part of the grand jury investigation into the mar-a-lago classified documents. the former president escalates his rhetoric overnight. threatening, quote, death and destruction if he is charged with a crime. i will be joined by michigan congresswoman debbie dingell, one of the congress people who questioned tiktok s ceo. good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington. we start with the u.s. air strikes by f-15s against what the u.s. said are iranian-backed groups in syria. killing an american contractor and injuring five u.s. service members and another american contractor. the pentagon says the deadly strike was from an iranian suicide drone. courtney kubie reports. a rocket attack against another base in syria used by u.s. troops. president biden on his trip to canada ordering air strikes against the targets in syria in retaliation. right now, the president is meeting with canada s prime minister justin trudeau in ottawa. joining us now is white house national security counci
stephen miller, the head of personnel, robert o brien, national security advisor and democratic excuse me, department of homeland security official ken kuchinelli. this is a very big deal. it is, andrea. nbc news has not confirmed this reporting. but this is a sealed ruling in a secret battle going on about who can testify before the january 6th grand jury. i have to say, as a legal matter, it s not very surprising. we all remember that during watergate, a criminal investigation trumped executive privilege. richard nixon had to hand over the tapes. he was the current president. the former president has less claim to assert executive privilege. this is very clearly right in the ballpark of this january 6 investigation, what these people have to say about their dealings
mexico as they wait for their court hearings. he s seeing this. kevin mcaleenan is leaving in part because he lost control of the message. he doesn t like having the political role when he used to have one that was more operational. but this also has to do with the inner workings of the white house. he was someone seen on the side of jared kushner and kushner really saw him as an ally during the government shutdown earlier this year but an ally he did not win over with stephen miller. we know stephen miller rules at the white house. short list to replace him? well, the short list is one name so far at the top which is ken kuchinelli. he s the acting director of u.s. citizenship and immigration services. before he was named for that job, trump floated his name as immigration czar, a new job he was going to make up for ken who is very vocal who goes beyond
pay. you are a federal contractcontr you don t work, you don t eat. they will never recover. you have private companies that contract with the government. they may have to lay off people. the cascade affect on ordinary people on this is extraordinary. i want to say this. we call it the government. the government. this is america s government. we are not talking about the government on the moon or some other country. he won t keep america s government functioning. i don t know how you say you make america great again and you won t keep america s government open for business. ken, you hear according to the wall street journal the president doesn t like the use the word shutdown. likes to use the word strike. does that make sense to you? well, it s a private sector version of this. this is an impasse. i think that i appreciate van s perspective. the president is the only one in this negotiation who signalled a
people watching tv here. america s enemies watch television. this might be a very scary time if you think about the vulnerabilities we might have throughout the federal family when you know people are calling in sick, they re not coming into work, they are disspirited, demoralized. you are weakening america s defenses from the airport to the border to the coast. again, we are saying we are making america great. this doesn t seem great. i don t think at the end of the day it makes sense for donald trump said himself he wants responsibility. he should take responsibility and reopen the government. ken, the president today saying that he might consider asking his cabinet and top administrators to forego their raises. should he do more than consider that given so many people are going without pay? i think that s the direction he is going in. you see congressmen, women on both sides of the aisle who for years the numbers have picked up that if we don t have a budget,