for nbc news, michael isikoff, danbury, connecticut. >> gun control groups in more than two dozen states are holding events as part of a national day to demand action. in san francisco, one group is rallying outside the office of senator dianne feinstein. they support her push to pass

nbc news correspondent michael isikoff and mother jones's david corn an msnbc contributor, co-authored a book called "hubris" that detailed exactly how that war was sold to the american people. what you are about to see tonight is based on their reporting. we are still too close to all of this in time to know if what some say was the biggest foreign policy deception and disaster in modern u.s. history will define its generation of leaders, too. whether this is the first line of the obituaries of the men and women who caused that war. but if what we went through ten years ago did not change us as a country, if we do not understand what happened and adapt as a country to resist it, then history says, we are doomed to repeat it. again. here's what happened. >> the people of the united states and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder. >> my belief is we will in fact be greeted as liberators. >> there's a lot of money to pay for this that doesn't have to be u.s. taxpayer money and it starts with the answer

it was just a small part of lanza's arsenal, reports nbc's investigative correspondent michael isikoff. >> when police raided lanza's home they found a vast array of weaponry. two rifles, a pistol. more than a thousand rounds of ammunition. three samurai swords and a spear. in his car a loaded shotgun. an fbi witness described lanza as an avid video gamer who rarely left his house. there is nothing in this evidence that sheds any light on what could havtriggered lanza's rage. >> that pain is not going away. >> reporter: the new details only bring more hurt for nicole hockley who lost her son. >> every piece of new information is painful. it brings us back to december 14th. there is nothing that is going to bring back my son. >> reporter: across the country today, gun control advocates say they organized 140 events in dozens of states to demand tougher laws. universal background checks and a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines. for his part president obama met with victims of gun violence and law enforcement officials and urged the country not to forget newtown. >> the en

michael isikoff and david corn and going to be presented by rachel maddow.fter the documentary, a special panel to talk about the bush administration, how it misled the country, misled itself, getting us into that destructive war in iraq. that's called "talking hubris." airs at 10:00 this friday night. >>> the cost of war. 100,000 iraqi civilians dead. nearly 4,500 americanss dead. 32,000 americans wounded. what kind of care do those wounded americans get now since they've been back stateside? we don't think enough about the people with broken bodies that come home, do we? not enough. >>> plus back to politics. the empire strikes back. a lot of people on the right are very unhappy with this big republican, the big shots i'm telling them what they have to do to change. they don't want to change. rush limbaugh says the problem is not that the gop is too conservative, it's that it's not conservative enough. is that what the gop is? is that why they lost five of the last six elections? not conservative enough? >>> see what happens when republicans start attackin

for nbc news, michael isikoff, danbury, connecticut. >> gun control groups in more than two dozen states are holding events as part of a national day to demand action. in san francisco, one group is rallying outside the office of senator dianne feinstein. they support her push to pass laws against gun violence. nbc bay area's christie smith joins us live in san francisco with a look at the rally. good morning, christie. >> reporter: good morning. they were up bright and early this morning outside of senator dianne feinstein's office. about a dozen of them carrying signs. they say this is part of a national day of action. one of the things they're calling for is for universal background checks on guns. this group is calling themselves organizing for action. they believe that those background checks would close loopholes on things like gun shows. they say it's a national effort because guns, in their opinion, trafficked from state to state even those states with stricter laws. a petition that they had said that it's time to fix our broken gun laws. but they say they're appreciative of sena

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michael isikoff has the details. michael? >> reporter: there's some chilling new details in the material released this morning. 154 bullets fired by adam lanza in less than five minutes from that bushmaster assault rifle he used to massacre the children and the adults at the sandy hook school that day. lanza went to the school, according to a statement from the chief prosecutor, which has just been released, with ten high capacity 40-round magazines, one recovered in the gun, nine others recovered at the scene. this is part of a wealth of material in search warrants and statements released this morning on the case. and also some pretty chilling new insights into lanza's world himself. excerpts from an fbi interviews and i'll read some of them that are recounted in the search warrants. agents of the fbi interviewed, it's redacted, apparently associate, people who knew lanza, describing him as somebody, who, quote, rarely leaves his home and considers him to be a shut-in and avid gamer who plays "call of duty" amongst other gam

so, michael isikoff, ten years later, hindsight is 20/20, at the time, though, you look at the pollst the "new york times" was writing, what the washington post was writing calling this on the eve of george w. bush's inauguration the greatest threat to america, saddam hussein and his weapons of mass destruction. you look at the fact that 72% of americans supported going to war in march of 2003. and you wonder how many of us could've gotten so much wrong. >> well, it's because of the false claims made about the threat that iraq posed. i think at the end of the day, that's going to be what history remembers the most. and that's what we're going to look back on. >> well, michael if i could talk about, though, the false claims by whom because it certainly wasn't just george w. bush. again, as bob woodward reports, you've got the cia director jumping up and down in the office waving his arms and he says, mr. president, it's a slam dunk. now, let me tell you, michael, if i'm commander in chief and it's a year and a half after 9/11 and my cia director if you don't mind me making this point

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we're joined by an expert, national correspondent michael isikoff from danbury, connecticut.ll we've learned today. >> pretty chilling stuff, chris. around 30 high capacity round magazinings at the school. three of them were empty which means he fired all of those rounds. that's how you get up to 154 in less than five minutes. then you go to his house. another vast array of weaponry, two rifles, a pistol, i didn't mention the loaded 12 gauge shotgun in this car. in addition, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition in the house. three samurai swords, a sphere. just an amazing arsenal of weapons. a lots of gun paraphernalia, gun magazines. gun letterture. he was clearly much more obsessed and a part of the gun culture than i think any of us appreciated before. you put that together with some of the other information that's in these search warrants, the fbi witness who describes lanza being an avid video gamer, who was a shut-in at the house, rarely left the house, and at the sandy hook elementary school, where we know he once went, was described as his life. this is a 20-year-old

joining me, alex wagger in, patrick murphy, and chris matthews, michael isikoff, and david corn, msnbc political analyst and washington bureau chief for mother jones. rachel starts off the documentary in that intro, i think a really important point, which is living through what happened in the iraq war, you can pay very careful attention as the documentary traces the specificity of the consequences, but she draws it back to draw some broader lesson about how do we as a society choose to go to war? what is it about the machinations about american politics and the media and all of that that makes us go to war or not go to war. i want to read something you wrote september 2, 2011. so i'll say it, i hate this war that is coming in iraq. don't think we'll be proud of it. you talk about bush trying to avenge his father. what about the tens of millions of arab sons who want to finish a fight we start next spring in bad dad? i think it's interesting this was your last column that you wrote that. what was the political temperature of the national conversation at that moment when you wrote that

. >> nbc national investigative correspondent michael isikoff joins me now with more on the newtown investigation. mike, we found out a fair amount or more at least about the case on thursday. tell us sort of where we are and how much more we expect to learn in the coming days as this investigation proceeds. >> right, chris. well, first of all, this was a partial disclosure. a lot more we haven't learned. the chief prosecutor made clear in the statement yesterday that this is an ongoing investigation and there were redactions in the material. but we did learn a lot about the arsenal of weapons that adam lanza had stored both at his home and in his car and brought to the scene at sandy hook elementary school. in totality, two rifles, a loaded shotgun in the car, a pistol, more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition at his home and let's go back to that scene and i think this is probably the most significant. 154 bullets fired in less than five minutes from that bushmaster assault rifle. how is he able to do it? he had ten 30-round high-capacity magazines at the scene that he brought to the school. three

. >> michael isikoff from connecticut for us today. thank you. >> jim runs organizing for action, an issues advocacy group. good to see you. let's talk about poll numbers, cbs and cnn show less support now for stricter gun control measures than we saw immediately after newtown. what happened to the momentum? >> look, i think there's still continuing momentum. 91% of americans support the president's calls for background checks. we know that background checks stop 2 million people who shouldn't get guns. but the fact is that 40% of all gun sales don't go through a background check. this is proposal that a vast majority, over 90% of the country supports and it's something that we should pass. >> let's talk about the background check. the politico reporting that senator grassley is drafting his own gun control bill now. grassley has opposed background checks, which are included in reeds bill. background checks were starting to look like the easier get but are they now also in serious trouble as well? >> look, now here's the truth. >> know

nbc news national investigative correspondent michael isikoff has the very latest. it is the headline that you're seeing everywhere. 154 bullet casings in less than five minutes. that so many people are reacting to today. >> reporter: absolutely. just unbelievable fire power that adam that school that day. all those bullets fired from his bushmaster assault rifle. and he had ten high capacity 30-round magazines that he used to get off so many bullets in such a short time to kill the children and the adults in that school. as one parent will me today, he was armed, adam lanza was armed to the teeth. we knew it was, we didn't know it was quite this much. in addition to that, as you mentioned, there are hundreds of rounds of ammunition found in the home. there were multiple weapons, military style clothing. by the way, he was wearing military style clothing that day. and a body vest that is described in the documents. and in addition, we have other material in there. there are references to an fbi interview with a friend or an associate of adam lanza. someone who knew

. >>> in this week's office politics, nbc investigative journalist michael isikoff, don't you wonder cover their juicy stories? well i asked michael about that, and you can manage the answer that he gives me. but first we discussed the end of his longtime professional home "newsweek" magazine, and the story that put him in the national spotlight. as i look at this last print issue of "newsweek" magazine, which i want to ask you about, because you were there for so long, we look at a story like the lewinsky story, which you broke, and they were loathe to print that for some time. it was just not some place they wanted to go. >> yeah. yeah. well, look, when you get in to -- look the higher the stakes, the more nervous the editors are. that's -- that's a given. and when you're talking about wrongdoing, or misconduct, or secret conduct by the president, the stakes are bigger. now, of course, one of the things i laid out, actually, in that last article in "newsweek," which ran in the last issue, was actually the story that we finally -- that i finally wanted to publish, was not -- was real

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. >> exactly a month ago, nbc's michael isikoff had a big scoop related to the cia.d been trying to pry out of the cia the reason why it's supposedly legal for the cia to kill a u.s. citizen overseas using a drone. mr. isikoff was the first person to get ahold some of that reasoning when he obtained this summary of the administration's legal arguments. after that, some senators were allowed to go a step further when the president decided to show them the intelligence committee, specifically, a couple of legal memos advising the president about his legal ability to use drones. with the senators happy to have that much, but dissatisfied that it was not enough, those senators on the intelligence committee pushed for more. and today, they got what they wanted. as of today, they get to see, apparently, more of the justice department's legal opinions about so-called targeted killing of americans. the senators get to see more memos and, crucially, their staff members get to read them as well. this is progress. when the president pledged in the state of the union more transp

we saw, first, reported by nbc's michael isikoff a summary of legal reasoning by the administration on killing americans abroad with the drone program. we also then saw released to the intelligence committee a couple office of legal council memos on the same subject. then more memos on the same subject released to the intelligence committee. it seems like things are going in the direction that you want. but how much further do you think the administration should go in terms of making information available? and do you think should it be limited to these disclosures about killing americans, or do you think it should be about killing anybody using this program? >> first of all, i think there does need to be more information made available. i think kit be done consistent with national security about drones. and i am going to make a concerted effort to declassify more of that information in the days ahead. this debate, rachel, is just beginning. the fact is the very nature of warfare is changing so dramatically, we have just begun the discussion. and certainly now it's time to bring the pub

. >>> in today's office politics, nbc investigative correspondent michael isikoff who wrote "hubris,of the iraq war." >> there's no question there was bad intelligence, there was no question the cia got some major things wrong. and there were some assumptions about behavior that weren't warranted. but then beyond that you had the twisting of the intelligence that did exist. you had the exaggerations you had the complete misuse of what happens what was available. the reliance on the shoddiest of sources, sources that wouldn't -- you and i wouldn't put on the air. because they were so shaky, and in many cases single sources were being used by the u.s. government to justice a military invasion. it's astonishing, material that wouldn't make it through the editorial process of nbc or any other news network, big news for the most momentous of decisions. >> even from a common sense point of view, who was disturbing, what was the motivation? >> well, you know, this is one of history's riddles at this point. >> there bits and pieces one can take from the public record. there was an effort to

here's nbc's michael isikoff. >> i couldn't let this guy get away with it. >> reporter: kimberly hanks first time about testifying last year that she was sexually assaulted by air force lieutenant colonel james wilkerson, an f-16 combat pilot in italy. hanks, a physician's assistant, and some co-workers were socializing at wilkerson's home and she ended up sleeping in the guest bedroom. >> i felt some -- discomfort. the lights came on which woke me up. i opened my eyes and he was in bed with me with his hands down my pants. >> reporter: a military jury believed her. wilkerson was convicted in a court-martial last november, stripped of his rank and sentenced to a year in prison. but now a startling reversal. a top air force commander, lieutenant general craig franklin, has dismissed the verdict and freed lieutenant colonel wilkerson. what was your reaction? >> i was absolutely stunned. it looks to me like he is protecting one of his own. >> reporter: general franklin never attended the trial, but after a thorough review of the entire record and related materials concluded there was insu

for "today" michael isikoff. >> we're getting a first look at a revolutionary surgery out of the ronald reagan ucla medical center that helped one man breathe again. dr. nancy snyderman has the story. >> wait until you see this video. a man became the first american to be part of a worldwide trial that has the potential to change the way we do organ transplants. at 57, fernando walks two miles every day. something that just months ago he was unable to do. diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis in 2010, his only hope was a double lung transplant. >> all i could do was sit down and watch tv and my wife had to do everything for me. >> tethered to oxygen 24 hours a day, his wife said he had trouble doing the smallest things. >> just to pick up his plate, put it in the sink from here to there, it was a struggle. >> but in november, doctors at ucla medical center found a match, and fernando became the first patient in the united states to under go a surgery that placed breathing lungs into his chest. the former construction worker who helped build ucla's hospital, now entrusted its doctors to help

here's michael isikoff. >> i'm the type of person who likes to know how things work, and as an a analyst i always want to figure out the truth. >> reporter: that's the voice of bradley manning being heard for the first time explaining his disenchantment with the u.s. military while serving in iraq. >> we became obsessed with capturing and killing human targets on lists. >> reporter: in military court manning admitted he illegally gave wikileaks hundreds of thousands of government documents as well as this 2007 video of a helicopter attack in iraq that mistakenly killed innocent civilians. >> come on, fire. >> they dehumanized the individuals they were engages and seemed to not value human life by referring to them as dead --. >> reporter: today there is a recording of manning's courtroom statement provided to the group and made in violation of court rules. >> in an era where government secrecy is at an all-time high, bradley manning should be commended rather than condemned. >> reporter: one former state department officials say manning's actions were indefensible. >> it's nonsense to ca

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. >>> in today's office politics, michael isikoff, he's been on the front lines reporting on the obamas controversial drone policy. i asked him about the uproar and the catalyst for the recent scrutiny. >> what we did was get ahold of the justice department white paper which laid out the legal reasoning that would justify the use of lethal force, drone strikes, although it doesn't mention drone strikes, against american citizens. and while the administration officials had given a couple speeches on the subject, the white paper filled out some of the blanks in those speeches and gave a fuller explanation of the legal reasoning, and in some ways when i think significantly went beyond what had been stated publicly. particularly, and this is relevant very much to the discussion of the iraq war, what it called -- what it described as a, quote, broader concept of imminence. the first test as to whether or not a president can use lethal force to kill an american citizen is does that citizen, is he engaged in activity that poses an imminent threat to american citizens? that's the first test. i

nbc's michael isikoff takes a look at the evidence investigators uncovered. >> reporter: chilling new shootings dating back for years. this police chief revealed these findings at a law enforcement conference. according to a source who attended the private briefing, a states police spokesman declined comment. lanza was obsessed with anders breivik who skilled 77 people in july of 2011. >> adam lanza seems like a classic case of copy-catting. he mimicked the behavior of mass shooters before him and their frustration with the world. >> reporter:al