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the president making his trip to the southern border since taking office. working to address immigration in the influx of people coming to our southern border. the other big story tonight coming from brazil. or supporters of former president bolsonaro fueled by election denialism -- storm the governments congress. refusing to accept the truth that bolsonaro lost. bolsonaro, we should note, refusing himself to accept defeat. well have more on this throughout the night. but first, lets s...

And i believe that it would be out of possibility that trump is aware of who some of these people are. >> and somehow it finds its way into the public which would be terrible. i go back to the responsibility of congress here because, had the senate actually gone through with the impeachment of donald trump, we would not be in the situation. i remember mitch mcconnell giving a speech that sounded like he would vote for convicting but he didnt and he made a lot of arguments that made no sense give...

Institutions, im concerned because we havent yet done all of the accountability work that we need to do to make sure that were not only holding accountable the footsoldiers, but actually the people who incited, encouraged, and planned and orchestrated this attack. im concerned about because what were seeing is the very same things we see in other countries. the far-right election deniers are starting to use the institutions themselves. it becomes harder and harder to stand up against. because up...

Will vote yes if it is brought to the floor of the legislation by democrats senator kirsten gillibrand and representative jackie speier, that would change the way that reporting, transparency, accountability work for sexual harassment claims on the hill against members of congress an staff? >> absolutely. i do support the mandatory training. weve had our office go through additional training on a volunteer basis over the last few weeks. i went through an hour of the training myself. this is impo...

Exactly what led to sergeant la david johnsons death. are you getting any indication from your sources in the early stages that these remains are starting to give them some more answers? >> i have to tell you candidly no. this is one of the most close hold investigations that we have seen in a long time. there is a lot of rumor, there is a lot of chatter out there. investigators have talked to local villagers and gotten some certain accounts of what local villagers say happened. we know there ha...

Referred to as "thats just charlie being charlie." >> thats just charlie being charlie is deeply offensive. to hear you say it out loud and to lay out exactly what these women say happened, you know, thats not anyone being anyone. that is offensive behavior. >> i think what youre seeing with gayle king grappling with this is whats happening right now as a society. i mean, it is not just -- we -- our reporting is about one individual with a significant amount of power over a number of employees a...

Asian-americans in admissions. they reported in august the doj was looking for lawyers to look into these cases but this is the first confirmation a true investigation is under way. no word yet from harvards attorney and the justice department has declined to comment. john, poppy? >> really interesting. the first official word that this is, indeed, an investigation into harvard. well wait to see what harvard says. thank you for the reporting. quick break. well be right back.

Very sensitive -- not to look at the remains of her husbands body when he came back. now, of course, every military family has the right to do whatever they wish when the body is turned over to them, but she was advised that it would be very difficult and that she should not view the remains. there was a closed casket during his funeral. so we know that when he was -- his body was out there for some 48 hours, something happened that made it perhaps very difficult for his family to view the remai...

Meanwhile, president-elect donald trump continued his assault on the u.s. intelligence committee. overnight he tweeted "the intelligence briefing on so-called russian hacking was delayed until friday. perhaps more time needed to build a case. very strange." senior intelligence official told nbc the tweet was disturbing and adversarial. trump also continued to bash the media, of course, he did so even as he promised to hold a press conference next week. his first since last july. well, trump twee...

Christel house. the "associated press" obtained e-mails send around by bennett and his staff showing a feverish scramble to fix christel house impending poor grade. "they need to understand anything less than an "a" for chrisel house compromises our accountability work." bennett wrote in an e-mail. it was then revealed tony bennetts own signature grading system was going to award christel house academy a "c." e-mails show bennett and others examining ways to change the grading formula, with benn...