clint watts, former fbi agent and brentia buck, longtime republican aid to speakers ryan boehner, amonge in three, jeh johnson, believe a storm is coming. i can get into it with the republican party, we will in a minute, but how much do you look at this poll and see a security risk for this country? >> yes, chuck, i see a public health risk in this country because of the anti-vaccine sentiment that is expressed here. i see a homeland security, national security risk. think about this, one in six americans believe that the government is controlled by satan-worshipping pedophiles. and i see a threat to our very democracy if one in every five or six americans believe these things, it makes it awful hard to try to reach a compromise on the most basic of issues, like the one you were just talking about, january 6th commission. so in many ways this is not surprising. i think we all knew this kind of poll was coming given the state of our politics, given the state of public sentiment right now and it is very, very troubling. i hope all americans take the time to understand this poll. >> you kn

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let's discuss with msnbc national security analyst, clint watts, and he's the author of "messing withurity this week that included a label verification program to show where their software was developed in a secure way, but what more do you think needs to be done to prevent ransom ware attacks insofar as they can be protected? >> that order is great but it is how do we secure our supply chain and make sure all codes used inside the united states government is up to snuff, and if you have that rating it makes commercial vendors more likely to use your software and improves the whole cyber security infrastructure. separate from that, though, we have way too much of our public infrastructure not secure, and with the colonial pipeline attack, we have seen a spade of ransom ware in years, and this has grown every year because it's such a profitable industry. however, i think there's a definite need to establish deterrence. we know syndicates are out there, and now the ransom was probably a cheap steal to be honest, because think of the damage done to our economy in that week-period where t

. >> clint watt, ken dilanian, thank you for sticking around. kelly o'donnell is going to stick around for us. >>> the president pushed back on the suggestion that americans don't need to work because they're getting enhanced unemployment. he again made the case for his massive infrastructure bill as a way to create new jobs. >> i never said and no serious analyst ever suggested that climbing out of the deep, deep hole our economy was in would be simple, easy, immediate or perfectly steady. the american rescue plan is just that, a rescue plan. it's to get us out of the crisis and back on track. but it's not nearly enough. that's why we need the american jobs plan. >> kelly o'donnell still with us and joining us is boston globe contributor melanie atkins. a couple big meetings on the docket this week. give us a sense. what is the white house doing this week to really help get this infrastructure bill across the line? >> reporter: the dance card is certainly full, jeff. what we expect is the president will have his first meeting with what we call

clint watts, an msnbc national security analyst and distinguished research fellow at the foreign policyead this scenario in "the new york times" because it gives you sort of a practical understanding of how tricky this is, and then we'll talk it through. the "times" gives an example from fresno, california. video surfaced of him supporting the proud boys at a protest. such ideology, behavior, have no place within law enforcement and will not be tolerated. when lawmakers in the state recently proposed legislation to give police departments more power to weed out officers with extremist ties, they met resistance. brian marvel, the president of the peace officers research association of the california said in a statement that the organization supported the idea but not the legislation that was drafted. it would, quote, infringe on a person's individual rights, he said, and possibly prevent someone from becoming an officer based on personal beliefs, religion, or other interests. so, if videos that show a candidate to be a police officer or current police officer with the proud boys at a pro

and our friend former fbi special agent clint watts is here. dr. hotez, first, how are you doing?i'm hanging in there. it's tough. this is not the first time tlchb these coordinated attacks against me or family but with each passing time it is tougher and tougher. >> and i want to read some of what you wrote that seems to have triggered some of this. so you've written in a paper in "nature" that investigations by the u.s. state department and the uk foreign office have described how russian intelligence organizations seek to discredit western covid-19 vaccines. one campaign implies that it could turn people into monkeys and builds on a longer history of russia sponsored disinformation presumably to destabilize the u.s. and other democratic countries. many far-right extremist groups that spread false information ant last year's u.s. presidential election are doing the same about vaccines. anti-vaccine groups target black communities and documentary released in march vilifies covid-19 vaccine testing among african-americans calling it medical racism. so explain these three buckets o

also joining us, clint watts, distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute us, all three msnbc contributors. carol leonnig, congratulations to your book which i believe debuted at number two on the "new york times" best seller list. >> thank you. >> let me start with you. what is this vote about today? what are they voting against when most republican senators, as we're told to expect, will vote down legislation that kevin mccarthy designated his deputy, congressman katko, to negotiate. he succeeded, got most of what kevin mccarthy, presumably, in conversations with mitch mcconnell wanted. now they're going to kill it. >> you know, what they're voting against, nicole, is the fact-finding that's never going to happen without -- it's never going to happen to the degree that we need it without this commission. i mean, the department of justice is investigating people for multiple felonies on january 6th on the capitol grounds. i remember a law enforcement officer telling me that afternoon, okay, maybe 2,000 felonies up there. so they're doing that. that's great

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. >> clint watts is with us. he's a former fbi special agent and a national security analyst for nbc. clint, give us a sense of how the fbi is likely assisting this investigation. this shooting, based on what we know, transpired during a union meeting, so how are investigators processing the scene and interviewing witnesses given that there were likely multiple witnesses in the room as this meeting was happening. >> that's right, jeff. it's an expansive effort, and i'm sure they're going out and trying to connect with everybody both in terms of the organization but also friends and family where this attacker was from. it seems that he had a lot of premeditated ambitions. he planned this out. if there is explosive devices, that takes it to an entirely different level. as jim noted, were there video cameras? all the methods in terms of developing explosive devices, whether it was at home or a garage or someplace else will all be very instructive of any potential connections. i think that's where the fbi always comes

the last few years those systems aren't necessarily always going to be there. >> chris krebs and clint wattsoth for spending time with us. >>> we're going to turn back to our breaking news this hour on the fight against the coronavirus. the fda has authorized the pfizer vaccine for emergency use in kids ages 12 to 15, paving the way for millions more americans to get vaccinated. joining our conversation, dr. michael anderson, a pediatric critical care physician and senior advisor with the children's national hospital in washington, d.c. since the beginning of the pandemic, you and i have been talking about kids and covid, whether in the context of classrooms or whether they can get sick. this seems like a huge, huge, huge deal for the country's fight against covid and for parents who have been terrified for the better part of 14 months. >> nicole, this is a historic moment, and you and i, as you said, have been talking about kids since the beginning of this. the thoughts that kids were immune, kids weren't infected, that's just false. we know that there's 300 families across this country tha