garrett haake joins us from capitol hill. where do we stand on this?way. it moved through the first procedural vote with more than 90s votes in favor. the two amendments to this bill were bipartisan. one allowing for strengthening of state reporting for these related hate crimes and another tweaking thete language around e covid-19 elements of this bill. both the amendments attached were bipartisan so every expectation is, when this bill comes up for a final vote tomorrow, it should pass with bipartisan support. >> i also want to get your reaction to an incredible clash on the house side between former police chief and congresswoman val demings and jim jordan yesterday. this wasd judiciary. congressman jordan was falsely suggesting democrats supported defunding the police. >> i served as a law enforcement officer for 27 years. it's interesting to see my colleagues on the other side of theea aisle support the police whene it is politically convenient to do so. law enforcement officers risk their lives every day. they deserve better and the american peop

joining me now is nbc news correspondent garrett haake. ore of what the ig and is it going to garner any bipartisanship on this subject? >> reporter: i think it will. this report was sweeping in its scope and scathing in its findings, police failures like expired munitions and control shields that weren't stored properly and therefore broke on impact. that's going to require two big changes, the specialty s.w.a.t.-like unit to be a free standalone unit that's kind of a special unit. officers want to be a part of that so it can respond to big things like that. and also the creation of a proper inspection bureau which he said is the most important part of his report. listen to this. >> we need an intelligence bureau. it needs to be a full-service, comprehensive bureau. some of the elements seen in our subsequent flash reports where we're recommending elements in the capitol police need to be moved over to that intelligence bureau. it need to be elevated to a bureau level. >> katy, you asked about bipartisan support. there is agreement that so

garrett haake. , this happens on friday when the majority of congress was out on a recess. i wonder now that they've had a weekend to react to it what the feeling is about the security perimeter around the white house and what the capitol police force needs. >> reporter: well, i think there is going to be widespread agreement that the capitol police force needs to be up to and have maybe even a plussed-up version of full strength. they're 10% down on the officers that they're authorized to have even at this moment. officers have been working tons of forced overtime ever since -- really, frankly, even before january 6th just to meet their basic staffing needs here. now we're down to one level of security fencing here instead of two, but even that fencing does also require additional officers. so the need to staff up for this agency is, i think, going to be the first and foremost and least controversial element that congress will address, i suspect, more directly when they come back. >> let's talk abou

garrett haake.garrett, how did the congressional democratic leadership handle the decision by the white house to say you know what? we don't want to pick a fight with pharma and the health care industry right now. >> well, look, i think leadership has the same goals here, which is to get something passed and to not have to beat their heads against the wall for the next year or so to do it. i think there will be elements within the democratic party that are frustrated by the lack of those items being included in this family's planning. this family's plan package. we've seen progressives starting to float some of their own ideas, their own legislation here over the last couple of days, almost as if they were trying to inception these items into the president's agenda. that said, you are looking at a situation here with the family's plan that is plm certainly going to have to be another reconciliation effort here. unlike with infrastructure, there's not widespread republican feeling that this is sort o

let me bring in garrett haake. what are they saying about hiring more officers and boosting moral. . >> it is something that we have known, the capitol police department is really chronically under manned. they're about 10% down from their full force strength even right now. some 200 officers or so they do not have. they have permission to hire but they cannot fill those jobs. the officers here have been working tons of forced overtime, 12-hour days part of this expanded perimeter, part of trying to protect the building. now the head of the police union says they're facing a retirement crisis. in the next three or four years around 500 officers might be eligible to retire. they're not at the center of so much. and now this will be shifted over to lawmakers particularly when they come back next week to start talking about how do we address this? this is less controversial than physical fencing is a first step in any path towards fully securing the capitol. >> garrett haake, live on capitol hill. we're going to keep

joining me not nbc news co-host kristen welker, a philly girl, garrett haake. kristin, first you, and craig preferring the president on the $6 trillion, do we really need it. he had a direct response. here it is. >> that's the reason why it's recovery, because we're investing, look how rapidly we've recovered since we passed the last piece of legislation. and that legislation was $1.9 trillion. if we don't invest in this country, we're going to actually start to -- we're going to fall behind even further. >> kristin, he's absolutely going strong on this. and despite republican complaints about the spending he believes that this is popular and this is going to get him across the finish line. he's got a hard road, though, in an evenly divided congress. >> it is going to be a tough sales job, there's no doubt about that. what you saw with that exclusive interview with craig melvin was president biden doubling down on this proposal to go big. and he is, essentially, making a bet that americans want the government to be more involved in their lives. that they now wa

nbc's garrett haake, of course, where else? on the hill. you said there's optimism around this effort. you think there's a chance this will get done? i love optimism, but, listen, we've all become jaded at this point. >> yes, let's be skeptical but not cynical about the pobltd of something happening here is the way i'm approaching this. a police reform bill cannot be done with just reconciliation or democratic votes. you have to get to 60 in the senate. that means tim scott, senator from north carolina, a pivotal figure here. he's been given wide latitude to negotiate on behalf of republicans for the kind of police reform they might see as acceptable. he told me yesterday he narrowed this down to four, five issues with karen bass and cory booker. remember, the george floyd justice in policing bill includes things like outright ban on choke holds, ban on no knock warrants. scott's bill goes a different way. maybe we hold funding from departments who don't do this right. and the sticking issue is qualified immunity, someone affected by police

gaetz. >> well, it's such an interesting insight, garrett haake.ense attorney saying, will you shave a few years off for this or that? and it heightens, i think, the anxiety around the gaetz investigation. now, the reporting in "the new york times" is that they had sex with the same underage woman. the reporting at cnn and other places is that gaetz showed nude photos of sexual conquests to other members. this paints a picture of depravity and piggishness, misogyny. what is the reaction among republicans? >> reporter: well, and i'll add that our reporting, my colleague, tom winter, carrying most of the water on this story for us, quite honestly, says that the federal investigators are also looking into a trip to the bahamas in which gaetz had women along with him who were paid for sex and who may have been underage as well, so there's quite a lot to go with this, and joel greenberg's attorney today, by the way, after that court hearing, said he's sure gaetz is not feeling very comfortable today. gaetz's name didn't come up in greenberg's hearing to

nbc's garrett haake is on capitol hill. nbc's mike memoli is covering the white house. i also want to bring in former seattle police chief, carmen best. she's now an msnbc law enforcement analyst. and garrett, we'll start with you, this is another heart-wrenching day on capitol hill, compounded by the fact that this is now the second such ceremony this year following the death of officer brian sicknick in the capitol insurrection. how is this resonating with folks? how are people holding up there on the hill? >> reporter: this is a scene that has become too familiar. only six americans have lied in honor under the rotunda, two of them capitol police officers this year. in this case, the death of officer evans happened when the capitol hill community was scattered across the country. both the house and senate were in recess on the day that he was killed. people didn't experience the same collective trauma here in place on that day. and they're processing this, i think, differently, but now you'll have this opportunity for collective mourning here, as folks are now back "t

joining me now is garrett haake. garrett, i think that's the question here.aying basically let's talk, let's make a deal. take a listen. >> so there's room for compromise. but that is clear. the president has said a few things, we have to get this investment done. he's charged us to work across the aisle in a bipartisan way. >> well, i think he said from the very beginning that he wants to see compromise. he wants to have this be bipartisan. >> and the question i keep coming back to, garrett, i'm going to take the biden administration at their word that they want to negotiate with republicans. does congressional democratic leadership? >> congressional democratic leadership understands they may not have any choice, that's the reality here. it's not so much a question of go big or go alone. you might not be able to go alone. you look at the majority you have here, you have a 50/50 majority which isn't really a functional majority when you have john manchin essentially saying he's not going to go along on guns or hr-1 or pick your issue that they might be able t

. >> joining our conversation, nbc news capitol hill correspondent garrett haake and donna edwards is that has been literally battered has lost another one of its own. >> yeah, i mean, twice this year, we've had capitol police officers lie in honor. only six americans have lied in honor in the history of this building, and so the gravity of what i think we all experienced today isn't lost on anyone who was there, who covered it, or who watched that ceremony. it's a different experience from january 6th and officer sicknick lying in honor, really a different experience altogether. after the 6th, we kind of had all gone through that together and i think there was more of this collective catharsis around this. this felt, today, tailored so much more to, appropriately so, the family of officer evans, both his biological family, his incredibly adorable children who i think soon to be the only people in the room who could kind of keep it together. at one point, his daughter, you know, comforting her mother when she was crying. and also, his family wearing the badge, the capitol police offic

joining me now is garrett haake. always good to see you.ave talked about voting rights for years now. let's talk about what is happening today. what do they want to accomplish. could it have any impact on legislation out there right now? >> this is the most politically charged committee in the senate and what you could see today could be a lot of posturing. a number of the senators that want to run for president in the future. and they want to take on stacey abrams. there is a big divide between democrats and republicans. democrats think that passing senate bill one to reform voting systems in the country is an existential issue that must be done. it will need to be done with removing the filibuster because they see that as a democratic power grab and they're trying to deal with some of these. i think what is important about this hearing in particular is perhaps the effect it will have on a member that's not on this committee, joe manchin that is the biggest barrier for democrats in getting rid of the filibuster. he said he doesn't think it

lee ago caldwell and garrett haake, thank you both for getting up so early to do a little bit of reflectingand i wrote an essay about my experiences that day. you can read that right now it's on today.com/news. >>> all right, coming up next. we'll take a look at the axios one big thing. and coming up on "morning joe," the latest in the aftermath of yet another mass shooting last night in indiana. >>> plus, we'll hear from a pair of democratic lawmakers from congressman sean patrick maloney and congresswoman barbara lee join the conversation. don't go anywhere. "morning joe," just moments away. "morning joe," just moments away boost glucose control products contain high quality protein and key nutrients to support immune health. try boost. open talenti and raise the jar. to gelato made from scratch. raise the jar to all five layers. raise the jar to the best gelato... you've ever tasted. talenti. raise the jar. feeling sluggish or weighed down? it could be a sign that your digestive system isn't working at it's best taking metamucil everyday can help. metamucil psyllium fiber, gels to trap a

i want to bring on garrett haake. kel you tell us what we're talking about so far here. there is a few hundred capitol police officers that have been saluting it. they built up more people as the pandemic now allows it. it is not going to be a long ceremony, he will only lie in honor for the duration of the day today, but i do expect it to be emotional here. from the president that really speaks to the issue of personal grief fluently as well as the speaker of the house and the majority leader schumer. the family of often e officer evans and his two young sons, their chairs having tiny models of the capitol. and when this happened the house and senate were in rerecess, the was barely anyone here. they know what the capitol police have been through, they know how exhausted they have been by the events of this year and an opportunity for collective mourning this year will be very important. >> a senate sergeant in harms. >> good morning, thank you for covering this. >> of course, you knew officer evans, you swore him in? >> yes, some 18 years ago. i remember that smile he

let's bring into our conversation, nbc news capitol hill correspondent garrett haake and elizabeth neumann, former assistant secretary of counterterrorism and threat division with the department of homeland security, now the director of the republican accountability project. garrett, i didn't get to talk to you on friday, but i was on the air when the facts were still becoming clear. ligh ann caldwell and kasie hunt, your colleagues on that beat were with me. they spoke in raw, emotional terms in reference o the capitol hill police. tell us how they're doing today? >> reporter: the truth of it is, they're exhausted. these capitol police officers going back prior to january 6th were undermanned, working significant overtime showers. in the aftermath of january 6th, they were incredibly crushed by the death of officer sicknick and the two other officers who took their own lives in the days after that. and then they were pushed even harder by the nature of being undermanned, protecting a bigger perimeter, bigger fence line, working longer hours. to have something like this happen which came o

let's go live to my colleague garrett haake on capitol hill. garrett, this is another sad and somber day for the capitol community all too soon after one that was far too similar. >> that's right. a tough day, tough year for the capitol hill community, especially the u.s. capitol police, and you touched on this, only six americans laid in honor under the dome at any time and two of them have been capitol police officers within the last year. officer evans was a proud veteran of this department, 18 years on the force. so much of what we're going to see today is geared towards his family, both his biological family, including his two children, and his fellow officers with whom he's been serving here. i think for people who are not part of this greater capitol community, the last couple of months since the insurrection with these officers who are working overtime and had to suffer the losses of some of their colleagues, who have just been trying to put one foot in front of the other and come back to work each day, this has been another blow. i thin

we have mike memoli, monica b with and garrett haake. as president biden gets ready for day two of his pr push. in this new nbc exclusive interview, he is defending the spending of trillions of dollars to get his priorities accomplished. what else is he saying? >> part of that defense is now going on offense. that's why you're seeing the president leave the white house for this getting america back on track tour. that is what they're calling it. that's why he informs georgia yesterday. he goes to pennsylvania today and there is a lot more travel from him, the first lady, the vice president, and the second gentleman in the days and weeks to come. they view it as laying out the proposals in a joint address to congress. it is another thing to get out and push this directly to american voters. that's why we're getting a little bit of justification and frame work in that exchange. take a listen to how the president is defining this and saying this is more critical than ever. >> look at how rapidly it has recovered since we passed the last pie

let's go live to garrett haake on capitol hill. ut that meeting at the white house and infrastructure hearing today? >> hey, steph, good morning. slow is a way to put it. two of the representatives with president biden yesterday say the president asked them for their counterproposal to what the white house is putting forward on infrastructure to be due back by the middle of next month. where we are in this process right now, the white house has essentially the outline of a plan that will be discussed in this hearing today on the senate side in the appropriations committee, they're saying to republicans, if you have something better, let's see it. the republican plan right now is even more conceptual then the democratic plan. it's not an outline. they go a lot of republicans are talking about something between $600 billion and $800 billion. the question is how do you pay for whatever's going to be done on infrastructure? republicans are dead set against raising the corporate tax rate at all to the 21% level it was lowered to during t

here now with the latest nbc news justice correspondent pete williams and nbc reporter garrett haake.e, is there anything we learned on the motive? >> no, i don't know if they will ever get a motive, at least no sign of it yet. it's pretty clear noah green, the man suspected of doing this, ramming his car into officers and hitting that barrier, was somebody whose life was falling apart, who was going into a rapid mental decline. there are many signs of that. his brother said he recently -- green had recently moved to botswana and while there, apparently attempted suicide by trying to jump in front of a moving car. he then came back, told his brother that he was not doing well. he had last december filed for a petition to change his name in indiana, his name to noah zihiem mohammed. but when there was a hearing, he did not show up for that meeting. so that's another sign things were falling apart. there was no signs of domestic terrorism or political influence. he was a follow of the israel nation and louis farrakhan, but that alone i don't think answers the question. >> kasie hunt sai

i want to go straight to nbc's garrett haake on the hill. mocrats are mad at john manchin. he said the proposed tax increase was too much. but do we need to remind our audience if john manchin did not have that seat it would very likely be a republican? west virginia is a deeply red state. yes, he's not an automatic yes, but at least he's willing to play ball. >> absolutely. in this case, john manchin is not alone. there are a number of democrats who have issues with this bill on many different provisions in it. i think we need to set in our minds this will be a different beast than the $1.129 trillion relief bill that just passed. this will be very intense negotiations. the margins are very small, smaller in the house now. so all democrats have to be on board. the white house wants something and they indicated they know they have to negotiate. and not just with john manchin. as he said on the radio yesterday, he has other senators with him on these tax provisions. take a listen. >> this bill will not be in the same form you have seen people

. >> garrett haake on the hill. chief, building off what garrett was reporting, this idea of qualified immunity, does any meaningful police reform hinge on that issue? if so, why? >> well, officers are particularly concerned about having extra liability when they are coming out and engaging in -- as i talked about earlier, sometimes split second decisions. they are concerned about being vulnerable -- personally vulnerable to those allegations, to those acts. going through this profession is tough as it is. you are often going into tenuous situations. i do understand why officers are concerned about having some level -- some extra level of protection as they are out there. that said, it can't be a situation where they get a pass. there has to be accountability. i think all the demonstrations, the marches, all the activistac coming forward, have pointed out there is personal risk for officers. i think there's a lot of discussion and compromise. i do believe 100% they will come to some middle of the road decision that w

>> is garrett haake your real name? >> last time i checked.now. we are going to start with that breaking news on the vaccine front and johnson & johnson's covid vaccines. states have the green light to resume use of this shot for americans 18 and older. >> and this comes after the cdc disclosed 15 women who received the j&j vaccine developed an extremely rare blood clotting disorder out of nearly 8 million doses of the vaccine that had been administered. the label will warn patients about the risk of getting the vaccine. cory is in new york city. walk us through why health officials made this decision and it means overall for our fight against the virus. >> reporter: good morning. basically, the panel ultimately decided this based on the potential risk weighing against the benefits of the vaccine. after two weeks of a pause, they decided that a warning label was going to be sufficient after scrutinizing all of the details here. you mentioned the numbers. after the latest numbers came out, some 8 million doses were administered. we are seeing 1

joining me is garrett haake.o me it's like -- you want to read tea leaves, the language that elected republicans used yesterday in response -- and the enthusiasm with the language that they used, it indicates that we are farther apart from whatever a middle looks like than we were in 2013, 2015, 2017 at this point. is that fair? >> reporter: i think it may be. the political imperatives for republicans are that gun rights and the idea that a democratic president might be coming to take your guns, which is the language we saw in these releases yesterday and statements from lawmakers, that doesn't bear much resemblance to the orders, that is seen as safer ground for republicans. they would fight against a democratic overreach on gun reform than arguing against money for their own districts and states in the form of the infrastructure projects. it's a classic cultural issue here. the statement from toomey is interesting. you can't do this with just him alone. you absolutely are not going to do anything in the senate

garrett haake here with me as well. i'm also joined by kristin welker.osal called the american families plan. he will pivot to the current covid crisis and other priorities. there will also be history in the making. vice president harris and house speaker nancy pelosi will be sitting behind the president, and that is the first time they're featuring two women there. first i want to go to shannon pettypiece. what are you hearing from your sources at the white house about what the president might try to do tonight to sell his plan to the american people? this is going to put pressure on the audience. you mentioned the american families plan. that will be a big focus. a $1.8 trillion price tag that includes free pre-k. free community college for everyone regardless of income. it extends the child tax credit and set up a plan, a paid leave plan for families that could get up to $4,000 a month for three months. and it taps the amount they have to pay for childcare to 7%. the next big question is how is this all going to be paid for? they talk about increasing

garrett haake is in the capitol. vaughn hillyard is outside taking a look at security.nnon, let me start with you. how is the president preparing? we know apparently racial justice and police reform a theme he is going to hit. what else can you tell us? >> reporter: a big focus of the speech is going to be the president laying out this new proposal he has, the white house is calling the american families plan. this would include things like universal pre-k and free community college, for everyone. it would extend the childcare -- the child tax credit. it would set up a program to provide paid leave to people, up to $4,000 a month, for three months. it would also do things like cap how much low or middle income people have to pay of their income to childcare. it's an ambitious plan. the president is going to say he plans to pay for it primarily by increasing taxes on the wealthiest americans, raising the top tax bracket to where it was before 2016 and adding a capital gains tax. in addition to that, like you mentioned, he is going to renew his call to pass police reform

nbc's garrett haake is on the hill covering this for us.rats have control of congress and the white house, or is it pretty much the same thing? >> reporter: well, it's bigger and more expansive but face as lot of the same political problems this version of the green new deal also includes new component pieces like launching a green climate core, like working to green properly public housing. representative ocasio-cortez laid out the scope of the program a few minutes ago. take a listen. >> it is going to be an all-hands-on-deck approach and we refuse to leave any community behind in the process. not only do we refuse to leave any community behind but those who have been left behind come first. >> reporter: the challenge for these lawmakers in an all hands on deck effort lack sufficient hands. you're dealing with a 50/50 senate, once again, a house that is very narrowly divided but the green new deal programs, as senator ed markey pointed out when he was making his remarks, of course, the senate co-sponsor of this, he talked about the green

and garrett haake. tell us what the situation is outside the courthouse as people wait for a verdict and anxiety continues to build. >> reporter: yeah. ayman, i am here downtown. this is the intersection of 6th and nick oh let. dave will show you the courthouse is two blocks from here, great building. that's the courthouse. there's two lines of fencing in front of it that is kept protected by national guard. you have national guard there on a city downtown in minneapolis. closures, emt people that don't have time off, police are all on shift. seeing police cars riding in twos, not just one car at a time, two, backed up by national guard. buildings look like this. this is an office building in downtown minneapolis. it is all closed off. you say what do people do if they want to get to work, need to get to work. if you know minneapolis downtown, the skywalks, they're moving on the sky walks, it connects buildings inside. you can eat there, do your work. every one of these has an alternate entrance. in thi

garrett haake on capitol hill. monica, walk us through how he's going to make his pitch because expensive is the key word here, and the suburbs of philly, those are an awful lot of people who will see their taxes go up. >> you said it, steph. on the road we heard the visions and plans during that joint address wednesday evening so now comes the sales pitch portion of this and what they're calling getting america back on track tour. you're going to see the president heading to philadelphia today, as you mentioned specifically for an event on his beloved amtrak, a critical piece of infrastructure this president known to so many as amtrak joe is going to highlight. he's going to do an event around their 50th anniversary for the rail system at the iconic 30th street station, where he's less, of course, going to be talking about his jobs plan and trying to make these selling points of why he views it as essential when it comes to job creation. yesterday, of course, he was in georgia and you will also see the vice presid

. >>> i'm garrett haake in for kendis gibson. >> i'm lindsey reiser. in north carolina where demonstrators in elizabeth city marched for a fourth day yesterday calling for the release of this body cam footage in the officer-involved shooting death of andrew brown jr. >> new signs that that video could be made public soon. nbc's kathy park has more on this, this morning. good morning. >> good morning. it has been four days since the shooting death of andrew brown jr. and the community and his family want to know where is that body camera footage. the sheriff says he's taking formal steps to release it. >> no justice -- >> no peace. >> what's his name? >> andrew brown. >> reporter: calls for justice and growing pressure to release body cam footage after deputies shot and killed andrew brown jr. >> we are demanding that we have transparency and accountability. >> reporter: elizabeth city officials will file a formal request with the sheriff's department monday requesting the footage be turned over to them and the public. >> and if denied, the request is t

. >> garrett haake, thank you. >>> and new this morning, in a rare bipartisan move, the senate has overwhelminglyto open debate on anti-asian american hate crimes bill. all six no votes came from republicans. the legislation would speed up the justice department's review of hate crimes and task the department with coordinating with local law enforcement and community-based groups to raise awareness about hate crime reporting. >>> coming up next, we still have a lot to cover in this hour. will vladimir putin pay the price for the massive hack attack and that stunning report of russian bounties on american troops? our breaking new reporting about sanctions just in. and the proposal coming today that would expand the supreme court from 9 to 13, does it have a chance? to join the duers? those who du more with less asthma. thanks to dupixent. the add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma. dupixent isn't for sudden breathing problems. it can improve lung function for better breathing in as little as 2 weeks and help prevent severe asthma attacks. it's not a steroid but can help r

and we'll get to garrett haake, hopefully, in just a minute. but let me start with mike. mike, you know, this was a pretty important speech for the president on a personal level because of, you know, his attachment to amtrak. the role that he played. he told some anecdotes about the time he spent going back and forth between delaware and oversleeping and missing his station. but tell us what the scene is like there and who he has been visiting with. >> yeah, ayman, i'm sure it was evident who those who were watching that along with us, but i don't think president biden has enjoyed himself more in these first 100 days as president as he has today. perhaps even more than inauguration day, considering the task of what was ahead of him. but clearly, joe biden's political identity has been shaped by amtrak. as you mentioned, it's celebrating 50 years now. 50 years ago, joe biden was first collected to public office. and of course, he took those 8,000 by his own estimation trips between washington and wilmington as a senator and some as vice president to be home with his childr