben hand. collins>> skip, all day, they did something of an extremist expert. he operates in among those not force your hand. weeds and he's out with fresh so buy them leaking reporting, about how information by force you to investigators in the january six investigation in retire, they said you are congress are trying to piece thinking about retirement, so together the origin you had already decided what stories of those two extremist you are going to do. groups, in the hopes that it will shed the light on the capitol someone in your circle like riot. that information to them. they did not force your hand. quote, the committee's investigators are zeroing just like you were keeping in on events attended by members of secrets for the entirety of the the proud boys season that you are and oath keepers, in contemplating, you could not 2020. have kept a secret for other those events include covid lockdown post month or 2? tests, >> maybe he slept on it for 2 or 3 nights and realized i counterprotests, to m

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. >> joining me now is doctor jacqueline schneider and nbc news reporter ben collins.us about what that might look like. >> so, this is been a point of contention for a long time. at one point look does a cyber operation actually turn into an attack? and attack that triggers article five? >> the reality is, the vast majority of operations that we see day today and in fact, all of the cyber operations that we have seen in the current crisis, do not reach the threshold of a cyberattack. cyberattacks are those that create large scale damage that delete information. and on very rare cases, create physical effects. so, we do actually have ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure, including against hospitals. and that is not yet raised where we are willing to retaliate with conventional weaponry. so, it would take a very, very significant cyberattack that created large-scale physical damage to really induce the kind of retaliation that i think some -- is talking about. >> at the same time, u.s. intelligence officials say that the u.s. could launch its own cyber att

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by nbc news colleague ben collins writing, quote, major websites and social media accounts behind anti-vaccine mandate protests that march on washington last month, a re-branding as trucker convoys, part of a widespread effort to bring versions of ottawa's anti vaccine road closures to american cities. joining me now to discuss the gop's embrace of canada's far-right fringe, washington post opinion columnist jennifer reuben, new york times columnist, michelle goldberg, and former republican congressman, john kelly. all three msnbc political analyst. john kelly, what do you make of this sudden gop obsession over canadian truckers? >> so, alicia, part of it is the natural grievance politics of the right that we have seen. but it also reflects a narrative that you were increasingly seeing and republicans lean in, and i believe how they intend to frame of the covid issue both in the midterms and going into 24, and that is around freedom. right, the responsible approach to the politics of covid, if you, will it side we have to have the politics of covid, but the responsible framing is around the pu

. >> joining me now is nbc news ben collins and creative director for the greo. great to see you.familiar with joe rogan, let me play a little mash up of roguen's broadcast. >> if you're 21 years old say should i get vaccinated? i go no. you have one step away from a king. you have a one step closer. you move one step closer to dictatorship. that's what the [ bleep ] is happening. that is what will happen be vaccine passport. this is gene therapy. this is different. it's tricking your body. the black and white thing is strange because the shades -- >> tan and brown. >> there is such a spectrum of shades of people unless you talk to someone that is 100% african from the darkest place where they're not wearing any clothes all day and they developed all that color to protect themselves from the sun, the term black is weird. >> so i'm going to stipulate that my father is african, i'm black, terray, you're african american. you're block. those who may be confused. he does this thing of i'm not an expert, i'm just asking questions but there he is definitively saying things. people belie

on the ground in windsor, also with us, nbc news senior reporter ben collins, good to see you. cal, you've been in ontario all day, talk to us about the police presence and how protesters are reacting. >> i will show you the scene where the police and protesters are. as of 7:00 a.m. this morning police were methodically and slowly making their way down this road and then they stopped. once they stopped it was interesting because more people came, they had heard about it online, on the television, so the crowd here grew, as you said, this has become about an end, at least for these protesters, to all mandates. when you ask about what about the hundreds and millions of dollars that's lost that canadian government is concerned about, they will say well we've been losing money from the shutouts. it's an increase problem for the canadian government, which is referring to these folks as the fringe minority and they immediately made white heights that says fringe minority 2022. it has that feeling to it like we've seen in u.s. many times. >> never miss an opportunity for merch. presid

ben collins points to an all familiar soars, overseas actors. the facebook groups are behind american trucker congress are not american at all. instead, they are fake accounts from content mills in places far away like places like vietnam, bangladesh, and other foreign places. so foreign actors are meddling in the united states's affairs. anyone feel like they're having a bit of 2016 dÉjÀ vu? russia, if you are listening, anyway -- my panels back with me to discuss this. good to have you back. molly, ben collins, we've been through this sort of social media based foreign interference before, as i was alluding to before. russia's influence on 2016. why are foreign actors trying to fan the flames of covid divisions? >> because foreign actors, russia's a chaos agent. they do better when americans are divided. and this is a great kind of divisive thing for them because it's something that has been sort of an issue in american life. the irony [inaudible] 90% vaccination rate is pretty retch. and it's not a huge group, but, again, it's all what [laugh

new reporting from nbc's ben collins points to an all-familiar source, overseas actors.ebook groups behind american trucker convoys aren't americans at all. they're tied to continent -- content mills continents away in vietnam, bangladesh, romania, and others. you're telling me foreign actors are meddling in america's affairs. anyone feel like they're having a bit of 2016 deja vu. russia, if you're listening -- anyway, my panel is back to discuss this. ben collins notes the piece has been through this type of social media, especially this type of social media foreign based interference before. russia in our elections in 2016. why are foreign actors trying to fan the flames of covid divisions? >>al well, because foreign actors -- russia is a chaos agent. they do better when americans are divided. and this is a great kind of divisive thing for them, right? because it's something that has been sort of an issue in american right, vaccine mandates. and i mean the irony of this, they have some 90% vaccination rate is pretty rich. it's not a huge group. it's all astroturf. ther

senior reporter ben collins. ben, what's going on here? us about the response from the social media companies and the similar pact. >> there's two different what they call covert influence campaigns to target ukrainians in ukraine and what they did is two different ones, one from russia and one from a state sponsored okay actor in belarus. they take over the accounts of ukraine politician and military personnel and citizens. that's one side. another one is russian disinformation campaign tied to the old og troll farm from 2016. this group that is now rebranded as ukraine today and on ukraine today you saw fake images by computer. those are robot images. and they were fake profiles that posed as ukrainian journalists on facebook but also on these websites where they push the idea that ukraine was in decline over and over again in the stories pushed out. >> we found from mehta -- meta they're restraining access to put nick. how do you read this? >> it is kind of surprising to me because in part a couple days ago websites are allowing them to

specific militias or specific conspiracy movements that they overtly a scribe themselves to. >> ben collins in and joining us with your brand-new reporting on that. nick confessore, thank you as well for your analysis. >>> the second yeah, doug emhof, removed from an event because of a bomb threat. eah, doug emhof, removed from an event because of removed from an event because of a bomb threat.he energy of the tiny electron. we can create new ways to connect. rethinking how we communicate to be more inclusive than ever. with app, cloud and anywhere workspace solutions, vmware helps companies navigate change. faster. vmware. welcome change. it's time for the ultimate sleep number event on the sleep number 360 smart bed. what if i sleep hot? ...or cold? no problem, the sleep number 360 smart bed is temperature balancing so you both sleep just right. and it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. so, you can really promise better sleep? yes! you'll know exactly how well you slept, night after night. we take care of the science. all you have to

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joining me now is nbc news senior reporter ben collins and back with me is dnc curt randella. billion is his net worth. the companies that receive funding are facebook, lyft, yelp, palantir. paypal, stripe, spacex. this thing called xyinga. he's into everything. but it's his belief system that is fascinating. in his book about venture capitalism thiel himself argues that the founders are god like, that monarchies are more efficient than democracies and that cults are a better organizational model than management consultanconsultanci. he is very anti-democracy ala steve bannon. how can that influence play out given all that he has his tentacles in. >> until this week he was on the board of facebook. i think you can lead the tea leaves on where things are going with him leaving. so you can see that happening now, now he's investing in parallel areas, rumble, a youtube knockoff. to be exclusive to their platform or at least opposed to their platform. in that space they're trying to create a parallel internet basically that won't be affected at all by the moderation in any capacit

joining me now is nbc news senior reporter, ben collins, and ana palmer, the founder of punch bowl newsa half a dozen investigators on the committee, and they told me they're looking into these rallies over basically a year before the january 6th riot and those rallies were things like protests at the state capitol in lansing, michigan, or in oregon. there are the covid lockdown rallies that happened all throughout the united states or counterdemonstratios to racial justice protests. they're trying to see if people made relationships in those spaces that they could later use for january 6th. maybe there was some coordination between militias with each other, like the oath boys and proud boys, maybe there was some coordination between them or government officials or maybe random conspiracy theorists, who they're able to drag into the movement line qanon supporters. that's what they're looking at. they're trying to figure out not just what happened on the 6th, but how it got that bad and how the crowd got that big with rallies in months prior to january 6th itself. >> and matt collins rej

and ben collins investigates disinformation and extremism. and phil rucker is deputy national editor for the "washington post" and co-author of "i alone can fix it." and geoff bennett is correspondent for the pbs news hour. a lot to talk about. few people know the machinations of politics and the republican party better than mitch mcconnell. is he statement a statement of principle that there is a red line, or is it a statement of political reality as in this does not help me take back control of the senate? or both? and does it prove there is growing discontent under the surface in the republican party? >> good morning. as far as mcconnell is concerned and his motivations for those forceful statements, i think it is both. we know that the leader has not spoken with the former president since december of last year, so it has been over a year. he called january 6th yesterday a violent insurrection, some things that many members of his party refuse to do. but he also knows the politics like you said better than anyone else within the republican

. >> kaitlan collins at the white house, thank you. i want to bring in senator ben cardin on the foreign relations committee. senator, what do you make of all of the talk that that is de-escalating. do you think this is a trick? >> ana, first off, it's good to be with you. we have to recognize that propaganda and misinformation is the tool kit used by mr. putin. you cannot believe what he says. we know the troops are still on the border, they're still accumulating more troops despite what mr. putin says. at this moment it is as high risk as we've seen it and we have to be prepared for any eventuality. >> we've been discussing the latest ukrainian intelligence report obtained by cnn which does acknowledge russia has more than 148,000 forces near the ukrainian border but the report says that's, quote, insufficient to carry out a successful large-scale armed aggression. this is straight from ukrainion intel saying it is insufficient at this time. you've been briefed on u.s. intelligence. do you agree with this? >> i can tell you the united states shares intelligence in