extremism and disinformation. usa today washington bureau chief, susan page, joyce vance, and ab stoddard. ben, paul pelosi now has spoken to investigators we understand from tom winter. he s awake. has all of his cognitive functioning, thank goodness. but what do you know about the suspect s online footprint? the suspect was this idea of there s a kai ball running the world and the people obsessed with this believe nancy pelosi is running that kai ball. another thing is elon musk tweeted this conspiracy theory over the weekend to try to deflect against this. you know, he said there s a tiny possibility there might be more to the story. he linked the santa monica observer. that s a website that claimed hillary clinton died before a debate in 2016 and was replaced
shareholders to do the right thing anymore, to put out quarterly reports about the direction of the company or if he s doing the right thing. basically, he s beholden to his own checkbook, advertisers. if advertisers flee this platform, it s going to be a very expensive hobby for him. but if they stay on the platform, he can do this basically with impunity and aid whatever foreign government he wants for his business deals. thank you all very much, but it s very close to the election for all of these hideous things to be happening. ben, susan, joyce, and ab, thanks to all. the search for answers. how a slow motion stampede overtook a crowded halloween street party in an important region in seoul, killing at least 150 people. you re watching andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. watching anl reports on msnbc. (vo) with their verizon private 5g network, associated british ports can now precisely orchestrate nearly 600,000 vehicles passing through their uk port every year.
this morning both men are tweeting about this story, insisting they followed protocol, and blaming the ds for wiping their phones. nevertheless, as more and hear of this is uncover more and more of this is uncovered, the burden on investigators, including those at the justice department, keeps getting heavier. as nbc news has learned, what attorney general merrick garland has called the department s most ranging investigation ever, maybe pushing doj to the breaking point. quote, in conversations with nbc news in recent months, more than a dozen sources familiar with the sprawling january 6th investigation expressed varying degrees of worry about whether the resources the justice department has allocated to the effort are sufficient for such a vast criminal investigation. i want to bring in nbc s ryan riley, he wrote the story on the challenges facing the justice department. ab stoddard, associate editor and columnist for real clear politics. ari melber, chief legal correspondent and
president. ab, things are headed in the right direction in a lot of ways, supply issues improving. look at the economy, clearly in recovery, unemployment is down. the stock market is doing really well. and while we don t have build back better done, the hard infrastructure plan got done and it was massive. how does the biden administration start to turn around messaging to reflect this because the president s poll numbers certainly don t show the positive, all the positive wins he s had. i agree, steph, and i think that the polling began to plummet when the parties started fighting in september. and it s been too many months of focus on all of this dissent within the democratic coalition, and it s time to let joe manchin write a bill and call it a win, and then say you ve passed the american rescue plan. you ve passed long sought bipartisan infrastructure, popular with 70% of americans,
trying to salvage the build back better act, the senator piece for joe biden s agenda. joining us now, nbc white house correspondent monica alba, and newly minted nbc news reporter, and ab stoddard, associate editor, and columnist for real clear politics. senator manchin has talked with president biden. he s talked to his senate colleagues, senate democratic colleagues. is there anything happening here? is there an opening to salvage build back better or is it time to restructure it? there is an opening to salvage it, but it will not look like the house passed version. tensions have calmed down quite a bit since the sunday blow up. senator manchin has spoken to president biden. he dialed into a virtual democratic caucus meeting that was cordial. he expressed respect for his colleagues. so there is an opening to renegotiate this, and win him over. it s going to require difficult