there were multiple ways in and out of the chamber. that was one thing i did mention to the capitol police officer. if you're going to secure a chokepoint, make sure it is on the third floor, because there is no ladder down from the gallery to the floor. and they knew that, and they roger that and took care of that. they tried to, anyway. greta: review talking to your colleagues up in the gallery? review giving them instructions? rep. fitzpatrick: i was not. for me to do that i would have to be shouting up there and that can sometimes raise tensions. i left that to the capitol police to make sure -- if you are overwhelmed numerically, as a law-enforcement officer you have to make strategic decisions. you have to pick and choose your battles. that's what i shared with them, and they agreed. greta: and you are watching your colleagues in the gallery and on the floor. what are you thinking? rep. fitzpatrick: well, i'm thinking a lot of things, obviously. as time went by, when they originally said they had it under control, i obviously kne

and took the leaders of the house out of the chamber. pretty impressively, i remember they wouldn't let steny get his papers. i thought that was really odd and very concerning. and then jim mcgovern took over at the chair, and we still try to keep going. looking back on it, a kind of seems strange that we were proceeding with this useless debate when it was pretty clear at this point something was happening that was very serious. in the debate honestly was not very serious, particularly from my colleagues on the others of the aisle. as we tried to restart, they interrupted us again and said, we are going to have to ask you to remove your gas masks that are underneath your seats, which until that point i did not even realize they were there. and put them on, because they have the ploy tear in the rotunda, which is a few feet away from where we were sitting. people started getting pretty frightened and standing up, a lot of commotion, and i remember helping hakeem jeffries get his gas mask back open. when i ripped it open, somehow damaged

state and federal laws, as well as the executive chamber's own written policies. this investigation has revealed conduct that corrodes the very fabric and character of our state government and shines light on injustice that can be present at the highest levels of government. but none of this, none of this would have been illuminated if not for the heroic women who came forward. and i am inspired by all the brave women who came forward, but more importantly, i believe them, and i thank them for their bravery. and i thank the independent investigators for their professionalism, despite the attacks, and for their dogged determination that brought us to the truth. and now we will hear from joon kim and anne clark, who will walk us through the report and their findings. mr. kim: thank you, attorney general james. good morning. my name is joon kim. along with my colleague anne clark, we have led the teams at our two law firms in conducting the investigation into allegations of sexual harassment by governor cuomo. we have now completed our investigation and have made our

and we need to finish it in the chamber.we were to convene at another location to do this, it would look terrible. >> was there discussion of convening at another location? rep. mcgovern: people were thinking out loud about what we could do next, and somebody suggested -- it was not in our leadership, but it may have been somebody in the sergeant at arms office that said we will have to figure out the best ways to do this. i am like, no, we have to go back. we have to go back. we were not getting a lot of clear and direct information while we were in that room. can i go back to my office? no, why not? we do not think it a career. i have my office in the capitol. i have one in the cannon building. no, we do not think the cannon building is clear that -- yet. i get it because there was a lot going on, but for us we were sitting there trying to figure out when we can leave, and when do you think we will go back into session? and if so -- and so it was maddening to be there because we were all cooped up. some of my colleagues un

i mean actually the mob never got into the chambers, our chambers, they did the senate, but he said thereas blood on the floor and the place had been trashed. the janitorial staff was over there cleaning it up, making sure that the congress could reconvene and is soon as it was safe and the bomb dogs had been through, we could reconvene. i was there until the end of all of the counting, and the tellers had to stay and sign things. i didn't get back to my residence in d.c. until after 3:00, that's when i knew that i was safe. when you got to your residence at 3:00 a.m., do you remember the feeling and the thought you had? when you had time to reflect on the day? rep. lofgren: i really thought, what a tragic day for the united states, that these -- this frenzied mob could have reached the capital, something that didn't even happen in the civil war, and try and essentially overthrow the government. i mean, we were in the middle of the constitutional process that is key to implementing the votes of the american people in the selection of their next president. and they try to prevent that from

the executive chamber violated multiple state and federal laws, as well as the executive chamber's own written policies. this investigation has revealed conduct that corrodes the very fabric and character of our state government and shines light on injustice that can be present at the highest levels of government, but none of this, none of this would have been illuminated if not for the heroic women that came forward. i am inspired by all the brave women that came forward, but more importantly i believe them, and i thank them for their bravery. i thank the independent investigators for their professionalism despite the attacks, and for their determination that brought us to the truth. and now we will hear from june kim and anne clark, who will walk us through their report and their findings. >> thank you, attorney general james. good morning. my name is joon kim and along with my colleagues, anne clark, we have led our teams at our two law firms in conducting the investigation into allegations of sexual harassment by governor cuomo. we have now completed our investigation and have made

the coexistence and the executive chamber, executive chamber's culture of fear and flirtation, intimidation and intimacy, abuse and affection creates a work environment ripe for harassment. as another complainant testified and i quote, what makes it so hard to describe every single inappropriate incident is the culture of the place. on the one hand, he makes all of this inappropriate and creepy behavior normal. and like you should not complain. on the other hand you see people getting punished and screamed at if you do anything where you disagree with him or his top aides. i really just wanted to go to work and be recognized for my work and nothing else, closed quote. charlotte bennett, the complainant as miss clark mentioned who was transferred after she reported inappropriate comments by the governor to senior staff, summarized her experience in a text message as follows. quote, the verbal abuse, intimidation and living in constant fear were all horribly toxic, dehumanizing and traumatizing. and then he came on to me. i was scared to imagine what would happen if i rejected him. so i disap

and the chamber felt the duty to correct that record. there were also witnesses that the attorney general's investigators interviewed that told them that lindsey boylan was not to be trusted, and that they did not find her credible. not just based on what had happened in the tweets. but based on their professional interactions with her when she worked in the chamber. the investigators didn't include that in the report and they credited miss boylan wholesale. what perhaps i think was most brother some, and there was a lot, but out of interviewing 179 witnesses, the investigators made a choice not to include what a lot of people had to say. and buried at the end, at page 121, is a sentence that should scare everybody. scare everybody about f you're being accused of something and this is all -- [ inaudible ]. here is what it said. it said a number of former and current executive chamber staff particularly the senior staff as well as state troopers with the protection detail denied having witnessed or experienced any conduct by the governor

but this is the largest bed chamber in the house. oh, it belongs to lady katherine and lady augusta. they are the oldest of the children. they are is a and 14 years of age -- they are 15 and 14 years of age. i think they left in a hurry last night. you see these young ladies have the largest bed chamber because they also take their lessons here in the house. that bed over there is for their governess, yes, a french governess. we may not like the french, but we do like their style. very important that these young ladies speak french. they will be present to the royal courts. their father has a seat in parliament. but now the governor's taken his entire family off to [inaudible]. they are sailing up the york river at the moment, which means they are all sharing cabins on a ship. seven children and the governess and their nursemaid and the servants, oh my. i'm sure they're wishing they had this much room again. oh, lord and lady dunmore's chambers are over this way. we will pass through a guest room here as well on our way. i know. i kn

he tells us about the days events from the front of the house chamber. rep. mcgovern: i was there, and i received -- nancy pelosi, one of her aides came up to me and said would you be willing to step in for the speaker? i have done that a one million times before. i am sitting there and my daughter is texting me like where are you? i said to her i am in the chamber. she said they closed it the cannon building. i said they do that all of the time for various reasons, but i am in the chamber. she said, why are you there? i said because i am observing

breaking news from the upper chamber. we will go there as well. >>> also, the pandemic intensifying in new dangerous ways. we just crossed 36 million covid cases in our country since all of this started by nbc's tally, and it only took eight days to add 1 million new cases. coming up we will talk to health and human services secretary becerra is tackling the new challenges. but we are going to start with the infrastructure vote in the senate, and monica alba is in wilmington, delaware, and we're following this particular bill from the very start. and i want to bring in the assistant dean of public affairs at the university of texas, and she's also a msnbc contributor. and we will start with you, ali vitali. >> craig, a halting process all the way through. we saw negotiations repeatedly fall apart and start again. one of the early republicans that tried to reach across the aisle and put together a deal, once that fell apart we saw other bipartisan senators step into the breach there, and got us to the point where we had a

and the chamber felt a duty to correct that record. there were also witnesses that the attorney general's investigators interviewed that told them that lindsey boylen was not to be trusted and that they did not find her credible. not just based on what had happened in the tweets, but based on their professional interactions with her when she worked in the chamber. investigators didn't include that in the report and they credited ms. boylen wholesale. what perhaps i think was most bothersome, and there was a lot, but out of interviewing 179 witnesses, the investigators made a choice not to include what a lot of people had to say. and buried at the end at the page 121 is a sentence that should scare everybody. scare everybody if you are being accused of something, and this is all you get about what people have to say that's good about you. here is what it said. it said a number of former and current executive chamber staff, particularly the senior staff, as well as state troopers with the protection detail denied having witnessed or expe

the night of january 6, and we gathered in the senate chamber.the same chamber where the new deal was struck and the great society was forged. in the same chamber where the interstate highway system was started and voting rights were won. and in that chamber, just before 1:00 a.m., as officers stood guard, the final vote was tallied. democrats, independents and republicans came together and upheld the vote and the voice of the american people. as those officers continued, even at that late hour, to secure our capitol, they secured our democracy. let us never forget that and let us always remember their courage. now it is my great honor to introduce a true champion for all those who serve in uniform, president joe biden. [applause] pres. biden: good afternoon. thank you, vice president harris. folks, not even during the civil war did insurrectionists reach the capitol of the united states of america, the citadel of democracy, not even then. but january 6, 2021, they did. extremists and terrorists launch an assault on the people's house, on a sacre

you can hear outside the chamber. there's one ghost, i'm the only one that's ever mentioned having seen him but i still see him a lot. this is wilbur mills. wilbur mills considered most powerful member of congress, member from arkansas and chairman of the house and way means committee and he always counted his votes. he had a particular place that he liked to stand because members would come to him relate under the ways and means committee and so he was a very sought out member and he would just stand outside the -- the house ways and means committee room and here he is in the photograph in the location greeting a couple of members in the ways and means committee who had just been elected. he's very powerful and well known and when i first started working around the congress in the 1960's he was still chairman and i would see him in that location and to this day i still see wilbur mills in that location when i go by. now, later on his chief of staff wrote a biography of him and talked in the capitol historical society

and federal laws as well as the executive chamber's own written policies. this investigation has revealed conduct that corrodes the very fabric and character of our state government and shines light on injustice that can be present at the highest levels of government. but none of this -- none of this would have been illuminated if not for the heroic women who came forward. and i am inspired by all the brave women who came forward. but more importantly, i believe them. and i thank them for their bravery. and i thank the independent investigators for their professionalism despite the attacks. and for their dogged determination that brought us to the truth. and now we will hear from june kim and ann clark who will walk us through the report and their findings. >> thank you, attorney general james. good morning. my name is jun kim and along with my colleague, ann clark, we have led the teams at our two -- we have led our teams at our two law firms in conducting the investigation into allegations of sexual harassment by governor cuomo. we have now completed our

many were chamber employees. many were interviewed without court reporters.d with court reporters. it's now 76 hour since the attorney general's press conference. not one of those witnesses and their lawyers has a copy of the transcript as we understand it of their own client's interview. nobody. this t assembly seems to be getting them. the district attorneys seem to be getting them. the witnesses who still want to look and see whether their testimony was record ed accurately, whether the question was right or wrong and the public who might want to see how the questions were phrased, what the evidence is does not have a copy to see that. that's a problem for the people whose conduct was being questioned. it's also particular problem for the governor and the chamber as we respond to that report. as you can imagine, as lawyers, what we like to do, what we need to do, what we're entitled to do on behalf of our clients is to see the evidence so we can properly respond to it. right now, we can't. my one ask, it's too late to fix getting the report before it comes

many witnesses testified, many of them were chamber employees.rviewed with court reporters. it is now 76 hours since the press conference. not one of the witnesses not one of the lawyers has a copy of the transcript as we understand it of their own client's interview. nobody. the assembly seems to be getting them. district attorneys get them. but the witness who's still want to look and see whether their testimony was recorded accurately, whether the question was right or wrong, and even the public who might want to see how the questions were phrased, what the evidence actually is does not yet have a copy to see that. and that's a particular problem for the people conduct was being questioned. it's also particularly a problem for governor and chamber as we respond. as you can imagine, as lawyers, what we like to do, what we need to do, what we're entitled to do on behalf of our clients is to see the evidence so that we can properly respond to it. but right now we can't. and so the one ask, too late to fix getting the report before it comes out. i

i remind _ made from within this chamber. i remind members— made from within this chamber.ers that if they participate _ remind members that if they participate in— remind members that if they participate in the _ remind members that if they participate in the debate, i remind members that if they i participate in the debate, they should — participate in the debate, they should be _ participate in the debate, they should be pleasant— participate in the debate, theyj should be pleasant throughout participate in the debate, they- should be pleasant throughout most if not all— should be pleasant throughout most if not all of— should be pleasant throughout most if not all of the _ should be pleasant throughout most if not all of the debate _ should be pleasant throughout most if not all of the debate and - if not all of the debate and certainly— if not all of the debate and certainly at _ if not all of the debate and certainly at least _ if not all of the debate and certainly at least the - if not all of the debate and i certainly at least the opening speeches— certainly at lea

joining me now is texas state representative, up with of them who has not returned to the chamber, gene wu. at least you haven't been arrested. >> look we've been doing our absolute best to stay safe and stay away from the house chamber and we're going to make this work. democrats are doing everything the they can to protect the voting reits of texans and try from text the voting rights of all americans in this prohe sees. >> that's tinting part because you're kind of the tip of the spear in terms of this conversation and this effort that's going on across the country. we've just seen census results this week which show us what you knew was happening in america, the changing face of america and that fundamentally underpins what they are trying to do in the texas state house because that changing face of america is occurring in texas as well and the only way -- not the only way they could appeal to the

the united states capital, the top doctor for congress, asked us to put on masks when we come to a chamber with 435 people. i hate these things. it's terrible having to put this back on. and we do it because the top doctor for all of us asked us to. i may not be from a hotspot, the speaker may not be from a hotspot. somebody in this chamber is coming from a hotspot, somebody represents the hotspot and we get in the plane and we get -- they fly here and we interact with all of this.

largest single chamber in the young city. so, the last sunday sermon of that session i've been focusing on is in may of 1802, a few months later and we know about it through cutler's journal, where he said he continued the hall where he preached. he had the same reputation, in federalist minds as leland, the cheese monger. an illiterate man preaches in the same style. this was probably one motive the democrats had in choosing a chaplain with this stamp. regardless of his style, you have to admit he's tone deaf because he chose to preach the biblical passage about lots leaving saudm and this is on the eve of washington leaving d.c. it's stranger than neither reed nor cutler mention that fact without any sarcasm. he headed for chesapeake bay and own the philadelphia, where he visits peel's museum and sees the skeleton of the mammoth and that's a drawing by rembrandt peel of the skeleton that's been in the museum since the 1830. our tour of the landscape of the very first months of the first congress, first full congress to meet

boylan's departure from the chamber.nsider and decide not to publish either an op-ed or letter regarding mrs. boylan or about the governor. the reason that is important is we had a very strong sense from the questioning of various witnesses. we represented 20 some odd employees ourselves between hermozi's firm and mine. they were investigating whether that conduct was effectively illegal retaliation against mrs. boylan and we wrote a 13-page letter, almost a brief actually, to the attorney general's office explaining why that conduct did not meet the legal definition of retaliation. i understand the attorney general's office reached a different conclusion and they're free to do that. that's what happens when lawyers go head to head and talk about the legal analysis surrounding a particular circumstance. what disturbed us about the report is that that letter got -- a, mischaracterized and give the back of its hand in a foot note. what matters is, there's a very serious legal issue about whether the attorney general's offi

that's the mick shift house chamber that i showed you earlier. it is called the oven because it got quite stifling. but officials wanted to remind members that it was washington's birthday and he trumed so much respect would be tad to washington's memory that congress would do no business on that day. it was the intention of those to devote the day to a commemoration of the man in whose name the nation gloried. as soon as jeffersonian members realized this was happening they decided, no, we needed to meet on monday. they didn't want recognition being paid to the fact it was washington's birthday. cutler writes, have we lived to see the day, has it so soon arrived that the memory of washington should be met with i had to throw in leslie odum there as burr from the hamilton play. jen, that's for you, really. the last sunday of the sermon is the last sunday sermon given in congress. the house of representatives, some of the audience might know, is actually holding religious services in the house chamber in the capitol building because it's the large

the senate was down below, where the supreme court chamber is now. the galleries depicted here, and the house of representatives actually meeting where the library of congress was going to eventually be meeting. in the third session -- sorry, there is no third session. in the seventh congress, george thatcher decides he's been reelected. he's the only congressman to have been reelected up until that point in congressional history. he decides his family is better served by him earning a nice salary as a supreme court justice back in massachusetts. maine was part of massachusetts at that time. he gives up his seat in congress, and his own roommate wadsworth is representing main, massachusetts with nathan reid, who is on the right here. nathan reid was a scientist from salem, massachusetts. he starts off as an apothecary but is interested in steam engines. he applies for pardons from congress before he's elected there in the 1800s. the only serves this one session. he and thatcher and wadsworth reside in a boarding house. seventh congress meets and that

it's the perfect echo chamber. - each other's misogyny. absolutely. it's the perfect echo chamber.low people who follow the party line and say the same things and repeat the same lies about women and they make sure they never have to face their shortcomings because everybody is only supporting them. find shortcomings because everybody is only supporting them.— only supporting them. and we are told that this — only supporting them. and we are told that this gunmen _ only supporting them. and we are told that this gunmen used - only supporting them. and we are told that this gunmen used redicl only supporting them. and we are i told that this gunmen used redic and for those who don't know redic, is essentially a forum for anything you want to have a forum about, is that right? want to have a forum about, is that ritht? , . ., right? pretty much. there are forums for everything — right? pretty much. there are forums for everything and — right? pretty much. there are forums for everything and they _ right? pretty much. there are forums for everything and they are _ right? pretty much. t

across the road and in the chamber, _ here. order! order!the road and in the chamber, the _ here. order! order! across the road and in the chamber, the comments| here. order! order! across the road l and in the chamber, the comments as we have not seen it before —— since before the pandemic. a full and noisy, passionate and angry, too. the sacrifice in afghanistan is seared — the sacrifice in afghanistan is seared into our national consciousness, with 150,000 people serving _ consciousness, with 150,000 people serving there from across the length and breadth of the united kingdom. the government has announced today the setting up of what it is calling the setting up of what it is calling the afghan citizens resettlement scheme. ministers say it will welcome up to 5,000 afghans to the uk in its first year, with a total of 20,000 in the coming years. there is also the afghan relocations and assistance policy to help what the government describes as locally employed staff who worked for the uk and whose lives are now under threat. it is thought

so the executive chamber is a place that is designed really to undermine staff.eople are berated constantly. it is something that i think is fostered by the people that surround the governor, and it is really reinforced on a regular basis. so it makes you feel as if you are being whiplashed between, you have done a great job and you are valueless, and it makes you second guess yourself with gaslighting. it is a very unfortunate place to work because, obviously, people go there to serve the public. in the executive chamber, really what stood out to me the most almost from the moment i walked through the door was that loyalty to the governor was the currency that overrode everything else. >> what about the allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment from these 11 women outlined in this 165-page report from the attorney general? when you read some of these instances yourself in this thorough report that was then backed up by over 100 different witnesses, corroborating witnesses in this report, were you surprised by the governor's behavior? did you at all exp

so that day, the house chambers galleries were packed. suffragists and other curious observers peered over the railing to see rankin enter the room. reporters described the scene. men and women in the galleries pounded hands together and yelled themselves hoarse! members did the same on both sides of the chamber when miss jeanette rankin, the lady from montana entered the hall. one witness, the wife of a congressman, ellis, recorded the proceedings in her journal. she described in great detail, his physical appearance as she walked to her seat escorted by her elderly montana colleague. she wore -- let me go back a couple. she wore a well made, dark blue silk and chiffon suit with open neck and white white crepe color and cuffs. her skirt was a modest walking length and she walked well un-self consciously. her hair is a commonplace brown and arranged in a rather to spreading pompadour shadow in your face. she carried a bouquet of yellow and purple flowers, given to her at the suffrage breakfast. she didn't look to right or left until she r

my experience in the chamber from day one was one where it was very clear to me that the executive chamber solely to serve the needs of andrew cuomo. it was not to serve the needs of new yorkers. this was carried out in a way, undermining staff, yelling at staff. it felt like a whiplash between you have value but you are valueless. that was an experience of gas lighting that made many people leave -- live in a constant state of fear that you would lose your job, a fear that you would be embarrassed, i fear that you would do something wrong and be sidelined. that collective experience is what is part of the toxic workplace environment, but really what it lends itself to is the point that the executive chamber is run where the loyalty to the governor is the currency that is most important in the chamber. amy: you have your own exterior answer with governor cuomo outside of working for him, when you saw him after you worked for him and you talk about his actions to you, as continually trying to show who has power. can you describe that briefly? sen. biaggi: i saw governor cuomo during the 201

she then sent an email throughout the chamber she was resigning. do you want to know what happened four days later? she called the governor's counsel and said she wanted her job back. the governor's office declined to give her her job back. she then reached out to the governor to personally intervene. she emailed his assistant, asked to speak with him. he didn't return her call after consulting with a number of people. why didn't the investigators put this in their report? particularly when two weeks after she started her campaign, she was leading the public to believe a false story that she left because of sexual harassment and a bad work environment when in fact she left after being confronted with a number of complaints and then really wanted her job back and they wouldn't give it back. the fact that this is not in the report goes to ms. boylan's credibility, and it goes to the credibility of the investigators and their investigation and their fact-finding. i want to make a last point, the third point. after ms. boylan began tweeting in december

it was a toxic environment within the chamber as we saw. but it was also an abusive relationship with the legislature. he many times just wanted to push the legislature aside and over time he accumulated more and more power and when we tried the to exert oversight he simply ignored us. we saw that with the nursing home data that was delayed that he made a number of excuses, he didn't want to give us the information, we had hearings but that oversight was just ignored and so there is a lot of room for reform here because we experienced that. ron kim was not the only assembly member that was threatened. there are a number of others that were even afraid to speak out. what we saw with the ag's report, what's happened over the past -- even the past several days, we saw an exodus of his top aides including just a few days ago melissa derosa which was really a signal that the end was near. this governor was facing imminent impeachment that was just a few weeks away here. he knew he didn't have the votes in the assembly or the senate and this had

it is outside the executive chamber. it is pervasive. it impacts not just the women that work around him but also k the function and integrity of new york state government. >> do you believe he will resign? >> i do not believe that he will resign. so, that is why i continue to call on the assembly because they are the ones with the power to write the articles of t impeachment to impeach the governor. what that effectively means is the assembly will draft those eb articles of impeachment.f those articles of impeachment ti will be delivered to the senate. there will be a trial effectively and there will be a vote that takes place to remove him from office. i think at this point in time it is very wise for the governor to heed the calls of not only democrats but many different leaders across our government who are calling for this governor to resign. but i do not believe that he will. he is still fighting. i believe people fight -- even if he's removed from office because this is the essence of who andrew cuomo is. i think at the end of the

host: chamber of commerce has been proactive of the chamber -- of the proactive. 70% concerned about abolishing state right to work protections. 50 7% belief workers should not be forced to join a union as a condition of employment. -- 57 percent believe workers should not be forced to join a union as a condition of employment. guest: when independent people have done poles, shows that 65% of the people report the proactive because they know something. corporations are too strong and workers are too weak. that's why your wages are not going up. that's why your benefits are going down. that's why you are losing things at the workplace. chamber of commerce represents corporations. they like it the way it is. they want corporations to stay stronger than you so your wages can never go up. or they can give you some crumbs off the end of the table. they are making record profits for the last three years paying virtually no taxes and our wages are flat. that's because corporations are too strong and workers are too weak. this would balance that out. it would give workers the power to come t

there was reports of shots fired through the house main door onto the floor of the chamber. >> later, those reports would prove to be false this video captures byrd instructing members of congress to don gas masks. >> we've had a disbursement of tear gas in the rotunda please be advised there are masks under your seats >> he says officers barricaded the door, what he considered the last line of defense >> i had been yelling and screaming as loud as i was, please stop, get back get back stop we had weapons drawn >> byrd, only his hand and gun visible, targeted a figure trying to climb through a window he fired a single fatal shot, hitting ashli babbitt. she was 35 years old, an air force veteran, trump supporter, and qanon follower we see your arm out there for a consider aabmount of time were you wavering? >> i was taking a tactical stance. you ultimately are hoping that your commands will be complied with, and unfortunately, they were not >> when you fired, what could you see? where were you aiming? >> you're told to aim for center mass. the subject was sideways, and i could not see