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Very interesting place in just a few days. but before we get to that, i want to ask another, one last question about the committees report. and a criticism ive seen some people raising. there were some staffers who complained to the press that there was such a singular focus on the culpability of donald trump that some of the full picture is left out, particularly not enough attention paid to intelligence failures. law enforcement mistakes that may have facilitated the penetration of the capitol...

Committee and former law enforcement officials today. one person who worked with the committee and is providing information told me they were flabbergasted about how they tried to write around this. as nbc news reported previously, the blue team and other teams that were working on various issues, the blue team was working on the law enforcement thing, they had a lot of their work set aside ahead of this. the main focus of the report was supposed to be about trump. thats not really what the init...

Congress orders or they are getting sucked into the political investigation. they want to make decisions on their own. it remains to be seen when we get the final report. but the intelligence failures and law enforcement failures ahead of january 6 are not something that the committee is really trying to put an emphasis on in this initial summary. >> i know that the justice department is not saying any publically. they dont want to be, as you say, dragged into this. privately from officials, are...

A rider on the Senate 2004 Defense Appropriations bill cuts off allfunding for the research and development of the Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA) program -- potentially a valuable toolin combating terrorism - before research is completed. Congressneeds to consider TIA in depth, and the Senate should restorefunding. Anything less demonstrates little commitment to combatingthe threat of terrorism is nothing more than an abdication ofresponsibility.

Intelligence failures -- its clear that its her sort of theory of the case that there was no intelligence failure. that the intelligence made it all the way to the oval office through mr. ornato. is this part of what theyre trying to sort of drill down on today? >> absolutely. i mean, why is it important that former president, then president donald trump was alerted that people likely had arms, that they had weapons that they were concealing outside the rally? the secret service knew that and sh...

On trump. the investment team on the select committee -- a lot of that finding is whats going to drive this -- 1000-page report. the rift and infighting comes as a result of these other teams thinking, you know, we think weve done investigative work that is substantial and maybe not criminal but shows really unsavory behavior on the part of not just donald trump but also the intelligence agencies, intelligence failures. the republicans, far-right extremists. the disagreement has come from the to...

Large majority of the work unrelated to trump and outside of the red and gold team were going to be left on the cutting room floor. either put in the aaappendix or posted online elsewhere. the feeling that liz cheney, control over the report has been unparalleled, and that she has channeled some of her political ambitions into what this report looks like at the end of the day at the expense of a more comprehensive historic accord including totality of things beyond trump including failures of th...

I wonder if that could be a signal to federal prosecutors? >> i think this is part of the public record and the committees focus. in some ways, i regret this. i wish we were going to learn more about the information that the committee gathered about how this imperfect storm of january six happened. what were the law enforcement failures, the intelligence failures that permitted this to happen. you are right to suggest that their focus on donald trump is in many ways meant to signal their serious...

Time, if that where in fact black lives matter protesters, there wouldve been a lot more violence, and a lot more bodies on the ground. not violence by the protesters. violence by the police, intercepting them. i think that asking these questions now is appropriate and important. the fact that we have to ask them, or need to ask them, i think its really chilling. >> so gee, i am old enough to remember following the intelligence failures of 9/11 what this country did in terms of how we overhauled...

Who knows what a large crowd comes to d.c., what happens in this town. between police, d.c. police, capitol police, secret service, fbi, all of the law enforcement agencies. and it just felt different. the fact that you watched them stormed the way that they did, the lack of resistance to that. you heard people say at the time, if that where in fact black lives matter protesters, there wouldve been a lot more violence, and a lot more bodies on the ground. not violence by the protesters. violence...