. >> ryan riley, thank you for that. >>> let's go to capitol hill now, where elon musk and vivek ramaswamy are meeting with lawmakers. julie tsirkin is there, and speaker johnson just spoke. we thought he woith mare from the two billionaires but get us up to speed. what's happening? >> reporter: no, vivek ramaswamy and elon musk with his son, i should add, who has been up with him for meetings all day, walked right past the cameras and house speaker mike johnson spoke to reporters alone. he took two questions. he didn't really lay out any specifics, as elon musk has and earlier in the day when i pressed him, what specific cuts are you talking about? what are you looking to target? what areas will you focus on? everybody today who has met with musk and musk himself say they have been talking in general terms and the public's money should be spent wisely. what johnson just said is the doge effort will be bipartisan. it's bicameral. it should be those things. he pointed to a few democrats that expressed interest in joining the house committee as well as the senate caucus, which is an independ

he was given that name after he appeared on video with both hands with -- ryan riley has this exclusivet is the latest, what do we know about old double shot? >> this started for me more than three years ago because i was talking about the importance of facial recognition in the january 6th investigation and i had a bunch of tips from the online sleuths so i end up calling a few of these potential suspects and i ended up getting in touch with this individual's insurance company, he wouldn't get on the phone with me but the two other people i had reference were mentioned in the same story are now serving prison sentences. this is one of the longest identifications that online sleuths have made that there have been no arrests yet and it was unclear whether haddad then any progress we now know that the fbi has confirmed that they searched an address that was associated with the individual who was identified by these online sleuths, and what i heard when i called up his insurance company is that he's no longer associated with that company, he left in 2021 even though it bears his last name

joining us, ryan riley, and msnbc legal analyst mary mccord. ryan, so tell us what the fbi missed.? >> the basic step was asking all the field offices for what info they had on january 6th. there was a bunch of stuff out there that never made its way up all the way to the washington field office here in d.c. so what you ended up with is a lot of intel that was floating out, you might call it siloed if you want to make a reference back to the 9/11 commission report. that never really made its way all the way up to headquarters. when i was looking at this report, there was one email that essentially it seemed like was discouraging people from sending things in because it was talking about if you're going to send in information, please answer all of these questions. essentially, they were shifting the administrative burden from the washington field office into the field offices, and making it more burdensome for those people in the field offices to send that information up to headquarters. and of course, expectedly what you end up in that scenario is not as many people send things in

nbc's ryan riley is following this story for us. what did we hear from tarrio? >> reporter: he first testified on behalf of the defense, the first defense witness when the defense took over. then we got into cross-examination, and essentially what we had was a really combative situation with tarrio trying to dodge any question he could. when he first got up there, he said he wasn't going to answer any questions about the proud boys. he was asked a simple question whether the proud boys were there on january 6th. he said i'm not going to answer questions about this. the judge chimed in with, oh, yes, you are. then there was a little sidebar. and they found a way to ask the questions. even when he's shown these text messages or these encrypted messages between himself and the defendant, who was a metropolitan police department officer, he was combatting on every one. he was refusing to acknowledge whether or not they were real. he said he can read what was on the screen but didn't remember, didn't recall. and the issue here is really because he has that 22-year fe

joining us now, vaughn hillyard, ryan riley, jake sherman, and former fbi general counsel and former senior member of robert mueller's special counsel that investigated russian interference into the 2016 election, that's a mouthful. andrew weissmann. thank you for being with us. everyone. vaughn, when he talks about not wanting to drag the bureau into the political fray, what is he talking about? >> well, donald trump believe that is the fbi was in the political fray over the last seven years now. back in 2017 when he nominated him to replace james comey. it took just two years for him to put scorn on to the work of chris wray after chris wray defended the work of the ig from the doj who said that the russia investigation into alleged collusions with donald trump and his campaign, that that investigation was warranted. immediately led in 2019 while still in white house, donald trump, to issue a statement questioning whether he had the capacity to serve at the top level of the fbi. several years later, you get to 2021. up on capitol hill after the january 6 attack, chris wray went up

joining me now is ryan riley. i know you do a lot of reporting at the department of justice, is this as surprising to you as it was to me? >> it was surprising in some ways. we knew he would be leaving in some way. but obviously when you saw that trump interview and we know kash patel has been nominated for this position that has not been opened yet, we sort of knew something could be coming along. i think the timing of it today was a little bit of a surprise. there had been this town hall scheduled, on the books for a few days, but it was not until today that we really realized there would be rumblings of chris wray announcing his resignation. people within the bureau are very concerned. but that is also if you are looking at mostly just management. the fbi is a very ideological place, conservative even. i don't think it is universally condemnation of christopher wray exiting. i think there are people who like this idea and are supportive of trump. the guy who will be number two in the fbi got an email very short

nbc's ryan riley is covering it for us. pecial agent and msnbc national security analyst, clint watts. ryan, what more does this report say? >> essentially that the fbi failed to canvas all their field offices for intel ahead of the january 6th attack. remember, this is in the middle of covid. we've got to set the standard for what world everyone was living. and it's a challenge for the fbi where some of them were attempting to work from home. that's something that is very difficult for the fbi to deal with. this is at the end of a really bad year for everyone including fbi agents. that key period is during a vacation time and there was also an attack happening simultaneously. a lot of reasons the fbi might have struggled with this from the get go. what you see in this report is a lot of bureaucracy, a lot of hang ups, and a lot of issues just doing that basic step. the basic step language is from the deputy director of the fbi who said that was a basic step that that should been taken and he would have expected it to have b

ryan riley is following this story and i understand, ryan, that the former head of the proud boys couldad of the proud boys could be testifying in a d.c. court as soon as this afternoon. he's expected to be called as the first defense witness against the former d.c. police officer who was accused of timing off tario about his impending arrest before the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. tario has been convicted of seditious conspiracy although he was not at the u.s. capitol that day. this comes as donald trump is expected to pardon an unknown number of january 6th defendants. at the top of that list potentially could be tario, who's now serving his 22-year prison sentence. so he doesn't have a lot to lose when he takes the stand and may try to get out a message to donald trump himself as donald trump considers how many people he's going to pardon in connection with the january 6th attack on the capitol. >>> in pennsylvania, emergency crews are working non-stop to try to find a missing grandmother who they say may have fallen into a 30-foot sinkhole while out looking for her cat. a

ryan riley is reporting from washington, d.c. i know reaction's been coming in, ryan. is it largely along party lines? what's the latest you're hearing? >> yeah, largely. i think it's still sort of up in the air whether there will be enough republicans to push back against this as to whether this will be a painful or smooth process for kash patel. but you know, he's essentially a conservative influencer at this point who has said some really strong things about the justice department. he wrote a book famously about donald trump that ortrayed trump as a king and him a wizard. that's a unique background for someone to head the largest law enforcement body in the country, but here's some of what lawmakers are saying about the nomination thus far. >> i think kash patel is a very strong nominee. i think kash patel is going to be confirmed by the senate. you look at his background. he has a serious professional background. >> donald trump campaigned on reforming the fbi and the department of justice. so i don't know why any of this is frankly surprising to people. >> it does

nbc's ryan riley is following this for us. tell us more about what happened there. >> reporter: it's really remarkable, this police oversight that started 30 years ago. you can trace it alongside technology. it came about in the aftermath of the l.a. riots and the beating of rodney king on home camcorders what captured it originally and then fast-forward almost 30 years down the road to a recent memory where you have the video of george floyd being killed. so this is -- traces along with technology and this is how this came about. take a look at what breonna taylor's mother had to a >> i never imagined one day -- so i'm five years and i don't feel -- don't understand why she's not here. i know it happened. it still doesn't make sense to me. she didn't deserve this. no one does, for that matter. it's hard to continue to watch people die at the hands of the police. >> reporter: the context is critical because a couple of months, will probably see that pendulum swing once again when it comes to police reform. the civil rights div

. >>> let's go to ryan riley. we have breaking news about chris wray. there has been speculation about whether he would stay on through joe biden's term. >> we know chris wray is holding a press, rather an event with staffers that's being broadcast to anyone within the fbi. that's what we know at this moment, but obviously what chris wray is going to be doing perhaps in the coming days and actually just now in a reportable fashion i can tell you that chris wray has just said at a town hall that he will, make sure i have this right. he will be, he is resigning per senior law enforcement official. that's according to ken dilanian is what he just announced. so that's what we know at the current moment. we don't know the timing. exactly when that is going to happen, but kash patel has already been nominated and as we saw in donald trump's recent interview with kristen welker, he indicated that someone is going to have to leave for kash patel to go into that position. so the timing is unclear at this point but what we know now and is reportable is that chris

we're joined by ryan riley, fbi veteran frank, and a former prosecutor, deputy chief in the sdny, christysaying. we all are afforded our free speech rights, but it does have more value than what sometimes might come up in campaign rhetoric or political exchanges. what do you see as the concern and the purpose of these in-court comments? >> yeah, and what's i think remarkable and really important about them, ari, is they're coming from people who are informed, right? these are judges who have sat through these cases, know the facts, know the law, have sat over juries who have been presented with evidence. i had one former federal prosecutor who worked specifically on these january 6th cases tell me the thing he was really proud of is that when juries heard the evidence evidence and heard the facts in the case, they made what he considered to be the right decision. the evidence is overwhelming. there's a huge divide between the nonsense on the internet and the memes about the cases and the actual facts and reality of these cases. i think it's something that has gotten judges frustrated with

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