julia ainsley, shannon pettypiece. ladies, thank you very much for joining us on this. >>> we're following two pieces of breaking news into the investigation, into the january 6 riot at the capitol. first in court filings, federal prosecutors suggest that a prominent member of the oath keepers was in contact with different far right extremist groups, including the proud boys in the weeks leading up to the insurrection. there are new videos released by the "new york times" that show what might have happened to officer brian sicknick. we warn you that the video might be disturbing. one of the suspects highlighted by "the times" appears to raise a pepper spray can or spray can of some sort and then sprays in the direction of officer sicknick. you could then see sicknick turning away after being hit by the spray. joining me now is msnbc justice correspondent pete williams. pete, do they know who did it, who sprayed him, and can they make the connection between that incident and his death? >> well, two people have been char

shannon pettypiece, let me go to you on that. i want to talk to leanne also about some of these issues in depth in just a second. but let's focus for a minute on the border, what's going to unfold there. they're bowing to pressure essentially to have tv cameras go down to show, highlight this issue. kamala harris, the vice president, using sharper language to describe what's happening than we had before. or than the administration had before, certainly than jen psaki had before. how did we get to this point, and what's the game plan going forward? >> and i think today definitely feels like a shift. not only do you have this delegation of white house officials and congressional officials going down, allowing a tv camera to go with them, which is something journalists and reporters at nbc and i'm sure a lot of other news organizations have been pressing the white house and the administration for for weeks now really. not only do you have that visit, we're also expected to hear from the president, who is meeting with the vice presid

and shannon pettypiece with me. jacob, let me start with you.ve thousands of unaccompanied minors and families with young children being held at the border. secretary mayorkas talked about how his team is ending the practice of sending those minors back to their country. what challenges does that present? >> reporter: capacity. that's the number one challenge faced by the biden administration as they try to transition to a more fair, safe and humane immigration system. in the words of secretary mayorkas himself, he think get the children out of the border patrol stations, effectively border jails, within 72 hours, legally. they have had a hard time doing that. the capacity isn't there at the office of refugee resettlement where child welfare professionals can care for the children with expertise. the child welfare professionals can't. that's the crux of this. they have stopped sending kids back to mexico and back to their home countries, the danger from which they fled. it presented a large logistical challenge and a humanitarian crisis where to

shannon pettypiece at nbc news digital, josh wingrove for bloomberg news and susan del percio, veteran gop strategist and former special adviser to governor andrew cuomo. good evening and welcome. shannon, does the white house view their victory this week, however one-sided, however partisan, as any kind of a mandate for the future? >> well, it's certainly a victory and they're going to sell it. there's aggressive travel schedule that president biden and vice president harris have this week to try to do the sales pitch. democrats are latching on to this to try to use this as sales pitch in 2022. already seen some democratic groups put out big ad buys promoting this bill. i'm told to expect more to come. lot of surrogates from the white house are touting this. grabbing on to this, trying to leverage and use it again republicans as they can. but there's understanding and acknowledgment in the white house it only gets harder from here. much of a slog this was to get over the finish line, it was easy in a way. only needed 50 votes, it was clear crisis, there was lot of focus around it, it

shannon pettypiece, our senior white house reporter for nbc news digital, our eyes and ears on capitol hill, nbc news correspondent garret haake is with us. and clint watts returns to the broadcast, distinguished fellow at the research institute. our national security analyst, also happens to be the author of "messing with the enemy surviving in a social media world of hackers, terrorists, russians and fake news." garret, because of your beat on the hill and what's going on there i'd like to begin with you. also this quote from phil bump over at "the washington post." "while the senate reads the coronavirus relief bill" and to be specific it's just a clerk to a mostly empty chamber. "nearly 1,400 americans may die from the virus." so here's the question. any fear from republicans that they may be on the wrong side of this pandemic relief? >> well, republicans have been trying all week long to take a shine off of this relief bill. half a dozen news conferences with republican lawmakers trying to convince the public that this bill is too big, it's unnecessary, that it would have been app

shannon pettypiece, jacob soboroff, dasha burns, garrett haake with that comprehensive look at what's happening on immigration. >>> switching gears today, boulder, colorado, continues to mourn ten people who died in that shooting at a supermarket earlier this week, as the suspect will have his first hearing. steve patterson is joining us now. we understand you're with two people who actually know the suspect. what can you tell us about what they're sharing with you? >> well, i can share that directly. these are two people that went to high school with the 21-year-old suspect, as you mentioned now in custody, facing ten counts of murder and expected to be in court tomorrow. meantime, we can ask that. jordan and angel hernandez, both of you went to high school with the suspect. how well did you know him? >> i know him pretty well. we were on the same wrestling team. from what i know and what i saw, he was such a good guy, a really decent man. >> taylor? >> other than seeing him at school, i talked to him quite often. sometimes on a daily basis, sometimes every other day, you know. it ju

joining us now is senior white house correspondent for nbc news digital, shannon pettypiece live in columbusabout an hour. shannon, talk to us more about how the president is reacting to the colorado shooting? >> well, before leading for this trip to columbus, he spoke and said he wouldn't comment on the motive of the shooter, that he was still witwaiting for information on that, but he said there were a couple of things that he could do right away. one was to call for an assault weapons ban and two was for congress to call for legislation that would close the loopholes on some of these background checks. both of these things face an uphill battle in congress to say the least, but here's what president biden had to say a few hours ago about that. >> i don't need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common sense steps that will save the lives in the future. and to urge my colleagues in the house and senate to act. the united states senate -- i hope some are listening -- should immediately pass the two house bills that close loopholes in the background check systems. these are bi

as our final word with our thanks to big three guests on friday night after week we've had, shannon pettypiece, josh wingrove, susan dell percio, thank you for leading off us. >>> can the president deliver on other bold promises of vaccines and perhaps some normalcy by july, and can he convince americans that government is good. two smartest observers of history and politics standing by to join us. >>> for many, surviving coronavirus is just the start, one woman who received vaccine shares the challenges she's still facing physically one year later. all of it as "the 11th hour" just getting under way this friday night. deposit, plan and pay with easy tools from chase. simplicity feels good. chase. make more of what's yours. riders, the lone wolves of the great highway. all they need is a bike and a full tank of gas. their only friend? the open road. i have friends. [ chuckles ] well, he may have friends, but he rides alone. that's jeremy, right there! we're literally riding together. he gets touchy when you talk about his lack of friends. can you help me out here? no matter why you ride, progr

nbc's shannon pettypiece has been following this story and joins us now. this show about the nature of this divided senate's control over some nominees? >> reporter: well, it shows the control of senator joe manchin, who was really the, you know, first democratic to come out against her nomination. the white house thought they could get some republican support, all this talk of bipartisanship, though, did not pan out on this one. they were holding out hope that senator lisa murkowski might come on and say that she would vote for tanden. so without joe manchin, that could have given them enough votes to get this nomination through. but no republican support. they lost the support of this sort of swing vote moderate democrat in joe manchin, who has a long history of disagreement with neera tanden. and so that has left them in the position of having to pull one of their nominations here and a really significant nomination in the office of budget management given the state that the country is in right now. now, you saw in the statement and you noted they indica

. >> let me bring in shannon pettypiece.nd of organized labor. >> reporter: right. absolutely. like you mentioned, he did not give an official endorsement. he did not name amazon by name. there's one big union push going on many alabama right now. that's the amazon warehouse workers. what the president did say was this real full-throated endorsement of workers' right to choose whether they can organize and condemnation by employers or others around being able to organize a union. for context as to why we are talking about an alabama amazon union, the labor push is significant because it's in the south, an area that has not been friendly to unions. it involves amazon, the world's biggest online retailer, where in the u.s., there is no union among employees. this could potentially open the door for further unionization of other amazon warehouses. of course, from biden's perspective, this really puts a clear mark on where he stands on issues related to organized labor. he has been pro union throughout his career, endorsed by un

joining me from columbus, ohio is senior white house reporter shannon pettypiece. new plan? >> reporter: well, it is expected to be largely in line with what the president talked about on the campaign trail. that is not your traditional infrastructure, just roads and bridges. they have talked about overhauling the rail system, expanding broad band and tackling things like climate change, like income inequality, child care and helping people get back to work. it is supposed to be very broad. that gets to the question of how do you get something like that through congress? price tags ranged from $2 trillion to $4 trillion. republicans showed a lot of opposition to passing the $1.9 trillion covid relief stimulus. you have divides where they want the white house to go big with a broad proposal. in the senate, staffers want something narrow. they have bipartisan support to get a traditional bill through. anything that will be along the line what the house is going to propose doesn't have a chance in the senate. and that's the needle the white house is trying to thread h

let's get the latest, josh lederman is on the ground in marietta, georgia, shannon pettypiece is outside white house. also with us, garrett haake and the white house correspondent yamish yandor. josh, walk us through what the reaction has been. reporters were able to talk to sitting senator rafael warnock in georgia. what did you learn from him? how is this being received there? >> reporter: senator warnock is calling this a 911 emergency. i really tried to press him today in his news conference he did outside this ymca in marietta about whether this might increase pressure on democrats in the u.s. senate to finally get rid of the filibuster. those two holdouts that we have been talking about over and over again. senator warnock saying this should not be about some type of arcane senate procedure. this is a bigger deal. the real integrity of our democracy is at stake. if you look back at the last 24 hours and how some of this unfolded, i think nothing further dented the appearance of this being some type of a good faith effort as republicans have said to actually expand voting rights and

about what we're going to see at the white house later today with our team, geoff bennett, shannon pettypiecend others reporting that president biden will announce this deal to buy another 100 million vaccine doses. do you think that puts the u.s. in a position to be perhaps ahead of that may timeline that the president has talked about to get everybody vaccinated or at least have the vaccine be available to everybody. >> right, hallie. for every reason that we are all super excited about the johnson & johnson vaccine, this is just another, you know, extraordinary announcement. you know, i've been hearing sort of among patients and friends and even family, you know, there was that initial concern about j&j because of the -- i don't want to say misreporting but the communication about its efficacy. people are really starting to be excited about the idea of having a one-shot vaccine that will, you know, keep you out of the hospital and keep you alive. this is absolutely tremendous news and i do think it potentially will push up that timeline, you know, where we can start to really think about r