and that should have never happened. the capitol should have never been breached, and we need to make sure the capitol never gets breached again. and you re one of the only 35 republicans in the house who voted to have this commission, study the events surrounding january 6. it s past the house and now looks like it s going to die in the senate. can you explain why so many in your party 175 over in the house don t want answers, the kind of answers you were just talking about, where these security break downs happen? look, i want to get to the bottom the security break downs et cetera but a lot of my colleagues think there s going to be politics played here. this is washington. there s always politics being played. i know that. but, you know, listen, this bill is basically the same one i signed onto right after the capitol hill, you know, riots on january 6 that rodney davis had sponsored, which was held up for a long time. five democrats, five
legislature, but there s equal intensity in the security breakdowns that proceeded the attack. the sheriff facing growing concerns to resign. cnn learns police received double the number of 911 calls to the killer s home than the sheriff has revealed. that will be interesting if the people complaining about the police now will agree the types of law changes you would need to restrict access to weapons for someone like the parkland murders. two west wing staffers are in the spotlight today. hope hicks is set to meet privately with the house intel committee in the russia investigation. question is, will she invoke executive privilege like we ve seen others do. ivanka trump s trip to south korea is causing tension with the president s chief of staff. why? we ll get into it. let s begin our coverage with cnn s abby phillip live at the white house with our top story. reporter: good morning, chris. president trump has been saying publicly that he s willing to go against the national rifl
children off for a supervised visit. powell had lost custody of the boys, and he was a suspect in his wife s disappearance. he sent an e-mail saying only i m sorry, good-bye. a neighbor describes what he saw. i just knew that if there was anyone in there, they didn t survive. you could tell that instantly from what we saw. i can t imagine anyone killing their children. i just that s beyond anything i can imagine someone doing. the state department shut down the embassy in syria hours ago. they are urging americans now to get out. syrian activists describe a weekend bloodbath that left hundreds dead in the city of homs. another 46 syrians are said to have been killed. activists accuse the syrian government of intensifying the brutal crackdown. russia and china gave president bashar al-assad a life line, vetoing a resolution that would have condemned him. they are asking for help. we re asking for your help. the rockets for four hours now, they re going to kill us all
arrival. i ll ask the chairman of the president s debt commission what went wrong. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. up next. trying to stop leleaks of diplo secrets. taking the leaks more serious than ever. white house under enormous pressure to crack down on the whistle-blower website that s been working for months and months and months to expose classified information. let go straight to the white house correspondent dan lothian working the story for us. white house named someone to take charge of dealing with these security breakdowns. why now? why did it take so long to come to the realization that they ve got an enormous problem? wolf, first of all, the person named his name is russell travers, his job will be
way and daniel i katrina abernathy both born in 24. coming up, how did the times square bomber make it on the plane in the first place? we re going to focus on security breakdowns that happened in the 53 hours it took to apprehend faisal shahzad. mark maseti and roger cressey joins us next. first, the white house soup of the day. it s neighbor bean. you re watching the daily rundown only on msnbc. my name is chef michael. and when i come home from my restaurant, i love showing bailey how special she is. yes, you are. i know exactly what you love, don t i? - [ barks ] - mmm. aromas like rotisserie chicken. and filet mignon. yeah, that s what inspired a very special dry dog food. [ woman ] introducing chef michael s canine creations. so tasty and nutritious it s hard to believe it s dry dog food. chef-inspired. dog-desired. chef michael s canine creations.