this is the photo on your screen where you're seeing jason crow comforting another member of congress. tell us about this moment. >> yeah. that was when i was, you know, i was right on top of them so i didn't want to be in their face too much. i quickly shot it. and after the fact, i didn't even know if i wanted to file the picture because i didn't know if susan wild was okay. but i saw her leave under her own power. when i finally was to file, i checked her twitter and she said she's okay. i thought that was okay to file. and it really shows how tense the situation was up in that gallery. >> well, tom, it is so great to have you. and you are an institution on the hill and your work is a testament to why it is so important that the press is covering congress the way they do. tom williams, thanks for being with us. >>> president biden calling for a cease fire in israel as a rift grows in his own party over the violence there. >>> plus, donald trump's justice department tried unmasking a twitter user, critical of one of his allies. congressman devin nunes. we'll speak live with someone

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with the family members and the officers. >> thank you. >>> joining me is democratic congressman jason crow the former army ranger who helped protect many other members of congress on january 6th. he became an impeachment manager as well. congressman crow, welcome to "meet the press." i guess the question now is where do we go now, where does this go next? would you like to see speaker pelosi if this is now a house-driven investigation, essentially follow the parameters of the commission that they wanted to develop to try to give as much credibility as you can to this investigation? >> good morning, chuck. thanks for having me on. the question now is of timing. if mitch mcconnell said we'll take another vote on this, i think the question for speaker pelosi and chuck schumer is, do we believe him that this will be a vote in good faith. we had 54 votes on friday. we think there were a couple more people who would have voted had they been present. the question is can we get those three or four additional votes or are we going to have to take up a select committee on the house side or some kind

comstock who spent the week unsuccessfully lobbying republican senators, and democratic congressman jason crow of colorado. >> plus, the wuhan mystery. growing concerns that the coronavirus leaked from that lab in wuhan, china, prompt president biden to order a new u.s. intelligence investigation. >> we need to get to the bottom of this, whatever the answer may be. >> what he announced yesterday is too little too late. >> nigh guest this morning, former deputy national security adviser peter pottinger and dr. hotez. and the anniversaries of two racially charged events. the murder of george floyd and the 1921 tulsa race massacre. how the floyd case and its aftermath may have helped a nation acknowledge what happened in tulsa 100 years ago. joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news white house correspondent geoff bennett, former obama campaign manager stephanie cutter,aisha roscow, and sara fagen. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in telephone history. this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> a good sunday morning. i hop

during our discussion now is jason crow of colorado he's a member of the house intelligence community an impeachment manager in the first senate impeachment trial of donald trump in january of 2020. congressman crow, thank you very much for joining us tonight. what did we learn today about what it means when kevin mccarthy makes a deal with democrats on legislation? >> good evening lawrence, thank you for having me back. i am still a missed on the outcome here, on one hand i want to be optimistic and say there are now 35 republicans of you pointed out who voted to do the right thing. on the other hand there's another part of me that says we are just trying to form a commission, we're just trying to do with people have always done after a big crisis or a problem, like we did for 9/11. we're gonna look at the facts and see what went wrong, i don't give too much credit, i want to say that there are more folks that are doing the right thing, yet, again we have kevin mccarthy who has made himself very clear that he will do whatever donald trump asks him to do. >> let's listen to what senat

. >>> joining me now is jason crow of colorado, a member of the armed services committee, served as an impeachment manager in the first trial of donald trump. congressman, good to see you. thank you for being with us this morning. i want to discuss a number of things with you including what happened on january 6th. you are certainly a voice and an image that we are so familiar with from that date but i do want to talk to you about the escalating violence in the middle east. as someone who has served in the military, this is important and close to you, but you also realize the importance of the role, the leadership role the united states needs to play. one the united states has not played as effectively as we would have hoped certainly over the last four years. >> yeah, good morning, ali. thanks for having me on. undoubtedly this is a terrible situation. it needs to stop now. there needs to be an immediate cease-fire and the united states has an important role to play in that. we have been in years past a broker between the parties in the cease-fire and as you mentioned earlier in the s

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i want to bring in congressman jason crow of colorado. thank you so much for joining us. the republican territory is in on the attacking of anyone who admits the insurrection. how does it affect you and the democrats and the ability for democrats to function? i think that is a very, very important question. >> yeah, thanks for having me on, don. you just were talking about a different side of the same coin here. the coin is that this is no longer the republican party as we used to know it. that i grew up around, i was raised raised in republican conservative family. this is the party of donald trump. and whether you sleep the insurrection under the rug, and whether they are trying to muffle liz cheney. it's all part of the same course of conduct. now, how it impacts us is we just have to tell the truth and continue to do our work. and we have to also make sure that the american people don't forget about what did happen. we are less than four months out from an insurrection against our democracy, from rioters taking over the u.s. capitol, from a police officer being killed

i want to bring in democratic congressman jason crow of colorado. congressman, good to see you. thanks for joining. so you lived this attack. this picture shows you confronting your colleagues, or comforting, excuse me, your colleagues as you hid from rioters in the house gallery. you said you thought you would have to fight your way out of the capitol. what questions do you have about that really horrific day that can only really be answered by a january 6th commission? >> yeah. thanks for having me, don. it was a horrific day. no doubt about it. there is no other way to pain this. this was not tourists. any attempt to characterize this other than a violent insurrection against our democracy is not telling the truth. we have to make that clear over and over again and not allow people to rewrite history that day. there is a lot of unanswered questions. why was not there national security? why intelligence assessments, information broadly available to members of the public, members of congress leading up to the 6th was not properly assessed and translated into security measures t

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. >> that's congressman jason crow, one of the impeachment managers.rongly called for a further investigation into the capitol insurrection with or without republicans. let's talk with our cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond. okay. what is this going to look like? i don't know if there's the possibility of a presidential commission. right now it seems like all signs point toward a congressional kind of committee. >> it certainly seems that way. there have been a few members of congress who have called so far for a presidential commission. there's leadership, house speaker nancy pelosi, chuck shuc schumer, both seem to be pointing to a general house select committee. there's a big difference between what a house select committee would be, what it would look like, how the findings would be respected and viewed across the country versus what has failed because of the public filibuster. that's because the results of any findings that would come out of this, the findings would be viewed through a partisan lens because it would be pushed by house sp

>>> for more on this perspective from colorado democratic congressman and former army rangerman jason crow. he was called upon during the siege to lend expertise and provide whatever comfort they could to somebody who never faced this kind of danger before. we spoke before air time. >> congressman crow, you see this change from house republicans tonight. they are actively wiping members to vote against the january 6th commission plus indications that kevin healtmccarthy isn't just opposed but worried about the commission and how it might impact him. do you should be worried? >> if you're not afraid of what you need to burn down to get that, yeah, he should be afraid of that because he's made the determination that it's not good to talk about january 6th, that he needs donald trump support irregardless of donald trump's behavior and incitement of inin insurrection and wants to sweep this under the rug. he appointed a member to negotiate with democrats in the house to come up with the compromise here. they did that. they came up with a bipartisan compromise and he's backing off of it. so if

joining us now, democratic congressman jason crow of colorado, a retired army ranger and member of the committees. good to see you, congressman, and i want to start by getting your reaction on what happened in the senate with that january 6th commission vote. where are we? >> thanks for having me on. the bottom line is, this vote did not absolve the republicans in the senate of their responsibility to do the right thing, to do what republicans and democrats have done in decades past, and that is identify a problem and work to resolve it so we can become better. we can identify our challenges and move beyond them. they still have that responsibility, so we have 54 votes before that commission. we believed there were three folks who were missing that would have voted for it had they been present. so the question is, can they get an additional two votes to get over the finish line? i think we're going to see that in the next couple of weeks but this needs to happen. there needs to be a bipartisan review. it needs to happen in the form of a commission. if it doesn't, we will do what we alw

congressman jason crow holding her hand, as chaos ensued. that he hadn't felt a day like january 6th since he was a ranger in iraq and afghanistan. congressman wild, thank you so much for joining me tonight. >> thank you for having me, pamela. >> first soff, what is your reaction to the senate killing the january 6th bill? >> deep disappointment. it passed out of the house on a bipartisan basis. i was very happy that a number of republican members of congress voted in favor of it and was very sorry to see the senate's inaction on this. >> house democrats have the vote to invoke a select committee. should they? and should they invite republicans like senator catco who initiated the commission? >> yes. i would have liked to have seen it done by way of an independent compe commission. i think the american people deserves to know what was exactly at the root of this insurrection on january 6th, but i do think that it's sufficiently important that we get an investigation done, that since the senate has failed to pass this through, that we will ca

believe that we have more members of the house who have served the republicans do, people like jason crowwas cemented by republicans and many of whom did not serve but perpetrated the big lie, so democrats can do this for sure. >> charles: they have their work on their hands, because real life on the ground things are looking bad. ladies, thank you all very much. that will do it for me, it has been a pleasure and honor, neil will be back tomorrow. everybody asking me on social media, he is great and going to be here a fantastic show. you can catch me on the fox business network and making money. i will try my best, until then, here is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> hello, everyone, i am dana perino along with greg gutfeld, jesse watters, katie pavlich, and juan williams, it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> dana: pressure building on president biden to get china to say where the coronavirus came from. three weeks at the very controversial lab in wuhan needed to be hospitalized back in november 2019 with symptoms that could be similar to covid. now that is the first official repor

representative jason crow urging democratic leaders to push forward, claiming the investigation musth or without republican support. >> this has to get done. i'm sick of playing a game of whack-a-mole with gop members of congress. every time we address one of their concerns, 509 one pops up. >> majority leader schumer warning he could force a second vote on the bill over in the house. nancy pelosi has yet to declare her next move, which could include a select committee investigation. joining me now is a dormer democratic representative from indiana and served as the 9/11 vice chair. thank you for joining me. i would love to get your reaction as to how all of this evolved. what did you make of the final vote total, and did you expect more republicans to join? >> alex, first, thank you for having me and happy memorial day weekend to you and your family and to -- >> thank you. >> -- to the viewers on msnbc out there. i just have to say that this is terribly frustrating, and you can see why the american people get frustrated, want to rip their hair out when they -- when they follow polit

i want to bring in now democratic congressman jason crow of colorado. congressman, thank you so much. the republican party is all in on this big lie, attacking anyone who admits the truth about the election and the insurrection. how does this affect you and the democrats and the ability for democrats to function? i think that's a very, very important question. >> yeah. thanks for having me on, don. you just were talking about a different side of the same coin here, right? the coin is that this is no longer the republican party as we used to know it, that i grew up around, i was raised in a republican conservative family. this is the party of donald trump. and whether it's people trying to sweep the big lie and the insurrection under the rug and say that it didn't really happen or people are misbelieving what happened or whether they're trying to, you know -- it's all part of the same course of conduct. how it impacts us is we just have to tell the truth and continue to do our work. and we have to also make sure that the american people don't forget what

. >> joining us now, congressman jason crow of colorado.ere's so much to ask you about. i want to start right here, though, and the headlines all seem to be coming from the capitol this week. what do you make of what the speaker addressed there, this sort of white -- it's more than whitewashing. it's total revision of the day, january 6th. where do you think that comes from? what is the motivation for that? >> well, nicole, the motivation is very simple, and that is there are some people in this town who have no shame and they will do anything they need to do, anything, and say anything they need to do to get power, to, you know, expand their majority, to win elections and to support donald trump. that's the bottom line. and it doesn't mean, whether it means, you know, degrading the sacrifice of officers who lost their lives or fingers or eyes or were brutally beaten and still have traumatic brain injuries to this day or whitewashing history. there's nothing that they won't do. so now we have to make sure they don't do that, that we preserv

. >>> let's bring in congressman jason crow. he experienced firsthand the events of january 6. i'd like you to react to what you heard from the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell who frankly laid a lot of the blame for insurrection at the feet of donald trump after the second impeachment vote and now seems to be saying none of that matters anymore. >> thanks for having me. and what happens with both mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy, that their excuses constantly change. they come up with one excuse why they don't want to do the commission or address this. we address those issues. and then they come up with another one. it is kind of like that game, i don't know if you remember growing up, whac-a-mole where you hit one and another one comes up. and that is exactly what we're dealing with right here. and it continues and continues. but what mccarthy did was he ran out of excuses. and he counted on further delay by appointing one of his members. and he thought that partisanship and gridlock would continue. but we worked out a deal and so now he doesn't know what to do and so

for more on this perspective now from colorado democratic congressman and former army ranger jason crow, you'll recall he is one of a number of combat veterans called upon during the siege to lend their expertise and provide whatever comfort they could to people who had never faced this danger before. congressman crow, you see this change in strategy from house republicans now. they're now actively whipping their members to vote against the january 6 commission. plus all the indications that kevin mccarthy isn't just opposed to the commission, he is worried about the commission and how it might impact him. do you think he should be worried? >> well, if you're kevin mccarthy, and your only interest is becoming the speaker of the house and you're not afraid of what you need to burn down in order to get that, then yeah, he should be afraid of it. he made the determination that it's not good to talk about january 6. he needs zrump's report, regardless of donald trump's behavior and incitement of the insurrection, and he wants to sweep this under the rug. he appointed one of his members to n

here was jason crowe on "meet the press" over the weekend. >> this has to get done.hack a mole with gop members in congress. every time we address one of their concerns, another one pops up. we just can't continue to do that forever. we need to get answers. >> reporter: there's concern that that whack a mole game is going on on issue after issue, not just here. watch speaker pelosi perhaps in the next couple of days to see what democrats will do. they said not getting to the bottom of what happened on the 6th isn't an option. >> if there's anything keeping hope of bipartisanship alive there it would seem to be at this point infrastructure. this is transportation secretary pete buttigieg talking about the counteroffer of nearly a trillion dollars for an infrastructure package. >> it is encouraging to see republicans talking about getting to the neighborhood of a trillion. of course, when you start trying to makeapples, that's where the devil is in the details. those are the things that we're continuing to discuss with them. i will say, we have been in these discussion

jason crow telling "meet the press" it's hard to remain optimistic. >> the impact of fear, the fear ofd trump, and the impact of power, the desire for power by certain elements in the gop is overriding, you know, that patriotism, that desire to do what's necessary for the good of the country and it's, frankly, very depressing. >> joining me now, dan rather, former anchor of "cbs evening news" and now president of news and guts media. it's always an honor to have you. you're an optimist, so what do you make of this fear of trump did the overshadowing the republican party, even at this stage, months out of office? >> well, it's hard to know what to make of it. i agree, while i have an optimist, it's difficult times will remain optimistic about any number of things. there's a thread running through what's happening in our country the last 48 hours and in it the coming 24 hours. we have this memorial day where a member of the people, sacrificed our liberty. and then you have things like the republicans saying, no, no, we're not going to investigate. we don't want to investigate. we don't w

we heard some from congressman jason crow earlier today on "meet the press," both what he saw unfoldh the commission being blocked and now what the potential select committee could do in moving forward. take a listen. >> we think there were a couple more people that would have voted for it had they been present. so the question is can we get those three or four additional votes or are we just delaying the inevitable. and that is are we going to have to take up a select committee. but this has to get done. i am sick of playing the game of whac-a-mole with gop members in congress. every time we address one of their concerns, another one pops up. >> senate majority leader chuck e. cheese -- chuck schumer says he has to put that back on to the senate floor. but at this point there is no indication that ten republican senators would come on board unless mitch mcconnell were to do something to incite members of his own caucus to come along with this commission. it does go to house democrats to move forward while congressional leadership did want this to be bipartisan and independent in the

democratic congressman jason crow on cnn wednesday stressed the risk of not investigating the attack. >> we have a domestic terror movement in america that has been enabled, that has been furthered, that has within legitimized by leaders at the highest levels of our country, starting with donald trump. that is the sad reality. if we aren't honest about what it is we're dealing with, if we are not honest about the dangers of that movement we will not address it in a way that we need to and we will be at risk. >> cnn's daniella diaz is live on capitol hill for us this morning. good morning to you. you see this growing tension between capitol police on the one hand and lawmakers in the wake of this riot. it's amazing that that's a fight that they want to have. this is a riot that left about 140 police officers badly injured, they had eyes gouged out, and yet republicans are saying there is no need to investigate here. >> reporter: laura, most republicans do not support this commission to investigate the capitol attack on january 6. you know, they are arguing that democrats only want this

at least economically even in the, you know, the jim crow which we're going to get to in a few questions here. >> let me just add one more thing, jason. >> please. >> it's that i think people take for granted, you know, our current political makeup, okay? how do we get all these -- we just saw this in the last presidentialing election. there's all these black voters in detroit and milwaukee. how did they get there? it's literally world war ii. that's how they get to places like detroit and milwaukee. one of the things that happens right out of the war is we get black congressmen coming out of harlem, chicago and detroit, right? that's all because of the great migration. we also get national presidential elections where people have to pay more attention to black voters because when african-americans moved during world warm ii, they moved -- world war ii, they moved almost exclusively to seven states, okay? follow me here. new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, michigan, ohio, california, illinois. you take those states in the presidential election, you're doing pretty well, okay in california, michigan, ohio, etc. and so because of that

headline from campus reform sums it up, blaming jim crow says the way white people walk on sidewalks is too racist. let's discuss it. welcome back, jasonng great. >> shannon: okay, i went to read this article because i thought i want to try to understand what this writer means here. this is the part of his opinion piece. he said after talking to my black friends about my experience the way that people were walking on sidewalks, they echoed it. people at this predominantly white school would not move out of our way on the sidewalk. he said white people came to expect the right-of-way and public spaces and essentially every aspect of our society included the way we physically move through space has been shaved by a racist legacy. i was hoping for more details, whether people were standing side by side, i really don't understand what happened. but he said the way that white people walk on sidewalks is about them wanting to be predominant and wanting them to, you know, be the preferred person to move about in public. to the detriment of others. >> yeah, you shouldn't expect any kind of detail. frankly, i was willing to dunk on this piece a