. >> martha: that was jim jordan hammering the attorney general for politicizing the justice department. now his committee is demanding that other officials at doj testify about their role in targeting concerned parents who they wanted to track as potentially causing too much trouble, becoming harassing, things along those lines. so mark meredith has the breaking news on the new front in this story. hi, mark. >> good afternoon. house republicans say they have nor questions for the justice department. they're calling for more hearings. they want to know why the federal government would want to interview with these school board meetings. the justice department is facing a firestorm over a memo to stop violent school board members. but the justice department said they were trying to silence speech. republicans want to hear from deputy attorney general and acting attorney general mark lesko. in a letter to the chairman, jerry nadler, republicans say they need the hearing so the committee may examine the troubling role of the national security division in targeting concerned parents at schoo

laura: as early voting continues, jim jordan making this prediction. >> we got a border in chaos, climate increasing every urinary, record inflation, the with of justice going after moms and dads to speak out for their kids at school board meetings and at the state department, that left american side and have abu bakr that was the afghanistan exit is concerned about gender identity on passports. it makes no sense but i think this and a host of other things are why you are seeing this turnaround and a focus on freedom in the things that matter and the american people will speak loud and clear in virginia, new jersey and next following the elections. >> generally calling china's hypersonic missile test very concerning and almost like a sputnik moment. >> it comes as republican senators, the intelligence community's focus on he woke agenda. >> reporter: good morning. china's testify hypersonic missile system was described as concerning by chairman general martinelli. he added this could be a significant development in the technological events for the country. the comments follow report the c

jim jordan has been the champion on questioning the intelligence community about the effectiveness. >> laura: hypersonic missiles, now this? come on, i am billions of dollars down a rat hole and the american people are the ones being surveilled. the whole thing, the media did have a role in propping up fauci's big live, watch. >> nothing brings out senator paul's propensity to act like an ass like a congressional hearing. >> the media trying to make fauci a covid bogeyman. >> there's nothing to prevent he keeps embarrassing himself. rand paul, stop it, you look like an idiot. >> laura: congressman, they are collaborators. >> they have and i don't think that is any surprise to any good fox beer but here's the bottom line, they knew all along that tax dollars were going into this lab. we wasted months and months and months of investigation to try to prove what they knew all along, that tax dollars were going to this lab and they were doing risky experimental research that they shouldn't have been doing. and to say, we don't know where this covid-19 originated from is ridiculous. it is e

jim jordan pressing the attorney general on where he got the data on the uptick of violence. >> your memo, the first sentence, you said in recent months, there's a disturbing spike in data and intimidation of violence. >> yes. >> when did you show the data showing the disturbing uptick. >> i read the letter and we have been seeing over time. >> whoa. i said -- so you read the letter. that's your source? >> greg, let's kick it off with you. have some thoughts? >> it's scary. this guy's the attorney general and he's less prepared than jessie watters. >> such a cheap shot. >> think about it. this guy is initiating an investigation on parents, not because he had statistics, actual specific cases, but because he got a letter. the letter is from an environmental group or blm, he wouldn't have proceeded like this. it's a political action. you have to admit that. but what's worse is how easy it was to motivate this guy to comply, just send a letter. i might do that to you, harold. just for the hell of it. i will make up something. it's weird how removed he is from reality, right? he talks ab

and tonight, prime time, senator tom cotton, jim jordan, rachel campos duffy and sean duffy, we do them together as a couple, that's the way we do things. >> did they leave their kids -- [laughter] >> did you even look at the rundown? have you looked at the rundown yet? dana. >> well, here are three -- here are some bears, they are just tried to figure out how to get in a hammock. all of us have been there, right? trying to figure out like -- help me out here. they are just having the best time trying to get on there. there we go. >> oh! >> that's good. >> that's pretty cute! >> you can't even get mad at them. you can't even shoo them away. [laughter] >> it's on a loop, judge. [laughter] >> your turn. your turn. >> my turn. everybody loves a warm cup of joe from starbucks. actually don't do starbucks. i go to dunkin' donuts, but anyway, take a look. here is a dog, a 12-week-old rottweiler and this is an adorable moment, for the first time, this rottweiler is trying his very first cappuccino. it is a mix of water and whipped cream. while owners should be careful how much dairy they give

earlier in that hearing he answered jim jordan's question. he said there would be no fbi agents at school board meetings. if you can tell that, then he can tell us there were none there on january 5th or january 6th. >> laura: they said multiple times there will be no stone left unturned, it will be the biggest investigation we've ever done in the history of the fbi, but you just mentioned it, congressman, so we need to play it, the moment the crowd seems to be onto him. watch. >> into the capital! [screaming] >> fed, fed, fed! >> laura: oh. congressman, the crowd was highly suspicious that the feds were trying to infiltrate the rally there. has anyone been able to explain this individual not being in custody, questions, removed from any kind of list that the fbi had assembled? >> it's highly suspect that his picture was on the fbi web page and then they took it down after six months. and i thought this was a sweeping investigation. his begs another question, laura. if the attorney general is not going to answer any of our questions in the ju

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it wasn't just the jim jordans and the matt gaetz of the world who gathered and stood behind him. it was governor kim reynolds. congresswoman ashley stinson, considered a rising star in the party and senator chuck grassley who is from iowa and has been an iowa senator as long as i've been alive. but what was really instructives too why grassley made that appearance over the weekend with donald trump, i found these recent polling from the "des moines register" fascinating. if you look at the favorability ratings for donald trump among iowa republicans, it's 91%. that was at 91% figure that chuck grassley has been talking about. chuck grassley's numbers, 81%. still very high, to be sure, but surprising to see that ten-point gap. >> it's not just a win for establishment republicans to hug him. republicans are very much damned if they do and damned if they don't. if they call out his big lie, they could find themselves in a primary and alienating their own base. if you don't say anything, they are potentially allowing the man in their party who has the biggest megaphone to hijack thei

jordan right it's, or the lowest order contempt, the u.s. attorney must go before the grand jury to demand an indictment. and, we think it's very likely given the gravity of this matter is so overwhelming, and the facts are so clear that he just blew us off, that we think that the department of justice will move forward, of course we're not putting all of our eggs in one basket, because we are continuing to do whatever we need to do to obtain his testimony, as we've compelled it. >> what is the timeline, of your understanding of the timeline, this seems like once again we're in a situation where there is the law, and then there is the timeline of the investigation, and the obvious thing that donald trump, steve bannon and all these people like to do, is just delayed until it's essentially, you can't keep doing it, or it's too long in the future to have much import. >> no, we won't tolerate perpetual denial here, we're collecting evidence every single day, the vast majority of people that we reached out to, or testifying voluntarily, our meet

congressman matt gaetz and congressman jim jordan. they were there to speak in defense of president trump, but instead they spent most of the time trying to just throw sand in the gears and derail the entire meeting, talking about border crossings and afghanistan and president biden's son. the other panel of witnesses was a more sober one. the chairman of the january 6th investigation, bennie thompson, the vice chair of that investigation, republican congresswoman liz cheney. liz cheney voted with her colleagues on the committee last night in favor of holding bannon in contempt, and she had a strong message today for fellow republican members of congress ahead of tomorrow's vote. >> let me address my republican colleagues specifically. i heard from a number of my colleagues in the last several days who say they, quote, just don't want this target on their back, end quote. "they're just trying to keep their heads down. they don't want to anger kevin mccarthy, the minority leader. i ask each one of you to step back from the brink. i urg

but we haven't seen those names like minority leader can mccarthy, jim jordan, gosar. who were in contact with alexander the organizer of the rally who alexander himself has said he was in touch with him in order to grant some of the offense around the rallies that preceded the january 6th insurrection. to know those are names that we have not seen in the -- yet. it is possible they may be quietly cooperating with the select committee, controlled by chairwoman cheney by the amount of people who have come forward to voluntarily to provide information -- but we've also been told that to expect a slew of other subpoenas coming out, potential witnesses who were in touch with president trump on january 6th, and leading up to that day. >> phil rocker, i'm reminded of orwell's 1984 opens up with the clock striking 13 o'clock. i lay that out as a predicate for this question. you covered a lot of donald trump, you have coauthor two books about him, is the effort to change history, the effort to get us to believe we didn't see what we all saw with our own eyes just getting start

republican jim jordan with this. let's watch. >> you are going to pay people half a million dollars who broke the law at the same time the biden administration is getting ready to raise taxes on the hard working families of this country. you get amnesty with democrats and now they pay you for breaking the law. >> harris: we could hear you agreeing. i have a follow-up question for you. you mention the moderates and independents are moving away from the democrats and where are they going? can you put them in your party? >> i think we are going to catch some of them and they are supporting us by saying look, families are struggling. people are trying to get back to work. we've got 10.4 million unfilled jobs in this country. we are trying to work with individuals on job training and as people are struggling to turn around and say we are going to pay those that illegally entered this country, we are going to pay them, this is unprecedented but this administration is taking many unprecedented moves and harris, that's why p

jim jordan, every time you ask jim jordan a question, it is like he is trying to hide. he stutters and does all of it. host: kevin mccarthy was asked about steve bannon and his defiance of the congressional subpoena from the select committee. >> are you ok with people define congressional pinots? >> what are you talking about -- congressional subpoenas? >> what you talking about? >> the houses holding bannon in contempt for not replying to the subpoena. >> issued an invalid subpoena. it weakens our power not if someone goes against it. it was a right to go to the court to see he -- see if he had executive privilege or not. i don't know if he does or not but neither does the committee. so they are weakening the power of congress itself by issuing invalid subpoenas. >> he was a private citizen during the -- >> don't ask me that, the courts decide. host: we are talking about your top news story of the week. this is some reporting from this morning from reuters. the headline at united nations, afghan women appeal, don't let tell the men in. a group of afghan women urged the

a message like this from one congressman, jim jordan, urging the state of ohio to end all vaccine mandates. that's what governor mandate did in texas with that executive order, getting companies to ignore the mandates of getting the shot. let's bring in conservative radio host mark davis from 660 am. nice having you on the show. >> thanks, chris. >> i'm very glad you took the opportunity to come on. government telling people what to do, conservatives not going to like it. really, nobody likes being told what to do. but you don't like hearing a governor, let alone a supposedly conservative governor, telling companies that they can't do something that you believe they are allowed to. how so? >> it calls to mind a certain consistency in the conservative mindset of what governors' role should be in business decision making, and to my mind that role is as little as possible. that means that joe biden is wrong to tell companies that you must have a vaccine mandate, and governors from abbott to desantis, whom i also love, are wrong to tell companies that they cannot. i am a business and economic

there is also ohio congressman jim jordan tweeting ohio should ban all vaccine mandates. i mean, how dangerous is this? vaccines for diseases like polio and measles have been mandated for decades. what happens if those are all of a sudden eliminated, surgeon general? >> that would be catastrophic because we know that for decades that vaccine requirements for measles, mumps, rubella and other illnesses including polio and these kept millions and millions of people healthy and saved millions of lives are part of the public health infrastructure of this country. we should be learning from those lessons and applying them to covid not seeking to take down requirements that have saved lives and made people's lives better so we've got to keep that in mind. i know this is a difficult time and the response has felt polarized but it's gone on for a long time the pandemic has been going on for 18 months. that's stressed and strained us. we can't allow the virus to get the better of us and force us to look the other way and not follow sound public health guidance. what we got to do i

. >> i'm assuming the jim was jim jordan? >> reporter: yes. yep. >> on the hill for us following us all. thank you. >>> and a big thanks to pete as well. speaker pelosi just acknowledged the weekly news conference. there could be a significant shift in how democrats are planning to pay for the build back better spending plan. nbc news has learned both the white house and democrats on the hill are considering changing their plan to raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations to pay for the measure. senator kyrsten sinema remains opposed to raising tax on the wealthy. we learned the opposition is costing her support. five members of her council have stepped down in protest of her policy positions. we showed you the letter they sent her. kelly o'donnell is at the white house following this part of the story. kelly o, the speaker, we just heard a few moments ago, stressed this bill will be paid for no matter what, but take us through this possible shift in plans when it comes to paying for the bill. what are you learning? >> well, good to be with

but we haven't seen those names like minority leader kevin mccarthy, jim jordan, people like paul gosar, mo brooks, who were in contact with ali alexander, the organizer of the stop the steal rally. alexander himself has said he was in touch with them in order to plan some of the events around the rallies that preceded the january 6th insurrection. and so those are names that we have not seen in subpoena yet. it is quite possible that they are maybe quietly cooperating with the select committee. we've been told by chairwoman thompson and cheney that they have been surprised by the amount of people who have come forward voluntarily to provide information. they've already been conducting closed door interviews. we've also been told to expect a slew of other subpoenas, actually witnesses who were in touch with president trump on january 6th and leading up to that day. >> phil rucker, i'm reminded that orwell's "1984" opens up with the clock striking 13 o'clock. i lay that out as a predicate for this question. you've covered a lot of donald trump. you've coauthored two books about him. is t

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jordan from ohio you were asked your factual predicate for your memorandum. you answered that it was the october 22nd memorandum from the national school board association. the national school board association has been mentioned and has since withdrawn that memo and you said that was a factual predicate. given that was the factual predicate and rescinded the memo saying there was no justification for some of the language used in the letter will you rescind your memo? >> senator, best of my recollection i said the impetus for my memorandum was that letter and also reports of this kind of activity. >> what reports? >> i said again at the time that they were news reports that had been published and i think that some of the other senators here have described some of those news reports and we have certainly seen subsequently more news reports and more statements by board members of threats to kill them. >> congressman chip roy of texas said -- raised in that same hearing the issue of a 14-year-old girl in a school bathroom being sexually assaulted in loudon count

republican jim jordan says the president is making the situation worse. >> i will tell you what's frustrating a member of congress telling american oil and gas companies to reduce production at the same time the president of the united states is begging opec to increase production. that that is the dumbest thing i have ever heard. that he was the scenario we are in. god bless chevron saying they are going continue to crease production. >> bret: house accuse disinformation about climate change. as we told you earlier, president biden is on his way to europe right now for a pair of big conferences and a meeting with the pope. white house correspondent peter doocy has a preview tonight from rome. >> the president is putting problems with his proposals book home on hold. >> i will have more to say after i return from the critical meetings in europe this week. >> and as european officials make major security upgrades, u.s. officials are setting a high bar. >> the president is about to go on a trip, a very important trip, with the g-20. >> he is packing progressive plans in italy at the g 20 presid

you have jim jordan of ohio writing, ohio should ban all vaccine mandates. of course that would mean the requirements that have existed in schools for generations for things like measles, rubella, vaccines shown to work there. what's the impact of this? >> i think it would be tremendous and awful. we have had school mandates since the 1970s. they were borne of measles in places like los angeles and detroit. they work. what we found is because of school vaccine mandates, we basically eliminated measles from this country by 2000. we basically eliminated rubella, or german measles, by 2005. if we roll back the mandates, we will take a giant step backward in time. there is probably no better example how they work than the state of mississippi. mississippi has one of the lowest if not the lowest rate of covid-19 vaccinations, mid 30% to high 30% range. what state in this union has the highest rate of vaccines for children, and the answer is mississippi. the reason is they have never had in their school mandates a philosophical religious exemption. they are one of

jordan pressed him on any hearing, he admitted it. didn't do any other investigation whatsoever. that is more troubling. of course the union is going to act like idiots. of course they will make will mea culpa laughter. but it worries me more that the attorney general just ate it. >> greg: kat, have you ever sent a letter you regret to? >> an email. of texts. thousands. letter, no. >> greg: what are your thoughts on this topic? >> i was the most struck by obama talking about stop waging these culture wars. okay, then stop trying to control the culture. it's reaction to people on the left straight up saying that parents should not have influence on what goes on in the classroom and teaching their own kids. i don't think when you try to control culture there's going -- i think they should stay out of culture together. >> greg: that's true. because they initiated -- it's a pretty good point. if i don't say that she is going to cry. >> and during my birthday week. >> greg: does that count as a birthday present? did you enjoy that compleme

. ♪ chris: jim jordan acting two reports. the biden administration may give up to $450,000 per person to families that were separated under the border under the trump immigration policy. it is time for the sunday group, former republican congressman jason chaffetz from usa today susan page and charles lane of the washington post. the wall street journal broke the story this week there are 900 claims that have been filed, people say they suffered emotional distress when families were separated acting 2018 by the trump administration and rather than go to trial, the biden administration is considering a very healthy expensive settlement. it may make sense legally but it's hard to defend politically. >> a lot of americans differ distress of separation at 2018 but this number seems really high, the attack ads right themselves of this kind of payout happens. we know from the beginning president biden's lowest approval ratings have been around the issue of immigration this was when they get the numbers even worse. chris: literally,

jordan and matt gaetz to speak in favor of the former president. defending him on january 6th and the lawsuits he's filed in terms of executive privilege, which is what he's trying to use to both keep the national archives from releasing the records the committee wants but also it's what steve bannon says is preventing him from complying with the subpoena. he says he's leaning on what the former president has said is executive privilege in this matter. as many other legal experts and frankly the committee themselves have pointed out, they don't believe that executive privilege is warranted in this scenario. in part, because the biden white house has waved it. but also because steve bannon was not an employee of the white house at that point. he was just a private citizen. that's a point they made last night. i imagine it's one the committee members are going to continue to make as we move forward. but the important thing to keep in mind here is once this lands at the feet of the department of justice which you expect it will tomorrow after the full

ohio republican jim jordan says instead of attacking us oil companies for pumping oil. congress should be helping them produce more. god bless chevron saying they're going to increase production. what what is the gentleman want $8 gasoline in washington. i'm anna wiernicki. >> that was anna wiernicki reporting and the atmospheric river from the weekend made some progress and our drought crisis. the new drought monitor here on the right right here behind me is showing some parts of the bay area are now in extreme drought and on the left here, we can see last week's monitor where the conditions were a lot worse. all the areas in the bay area that are shaded in maroon means exceptional drought and as kron four's, charles cooper reports ball improvement has been made. there's still a long way to go. >> well, the recent storms across the bay area have really helped the drought situation here in the north bay. now over the past weekend about 18 inches of rain fell across marion county. that means that the u.s. drought monitor now believes that moran and most of sonoma have mo

jim jordan pressing on what was the initiation and the attorney general saying it was that letter. >> the national school board association appears to be reporting that there is this uptick of threats, it's the job of the department of justice to look into things that could be a crime. acts of violence, not protests as merrick garland said or any kind of freedom of speech rights that are exercised at the school board meetings. will not wait and see with the department of justice does but the republicans on the panel are clearly trying to say that they are going to be going after parents and squelching their free speech rights. >> if you look at the timeline of this, the white house did have knowledge of this letter days before the department of justice came out with their memo and merrick garland said today the memo they released had nothing to do with domestic terrorism and the patriot act. but the letter from the national school boards did use that language, did ask the justice department to do that, it was given to the white house and addressed to president biden in a few days late

among them, no surprises for viewers of this program, marjorie taylor greene, matt gates, jim jordan and kevin mccarthy. we're back with miles taylor, the cofounder and executive director of renew america. david jolly is here. how do you get rid of kevin mccarthy? >> well, look, that's a really good question, nicole, and we'd like to do our best to make it happen but there's something that i'm going to say up front here. realistically, there are some members on this list that are in super safe districts that they're going to be very hard to defeat, but in the case of kevin mccarthy and steve scalise, the reason why we put them on this list is because what we think needs to happen is we need to deny them a republican majority. it's pretty unlikely we get mccarthy and scalise of the folks on that list out of congress, but at a minimum, we need to keep them out of the house majority. now, what i'll say is that when we look at what republican leaders in congress are doing to police their own ranks, we see them completely missing in action. so, kevin mccarthy and steve scalise have done a

. >> sean: real strong >l republicans like jim jordan major to hold him accountable after that deception. now, listen to congressman jordan expose garland's agenda to politicize the doj, along with this exchange with the committee chairman jerry nadler. watch this. >> the chairman just said this before doj was political and went after their opponents. are you kidding me? three weeks t ago, the national school board association writes president biden, asking him to involve the fbi and local school board matters. five days later, the attorney general of the united states does just that. a snitch line on parents started five days after a left-wing political organization asked for it. o se that's not political, i don't know what is. it's a video about parents at school board meetings, moms and dads speaking at school board meetings, and you guys aren't way to let us play it? >> an objection has been heard that you failed to give the 48 hours request required by theeeh rule, and therefore -- >> what rule? mr. chairman, what role? r >> sean:fo what rule? did we get an answer? ask yourself, wha

congressman jim jordan and matt gaetz. defending bannon's refusal to comply with the committee's subpoena. and both still refusing to admit that november's election was not stolen. >> in january, um, i ask you to say five simple words. the election was not stolen. and you were unwilling to say them, then. can you say those five words today? >> i have never said it was stolen, mr. chairman. i will give you the same answer. never said it was. i said we should investigate it. i said on january 6th when the electoral votes were counted that joe biden is president of the united states. and if you got a problem with that, i don't -- i don't understand it. the real question is why don't you guys want to investigate what happened? >> you said a lot of words just now but unfortunately, you are still unwilling to say those five words. >> your obsession with five words seems pretty ridiculous to me. >> here is the question i want to ask you. let's just start with basics. do you accept that joe biden won the 2020 presidential election

jim banks and jim jordan, but not congressman nehls. of course the whole thing fell apart. but again, nehls was not in the crazy category and yet here he is now. on this far right station contributing to the martyrdom. congressman nehls has gone to being an apoll gist for it. how could that shooting be justified? is there any way to justify that? >> no. greg, it was murder. >> there is no straddling the line between supporting the insurrection and supporting democracy. no middle ground there. day by day, one by one, republicans all fall in line. they moved from the democracy camp under the insurrection camp where genuine personal radicalization and it's hard to say which is worse. lana shore oversees coverage of this republican faction and she joins me now. alanna, i find nehls an interesting figure because he's a freshman rep. he was lauded for what he did that day and he was not, he has not made a name for himself in the caucus in the way that say marjorie taylor greene has sought to and yet here he is saying that wildly inflammatory thing, quite casually, in fact. >> sur

congressman jim jordan grease, the white house does not. >> governor abbott's executive order banning mandates and i would also note an announcement by governor desantis essentially banning the implementation of mandates fit a familiar pattern that we've seen of putting politics ahead of public health. >> reporter: some big corporations say they'll ignore the governor of texas and still insist their staff get vaccinated. covid-19 is, was, and will always be contentious. a survey of over 300 scientists who have spoken publicly about it found 15% receive death threats and 22% receive threats of physical or sexual violence. meantime, the big picture -- >> still, we are in some aspects in the pandemic phase of the outbreak. however, we are seeing now a decline in acceleration and a turn around of case. s. >> reporter: and the cdc predict hospitalizations and deaths will continue to fall over the coming mo month. but there are still more than 66 million eligible americans who haven't gotten their first shot yet. but pointing out that they might have made a bad decision, apparently, will no

. >> jim jordan speaking there. the administration is said to be considering these payments in order to settle lawsuits filed by the aclu on behalf of families crossing in seeking asylum here they were separated under the former president's zero-tolerance policy back in 2018. however, it's important to point this outcome of the white house still thinks the plan is not fully formed yet. shannon. >> shannon: kevin, you are also tracking on their top story for us tonight. this anti-trump group, the lincoln project, facing intense backlash tonight for apparently they've admitted to orchestrating the stunt accused to try to -- glenn youngkin, the images are everywhere. what can you tell us, kevin question mike >> shocking indeed, because basically what is happened here is we are talking about trotting out democrats to pose as white supremacists in an effort by the lincoln project to more or less smear or by association smear youngkin come of a candidate for the governor of state of virginia. it doesn't probably push inde

there's so much backlash that comes at them, this is the exchange between jim jordan and the attorney general, merrick garland, about what exactly was it that motivated this from the doj. what were the specific actions that rose to the level of fbi potential investigation that you saw evidence of? watch this. >> when did you first review the data showing this disturbing uptick? >> i read the letter. we have been seeing over time threats -- >> whoa, whoa. so you read the letter? that's your source? >> let me be clear. this is not a prosecution or -- >> is there some study, some investigation someone did that said there's a disturbing uptick or you take the word of the national school board association? >> he said that they read about it in the news, that there was a disturbing uptick. is that enough evidence and documentation for the department of justice to rise to the level of an fbi investigation secretary devos? >> no. i think it's not defensible in any way. it's a complete overreach, a complete overreaction. it's clearly meant to intimidate parents. i hope that it will have exactl

. >> those protests from republican congressmen matt gaetz and jim jordan did not ultimately help their cause. the house voted on thursday, the ball is now in the department of justice's court. the u.s. attorney's office in washington, d.c. will make the final decision on whether the former trump aide will in fact be charged. let's talk more about this. joining me now politico national correspondent betsey woodruff swan. thank you, both, guys. joyce, i want to start with this one and ask you a question of timing now. what can we expect when it comes to the department of justice as to whether or not they're going to move forward with a prosecution of steve bannon? >> i don't think we can have a set time line, yasmin. the reality is this will be looked at through several layers of supervisors inside the d.c. u.s. attorney's office. presumably they'll consult with folks at main justice. they may for all we know have made up their minds and be on a quick time line. but this could also take a longer amount of time as they gather evidence and make some of the other considerations that the fed

we heard everything from christmas presents to gas prices to the embassy in jerusalem, from jim jordan to talking about the security posture there at the capitol, which is an important element, but we heard from adam kin ssinger who is on of the two republicans on the committee is to not use that to distract from what the conversation is today. can steve bannon defy a subpoena from congress? >> we've ryan nobles on capitol hill for us, correspondent paula reed, harry lichtman and margaret telev. ali, i want to start with you. what did you think made the most legal sense? >> i'm going to start with what made least legal sense. they were illogical and manipulative. first, they argued the reason steve bannon is subpoenaed is because people don't like thiz political beliefs. that's nonsense. there are plenty of people who have popular political beliefs. the reason steve bannon is subpoenaed is because he predicted what happened and he was at the willard hotel. second, this idea that the committee is not focusing on security. it is focusing on security. and let's not forget dan hodges who l

. >> congressman jim jordan, there have been complaints from the republican side that he and other people who seem to have ties or connections or at least some conversations around the attempt at overturning the election were not allowed to actually be on the committee. he had some trouble today answering questions about whether he talked to donald trump before, during, or after the insurrection. do you expect to call him and potentially other members of congress? >> we absolutely expect to get to any and all the evidence, joy. i don't want to get out ahead of what we're going to do, but i assure you that we will do our work if mr. jordan in his infinite wisdom has already acknowledged that he's called, then we want to know exactly what he said, whether he called before, during or after is material to our investigation. so i can say that we will do our work, but, again, we won't be bullied by mr. jordan or anybody else. we will systematically go forward and do the work of the committee. we will find the facts and circumstances behind january 6 and call it just like the facts present thems

. >> doctor, i wanted to ask you about something that republican congressman jim jordan floated this week on twitter. he thinks that his state of ohio should ban all vaccine mandates, meaning, all of the vaccines, that all of us got as children in order to go to public school. i'm talking measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, polio, so that we didn't die or, i guess, lose the function of our limbs. he wants them to get rid of all of those mandates. why? i guess. and what would happen if that were to go into effect? >> i can't answer the why. but this is a victory to try to deny that an initial failed response has led to over 750,000 dead americans. we've heard versions of this with, it's no worse than the flu, 98%, 99% of people survive with this and why stop at vaccines? why should we not allow people to drink and drive? why should we have child car seat requirements? why stop there if we're going to talk about undermining public health. and this is a big concern for me. yes, covid is going to be deadly for americans, but if we undermine public health, this is going to be even deadli

jim jordan said we should ban all vaccine mandates. charley clark get the tweeting party started saying reject tyranny, catch the freedom flu despite the flu kirk's colleague the co-founder at turning point died of covid last year. conservatives are also turning nba star kyrie irving into an an tie vax martyr. the brooklyn nets guard is prohibited from playing until he's vaccinated prompting donald trump to tweet about actually talented people. this time pretending he cares about black people saying kyrie just sacrificed more than kaepernick ever did. he doesn't care about black people. don calcallaway. tim, i have been searching for the rationty in embraing covid is king, let it in, let it in your business, in your schools, feed it to your kids with the breakfast cereal. this love of covid makes no sense to me except they also want to market cures for covid. they want you to buy some hydroxychloroquine or go bayou -- buy you ivermectin. maybe they want popup clinics with their favorite remedies. maybe that's it. this thing about bossi

none other than jim jordan mentioned the chicago police in a tweet along with parents saying freedom in contagious. what's contagious, the coronavirus. covid-19 has caused 64% of all police officer deaths this year. more than quadruple the number who died from gun violence. go off assistant coach. make your point. they are putting themselves ahead of the citizens they could infect. we hear that police brutality cases would even happen if only every one just complied and followed all their commands. it's clear that some officers don't hold themselves to that same standard. they are literally refusing to comply with the law. just take what happened at a new york subway stop yesterday where a rioter said he have harassed and thrown out of the station for asking officers to wear masks which is the law. the nypd says the event is under internal review. guess the cops former governor cuomo sent into the subway system are making an impact. officers and unions that are fighting to make the public sick are tonight's absolute worst. that's tonight's reid out. all in with chris hays starts now.

three months ago, for the first time in the history of congress, speaker pelosi vetoed jim jordan and i from serving on the select committee to investigate january 6. not all -- >> we have been listening to the debate on the house floor as the members of the house, about two hours from now, are expected to vote on whether to refer to the doj the criminal contempt of steve bannon who has refused to comply with the january 6 subpoena. and you heard liz cheney earlier, the top republican on the january 6 committee, speaking of former president donald trump. and she said that the former president must have been aware of and may have been involved in the planning of january 6. we will keep an eye on the house floor. we'll take a quick break. >>> and coming up next, we'll talk about an msnbc exclusive. new documents that detail the conflicts of interest of the postmaster general louis dejoy and allegations that the postal service mishandled those conflicts from the start. ♪ ♪ there are beautiful ideas that remain in the dark. but with our new multi-cloud experience, you have the flexibi

everything from whether or not republicans could show and in particular congressman jim jordan could show a video supporting the questions that they are asking the a.g. about parents being targeted by the f.b.i. specifically about those things and they were denied based on what chairman nadler of the house judiciary committee said was a point of rule there. someone objected and they went on. the back and forth got chippy for a bit. and then just moments ago, we saw something else and they are taking a break now and while they do we'll step in with "the faulkner focus". i'm hair use -- harris "the faulkner focus". a moment ago you saw the a.g. pressed on what may seem to be naked eye a conflict of interest for him to talk at all about going after parents and leveraging the f.b.i. to do that over issues that parents may have on what is being taught inside their children's's classroom. critical race theory. i believe we have a little bit of that. i will ask my team for that. >> given the timing of all this your memo appears to have been motivated by politics more than any pressing feder

three months ago, for the first time in the history of congress, speaker pelosi vetoed jim jordan and i from serving on the select committee to investigate january 6th. not all firsts are worth celebrating. it was a shameful and divisive decision with real consequences. today, because of that decision, there is no committee conducting a legitimate investigation into january 6th. congress is prohibited from conducting criminal investigations, period. but that's exactly what the select committee is doing. conducting an illicit criminal investigation into american citizens. steve bannon was a private citizen before, after, and during january 6th. so, why is the select committee interested in steve bannon? it's simple. he is a democrat party boogeyman. the select committee despises steve bannon's politics, so they're abusing their power to put him in jail. the committee explained it's seeking documents from mr. bannon because he helped, quote, construct and participated in the permitted and legal "stop the steal" rally. to date, the select committee has subpoenaed 11 other private citizen

congressman jim jordan agrees. meerntd, the big picture -- >> still, we're in some aspects in the pandemic phase of the outbreak, however, we're seeing now a decline in acceleration and a turnaround of cases. >> and the cdc predicts hospitalizations and deaths will continue to fall over the coming months. and tomorrow and friday, the fda's vaccine advisers are going to meet to talk boosters of moderna and johnson & johnson. moderna basically wants to roll out essentially a half dose as a booster. and meantime, an nih study says it is safe and effective to mix and match your first doses and your booster do not need to be the same brand. wolf. >> very interesting indeed. nick watt reporting for us, thank you very much. >> let's dig deeper right now. joining us, our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta, also the author of a brand-new book, you see the cover "world war c, lessons from the covid-19 pandemic and how to prepare for the next one." thank you as usual for joining us. more than 104,000 people here in

it is not just the jim jordans, this is the gop establishment. chuck grassley, the most senior senate republican on stage over the weekend in iowa rallying with trump. you have trump headlining two upcoming fund-raisers for the nrcc and nrsc, the house and senate campaign arms coming up in the next few weeks. it shows you that even the establishment republican now is bringing him back, welcoming him with open arms and tightly hugging him. >> what do you think, joe? >> this isn't a comeback. it is interesting -- it is a great story. this is no comeback, though. this has been his party since he came down that escalator, certainly since he got the nomination. it's been pathetic for five or six years. it's been pathetic post an insurrection that it is still his party. but it is his party. you're right, i think of chuck grassley, 88-year-old chuck grassley, he's been in d.c. since, like, 1874. he's running for another term. he doesn't need trump to win re-election. but yet there he is, on his knees last weekend, bowing to donald trump. steve scalise w

three months ago for the first time in the history of congress, speaker pelosi vetoed jim jordan and i from serving on the select committee to investigate january 6. not all firsts are worth celebrating. it was a shameful and divisive decision with real consequences. today, because of that decision, there is no committee conducting a legitimate investigation into january 6. congress is prohibited from conducting criminal investigations, period. mr. banks: but that's exactly what the select committee is doing, conducting an illicit criminal investigation into american citizens. steve bannon was a private citizen before, after, and during january 6. so why is the select committee interested in steve bannon? it's simple. he's a democrat party bog boogieman. they're abusing their power to put him in jail. the committee claims they are seeking documents from mr. bonon because he helped, quote, construct and participated in the permitted and legal stop the steal rally. to date, the select committee has subpoenaed 11 other private citizens for organizing the stop the steal rally. here in th

i saw jim jordan, the congressman from ohio tweeting christmas presents were never late when president trump was in charge. to which the daily show said you will have ask eric. is it a political thing? what's happening? could the president do more with this? >> you know, this is a global crisis that's been building throughout the pandemic. so when ports are closed in china and factories are closed in china, no politician here can control that. when ships are stuck out at sea for a couple extra weeks, no politician can solve that. we need to give our federal maritime commission more clout. we reached out to every member of congress and asked them to step up, to talk about the global shipping conglomerates and the role they played in hiking prices 500% to 800%. it's not just about the chain and the capacity, there's been a lot of profit taking here upstream. those are the things where politics around the world -- really the global community has to come together. our companies are leaders in the world. they may make products in asia but they sell them all over the world, they bring the pr