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Transcripts for MSNBC Alex Witt Reports 20220108 17:07:00

it's going to be better. >> reporter: the president last night took a visit to colorado, alex, to witness the devastation from the marshal fire. today he is in nevada where he shortly will be attending and speaking at the funeral for harry reid, the former senate majority leader who served with president biden for decades in the senate, also helped shepherd the obama administration's agenda through congress when biden was vice president. biden praised him as a dear friend, in a statement upon his death, and we should note this is actually the seventh time that president biden has attended or participated in a memorial for a lost friend or colleague just since he took office, alex. >> that is a lot. okay. thank you for that. we're going to certainly be tuning in for all the president has to say and more. as i thank you, josh, we're going to get more on that memorial right now. nbc capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell is joining me from las vegas. i should note this is also your hometown. i'd love you to set the scene

Transcripts for MSNBC Way Too Early With Jonathan Lemire 20220104 10:34:00

often cites as a reason not to change the rules. but he also did advocate changing the rules throughout his career saying you can't operate in the senate in the past but you have to operate the senate in the present and future. those negotiations are ongoing. senator manchin and a group of moderate democrats have been discussing and continuing to any gauche yat senate rules change over the holidays before the holiday break, and it seems like schumer is intent on moving forward. >> leigh ann, there has been talk. now it seems like the west wing is pushing back from that. it seems like president biden before the holidays said he would be amenable to some sort of change to the filibuster. what more can he be doing? what role can he play with his colleagues in the senate to get something meaningful done?

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dele judge miez our election process, and our senate must advance systemic democracy reforms to repair our republic or else the events of that day will not be an aberration. they will be the new norm. schumer looks to pass with a bipartisan vote. that may prove difficult when democrats don't have the entire caucus on board. two senators have expressed opposition to changing the filibuster. joining us now, capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell. good morning and happy new year. let's start with senator schumer. he yesterday in probably the strongest language yet is pushing for a change in the filibuster. how is he planning to get everyone on board? >> good morning, jonathan and happy new year.

Transcripts for MSNBC Stephanie Ruhle Reports 20220107 14:14:00

commemoration right side concerned. and then you've heard from senate democratic leader chuck schumer all week long that january 6 is tied directly to their voting rights legislation, the reason is because that voting rights legislation not only deals with voter suppression and enables people to have more access to the polls, but it also tries to undo what some of these state legislatures around the country are doing by making it much more difficult to fire election officials or allowing citizens and voters to sue if their ballot was not counted. democrats say that this will prevent another january 6th and another -- prevent someone in the future saying that elections were stolen when they weren't, but they still have a lot of work to do, steph. >> they certainly do. peter, leigh ann, thank you so much. before we go to break, important story. a company that tried but failed to prove voter fraud in arizona is now shutting down for good.

Transcripts for MSNBC Alex Witt Reports 20220108 19:01:00

good day to all of you. welcome, everyone, to alex wooit reports. here's what's happening at 2:00 p.m. eastern, 11:00 a.m. pacific time, a memorial service for former nevada senator harry reid is getting under way in las vegas. president biden is there, along with house speaker nancy pelosi and senate majority leader chuck schumer and former president obama will be delivering the eulogy. nbc capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell is also there. leigh ann, set us up for what we can expect this hour. >> reporter: hey, alex, the service today is going to be the who's who of democratic politics, of course, president joe biden, former president barack obama, speaker pelosi, majority leader schumer in the senate, they're going to speak here but perhaps for the late senator, the most important person who's going to be here is his wife, landra, of 62 years. he kept a poem of e.e. cummingss in his desk to always remember her, titled, "i carry your heart

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activities. i always stay on this side of the line. i know where the lines are, and it drives them crazy. >> in 30 minutes, in arizona, prosecutors allege edward vallejo was prepared to transport firearms into washington to stop the lawful transfer of presidential power. today's court appearances come as the congressional panel probing the attack expands its investigation, now demanding information from major social media companies. january 6th committee has subpoenaed reddit, twitter, and the parent companies of google and facebook. they're asking for details on what those companies did and did not do before and after the riot. joining me, nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, nbc news digital senior reporter ben collins, and nbc news capitol hill correspondent leigh ann

Transcripts for MSNBC Stephanie Ruhle Reports 20220107 14:11:00

experimenting with four-day work weeks, hybrid work systems, and that's attracting some new employees, but then perhaps driving some others away. so i think they're getting their arms around what's going on here and that's probably causing some noise in the data that we're seeing. >> if you told me i could work four days a week, i promise i would not be driven away. karen, anthony, mark, steve, thank you all so much. we're going to leave it there because we have to turn to some frightening new revelations just coming out about january 6, 2021 and the danger that was facing then vice president-elect kamala harris that afternoon. let's bring in nbc's chief white house correspondent peter alexander and capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell. peter, let's start with you. what is this about vp harris? what happened? >> reporter: well, so this happened on january 6th last year and obviously it tells you how much we still don't know about the details of that day and the potential danger to the incoming administration. a white house official confirms to nbc news that just two weeks before she was sworn in on that

Transcripts for MSNBC Stephanie Ruhle Reports 20220107 14:12:00

day harris was at the democratic national committee's offices not far from the capitol when she was evacuated after a pipe bomb was found just outside the building. again, that pipe bomb was discovered on the same day that the mob attacked the u.s. capitol. among other things, again, it does sort of reiterate the danger that that insurrection posed, it also sort of reveals the near miss and the potential devastating consequences that would have happened had that pipe bomb exploded and frankly the vice president of the united states to be was there at the time. we know that harris was then evacuated and went to a separate location at that time, we still don't know what that exact location was, but it is just the latest in some of those new details we continue to learn as the committee on capitol hill frankly investigates all of what happened around that day. >> leigh ann we heard a lot of talk about prevent ago repeat of january 6. what does that actually look like and what does it mean? is it about more security in terms of an actual attack?

Transcripts for MSNBC Katy Tur Reports 20220120 19:02:00

investigate any coordinated attempts to unlawfully alter the outcome of the 2020 elections in that state. joining me now is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, nbc news capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell, and university of alabama law professor and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. she is also an msnbc legal analyst. we have a lot of stories to go over right now but they all fall under the banner of the 2020 election and the effort to either subvert it or to overturn it in some places. leigh ann, we'll start with the latest bit of news and that is the committee wanting to talk to ivanka trump. ivanka trump's spokesperson responding. when i read that response, it didn't immediately address what they were asking which was to come talk to them. >> it didn't, katy. it's been a big week for the january 6th select committee. i know pete is going to talk about the supreme court. as far as ivanka trump is concerned, the committee sent her an 11-page letter outlining what they want to hear from her