so it s not like it s sitting out on the street. but anyway reporter: in a locked garage. yes. as well as my corvette. maria: coming up, a new sheriff is in town as new speaker of the house kevin mccarthy puts week one in the books and enjoys spiking approval ratings for keeping promises of holding joe biden s lawless administration in check. speaker mccarthy will join us live this morning for his first sunday morning interview since taking the gavel. then, oh, the hypocrisy of it all. the department of justice knew joe biden was guilty of removing classified documents even as merrick garland ordered a raid on donald trump for the very same thing. plus, new information on who exactly directed joe biden to cancel the china initiative. now we know, the university of pennsylvania got it shut down after accepting $50 million plus from communist china. we now learn that the university of penn successfully lobbied the fbi to drop their china initiative which was an investig
maria: of course. this is stunning. this is right out of the communist china playbook. matt, before you go, real quick, what happened when twitter said, oh, we can t identify russian bots? we can t identify that this was actually russian disinformation? that s not what we re finding. then what did they do to pressure twitter? well, the the usual means is they would go to their friends in the corporate press, and twitter would be hammered by, you know, mainstream press organizations would say basically twitter is not doing enough to combat foreign interference. as you know, because you were reporting on it at time, congressman devin nuñes got an extraordinary amount of abuse because it was claimed that the hashtag release the memo was boosted by russian bots. but we now know based on stuff we ve seen internally and these e-mails that winter was actually
democrats. there were other pieces of evidence and intelligence that went into that. that is what the memo is trying to make clear. ken, there is some talk that there have been uncertainty about when the president would deal with this memo and now there is the heat on this porter situation, and john kelly in the white house, this might be the time to do it. do we have any sense of timing of the release of this memo. reporter: so the deadline to release, the five day deadline expires tomorrow. so it is possible it could come today but also possible we re hearing that it could happen tomorrow. always good to see you. thank you. ken delanian. now this memo will come on the heels of the other memo. the republican memo that was pushed by russian bots using the hashtag release the memo. now russian influence twitter accounts are test running other hashtags related to the deep state. an underground group working within the government to undermine the country s leaders. these that is
nose first strike and members of congress now including tim kaine want to see the memo. he insists that it it may compromise article one under the constitution which gives congress oversight over launching any war so they basically want this president to hold the same tradition as previous presidents with a few exceptions going back to the korean war. and we re talking about syria today but we are talking about north korea a lot. there is a lot of unrest in the middle east and we haven t figured out the iran situation. in general, you want the president to be well briefed on these things an the president re and the president received a daily intelligence briefing but the washington post is talking about the fact the president rarely if ever reads his daily intelligence briefings, relying instead on oral briefings. do you know anything about this. reporter: the reporting in that story raises two potentially troubling issues. the first one is not just that he s getting the brie
sits on the foreign relations committee is calling for the release of this secret memo. and nbc s national political correspondent broke the story and she joined me now. heidi. what is this about? is it typical to have a secret memo about the interpretation of the president s pour powers powers for war. no. and you hit the nail on the head. since the korean war it has been customary for presidents engaging in military strikes on a sovereign nation to justify that legally. when he dropped the bombs in april, that never happened and you saw an outcry from congress and members on beth side both sides of the aisle and senators saying how are you going to justify this. and now you are seeing an escalation in syria and tensions with iran and you re seeing some of the rhetoric including in our own nbc news interview today with mike pence about leaving all options on the table, and in korea the potential of a bloody