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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 committee's report. and a criticism i've 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 that day. of other members of the republican party that essentially were steered so donovan idly ...

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. that's not really what the initial charge of the committee was. if you look back to that original legislation that authorized this...

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 don't want to be, as you say, dragged into this. privately from officials, are you getting any read on how they view this, a help, something they are ignoring, something they a...

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 -- it's clear that it's 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 they're 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 shared that up the chain. why is it important that donald trump was alerted to that, either by orna...