discuss piece arrendondo, after we re hearing stunning reports of law enforcement just outside the classroom. and on nbc news, a top kremlin official broke russia s silence on the two u.s. veterans captured in ukraine. we ll get the latest from moscow. primary elections in virginia and washington, d.c. with runoffs in three other states. steve kornacki will break down what you need to know. and we are just three hours away from another key hearing by the house january 6th committee. the panel plans to lay out an elaborate effort by former president donald trump and his allies to pressure state lawmakers and election officials into defying the will of the voters. and overturning the election he lost. today, we ll be hearing from arizona house speaker rusty bowers who resisted the pressure from trump and his allies and georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger who trump tried to push to find votes just days after the attack on the capitol. moments ago nbc news learned
tribunal down the road. the justice department has been helpful to other governments in the past and want to be helpful. katie, tali and ali i ve got to get this right, it s very easy to confuse. thank you very much for being with us this morning. appreciate it. make sure you stay with msnbc for special coverage of the january 6 hearing. it s led by andrea mitchell, katie tur and hallie jackson. today, the youngest children can get their covid vaccine, as the cdc approved the vaccine for children as young as 6 months olds. the brave children are getting a dose in d.c. this afternoon, president biden is going to address the vaccination clinic and the milestone. with us is kavita patel, doctor,
election law. and state racketeering law which is quite similar in this case, the federal racketeering law. but i think you re right, jose, that effectively, what they are doing is making a criminal referral at large. because they are airing out what very well may be evidence of crimes, or at least evidence that should trigger further investigation from those who can bring charges in various systems. whether state or federal. so, katie, there s been some friction apparently between the justice regarding cooperation. where do things stand in the relationship to the committee and the doj? i think that friction is in large part because the committee kept on saying publicly we want the justice department to act. but in the same time in the background was not giving the justice department evidence that it felt it needed to act. however, i think some of that tension will ease. we ve seen the committee take over transcripts of the
trump. when mo brooks got into this senate race last year, he got the endorsement of donald trump. then during the campaign, trump withdrew his endorsement, and brooks in the preliminary election a few weeks ago, he mate it through. he and katie britt, the top two finishesers. brooks made the runoff and appealed publicly to donald trump to reendorse him. trump responded to that plea by endorsing britt. that s the dynamic going into this runoff tonight. the winner of this will be the republican nominee for the u.s. senate in alabama and obviously given the political leanings of alabama, very likely the next united states senator from alabama. keeping an eye on that one. you mentioned control of the house, obviously. this nova huge story here, republicans hoping for a big
interviews to the justice department as soon as next month. these are extremely important because you really cannot bring charges to anybody unless you have the full scope of what they told government, what they told congress. so this should help the justice department investigation speed up which would probably make the committee much happier. katie, we just saw that attorney general merrick garland is in ukraine. what s the purpose of the trip? sure, garland is meeting his counterpart in ukraine. it was an unannounced official. general austin was just there. what he s trying to do is help the ukrainian government figure out how to prosecute more crimes that we re just starting to see emerge from the russian war in ukraine. we ve seen atrocities out of kyiv, bodies found, mass graves. clearly what the justice department and the international committee want to do, help create, gather as much evidence, in case there s a war crime