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learned. also, an expert legal panel standing by, geraldo rivera, brian claire pool and mark geragos, a lot who have a lot of experience with celebrity cases such as these. the d.a., mary carmack says that the set played "fast and loose" with safety. that she "absolutely" believes that alec baldwin pulled the trigger that fateful day. something that the actor when he spoke out about the case shortly after it happened denied. watch this. >> it wasnt in the script for the trigger to be p...

capitol on january 6th. some of the mob that breached the capitol that day were explicitly looking for the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. they were yelling, where is nancy? as they stormed the halls of congress. sources tell nbc news, that question was uttered once again by an intruder who broke into speaker pelosi san francisco home in the middle of the night yesterday and violently assaulted her husband paul with a hammer to the head. speaker pelosi was in d.c. at the time, but ...

they were privy to, is potentially formidable. it includes former secretary of state, mike, who we first reported last night is expected to sit down with the house committee, perhaps soon as this week. also former treasury secretary, steven mnuchin, we have learned today that he has already been interviewed by the committee. sources also tell us that because uses are underway for the former national intelligence director, john ratcliffe, for a sit down with him. then there is former ac...

Storm surge warning here in gulfport, because of three to five feet of storm surge expected. The mobile bay has to watch out. Flash flooding with 6 to 12 inches of rain possible. Dont forget, this thing moves all the way through the end of the week, well be talking about whats left of gordon in the middle of the country. David . All right, we know youll be tracking it into the night and first thing in the morning on gma. Ginger, thank you. And as ginger just reported, gordon is expected to slam ...

Example of how the evidence i do know about shows that all these various characters, these plots, as katie pointed out, are sort of part of your natural prosecutorial procedure, are linked. when you start to scratch the surface, people from the white house fall out. people from congress fallout. now that the justice department has moved to the higher level at parts of this investigation, it could get really interesting. >> yes it can. and it more than likely will. jill wine-banks, hunter walker,...

As you say, this is a historic moment. but the ongoing investigations -- in the case of january 6th, two years, already covers the ground that the committee has covered. so its not necessary for the committee to send these referrals over to the justice department, for the justice department to take a look at these statutes and see what it thinks. in some ways, the department has incentivized to try to create some distance between the referrals. keep in mind one of the big sensitivities for this ...

-- mr. smith issuing subpoenas in the seven battleground states at this time? >> i think it makes sense. this is the next step for anyone leading this investigation, particularly someone as thorough and fascinating as jack smith is purported to be, and as my sources told me he is. the justice department before the election, they sent subpoenas requesting documents and paper. they wanted to look through to see if there was any -- continued investigation, see what they found. the next logical step...

Of all things capitol hill. thanks so much. thank you. lets bring in our panel of experts. nbc legal analysis and former watergate special prosecutor jill wine-banks, investigative reporter -- hunter walker, an msnbc contributor and new york times justice department reporting, katie benner. welcome, all of you. joe, youre my go-to here. lets start with your reaction to the committees plan to issue these criminal referrals. this is something thats really out of the box for us. >> it is the first ...

Cases that the republicans and congress might have a lot of motivation to try to shut the stuff down because theyre central to a lot of the stuff thats being investigated. are viewed text messages the past couple weeks that showed andy biggs indicating that trump was telling him to -- scott perry was connecting pennsylvania lawmakers, and the trump legal team. the house is quite compromise on this, and the republican majority is at the center of that issue. so there might be some incentive for s...

Optimistic fools full recovery. >> a source briefed on the investigation says the attacker shouted, where is? nancy and told police when they arrived, we are waiting for nancy. chilling echoes of some january 6th rioters as they searched the capitol for the speaker. this coming against a backdrop of an intense uptick in violent threats against politicians. in the first three months of this year, the u.s. capitol police threat assessment team opened more than 1800 new cases. the department report...